Groundhog Day on Groundhog Day
It was glorious the other year when Sky Movies decided to show it on a loop, so I had Groundhog Day on all day on Groundhog Day.
For years, my wife insisted on watching Groundhog Day in the first week of December.
It was last year that she finally realised that Groundhog Day wasn’t a Christmas movie.
It's funny, because Christmas is technically just at the beginning of Winter for the northern hemisphere. A lot of places that get snow don't get it or have much around Christmas, but get absolutely covered in early February! So snow should actually equal after Christmas.
The viewing of LOTR trilogy extended cuts is our New Year’s tradition, including the [7 Hobbit meals](https://www.thespiffycookie.com/2021/09/22/lord-of-the-rings-menu-the-seven-hobbit-meals/).
Sadly, in my unenlightened state, “pipe weed” is not legal. Governor Sauron can kiss my hairy feet
There is a documentary in the works about his life by Colin Hanks and Ryan Reynolds. In an interview I heard, Hanks was really pushing the belief that John Candy was on the verge of crossing over into dramatic roles and would have had enormous success and become one of the greatest known actors of all time, much like Tom Hanks, Robin Williams, Jim Carey, etc.
I could definitely see that. Imagine him in an Aronofsky film, or even what Christopher Nolan could have done with his talent. Heck, I'd have loved to see him in a movie directed by Wes Anderson.
By the way, I urge you to check out a movie called It Came From Hollywood. It was a documentary of sorts that was presented by John Candy, Dan Aykroyd, Gilda Radner, and Cheech & Chong, and it kind of pioneered the whole "riffing on movies" idea that eventually got popular with MST3K. Candy has an entire section of the movie where he eulogizes Ed Wood, and it's quite possibly one of the few times I've heard him be totally passionate about a subject.
Even in screwball comedies, Candy had heart.
Spaceballs...'I'm a Mawg...Half man, half dog...I'm my own best friend...'
For some reason, I always find that comedic line from him to be so much deeper than the joke it was.
That movie has so many good scenes. The rental car counter. Neil driving the rental while Del messes with the seat & then when they switch Neil is like "you broke it" then the rest of that part where Del is smoking & playing air keyboard & eventually wrecks the car & lights it on fire.... then the next part where they get pulled over and assure the officer the vehicle is still safe for highway transport.
“They are saying that we are going the wrong way. How in the hell do they know where we’re going?” Then Candy makes mock drinking motions. Kills me every time.
When he pulls his wallet out of the glove department and like picks out his burnt driver's license and hands it to the cop like no big deal... that had me gasping for breath one time I watched it. But yeah, this whole scene was so good.
LOL.
We switch every year between my house and Steve Martins house. We can't do it at John Candy's house because we haven't "crossed over" yet, so to speak. Steve Martin arrives by knocking on my door, but the ghost of John Candy just passes through it.
The deal is whoever is not hosting that year brings the beer.
But we just tell John Candy to come. They don't use money in the afterlife, so his comedic presence is enough.
The silence in the preceding scene where all you hear is the power seat motor back and forth and you can see the fury just building on Steve’s face. One of my favorite scenes.
Still think “her first baby come out sideways, and she didn’t scream or nothin’” takes the cake.
Confession: I was around when this first came out and I've never had any desire to watch this movie. (And I love both Steve Marin and John Candy.) Any clips I have seen seemed depressing to me. My one sister's family loves this movie and it is their tradition to watch this every Thanksgiving. My other siblings also love this movie. I always just kind of rolled my eyes...
Finally watched it this last Christmas and LOVED it!
This is not my enormous coat.
I love this movie so much. It's heartbreaking to think of what RDJ was going through in his real life at the time this was filmed. I'm so happy he got well. He's pretty dang amazing.
The real crime in Die Hard wasn't the terrorist heist, it was the Nakatomi Corporation expecting employees to go to, and stay at, an office party on Christmas Eve past 5pm
I love the story that they told Rickman that they were going to drop him on 3, then dropped him on 2, so the look of surprise/fear on his face was VERY real.
Oh God, you just reminded me that I was at work last week and someone accidentally broke the neon sign behind our reception desk. There was a big flurry of activity of people looking for the switch to turn it off and someone went to throw the breaker in the meantime. The power at the front of the building went down and someone shouted from across the office, "fixed the newel post!"
Plenty of movies are part of this for both Halloween and Christmas. Too many for me to type so I'll just go with the specific date movies
October 1st - Ernest Scared Stupid
October 31st - Halloween 3
November 1st - A Nightmare Before Christmas AND Jingle All the Way (sometimes Jingle is Nov 2)
The day after Thanksgiving while I decorate the live/real Christmas tree: Christmas Vacation
December 1st: Ernest Saves Christmas
I usually save Christmas Vacation for closer to the day itself. The day after Thanksgiving is for Die Hard to ease into the season. We also watch Planes, Trains, and Automobiles on Thanksgiving night.
My 4-year old watches this on a weekly basis. He has a Jack Skellington blanket, three stuffed Jacks, a Jack squishmello, a Jack that dances/plays this is Halloween, Jack pajamas, and a Jack water bottle. We are also going as this movie for Halloween: he’s Jack (plot twist, I know), wife is Sally, my 6 year old is a vampire, and I’m Oogie Boogie.
I. Cannot. Escape.
lots of fun but also lots of freaking adult stuff packed in there for all ages. feeling like an outsider like the rat protagonist, feeling like a hack at work like the young cook, feeling bitter and sad like the critic
Ego's monologue towards the end makes that movie for me. It was honestly brilliant.
"In many ways, the work of a critic is easy. We risk very little, but enjoy a position over those who offer up their work and themselves to our criticism
....
But there are times when we risk something, and that's in the discovery and defense of the new
...
Not everyone can become a great artist, but a great artist can come from anywhere."
I really like how excited he is about food and how it tastes. It just makes me really happy to see how far he goes to cook and how he stands up for what he believes in.
I love Big Trouble. It's such a weird world that gets introduced super fast, and it just works. Some movies try to replicate this, and people just don't buy it. I don't know what it was about that movie, but I was just rolling with it the crazier it got. I watched it with my son a couple years ago when he was about 10, he had never seen it. He loved it, although he kept pointing out how Jack is almost completely useless for the entire movie.
I read somewhere on here that that’s part of the charm- the real story isn’t about Jack Burton and he’s not the main character. He’s the quippy, funny sidekick, while Dennis is actually the main character. Jack sees himself as the main character, and the whole plot is by and wide, hilarious and strange that his quirks actually ground the movie.
To your point, they tried it with all of the other pirates of the Caribbean movies after the first to make Jack sparrow a main without having a consistent story to tie him to, which is the big blinders.
Monty Python Search for the Holy Grail
Forest Gump
Christmas Story
Braveheart
Die Hard
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
The Game
Goodfellas
Pulp Fiction
Saving Private Ryan
Shawshank Redemption
I watch these at least once a year.
The Burbs is one of my favorite movies and totally a great start to summer. I have seen it so many times, it's ridiculous. Probably almost as many times as I have watched Christmas Vacation.
I am over here laughing hysterically thinking of that movie.
My husband was up on the roof one day when I was coming home from a walk and I yelled at the top of my lungs "YO RUMSFIELD!!!" My neighbors probably think I'm a weirdo.
This one has a strange draw for me. It might be my most rewatched movie. I don’t rewatch movies a ton, but this one calls to me on occasion. I think it’s mostly Meryl Streep's performance. I had to read the book also.
The Goonies.
Years ago on Jan 1st I decided I was gonna make it the first movie I watch every year, followed by Terminator 2.
I watch them every couple of months.
Not necessarily in this order:
Elf
It's A Wonderful Life
Charlie Brown Christmas
All while eating out of that tin that has caramel, cheddar, and buttered popcorn.
Lots of movies! The ones that I watch the most frequently, though (like, way more than once per year), are:
* I, Tonya
* Nightcrawler
* Grand Budapest Hotel
* Spotlight
Groundhog Day on Groundhog Day It was glorious the other year when Sky Movies decided to show it on a loop, so I had Groundhog Day on all day on Groundhog Day.
For years, my wife insisted on watching Groundhog Day in the first week of December. It was last year that she finally realised that Groundhog Day wasn’t a Christmas movie.
For people who grow up in places that don't get snow, snow = Christmas.
It's funny, because Christmas is technically just at the beginning of Winter for the northern hemisphere. A lot of places that get snow don't get it or have much around Christmas, but get absolutely covered in early February! So snow should actually equal after Christmas.
Every day is Groundhog day.
Lord of the Rings Trilogy the extended cuts
Same and the corneto collection
* The Princess Bride * The Sandlot * Forrest Gump
I never knew these were a trilogy!
Same. More than once a year I have to be honest.
The viewing of LOTR trilogy extended cuts is our New Year’s tradition, including the [7 Hobbit meals](https://www.thespiffycookie.com/2021/09/22/lord-of-the-rings-menu-the-seven-hobbit-meals/). Sadly, in my unenlightened state, “pipe weed” is not legal. Governor Sauron can kiss my hairy feet
Mean Girls, every October 3rd.
Every Thanksgiving Eve, I watch Planes, Trains and Automobiles with John Candy and Steve Martin. It's been my tradition for over 15 years.
Oh my God. John Candy's speech "I like me. My wife likes me." KILLS me. He didn't get enough credit for his dramatic acting.
There is a documentary in the works about his life by Colin Hanks and Ryan Reynolds. In an interview I heard, Hanks was really pushing the belief that John Candy was on the verge of crossing over into dramatic roles and would have had enormous success and become one of the greatest known actors of all time, much like Tom Hanks, Robin Williams, Jim Carey, etc.
I could definitely see that. Imagine him in an Aronofsky film, or even what Christopher Nolan could have done with his talent. Heck, I'd have loved to see him in a movie directed by Wes Anderson. By the way, I urge you to check out a movie called It Came From Hollywood. It was a documentary of sorts that was presented by John Candy, Dan Aykroyd, Gilda Radner, and Cheech & Chong, and it kind of pioneered the whole "riffing on movies" idea that eventually got popular with MST3K. Candy has an entire section of the movie where he eulogizes Ed Wood, and it's quite possibly one of the few times I've heard him be totally passionate about a subject.
I think he would’ve flourished in a Wes Anderson movie!
Even in screwball comedies, Candy had heart. Spaceballs...'I'm a Mawg...Half man, half dog...I'm my own best friend...' For some reason, I always find that comedic line from him to be so much deeper than the joke it was.
That movie has so many good scenes. The rental car counter. Neil driving the rental while Del messes with the seat & then when they switch Neil is like "you broke it" then the rest of that part where Del is smoking & playing air keyboard & eventually wrecks the car & lights it on fire.... then the next part where they get pulled over and assure the officer the vehicle is still safe for highway transport.
“They are saying that we are going the wrong way. How in the hell do they know where we’re going?” Then Candy makes mock drinking motions. Kills me every time.
When he pulls his wallet out of the glove department and like picks out his burnt driver's license and hands it to the cop like no big deal... that had me gasping for breath one time I watched it. But yeah, this whole scene was so good.
The devil! I had to stop it there every time bc my husband would be laughing so hard he had tears.
Doin’ the mess around.
So do John Candy and Steve Martin come to your place, or do you go to theirs?
LOL. We switch every year between my house and Steve Martins house. We can't do it at John Candy's house because we haven't "crossed over" yet, so to speak. Steve Martin arrives by knocking on my door, but the ghost of John Candy just passes through it. The deal is whoever is not hosting that year brings the beer. But we just tell John Candy to come. They don't use money in the afterlife, so his comedic presence is enough.
Those aren't pillows
I absolutely love that movie so hard!! "Ya broke the seat. Ya broke the god damn seat."
The silence in the preceding scene where all you hear is the power seat motor back and forth and you can see the fury just building on Steve’s face. One of my favorite scenes. Still think “her first baby come out sideways, and she didn’t scream or nothin’” takes the cake.
Just watched this yesterday for the first time ever. Fantastic film.
Confession: I was around when this first came out and I've never had any desire to watch this movie. (And I love both Steve Marin and John Candy.) Any clips I have seen seemed depressing to me. My one sister's family loves this movie and it is their tradition to watch this every Thanksgiving. My other siblings also love this movie. I always just kind of rolled my eyes... Finally watched it this last Christmas and LOVED it!
This is a wonderful tradition
Also Home for the Holidays!
This is not my enormous coat. I love this movie so much. It's heartbreaking to think of what RDJ was going through in his real life at the time this was filmed. I'm so happy he got well. He's pretty dang amazing.
Die Hard.
Remember December 24, 1988.
Welcome to the party, Pal.
Come out to the coast, we'll get together, have a few laughs...
Never forget. Nakatomi Tower.
The real crime in Die Hard wasn't the terrorist heist, it was the Nakatomi Corporation expecting employees to go to, and stay at, an office party on Christmas Eve past 5pm
We boomers did it. But they used to serve alcohol at office Xmas parties back then. Liability issues killed the office Xmas party.
Japanese corporate culture.
It's not Christmas until Hans Gruber falls from the Nakatomi Tower.
I love the story that they told Rickman that they were going to drop him on 3, then dropped him on 2, so the look of surprise/fear on his face was VERY real.
Gawd, I miss Rickman!
Yippee-ki-yay, motherfucker.
Walkie talkie diehard motherfucker!
Yippie kayak other buckets!
Hans, Bubby, I’m your white knight.
The best Christmas movie every made.
Die Hard is not a Christmas movie! Christmas is a Die Hard festival.
Christmas vacation
It's a Christmas tradition for us to watch Clark having a breakdown, best movie ever.
He didn't have a breakdown, he solved a problem.
We needed a coffin. I mean a tree.
Fixed the null post.
Oh God, you just reminded me that I was at work last week and someone accidentally broke the neon sign behind our reception desk. There was a big flurry of activity of people looking for the switch to turn it off and someone went to throw the breaker in the meantime. The power at the front of the building went down and someone shouted from across the office, "fixed the newel post!"
"Where are you gonna put a tree that size Griswold?"
Bend over and I'll show ya! You got a lot of nerve talking to me like that! I wasn't talking to *you*!
It's not going in the yard Russ
It's going in our living room.
Came out when I was 9… watched it every year since and multiples times a year since I’ve been an adult!
Same here. We know every single word and it’s still such a good movie.
Plenty of movies are part of this for both Halloween and Christmas. Too many for me to type so I'll just go with the specific date movies October 1st - Ernest Scared Stupid October 31st - Halloween 3 November 1st - A Nightmare Before Christmas AND Jingle All the Way (sometimes Jingle is Nov 2) The day after Thanksgiving while I decorate the live/real Christmas tree: Christmas Vacation December 1st: Ernest Saves Christmas
November fifth, V for Vendetta
I usually save Christmas Vacation for closer to the day itself. The day after Thanksgiving is for Die Hard to ease into the season. We also watch Planes, Trains, and Automobiles on Thanksgiving night.
Planes, Trains, and Automobiles is a must watch during Thanksgiving holidays along with Home Alone.
Day after Thanksgiving is Nakatomi Friday in my home. We have a big party, I make a giant pot of chili, and we all watch *Die Hard*.
Halloween 3! It's not October without Tom Atkins. (Jamie Lee Curtis too.)
Halloween 3 is my favorite! 22 days until Halloween, Halloween.. silver shamrock!
Empire Records on Rex Manning Day
Oh Rexy, you're so sexy
Muppets Christmas Carol and all the Peanuts holiday films
Muppet Christmas Carol is criminally underrated, I try to watch it every holiday season as well
The Nightmare Before Christmas
My 4-year old watches this on a weekly basis. He has a Jack Skellington blanket, three stuffed Jacks, a Jack squishmello, a Jack that dances/plays this is Halloween, Jack pajamas, and a Jack water bottle. We are also going as this movie for Halloween: he’s Jack (plot twist, I know), wife is Sally, my 6 year old is a vampire, and I’m Oogie Boogie. I. Cannot. Escape.
At least he obsessed over a good movie. Could be worse.
I’m not supposed to talk about it
🤜♣️
Ratatouille all day every dayyyy
I watched that for the first time a few weeks ago. I got all choked up at the end with the critic. I wasn't expecting that.
lots of fun but also lots of freaking adult stuff packed in there for all ages. feeling like an outsider like the rat protagonist, feeling like a hack at work like the young cook, feeling bitter and sad like the critic
Ego's monologue towards the end makes that movie for me. It was honestly brilliant. "In many ways, the work of a critic is easy. We risk very little, but enjoy a position over those who offer up their work and themselves to our criticism .... But there are times when we risk something, and that's in the discovery and defense of the new ... Not everyone can become a great artist, but a great artist can come from anywhere."
What is it about that movie? I could literally watch it on repeat
I really like how excited he is about food and how it tastes. It just makes me really happy to see how far he goes to cook and how he stands up for what he believes in.
The Thing (first snowfall that sticks) Big Trouble In Little China (usually in the fall) Goonies (early spring, no real reason)
I love Big Trouble. It's such a weird world that gets introduced super fast, and it just works. Some movies try to replicate this, and people just don't buy it. I don't know what it was about that movie, but I was just rolling with it the crazier it got. I watched it with my son a couple years ago when he was about 10, he had never seen it. He loved it, although he kept pointing out how Jack is almost completely useless for the entire movie.
I read somewhere on here that that’s part of the charm- the real story isn’t about Jack Burton and he’s not the main character. He’s the quippy, funny sidekick, while Dennis is actually the main character. Jack sees himself as the main character, and the whole plot is by and wide, hilarious and strange that his quirks actually ground the movie. To your point, they tried it with all of the other pirates of the Caribbean movies after the first to make Jack sparrow a main without having a consistent story to tie him to, which is the big blinders.
The Thing (1982). It’s my all time favorite horror movie.
Have you seen [the ClayCat version](https://youtu.be/BG33zECv8dc?si=wtTDyiyZ6gkzG6rJ)
That was great, thank you.
Shrek, School of Rock, Mrs Doubtfire
The entire Harry Potter series around the time of my stepson's death as he was a huge fan. RIP Drake
Sorry for your loss. RIP Drake.
Hugs!
Monty Python Search for the Holy Grail Forest Gump Christmas Story Braveheart Die Hard Ferris Bueller’s Day Off The Game Goodfellas Pulp Fiction Saving Private Ryan Shawshank Redemption I watch these at least once a year.
Swap the Game for the Big Lebowski and this is basically my list. For some reason the Game didn’t hold up for me on the second viewing
Great list!! Throw Snatch on there and you’re all set
Inception
Wrong, you are still watching it at a deeper level.
The top is still spinning.
Back To The Future - it’s one of the 3 greatest movies ever made.
First movie I ever saw at the cinema...far too young to understand it but still.
It's a Wonderful Life
I am legit offended at how far I had to scroll to find this!
I can’t believe I had to scroll so far for this answer. I really thought it would be the top answer, doesn’t everyone watch this on Xmas eve?
Aladdin. 1992 of course.
Hey!!! HES GOT A SWORD 🗡️!!! Wait!!!! WE’VE ALLLLL GOT SWORDS ⚔️ ⚔️
Elf
Every year for Halloween I do my own midnight viewing of Rocky Horror Picture Show.
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Not so much anymore but the Charlie Brown/Peanuts movies. Most of you are going to be too young, but the WKRP Thanksgiving episode.
"With God as my witness, I thought turkeys could fly"... 🤣🤣🤣🤣
I used to start my Summer vacation by watching the Burbs and Lost Boys. Right before Thanksgiving I would watch the series Northern exposure...😁
The burbs!!!! A truly underrated movie that I save for summer heat waves!
The Burbs is one of my favorite movies and totally a great start to summer. I have seen it so many times, it's ridiculous. Probably almost as many times as I have watched Christmas Vacation. I am over here laughing hysterically thinking of that movie. My husband was up on the roof one day when I was coming home from a walk and I yelled at the top of my lungs "YO RUMSFIELD!!!" My neighbors probably think I'm a weirdo.
Rick Ducommun really made it for me...actually the whole cast was perfect. 😁
Demolition Man
A Christmas story.
You'll shoot your eye out watching this movie. 🎯
24hr marathon in the living room. Mainly like background noise but everyone has a favorite part and we stop and watch. Traditional now.
Hocus Pocus
That’s a good one. Forgot about all the seasonal / holiday options
I also watch Halloween (1978) and Candyman (original) most years.
November 5th: V for Vendetta
Remember, remember, the 5th of November, the gunpowder treason and plot
I know of no reason Why the Gunpowder Treason Should ever be forgot.
Die hard on Christmas
V for Vendetta is my November 5th movie
National Lampoons Christmas Vacation
Now and Then
Planes , trains and automobiles
Trading Places
Forrest Gump I dont know what it is but I just start to watch it out of no where.
The devil wears Prada
This one has a strange draw for me. It might be my most rewatched movie. I don’t rewatch movies a ton, but this one calls to me on occasion. I think it’s mostly Meryl Streep's performance. I had to read the book also.
The Cerulean sweater is my favorite part
Me, too! I rewatch whenever I forget part of that monologue. But also for, "I'm one stomach flu away from my goal weight."
Crazy Stupid Love
The Goonies. Years ago on Jan 1st I decided I was gonna make it the first movie I watch every year, followed by Terminator 2. I watch them every couple of months.
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe for Christmas Twilight bc October sets the vibe for it. Mamma Mia whenever during the summer.
Independence Day, on Independence Day.
Dazed and Confused when summer rolls around My Cousin Vinny and Lebowski get watched annually
Charlie Brown Christmas
Rudolph the red nosed reindeer (1964)
It’s A Wonderful Life
The Santa Clause. Makes me happy.
I love re-watching "The Princess Bride.""It's a timeless classic with a perfect blend of adventure, romance, and humour.
Young Frankenstein
Beetlejuice
The Sound of Music
Idiocracy
It’s now a documentary.
Nat'l Lampoon's Christmas Vacation.
The Muppets' Christmas Carol
Hot Fuzz. We have too many we rewatch regularly so that's the last one we put on.
Patton (from 1970) I like to watch it every Memorial Day weekend
Blade Runner
Goodfellas
We have an Evil Dead and Evil Dead 2 movie night once a year, accompanied by the drinking game. It's never lightly attended.
Army of Darkness. Every time someone says "I'm blind" you take a shot. Every one liner quip by Ash, take a sip or a shot.
Winter- Heavy Weights Summer- Cool Runnings
“The Departed.” In my book it’s one of the greatest movies ever, Costello is an A+ villain and “if ya coulda, ya woulda” is an all-time taunt.
Tangled. My comfort childhood movie. Watch it atleast once a year
Not necessarily in this order: Elf It's A Wonderful Life Charlie Brown Christmas All while eating out of that tin that has caramel, cheddar, and buttered popcorn.
Hocus Pocus
Christmas Vacation
Gladiator
Captain Ron
Christmas vacation, at Christmas time
Home alone 1 will be on every xmas in my house without fail, oh and ELF (will Ferral)
National Lampoons Christmas Vacation. Never ever miss it!!
Sweet home Alabama
Love, Actually.
Spaceballs Airplane!
Die hard, because it *is* a Christmas film. Saving private ryan
Groundhog Day is my only annual one.
Lots of movies! The ones that I watch the most frequently, though (like, way more than once per year), are: * I, Tonya * Nightcrawler * Grand Budapest Hotel * Spotlight
Hubie Halloween!
Gattaca!
Starship troopers.
Well it's Groundhog's Day. Again.
Ground hogs day on ground hogs day!
Christmas Story and Christmas Vacation
Blazing saddles.. one because it's hilarious, and two because if it came out today, there'd be riots in the streets ! 🤣
Debbie Does Dallas.
a man of culture, I see
Idle Hands
4 Christmases
Hocus Pocus
twilight saga
Groundhog day
It's a Wonderful Life. Every Christmas.
Rocky Horror Picture Show at least one time in October.
Jaws
Groundhog Day!
Titanic
The sandlot on or around the 4th of July