I hereby declare 2006 to have the worst holiday movie season ever. When my family was in town we briefly considered going to movie one day. Fortunately the timing was not good and we ended up watching a DVD at my place. I say fortunately, because after looking at the movie line up, we were better off not watching anything at all. What the hell happened to the sweet Christmas movie selection?
Here's the selection at the biggest theater in town:
Dreamgirls (PG-13)
Black Christmas (R)
The Good Shepherd (R)
Night at the Museum (PG)
We Are Marshall (PG)
Rocky Balboa (PG)
Charlotte's Web (G)
Eragon (PG)
The Pursuit of Happyness (PG-13)
Apocalypto (R)
Blood Diamond (R)
The Holiday (PG-13)
Unaccompanied Minors (PG)
The Nativity Story (PG)
Casino Royale (PG-13)
Happy Feet (PG)
The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause (G)
zzzzzzzzZZZZZZZZZ-- Oh, I'm sorry. I must have dozed off.
Where is The Good German, or The Fountain, or Children of Men, or Pan's Labyrinth, or Perfume: Story of a Murderer? Or something remotely interesting that I kind of want to see...
I saw Apocalypto on Christmas day, and that was pretty much it. That was the extent of my interest. And while I enjoyed it, it definitely wasn't enough to tide me over until whatever the big summer movie is. Spidey 3, I guess.
So it's the worst year ever. And I'm including all the years before movies were invented.
Oh, and the DVD I watched with the family was Little Miss Sunshine, which I highly recommend. Also, I saw the Strangers With Candy movie last night and I recommend that as well.
Well, that's enough ranting for now. Good luck finding something to watch.
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Worth your time: Black Christmas, We Are Marshall, Blood Diamond, Casino Royale, Happy Feet
Abysmal: Rocky, Eragon
Little Miss Sunshine is the most overrated Sundance darling claptrapfest EVAH. How many indie cliches can they cram into 100 minutes??
Rocky was totally awesome, Holly, so shut up. Just shut up and cry, with your mouth closed, so you cry out your nose.
Strangers With Candy was also awesome. Eyes to the back of the room!
It probably doesn't help that this was the first Rocky movie I've ever seen in its entirety. But I stand by my total correctness.
Casino Royale is pure awesome, but considering Scott saw that with me and Rachel over Thanksgiving it didn't do him much good around Christmas.
~Brian
I refuse to see Black Christmas, just for the principle of the thing. As far as We Are Marshall goes I refuse to see any sports movie. Period.
I've seen Casion Royale, and it was awesome. I don't consider it a Christmas movie since I saw it before Thanskgiving. I'm sure I'll see Happy Feet at some point...maybe on video.
I thought Little Miss Sunshine was hilarious. Cliches abound? Yes, but I still thought it was funny. Dance scene at the end was awesome (dare I say...hot? No, I dare not).
I really feel that you would dig the hell out of Black Christmas if you saw it liquored up with a crowd like I did. The killer uses a candy cane as a SHIV in one of the opening scenes.
I love love LOVE Abigail Breslin, and I loved her performance, but the rest was nothing I haven't seen on the IFC on countless idle afternoons.
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