I second the Miyazaki movies. We just watched Porco Rosso last week. This week we're bingeing Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit, which is not Ghibli, but is as beautiful, and has a woman protagonist.

The first season of Avatar, maybe?

Being in a callous and strange frame of mind, I would binge Cowboy Bebop over the holidays. Suits my quirk. I seem incapable of investing in live action or anything new, at the moment.

The original Star Wars trilogy was always mine. Harry Potter would be excellent.

To continue with the Miyazaki, I got a new Blu-Ray of Castle in the Sky and it was so gorgeous and transporting. The steampunk fantasy of your dreams.

But watching Avatar would also be a good marathon. It holds up incredibly well.

That's a lot of Harry Potter, though.

That's a lot of Harry Potter, though.

I think you can break it up into a series of double features, maybe.

I treated myself to the DVD of Captain Marvel ... got a little teary over the beginning, which has what looked like all of Stan Lee's appearances.

I'm thinking I might give Rise of Skywalker a miss. It would be better to have my inevitable messy emotional reaction to knowing Connie's not in the world to watch it in private.

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Space Mom Carrie Fisher would tell you to take care of yourself. You can always catch the movie later if/when you decide it's time.

Space Mom Carrie Fisher would tell you to take care of yourself.

And she'd give the bird to anyone who said otherwise.

I watch the LotR trilogy the day after Thanksgiving as I put up the tree and decorate. I'm not sure what I'd replace it with. The Miyazaki suggestions upthread sound promising. Or original trilogy Star Wars.

Space Mom aside, I'm truly about Star Wars'd out. We lived in walking distance of a huge new-built single-theatre movie house--just before smaller theatres and stadium seating became the thing. My mom was willing to watch the toddlers, and H and I must have watched both Star Wars (at the time, tha one, tha only) and Raiders a hundred times each. When the kids were seven or so, both movies went into re-release and we took the kids multiple times to both movies (and to Outland and The Howling on a double bill, but we'll discuss our abysmal parenting choices later), thereby cementing both of them as firm lifelong fans of both franchises (Indiana Jones and Star Wars, not...the Howling).

Hauled protesting to the prequels by said offspring, I've seen two of those exactly once, and the third I managed to escape. We have seen Solo, Rogue One, the Last Jedi, alla the sequels. Once. Enjoyed but not enough to repeat, and frankly my Star Wars feels are pretty much felt. Not buying into Baby Groot Yoda, not this time, not nohow.

Y'all go 'head on, enjoy. Save me some popcorn.