What I Watched In… December 2017

Favorite of the Month: Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017)

In the interest of full disclosure (and to generate a little content here) I thought I’d present a regular tally of what movies I managed to see in the previous month. Some of them I’ve written or talked about, most of them I haven’t. This list includes movies I saw for the first time, movies I’ve seen a thousand times, movies I saw in the theater, movies I watched at home, direct-to-DVD, made-for-TV and anything else that qualifies as a movie. I also choose my favorite of the month among those movies I saw for the first time, marked in red. Feel free to discuss or ask about any of them!

1. The Santa Claus Brothers (2002), D
2. Elf-Man (2012), D
3. Santa and the Ice Cream Bunny (1972), F; RiffTrax Riff, A-
4. Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale (2010), B+
5. The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993), A
6. National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation (1989), A
7. Elf (2003), B
8. How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000), C-
9. Home: For the Holidays (2017), B-
10. A Carol For Another Christmas (1964), D-
11. The Magic Snowflake (2013), B+
12. Bah, Humduck! A Looney Tunes Christmas (2006), B
13. A Christmas Story 2 (2012), D
14. To All a Goodnight (1980), D-
15. Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith (2005), C+
16. The Empire Strikes Back (1980), A
17. Better Watch Out (2016), B+
18. Santa’s Slay (2005), C
19. A Muppet Family Christmas (1987), A
20. Inside LEGO At Christmas (2015), B
21. Ernest Saves Christmas (1988), B+
22. The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957), B
23. The Frozen Ghost (1945), C
24. Casper’s Haunted Christmas (2000), D+
25. Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015), A
26. Secrets of the Force Awakens: A Cinematic Journey (2016), B+
27. Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017), A
28. Christmas is Here Again (2007), B
29. Christmas Inheritance (2017), C+
30. Pottersville (2017), D
31. It Happened on Fifth Avenue (1947), B+
32. Scrooged (1988), A-
33. A Christmas Story Live! (2017), B+
34. The Complete Works of William Shakespeare [Abridged] (2000), A-
35. Pygmalion (1938), B
36. Twelve Hundred Ghosts – A Christmas Carol in Supercut (2016), B+
37. Magic Christmas Tree (1964), F; RiffTrax Riff, B
38. Home Alone (1990), B+
39. Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (1964), A
40. The Santa Clause (1994), B+
41. The Santa Clause 2 (2002), B
42. Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (19920, B-
43. Miracle on 34th Street (1947), A+
44. White Christmas (1954), A
45. Miracle on 34th Street (1994), C
46. Deck the Halls (2006), D+
47. The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause (2006), C
48. Love Actually (2003), A
49. A Christmas Story (1983), A
50. Die Hard (1988), A
51. It’s a Wonderful Life (1946), A+
52. Holiday Inn, the New Irving Berlin Musical: Live (2017), B+
53. The Circle (2017), D
54. Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie (2017), B
55. Vixen: The Movie (2017), B
56. DC Super Hero Girls: Intergalactic Games (2017), B-
57. LEGO DC Super Hero Girls: Brain Drain (2017), B
58. LEGO Scooby-Doo! Blowout Beach Bash (2017), B-
59. Kingsman: The Golden Circle (2017), B+
60. Mayhem (2017), A-
61. Big Hero 6: Baymax Returns (2017), B+
62. What Happened to Monday (2017), B+
63. The Babysitter (2017), B+
64. Too Funny to Fail: The Life and Death of the Dana Carvey Show (2017), A-
65. The Mummy’s Curse (1944), C+
66. The Invisible Woman (1940), C+