What movies are you going to watch this holiday season?

[Candygogo]

One thing that bugs me about this time of year (for me, Christmas) is that it's hard to find anything good to watch on tv. I mean, after stuffing your face, loosening up the belt and all, you'd like to veg out alittle in front of the boob tube. Thank goodness for dvds! ;)

So, what movies (if any) are you going to watch?

[Jon Westfall]

I'll probably enjoy more of the totally awesome Looney Tunes Golden Collection that my girlfriend bought me for my birthday. 56 classic warner brothers cartoons that can make me forget about all the drippy run-10,000-times movies on TV tomorrow.

[Kati Compton]

A Christmas Carol (pick your favorite edition)
The Ref
Christmas Vacation
It's a Wonderful Life
Scrooged
A Christmas Story

If I hadn't seen it recently, perhaps Trading Spaces, though the Christmas part is incidental. I had also wanted to see Home For the Holidays again, but that's Thanksgiving I think.

[PetiteFlower]

I finally saw return of the king yesterday. Every other movie looks kinda pale now.

I did have to turn off the radio and put CDs on on Wed; if I heard one more Christmas song I think I would have done something violent!

[JackTheTripper]

I watched 'A Christmas Story' last weekend with some friends. Xmas eve my wife and I watched 'It's a Wonderful Life.' I'm 29 and it was my first time seeing it. 8O Then last night after family we went to a friends house and watched the first half of Bruce Almighty. It was getting late and I had to work today. :(

[Dave Beauvais]

I still have never seen A Christmas Story after nearly twenty-eight years. :) I'll have to rent that one soon, I guess. I did watch my DVD of A Christmas Carol (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0216621/) with Patrick Stewart. I think this is my favorite version of the story, followed closely by George C. Scott's performance (http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0087056/) in 1984. I've never seen the one with Reginald Owen (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0029992/), but many who have say it's the best film adaptation ever. That's really the only Christmas movie I watched this year, unless you count the Christmas specials on TV. (Rudolph, Charlie Brown, etc.)

I did have to turn off the radio and put CDs on on Wed; if I heard one more Christmas song I think I would have done something violent!
Amen to that! We've had not one, but two local radio stations that have been playing Christmas music 24/7 since Thanksgiving. Literally nothing but Christmas for a month. Inevitably, these are the stations playing in doctors' offices, stores, etc., so it's hard to get away from them. I'm sorry, but when the "Christmas season" starts in the middle of October, it just seems to take a lot of the enjoyment out of the holiday. When you have the holiday shoved down your throat for three months whenever you walk into a store, turn on the TV, or listen to the radio, enough is enough.

[Janak Parekh]

I still have never seen A Christmas Story after nearly twenty-eight years. :) I'll have to rent that one soon, I guess.
If you have cable, just put TNT on next Christmas eve. They do 24 hours of it straight, over and over and over. Once will be more than enough, I think. :lol:

I did have to turn off the radio and put CDs on on Wed; if I heard one more Christmas song I think I would have done something violent!
Amen to that! We've had not one, but two local radio stations that have been playing Christmas music 24/7 since Thanksgiving. Literally nothing but Christmas for a month. Inevitably, these are the stations playing in doctors' offices, stores, etc., so it's hard to get away from them.
This is why I'm so glad I have my iPod. The last two years I've been blissful with my digital music (either via the iPod or Pocket PC). I haven't turned on a FM radio station in months (except for my wakeup classical music on my clock radio, which even yesterday wasn't cliche Christmas tunes).

--janak

[Dave Beauvais]

... I haven't turned on a FM radio station in months ...
My problem is that I rarely drive anywhere long enough or far enough away to bother with anything other than the radio, and I usually don't even turn that on. The "Top 40" and country stations play the same 10-12 songs over and over ad nauseum, and even the two local NPR stations don't generally have anything I'm interested in listening to until late at night when Echoes (http://www.echoes.org/) and the BBC feed are on.

When driving from here (Ohio) to visit a friend in Illinois last month, I listened to audio books off my iPAQ via a cassette adapter for most of the trip and was very grateful that I didn't have to deal with radio stations fading in and out as I moved from city to city. (And I've gotta say, with the LCD and backlight turned off, I still had an estimated 2.5 hours of battery life remaining after almost five hours of continuous WMA playback. That's pretty good, in my opinion.)

If I get the job at the place I interviewed at last week, my commute will be less than ten minutes, even on a bad day with lots of traffic. :)

(Last off-topic post I'll make in this thread. Sorry!) :)

[Paula]

One great thing about New Zealand is that they don't bombard you with Christmas. The radio stations continue to play REAL music., the TV stations DO NOT play the sappy old clasic Christmas movies ("Blazing Saddles" was on last night) and they don't hit you with tons of Christmas ads on TV (just 1/4 of a ton). :lol:

Oh, the only movies that were Christmasy was "How The Grinch Stole Christmas", "Christmas Vacation" and we did have a showing of the anual FREE Coke "Christmas in the Park" (national Celebs sing their hearts out in front of thousands).

This is What I have watched since Wednesday:

Chicago (+special features)
Monty Python's The Holy Grail (+ special features)
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Independance Day
Both Mummy movies (Yes, I do love these :oops: ) (+ special features)

TONS of Gilmore girls episodes on tape.
:lol:

What's up next:
MIB
5Th Element
More Gilmore girls


Paula :)

[Steven Cedrone]

I still have never seen A Christmas Story after nearly twenty-eight years. :) I'll have to rent that one soon, I guess. I did watch my DVD of A Christmas Carol (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0216621/) with Patrick Stewart. I think this is my favorite version of the story, followed closely by George C. Scott's performance (http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0087056/) in 1984. I've never seen the one with Reginald Owen (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0029992/), but many who have say it's the best film adaptation ever.

I think the one with Alastair Sim (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0044008/) is a great version too...

Steve