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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I was surprised by how much I enjoyed The Family Man. I mean, it's a 21st Century Nic Cage movie – I thought they passed a law that they all had to be unremittingly dreadful, but this was quite fun.
Blimeythat was quick, that was only minutes old! It's like you were just waiting for me to post something about Nic Cage..?
Me thinks one protest too much.
Actually The Family Man is a very satisfying film and it's before Cage got his teeth fixed.
I have very high hopes for Mr Cage this coming year, I think he will be great in Kick Ass and The Sorcerer's Apprentice and I listened to a very strong review regarding Bad Lieutenant, maybe Ghost Rider 2 isn't going to suck?
Giggle.
Haha. I almost forgot that Rocky4 was set near Xmas
Seriously though, Xmas or not, Rocky 4 is my fav one from the whole boxset. Although the whole “Anyone can change” is a bit Barack Obama
I recently watched Elf, and it was hilarious
We'll be watching the old Burl Ives Rudolph thee Red-Nosed Reindeer
Die Hard absolutely. The others, not so much for me. I'll still stand by A Christmas Story, Scrooged, A Christmas Carol (1938 Reginald Owen Version), and Santa Claus Conquers the Martians.
Merrie Xmas, All!