Netflix has a fandom?
Interesting stuff from that site:
Overall, Netflix controls only 8% to 9% of the DVD rental market. But the company accounts for one-third to one-half of all rentals of "indie" and low-budget movies. According to Sarandos, the Netflix executive, specialized films often outperform mainstream studio movies rented via the service.
For example, 1 in 4 Netflix subscribers have rented "The House of Sand and Fog," the critically acclaimed drama that made little at the box office. The New Zealand film "Whale Rider," whose young star Keisha Castle-Hughes earned an Oscar nomination but whose ticket sales totaled about $20 million, has been rented on Netflix more than either "Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle" or "The Hulk."
Which I'm sure means they'll go under before 2005 is out.
You make an exception for The Ref, no?
Oh HELLS yeah.
Actually, it's rather funny. When a Christmas movie sets out to present some sort of traditional image of Christmas or people, it comes across to me as vile and repulsive in the extreme.
When a movie sets out to tell a bitter, cynical Christmas story, it will almost always be adored by me.
The Ref is my favorite Christmas movie. No exceptions.
Well, "traditional" sappy Christmas story message nearly always become creepy and off-putting if you think about what they're really saying. Whereas movies that start out intending to be sick and wrong tend not to disappoint.
I think A Christmas Story is probably my favorite, though Bad Santa was certainly entertaining the other year.
Someone needs to make a film version of David Sedaris' The Santaland Diaries.
The Ref is my favorite Christmas movie. No exceptions.
This is me.
Still, I watch White Christmas every year and tear up in the same places. Every. Damn. Time.
When you're worried and you can't sleep. Count your blessings instead of sheep...
Case in point: Bad Santa
I disagree.
I have yet to see
The Ref
or
A Christmas Story.
A good Christmas movie is
Die Hard 2.
P-C, you didn't like Bad Santa?
