Your Christmas Movies! Whatcha' Watchin' this Christmas season?

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by MrBarlow

The Thing. 1982.

A U.S. Research team in Antarctica, are besieged by a Norwegian helicopter chasing a dog, after gunning down the shooter, some members fly to their station where everyone is dead or missing and come across a strange creature. They soon find out the creature is a alien that can shape shift into anyone.

John Carpenter at the helm, special effects by Rob Bottin and Kurt Russell as the lead actor...what more do you want? What starts off as Science-fiction alien spaceship crashing, small shoot out then all hell braking loose with tension building up with the actors playing their role perfectly and mixed in with paranoia and claustrophobia with no where to turn and escape. The original 50s movie was a classic and Carpenter mixing it up with his vision of isolation at it's darkest. The background score by Ennio Morricone just adds more suspense to the film when tension arises and Dean Cundey providing great cinematography as always, total shame the 2011 prequel got spoiled by not following the same path as this one with the effects.

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Am i missing something? Is The Thing now a Christmas movie?

[iank]

Well it's got snow in it.

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by iank

Well it's got snow in it.

That was all i could think of as well.

[MrBarlow]

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

Am i missing something? Is The Thing now a Christmas movie?

it has snow and set in Winter I would say it qualifies as a Christmas film

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by MrBarlow

it has snow and set in Winter I would say it qualifies as a Christmas film

How do you know it's set in winter? Genuine question. I've not seen it for a few years.

Antarctic snow doesn't melt as a rule it just lays there and forms ice sheets so if you are basing it on snow = winter then you might be wrong. You do know winter consists of four months...not just December

[MrBarlow]

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

How do you know it's set in winter? Genuine question. I've not seen it for a few years.

Antarctic snow doesn't melt as a rule it just lays there and forms ice sheets so if you are basing it on snow = winter then you might be wrong. You do know winter consists of four months...not just December

Your wrong there, Antarctica winter lasts six months not four I just went with the opening sequence assuming it can be a Christmas film as it has a lower freezing conditions that my ex wife couldn't reach, snow and a nice Huskey to add for the mix

[Inspector Abberline]

If I remember correctly from the making of on The Thing blu ray, ironically the interior filming in LA soundstage was done during a heatwave,I think they were filming in some refrigerator so you could see there breath in the cold air, anyway I'm sure some pedantic so and so will correct me if I'm wrong...

Anyway watched National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation,which is nowhere near as good as there National Lampoon's Vacation (1983),but does have a couple of good scenes,Clark Griswold wielding a chainsaw in a hockey mask and squirrel running amok...and of course a bit of Benny Hill style sexism....


Clark is looking at lingerie, as a voluptuous saleswoman approaches]
Mary: Can I help you with anything?
Clark: Oh, I was just smelling - smiling. I was just blouse - brousing.
Mary: For your wife? For your girlfriend?
Clark: Uh... huh? What happened? I, uh, heh heh. Well, I guess it just wouldn't... Oh hee hee, it wouldn't be the Christmas shopping season if the stores were any less hooter than they - HOTTER than they are. Whew. It is warm in here, isn't it?
Mary: You have your coat on.
Clark: Yes, oh do I? How'd that happen?
Mary: Because it's cold out?
Clark: Yes, Yes, it is a bit nipply out. I mean 'nippy out.' What am I saying, nipple? Ah, there is a nip in the air, though

Any way certainly more festive than Wild Beasts.(1983)
Well nothing says Christmas like seeing a severed horses head being clevered then feed to a tiger....or rats nibbling a naked woman...mmmm I'm beginning to think this is not Christmas movie after all....

[trebor8273]

Originally Posted by Inspector Abberline

If I remember correctly from the making of on The Thing blu ray, ironically the interior filming in LA soundstage was done during a heatwave,I think they were filming in some refrigerator so you could see there breath in the cold air, anyway I'm sure some pedantic so and so will correct me if I'm wrong...

Anyway watched National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation,which is nowhere near as good as there National Lampoon's Vacation (1983),but does have a couple of good scenes,Clark Griswold wielding a chainsaw in a hockey mask and squirrel running amok...and of course a bit of Benny Hill style sexism....


Clark is looking at lingerie, as a voluptuous saleswoman approaches]
Mary: Can I help you with anything?
Clark: Oh, I was just smelling - smiling. I was just blouse - brousing.
Mary: For your wife? For your girlfriend?
Clark: Uh... huh? What happened? I, uh, heh heh. Well, I guess it just wouldn't... Oh hee hee, it wouldn't be the Christmas shopping season if the stores were any less hooter than they - HOTTER than they are. Whew. It is warm in here, isn't it?
Mary: You have your coat on.
Clark: Yes, oh do I? How'd that happen?
Mary: Because it's cold out?
Clark: Yes, Yes, it is a bit nipply out. I mean 'nippy out.' What am I saying, nipple? Ah, there is a nip in the air, though

Any way certainly more festive than Wild Beasts.(1983)
Well nothing says Christmas like seeing a severed horses head being clevered then feed to a tiger....or rats nibbling a naked woman...mmmm I'm beginning to think this is not Christmas movie after all....

You know it's Christmas when those immortal words are uttered .

[Dave Boy]

A CHRISTMAS CAROL (1971)

Excellent animated short with a great cast of voice artists.
This used to be on TV every Christmas back in the day.

[MrBarlow]

A Christmas Carol. 1999.

Another made for T.V. movie this time Patrick Stewart takes the lead as Scrooge who seems a bit darker and meaner, Richard E. Grant plays Bob Cratchit who manages to look pale and sweaty at times, yet manages to give us a more heart warming presentation of the character. Dominic West plays Scrooge's young nephew Fred, who tries to bring a smile when speaking to the two charity collectors. Liz Smith returns from the 1984 version as the same character Mrs Dilber.

This does have a nice touch to it with the miners, mariners and then a prisoner singing to which the rest of the prisoners join in, and on Christmas day Scrooge attending a church and finding his voice while singing Christmas Carols to the point you realise he has discovered what it really means.

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