the final four of the 12 days of Christmas Movie Collection.

So last week, i started my 12 days of christmas movie list for no other reason than i want to watch a lot of movies right now but am unable to, what with my TV tied up in showing Alvin and The Chipmunks or Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer for my 3 year old daughter (whom i love dearly).  Yet, if i was alone this Christmas, this is how i would go about spending some of those hours.  The first 8 days of Christmas can be found here, along with the entire 12 together.

But if you already have those memorized by heart, then here's the final four;

I am Number 4    I don't know anything at all about this one, but it became my default pick when i found out the other options were Fantastic Four, Four Christmases, and Four Rooms.  I unfortunately have seen all of those and the best way to put it is if you took the best parts out of all three, it would make for a decent sitcom.  The poster makes me think it's some sort of X-man rip-off. 

The Trailer;

Well, after the trailer, it still looks like an X-Man rip off.  The guy is #4 (we got that).  He's a loner, doing what all loners do, hanging at the beach and getting hit on by hot chicks.  Then a merman or something attacks him so he has to leave and so he heads to Heartland America, where he apparently finds one of those high schools where everyone looks in their mid-twenties.  The bad guys still find him, he goes around using his superpowers to defeat them and find others with superpowers where i would be quite shocked to find that they don't defeat the bad guys (who are obviously bad because they have tattooed heads and trenchcoats).

Three Amigos   At one time, these were three of the biggest names in comedy.  Chevy Chase aka Fletch aka Clark Griswold who's head was still small enough to share screen time with other equal comedians plays Dusty Bottoms.  Steve Martin aka The Jerk aka the lonely guy aka the man with two brains plays a fellow washed up silent movie star named Lucky Day and Martin Short aka that cute little annoying guy from SCTV as Ned Nederlander.  This was the comedy apex, hot on the heals of GhostBusters where it was proven that although two comedians are good, three are better.  Plus, it was written and produced by Steve Martin.  A classic.  I don't even need a trailer for this one so i will just post 'My Little Buttercup'.

The Two Towers   If I could only have one LOTR movie it would have to be the 2nd installment, in my opinion the best sequel since  Empire Strikes Back and also fits the article's theme  I remember giant trees, the battle of Helm's Deep, and that little fucker Gollum having a conversation with himself, which at the time i think was a groundbreaking way to portray split personalities and has since been copied many times.  It was a great movie that really lead nowhere, but had it's own stories within it.    

The Trailer:

Fuck yeah!  Makes me want to sit through the entire 3 hour movie again.  It now looks like a condensed version of Game of Thrones, only with actual fighting and great CGI and intense melodramatic soundtrack.  It's got it all, if all you want elves, orcs, catapults, sweeping pans of New Zealand countryside and Aragon opening those giant doors to maximum effect.  

And finally, Year One.  Micheal Cera was all over the place after Arrested Development and in the race to be the 'mopy, expressionless go-to guy' lost out in a close race to Social Network's Jesse Eisenberg.  Yet, Cera hit two peaks of comedy excellence, old school with Year One, working with Jack Black and one of the greatest comedy directors in Harold Ramis and then going on to nearly extinguish his movie career in the cult-classic *heard it here first* Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World.  In Year One Cera and Black are cavemen that stumble into the story of the Bible (sorta) all because they are idiots.  It's a basic fish out of water story but good for a few laughs during Bible Study class.     

 The Trailer;

Man, a lot of great one-liners i don't remember.  This would be a great Stoner film.  Cera plays Eisenberg at their finest, while Jack Black manages to still come across as your creepy single uncle.  It has the look of the Life Of Brian, but earlier.  So technically, this is year one of the Jewish calendar, not the Christian one.  But really, it shouldn't make a difference, except in your Bible Study class.