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I doubt I can ever get tired of praising The Boat that Rocked as one of the most underappreciated feelgood movies I have ever seen. Directed by Richard Curtis (Love Actually) this movie tells the story of a group of DJ’s sitting on a boat where they (semi)-illegally broadcast Rock ‘n Roll music.
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Another scary scene, this time from one of my all time favorite Christmas-movies:
Home Alone.
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Serving as a perfect bridging film to get from Halloween- into Christmas-mood Tim Burton’s The Nightmare before Christmas combines both Holidays and tells the story of Jack Skellington who asks the question why the world of Halloween can’t have its own Christmas celebration.
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John McClane’s Christmas has to be in the top ten of worst Christmases ever. Chased by Severus Snape and a bunch of evil Germans he has to save the day, his family and Christmas.
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Disney movies can be extremely terrifying. The Beauty and the Beast is in my eyes still the second scariest movie of all time and Mickey’s Christmas Carol is no exception of the “let’s traumatize some children”-rule.
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With all the creative freedom he wanted Tim Burton returned to the world of Gotham city to deliver a spooky Christmas tragedy.
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Following in The Simpsons’s footsteps we have a Futurama Christmas special. Futurama created by Matt Groening on first glance appears to be an over the top Simpsons Rip-Off in the future, but the series is a completely different way for satirized storytelling.
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Long before The Simpsons became the sad joke they are right now the series redefined the way we look at serialized animated storytelling. Combining jokes, theology, philosophy, history, science into an entertaining mix for both adults and children. While there were many hilarious episodes in later seasons the earlier seasons were a lot heavier on the family drama and the moments between the members of the Simpsons family.
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