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2025! we back baby
First film on my watchlist, finally getting it checked off just in time for my 2-year anniversary on Letterboxd.
Samuel L. Jackson is terrifying and mesmerizing in equal measure here. Crying shame he didn't get the Oscar -- really feels like a (motherfucking) lightning in a bottle type moment.
The Christmas story sans all the trimmings of shepherd boys, barn animals, or the wisemen in any real capacity. The pacing is really weird too. Despite good chemistry at times between Cohen and Tako, they decide to speedrun their relationship and just force Mary to marry Joseph at the behest of her parents (despite the fact that Mary has already been surrendered to live and work at the Temple years ago). Why is this? It seems, like many modern Biblical…
This film is revered in the annals of my childhood. For a long, long time it was my favorite movie. Not my favorite Christmas movie, just my favorite movie. Period. I would watch it year-round, well into the sweltering summer months when snow is but a distant dream. I would recreate the movie's morbid call to action ad nauseum, throwing myself from the back of my family's couch to mimic falling off the roof. I called it "playing Santa." I…