buttered confetti.

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Happy, Happy Hanukkah: to those of you celebrating The Festival of Lights!

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Christmas movies?


Did someone mention Christmas movies?!


Because I like Christmas movies for serious. And The Rogue Accountant and I watch a lotta them on Christmas Day (except he doesn't watch the uber-chicky ones with me ...). (And, yes, I realize that some of these aren't technically Christmas movies. I just get in the mood for them once winter rolls around, savvy?) Sadly, I'm not so cool and hipsterific when it comes to my favorite wintertime flicks. I wish I could say I gravitated toward old, gorgeous, classic films. Vintage stuff.

... But I mostly gravitate toward the quirk. Actually, I gravitate toward the movies that I loved when I was little.

My month (and the rest of my week) has pretty much consisted of all this (All This + Oreos) ... 

(All images found on Google Images.)

I saved Mark Darcy for last. 

Only Colin Firth could rock a Rudolph sweater so wonderfully, yes? But it's not just the festive sweater that I like about that movie. The chemistry between Bridget and Mark ... *shivers*. It makes me want to throw my microwave popcorn up into the air. Like buttered-confetti. (... ?)

(Note: Bridget Jones has some language and making-outage and etc., so if you're a younger reader, check the ratings and reviews and so on. My parents 100% wouldn't have let me watch it back in middle school. I wouldn't have been into it anyway though.)

I like many things about that particular film. But I'm not gonna lie ... I watch the entire movie anticipating The Line.


Bridget Jones' Diary contains one of my most favorite movie lines ever. My most favorite movie line is the one that's unspoken at the very end of Splendor in the Grass (don't YouTube the ending just to see it ... you have to watch the movie all the way through to feel the impact of the unsaid line). (Trivia: My second favorite movie line is in The Count of Monte Cristo.)

But I love a line in Bridget Jones too. Actually, it's not just The Line that I like so much. It's the delivery of The Line (which makes all the difference, I guess). I remember the first time I watched this movie, how I was laughing through so many scenes. And then, suddenly, (around the 1:40 mark in the clip down below) Mark D. says what he says. He says The Line. And I felt like I'd been punched in the heart. Like suddenly I went from being all giggly over this scene to being a little bit floored by it.


Because, not to get all melodramatic or anything, but I think what he says right then ... pretty much sums up the love every body's hoping for. Not just the romantic kind of love even, but the absolute best kind of love that exists: the transparent kind. The kind that comes after you see somebody freak out, do something stupid, make a huge mistake, be a jerk. He's talking about the kind of love that comes when the pretty falls away, when the vices aren't quirky and cute anymore. He's talking about the true love that's still there, even when you see the truest kind of true, the most scuffed up, most ripped up, most ridiculously, monstrously unflattering part of a person's heart ... and you still decide you're going to love them. It's the kind of love that doesn't alter when it alteration finds, is how Will Shakespeare says it. Mark Darcy says the same thing, pretty much. Except he says it in a simpler, more straight-forward way. And he doesn't say it timidly. There's nothing shy about the way he says it, which is possibly what makes my heart flutter so hard every time I watch it.


I think that very simple line is rather perfect. 



Just as you are. 

Rock on, Mark Darcy. I raise my mug of Swiss Miss Calcium Enriched Hot Cocoa to you. And to turkey curry buffets.

PS - Some of my favorite Christmas movies are so obscure I can't even find screenshots. Like A Snow White Christmas. And Santa and the Three Bears. And The Town Santa Forgot. Anybody know those? I have all those movies on the same VHS along with some rocking 80's commercials. The commercials are exceptional.

PS2 - Anybody recognize the fourth screenshot? That movie is amazing for so many reasons, including the villain:

Sigh. Christmas specials just aren't what they used to be.


What are your favorite Christmas movies? If you're feeling festive, I would love to hear your favorite Christmas movie quotes too! :)