X-Mas Movies

[Dr. Ivor Yeti]

Gimme your list of non-traditional x-mas movies.

Die Hard
Everly
Lethal Weapon

?

[Drunk Monk]

Santa Claus Conquers the Martians

Bad Santa

[Greg]

I don't really have this list. I'm keep scratching my head about Die Hard. It's a movie, right?

[cranefly]

Santa Claus Conquers the Martians

Bad Santa

Wow.  Those are my two that I thought of yesterday but didn't post.  I actually haven't seen the first, but it's high on my list to see, as it features a burgeoning new talent in the form of Pia Zadora, just beginning to efflorescent towards colossal proportions.

As for the second, yeah.  Non-traditional and solid as hell.

[King Bob]

Santa Claus Conquers the Martians is on Netflix right now. I saw the title while scrolling yesterday.

I'd add "Best Friends" because there is great destruction of Christmas decor. And while it is more of a traditional Christmas movie, I'm quite fond of "Nativity."

[Drunk Monk]

Santa Claus Conquers the Martians

Bad Santa

Wow.  Those are my two that I thought of yesterday but didn't post.  I actually haven't seen the first, but it's high on my list to see, as it features a burgeoning new talent in the form of Pia Zadora, just beginning to efflorescent towards colossal proportions.

As for the second, yeah.  Non-traditional and solid as hell.

uh oh.

i'm thinkin like cf.

lawd help me.

[Dr. Ivor Yeti]

MST3K version of Santa Claus Conquers Martians is the way to go

[cranefly]

Santa Claus Conquers the Martians is on Netflix right now. I saw the title while scrolling yesterday.

Bloody hell.  I just searched for it on Netflix streaming, not there.

I did notice Mystery Science Theater, which has season 2.  But I went through their list of episodes and no SCCTM.  Grrr.

I even searched for Pia Zadora.  Not a single entry.  WTF?  The greatest screen presence of the past 50 years and they don't have anything on her?  Criminal.

Though Mystery Science Theater does have Horrors of Spider Island, which is on 366weirdmovies.com as their #4 pick.  Maybe a spider eats an elf in that.  Yeah.  Maybe that's do for Xmas.

[cranefly]

Hah!  Just borrowed Santa Claus Conquers The Martians from Hoopla through the library.  Haven't watched yet, but soon.

[King Bob]

I might have seen it on Amazon. I wasn't really paying attention.

[Drunk Monk]

I might have seen it on Amazon. I wasn't really paying attention.

Just checked.  Indeed it is there but not the MST3K version.  That you must pay for...

[Dr. Ivor Yeti]

...worth every sheckel.

[Drunk Monk]

Started to watch Santa Claus Conquers the Martians but couldn’t make it very far. It just wasn’t working for me. Maybe I wasn’t in the mood. Or maybe I needed some MST3K heckling. Whatev. I recant my earlier submission of this as an Xmas flick. You can have your sheckle back.

I think I need to watch Everly instead.

[Dr. Ivor Yeti]

MST3K version is worth every sheckel. The unadulterated version is horrible.

[cranefly]

DM, we must have watched it at the same time (last night).  For me, it was so mesmerizing that I kept rewinding to watch sections over again.

Okay, so I kept drifting off, needed to refind my place.

One of my pet peeves is movies that waste their budget, spending millions on sets and special effects that you can't really see on screen.

But this one was uncanny in how well it put every penny of its fifteen dollar budget on screen.  Mars?  No fake winds there (like in The Martian).  A terrifying polar bear (I think that's what it was).  A killer robot.  Green people! [though to me they just looked muddy].  A toymaking machine.  A spaceship with toilet-sounding retro rockets.  The list goes on (but not very far).

There was a moment's respite during the closing credits when the movie came close to redeeming itself with "Hurray for Santa Claus," the movie's theme song, sung by none other than the ineffable Pia Zadora.