42 Replies to “This Looks Like Fun”

  1. Thanks for this.
    This might become a Christmas classic right up there with Diehard and Scrooged.

    1. Don’t forget Gremlins. Watching it on Christmas Eve has become a personal tradition for me.

  2. watches the trailer
    blinks
    wtf did I just watch?
    watches again to let it sink in
    Yeah, I want to see this movie.

  3. This isn’t a film we need right now.
    I watched the trailer twice, and still can’t tell how they imagine this will be funny.

    I’m waiting for a psychological thriller / action movie co-starring Mel Gibson and Nicolas Cage.

    1. I can’t think of any movies that were “needed”.
      I can think of several that were made and pushed solely to insult me and those like me.
      I just want a fun movie, and if my enjoying it pisses off the wokerati, that makes it a fun movie for me.

  4. Sounds like something inspired by the Kris Kringle character of Jim Butcher in the Dresden novels.

    1. Yes indeed. BTW I have all of the Dresden Files. Love the series. I think it will end with the next book.

        1. Will check it out, thanks for the recommendation. Currently reading Saga of the Forgotten Warrior by Larry Correia. I rarely read pure fantasy (as opposed to urban fantasy) but this trilogy is worth it.

          1. I will state for the record I’m not a fan of Butcher’s work because he’s writing like a gamer, and Dresden is what a gamer who’s never read any hardboiled PI fiction thinks a hardboiled PI is like. Ditto the Aleara chronicles. Green gets that he’s writing a fusion of weird fantasy/horror with noir rather than a setting for a game.

            Let me also recommend the Hellblazer comic series, from whence comes John Constantine, although you often have to grit your teeth through Moore & co’s childish NuLab politics.

          2. Butcher’s writing has evolved over time. Dresden Files started as supernatural PI series but went pass that after a few books. It got much better too.
            As for Alera, I have read only the first volume. Not hugely impressed maybe will give it another try. Also, I did read The Aeronaut’s Windlass which is the first book in the new series Cinder Spires. Much better, more interesting world and characters than Alera.

  5. Parts of this were filmed in the Ottawa area. Mel was in town for a while. Friend of mine gave some technical assistance to Mel for boxing. Said he was cool and had some pipes on him. Have a phone contact picture of him beside Mel in the barn both in a boxing stance.

    1. We love him too, but know him as “the tranny”, as we first saw him in an infamous episode of Sons of Anarchy. He played a, well, a tyranny.

      1. Never watched the show. The older I get the harder I find it to accept criminals as heroes. Even handsome, noble criminals.

  6. I know it’s a living, and that provoking Hollywood “Jews” who never lifted a finger for Israel didn’t do wonders for Mel’s career. But this looks like rubbish.

    If I want to watch Christmas exploitation movies, I have plenty of other options. Get back to me when a new Hollywood movie tells the real story of St. Nicholas—or the Nativity, even.

    1. People go to church to get preached at, they go to the movies to relax, escape reality, and have a good time.

      As one of the comments pointed out, it looks a lot like the movie advertised in Scrooged:

      “7 O’clock Psychos seize Santa’s workshop. And only Lee Majors can stop them.
      The Night the Reindeer Died.”

  7. Imagine the intellect that came up with that pile of pig shit. I would call it horseshit but I like horses.

  8. The first time I saw the trailer I thought, “Hmmm, the Funny or Die gang have really gone all out on this”.
    Apparently it’s a real thing. What that thing is, damned if I know.
    And is that a black Mrs. Claus? Yay, diversity.

  9. I’m somewhat stumped that anyone would get upset about it. Don’t see it if you don’t want to see it. It’s not like it’s blasphemy or something. It’s Santa for crying out loud not … Mohammad. 😀

  10. When the kid went berserk after “Santa” sends him a lump of coal, I knew I wanted to see this movie! Don’t overthink films like this, just have a few laughs.

  11. I’d have a lot more laughs if Santa flew over Minneapolis napalming Antifa. Better still, Jack Skellington.

  12. It’s a brilliant superhero action movie deconstruction of superhero action movie deconstruction. It’s the Tropic Thunder of Marvel movies.

  13. I dunno about this; I’m torn…

    But for those wanting good if different Christmas fare, I recommend both THE CURIOUS CASE OF SANTA CLAUS, with James Coco and Jon Pertwee of Dr. Who fame, and the French take on the Three Wise Men called LES ROIS MAGES… The former has Santa (Coco) seeing a psychiatrist (Pertwee), while the latter is just brilliant!!! And if you find a d.v.d. of it with an English translation, please let me know…!!!

  14. As a kid in the late fifties in England, it was a family tradition to listen to a comedy show on radio, during lunch on Sundays. The show was called, HMS Troutbridge, and starred Pertwee as the helmsman, and Leslie Phillips as the third officer, plus a few others I don’t recall. It was all about the trials and tribulations of the worst ship in the British navy, and we were kept in stitches by the shenanigans of the crew each Sunday. No swearing or cussing, no sex, just belly laughs, Ahh good memories. Today, the movies put out as comedy are really lame, and I never bother watching so called comedies anymore, as I’m always disappointed. The current crop of so called movie funny people, such as Shumer, Ferrell, etc are useless. I can’t really get into the littany of Christmas and Halloween movies rolled out repeats every year, and do my best to avoid them. Consider me jaded.

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