Favorite Films

[Avaitor]

It's on my Netflix queue as of now.

My friends suck at seeing movies with me unless they're Marvel, honestly.

[Foggle]

The World's End is fantastic. It's hilarious and has some of the best fight scenes I've ever seen. It's also Simon Pegg's best role IMO (though I still prefer Hot Fuzz overall).

[gunswordfist]

Will watch that. I love hot Fuzz.

[talonmalon333]

So what do you guys think of Christmas specials? Do any of you have any favorites?

[Avaitor]

Besides most of the obvious classics (Nightmare, Die Hard, A Christmas Story, It's a Wonderful Life), you can't go wrong with anything Christmas-related by Henson.

[talonmalon333]

I feel like I'd separate my favorite Christmas movies and my favorite Christmas "specials".

Movies
1. It's A Wonderful Life
2. Black Christmas (It counts. And after Halloween, it's the best slasher film ever made in my opinion.)
3. A Christmas Story
4. Scrooge
5. The Sound of Music (I can't decide on a #5, and being that many consider this a Christmas movie, and since it always airs in December, I'll just stick it here.)

Specials
1. The Spirit of Christmas
2. Christmas Eve on Sesame Street
3. The Snowman
4. Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town
5. A Charlie Brown Christmas

Those five specials are things that I watch every December no matter what.

[Avaitor]

2013- TBD
2012- Avengers/Moonrise Kingdom/Django Unchained (tied)
2011- The Tree of Life
2010- Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
2009- Inglourious Basterds/Iron Maiden: Flight 666 (tied)
2008- WALL*E
2007- Persepolis
2006- Pan's Labyrinth
2005- Serenity
2004- Before Sunset
2003- X2: X-Men United
2002- Kung-Pow! Enter the Fist
2001- The Royal Tenenbaums
2000- Almost Famous
1999- American Beauty
1998- The Thin Red Line
1997- Chasing Amy
1996- The Hunchback of Notre Dame
1995- Before Sunrise
1994- Pulp Fiction
1993- The Nightmare Before Christmas
1992- Reservoir Dogs
1991- The Silence of the Lambs

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I have a feeling that soon, I'll have a choice for 2013 as well.

[talonmalon333]

2013- TBD
2012- Avengers/Moonrise Kingdom/Django Unchained (tied)
2011- The Tree of Life
2010- Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
2009- Inglourious Basterds/Iron Maiden: Flight 666 (tied)
2008- WALL*E
2007- Persepolis
2006- Pan's Labyrinth
2005- Serenity
2004- Before Sunset
2003- X2: X-Men United
2002- Kung-Pow! Enter the Fist
2001- The Royal Tenenbaums
2000- Almost Famous
1999- American Beauty
1998- The Thin Red Line
1997- Chasing Amy
1996- The Hunchback of Notre Dame
1995- Before Sunrise
1994- Pulp Fiction
1993- The Nightmare Before Christmas
1992- Reservoir Dogs
1991- The Silence of the Lambs

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I have a feeling that soon, I'll have a choice for 2013 as well.

Sorry to be a gunswordfist and respond late, but what's your 2013 choice?

I feel like I didn't get to the theaters a lot in 2013. I hear Frozen was phenomenal, as in, one of Disney's best in a long time. But I haven't seen it. Desolation of Smaug was very good, but not quite great for me... I guess I would say Iron Man 3 for 2013. I enjoyed that one very much. But I have a feeling that, as far as "movie of the year for every year of my life" goes, Iron Man 3 would be one of my lower tier choices.

[Avaitor]

2013- TBD
2012- Avengers/Moonrise Kingdom/Django Unchained (tied)
2011- The Tree of Life
2010- Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
2009- Inglourious Basterds/Iron Maiden: Flight 666 (tied)
2008- WALL*E
2007- Persepolis
2006- Pan's Labyrinth
2005- Serenity
2004- Before Sunset
2003- X2: X-Men United
2002- Kung-Pow! Enter the Fist
2001- The Royal Tenenbaums
2000- Almost Famous
1999- American Beauty
1998- The Thin Red Line
1997- Chasing Amy
1996- The Hunchback of Notre Dame
1995- Before Sunrise
1994- Pulp Fiction
1993- The Nightmare Before Christmas
1992- Reservoir Dogs
1991- The Silence of the Lambs

Added a necessary edit in here.

I have a feeling that soon, I'll have a choice for 2013 as well.

Sorry to be a gunswordfist and respond late, but what's your 2013 choice?

Once it comes home, it'll probably be Before Midnight.

And wow you're bad at catching up with modern Disney, huh?

[talonmalon333]

Bad indeed.

But I think I still have a chance at seeing Frozen in theaters. It's still there, right?

[Avaitor]

It hit #1 again this weekend, so take a guess.

Frozen's pretty much their next Lion King, haha.

[talonmalon333]

It hit #1 again this weekend, so take a guess.

Frozen's pretty much their next Lion King, haha.

Funny enough, I have a friend who saw it and says it's comparable to Lion King in terms of quality.

While I'm not expecting exactly that, I imagine Frozen is still really really good. However, now that I've finally seen Princess and the Frog, I'd like to get to Tangled before seeing Frozen.

[Avaitor]

Don't forget Wreck-It Ralph.

[talonmalon333]

Don't forget Wreck-It Ralph.

I actually did manage to see Wreck-It Ralph last year when it was in theaters. I was very impressed.

By the way, Avaitor, I vaguely remember you once saying that you saw Dancer in the Dark. Is that correct? What'd you think if so?

[Avaitor]

By the way, Avaitor, I vaguely remember you once saying that you saw Dancer in the Dark. Is that correct? What'd you think if so?

Lars Von Trier is a nutjob.