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Home Alone

I gotta stay this movie is a little overrated. Macaulay Culkin is not good in this movie. He is just a annoying little **** here and offers nothing nothign at all. Sure he may be the star but that doesnt make him any good. The Wet Bandits are good but not in it enough. The old man neighbor is the real heart and soul of this movie. His story is far more interesting. He is just a very creepy, lonely broken hearted man armed with a shovel and a yearning for his family. By far the only character worth caring about and rooting for. I mean I was rooting for Kevin to die and the majority of his ****y family to die as well but im just a cynic. I don’t know why the old man leaves after he saves Kevin from the bandits though, Kevin is still a little kid with no family and the old guy just deuces out and leaves him alone. Kevin is such a little **** that no one wants to take care of him. 6/10



Daddy’s Home 2

There should be no ****ing way in hell that this movie should have been any good. The first one was pure trash. Yet there I was laughing my balls off during this one. Legit I was laughing out loud a lot during this surprisingly good movie. For the most part everything worked in it. The casting was pretty much dead on. John Lithgow was perfect in that emotional and sissy dad role. While Mel Gibson was perfect as the rough and tough dad. Wahlberg and Will Ferrell were both solid as well. John Cena was good in his brief amount of screen time. Major props for the great idea of all four dads agreeing the thermostat cant be touched. I still cant believe how much I enjoyed this movie. The drawback was that it gets to be a little bit too much at times. The over the top physical comedy stuff and lack of awareness of Ferrell’s character got to be annoying. The little girl angle also isnt very funny either. The end song is really unnecessary. Overall it's a fun watch for anyone and it's good Christmas and family Movie 7/10.

Christmas Vacation

One of the best Christmas movies ever and for good reasons. Cousin Eddie will always be a classic character. Everyone though is really funny. You can never go wrong with this one. 9.5/10



Home Alone 2: Alone in New York

This is one of the most maddening movies I've ever had to ****ing sit through. Every character made me we just want to ****ing punch them in the face. The McCalister family is the ****ing worst. The uncle is a douchebag, the mom's a dumbass. Kevin and Buzz both suck on equal level. I mean how the **** can you forget you ******* kid two years in a row. Come on, Child Protective Services needs to be ****ing called ASAP. Take all 19 kids they have away from them. Macaulay Culkin is terrible here. Once again he is just a annoying little ****. On top of the family being a bunch of **** brains the hotel staff is every bit as equally dumb. Kevin sucks so much that even the lady in the airport doesnt help a lost child out. She can instantly tell that he is a **** and shouldnt be helped. . No one gives a **** about this little kid. I mean except for crazy pigeon lady. She's the most responsible character here. The fact that a crazy bitch that lives under a bridge and has a bunch of pigeon friends cares more about Kevin, than anyone else in this whole ****ing movie says everything about these ****ty characters. That's sad when the ****ing lady has a bunch of bird **** in her ****ing hair cares more about a son than the mother, is not a good look for whatever the dumbs mom name was. The ****ing balls on the McCallister's to get pissed at the hotel room yelling about how could you let a child check-in, how could you leave him unattended and everything. Ummmmm bitch how could you leave your child in a ******* airport again for two movies in a row you forgot your kid at home.Again just do a quick head count and all this **** would have been avoided. ****ty characters aside, Daniel Stern is ****ing hilarious here. Pesci is good as well Daniel Stern is the only reason I laughed. That dude is a ****ing riot here between his one-liners and his physical comedy, just outstanding work.I'm not going to say that he saved this movie because these are the most unlikeable charcters ever and I wanted to kill everyone. Stern and Pesci get a thumbs up but everyone else go **** themselves. 3/10



Santa’s Slay

The award for most badass Santa goes to Goldberg! Goldberg! Goldberg! (if you arent a wrestling fan then get your **** together and look it up). This is just a fun ass comedy and horror movie. In it Santa is a bad guy who has to be nice for a 1000 years because he lost a bet. Well guess what times up bitch, Santa is here for some killing. I applaud the dudes who thought of these kills. Between the star tree topper being used as a ninja star and taking a bitch out, or using a candy cane to impale someone ,or a **** ton of other way that Santa mercs some fools. This movie never takes itself to seriously. Goldberg is outstanding and badass here. His one liners at times were good , other times they miss there mark. I would have like a spear and jackhammer combo or at least him goin Who’s Next? (gotta give the fans what they want) but you don’t always get want you want. Some lame action scenes and bad cgi hamper this a little bit but just don’t think about those too much. 7.5/10



Klause

This is a more realistic approach to the origin of Santa Claus. Its a very clever, fun, and emotional. To be honest I was surprised how much I enjoyed it. This takes the origin of Santa and adds a dose of realism to it. For example him and flying reindeer don’t actually fly but a child saw them out the window one night and told everyone they flew. The main character here was really good, he was annoying at first but as the story went on he got better and better. All the other supporting voice actors also nailed it. The one thing they ****ed up was J.K. Simmons being Santa. His voice lacked any sort of emotion and it just didn’t fit in here at all. Which is disappointing because he is usually great in everything. One of the bigger disappointment was also the fact that they excluded the talk between Jesper and his father. It would have been so much better to have heard his father say he is proud of him and the emotional chat they had. That scene would have elevated this movie and would have made it even better. Still though its a damn good movie. 8/10



The Night Before

This movie gets better and better every time I watch it. Seth Rogen is hilarious in this. Michael Shannon absolutely kills it as well. His intensity and seriousness is funny as hell here. Joesph Gordon Levitt gets annoying with all his moping towards the end. The Miley Cyrus **** in the club also goes on to long as well. No one needs a full on karaoke session to “Wrecking Ball”. Other then those two things though this movie rules. If you don’t like dick and balls jokes though then its not for you, but you can go **** yourself because those are the best types of jokes. If you like those then this movie is perfect for you. 8.5/10

Elf

Damn son does this movie ****ing rules. It is one of the best Christmas movies ever made and for good reason. Almost everything about this movie is perfect. The casting was dead on. Will Ferrell kills it as Buddy the elf, James Caan is great as the grumpy old guy, Ed Asner, Bob Newhart, and Peter Dinklage just cant be beat here. The casting for everything was so perfect. Zooey Deschanel is definitely the weakest cast member here Jon Favreau did a great job directing and capturing the Christmas movie magic. I could go listing just all the great scenes in this movie but that would basically just be the whole movie. To think that when I saw this theaters the first time I hated this. That really shows that A) im a ****ing idiot (probably already evident while you were reading this) and B) my judgments of movies might not be the best. Any who this movie will always be a mandatory watching during the Christmas season. 9.5/10

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Most of those movies are fun. I still love Miracle on 34th Street with Natalie Wood, Wonderful Life, and The Christmas Carol with Edward Woodward. Very nice movies. Great stories.



I'm pretty cynical about Christmas movies so many of them are lost on me. My favorite, however, is It's a Wonderful Life, which steadfastly remains in lots of all-time top 100 movie lists. The sentimentality of its story with the dottering angel, being told by God to rescue George from suicide, just before Christmas because so many people in his ideal little snowy town have benefitted so much from him, is Capra-Corn at its very best. It's also a movie with some historical perspective, in that, being set shortly after the end of WW II, it defies the narrative that everything will be fine in the good old USA now that the Nazis and Japanese have been beaten. Frank Capra, the director, himself was a veteran of both WW I and II had seen the worst of what humans can do to each other, up close and personal, so the movie must have had a lot of resonance for him

It's worth noting that the movie didn't do all that well at the box office and was questioned by politicians during communist witch-hunts, since the movie dared to suggest that a rich guy (Mr. Potter) was actually not all that virtuous, even though we had accepted that Mister Scrooge was also a bad guy. It was assumed to be some sort of socialist propaganda.

Jimmy Stewart really pulled on the stops in this one, as a disheartened bank clerk and loving dad who deserves redemption. It has that glowing cinematography, the best of the black and white era. Don't dare see a colorized version as there are several and that sort of strange cartoony processing really messes up the original image quality.



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There's great cartoon called "Claus". Netflix created the most beautiful cartoon that touched me to the core. Love is felt in him, and I literally saw how the authors approached the creation of this creation with a soul. This can be seen in the way they showed the story of the hero Klaus himself.
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There's great cartoon called "Claus". Netflix created the most beautiful cartoon that touched me to the core. Love is felt in him, and I literally saw how the authors approached the creation of this creation with a soul. This can be seen in the way they showed the story of the hero Klaus himself.
oh yes i loved that movie, they did a really good job with the cartoon and story



I didn't know what to do with this link, not wanting to lose it and forget it, I will post it here:
20 Worst Christmas Movies
https://www.pastemagazine.com/movies...es-of-all-time

Heres a massive Christmas movie thread from 2011, probably has most everything youd want to see already mentioned in it.
Best Christmas movies...
https://www.movieforums.com/communit...ristmas+movies
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Re: Daddy's Home 2: "The end song is really unnecessary."

Totally agree. I like the film and re-watched it recently. But I hate that song. And it doesn't fit well at the ending.

My favourite Christmas movie remains Scrooged.
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1000% on Daddy’s Home 2. On the outset it looks like it would be dumb. But man is it funny.



That's some bad hat, Harry.
The old man neighbor is the real heart and soul of this movie. His story is far more interesting. He is just a very creepy, lonely broken hearted man armed with a shovel and a yearning for his family. By far the only character worth caring about and rooting for. [/url]
Interesting that you felt Home Alone is overrated. I love it. Tomorrow will be my annual viewing of it. That said, you make an interesting point about Old Man Marley. He does become a hero in the end and gets an uplifting send off. I can understand why you didn't like the film as much as its most devoted fans as Marley is kind of an after thought.



I love the Christmas movie Curly Sue, it is so cozy and warm, I recommend watching it with cocoa
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