NanoBloPo: Day Eight

[author_by_night]

What movie are you most looking forward to this holiday season? (Link to a trailer so we can experience the impending awesomeness too!)

I looked it up, and so far the only holiday movie I'm finding is a new Tyler Perry/Madea movie. But I think I might have a different  definition of holiday season movie, because the other movies I see on the lists don't really have anything to do with the holidays - that's just when they come out. So I guess if those are what this question refers to, The Hobbit. When did the definition of "holiday movie" change, anyway? Or have I been misinformed all my life?

I will say I'd like a holiday movie that isn't about someone's mother dying of cancer and a little boy trying to find her shoes to wear in heaven, or someone's mother-in-law to be dying of cancer (GOD I hated the twist in the latter, for various reasons cancer was kind of a berserk button at the time, so it was an unpleasant surprise), or someone's dead dad coming back in the form of a snowman, or people being shot and arrested. I just want a good old fashioned cheesy holiday flick. Holiday movies are actually everywhere.

Comments

[fictionary.livejournal.com]

It's like, a "double" definition, isn't it? There are movies about holidays, and then there are movies that take place during the holiday season.

(For the latter I am super pumped about Catching Fire and The Hobbit: Desolation of Smaug. I also kind of want to see About Time, too.)

[ragnarok-08.livejournal.com]

I will say I'd like a holiday movie that isn't about someone's mother dying of cancer and a little boy trying to find her shoes to wear in heaven, or someone's mother-in-law to be dying of cancer (GOD I hated the twist in the latter, for various reasons cancer was kind of a berserk button at the time, so it was an unpleasant surprise), or someone's dead dad coming back in the form of a snowman, or people being shot and arrested. I just want a good old fashioned cheesy holiday flick.

I totally agree with that.

With movies I am looking forward to, they would have to be Catching Fire and The Hobbit: Desolation of Smaug.

[thekaiserchief.livejournal.com]

I'm excited for a few upcoming films--Catching Fire, American Hustle, Anchorman 2, The Wolf of Wall Street, and August: Osage County.

[bemkah.livejournal.com]

I don't get excited over christmas movies. I get excited over christmas special episodes of tv shows. Mostly Doctor Who and Downton Abbey. This year I'm way more excited for Doctor Who, though, because Hello, new Doctor :D

Definitely looking forward to watching the next Hobbit movie and the next Hunger Games movie, though. I know they'll be awesome.