Spending Christmas Alone: What Should I Watch?

Go to bed

Just end it all. Pajamas all day?! What a slob...

R2 It is Christmas

It IS Christmas!

The Substance

I also thought about having a Law & Order marathon. Jerry Orbach is comforting

Why not settle down to an all-day marathon or binge watch a streamed series?

You're not the only one planning a lazy "me time" Christmas Day; those can be some of the best.

Merry Christmas, OP.

None of those, OP. I just watched Grumpy Old Men. Great Xmas movie!

Just litter the DL with your shit posts all day

I voted for The Age of Innocence. Nothing too cheery, boring or depressing as most other options were.

Maybe do something outdoors and healthy to start the day before sitting on the couch for the rest of the day.

I’m going to watch Marathon Man, and then the Law and Order marathon.

R11 I will be working all day tomorrow, then seeing some friends tomorrow night.

I've spent my share of Christmases alone, OP. THE perfect movie is While You Were Sleeping.

Wishing you well!

3.5 hour drive.

Murder, She Wrote marathon. Do you need a playlist of episodes?

Murder Takes the Bus is absolutely flawless.

Take a huge shit

Definitely not Schindler’s List.

Doctor Zhivago

OP, you’ve already watched all or most of the films in your poll. Why not select one you haven’t watched?

DONKEY SKIN. The fairy tale atmosphere fits the Xmas season perfectly. And Delphine Seyrig lip-syncing an anti-incest song to Catherine Deneuve is one of the most fabulous scenes ever filmed!

GOD I love The Age of Innocence.

"The dinner, New York read on the invitation, was 'to meet the Countess Olenska'... And New York declined."

The Age of Innocence. It couldn't be more different than his mob movies and it's beautiful.

In an interview with Michelle Pfeiffer when it came out, she said she swooned over the Baccarat Crystal that was used in a dining scene.

The "band of conspirators" scene is my favorite scene, and Joanne Woodward's narration is a killer.

Lawrence of Arabia.

Then listen to the Cine-Files podcast # 85 & # 86 about it. That’ll take care of most of the day.

For the Love of DILFs

Watch porn all day, OP, and beat off until your dick gets blisters.

It's my dog and I, OP. I received an invitation but it's a long distance so I politely declined.

My favorites, not in any particular order and an eclectic mix: Bell, Book and Candle. The Flower-Drum Song. The Fortress. With 6 you get Eggroll. What's Up Doc? Spaceballs. Home Alone. Auntie Mame. The Parent Trap (original with Haley Mills, not the remake with that skanky walking STD open weeping sore. Sixteen Candles. Dennis the Menace. Houseboat. When Harry met Sally. Wings of Desire. Manhattan. Sleeper. Barbarella. The Meaning of Life. Fear of Fanny (Fanny Cradock). Ok that should keep you busy - when you finish these, let's have a chat about it.

“Lawrence of Arabia he’s an English guy who came to save the Turks”

You can’t watch a Christmas movie?

I usually have TNT marathon of A Christmas Story but I cut the cord on cable so now I don’t know….

Go for The Lion at Winter. It's set at Christmas, has all those great bitchy lines, and a young and hot Timothy Dalton

Watch Reckless.

Don't watch the Age of Innocence if you have holiday blues OP

or Fanny and Alexander it has scenes of violence against kids.

Watch light stuff.

Watch Korean dramas

Not Squid Game

R36 I don't like light stuff

AoI is pretty benign. It's a romance, and I won't spoil it but it's not like it ends tragically or anything.

If you've never seen it, I recommend the HBO series Six Feet Under. Movie - The Departed.

I don't like Dr. Zhivago. If anything, I find it depressing - and not in a good way.

R42 The supporting roles/performances are good in Dr Z and it is a beautifull film to look at. But the 3 leads are an absolute dud as is the central love story.

Just watched Fannie and Alexander-amazing beginning-

The Family Stone. Sarah Jessica Parker was quite good in it.

The Lion In Winter - It's a Christmas movie. Really

The opening scenes in Fannie and Alexander of 1907 Christmas in an upscale Swedish household really get you in the mood-kinda goes down hill from there…

The lion in the winter before you go see the sequel, mufasa. 👓

OP, You’re supposed to be the kind elderly face of fucking Christmas. You should be punished for isolating and failing to radiate shmize for your peeps and the painkiller has definitely kicked in.

Sofie’s Choice

The Hours

A Single Man

It Only Hurts When I Laugh

True Lies