Christmas Films
December 24th, 2007 at 02:41
At risk of stating the obvious, I think its pretty clear that we’re getting close to Christmas. There’s explicably decorations up all over the place, I honestly couldn’t tell you what day of the week it is in absolute terms (only in terms of the number of days until Christmas. You could say that we’re current at tree-minus 1 day until Christmas. Ho, ho, ho.), and perhaps the most obvious indicator: my propensity towards watching terrible films has increased.
Its almost become a festive tradition of mine to watch Small Soldiers again, as it is invariably shown at some point during week 51 or 52 (in TV industry terms). After scanning the Radio Times website though, it looks as though I won’t be enjoying Kenan & Kel’s seminal classic Good Burger this year, as it doesn’t appear to be scheduled anywhere.
Earlier this evening I watched a film which is more or less the antithesis of a cinematic classic: Tommy Lee Jones starring in Volcano. I’ve seen it a couple of times before (much like nearly everything else you watch at Christmas) and repeat viewings don’t unravel more layers of a cinematic onion – there’s no subtle allegory about humanity’s fragile place in the universe – you know what happens just by reading the title.
One particularly dire bit was towards the end when (spoiler!) they’d stopped the volcano and a rescue bloke asks a kid what his mum looks like. The kid looks up to see everyone covered in volcanic ash and remarks “Look at everybody… they all look the same” – which seemed a bit unnecessary as the film wasn’t about race relations. And it was undermined immediately afterwards when it rained, the ash was washed off and the apparent apartheid returned.
Are there any films on in the next week that I should watch, readers? Let me know, as we can make this blog interactive, and I could, like, comment on your recommendations, and you could make me endure watching crap for your own sick amusement, or something?
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