Rate the Last Movie You Saw

[Ben Staad]

Annual re-watch of Die Hard and a few odds and end movies.

• Diehard - This is still a fun movie to watch. After so many viewings it loses some appeal but keeps us entertained enough.
• Emmett Otters Jug Band Christmas - This is something from my wife's childhood. Goofy little Muppet style kids movie. Cute enough, dated, and just sappy.
• The Homecoming: A Christmas Story - The Waltons story on a bleak Christmas and a nice little holiday surprise.

[Sock Monkey]

Annual re-watch of Die Hard and a few odds and end movies.

• Diehard - This is still a fun movie to watch. After so many viewings it loses some appeal but keeps us entertained enough.

There are movies I can watch over and over again with no problem--these are mostly rom-coms or dramedies, like Love Actually and whatnot--and make the viewing circuit almost every year. However, there is also another subset, a select handful of my favorite films, that I don't watch too often, maybe every few years or so, to help maintain its specialness. John Carpenter's The Thing, Fincher's Seven, and The Usual Suspects are all on that list. But the top spot is always Die Hard. I love that movie so much that even though I feel the pull to watch it every Christmas, I hold off. I know it's become commonplace to call Die Hard one's favorite Christmas movie, but it really is just an incredibly well-crafted movie all around. I'm not saying it's super deep or anything, but the storytelling, especially in its details, is so smartly done and so efficient that it's easy to overlook it. Now I want to go watch it again...

[Ben Staad]

Our #1 Christmas movie is It's a Wonderful Life. Looking forward to watching this at some point this week.

Die Hard is likely #2.

There are movies I can watch over and over again with no problem--these are mostly rom-coms or dramedies, like Love Actually and whatnot--and make the viewing circuit almost every year. However, there is also another subset, a select handful of my favorite films, that I don't watch too often, maybe every few years or so, to help maintain its specialness. John Carpenter's The Thing, Fincher's Seven, and The Usual Suspects are all on that list. But the top spot is always Die Hard. I love that movie so much that even though I feel the pull to watch it every Christmas, I hold off. I know it's become commonplace to call Die Hard one's favorite Christmas movie, but it really is just an incredibly well-crafted movie all around. I'm not saying it's super deep or anything, but the storytelling, especially in its details, is so smartly done and so efficient that it's easy to overlook it. Now I want to go watch it again...