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My greatest claim to fame is that I am the only person in the history of mankind over the age of three who has never watched a full episode of The Simpsons (there have been a few others who have attempted to claim the same distinction, but I just don't believe them).

I really quite enjoy the Star Trek movies, especially the most recent 'reboot/prequal' ones with Chris Pine playing William Shatner playing Captain Kirk. Great fun!

LOTR? Not for me, sorry. I fell asleep about 20 minutes into the first one, and never woke up to any more.

Here's a small variation on a theme, which may or may not appeal. What about three different movies of the same film? I did this during Lockdown with an old favourite, 'Goodbye, Mr Chips' and thoroughly enjoyed all three versions that I found. Timewise, they're well spaced out, and although the plot is essentially the same, there are three very different treatments: The original black & white movie with Robert Donat as 'Chips' (he won the best actor Oscar for his performance) and Greer Garson; the musical version in 1969 with Peter O'Toole and Petula Clark; and the 2002 TV series starring Martin Clunes and Victoria Hamilton, and which has been stitched together to make one film-length version available on YouTube. I enjoyed all three very much, and I won't say which was my favourite in case anyone wants to watch and we can compare notes afterwards. And it will only cost you 6 hours and 50 minutes of your viewing time.


PS... Whilst checking the exact details of the above, I discovered a 7-part TV series of the same story filmed in 1984 with Roy Marsden and Jill Meager, all episodes available on YouTube. Deep Joy - that's my treat for today!

And if anyone's thinking "why watch the same story three (four) times", my answer to that would be "how many times have you seen 'The Great Escape' or 'It's A Wonderful Life' or 'Love Actually' at Christmas? At least those I've mentioned above are three different films. And I'm the guy who's seen 'Apollo 13' at least 13 times now... still affects me every time.

There are so many good movies out there, the trick is to find a set that the whole family will like.

I feel a bit sorry for you Roger for never having had a LOTR day in your pjs with a turkey sandwich.

When I was a child Jason and the Argonaughts was on TV every Christmas for most of my growing up years, this was before the VCR even. We are so lucky these days to be able to stop and start movies as we like.

We often watch the first Die Hard over Christmas and ALWAYS the Muppets Christmas Carol :-)

The kids grew up with Toy Story so that's a contender, thanks Tarqs

It would be great to find something new - for instance I only watched the Godfather movies for the first time about five years ago, much better than I thought they would be. 

One of my favourite things about Christmas, is picking one of the days between Christmas and New Year and having a 12 hour LOTR movie fest whist wearing jammies and eating snacks instead of meals.

I was talking to someone about this and she said it doesn’t have to be LOTR, there are lots of good movie trilogies that would work.
Instead of outright dismissing the idea out of hand, I did come up with Terminator #1, #2, #6

Do you guys have any ideas of movies that would make a brilliant movie fest day?