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Movies you watch on Xmas Day
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![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
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!
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!
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We don't have a tradition of watching any specific movies on Christmas but I'm sure there will be something that we'll watch on the tube. Not TV! There's never anything good on live TV. Maybe something we've Tivo'd, or it will be the Netflix DVD of Monty Python classic episodes that we just got in the mail last week... I dunno.
The kids just watched A Christmas Story for the first time with us a few days ago and it made a huge impression on them -- they were quoting lines from it all week. "You'll put your eye out kid!" What did you think?
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A Christmas Story . . . I found it more intriguing than enjoyable, although obviously the intrigue kept my far on the end from any kind of dislike! I think it's interesting it's such a family Christmas "classic", for one, since it's so negative about so many things. Although there's reaffirmation at the end, it's sort of a short bit.
I was very interested in the POV. I don't like Ralphie, but I'm not sure I'm supposed to. The narrator seems very aware of all the things he does that are--either not nice or dispicable, but the narrator is also very empathetic to him. It's not an old guy regretting his youth, it's an old guy getting caught up in his youth and those feelings all over again. And I think we're supposed to feel the same way, while still being aware that many of the things Ralphie does and feels are ridiculous or even unkind. But in the end I mostly didn't like him, and it made me sort of uncomfortable. I liked the rest of his family a lot more.
I did really love the leg lamp, the Annie decoder ring, and the trip to see Santa. I found the bully plot rather lame. So anyway, I found it sort of fascinating, and something I'd definitely watch again, but not something I necessarily love.
Hee, I bet that was so much more of an explanation than you were expecting!