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A Wonderful Diehard Christmas - TWB62

Talking With Burritos

Release Date: 01/31/2017

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Talking With Burritos

This is not about elections, steel dossiers, or FBI reports I will never read. This is all about how sexy, crazy, cool, and dangerous those Russians can be on screen and off.

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Talking With Burritos

15:17 to Paris is a Clint Eastwood film made for Lifetime that somehow made it to the big screen. A better road trip movie with a less inspirational story is Eurotrip.

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Talking With Burritos

Recently, Warner Bros. released The Meg as proof that sharks are not bankable unless you make them silly. As frightening a creature as sharks seem, they are never good subjects for a movie. There are very few plots involving sharks in which to script an original film. Depending on the idea, a thrilling shark movie should never be over-conceptualized. Just keep it simple: sharks plus ocean equals scary.

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Roma did not win Best Picture. Whether this was a slight jab at the streaming giant or a well-deserved win for the other movie, the Oscars are not the same and never will be. But fear not, our Spectacled Crusader is here to save Hollywood from going Hollywood.

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At face value, Bohemian Rhapsody is a paint-by-the-numbers biopic without the celebratory weight of a meaningful story.

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Talking With Burritos

Halloween has a newfound popularity rooted in a remake that is a sequel (a remakequel) to the beginnings of a franchise relaunch. Not new material, but there’s a case for simplicity with horror movies that over time lost to the evolving use of special effects and jump scares. Halloween (2018) wasn’t a great movie; however, it is what this genre needs as a reflection back to when simple storying telling thrilled the masses. 

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Remakes and Franchises make movie watching boring these days. Same ol’ this and with a sprinkle of that thing already imagined. Jurassic World and Ocean’s 8 are two examples of films —this summer— whose failure to deviate from the plot and character development of it’s precursors to produced a final product that hit all the marks of fanfare but lacked originality.

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The movie theatre is a venue; a luxury, to which only some of us can afford to indulge regularly. Subscription services, like, Movies Pass, Stubs, and Cinemark’s Movie Club make that indulgence a more considerable option than waiting for movies to premiere on Netflix. No matter who’s paying, it’s a great experience when we’re paying less.

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Black Panther is the only black James Bond we need. He has the tech, a suave demeanor, and the well intent to undermine criminal minds who threaten his nations. It would be great to have a black James Bond character on the big screen but as long as he or she is not James Bond and more Bond-like.

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My attempt to find some correlation between Die Hard and It's A Wonderful Life. They said it would be impossible, challenge accepted!
 
John McClain, a New York cop visiting Los Angeles for the holidays stumbles upon a band of would-be terrorists who take over the building of his wife's employer. Only true fans consider Die Hard a Christmas movie. Headshots and maniacal Germans; it’s not exactly the true definition of a holiday movie. The movie is rated R but so is Love Actually and we love that raunch-laden film.  Try to sell Diehard to a family undecided on what to watch after dinner and unwrapping present and you're sure to be outvoted and stuck with watching the same ol’ classics from the early age of black and white film.  
 
Classics such as A Christmas Carol (1938), Scrooge (1935), and A Miracle on 34th Street (1947) are the instant go to movies for the genre neutral family dynamics. These are grade A movies with wholesome storylines that really bring forth the true meaning of Christmas and goodwill to all humans.  
 
Not to be left off this list of ol' timely classics is It’s A Wonderful Life (1946). A film about a man, George Bailey played by James Stewart who had his lifelong dreams and ambitions derailed by his duty to family, friends, and an unpromising future. But besides the obvious differences of technicolor, guns, and Paul Gleason,  Die Hard is no less the feel-good holiday movie of It’s a Wonderful Life and should be on the must-watch list of every family who celebrates Christmas. So, if you're the only hope standing between a boring evening of watching feel-good movies of the 1940's, I urge you to stick to your guns and put your foot on grandma's neck. Give that old gal a sip of whiskey and walk her to that favorite and have her enjoy some holiday action with Bruce Willis as the Cowboy Who Saves Christmas for all.