Lord of the Rings during Christmas time.
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Not actually a movie, but, like all Germans, Dinner for One on December 31st
I’ve fallen off in recent years but I used to watch V for Vendetta every November 5th
RoboCop is my go-to New Years Eve movie. If you press play at 22:58:25 on the Director's Cut, you should get within a second or so of synchronizing Clarence Boddicker's digital hand grenade countdown with midnight.
New Year's - Strange Daze
Saint Patrick's Day - Boondock Saints
Easter - Mallrats; Life of Brian
4th of July - Jaws; Southland Tales
Halloween - Monster Squad
Thanksgiving - Planes, Trains, and Automobiles; My Blue Heaven
Christmas - Die Hard; National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
It has been a minute since I've seen Southland Tales. What a trip! Time for another rewatch.
Stellar list overall too!
Boondock Saints is probably by all measures an objectively bad movie (which I don't think is a thing anyway) but goddamn do I love that movie.
Yes, I watch Groundhog Day on February 2.
And then again every night until the next February 2.
Christmas:
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Muppet Christmas Carol
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Nothing Like the Holidays
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The Snowman
Thanksgiving, not a movie, a song: Arlo Guthrie's "Alice's Restaurant"
July: Independence Day
I also generally reread at some point in the summer Neal Stephenson's novel Zodiac
Halloween: Sleepy Hollow, Halloween 1 & 2
Christmas: Die Hard, The Long Kiss Goodnight, Ronin
Indigenous Peoples’ Day: Prey
4th of July: Independence Day
On November 5th I watch V for Vendetta.
During the week of November 10 (when Kevin Conroy died) I'll watch many of his Batman animated movies.
One of the only Christmas movies I want to watch yearly is the BBC adaptation of Terry Pratchetts The Hog Father
Conan The Barbarian at Christmas time.
I read Hogfather around Christmas every year.
I watch the Seven Samurai every year around Christmas because that's around when Toshiro Mifune died. I did it the year he died and it just became a tradition after that.
I put on childhood Christmas movies while wrapping Christmas presents, lol
I like to watch the hogfather around the winter solstice
Not anymore but I used to watch the Wizard of Oz and It's a Wonderful Life around Xmas. Never got into the Diehard thing.
edit: actually yes, National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation!
Always watch A Christmas Story around Christmas obviously. A few days before 4th of July I usually watch Gettysburg. And on 4th of July I watch 1776.
There are a number of movies on fixed dates or occasions watched here:
- "Groundhog Day" on February 2nd.
- "V for Vendetta" on November 5th.
- "Little Lord Fountleroy", "Drei Haselnüsse für Aschenbrödel"(1), and "The Muppets Christmas Carol" over the holidays.
(1) A German-language Cinderella movie.
Here in Italy they always air Trading Places on Christmas Eve, so it's sort of tradition to watch that.
It's a wonderful life. My sister watches it every Christmas and the rest of the family watches it with her.
Samhain: Addams Family / Values, The Nightmare Before Christmas. Perhaps (in rotation) Shaun of the Dead, Elvira: Mistress of the Dark, Beetlejuice, The Lost Boys, Van Helsing, Corpse Bride, Army of Darkness
Yule: Die Hard, Hogfather (BBC), The Long Kiss Goodnight. Maybe Lethal Weapon, Gremlins, Trading Places.
Not a movie, but me and my dad used to watch the Twilight Zone on TV every new year when he was alive and I still try to get a few episodes in.
Miss Congeniality, at the end of April.
Not every year, but when I remember.. I especially enjoy it if I can introduce someone else to it on that perfect date.
I mean, I try to at least have Groundhog Day on in the background every February 2nd.
I watched the traditional Russian NYE film one year, and it is hilarious.
Will look it up..
The Irony of Fate , a group of guys get drunk on NYE, their friend ends up in the wrong town.
The Long Kiss Goodnight is the best Christmas movie!
Peak Geena Davis kicks everybody's ass, especially Samuel L. Jackson, who plays the schnook sidekick.
Also, the book "A Night In the Lonesome October" is 31 chapters long. It's the diary of Jack the Ripper's talking dog. Jack is the hero, and the action concludes on a Halloween night with a full moon...
Roger Zelazny, author
I've shown The Snowman to my kids every December.
They started not wanting to, so one year I didn't, but then they came asking "can we watch the Snowman?" Hell yeah we can watch The Snowman.
Halloween: Dracula (1992), Addams Family + Values, Mr. Boogedy + Bride of Boogedy, Hocus Pocus
Christmas: Batman Returns, Die Hard, A Christmas Story, Christmas Vacation, Mickey’s Christmas Carol
Every year on Christmas Eve I watch Last Christmas(2019) it’s an incredibly mediocre movie but man do I love that movie (and Emilia Clarke)
The Last Temptation Of Christ during easter, usually on Good Friday. The Ivanhoe TV movie from 1982 on new years day.
Midsommar freaks me out the more I think about that movie. I mean, the guy in the bear suit at the end about to be burned alive but he's completely paralyzed but can see, hear, and feel everything?
I watch Boogie Nights every 4th of July to see Heather Grams perfect tits.
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