What Did You Watch at Christmas?
Come the Christmas holidays, there's always that period of time where you've run out of things to say, and the old family resentments are all building up with the amount of alcohol consumed. At that point, what can you do to at least hold off the bitter, raging arguments for a few hours? Pop on the telly and watch a film!
On Christmas Day, we watched The Bourne Ultimatum, the last in the trilogy (maybe). Great film, though the fight scenes are just as jagged and difficult to follow as always. But it's always fun working out what's going on.
On Boxing Day, after my Tata Meg (long story about the name) went back home to Oxford, we watched The Terminal. I adored this film, especially since you didn't actually get the Hanks/Zeta Jones happy ending, but a happy ending nonetheless. Lots of good laughs, especially from the Gupta Rajan character, the slightly evil janitor (though only slightly, he's rather adorable).
Finally, after everyone else went to bed, me, my girlfriend and my brother all watched Galazy Quest. I hadn't seen this before, despite it having been out for ages, and was very glad to catch it. Some of the basic plot ideas are rather cliché, but it came together so well, and I always like a sullen Alan Rickman. Sigourney Weaver also looks brilliant and I'm never adverse to flashes of her cleavage. But for me, the star of the show was Tonay Shalhoub as the engineer, Fred Kwan. Just utterly hilarious, every scene with him in.
So, what films did you watch this Christmas, and what did you think of them?
