The festive period is truly upon us and like everyone else
our minds are on one thing: Which Christmas movies to watch to avoid conversing
with family?
Every year the TV people show the same tired movies and chalk it up to tradition but this year we all, here at InfinityFeed HQ, shall begin a new
tradition of watching the 5 greatest Christmas movies in a single movie
marathon. Should anybody wish to join us in this new tradition this is the
InfinityFeed top 5 Christmas movies!
5. Nightmare before Christmas
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| The word "Christmas" is in the title! |
How can you not love this story of the king of Halloween
stumbling across Christmas and deciding that he wants to take Santa’s place and
be loved rather than feared for once. This is very much a story of greed, love
and abject failure with a bitching sound track (I defy you not to sing-a-long
with “This is Halloween” or “Kidnap the Sandy Claws”) to put you in a cheery
mood for Christmas lunch knowing that no matter how bad your Christmas day is,
if Jack Skellington had anything to do with it, it could be much worse.
4. Home Alone
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| Fairy lights + burglary = Christmas fun for the whole family. |
This picture says everything about this film. Macaulay
Culkin at the pinnacle of his fame and a heart warming story about a child,
home alone, for Christmas and using a variety of traps to defend his castle.
This film is a classic as it lead to every kid who saw it to believe that they
could be left at home and any burgler dumb enough to mess with them would see a
paint can flying down the stairs towards them at head height (we have a similar
set up here at InfinityFeed HQ). Kids the world over felt themselves invincible
and it was entirely down to this movie.
3. Gremlins
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| Gizmo rocking out on his keyboard whilst rocking a Santa hat. Told you this film was Christmassy. |
That’s right, Gremlins. The events of the story took place
at Christmas so it counts! Gremlins is proof that if you feed your kids after
midnight they evolve into highly dangerous, vindictive, murderous monsters. If you are cute, fluffy and a total badass that likes Rambo you can totally
take them to task, save the town and sing your adorable victory song before the
night is out.
2. Lethal Weapon
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| Christmas trees and guns ... Christmas! |
Does anything say Christmas like a manic depressive that is
on suicide watch being partnered with an old school detective on the verge of
retirement who wants nothing more than a quiet life in the weeks leading up to
his retirement date? Well yes, otherwise this would be number 1 on the list.
But through it all these unlikely partners make each other see the error of
their ways as Mel Gibson’s Riggs livens up Danny Glover’s Murtaugh stale home
life whilst that same stale home life brings Riggs back from the edge of the
abyss. This really is the spirit of Christmas, sorta, showing that with friends
and family at your side you can face anything, come out on the other side and
totally beat the crap out of your perp on the front lawn without any
repercussions.
1. Die Hard
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| I put a lot of effort into my wish list this year. |
Fuck Yeah Die Hard!
If all office Christmas parties were
like this I think a lot more people would be willing to put up with their
colleagues for an extra night if it meant increasing the chances that some of
them may not make it through the night.
Every hot blooded male knows how this
story goes down, that Allen Rickman is awesome as Hans Gruber and that when fighting the bad guys shoes are
the most important piece of equipment to keep around at all times.
Oh, and it's about time Santa started handing out semi-automatic weaponry as presents. Now I have a machine gun HO-HO-HO!
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