July 4th - Jaws

Thanksgiving - Planes, Trains and Automobiles, Dutch. Usually the week before I try to have a Indiana Jones marathon since Sci-Fi channel started airing them on thanksgiving.

Throughout December I go through all the christmas movies I own.

And atleast once a year I try to have a James Bond marathon.

Another great Thanksgiving movie is Alice's Restaurant.

Try to watch a scifi or horror flick I've never seen before, every Halloween.

Used to be so sick of A Christmas Story, especially when they started airing marathons of it. But enough years have past I can see it again.

I try to watch Miracle on 34th Street (the original only) any time it's on, although they dont play it as much as they did seasons past.

And of course Goodfellas, too.

I saw ID4 this past weekend, and that is NOT a trend I will keep up. That movie has aged very badly.

I assume you mean July of 2000. The movie came out in theatres in October of 1999 and didn't hit DVD till June of the following year. Greatest movie ever, btw, so good taste.

I think the only movies I make a point to see around holidays are Christmas movies (It's A Wonderful Life, Scrooged, National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, etc.), ID4 on July 4th and Nightmare Before Christmas on either Halloween or Christmas (or maybe both).

K

i think in honor of canada i'll start watching rocky on boxing day

I forgot about Dutch, now that it's out on DVD I'll have to add that to my Thanksgiving watching ritual.

I do generally at least watch ONE Friday the 13th movie on Friday the 13th.

Other "day" movies I try to watch but don't always:
APril Fool's Day
My Bloody Valentine
Mother's Day

I seem to only watch The Ten Commandments on easter.

For awhile, I watched Oingo Boingo's "Farewell" concert every Halloween. The past two years it's just been random horror films (2 years ago it was one of the "Friday the 13th" films, last year it was "The Invisible Man").

I guess I'm in the majority as I do the same thing, though instead of planning to watch something on a particular day, I play to watch it within a few days of the holiday since I usually have something else going on for the holiday itself.

Groundhog Day - Groundhog Day

St. Pat's Day - The Quiet Man

The Masters Weekend (no holiday, just an event) - Caddyshack, Happy Gilmore

The night before Easter - Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (because that was when I saw it in the theater). I haven't picked up The Robe or Demetrius & the Gladiators yet (but plan to), so I try to catch them on TV during the Easter season.

Memorial Day - Stealing Home

The U.S. Open (again, just an event) - Tin Cup

4th of July - Independence Day and The Patriot

The start of football season (I consider it a holiday) - The Replacements, Varsity Blues

Halloween - The Frighteners, Sleepy Hollow, Beetlejuice, Nightmare before Christmas, and Oingo Boingo's Farewell concert.

Thanksgiving - Planes, Trains, and Automobiles

Christmas - I actually have to print out a calendar between Thanksgiving & Christmas to schedule all the ones I want to watch. This includes Home Alone I & II, Die Hard I & II, Christmas Vacation, The Ref, Lethal Weapon, etc., etc., etc.

I should also add that for the last few years, high school graduation has made me yearn to watch American Pie but I never get around to doing it. But, it would seem to me that there are many movies that would be appropriate to this special occasion as well...

Sometime around ____ I usually watch _____

- 2 Feb / Groundhog Day
- Easter / King of King, Jesus Christ Superstar, Passion of the Christ, etc...
- 4th July / 1776
- D-Day / Longest Day, Band of Bothers, Saving Private Ryan, something along those lines
- 31 Oct / something related to Martin Luther, some random ghost story/horror flix
- 7 Dec / Tora, Tora, Tora or something related


At one point I was trying to come up w/ a "Movie a Day" calendar but I never got too far w/ it.

Holidays...not really. Maybe Charlie Brown stuff.:lol:

What I do do is this. I like watching films on the dates that some actors have birthdays and especially on death dates....just out of respect.

Not really, though I do tend to watch movies like Nightmare Before X-mas, Sleepy Hollow, etc. around Halloween. But not necessarily on Halloween.

Halloween - Universal Monsters Marathon; although this year to accomodate my wife we're doing a "classic modern horror" marathon, starting with PSYCHO, and hitting all the touchstones (Night of the Living Dead, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Jason, Freddy, Etc.).
Christmas - A Christmas Carol (1951 - Sim, natch)
New Years Eve - I have a massive 3 Stooges, Marx Brothers, WC Fields Festival - this year promises to be very special with the new box sets. I've lost no small number of friends , and the eternal hatred of my wife because I refuse to do anything else that night. In the neighborhood I grew up in, you stayed indoors on New Year's Eve and hit the deck at Midnight, and the habit's kind of stuck.
Easter - Ben-Hur, King of Kings, Jesus Christ Superstar, The Greatest Story Ever Told
Memorial Day - The Good,the Bad,and the Ugly for one line: "I've never seen so many men wasted so badly" About as fitting a comment on the pointlessness of war that's ever been written.

I watch A Christmas Story and How the Grinch Stole Christmas (old and new) at Christmas. That's about the only regulars.

-AC

St Patrick's Day is the only holiday I watch specific films for, and I'm not even Irish.

The Quiet Man, Darby O'Gill, and sometimes Luck of the Irish with Tyrone Power.

Between DirecTV and all our local stations, during all the other holidays, you can find nearly any holiday classic showing somewhere, sometime.

Christmas Eve - Gangs of New York.

I also have a friend who watches Rocky 1-4 every year on her birthday. Says she cannot leave the house until they are all finished.

Christmas: Die Hard (usually end up watching Christmas Vacation, A Christmas Story, and several others in the weeks before)...I also tend to watch The Royal Tenenbaums around this time, for reasons unknown.

Halloween: At least one horror film, but rarely the same one each year (last year was the original Dawn of the Dead, I believe)

New Year's: When Harry Met Sally (though usually a day or two before New Year's Eve, as I have a hard time getting my drunk-ass friends to watch it with me)

Groundhog Day: Groundhog Day (man, they really cornered the market with this one!)

That's about all the holidays that are actually centered around films for me.

December 7 I watch the pearl harbor movies Tora Tora Tora, Midway, Pearl harbor, and of course In Harms Way one of the best films ever made!