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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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.