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When compiling this list I tried to describe the moments that “made” the movie for me – some seconds that define the movie and why I do think that the movie is memorable.
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Monty Python’s The Life of Brian is one of the most provocative comedies of all time and contrary to people who have never seen the movie (or are deliberately misinterpreting it) it does not make fun of Jesus or anything sacred. The movie is a parody of cults, followers and misinterpretation.
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Like the Star Wars Holiday special the Goddamn Batman has a past that is not entirely clean. And like the Star Wars Holiday special he was forced to do things he regrets now. No, I am not talking about the 60s series – that one is a piece of art in itself – I am talking of course about Batman and Robin a movie that made less sense than the Adam West series.
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Love Actually is the movie that will always wind up somehow in a Christmas list I put together. Directed by Richard Curtis (the director of the equally fabulous The Boat that Rocked) this movie features a huge ensemble of many of the best British actors alive. Each story is set during the time before Christmas and those short stories interconnect from time to time – but mostly they stand as short movies about a certain type of love, some rewarding, some unrewarding, some unexpected.
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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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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.