Eccentric Holiday Viewing

Because I know you are all dying to know, here's the Chez Herkes list of preferred holiday movies. It is not an "Advent Calendar of Movies."  Blizzard binge-watching, maybe. Overall Spouseman & I usually watch at least one from each category per year. Tradition is important.

Action:

• Die Hard(s)

• Lethal Weapon

• Deadpool (new addition!)

• Batman Returns

• Kiss, Kiss, Bang, Bang

• Long Kiss Goodnight

• Iron Man 3

• Go

  1. Assault on Precinct 13

**Shane Black is to blame for several of these. The man has a weird THING about Christmas.

Classics:

• The Shop Around The Corner

• The Bishop's Wife

• Bells of St. Mary's

• We're No Angels

• It's A Wonderful Life

• Christmas Carol in B&W w/Alistair Sims

• "  with Reginald Owen

  1. all the Bing Crosby musical holiday movies: it's a sub-genre on its own

  Offbeat/comedy:

• The Ref

• Bad Santa

• About A Boy

• Love Actually

• Better Off Dead

• Coming to America

  1. Ice Harvest

 SF/fantasy/Animated:

• Nightmare Before Christmas

• Muppet Christmas Carol

• Rise of the Guardians

• Elf

• Strange Days (New Year's Eve, close enough )

• Gremlins

• Rare Exports

• HogFather

  1. Emmet Otter's Jug Band Christmas (otters!)

There are  holiday movies others love (or love/hate) that we will not watch:

• A Christmas Story: worth special mention because I loathe it.  I could write a whole post on all the many reasons I find this movie repulsive for reasons both personal & political, but others have done such a good job I will leave that to the reader & the reader's favorite search engine.

• Reindeer Games. Singled out because I usually adore bad movies and dislike this one. It commits the one unforgivable sin for a bad movie: it's DULL.

• All the assorted Holiday Horror Flicks: I'm not against horror movies. They just don't ring my bell, so to speak. Slapping some holly and tinsel on the genre adds nothing to its appeal.