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'Twas the Night Before Christmas (1974)
A Real Holiday Classic
'Twas the Night Before Christmas has always been one of my favorites. The story about a clockmaker who creates a singing clock to help convince Santa that people still believe in him might seem a little odd now, but the message is still clear. The songs are fantastic in this special. "Even a Miracle Needs a Hand" is one that I am singing year-round. As a kid, I always looked forward to watching this every Christmas. It wasn't until recently that I found it on VHS.
South Park did a parody of this show a few years ago in an episode of "A Crappy Christmas." I'm sure that 90% of the South Park audience didn't even get the parody, and that's a real shame.
'Twas the Night before Christmas stands tall right along with all of the other Rankin/Bass holiday classics.
Impostor (2001)
Started off bad, but ended up quite good
When I started watching this movie, I realized very quickly that it had all of the potential to be horrible. Sinise's performance early on was very cold and bland. It wasn't until his character escaped from Vincent D'Onofrio that the movie started to get interesting.
The one thing that I look for in Sci-Fi films is cool gadgets. "Imposter" had two neat gadgets. In the film, everyone is fitted with an identifier chip. There are scanners placed at check points everywhere that allows monitoring of everyone's actions. There is also a scanner that the government agents use to heat scan the building that Sinise is hiding in. It allowed the soldiers to determine where he and others were at in the building. Sure, these were simple compared to other Sci-Fi flicks, but I still found them neat.
The end of the film was a complete shock to me. I didn't see it coming at all. I had figured Vincent D'Onofrio's character to be the cyborg, so I was way off.
Was this the best film ever? No. Will I watch it again? Probably. Do I suggest that others check it out? You bet.