Congratulations to Ben Gordon and (I decided to give out another) of the Tarantino disk set to Cameron (charvey81208). Please email for prize info.
And now onto our special Christmas giveaway. For this contest you have a choice. You can enter a haiku about awards season, if you’re feeling up to it, or you can put down your favorite movie to watch around the holidays.
The prize is – a portable blu-ray player!
My favorite Christmas movies are It’s a Wonderful Life, No Country for Old Men, The Apartment, Love Actually, and the Twilight Zone marathon. And here’s a haiku.
Anne Hathaway sing.
Fantine est miserables.
Because Russell Crowe.
My tiger is mean.
He and I live on a boat.
It’s a good story.
He might be crazy.
Silver linings everywhere.
You move your junk, girl.
Your turn! Good luck! Merry Christmas!
My Christmas movies:
1) Chocolat
2) Eat Drink, Man Woman
3) The Sound of Music
My Haiku:
Bruce Wayne met his match
Bane: “I’m Gotham’s reckoning!”
Selina: “Shrimp balls?” 😉
“I’m adaptable”
Catwoman meets Tom Hooper
Anne Hathaway shines!
Fantine sang heart out
Highlight of Les Misérables
Oscar Frontrunner!
Year-end prestige films
From Argo to Zero Dark
Oscar smiles with pride
Antoinette: Sorry you had Netflix trouble, too; unfortunately, mine is of the “my computer is out of date” type. You need an Intel processor to be able to use either Netflix or Amazon; my eMac, alas, is a PowerPC, and I can’t use my TV either, because it’s too old & not Blu-Ray compatible (and, AFAIK, there isn’t any way I can hook it up for this kind of thing, either). I do wish technology didn’t become obsolete quite so fast–even if you buy new equipment, it’s out-of-date before you even drag it to the cash register, and if you tend to get second equipment like me (hey, if it still works well & is cheap, why not?), you’re even more screwed. You’d think that someone would realize that, during a recession, (a) not everyone has a fancy-schmancy home entertainment set, and (b) some reasonably cheap and instant entertainment for enjoying at home is a Really Good Thing, but apparently not…
(And yes, I’ve heard that about Renner’s performance; that may be part of the reason for all the “holy sh*t, I had to turn it off 20 minutes in!” reactions. Bad enough to start feeling sorry for a serial killer, but thinking he’s hot to boot? *shudder* Rumor has it that his mother couldn’t bring herself to speak to him for the better part of two weeks after seeing it, and his then-GF who saw it with him took off immediately afterwards and never spoke to him again; when you can scare the crap out of your nearest and dearest because you’re that damn crazyscarysexygood, well…it says a lot about your acting skills, IMNSHO.)
I love home alones
Rust & Bone:
Ouch my legs are gone
I’m going to fight this guy
OMG My Son
The Impossible
What did she vomit?
Lord Jesus are those her guts?
Mom don’t do that please.
@RobinTMP
Netflix wasn’t working for me either last night. They said they had an outage. And about DAHMER, it’s sort of disturbing how sexy Jeremy Renner is in it. lol Have fun.
Comment
None are holier
Than Holy Motors this year.
A snub it will be.
Happy holidays everyone!
Update: Well, so much for my anticipated Dahmer viewing tonight (e.g., “what’s potentially THE most inappropriate movie to watch on Christmas Eve?”); both Amazon Instant Video and Netflix require one’s computer to have an Intel processor, and my eMac, sadly, does not. I wonder if Netflix will let me scratch the instant option and just get DVDs in the mail? *sigh* In the meantime (because I’m Little Miss Stubborn, damn it), I’ve just ordered the DVD from an Amazon seller…perhaps it’ll show up in time for New Year’s Eve? *looks hopeful*
Tarantino rule:
No holocaust is sacred.
What did Spike expect?
Merry Christmas and/or Happy Holidays of your choice, and may Sasha bless us, everyone!
My favorite movies to watch during the wintertime is Home Alone, Homeward Bond, and the Little Rascals. These are the movies that remind me of the happy times with my parents.
Frankly, no Oscar
For Burton, what a burden!
Go Frankenweenie!
(To Emma)
The perks of being
A flower from Potter’s garden:
You don’t get a nom
If Hollywood’s wood
Could only show their soul like
Holy Motor’s motors.
Ben Affleck is back
Bigelow returns with war
Spielberg gets mature
Anne sings her heart out
Bradley Cooper turns to drama
Ang Lee bought a tiger
Daniel is Lincoln
Beasts of the wild have roared
Kidman please don’t win
Man, the beasts are wild
But can it win the Oscar,
Only Lincoln knows.
These are so much fun to write, I’m making three more!
I’m off to Iran
To make a Persion Star Wars!
Those hostages can wait.
Dead Kids everywhere!
I don’t have to try to live
I’m making two more.
What’s this strange birthmark?
Why is Tom Hanks always near?
Paul H. won’t approve.
Thank God Judi died.
Mr. Fiennes is more fine!
Time for a desk job.
Nine months on a raft
And you ask what have I learned?
That mom was a chimp!
Year’s best performance
Top-rate action and story
All here in Skyfall
Lets not forget what a masterpiece the latest bond film was, whether or not the academy gives it some love. #BardemFTW!
My Favorite movies for the Holidays are:
The Ten Commandments
It’s a Wonderful Life
The Sound of Music
Ben-Hur
All Mine To Give
The Bible
Brokeback Mountain
Batman Trilogy
Lord of the Ring Trilogy
All Hollywood Musicals
Alien 1-5
Arthur Christmas
Toy Story Trilogy
The Five Sullivans
Jurassic Park Trilogy
Troy
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Moneyball
The Inglourioud Basterds
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Tree of Life
Ocean 11,12 & 13
Cleopatra
Lawrence of Arabia
West Side Story
Romeo and Juliet
Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
A Chorus LIne
Schindler’s List
The Lion King
The Exorcist
James Bond Films
I wrote my Haiku about two of my Christmas movies:
Die Hard and The Holiday.
Invincible Bruce
Running over broken glass
Love beats out money
Two women switch lives
New venue, new love menu
Step back to get close
Holiday travels
Suspense and calamity
Unexpected joys
one oscar for who?
not the best, just popular
we still come back, oh my, my!
Grand in scale or not
Films show us human struggle
Who saw Cloud Atlas?
Definitely Sleepless in Seattle, You’ve Got Mail and Last Holiday. I’m all for sap and for Tom Hanks&Meg Ryan during the holidays. I never tire of those movies. I’d even toss Notting Hill into the mix.
It’s Django Unchained
Hip slavery by QT
Truth is optional
I may not watch them every year, but I’d count the following as my favorite holiday movies/shows: It’s a Wonderful Life (of course); the George C. Scott version of A Christmas Carol that I remember seeing as a kid years ago that’s always stuck with me; A Charlie Brown Christmas (been watching it since the year it first aired; yes, I’m an old broad…); Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (my dear friend Lisa gave me a sign for my apartment which reads “Embassy for the Island of Misfit Toys”); The Lion in Winter (it turns out I’m descended from Henry and Eleanor, so there’s a reason those family fights seem all too familiar); How the Grinch Stole Christmas (again, been watching since the first showing); and The Ref (another friend used to host annual viewings).
This year, though, I might switch things up a bit, because if I can set up my old eMac to watch one of those instant Amazon movies, I’m seriously tempted to try and rent Dahmer, aka indie film’s version of The Velvet Underground and Nico. (In this case, rather than everyone who bought it starting a band, everyone who managed to watch it to the end wanted to hire Jeremy Renner.) I’ve read way too many accounts from people along the lines of “I had to turn it off after 20 minutes because it was too intense/I couldn’t sleep afterward/I got weirded out when I realized I felt sorry for a serial killer,” and after hearing this from umpteen gazillion people, including a boatload of Renner fangirls who’ll sit through anything the man’s ever been in, I can’t help but feel that the gauntlet has been thrown down…and I, having a suitably warped sense of humor and a fair degree of stubbornness to boot, am inclined to pick it up and watch the damn movie tomorrow night. (Yes, I’ll let you know what I think; yes, I fully expect to be creeped out; and yes, I have enough liquor in the house to help me get drunk enough to pass out and sleep when it’s over. Of course, if Amazon and my eMac don’t cooperate, or my 16-year-old cat won’t quit harassing me while I’m trying to watch, all bets are off, but right now, that’s the game plan.)
As for a haiku, here’s my $.02 worth on the annual battles between rabid fanboys and equally determined supporters of more “artsy” movies:
Fanboys v. auteurs
Awards season bitchfest *sigh*
Who gives a rat’s ass?
Merry freakin’ Christmas, and God bless our sick and twisted asses, everyone!
An awards season haiku for my favorite movie of the year:
Fake desert film crew?
Affleck with a Bieber ‘do?
Argo-fuck-yourself!
I hate The Grinch.
Hate.
^ I just fucku’d my haiku.
Delete ‘a’ from first line and replace with nothing.
Hardy wears a muzzle
And falls for Reese Witherspoon
Not the same movie
At this moment fav Christmas movie is:
How the Grinch Stole Christmas
Because my kid is sitting next to me not texting while we watch…
Dark theatre – at peace
Ageing Breasts and throbbing Cocks
Bless Riva, Lavant
My favorite film to watch around Christmas time is National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation with Chevy Chase.
Nhan, I just can’t write a haiku in english, it’s already hard in my first language, imagine in this, that is so different. 😛
Anyway, my favorite film to watch in the in christmas must be The King’s Speech. Not that I like so very much, but it does remind me of the christmas from 2010, which was a very good christmas. (:
It’s 1183 and we’re barbarians!
‘The Lion in Winter’ reminds me that all families have their ups and downs.
Merry Christmas!
My favorite Christmas movies are It’s a Wonderful Life, Miracle on 34th Street (though I watch it on Thanksgiving, because it starts with the parade, and because it’s a family tradition), Remember the Night, The Shop Around the Corner, The Man who Came to Dinner, The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, the Alastair Sim Christmas Carol, Stalag 17, We’re No Angels (the original, natch), The World of Henry Orient, The Godfather, The Dead, Scrooged, and the Ref. Plus, of course, the Charlie Brown Christmas special and the original How the Grinch Stole Christmas. Mind you, I don’t always get to watch all of them every year (it was easier when I worked at a video store and could just put them on), but those are my favorites.
The two movies I watch over and over over the holidays are Its a Wonderful Life and Home Alone
Third Reich did not fuss over “Bastards”,
Leave Bigelow alone,
Vote Jess.
Christmas Films!:
1) Hannah and Her Sisters: I love the contentious dynamics that exist between the Lea, Holly, and Hannah, and how they must come to terms with the lives they are (or should) be making for themselves. The scenes that also see characters evolve throughout several consecutive Thanksgiving feasts also remind me of Thanksgiving with my family.
2) Fanny and Alexander: a bit of a copout choice, since the holiday element of Hannah and Her Sisters is an homage to this Ingmar Bergman film, but their execution couldn’t be more different. Whereas Hannah feels contemporary and conspicuously mature, the Christmas festivities in Fanny and Alexander is fantastical, opulent, and bursting to the seams with color and detail. I love being able to experience the joy and curiosity felt by the children on Christmas Eve, yet it’s inclusion of the often-messy going ons of the adults in the Ekdahl clan also highlights the the harsh realities of growing up.
3) Repulsion: because I watched this with my mom on Christmas two years ago, and I’ve been scarred ever since.
4) Moonstruck: Cosmo and Rose are my grandparents.
The Master is king.
Joaquin gets so physical.
Phil is at his best.
Fav holiday movie: Elf
Haiku (kinda short, but here goes):
Burt Macklin storms in,
UBL Dunzo.
Torture worked?
sing, Anne, sing
sob, audience, sob
movie over?
Films I love to watch at this time of year include:
– Die Hard
– Christmas Story, A
– Royal Tenenbaums, The
– Godfather, The
– Hannah and Her Sisters
– Bad Santa
– American Movie
Awards Season Haikus:
1)
Way to go, Joaquin!
Like a phoenix from ashes,
Rising to the top.
2)
Daniel Day-Lewis
Looking great behind the wheel
Of his new Lincoln.
3)
What’s The Deep Blue Sea?
Being praised so suddenly.
John Waters was right.
4)
A face in the crowd
A win made her loud and proud.
Celebrate, Anne Dowd!
5)
Ice storms, gay cowboys,
And warriors who seem to fly
Surpass Life of Pi.
6)
The Weinstein Brothers –
Producers extraordinaire
Trophies everywhere.
7)
Megan Ellison –
Oracle of good fortune
For auteurs in need.
8)
Poor Holy Motors
Confounding Oscar voters
Stop and eat a rose.
9)
Django’s off the chain
Its maker won’t disappoint
A Quentin T. Joint.
10)
Vote Tarantino
Why be a slave to pundits?
Break free of their chains!
11)
P.T. Anderson
Truly a modern master.
Where’s his damn Oscar?!
I’ve got a lot of favorite holiday films, but these are the three TV movies that I love best:
1. Emmet Otter’s Jugband Christmas
2. The House Without a Christmas Tree
3. Truman Capote’s A Christmas Memory
Oh how I wish TV could do Christmas like they used to!
The Academy
of Motion Picture Arts and
Sciences is King.
My wife is crazy
because of all the dust in
these old timey rooms.
Hobbitses and Dwarves
won’t get love this Valentine’s.
2015
Gary Oldman, Tom
Hardy, Jessica Chastain,
No one gives a shit?!
Cloud Atlas is too
complicated for feeble
minds. Have fun voting.
The Dark Knight Rises,
The Dark Knight, Batman Begins
Deserve nothing? Que?
Blue wookiees are boss
Look at the back of my head
Really, look at it!!!
Ang Lee’s latest film
is just a paper tiger
I’m sorry to say
Independent films
and foreign films don’t get seen
’til after Oscar.
Adorable Ted
says the F word and smokes weed.
He’ll be a great host!
Savages was great
Feel like only I watched it
Scooby Doo ending
John Goodman is John
Goodman in every movie
You guys just love him
Our Looper, trouper
Somewhere in the crowd there’s you
So Rainmaker, reign!
Wow Prometheus,
You really disappointed
Not Fassbender’s fault
Just watch the movies
Really all you need to do
It will all be clear
And in honor of the weird, sexual overtones I’m finding in some of these:
You’re no Lenny Bruce.
Adding sex to a bad joke
Doesn’t make it good.
And I forgot to throw in my fave holiday films:
‘Love Actually’ is one of my faves, and I’ve grown to love ‘The Family Stone’. ‘Home Alone 1 & 2’ have become classics in my house. ‘Elf’ is another new classic.
Is Ben Affleck running
or just stealing headlines from
Bigelow/Spielberg?
Around Christmastime I love to watch It’s a Wonderful Life, any of the Harry Potter movies, and Die Hard.
Ben Affleck’s beard and
Canada saved the day so
“Argo Fuck Yourself!”
Favorite Christmas movies:
Miracle on 34th Street (with Edmund Gwinn), A Christmas Story, Its a Wonderful Life.
Haikus:
Dear Academy
I beg for your compliance
Nominate Ann Dowd
“Argo fuck yourself!”
Oscar will instead say “I’m
Fucking Ben Affleck!”
Compliance walkouts
No reason to let guard down
And admit Ann Dowd
favourite christmas movies:
a christmas tale
fanny and alexander
bad santa
My favorite holiday films happen to be Love Actually, Elf, the first Home Alone, About a Boy and of course, Sleepless in Seattle.
Daniel Day-Lewis
The Oscar is his to lose
I’m betting he won’t
History repeats
This will be his third gold man
World’s greatest actor
Thanks, Patryk, found it – will watch it Christmas Eve!
My favorite Christmas movie is “Truman Capote’s A Christmas Memory.” It was originally broadcast on television in 1966. Public TV used to replay it regulary. It stars Geraldine Page (in an EMMY winning performance,) as an older cousin of a young Truman Capote (who also narrates). It is incredibly moving in it’s simplicity and sincerity. It is not easy to find, but it can be found on the internet. I watch it and the second part, “The Thanksgiving Visitor,” also starring Page in another EMMY winning role and also narrated by Capote himself, every year. The book is still in print for anyone who can’t find the video. Together, they make for the best holiday double feature. For those looking outside the more well-known holiday movies.
And please avoid the Patty Duke remake. It is horrible.
Fave Holiday Movie – Mysterious Skin (the climactic scene, hearing the carollers sing Silent Night – heartwrenchingly beautiful!
Haikus! (Spoilers abound!)
Suicide of Friend,
Molested by Aunt Helen
Cinema Goldmine!
The Guy from The League
Has invented time travel
April, You Go Girl!
Potus tells stories
And then frees the slaves, fuck yeah.
Kids, damn it, wake up!
Roaming through Turkey
Can be very transcendant
If you have patience
Junkie Interviews
Then rides bike at night with girl
Just to kill himself.
Denzel does cocaine
To be a better pilot
No thanks, I will drive.
Michelle Williams
Eventually has threesomes
Misses fried chicken
Soderburgh shows bulge
Of the world’s sexiest man.
Yet still makes bad film
Katniss fucks workmates
Phil wants in on the action
So scores five point oh.
Guy drinks gasoline
Imagines Naked Women
How is this good film?
One movie this year
Featured an erect penis
and Kylie Minogue.
It’s torture to see
Shadow shell game on Fine Art
Laden down Again
Doona breaks my heart
Where is the Cloud Atlas love?
Not even Makeup.
Yeah, I f&$@ed up. 5,7,7 is not a Haiku. Woops. 🙁
Cooper, nor Phoenix?
Waltz stealing Leo’s thunder?
Late season surges.
My favorite Christmas stories to watch are pretty recent nes: Love Actually and The Holiday (2006).
Haiku:
Cooper, not Phoenix?
Waltz stealing Leo’s thunder?
Woes of late season surges.
It’s awfully early for this, but here goes. I tried to adapt some favorite lines from this year.
(Lester – Argo)
The Ayatollah?
If worrying is your thing
Try the WGA
(Mary Todd – Lincoln)
Abolish Slavery!
Sending my son into war,
so woe if you fail!
(Frobisher – Cloud Atlas)
It’s waiting for us,
Dear Sixsmith, a better world.
I’ll be waiting there.
(Pi)
Life is letting go.
The moment that hurts the most –
not saying goodbye.
(Bane – The Dark Knight Rises)
There’s no money here?
Is this not the Stock Exchange?
Then why are you here?
Christmas movies? Unfortunately, National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation accurately reflects many past holidays, especially the rogue eaves trough AND the squirrel in the house (I have a Great Dane). Have to go with that.
P.T. Anderson
Tops himself with The Master
Oscars ignore him
As the are still no good Chanukah movies, my favorite Christmas movies are Scrooged, Elf, any Rankin Bass animated movie, and Die Hard
My favourite christmas movie has to be Meet Me in St Louis – the scene where Judy Garland sings Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas made me tear up the first time I watched it.
LET THE SKYFALL
WHEN AMOUR RISES
ZERO UNCHAINS THE OSCAR
LOL, I suck at this (first timer). Here it goes:
Sucks to be Keira
She needs to move on
And do Holocaust
Anne is singing loud
Thinking this is her year
Can Kidman surprise?
Politics are ruling
And a certain wallflower too
What else can we do
My favourite Christmas movies: Muppet Christmas Carol and Elf.
My favorite christmas movie is a chtistmas story.
Merry Christmas To All
Every holiday season I have to watch “The Family Stone”! I know it’s a flawed movie but something about it just puts me in the holiday mood. Between the stellar cast and sweet ending its a holiday tradition I always look forward to!
Fav Christmas movies: LOTR I, II, III
Oh damn. They are all separate haikus except for the three part one on Tom Hooper. I….should have used html like I was told.
Been watching love actually every Xmas since its DVD release with my two best friends. I adore it! Also love Gremlins.
Haikus:
Sorry ZDT
No sag nod means no BP
Can’t all be Braveheart
Lawrence v. Chastain
Neither one is yet married –
No Oscar curse here!
When going to bed,
Want a great story teller.
Can has a Lincoln?!
Dear Thomas Hooper,
Camera should never shoot from
Bottom right corner
But, hey film pundits,
Where were these observations
During The Kings Speech?!?!
It may be too late
To give Fincher the Oscar
But NOT THIS TIME, Tom
My favorite holiday movies are The Family Stone, Love Actually, and Pieces of April.
favorite holiday movies are: The Family Stone, Elf, and Meet Me In St. Louis
Holidays in swing
Nobody really cares though
The oscars are here
Lincoln and Chastain
Argo gains speed again
Ralph for animation
my favorite holiday movies are Meet Me in St. Louis, It’s a Wonderful Life, When Harry Met Sally, and A Christmas Story
My favorite Christmas movies that I have to see at least once during the holiday season are: A Christmas Carol (1938), The Bishop’s Wife, Miracle on 34th Street (1947), Home Alone, The Santa Clause, and Elf 🙂
“or you can put down your favorite movie to watch around the holidays”
Am I supposed to disparage Home Alone?
Love Scrooged! My Step Dad was an extra in it.
Been right since Old Men.
I did not guess Departed.
I’ll be wrong again.
The awards season…
Season to award awards
to the awardees
I am quite certain
I will not win this contest
But fingers kept crossed
My favourite Christmas movies are Spirited Away, Birth and Kill Bill.
My Haiku:
John Hawkes’ the virgin
Helen Hunt stole it from him
Thanks to sex Sessions
Note: Love your feedback because this is my first time 😉
(Thank you, Sasha, for the response.)
My favorite — feel-good or not — movies to watch during special holidays: American Beauty, The Silence of the Lambs, Million Dollar Baby, Unforgiven, L.A. Confidential, Be with You (Japanese film), The Twilight Samurai, Transfomers (I & II for Megan), etc. And anything that shows up on my cables.
But to be honest, I usually surfed the ’net while listening to loud music and watching HBO’s movies muted on TV regardless of the titles – my main thing is the Internet.
—
F(or)’ever and a day
My crush on Megan Fox be
O cometh Transformers
Upon Ms. Bigelow
Ms. Stone beauteously clam’ring
So she’s been methinks
A box of choc’lates
Life be; Mama Gump*
Good luck for the nom.
—
(Sorry, lol. I’m sooo all over the place.)
[*This is Awards Daily; any further explanation shall be deemed, IMO, an insult.] xD
My favorite holiday movie
Is none other than Scrooged!
Chastain gets Oscar.
Help from Bigelow and Boal.
CIA don’t hate.
Daniel Day is back.
Liam Neeson has regrets.
Field and Jones win too.
ZDT Best Pic.
What happened to The Master?
Ann Dowd get a nom.
Australian Watts
Faces Silver Linings and
Chastain for the prize.
(Team Watts, all biases admitted.)
Fave Xmas/December movie: Meet Me in St. Louis. Favorite New Year’s movies: When Harry Met Sally and The Apartment.
Without Kate Winslet,
this year is drab and silent;
I pray she acts soon.
The best of oh-twelve?
Beasts of the Southern Wild.
And it is not close.
Cotillard gets nom
For Katy Perry dance and
Texting for some dick?
Is the contest valid for those residing in US only or worldwide? (I am currently living in a Southeast Asian [host] country.) Any deadline?
Happy Holidays, Awards Daily and everyone. : )
If you can use the player you can enter.
Fav Christmas movies: Die Hard, Elf, Fanny and Alexander, A Christmas Carol (1957), Children of Men
Haiku:
Zero Dark Thirty
Stringer Bell cannot compete
with this B&B
Runs with a trash bag
He is friends with chris tucker
he must be crazy
levitt and willis
one of them is from the future
he went to China
A studio year
Big movies dominated
Star power could win
Too bad for small films…
How many syllables are
in Quvenzhané?
Few dissapointments
Most have lived up to the hype
Unprecedented?
The less likely films
Could have won in other years
But this time they’re boned
A big politics year
Not a standard AMPAS thing,
But can’t be denied.
When you are Murray. And you’ve done Ghost Busters. Who needs an Oscar.
My favorite holiday movies are: It’s A Wonderful Life, Miracle on 34th Street, and A Season For Miracles.
I don’t really understand haiku. I’m not a poet and I know it.