Comments on: Xmas Movie 2005 http://lite.greybean.com/grey/2005/12/24/xmas-movie-2005/ version 5.0 (keaton) Thu, 21 Aug 2008 17:41:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0 by: trench http://lite.greybean.com/grey/2005/12/24/xmas-movie-2005/#comment-208 Mon, 23 Jan 2006 05:56:00 +0000 http://lite.greybean.com/grey/2005/12/24/xmas-movie-2005/#comment-208 Im a huge movie goer, but I have yet to watch Brokeback Mountain. I better get on the ball! Im a huge movie goer, but I have yet to watch Brokeback Mountain. I better get on the ball!

]]> by: paperchaser http://lite.greybean.com/grey/2005/12/24/xmas-movie-2005/#comment-173 Sun, 25 Dec 2005 19:22:48 +0000 http://lite.greybean.com/grey/2005/12/24/xmas-movie-2005/#comment-173 Okay...two things: One, Wyoming is NOT in the Mid-West---it's in the actual WEST (Not northwest, southwest or mid-west). The midwest is like Kansas, Iowa, etc. Low, flat, arid places full of cornfields. It is also the Bible Belt. Is that what you don't like? On the other hand, if you are picturing the Rockies, filled with craggy, snow-dowsed peaks, clear, deep lakes fed by rivers that have dropped over thundering waterfalls, wearing away their rockbeds as they travel, then you can have a pre-determined bias against this movie. Two, as a founding member of the Christmas-movie movement, I would like to list my preferences (based sheerly on personal enjoyment within the Christmas season in which they were first viewed since the tradition was originally established as a diversion from reality--not artistic merit or overall lasting qualities although those factors may have played a part in the enjoyment). Here goes: 1. Brokeback Mountain (overwhelmingly the best based on any and all of the above mentioned criteria). 2. Sabrina 3. Immortal Beloved (partly because of the trip to NYC to see it.) 4. Beethoven 5. Polar Express 6. Cast Away 7. As Good as it Gets 8. A Beautiful Mind 9. Grumpier Old Men 10.Mona Lisa Smile 11.Catch Me If You Can 12.Beethoven's 2nd 13.Patch Adams 14.Michael 15.Talented Mr. Ripley (since I fell asleep during this one). Okay…two things: One, Wyoming is NOT in the Mid-West—it’s in the actual WEST (Not northwest, southwest or mid-west). The midwest is like Kansas, Iowa, etc. Low, flat, arid places full of cornfields. It is also the Bible Belt. Is that what you don’t like? On the other hand, if you are picturing the Rockies, filled with craggy, snow-dowsed peaks, clear, deep lakes fed by rivers that have dropped over thundering waterfalls, wearing away their rockbeds as they travel, then you can have a pre-determined bias against this movie.

Two, as a founding member of the Christmas-movie movement, I would like to list my preferences (based sheerly on personal enjoyment within the Christmas season in which they were first viewed since the tradition was originally established as a diversion from reality–not artistic merit or overall lasting qualities although those factors may have played a part in the enjoyment).

Here goes:

1. Brokeback Mountain (overwhelmingly the best based on any and all of the above mentioned criteria).
2. Sabrina
3. Immortal Beloved (partly because of the trip to NYC to see it.)
4. Beethoven
5. Polar Express
6. Cast Away
7. As Good as it Gets
8. A Beautiful Mind
9. Grumpier Old Men
10.Mona Lisa Smile
11.Catch Me If You Can
12.Beethoven’s 2nd
13.Patch Adams
14.Michael
15.Talented Mr. Ripley (since I fell asleep during this one).

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