Author Topic: THE xmas film? (Read 1912 times)

Rivkid · **Reply #15 on:** December 25, 2008, 22:02:24 PM

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Reply #15 on: December 25, 2008, 22:02:24 PM

Agree with Die Hard and Home Alone! Watched both over the last 3 days. I think in the last 2 years Ive had to add ELF too. "Buddy the Elf, whats your favourite colour?"

Smugs · **Reply #16 on:** December 26, 2008, 23:37:49 PM

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Reply #16 on: December 26, 2008, 23:37:49 PM

Not a film but I like to stick on the X-Files Christmas episode each year, the one with the haunted house and the Ghosts that are trying to make them kill each other, it’s a nice fun little stand alone story.

Deaths Head · **Reply #17 on:** December 27, 2008, 00:01:03 AM

THE xmas film?

Reply #17 on: December 27, 2008, 00:01:03 AM

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National Lampoons christmas vacation, or A Christmas Story. If its not my choice then its Love Actuallly, which is on ITV2+1 right now so I can rewatch the ending. again. for the 2nd time tonight...

Sad!

Ps Wallace and Gromit

In my defence I was utterly sh*tfaced when I typed that.

Serious · **Reply #18 on:** December 27, 2008, 10:42:29 AM

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Reply #18 on: December 27, 2008, 10:42:29 AM

I saw The Colour of Magic and the Chronicles of Narnia, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe yesterday, both excellent. Narnia was definitely far better than The Golden Compass.

zpyder · **Reply #19 on:** December 27, 2008, 12:12:53 PM

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Reply #19 on: December 27, 2008, 12:12:53 PM

I watched the golden compass with my sister a while back. It made next to no sense, and was a little long. With all the fuss that was made over it, and how the books it is based on are so hyped, I decided maybe it just wasnt that good a film, or something, so wikid the story / plots of the books.

After getting a pretty concise picture of each books plot and the overlying story, I seriously dont see how they can be so popular. I did something similar with the Dune saga as I got fed up of getting into arguments with people over whether Dune or LOTR was better, so I read the whole saga. I thought they got worse as they went along, but in the scale of things at least the last book I read (Chapter house dune I think) was readable and had a solid idea behind it ><

Last night I watched "The seeker: The Dark Is Rising"
I should have been dubious of any film that has two "the"s in its title. Most predictable film Ive seen in a long time, and every time something was just about to "happen" it was like someone on set yelled "stop, this is getting too exciting, lets reign it in" and totally toned it down.

Ive still yet to see *my* xmas film (scrooged), its recorded, but I never get the chance to watch TV till dad goes to bed at like 10 so its too late

Also have "What about Bob" recorded hehe

Serious · **Reply #20 on:** December 27, 2008, 23:54:55 PM

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Reply #20 on: December 27, 2008, 23:54:55 PM

The Lord of the Ring books were excellent for the time they were written, unfortunately they have become extremely dated. If someone was to present them to a publisher today then they wouldnt get onto paper. They seem to be written mostly for children, even though they make up an epic saga. The films, you either love them or hate them, rather like Marmite. There are massive differences between the two simply because of the material that was chucked out to get the books down to the scale of three films.

Dune is a futuristic sci-fi series rather than swords and sorcery, although it does get complex and confused in parts. Its a shame that only the first one was made into a film. Herbert left a road map on the rest of the books that he was planning and his son took over, this expanded the series with some prequels and then continued the series to a final conclusion.

My preference for books is Dune, but comparing them generally isnt really on as they were written for different people and times. Its a bit like tasting chalk and cheese, then deciding that cheese would make a better drawing medium because it tastes better.

zpyder · **Reply #21 on:** December 28, 2008, 10:37:53 AM

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Reply #21 on: December 28, 2008, 10:37:53 AM

The thing I hated most about dune was that of the 6 books of the main series, more than half of them followed the same plotline of "Political struggle going on, bit of fighting, main character is kinda cool but nothing special...oh no, hes now found out he has powers, he saves the day, book ends." Even if the rest of the book was awesome (Which I didnt find it was(obviously) - that kind of cop-out ending is pretty poor, but repeating the formula is even worse!)

Quixoticish · **Reply #22 on:** December 28, 2008, 13:19:01 PM

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Reply #22 on: December 28, 2008, 13:19:01 PM

Quote from: Serious

The Lord of the Ring books were excellent for the time they were written, unfortunately they have become extremely dated. If someone was to present them to a publisher today then they wouldnt get onto paper. They seem to be written mostly for children, even though they make up an epic saga. The films, you either love them or hate them, rather like Marmite. There are massive differences between the two simply because of the material that was chucked out to get the books down to the scale of three films.

Dune is a futuristic sci-fi series rather than swords and sorcery, although it does get complex and confused in parts. Its a shame that only the first one was made into a film. Herbert left a road map on the rest of the books that he was planning and his son took over, this expanded the series with some prequels and then continued the series to a final conclusion.

My preference for books is Dune, but comparing them generally isnt really on as they were written for different people and times. Its a bit like tasting chalk and cheese, then deciding that cheese would make a better drawing medium because it tastes better.

The Hobbit was written as a childrens story and bar Tolkeins rather bizarre narrative structure its quite good at being just that. The Lord of the Rings was written because Tolkein was a linguist and wanted to work his new language (elvish) into a story.

Serious · **Reply #23 on:** December 28, 2008, 21:11:09 PM

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Reply #23 on: December 28, 2008, 21:11:09 PM

Im talking about style, not purpose. I fully accept the idea of why he would write the books, but there are issues beyond that, like the childish singing that seems to permiate some portions of them.

mr_roll · **Reply #24 on:** December 28, 2008, 22:29:36 PM

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Reply #24 on: December 28, 2008, 22:29:36 PM

We were having a discussion about this at work before the past 4 days.

I say Rambo 2 is always good and Commando is great!
Die hard and Aliens would also be good.

Clock'd 0Ne · **Reply #25 on:** December 29, 2008, 13:59:57 PM

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Reply #25 on: December 29, 2008, 13:59:57 PM

Die Hard is THE Christmas film, its religious viewing!

Bad Santa makes for a great Christmas comedy too.

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