Last weekend movies...

Lyx wanted a Christmas themed weekend of movies, here is the result plus some that I managed to squeeze on my own time...

1. Hogfather, ****
   Human belief is conserved, if one major belief is getting lost then there will be belief to support minor lies into existence.This was the first tv-movie made from a Discworld book and it was a great film centered on Death and Susan. Not as good as The Colour of Magic, though.
   
   
2. The Polar Express, ***
   A boy is loosing his belief in Santa Claus and needs to be brought back into the Christmas spirit. I guess this was an amazing animation in its own time. The story, well, is dull and boring but the quality of the animation is very good even though it's almost eight years old.
   
   
3. Just go with it, **
   A guy's heart is broken by his fiance just minutes before the wedding and this is enough to make him take on girls based on pure lies from then on, until he finds love, love out from honesty and respect. It's a good laugh and Jennifer Aniston is so cute!
   
   
4. Bad Santa, **
   A conman finds something that could pass as redemption through a neglected kid during Christmas. Billy Bob Thornton plays the role of an alcoholic conman that makes his year every Christmas alongside a fellow criminal. I don't like happy endings in this kind of movies.
   
   
5. Setup, **
   A diamond heist goes south when the leader decides to cheat on the gang but making the mistake of letting one alive. It lacked the fast pace and explosiveness that I would expect from an action/violent film. After the first scenes I was expecting Lock, Stock and Two Smocking Barrels, but got nothing.
   
   
6. Scrooged, *
   A Christmas carol told in the 80s with Bill Murray in the role of a modern Scrooge. It was better when I first saw it in the 90s.
   
   
7. Hall Pass, *
   Two married guys neglected by their wives get a one week free from marriage and find that the good old times are actually gone while their wives are the ones really getting the time off and the fooling around. It gets a few laughs but nothing out of the ordinary.
   
   
8. Elf, *
   A human orphan gets to the North Pole and is raised as an Elf and some thirty years later comes back to his father to try to live like human, during Christmas in New York. Of course, he ends up saving Christmas and his family. Some laughs but mostly embarrassment.

Most of the series have gone to hiatus...

1. Terra Nova S01 E11-13, ****
   Terra Nova is over and it seems like it's not gonna be back. In these last chapters the colony faces the invasion from the future when the mole helps Lucas finish his solution for the two-way tunnel. The colony is taken by the forces from the future and the bridge severed by Taylor and his men to prevent the corporation from ruining Terra Nova.
   
   
2. Hawaii five-o, (hiatus)
   
   
3. Castle, (hiatus)
   
   
4. Last Man Standing, (hiatus)
   
   
5. Big Bang Theory, (hiatus)
   
   
6. Psych, (hiatus)