The summer solstice is coming up, and I always rewatch Midsommar (2019) on that day.
My wife got stuck on “Christmas Shoes”, the kids and I hated warching it.
Halloween: Dracula (1992), Addams Family + Values, Mr. Boogedy + Bride of Boogedy, Hocus Pocus
Christmas: Batman Returns, Die Hard, A Christmas Story, Christmas Vacation, Mickey’s Christmas Carol
I watch Die Hard around every xmas. It’s a really good movie.
The Muppet Christmas Carol ever year on Christmas Eve.
Lord of the Rings during Christmas time.
Nice. I always watch during the fall when the air turns crisp and I’ll pair it with a hard apple cider.
Hobbitmaxxing
The world is changed. I feel it in the water. I feel it in the earth. I smell
itthe crispness in the air.Oop, sorry - my bad.
Extended or theatrical?
I’m extended for Fellowship, theatrical for Two Towers, and extended with scene skips for Return.
I’ve watched them three times. Always spaced out by many years. Just did it a week or two ago actually.
The last two were extended. I don’t even know what the theatrical looks like anymore. I can’t imagine skipping scenes.
Which scenes do you skip? And what are you fine skipping in the two towers?
I just felt like the extendeds often include scenes that rightly belong in “deleted scenes” because they are either momentum killers, background info, or straight-up bad–like they just wanted to have the most complete version for archivists.
What convinced me off extended Two Towers was a very cringe scene between that wild, tramelled thing and the mere ranger (I’m terrrble with names) on the trail to helm’s deep.
Two Towers is a pretty cut-and-dry action story, for the most part. Most of the character development beats happen in 1 and 3.
For Return, I think they just chickened out on the run timev-there’s a few necessary scenes cut from theatrical, but also some cruft–like the romance with Faramir.
Testing out my new normie girlfriend soon, so I’ll be doing the merciful thing and going theatrical for all three. Let’s see what I feel is missing.
I like to watch the hogfather around the winter solstice
We watch it every year when we put up our solstice tree. Been a family tradition since my daughter was little.
I’ve fallen off in recent years but I used to watch V for Vendetta every November 5th
And Groundhog Day on FEB. 2?
On November 5th I watch V for Vendetta.
During the week of November 10 (when Kevin Conroy died) I’ll watch many of his Batman animated movies.
Die Hard (1) every Christmas.
Groundhog Day in October. Jk, early February is the yearly watch.
Not actually a movie, but, like all Germans, Dinner for One on December 31st
Does not count as a movie.
I always thought that nobody in the UK would knew what I was talking about with “Dinner for One”, but in North-East Lincolnshire, namely Grimsby, they know that piece. That’s where Freddy Frinton lived.
It’s a wonderful life. My sister watches it every Christmas and the rest of the family watches it with her.
RoboCop is my go-to New Years Eve movie. If you press play at 22:58:25 on the Director’s Cut, you should get within a second or so of synchronizing Clarence Boddicker’s digital hand grenade countdown with midnight.
V for Vendetta on 5th of Nov
Conan The Barbarian at Christmas time.
Gonad the Bavarian!
