Winter Movies

During the Spring, Summer, and Fall, there aren't many seasonal movies that I watch. Winter is another story. When it's cold outside I like to curl up in a blanket with some popcorn and hot chocolate, and watch a good winter movie (okay, not always a 5 star movie). Winter season is coming up, and I am dreading it, but I am not dreading watching my winter movies. Here are some of the movies that I tend to watch when the weather is cold:

One movie that I watch during the winter is The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe. Most of the movie takes place during the winter time. The scenery, costume design, characters, plot, and soundtrack. I listen to the soundtrack year-round but I love to watch the movie in the winter.

Another movie that I watch during the winter is Scamper the Penguin. It is not an amazing movie by any means but I used to watch it when I was a child. Definitely a movie made for little kids. Anyhow, it has these different colored penguins (pink and blue) and in the beginning the husbands watch the eggs while the mothers get the food. There are irresponsible parents who get their eggs snatched but Scamper survives. He ends up later on being a little adventurer who gets lost out at sea, picked up by bad humans, teaches his little girlfriend and other friend how to wish, gets mixed up with a different breed of penguins, and ends up making it home. Except this movie doesn't come with environmental propaganda like Happy Feet.

Speaking of Happy Feet, that's another movie I watch in the winter. It's adorable and all with singing, dancing, fluffy penguins and the odd one out gets the girl in the end. What I didn't like in the movie is how out of the blue it changes from a love story into an environmental movie right at the very end. Whatever. I still own it, but I would still love a version where politics isn't involved and the plot is better.

Of course you always have the classics like Miracle on 34th Street, It's A Wonderful Life, and A Christmas Story. To be honest, I am so sick of watching It's A Wonderful Life. It was always on television and on top of that my dad would watch it plenty on dvd. In regards to It's A Wonderful Life, I think we can all agree that the original was better, although I didn't like either of the little girl characters. And A Christmas Story, well, I haven't seen it. My dad owns it and it's been on television; I've even tried sitting down and watching it, but I can't seem to get past the fact that the kid looks creepy. I'll definitely try watching it this year though.

And who can forget animated Christmas/holiday movies like How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer, and Frosty the Snowman. Those will never get old for me. They always make me smile.

Some of my favorite holiday movies to watch are the holiday specials that aired on television. These include A Claymation Christmas, A Garfield Christmas, Charlie Brown Christmas, and A Muppet Family Christmas. I still have them all taped on VHS off of television (and they all still play miraculously with really old commercials). However, I bought the Garfield holiday specials on dvd (it has Halloween and Thanksgiving too) because that was my absolute favorite one.

Fargo is a another movie that is wintery; however it is on the darker side. Usually in the winter I like to watch happier movies, but I definitely have a think for black humor. It was directed by the Coen Brothers (who also did such amazing movies as Raising Arizona, The Ladykillers, No Country For Old Men, and The Big Lebowski). It won two Oscars, stars Steve Buscemi, William H. Macy, and Frances McDormand. I am not going to go into any more detail because this post is long enough, but if you like Coen Brothers films and haven't seen this one, or if you like any of those actors or like dark films, why are you still reading this post. Go rent this movie right now!

Whether you're into wintery movies with lots of snow about, movies with wintery music, Christmas movies, or you watch summer movies during winter, there's something for everyone. So grab your hot chocolate, a blanket, and popcorn, and pop in a good wintery movie!

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