Generally every year I’ll do a list of my favourite Christmas movies and generally I’ll include movies that aren’t considered your traditional festive movies. Obviously I consider myself very clever.
Well this year is no different!
My top five Christmas movies 2009 edition*
- Die Hard – This is an easy choice and a mainstay on this yearly list. The idea of poor John McClane having to visit his family at Christmas and then fend off terrorists, huge chunks of glass in his feet and then having to jump off the roof of a high rise building is enough to make you almost envious that your own Christmas with the family was relatively as stress free.
- Lethal Weapon – Now this is anew addition to the Christmas movie top five unless of course I completely forgotten putting it on one other year but I’m reasonably certain. To be perfectly honest I had completely forgotten that it was in fact a Christmas related film. Nothing says Christmas like albino mercenary fisticuffs on the front lawn in the rain. Ho Ho Ho
- Soldier – I like me some alternative to Universal Soldier, set within the Blade Runner universe, on the run, tossed away like last year’s games console, soldier film. I also like me some Christmas spirit on a shitty backwater junk planet not inhabited by Junkions. So whilst Kurt Russell’s Playstation 1 version soldier is sitting around wondering what his place is in this Playstation 3 universe we get to see the locals celebrate Christmas and even our man Kurt gets himself a present. By the way if you are on a junk planet remember the universal greeting: “Bah-weep-Graaaaagnah wheep ni ni bong”
- Rocky 4 - This is another newcomer to the annual list but since we indirectly pointed at Dolph Lundgren I thought we should also include his Christmas classic, the fourth film in the Rocky franchise which was indeed set at Christmas with Rocky having to fight Ivan Drago on Christmas Day (I think, it was close to Christmas, maybe it was boxing day which would be the mother of all ironies).
- The Family Man – A very rich dude wakes up on Christmas morning to find he’s living my life except with kids. Lucky, lucky bastard. He had a cool car, he had a cool apartment, he didn’t really have cool hair in either life so I guess that evens it all out slightly. War Machine appears as a guardian angel of some sort.
So there you have it people, lock yourself up, pop some corn, stick in the videos and enjoy the Christmas joy with this Yuletide movie line up.
I should have worked for programming at my local television network.
* in no particular order
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