Surviving Christmas
Surviving Christmas
GovernorSlaton
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/14/04
#0Surviving Christmas
Posted: 10/22/04 at 4:44pm
"IF Hans Blix is still searching for bombs, he should check out Surviving Christmas, a crass, shrill and laughless disaster of a holiday comedy with a desperately mugging Ben Affleck that should be banned under the Geneva Convention."
Ouch...
And if the link below doesn't work, just go to http://www.rottentomatoes.com and find Surviving Christmas.
There seems to be a bit more green on this page than red...
Updated On: 10/22/04 at 04:44 PM
Matt_G
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/1/04
#1re: Surviving Christmas
Posted: 10/22/04 at 4:45pmI refuse to believe it. It has Catherine O'Hara in it which means that it is going to be pure genius.
"Noah, someday we'll talk again. But there's things we'll never say. That sorrow deep inside you. It inside me, too. And it never go away. You be okay. You'll learn how to lose things..."
GovernorSlaton
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/14/04
#2re: Surviving Christmas
Posted: 10/22/04 at 4:46pm"Gandolfini and O'Hara are so gritty and wryly burned-out together that you want to express-mail them to another movie in time for next Christmas."
Matt_G
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/1/04
#3re: Surviving Christmas
Posted: 10/22/04 at 4:49pmThat can't be true. Again, I refuse to believe that the same woman who uttered the words "why don't you have one of those vagina enlargements" could do anything less than brilliant in a film.
"Noah, someday we'll talk again. But there's things we'll never say. That sorrow deep inside you. It inside me, too. And it never go away. You be okay. You'll learn how to lose things..."
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sabrelady
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/16/03
#5re: Surviving Christmas
Posted: 10/22/04 at 5:52pmShe got good reviews, But the script sucked (the guy who did the gigalo movies w rob schnieder is responsible/guilty) Affleck mugs cos he has nothing else TO d.
Mary_Ethel
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/6/04
#6re: Surviving Christmas
Posted: 10/22/04 at 5:53pm
Ah, they haven't made a really good movie since GONE WITH THE WIND.
Did you know that Vivien Leigh worked sixteen hours a day for SIX MONTHS when she played Scarlett O'Hara?
THAT's Art!!! :)
"I say YOU'RE the CUTEST one. No, I say YOU'RE the CUTEST One. And we go on like that from dawn to three."
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#7re: Surviving Christmas
Posted: 10/22/04 at 6:29pm
I think all the good scenes are in the trailer
Remember people thought Ishtar would be a classic
Poster Emeritus
Matt_G
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/1/04
#8re: Surviving Christmas
Posted: 10/22/04 at 6:32pmM_E there have been PLENTY of great films since GONE WITH THE WIND.
"Noah, someday we'll talk again. But there's things we'll never say. That sorrow deep inside you. It inside me, too. And it never go away. You be okay. You'll learn how to lose things..."
Mary_Ethel
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/6/04
#9re: Surviving Christmas
Posted: 10/22/04 at 8:32pm
Oh Yeah Matt?
Name one (1) film since GWTW that had a) a whole city burn down;
b) a woman admitting she knew nothing about "birthing a baby"; and
c) Vivien Leigh.
THAT'S Entertainment! :)
"I say YOU'RE the CUTEST one. No, I say YOU'RE the CUTEST One. And we go on like that from dawn to three."
Matt_G
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/1/04
#10re: Surviving Christmas
Posted: 10/22/04 at 8:42pm
Well isn't that like saying name one movie since THE GOONIES that's had
a) Seven kids going underground to hunt for lost treasure on a pirate ship
b) An old woman saying "Follow them Size 5's!" AND
c) Martha Plimpton
"Noah, someday we'll talk again. But there's things we'll never say. That sorrow deep inside you. It inside me, too. And it never go away. You be okay. You'll learn how to lose things..."
Plum
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/4/04
#11re: Surviving Christmas
Posted: 10/22/04 at 8:43pmIs that the movie where Gandolfini hits Ben Affleck over the head with a snow shovel? I might see it just for that.
Matt_G
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/1/04
#12re: Surviving Christmas
Posted: 10/22/04 at 8:51pm
M_E, here is a short list of 100 "Good Movies" and all but about 12 of them were released AFTER GONE WITH THE WIND.
1. Citizen Kane
2. Casablanca
3. The Godfather
4. Gone With the Wind
5. Lawrence of Arabia
6. The Wizard of Oz
7. The Graduate
8. On the Waterfront
9. Schindler's List
10. Singin' in the Rain
11. It's a Wonderful Life
12. Sunset Boulevard
13. The Bridge on the River Kwai
14. Some Like it Hot
15. Star Wars
16. All About Eve
17. The African Queen
18. Psycho
19. Chinatown
20. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
21. The Grapes of Wrath
22. 2001: A Space Odyssey
23. The Maltese Falcon
24. Raging Bull
25. E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial
26. Dr. Strangelove
27. Bonnie & Clyde
28. Apocalypse Now
29. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
30. Treasure of the Sierra Madre
31. Annie Hall
32. The Godfather, Part II
33. High Noon
34. To Kill a Mockingbird
35. It Happened One Night
36. Midnight Cowboy
37. The Best Years of Our Lives
38. Double Indemnity
39. Doctor Zhivago
40. North by Northwest
41. West Side Story
42. Rear Window
43. King Kong
44. The Birth of a Nation
45. A Streetcar Named Desire
46. A Clockwork Orange
47. Taxi Driver
48. Jaws
49. Snow White & the Seven Dwarfs
50. Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid
51. The Philadelphia Story
52. From Here to Eternity
53. Amadeus
54. All Quiet on the Western Front
55. The Sound of Music
56. M*A*S*H
57. The Third Man
58. Fantasia
59. Rebel Without a Cause
60. Raiders of the Lost Ark
61. Vertigo
62. Tootsie
63. Stagecoach
64. Close Encounters of the Third Kind
65. The Silence of the Lambs
66. Network
67. The Manchurian Candidate
68. An American in Paris
69. Shane
70. The French Connection
71. Forrest Gump
72. Ben-Hur
73. Wuthering Heights
74. The Gold Rush
75. Dances with Wolves
76. City Lights
77. American Graffiti
78. Rocky
79. The Deer Hunter
80. The Wild Bunch
81. Modern Times
82. Giant
83. Platoon
84. Fargo
85. Duck Soup
86. Mutiny on the Bounty
87. Frankenstein
88. Easy Rider
89. Patton
90. The Jazz Singer (1927)
91. My Fair Lady
92. A Place in the Sun
93. The Apartment
94. Goodfellas
95. Pulp Fiction
96. The Searchers
97. Bringing Up Baby
98. Unforgiven
99. Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
100. Yankee Doodle Dandy
"Noah, someday we'll talk again. But there's things we'll never say. That sorrow deep inside you. It inside me, too. And it never go away. You be okay. You'll learn how to lose things..."
GovernorSlaton
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/14/04
#13re: Surviving Christmas
Posted: 10/22/04 at 9:07pm
Y'know, I once memorized that list.
I was a crazy kid.
Mary_Ethel
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/6/04
#14re: Surviving Christmas
Posted: 10/22/04 at 9:26pm
Well Matt,
Nobody consulted ME before they made up that crazy list (and you didn't say WHO made it up!)
It could be the work of the devil or anarchists!
"I say YOU'RE the CUTEST one. No, I say YOU'RE the CUTEST One. And we go on like that from dawn to three."
Matt_G
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/1/04
#15re: Surviving Christmas
Posted: 10/22/04 at 9:27pmThat's the official list from the American Film Institute. I'm pretty sure they're not the devil since their main focus is film preservation and supporting new filmmakers.
"Noah, someday we'll talk again. But there's things we'll never say. That sorrow deep inside you. It inside me, too. And it never go away. You be okay. You'll learn how to lose things..."
Mary_Ethel
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/6/04
#16re: Surviving Christmas
Posted: 10/22/04 at 9:34pm
Ah, C'mon!
ANY list of Best 100 Movies that has The Godfather, PART II on it does NOT HAVE the moviegoer's best interests at heart!
"I say YOU'RE the CUTEST one. No, I say YOU'RE the CUTEST One. And we go on like that from dawn to three."
Matt_G
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/1/04
#17re: Surviving Christmas
Posted: 10/22/04 at 9:36pmWell, considering that Part 2 WAS in fact one of the finest films ever made, it certanly belongs on that list.
"Noah, someday we'll talk again. But there's things we'll never say. That sorrow deep inside you. It inside me, too. And it never go away. You be okay. You'll learn how to lose things..."
GovernorSlaton
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/14/04
#18re: Surviving Christmas
Posted: 10/22/04 at 9:36pmGodfather Part 2 SHOULD be there. Updated On: 10/22/04 at 09:36 PM
Mary_Ethel
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/6/04
#19re: Surviving Christmas
Posted: 10/22/04 at 9:55pm
I quote the Internet Movie Database:
"To call it a sequel would be a travesty."
Need I Say More?
"I say YOU'RE the CUTEST one. No, I say YOU'RE the CUTEST One. And we go on like that from dawn to three."
Matt_G
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/1/04
#20re: Surviving Christmas
Posted: 10/22/04 at 9:57pm
Well I can take that a few ways, not all of them being bad. Was there more to that quote?
And just FYI, THE GODFATHER PART II is pretty much universally known as being superior to the first.
"Noah, someday we'll talk again. But there's things we'll never say. That sorrow deep inside you. It inside me, too. And it never go away. You be okay. You'll learn how to lose things..."
Mary_Ethel
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/6/04
#21re: Surviving Christmas
Posted: 10/22/04 at 10:00pmThat's like saying a toothace is pretty much universally known to be better than a broken arm.
"I say YOU'RE the CUTEST one. No, I say YOU'RE the CUTEST One. And we go on like that from dawn to three."
Matt_G
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/1/04
#22re: Surviving Christmas
Posted: 10/22/04 at 10:01pmFor someone who doesn't watch movies, you're pretty opinionated on the greats.
"Noah, someday we'll talk again. But there's things we'll never say. That sorrow deep inside you. It inside me, too. And it never go away. You be okay. You'll learn how to lose things..."
GovernorSlaton
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/14/04
#23re: Surviving Christmas
Posted: 10/22/04 at 10:03pm
http://imdb.com/title/tt0071562/: The Godfather, Part 11.
Mary_Ethel
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/6/04
#24re: Surviving Christmas
Posted: 10/22/04 at 10:05pm
I never said I didn't WATCH them, I just said I DON'T like them.
I watch a LOT of things I don't like. :)
"I say YOU'RE the CUTEST one. No, I say YOU'RE the CUTEST One. And we go on like that from dawn to three."
Updated On: 10/22/04 at 10:05 PM
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