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Movie Viewing Habits, or Events, During The Holidays

T.J. Royal

over 2 years ago

When it comes to those rare days we can get off from work, namely being Thanksgiving, Christmas, perhaps Labor Day and hopefully the Fourth of July, among others, I occasionally, however inconsistently, like to spend my time watching some classic, fulfilling movies.

I tried to keep it going so that I would watch at least Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back or Return of the Jedi on Thanksgiving Day by myself or with my younger relatives, but it hasn’t worked out quite that way this year.

What I might think I’ll start doing is getting that going again, or possibly going a different route. And that would be to give special attention to watching particularly lengthy movies over the holidays, like Seven Samurai, Giant, Dr. Zhivago, the Lord of the Rings Trilogy or any number of movies that tend to run around three hours or longer.

That’s just my thoughts on my holiday movie viewings. What are yours?

Drew Gregory

over 2 years ago

I have homework all Thanksgiving break!!! AHHH!

But I usually use the extra time to go film-watching crazy. Five films a day I say.

Law

over 2 years ago

I once saw five films the day. I never woke up.

Drew Gregory

over 2 years ago

I watched the whole Antoine Doinel series in one day. Ahhh what a great day!

ROCKY AND BULLWINKLE

over 2 years ago

Arsenic And Old Lace. Every Christmas.

Rossone​ri Ultra

over 2 years ago

TJ, I’m probably going to do the samw thing as you and watch the lengthier films. I’ve already got The Decalogue out and hopefully I’ll get to some more Kurosawa.

Drew Gregory

over 2 years ago

I love Dekalog!

Fredo

over 2 years ago

I went and saw the new King Kong in the theater a couple years ago on New Years Eve.

That was a pretty awful experience.

Nick Kostopo​ulos

over 2 years ago

Saw “Sweeney Todd” on New’s Years Eve; great experience. And “No Country for Old Men” on Dec. 26th; aso awesome,

“Die Hard” is also a good Christmas film.

Nick Kostopo​ulos

over 2 years ago

Saw “Sweeney Todd” on New’s Years Eve; great experience. And “No Country for Old Men” on Dec. 26th; aso awesome,

“Die Hard” is also a good Christmas film.

T.J. Royal

over 2 years ago

Well, I didn’t get to dive into Seven Samurai or the Star Wars trilogy like I’d hoped over the Thanksgiving holiday. I did watch The Fall, Carnival of Souls and several episodes of the Batman Animated Series, though!

Dennis Brian

over 2 years ago

every halloween i watch ernest scared stupid and every christmas I watch Godard’s Germany Year Zero