Die Hard

And so I went and I had a bit of a holiday. A holiday in which I pretty much did nothing but read Inception fanfiction. I am several months behind on the fandom, y'all. I have a lot to catch up on. Can you deny me an epic news room AU?


Between the truly ridiculous amounts of fanfic I've been reading, though, I did watch some movies. I'm gonna try to catch up with them all, because this it's fun to write about this.


On Christmas Eve, my brother, mother, and I went and visited my dad at work (he's a local EMT and was on call up at the station, we were not distracting him from any duties he may have). While there we watched all watched a movie together.


Dad's coworker: What are you guys watching?
Dad: A Christmas movie.
Dad's coworker: Miracle on 34th Street?
All of us: Die Hard.


Yeah, we're the kind of people who think that Die Hard is a totally appropriate Christmas movie and would probably look at you with confusion written on our faces if you tried to explain to us that it isn't.


This is why we're cool.


Anyway, Die Hard is a 1988 movie directed by John McTiernan and starring  Bruce Willis, Alan Rickman, and Bonnie Bedelia.

Inception

So, I watched 2010's Inception with my beloved brothers. We had all meant to watch it over the summer, but we just never got around to it (when you live 45 minutes from the closest movie theaters, you don't get to go as often as you'd like). So it finally came out on DVD and we watched it while eating brownies and trying to remember all the places we'd seen parodies of it so we could watch them afterwards (I still haven't looked those up). It was directed (and written and produced) by Christopher Nolan and stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Ellen Page, and Joseph Gordon-Levitt.

Juno

The other night I watched Juno with my brother while Dad was at work. Juno came out in 2007, was directed by Jason Reitman and stars Ellen Page, Michael Cera, Jennifer Garner, and Jason Bateman.

Amadeus

Last night I watched Amadeus, a 1984 movie directed by Milos Forman and starring F. Murray Abraham, Tom Hulce, and Elizabeth Berridge. This movie is an historically inaccurate portrayal of the lives of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Antonio Salieri, one of Mozart's contemporaries. It's really a very pretty movie and the score is entirely music composed by Mozart and Salieri (Salieri, while not as famous as Mozart, still has his work performed today, so he's not bad).

The Ref

Yesterday was Saint Lucia's Day, which is something my family has never paid attention to before, but we still celebrated last night by watch The Ref. This makes sense because, while The Ref is a Christmas movie, they still mention St. Lucia and wear the candle crown. The Ref is a 1994 movie directed by Ted Demme and starring Denis Leary, Kevin Spacey, and Judy Davis.

Some Like it Hot

After watching Psycho (Norman Bates is watching me sleep...), I deserved to watch something light hearted. So after watching the very short A Trip to the Moon (a part of film history), Dad went to the video rental place down town and grabbed the 1959 movie Some Like it Hot, directed by Billy Wilder and starring Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon, and Marilyn Monroe. He grabbed this because he knows that I like romantic comedies and cross dressing. It also meets his film history criteria. So everyone wins, yay!

Psycho

I have agreed to let my father try to teach me about film history. According to him, if I want to be serious about film, then there are several movies that I have to be, at the very least, aware of. In order to be aware of them, I must actually watch them, which is how I ended up watching Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 movie Psycho, starring Anthony Perkins, Vera Miles, John Gavin, and Janet Leigh.