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nick’s right

 

Top 5 Christmas films in no order:

- Jingle All the Way
- The Grinch (Jim Carey)
- Elf
- The Santa Clause
- Ernest Saves Christmas

The claymation Rudolph and Nester the Long Eared Donkey are great too, but they’re more like animated shorts than films.

 

i remember reading the synopsis for this somewhere and was like "no way this ACTUALLY gonna happen but it sounds amazing" and holy shit, they actually did it. i can't wait.

 

This is going to be a disaster.

 

That movie truly blew my mind. My mom would take us to Hollywood Video once a week and I would pick the movie and my brother would pick the video game. I probably chose it because Ben Stiller was on the cover and my whole family loved Meet the Parents. The Saturday morning clerk, as she often did, tried to warn my mother it was a "weird" movie and we would not like it. My mother hated it but I watched it three times before we returned it. A used copy for my birthday was one of my most prized possessions.

 

That nic cage movie is my most anticipated next year now lol

 

I watched a Quentin interview once, he's a pretty fascinating dude, for like, five minutes...

 

The only thing more wild than Nic Cage as Charlie Kaufman in a Charlie Kaufman screenplay is Nic Cage as Nic Cage

 

Re-watched the Matrix trilogy over the weekend.

I remember when they did this! It was on the Reloaded special features DVD ahaha

 

How were 2 and 3? I saw them years ago and felt like 2 was fine but 3 was bad.

 

I actually just re-watched 1 and 2 last week, gonna watch 3 this week. 1 absolutely holds up. 2 holds up, but not as well as I remembered. It's still really good though, but a bit too much action versus plot and the plot itself is definitely a bit wonky.

 

Very nice.

 

I think 2 and 3 are fine, you just have to be okay with it focusing more on Zion than the Matrix itself. 2 is a bit more action-heavy and fun, and maybe 3 takes itself a little too seriously in comparison, but the plot for both isn't as convoluted as I remember. I think a big part of my appreciation, in this viewing in particular, comes from seeing what they were able to accomplish technically in a time before cgi and the MCU had taken over the industry. Any time there's a bunch of Smith clones it's inherently silly, but the battle for Zion still holds up, it's astonishingly well crafted imo

 

Looks like I'll have to do a rewatch!

 

I’m watching hunter hunter on Hulu right now and Devon Sawa actually looks old.

 

This horrid Licorice Pizza discourse makes me terrified of these people discovering Succession

 

Elf falls off HARD in the third act

 

Elf was fine when it came out but it’s annoying now.

 

I still unabashedly love Elf.

 

I don't get what's wrong with the third act? Standard Christmas spirit stuff

 

Elf's rewatchability is lacking. I can watch Home Alone and Christmas Vacation every year, but most of the other movies get pretty old.

 

Elf's only problem is something that isn't its fault. It's the same problem The Office has. People making it their entire personality around Christmas time like it's the greatest film ever made. But if you set aside that problem, it's a solid, perfectly enjoyable movie.