Do you have any movies that you rewatch at a specific time of year?
The summer solstice is coming up, and I always rewatch Midsommar (2019) on that day.
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The summer solstice is coming up, and I always rewatch Midsommar (2019) on that day.
Midsommar freaks me out the more I think about that movie. I mean, the guy in the bear suit at the end about to be burned alive but he's completely paralyzed but can see, hear, and feel everything?
The Last Temptation Of Christ during easter, usually on Good Friday. The Ivanhoe TV movie from 1982 on new years day.
Lord of the Rings during Christmas time.
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
itthe 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.
The Muppet Christmas Carol ever year on Christmas Eve.
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.
I’ve fallen off in recent years but I used to watch V for Vendetta every November 5th
And Groundhog Day on FEB. 2?
Groundhog Day in October. Jk, early February is the yearly watch.
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.
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
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
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.
It has been a minute since I've seen Southland Tales. What a trip! Time for another rewatch.
Stellar list overall too!
Christmas:
Muppet Christmas Carol
Nothing Like the Holidays
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.
Can I eat dead, burnt bodies? I mean, kill?
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.
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)
I watch Die Hard around every xmas. It's a really good movie.
Halloween: Sleepy Hollow, Halloween 1 & 2
Christmas: Die Hard, The Long Kiss Goodnight, Ronin
Indigenous Peoples’ Day: Prey
4th of July: Independence Day
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!
Fantastic Mr. Fox in October/November
One of the only Christmas movies I want to watch yearly is the BBC adaptation of Terry Pratchetts The Hog Father
I like to watch the hogfather around the winter solstice
We watch it every year when we put up our solstice tree. Been a family tradition since my daughter was little.
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
Waterworld once every two years on the second Saturday in June.
It's a wonderful life. My sister watches it every Christmas and the rest of the family watches it with her.
Rise of the guardians, every Xmas, with the kids, since it came out.
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!
Oz used to be on every Thanksgiving in the states...
Here in Italy they always air Trading Places on Christmas Eve, so it's sort of tradition to watch that.
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:
(1) A German-language Cinderella movie.
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.
Addams Family is a Halloween classic at my house. It’s so good.
I put on childhood Christmas movies while wrapping Christmas presents, lol
My wife got stuck on "Christmas Shoes", the kids and I hated warching it.
Halloween: Dracula (1992), Addams Family + Values, Mr. Boogedy + Bride of Boogedy, Hocus Pocus
Christmas: Batman Returns, Die Hard, A Christmas Story, Christmas Vacation, Mickey’s Christmas Carol
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.
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.
I like to kick off the Halloween season with Trick 'r Treat.
I watch Boogie Nights every 4th of July to see Heather Grams perfect tits.
The Long Kiss Goodnight is the best Christmas movie!
Peak Geena Davis kicks everybody's ass, especially Samuel L. Jackson, who plays the schnook sidekick.
Also, the book "A Night In the Lonesome October" is 31 chapters long. It's the diary of Jack the Ripper's talking dog. Jack is the hero, and the action concludes on a Halloween night with a full moon...
Roger Zelazny, author
I mean, I try to at least have Groundhog Day on in the background every February 2nd.
Christmas Movies:
Paul
LOTR
Strictly Ballroom
Princess Bride
I've shown The Snowman to my kids every December.
They started not wanting to, so one year I didn't, but then they came asking "can we watch the Snowman?" Hell yeah we can watch The Snowman.
I watched the traditional Russian NYE film one year, and it is hilarious.
Will look it up..
The Irony of Fate , a group of guys get drunk on NYE, their friend ends up in the wrong town.