Lord of the Rings during Christmas time.
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Nice. I always watch during the fall when the air turns crisp and I'll pair it with a hard apple cider.
Hobbitmaxxing
The world is changed. I feel it in the water. I feel it in the earth. I smell ~~it~~ the crispness in the air.
Oop, sorry - my bad.
Extended or theatrical?
I'm extended for Fellowship, theatrical for Two Towers, and extended with scene skips for Return.
I've watched them three times. Always spaced out by many years. Just did it a week or two ago actually.
The last two were extended. I don't even know what the theatrical looks like anymore. I can't imagine skipping scenes.
Which scenes do you skip? And what are you fine skipping in the two towers?
I just felt like the extendeds often include scenes that rightly belong in “deleted scenes” because they are either momentum killers, background info, or straight-up bad--like they just wanted to have the most complete version for archivists.
What convinced me off extended Two Towers was a very cringe scene between that wild, tramelled thing and the mere ranger (I'm terrrble with names) on the trail to helm's deep.
Two Towers is a pretty cut-and-dry action story, for the most part. Most of the character development beats happen in 1 and 3.
For Return, I think they just chickened out on the run timev-there's a few necessary scenes cut from theatrical, but also some cruft--like the romance with Faramir.
Testing out my new normie girlfriend soon, so I'll be doing the merciful thing and going theatrical for all three. Let's see what I feel is missing.
Die Hard (1) every Christmas.
Not actually a movie, but, like all Germans, Dinner for One on December 31st
The worlds longest one line joke. Same procedure as every year.
Does not count as a movie.
I always thought that nobody in the UK would knew what I was talking about with "Dinner for One", but in North-East Lincolnshire, namely Grimsby, they know that piece. That's where Freddy Frinton lived.
Groundhog Day in October. Jk, early February is the yearly watch.
The Muppet Christmas Carol ever year on Christmas Eve.
RoboCop is my go-to New Years Eve movie. If you press play at 22:58:25 on the Director's Cut, you should get within a second or so of synchronizing Clarence Boddicker's digital hand grenade countdown with midnight.
I’ve fallen off in recent years but I used to watch V for Vendetta every November 5th
And Groundhog Day on FEB. 2?
New Year's - Strange Daze
Saint Patrick's Day - Boondock Saints
Easter - Mallrats; Life of Brian
4th of July - Jaws; Southland Tales
Halloween - Monster Squad
Thanksgiving - Planes, Trains, and Automobiles; My Blue Heaven
Christmas - Die Hard; National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
It has been a minute since I've seen Southland Tales. What a trip! Time for another rewatch.
Stellar list overall too!
Boondock Saints is probably by all measures an objectively bad movie (which I don't think is a thing anyway) but goddamn do I love that movie.
Yes, I watch Groundhog Day on February 2.
And then again every night until the next February 2.
V for Vendetta on 5th of Nov
Christmas:
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Muppet Christmas Carol
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Nothing Like the Holidays
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The Snowman
Thanksgiving, not a movie, a song: Arlo Guthrie's "Alice's Restaurant"
July: Independence Day
I also generally reread at some point in the summer Neal Stephenson's novel Zodiac
If you don't play Alice's restaurant at least 4 times throughout the day on Thanksgiving, you can't eat until you catch up.
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Halloween: Sleepy Hollow, Halloween 1 & 2
Christmas: Die Hard, The Long Kiss Goodnight, Ronin
Indigenous Peoples’ Day: Prey
4th of July: Independence Day
Fantastic Mr. Fox in October/November
On November 5th I watch V for Vendetta.
During the week of November 10 (when Kevin Conroy died) I'll watch many of his Batman animated movies.
Waterworld once every two years on the second Saturday in June.
I read Hogfather around Christmas every year.
Have you seen the live action version of this?
Think the beeb did it as a two parter years ago
One of the only Christmas movies I want to watch yearly is the BBC adaptation of Terry Pratchetts The Hog Father
I watch the Seven Samurai every year around Christmas because that's around when Toshiro Mifune died. I did it the year he died and it just became a tradition after that.
Conan The Barbarian at Christmas time.
Gonad the Bavarian!
I watch Die Hard around every xmas. It's a really good movie.
Addams Family is a Halloween classic at my house. It’s so good.
Rise of the guardians, every Xmas, with the kids, since it came out.
It's a wonderful life. My sister watches it every Christmas and the rest of the family watches it with her.
Samhain: Addams Family / Values, The Nightmare Before Christmas. Perhaps (in rotation) Shaun of the Dead, Elvira: Mistress of the Dark, Beetlejuice, The Lost Boys, Van Helsing, Corpse Bride, Army of Darkness
Yule: Die Hard, Hogfather (BBC), The Long Kiss Goodnight. Maybe Lethal Weapon, Gremlins, Trading Places.
I put on childhood Christmas movies while wrapping Christmas presents, lol
Here in Italy they always air Trading Places on Christmas Eve, so it's sort of tradition to watch that.
Not anymore but I used to watch the Wizard of Oz and It's a Wonderful Life around Xmas. Never got into the Diehard thing.
edit: actually yes, National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation!
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Always watch A Christmas Story around Christmas obviously. A few days before 4th of July I usually watch Gettysburg. And on 4th of July I watch 1776.
Throw in Ten Commandments around Easter/Passover and I'm right there with you.
There are a number of movies on fixed dates or occasions watched here:
- "Groundhog Day" on February 2nd.
- "V for Vendetta" on November 5th.
- "Little Lord Fountleroy", "Drei Haselnüsse für Aschenbrödel"(1), and "The Muppets Christmas Carol" over the holidays.
(1) A German-language Cinderella movie.
Not a movie, but me and my dad used to watch the Twilight Zone on TV every new year when he was alive and I still try to get a few episodes in.
I like to kick off the Halloween season with Trick 'r Treat.
Miss Congeniality, at the end of April.
Not every year, but when I remember.. I especially enjoy it if I can introduce someone else to it on that perfect date.
Every year on Christmas Eve I watch Last Christmas(2019) it’s an incredibly mediocre movie but man do I love that movie (and Emilia Clarke)
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