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whiskeypriest

Posted: Sat Dec 21, 2013 10:53 am

Joined: 20 May 2004 Posts: 6916 Location: "It's a Dry Heat."

Oh, way cool. Thanks gromit!

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billyweeds

Posted: Sat Dec 21, 2013 11:20 am

Joined: 20 May 2004 Posts: 20618 Location: New York City

I would agree it's the best New Year's movie ever, but Christmas? Not even close. However, and more importantly, it's one of the "best movies of all kinds ever." Awesome beyond words.

bartist

Posted: Sat Dec 21, 2013 11:26 am

Joined: 27 Apr 2010 Posts: 6958 Location: Black Hills

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...ignore Bart's instructions....

Definitely, as I hadn't realized that HTML is turned off. If it is turned on, mine work just fine, albeit with more typing and hunting for those bracket things on your kboard.

Finally, I understand how computers work!

Hey, cool!

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Ghulam

Posted: Sat Dec 21, 2013 3:29 pm

Joined: 20 May 2004 Posts: 4742 Location: Upstate NY

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West of Memphis is an excellent documentary on the legal fight and the public outrage in connection with the wrongful conviction and 18 year imprisonment of three teenagers for the murder of three 8 year old boys.

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whiskeypriest

Posted: Sat Dec 21, 2013 5:01 pm

Joined: 20 May 2004 Posts: 6916 Location: "It's a Dry Heat."

billyweeds wrote:

I would agree it's the best New Year's movie ever, but Christmas? Not even close. However, and more importantly, it's one of the "best movies of all kinds ever." Awesome beyond words.

Oh, I don't know; there are a lot of people for whom the clip I posted just SCREAMS Christmas.

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billyweeds

Posted: Sat Dec 21, 2013 5:26 pm

Joined: 20 May 2004 Posts: 20618 Location: New York City

whiskeypriest wrote:

billyweeds wrote:

I would agree it's the best New Year's movie ever, but Christmas? Not even close. However, and more importantly, it's one of the "best movies of all kinds ever." Awesome beyond words.

Oh, I don't know; there are a lot of people for whom the clip I posted just SCREAMS Christmas.

That clip nails the "lonely Christmas" deal as well as anything ever has, but the money scene is New Year's Eve, so I still say "New Year's movie."

gromit

Posted: Sun Dec 22, 2013 1:33 am

Joined: 31 Aug 2004 Posts: 9010 Location: Shanghai

Ghulam wrote:

I skipped it initially because the cover looked suspect.
Then I read about it online and decided to get it.
But forgot to pick it up a couple of times.
And then it was gone.
I've heard good stuff about it ....

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Befade

Posted: Sun Dec 22, 2013 12:07 pm

Joined: 20 May 2004 Posts: 3784 Location: AZ

West of Memphis is a must see if you are interested in the miscarriage of justice. Similar to the story of the Central Park Five........teenagers falsely accused, sentenced........so easily......while the real perpetrator is never pursued. If you liked Eddie Vedder's music in Into the Wild.......he along with Johnny Depp pressed for justice in the Memphis case.

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billyweeds

Posted: Sun Dec 22, 2013 1:38 pm

Joined: 20 May 2004 Posts: 20618 Location: New York City

Befade wrote:

Is this the same case that was dealt with in The Robin Hood Murders or whatever that doc was called?

P.S. Just checked, and yes, it is, and Roger Ebert said it's the film you should choose of the four existent if you only choose one.

Befade

Posted: Mon Dec 23, 2013 12:45 pm

Joined: 20 May 2004 Posts: 3784 Location: AZ

never heard of that one. I'll have to check it out.

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gromit

Posted: Wed Dec 25, 2013 2:15 am

Joined: 31 Aug 2004 Posts: 9010 Location: Shanghai

My Xmas Eve Double Bill:

Peeping Tom
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A Christmas Story

Peeping Tom is such a perverse little film.
It'd been quite a while since I had seen it last.

A Christmas Story is fun but not nearly as great as all the hoopla would have you believe. The best stuff is almost invariably the Jean Shepard narration. It's a small film and mostly a bunch of sketches and vignettes strung together. In a way, I assume this makes it easy to re-watch as you can't remember all of the little incidents.

I liked the way small childhood experiences are presented as epic occurrences. It's silly and enjoyable and the kid who plays Ralphie does a great job. The costumes are also terrific, especially the pajamas and the oddball headgear the kids wear outdoors.

I kept waiting for Darren McGavin's dad to have a funny line or do something memorable. He also has zero chemistry with his wife.
Mom kept reminding me of something/someone -- I finally decided on a cross between the mother in Better Off Dead and Cameron Diaz in Being John Malkovich.

I think my favorite scene is when Ralphie meets Santa and his cranky elves. The way he stops himself from going down the slide, scrambles up and gets his request in, only to be dispatched by Santa's boot.

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Joe Vitus

Posted: Wed Dec 25, 2013 4:43 am

Joined: 20 May 2004 Posts: 14498 Location: Houston

A Christmas Story is my favorite Christmas movie, and a genuine classic. But the 24 hour marathons kill it. You just don't need that much exposure in that short a time to any movie. But I love it. Love it.

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billyweeds

Posted: Wed Dec 25, 2013 8:21 am

Joined: 20 May 2004 Posts: 20618 Location: New York City

I love A Christmas Story, a lotta lotta lot, but the original critical reaction to the film was more along the lines of gromit's. I went with my then-wife and my then almost-eight-year-old daughter on the opening day. We came out loving the movie--loving it--and were shocked to see the one-star review in the New York Daily News and the lukewarm-to-hostile reviews everywhere else.

Gromit's double-bill was weird to be sure, but more appropriate (if you're going for horror and heartwarming) would have been pairing A Christmas Story with Black Christmas (the original, not the remake). Both are excellent, and both are directed by Bob Clark, the infamous director of Porky's, who proved with his two wildly disparate Yuletide movies that he was a director of enormous talent. Black Christmas out-creeps Halloween, and features Andrea Martin, of all people--along with Olivia Hussey, Keir Dullea, Margot Kidder, and John Saxon. It's set on a Canadian college campus during Christmas break, and...I can't go on, it's just too creepy. But I love it.

marantzo

Posted: Wed Dec 25, 2013 9:33 am

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If you want gross Christmas movies, Bad Santa fits the bill. I had a very hard time watching the whole thing. I just watched the last 20 minutes or so this morning, that was OK because it has a sort of decent ending.

I too loved A Christmas Story. One of the overall things about it is that its time and place is virtually the same as mine was. A number of kids I knew got their tongues stuck on the metal fence around the school, for example.

whiskeypriest

Posted: Wed Dec 25, 2013 10:18 am

Joined: 20 May 2004 Posts: 6916 Location: "It's a Dry Heat."

I like but do not love Christmas Story. Which is an improvement over time, since for a long while my reaction to the movie was wishing Santa had kicked much harder.

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