The summer solstice is coming up, and I always rewatch Midsommar (2019) on that day.
The Last Temptation Of Christ during easter, usually on Good Friday. The Ivanhoe TV movie from 1982 on new years day.
Every year on Christmas Eve I watch Last Christmas(2019) it’s an incredibly mediocre movie but man do I love that movie (and Emilia Clarke)
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.
The Muppet Christmas Carol ever year on Christmas Eve.
Not actually a movie, but, like all Germans, Dinner for One on December 31st
The worlds longest one line joke. Same procedure as every year.
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.
Die Hard (1) every Christmas.
I’ve fallen off in recent years but I used to watch V for Vendetta every November 5th
And Groundhog Day on FEB. 2?
Groundhog Day in October. Jk, early February is the yearly watch.
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.
Yes, I watch Groundhog Day on February 2.
And then again every night until the next February 2.
V for Vendetta on 5th of Nov
I watch Die Hard around every xmas. It’s a really good movie.
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.
New Year’s - Strange Daze
Saint Patrick’s Day - Boondock Saints
Easter - Mallrats; Life of Brian
4th of July - Jaws; Southland Tales
Halloween - Monster Squad
Thanksgiving - Planes, Trains, and Automobiles; My Blue Heaven
Christmas - Die Hard; National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation
Boondock Saints is probably by all measures an objectively bad movie (which I don’t think is a thing anyway) but goddamn do I love that movie.
It has been a minute since I’ve seen Southland Tales. What a trip! Time for another rewatch.
Stellar list overall too!
Christmas:
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Muppet Christmas Carol
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Nothing Like the Holidays
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The Snowman
Thanksgiving, not a movie, a song: Arlo Guthrie’s “Alice’s Restaurant”
July: Independence Day
I also generally reread at some point in the summer Neal Stephenson’s novel Zodiac
If you don’t play Alice’s restaurant at least 4 times throughout the day on Thanksgiving, you can’t eat until you catch up.
Can I eat dead, burnt bodies? I mean, kill?
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