My son asked to watch a Christmas movie today : risa

[+] TotallyNotSpezUpload@startrek.website 14 points 5 months ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

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[–] SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

I'm more of a Lord of the Rings guy.

*for Christmas

[–] mercano@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Makes sense. They each came out a week or two before Christmas. I remember finishing my college finals each year and then going to see them with my friends before going home.

[–] zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev 2 points 5 months ago

Plus they have elves.

[–] RalphFurley@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

For years I would start reading the Hobbit all the way through Return of the King around Christmas, every year

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 2 points 5 months ago

I never thought of that! I am going to use this argument with the family this year...

[–] data1701d@startrek.website 2 points 5 months ago

I'm very close to finishing my current TNG rewatch and am looking forward to throwing on Generations to commemorate the season.

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 10 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I put this on one year and the family was watching. My mother declared it was too scary and guilted everyone into turning it off and playing board games with her instead. So now we don't get to watch it on Christmas. I was 32 when that happened.

[–] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Also Rambo First Blood.

Also Gremlins.

[–] SantasMagicalComfort@piefed.world 3 points 5 months ago

Gremlins is the best especially the story about her father.

[–] 1SimpleTailor@startrek.website 2 points 5 months ago

As someone who's become more and more of a Scrooge over the years, Gremlins is my partner and I's go to "Not Christmas" Movie

Similar in vibes, though more "Christmasy" Krampus (2015) has become another of my holiday staples.

[+] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 8 points 5 months ago

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[–] FluidBeef@quokk.au 7 points 5 months ago

My name is Mott. I’m the barber.

[–] aramis87@fedia.io 6 points 5 months ago (2 children)

"Computer, play a British holiday film."

computer plays The Great Escape

[–] HakunaHafada@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 5 months ago

One of my favorites!

[–] MalReynolds@slrpnk.net 2 points 5 months ago

And now I'm whistling in my head...

Also a good British one : Hogsfather

[–] Stampela@startrek.website 4 points 5 months ago

Mandatory 3d printable ornament… https://www.printables.com/model/1096940-die-hard-vent-scene-christmas-decoration

[–] bigkahuna1986@lemmy.ml 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

My family watches the Harry Potter movies during December. Also tremors.

[–] data1701d@startrek.website 7 points 5 months ago (2 children)

It's kind of hard for me to watch the HP movies these days with all the Rowling stuff, which is unfortunate because Radcliffe and Watson have stood up to Rowling's transphobia. There's also a lot of stuff from reading the books as a kid that is, in retrospect, rather horrible.

Maybe I could see myself one day re-watching them through a means that doesn't directly fund Rowling (or, in the future, her estate, if its activities are malicious) and enjoy the work of the other people who aren't involved with the stuff Rowling is doing, but for me, that day is not today; I just feel too conflicted about it.

For now, though, if I want to enjoy Radcliffe, I throw on 2022's Weird: The Al Yankovic Story.

[–] swab148@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 5 months ago

Guns Akimbo was good too

[–] MalReynolds@slrpnk.net 4 points 5 months ago

through a means that doesn’t directly fund Rowling

YoHoHo, it's Christmas on the high seas :)

[+] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip -7 points 5 months ago

No

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