Movies you watch on Xmas Day

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I used to always watch a movie on Christmas. I couldn't play with my presents because they were always books (YAY) and that was unsocial. And anyway, what are you supposed to do Christmas day, after opening presents and eating cinnamon rolls, I mean? Your whole family is there and you're supposed to be spending time together, but after you eat and play the boardgames and talk (!) you've hit 3 pm and oh em gee, you're still supposed to be spending time together, and you're not on vacation seeing Redwoods or Lake Michigan or The Thing (in Arizona), you're at your house and it's boring!

So . . . any of you watch movies on Christmas day? What movie do you watch? Do you have a tradition? If you don't--are you going to watch one TODAY, and if so what? What have you watched in the past? If not on Christmas day, do you have movies you save for rewatching around Christmas time? Are they It's A Wonderful Life and A Christmas Story? Are they slightly different from the norm? What is your relationship with "Christmas classics"?

If you don't celebrate Christmas--do you watch movies on other holidays? Do you have movies for a certain time of year? For days you're supposed to be spending time with family and it gets really old after the first 8 hours?

Or any movie traditions in general? Movies you watch at a certain time? I used to watch Fight Club before taking a long car trip anywhere, because I can never sleep before trips, and it's about insomnia.



-This Christmas (TODAY, OMG) I'm watching Batman Begins and The Dark Knight with my parents. Just me and them. We are SO COOL. Yes, yes I am watching them so I can get more ideas for porn. No, no I am not telling them that.

-I used to watch Little Women every year on Christmas day. Mr. Daroga found this out!

-I want to have a new tradition of watching L.A. Confidential on Christmas Eve . . . My mom and I wanted to watch something tonight and I wanted something thoughtful but fast paced and oh my god! It opens on Christmas Eve! I had forgotten that, and it reminded me of how Little Women opens on Christmas :o) Such a holiday classic, obviously!

-Last year I believe we went to the theater to see Sweeney Todd on Christmas Day.

-I had never seen A Christmas Story before this year. Mr. Daroga said my_daroga and I had to see it.

-I watched It's A Wonderful Life all the way through for the first time this year too. Though this strikes me as another movie you watch around Christmas just because it has some Christmas scenes, not because it's actually about Christmas. We watched it in November or so. my_daroga said it still fit the time thematically considering the recession, and It's A . . . being about financial difficulty!

-I used to watch the animated How the Grinch Stole Christmas every year. I also watched that one about the elf who wanted to be a dentist--I always thought it was stupid, but in retrospect, it's kind of cool.

-I used to watch the George C. Scott A Christmas Carol, but not necessarily around Christmas. Daroga and I were going to watch it for the season this year, but we didn't get around to it. What versions of A Christmas Carol do other people do?

-Do you guys who celebrate Christmas even check your ljs on Christmas?

Oh well. HEE. To those who celebrate, have a merry one, to all the rest, happy holidays, happy winter, or just have a damn fine time!

Comments

[zebrui.livejournal.com]

I loved your take on Christmas :)) It's so true - after all those hours of imposed family time (reading forbidden) telly is the only refuge out of boredom.

I usually go with what's on TV at the time (currently that being The Sound of Music) but I did have my Little Women phase too when TV didn't provide. It's such a Christmassy movie.

Hm... if there was any Captain Von Trapp slash, imaginary fandom would definitely write him as a top. Just who'd you'd slash him with? Max is out. Rolfe? :)) I can't believe my mind just went there. Need eggnog.

[tkp.livejournal.com]

I love spending time with my family, but usually I just need some time alone! But on Xmas I feel like that's verboten. We all sort of do so we all sort of stare at each other.

Glad to hear I'm not the only Little Women for Xmas fan!

Though Sound of Music is totally in my top ten, and it totally has fandom, and I totally wrote SoM fic. But I and the fen I knew did not slash the fandom (we were so hardcore Captain/Maria). But I totally always thought Max was gay. And actually the last time I saw it I think MY mind totally went there with Captain/Rolfe. That scene where he's telling Rolfe he'll never "be one of them"? *dies, a little*

You should be happy your mind isn't going Captain/Herr Zeller because obviously that is wrong. Nor did you go Captain/Friedrich, because you know Friedrich is in love with his governess. My friend did an excellent AU fic where there's another guy interested in Maria, and sparks totally fly between the Captain and Other Guy, but it is definitely straight up het.

OMG DO NOT GET ME TALKING ABOUT SOUND OF MUSIC!!!

[zebrui.livejournal.com]

I wrote this comment around the middle of the movie and when the scene you mention came about my mind went there with warp speed. That scene is, so, so... charged and when you look at it through slash tinted goggles it's powerful as hell. It gave me a shiver down my spine.

I'm a big fan of the movie (and books in a bit lesser degree, and soundtrack, and Salzburg), but I still don't think there is any need for slash injection, as the main pairing has the steam of any m/m one - Captain and Maria are complete equals in my mind, character and personality strength wise. And both are so individually likable, which really doesn't ask for seeking elsewhere.

Hehe see, if there was SoM slash side of the fandom big enough I'm sure some Captain/Herr Zeller BDSM would crop up. Not to mention that incest and chan section of it would have a field day with all the possibilities.

Oh, do you have a link for that fic or maybe one of your own SoM ones? I've never read anything from that fandom, I'd love to have have a taste of it when I catch a breather from hd_hols.