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The Holiday (2006)
Predictable, Yes. But it's a fun Christmas movie
Yes, it's predictable. It's basically an $85 million Lifetime Christmas movie with 4 brilliant actors and Cameron Diaz. But it's a fun movie, and Kate Winslet and Eli Wallach is the relationship you really want to see more of. Eli is masterful, and Kate is wonderful interacting with him. And Jack Black is well suited to play the music loving funny guy. Even Jude Law puts on a great performance.
The only thing that takes away any chance of being a highly rated movie is Cameron Diaz. She's a horrible actress, and just about any other actress could have pulled it off better.
So if you're looking for a big budget lifetime Christmas movie, this really is a great option (but don't hesitate to fast forward through all of Cameron Diaz's parts, and unit only makes the movie better).
I Care a Lot (2020)
Just a tremendous waste of time.
This has great actors in it, but the story is horrible and all the characters are reprehensible. It's one of those movies where there's not a single likable character. Don't think it was an acting issue, as much as it was a storyline and writing issue. Just a completely useless waste of time.
Skyscraper (2018)
An hour & 42 minutes you'll never get back
I like the Rock. He's a charasmatic guy. And Neve Campbell is an actress. But this movie is beyond horrible.
The plot as a whole is terrible. An FBI agent (spoilers ahead) who is right next to a guy who blows himself up and the Rock loses his leg but only a couple scratches on his face? There's been plenty of myth buster episodes saying everyone in the room would be dead due to concussion trauma. They could have had him be the commander who sends men into their death and had the same effect.
But wait, then how would he meet his wife? That he wouldn't be allowed to date because he was her patient.
Flash forward, his family gets invited to be the only family living in a skyscraper?
Then they need to steal an iPad with facial reckognition but didn't care about getting the face that unlocked it, but later when they get it they need the face?
Then there's the jumping scene which was proven impossible by 1000+ trajectory lines people have calculated online.
Add to this the typical "we put our female lead in heels that had plenty of time to get on comfortable practical shoes."
Don't forget that the "bad guy" is in the movie for a grand total of 6 minutes, and is truly a waste of a plot line.
To top it off, when the fire suppression system comes back online at the end, it puts out the fire in 30 seconds, but when it was online when the fire broke out, the small fire burned for an hour.
Basically, the plot was not well thought out. The logic is lacking. And the script is abysmal. I hope they all got big checks for this movie, because they got robbed of the Razzie award they so rightly deserved.
The Nutcracker (1993)
A Macaulay Culkin Movie that's not Home Alone?
This is a weird interpretation of a movie about a ballet that only involves about 5 minutes of ballet yet doesn't involve any dialogue? If you're going to make a movie about a ballet, either have it be ballet, or keep the story but change the presentation.
And not sure why anyone would want to watch a Christmas Macaulay Culkin movie that's not Home Alone.
It's just really weird.