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utee94

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Re: OT - TV shows and Movies
« Reply #966 on: January 05, 2026, 10:14:37 AM »
Anyway, we had a lot of time off and my daughter made sure we saw all of our favorites over Christmas break.

Charlie Brown Christmas, Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer, Santa Claus is Coming To Town, The Grinch (og animated one), Nightmare Before Christmas (her favorite movie all-time), Polar Express, Christmas Vacation, A Christmas Story, Elf, Home Alone.

Then my i s c & a aggie wife and I watched some other Christmastime favorites like Die Hard and Love, Actually, White Christmas, and Holiday Inn.

I can't think of any we missed, that we normally watch.
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MikeDeTiger

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Re: OT - TV shows and Movies
« Reply #967 on: January 05, 2026, 10:30:46 AM »
Don't y'all also do an annual LotR Christmas Viewing?  

Or am I just projecting our nerd-dom onto your family?
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utee94

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« Reply #968 on: January 05, 2026, 10:36:49 AM »
Quote from: MikeDeTiger on January 05, 2026, 10:30:46 AM
Don't y'all also do an annual LotR Christmas Viewing? 

Or am I just projecting our nerd-dom onto your family?
Oh yeah we mixed that in, too.  Plus some Hobbit, some Harry Potter, and a little Star Wars.
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« Reply #969 on: January 05, 2026, 10:47:46 AM »
Didn't watch this one this year, but the whole family did last year.  It's just as weird now as it was when it came out...


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJBN0p4Dlqs&t=2s
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« Reply #970 on: January 05, 2026, 10:54:16 AM »
Quote from: MikeDeTiger on January 05, 2026, 10:07:15 AM
I hadn't seen Home Alone in decades.  I found I liked it more now than I did when I was young.  John Candy wasn't in the movie as much as I thought I remembered, but he steals the show in his own way and really adds nice touch. 
Yeah, we also watched it for the first time in decades. It hits differently in ones mid-40s and as a parent...

Quote from: Gigem on January 03, 2026, 10:00:07 AM
I would’ve been around 9-10 when it came out, so well outside of being a teenager. By the time I was a teenager, all of the actors had gone on to do bigger things. It just felt kinda dated to me, even in the early 90’s.
We rewatched The Breakfast Club a couple of months ago. Looks like I was about 7 when it first came out, so it was possibly the only time, or maybe only the second time, that I'd seen it all the way through. So I'd say I was too young at the time of release for it to be meaningful to me. And thus it never really was "a thing" to me. 

But I get the idea of the movie... They're all a little messed up and stereotyped in their own ways, struggling with finding their place in teenagehood, dealing with expectations (parental or self-appointed), and in the end they learn that everyone is in the same damn boat. I can see how someone who was a teenager (or recently went through it) when the movie came out would really identify with it. 
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« Reply #971 on: January 05, 2026, 11:33:08 AM »
Went and saw Song Sung Blue this weekend.

It garners my highest recommendation.  Outstanding.
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« Reply #972 on: January 05, 2026, 11:37:45 AM »
Quote from: MikeDeTiger on January 05, 2026, 10:30:46 AM
Don't y'all also do an annual LotR Christmas Viewing? 

Or am I just projecting our nerd-dom onto your family?
I do an annual reading of The Hobbit and LotR.  Have rewatch the movies a few time, but definitely not annually
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« Reply #973 on: January 05, 2026, 12:18:47 PM »
I tip my hat.

Slogging through 900 pages of Middle Earth exposition is no small feat, let alone doing it once a year.  

My wife is doing the books right now, having gone through them just last year.....but she cheats--she does the audio books on her commute.  
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« Reply #974 on: January 05, 2026, 12:29:42 PM »
Quote from: utee94 on January 05, 2026, 10:36:49 AM
Oh yeah we mixed that in, too.  Plus some Hobbit, some Harry Potter, and a little Star Wars.
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« Reply #975 on: January 05, 2026, 12:30:17 PM »
Can't spell geek without EE.
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« Reply #976 on: January 05, 2026, 12:49:22 PM »
Quote from: utee94 on January 05, 2026, 10:47:46 AM
Didn't watch this one this year, but the whole family did last year.  It's just as weird now as it was when it came out...


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJBN0p4Dlqs&t=2s
One of the major critiques of Return of the Jedi is that they switched the setting of the third act from Kashyyyk to Endor. 

After suffering through this endless chorus of Wookies, I believe that they made the right decision. 
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« Reply #977 on: January 05, 2026, 01:38:40 PM »
Quote from: MikeDeTiger on January 05, 2026, 12:18:47 PM
I tip my hat.

Slogging through 900 pages of Middle Earth exposition is no small feat, let alone doing it once a year. 

My wife is doing the books right now, having gone through them just last year.....but she cheats--she does the audio books on her commute. 
Yeah, like any early teen boy, I read them when I was in ~middle school. 

And then the movies started coming out when I was in college, so I re-read them at that time. Of course, in my typical fashion, I saw the first of the movies, but I didn't see the 2nd or 3rd of the trilogy, and have never seen The Hobbit (which I guess is 3 movies?)...

Who knows? Maybe I'll talk my son into reading them this summer before he goes off to college, and use that as an excuse for round 3. 

But I can't imagine trying to do it annually. I very rarely have any interest in re-reading anything, much less trying to do it every year. 
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Re: OT - TV shows and Movies
« Reply #978 on: January 05, 2026, 03:01:56 PM »
Well, how about if I said instead 
"Was seeing some content on the movie “The Breakfast Club”. This movie, I guess, was really popular in the 80’s.

I realize it sounded a little funny, but there are movies that weren't really all that popular when they came out that grew in popularity years and even decades later.  Like for example, "A Christmas Story" wasn't really that popular when it came out, only years later did it kind of take off.  Meanwhile, other movies that were insanely popular when they came out didn't age well and are basically forgotten about.  

I don't think you can generalize something trivial about the 80's in the same way you compare the Beetles in the 60's.  The Beetles in the 60's were insanely popular, and represented a huge shift in music and pop culture.  It would be like saying "Michael Jackson was really popular in the 80's" compared to some random one hit wonder singer.  
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« Reply #979 on: January 05, 2026, 03:17:24 PM »
I dont think you're being deliberately disingenuous or anything, I suppose you're a little too young to know, but yeah-- The Breakfast Club was insanely popular in the 80s.  Like, a cultural phenomenon.  A true zeitgeist.

So when you phrase it the way you did, you're dramatically understating it.

Which is fine if you don't really know, which I think is probably the case.
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