The Year Without a Santa Claus remake that was on NBC Monday night deserves to be on that list.
And Silent Night, Deadly Night does not deserve to be on that list, because it is awesome.
Dawn: I think a date should be in a real fancy restaurant, then champagne at a night club with a floor show, then ballroom dancing. Joyce: Unfortunately, we're not dating in a movie from the thirties.
'Get It Done'
Natter 48 Contiguous States of Denial
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Strega - Dec 14, 2006 7:06:46 am PST #6176 of 10007
Frankenbuddha - Dec 14, 2006 7:13:35 am PST #6177 of 10007
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
'Babes in Toyland'
The oft-filmed Victor Herbert operetta was translated to Cincinnati in this 1986 TV movie musical that starred Drew Barrymore, Keanu Reeves and Pat Morita. It featured "jaw-droppingly awful musical numbers," according to eFilmCritic.com's Collin Souter. Barrymore, who was drinking and doing drugs by age 12, played a little girl who bumps her head and wakes up in Toyland on Christmas Eve. "Historically interesting," Souter wrote, "if only to gaze into Barrymore's drug-addled, bloodshot eyes or to watch Keanu drive around in a pink, flowery go-cart ... before singing about the joys of Ohio."
The mind boggles.
Aims - Dec 14, 2006 7:14:25 am PST #6178 of 10007
Shit's all sorts of different now.
HEY!
That movie is GREAT and they should show it every Christmas!
Connie Neil - Dec 14, 2006 7:15:02 am PST #6179 of 10007
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If there aren't any wise-cracking robots in silhouette snarking on the film, I'd say very.
Nope, they run them straight. Last week was something called "Quatermass II: Invasion from Space", some '50s British thing where they used a new Shell oil plant as the set (according to the note at the end). I'm wondering what the first Quatermass (spelled correctly) was like that they thought it was worth making a sequel.
Maybe I'll just play Icewind Dale with the headphones on loud.
Jessica - Dec 14, 2006 7:15:23 am PST #6180 of 10007
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
watch Keanu drive around in a pink, flowery go-cart
I obviously need to rewatch this movie again. The first time I saw it, I must have been too young to fully appreciate His Keanuness.
brenda m - Dec 14, 2006 7:17:21 am PST #6181 of 10007
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
That sounds fabulous! In fact, they should film it and show it every...oh, right.
Frankenbuddha - Dec 14, 2006 7:17:23 am PST #6182 of 10007
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
That movie is GREAT and they should show it every Christmas!
Sounds like somebody put acid in the egg nog.
I'm amazed the Mexican SANTA CLAUS movie that MST did one year didn't make the list. I heard that used to get pulled out every Xmas for several years there during the 60s.
And now I want to hear "Let's All Have a Patrick Swayze X-mas". I think that was during ...CONQUERS THE MARTIANS, though.
tommyrot - Dec 14, 2006 7:19:07 am PST #6183 of 10007
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
And now I want to hear "Let's All Have a Patrick Swayze X-mas"
... love that song.
Frankenbuddha - Dec 14, 2006 7:22:10 am PST #6184 of 10007
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Last week was something called "Quatermass II: Invasion from Space", some '50s British thing where they used a new Shell oil plant as the set (according to the note at the end). I'm wondering what the first Quatermass (spelled correctly) was like that they thought it was worth making a sequel.
Well, they were no budget movies, but the Quatermass films (which were based on a TV series) were smartly scripted (not unlike DR. WHO, though not kid oriented). 20,000,000 YEARS TO EARTH is a really cool movie, but I think it had a much more generous budget.
Ailleann - Dec 14, 2006 7:27:16 am PST #6185 of 10007
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That movie is GREAT and they should show it every Christmas!
It's also got Richard Mulligan! Pre-Bill-and-Ted!Keanu! Drew doesn't look that stoned! And all the Mother Goose references. So awesome.