I'm going to watch Last Christmas again this evening cause I really, really liked it when I watched it this past weekend. *spoilers*
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JD (aka Jason Dean)
Jul 21 '20, 14:20
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HBO (HBO Max for me) was pushing Last Christmas and Midway when I logged in so of course I watched them both. Midway..eh, I think I liked the version I grew up with more.
Last Christmas....OMG. I laughed, I had tears in my eyes, I sung along and Uhh...well yeah...
Even while I watching and definitely on reflection...that is movie is...extra? A lot?
I went in knowing the general discussion here as well as the twist but I still wasn't prepared...
So there's the mother and son reunion from Crazy Rich Asians. Hmmm..wait..that's one of the few places of restraint as Michelle Yeoh and Harry Golding's characters aren't related but given the movie they could've been so kudos for that minor restraint
I loved Emila Clarke so thumbs up to casting of Kate (Katerina)
About the time of the twist, I had the thought of wondering if why I liked it so much was is that of all things, Last Christmas is kind of like a how many ever decades later version of Xanadu. Instead of ELO + ONJ there's George Michael. Neither is a jukebox musical but they are whatever the heck a movie is that uses one artist's music as the running theme. There's a supernatural love interest that doesn't actually exist to the rest of the world but puts the protagonist on the right track. A serious stretch is to compare the Gene Kelly and Michelle Yeoh characters
Another for the loving things about the movie is London. Well to me it seemed to be London and the movie reminded me of how much of an Anglophile I seem to be. Buses (again perhaps a minor sigh of restraint as the bus scene isn't a night bus), flats, accents.
Ok. And now for the possible 'extra' parts of the movie that I mentally took note of but rolled with
A year round Christmas shop. I thought of David and the Hallmark movies
Immigrants and Brexit
Lesbian older sister
Boat on fire and crushed paper structure and related a My Name Is Earl ripoff sequence
Elvis impersonator
The twist. So our protagonist's issue (I was sick but got better) that have separated her from her family aren't the hinted at mental (maybe an addiction?) but instead that she needed a heart transplant? er, wut? Bitch (hey, I read back boards...) drinks more, eats worse, has more sex that I do and the one thing we've got in common is that you never see either of us take anti-rejection drugs.
Volunteering / Homeless shelter
To be fair to the movie, if one were to take a couple of the plot points from above, it would just be the plot. It is the all of them going on that just seems to be...uh,, really all of these? Yes, they need to be addressed but in this movie? If that's what you wanted, you need a better movie 8-P
By that point, besides that I knew, I'm all good with Henry Golding being dead. Hmmm..I've only seen him in Crazy Rich Asians and A Simple Favor and never seen him as a TV Presenter but this character seemed to be me to be a version of a TV Presenter. He's just kind of perfect but hey, the more media presentations where the Asian guys wins over the white women inches towards offsetting the Breakfast at Tiffany's and Sixteen Candles of the past
On my not extra list:
All the couples are mixed race!! 8-)
Lesbian pudding. By that point in the movie that's just amazing and funny
So the rewatch is required cause of what I remember the board reaction was (not nearly as favorable) and I loved my first viewing. Though I am (favorably?) comparing it to Xanadu which I adore so my viewpoint could be more than a bit skewed.
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