Showing posts with label Christmas Movies. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Christmas Movies. Show all posts

Thursday, December 18, 2008

The Movie Elf

Elf [Blu-ray]
Elf [Blu-ray]
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You know, Elf was another Christmas movie that I enjoyed more than I thought I would. I really liked the music in that movie. And just thinking about that scene with the angry Elf makes me crack up.

According to Bret Fetzer
Elf is genuinely good. Not just Saturday Night Live-movie good, when the movie has some funny bits but is basically an insult to humanity; Elf is a smartly written, skillfully directed, and deftly acted story of a human being adopted by Christmas elves who returns to the human world to find his father. And because the writing, directing, and acting are all genuinely good, Elf is also genuinely funny. Will Ferrell, as Buddy the adopted elf, is hysterically sincere. James Caan, as his rediscovered father, executes his surly dumbfoundedness with perfect aplomb. Zooey Deschanel, as a department store worker with whom Buddy falls in love, is adorably sardonic. Director Jon Favreau (Swingers) shepherds the movie through all the obligatory Christmas cliches and focuses on material that's sometimes subtle and consistently surprising. Frankly, Elf feels miraculous. Also featuring Mary Steenburgen, Bob Newhart, Peter Dinklage, and Ed Asner as Santa Claus.



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Wednesday, December 17, 2008

Bad Santa (The Unrated Version and Director's Cut) [Blu-ray]

I did not realize that Bad Santa had come out on Blu-ray. Which is cool because while I love watching It's a Wonderful Life and other Christmas movies that have a more wholesome subject matter, Bad Santa is a movie that I enjoyed a lot more than I expected to. Which is a good thing in a movie. And it has become one of those movies that I like to watch during the holiday season. Christmas has a dark side to it too and this movie is a great dark comedy.

Bad Santa
(The Unrated Version and Director's Cut)
[Blu-ray]
Bad Santa (The Unrated Version and Director's Cut) [Blu-ray]
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Jeff Shannon sums it up quite well when he said;
Instantly qualifying as a perennial cult favorite, Bad Santa is as nasty as it wants to be, and there's something to be said for comedy without compromise. The Coen brothers conceived the basic idea and served as executive producers, but it's director Terry Zwigoff (Crumb, Ghost World) who brings his unique affinity for losers and outcasts to the twisted tale of Willie T. Stokes (Billy Bob Thornton), a hard-drinking, chain-smoking, foul-mouthed sexaholic safe-cracker who targets a different department store every holiday season, playing Santa while he cases the joint with his dwarf elf-partner Marcus (Tony Cox). With comedic support from Bernie Mac, Lauren Graham, Cloris Leachman, and John Ritter in his final film, Thornton milks the lowbrow laughs with a slovenly lack of sentiment, warming Bad Santa's pickled heart just enough to please a chubby misfit (Brett Kelly, hilariously deadpan) who may or may not be mentally challenged. As dry as an arid martini and blacker than morning-after coffee, Bad Santa is an instant cure for yuletide schmaltz, and if you think this appropriately R-rated comedy is suitable for kids, your parenting skills are no better than Willie's.



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Tuesday, December 16, 2008

A Cool List Of Christmas Movies!

Just stumbled upon Auburn's List of Christmas Movies and there are quite a few good movies on the list. The coolest thing about the list it that all listings are linked to the Internet Movie Data Base, which makes doing research on each move easy.

Don't you just love the world wide web and the Internet.

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