Movies Christmas Movie Marathon: 25 Movies 25 Days ( 8 Crazy Nights )

Day 18 Movie 18

Batman Returns

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Synopsis: While Batman deals with a deformed man calling himself the Penguin wreaking havoc across Gotham with the help of a cruel businessman, a female employee of the latter becomes the Catwoman with her own vendetta.

My Rating: 8/10

My Opinion: Again another strong 8 possibly low 9 out of 10 movie for me. And yes this is a movie you should watch at Christmas time. When we are introduced to the penguin as a baby and then again as a man it's both near or on Christmas day. Gotham is celebrating the Christmas holidays throughout the entire movie.

While it's not only my fav Christmas movie so far, it's possibly my favourite batman movie. Its so much fun to watch and I like it more and more every time I re watch it. There's quite a few adult jokes that are made you will catch if you're paying attention. To me the funniest joke I always laugh at is when Christopher Walken says to Michael Keaton, 'Bruce, why are you dressed up like Batman?' It always gets me every single time. Michelle Pfeiffer is definitely the sexiest cat woman in film but she would be perfect if she gained at least 25-30. Also the only thing I disliked about the movie is how she turns into cat woman. Falling out of a window and being licked by cats shouldn't warrant martial art skills lol

The ending is so good it's unfortunate Burton didn't get a 3rd shot at another batman movie. In fact since Burton just did the Beetlejuice sequel, I would love for him to make a 3rd Batman movie with Keaton even now. Old batman passes the torch.


Christmas Marathon Rankings


1. Batman Returns
2. Scrooged
3. A Christmas Story
4. Elf
5. Gremlins
6. Bad Santa
7. Home Alone 2
8. Jingle All The Way
9. Love Actually
10. Four Christmases
11. Jack Frost (1997)
12. The Santa Clause
13. Miracle On 34th Street (1947)
14. How The Grinch Stole Christmas (2000)
15. Red One
16. Krampus
17. Surviving Christmas
18. Ernest Saves Christmas
 
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The Good The Bad The HBK said:
Day 18 Movie 18

Batman Returns

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Synopsis: While Batman deals with a deformed man calling himself the Penguin wreaking havoc across Gotham with the help of a cruel businessman, a female employee of the latter becomes the Catwoman with her own vendetta.

My Rating: 9/10

My Opinion: Again another strong 8 possibly low 9 out of 10 movie for me. And yes this is a movie you should watch at Christmas time. When we are introduced to the penguin as a baby and then again as a man it's both near or on Christmas day. Gotham is celebrating the Christmas holidays throughout the entire movie.

While it's not only my fav Christmas movie so far, it's possibly my favourite batman movie. Its so much fun to watch and I like it more and more every time I re watch it. There's quite a few adult jokes that are made you will catch if you're paying attention. To me the funniest joke I always laugh at is when Christopher Walken says to Michael Keaton, 'Bruce, why are you dressed up like Batman?' It always gets me every single time. Michelle Pfeiffer is definitely the sexiest cat woman in film but she would be perfect if she gained at least 25-30. Also the only thing I disliked about the movie is how she turns into cat woman. Falling out of a window and being licked by cats shouldn't warrant martial art skills lol

The ending is so good it's unfortunate Burton didn't get a 3rd shot at another batman movie. In fact since Burton just did the Beetlejuice sequel, I would love for him to make a 3rd Batman movie with Keaton even now. Old batman passes the torch.


Christmas Marathon Rankings


1. Batman Returns
2. Scrooged
3. A Christmas Story
4. Elf
5. Gremlins
6. Bad Santa
7. Home Alone 2
8. Jingle All The Way
9. Love Actually
10. Four Christmases
11. Jack Frost (1997)
12. The Santa Clause
13. Miracle On 34th Street (1947)
14. How The Grinch Stole Christmas (2000)
15. Red One
16. Krampus
17. Surviving Christmas
18. Ernest Saves Christmas
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Funny thing is that Shumacher realistically could have made a really good batman movie if he styled it like he did lost boys or even flatliners.

Im glad you finally woke up and realized what the best batman movie is.
 
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Day 19 Movie 19

Die Hard

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Synopsis: A New York City police officer tries to save his estranged wife and several others taken hostage by terrorists during a Christmas party at the Nakatomi Plaza in Los Angeles.

My Rating: 9/10

My Opinion: Die Hard is most certainly a movie you watch during Christmas time. Is it about Christmas? No. It takes place at a Christmas work party on Christmas eve into Christmas day. Therefore it is a Christmas movie and its one of the best! It's a 9 and honestly could be a 10 considering how many times i have watched this film in my life. A minium of 25 times at the very least.
I think its not only one of if not the best Christmas movie but also one of the best 80s movies. Top 5 for me.

I enjoyed this watch so much that I'm going to watch Die Hard 3 some time this week lol


Christmas Marathon Rankings

1. Die Hard
2. Batman Returns
3. Scrooged
4. A Christmas Story
5. Elf
6. Gremlins
7. Bad Santa
8. Home Alone 2
9. Jingle All The Way
10. Love Actually
11. Four Christmases
12. Jack Frost (1997)
13. The Santa Clause
14. Miracle On 34th Street (1947)
15. How The Grinch Stole Christmas (2000)
16. Red One
17. Krampus
18. Surviving Christmas
19. Ernest Saves Christmas
 
The Good The Bad The HBK said:
Day 7 Movie 7

ELF

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Synopsis: Raised as an oversized elf, Buddy travels from the North Pole to New York City to meet his biological father, Walter Hobbs, who doesn't know he exists and is in desperate need of some Christmas spirit.

My Rating: 8/10

My Opinion: It's for sure my #2 fav Will Ferrell movie and maybe even #2 James Caan movie and its Jon Favreas best film imo. Elf will always be near and dear to me because I was working at a movie theater at the time it was released and I watched this movie with a lot of my family (parents, sisters, bro in law, nieces, nephews) at the theater because I could get free tickets. It still holds up and its still really great!

Will Ferrell is perfect in this role and i think its his most career defining role playing Buddy the ELF. He plays being simple, innocent and oblivious as perfect as it gets in a Comedic performance. Mary Steenburgen this time playing his step mom (mom from Step Brothers) has a small role here but reminded me watching Wills best films have her in the mother role. Zooey Deschanel is really cute as a blonde and she has a sweet singing voice. The scene where she's singing in the shower and Will is singing along is one of my favs scenes even though irl the movie ends there because Buddy gets arrested and is banned from there lol

I suppose my only gripe is the ending is sort of weak and it didn't stay with the high pace of the film that was set once Will is on screen. Its an high 8/10 for me, one of my favourite Christmas/Ferrell movies.
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In my experience Elf seems to be the agreed upon compromise Christmas movie when half of the family is Team Christmas Vacation and the other half Team Christmas Story.
 
The Good The Bad The HBK said:
Day 2 Movie 2

Ernest Saves Christmas

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Synopsis: Ernest helps Santa Claus as he searches for a successor.


My Rating: 6/10

My Opinion: Is it good? No. Is it bad? I didn't think so. I grew up watching the Ernest movies and I really only remember Camp, Jail and Scared Stupid. I didn't remember watching this but im sure I did growing up. Ernest still cracks me up. The scene that made me laugh the most was when they throw the snakes into the back of his truck and he makes his panic face/sounds.

Would I want to watch this again? Probably not but it does make me want to watch more Ernest movies. Ernest Saves Christmas is in the 5 or 6 range out of 10 but i lean to the latter, I enjoyed watching it.



Christmas Marathon Rankings

1. Home Alone 2
2. Ernest Saves Christmas
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Sucks that it has gotten to the bottom in the ranking
 
Day 20 Movie 20

Friday After Next

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Synopsis: Working as security guards, Craig and Day-Day run into the thief who stole their Christmas presents

My Rating: 6/10

My Opinion: this was actually really funny and possibly overlooked because it's the 3rd movie in the franchise and most only really like the first (me included) but this is a funny Christmas movie and it should be watched this time of the year. It takes place on Christmas Eve and day and it's about people getting robbed by Santa lol

It is another comedy movie where the main guy (Ice Cube) has the hot chick wanting him and it comes off unbelievable imo but that's what nearly all comedy movies do. Not the biggest fan of Mike Epps but he is funny in here. I thought Terry Crews and Katt Williams were the funniest and best actors of the movie. It's short and it's sweet but most importantly it's funny. Check it out.

Christmas Marathon Rankings

* I moved a few movies around *

1. Die Hard
2. Batman Returns
3. Scrooged
4. A Christmas Story
5. Elf
6. Gremlins
7. Home Alone 2
8. Jingle All The Way
9. Bad Santa
10. Love Actually
11. Four Christmases
12. The Santa Clause
13. Jack Frost (1997)
14. Friday After Next
15. Miracle On 34th Street (1947)
16. How The Grinch Stole Christmas (2000)
17. Red One
18. Krampus
19. Surviving Christmas
20. Ernest Saves Christmas
 
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Day 21 Movie 21

It's A Wonderful Life

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My Rating: 9/10

My Opinion: Not gonna lie, I was really close to giving this a 10/10 and ranking it #1 over Die Hard. It's a beautiful film from start to finish with my 2 favourite parts being first 15 mins when George is a kid and then the last 15 mins. The ending is one of the best endings in film and it's why I'm almost gave it the nod over Die Hard.

The opening scene again is one of my favourite scenes in the movie. The only question I have is why did George at age 12 have to run and ask his father about what he should do about the poison he knew was mistakenly put in the wrong bottle lol but it leads into the scene with George and his boss that is so well done, I liked how well the little girl reacted and you can believe she is frightened and scared. It was perfect.

What I didn't like is after this the movie moves ahead 9 years later and George is now 21 years old and he is Jimmy Stewart who is 38 years old irl lol
He's so old and it's not believable at all that this middle aged man is 21 😂

When George finally meets the angel he is stopped from jumping off the bridge into the cold waters below by the angel who jumps off the bridge into the cold waters down below. So George who was planning on killing himself by jumping off the bridge, then jumps off the bridge to save the angel lol IDK man I thought this was so dumb. It's the only 2 things I didn't like about this movie. Everything else I loved.

It's also quite underrated with some of the comedy. I thought it was funny. When all of the guys are drooling over Violet one of the guys says he needs to run home to his wife lol it's a clean joke I liked. Also the encounter when George loses it with the kids teacher and her husband over the phone. It leads to a funny.....punch....line.

I can't say enough about the ending. You have to watch the entire movie to really appreciate it. It's not something you can enjoy just watching on YouTube unless you have seen this movie countless times. If I didn't grow up watching Die Hard a 1000 times, It's A Wonderful Life would be #1 rn. It could very well surpass it which I never thought I would say before I watched this movie today.

I watched this in 4K but the black/white version. I can't wait to watch the colored version next year.



Christmas Marathon Rankings


1. Die Hard
2. It's A Wonderful Life
3. Batman Returns
4. Scrooged
5. A Christmas Story
6. Elf
7. Gremlins
8. Home Alone 2
9. Jingle All The Way
10. Bad Santa
11. Love Actually
12. Four Christmases
13. The Santa Clause
14. Jack Frost (1997)
15. Friday After Next
16. Miracle On 34th Street (1947)
17. How The Grinch Stole Christmas (2000)
18. Red One
19. Krampus
20. Surviving Christmas
21. Ernest Saves Christmas
 
Day 22 Movie 22

8 Crazy Nights

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Synopsis: Davey Stone, an alcoholic with a criminal record, is sentenced to community service under the supervision of an elderly referee. Davey is then faced with trying to reform and abandon his bad habits.

My Rating: 7/10

My Opinion: I'm a Sandler fan and I think this comedy gets overlooked in his career. I did laugh a good amount and its short, sweet and wraps up like the typical Sandler comedy with getting the hot girl in the end. I'm going to keep the the rest of these short n sweet since it feels pointless now.


Christmas Marathon Rankings


1. Die Hard
2. It's A Wonderful Life
3. Batman Returns
4. Scrooged
5. A Christmas Story
6. Elf
7. Gremlins
8. Home Alone 2
9. Jingle All The Way
10. Bad Santa
11. Love Actually
12. Four Christmases
13. The Santa Clause
14. Jack Frost (1997)
15. Friday After Next
16. Eight Crazy Nights
17. Miracle On 34th Street (1947)
18. How The Grinch Stole Christmas (2000)
19. Red One
20. Krampus
21. Surviving Christmas
22. Ernest Saves Christmas
 
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