Man…2023 sure went by quick huh? You wouldn’t think…or at least I didn’t think a New Years Eve movie list would be so difficult to populate or at the very least it would be easier to write than a Thanksgiving movie list. No such luck.
The sappy bitch part of me loves this movie but the storyteller thinks there’s something left to be desired. My biggest gripe is that there isn’t an antagonist and in any good story the antagonist is a very important part of the equation. An easy fix would’ve been to make Walter, Anne’s boyfriend, be more of an asshole as opposed to the sympathetic good guy.
I like the plot, it just seemed rather forced, the story is there it’s just missing parts that would’ve taken the movie from good to great. What does this have to do with New Years Eve you may ask, well there’s a short New Years Eve scene in the middle of the movie that has very little to do with the plot but it’s there.
Gotta fill this list out and there is a New Year’s Eve scene, in fact if you start watching Forrest Gump at 10:38pm and 57 seconds on New Year’s Eve you’ll ring in the new year with Lt. Dan! That’s kinda cool right? Right?
In a post-apocalyptic world where all living life has been wiped out except for the inhabitants of a train that circles the globe on a continuous loop. The poor are segregated to the back of the train while the rich control the front. In the movie the back of the train grows tired of their living conditions and decide to take the front, one car at a time.
I thought this was a fun movie, there are somethings you may have to overlook like how the hell can they fit an entire aquarium ecosystem within one train car or how the train can continuously keep moving for eighteen years. If you can do that then you’ll enjoy the movie. I do admit that it bothers me that you never find out how big the train actually is and why is the elementary school car so close to the back of the train!
What makes this a New Year’s Eve movie you ask? Well it takes place on New Year’s Eve, it’s not a huge plot point but they do countdown to the new year right before a pretty intense battle scene.
Here’s a compilation movie that tells like ten stories at once. There’s the mother and daughter story, the ex-lovers, the stressed out business woman, the one who handles the ball drop every year, the two stuck in an elevator, the couples trying to give birth at midnight to win $25,000, the dying old man who wants nothing more than to see the ball drop again before he dies, and they guy who’s car breaks down. Okay so that’s only eight but whatever, that’s still a lot of stories.
There’s also a shit ton of stars in this movie too, we’re talking A-Listers bay-bay. Robert De Nero, Halle Berry, Ashton Kutcher, Josh Duhamel, Katherine Heigl, Hilary Swank, Sarah Jessica Parker, Matthew Broderick, Bon Jovi, Michelle Pfeiffer, Seth Meyers, Jessica Biel, Abigail Breslin, Ludacris, and Cary Elwes to name a few.
A little-known fact was that this was originally a sequel to Valentine’s Day but turned into a completely different story with none of the same characters thus became not a sequel.
When there’s something strange in the neighborhood, who ya gonna call? Just Original Entertainment! Chances are you’ve seen this movie, or you at least know about it so I’m not going to explain much. They bust ghosts…again.
It’s like Titanic but without sitting through a two-hour love story before you get to the action. I don’t remember much of the original one, but this is a fun movie to watch, it keeps you on the edge of your seat and holding your breath…get it?…did you see what I did there?…hold your breath…they could drown….whatever.
I’m about any movie that involves time travel, and this is no exception. This one leans into the sappy bitch territory, but it doesn’t get too mushy in that regard. However, I’ll be damned if I didn’t cry like a little bitch during the last half hour or so though, what a tearjerker.
Anyways, Tim’s family has a neat kind of superpower as all the males can travel through time. He first uses this rare talent to redo a New Year’s Eve kiss but after that he spends quite a lot of time trying to woo Mary, the woman of his dreams, whom he ends up marrying and having a few kids with.
It’s interesting to note that this is the one of four films in which Rachel McAdams has played the love interest of a time traveler. The other films are The Time Traveler’s Wife, Midnight in Paris, and Doctor Strange. She never time travels herself though, it’s always her love interest that does the time traveling. “I can never trust a blueberry.”
I really enjoyed this movie, the sappy bitch in me is absolutely rejoicing that I decided to watch it. The two main characters meet when Griffin gets trashed and dropped off at the wrong 15 Maple Drive. See he lives at 15 Maple Drive Alcove Westwood but he gets dropped off at 15 Maple Drive Alcove Norwood, the two buildings are almost identical, just a slightly different color, definitely easy to mix up if you’ve been drinking.
Apparently they both keep their house keys under a flower pot on their porch…doesn’t seem very realistic to me but I’m willing to overlook it because you gotta get there somehow. I know it seems hypocritical seeing as I ranked Sleepless in Seattle where I did because of bad writing but you know what, this movie was just simply better. You know why it was better? Because there were antagonists.
I came damn close to hitting that next level but fell just short. I don’t remember if I cried or not so it may need another viewing. “When the universe hands you a gift, you don’t say no.”
I watched this movie for the first time 4 years ago in preparation for this list. You see, the one caveat I have for every list is that I have to have seen the movie in order for it be a part of the list, I hadn’t seen it but I knew enough about it that when you have a chance to put The Godfather Part II on a list, you take it.
It’s true what they say, this one is better than the original. There’s a certain New Year’s Eve party that sees a certain Godfather give a certain bother a certain “kiss of death”. I highly recommend this film, but you should seriously clear your schedule if you plan on watching this cause it’s like 3 and ½ hours long.
Merry New Year! Let me clarify, I DO NOT THINK TRADING PLACES IS A BETTER MOVIE THAN THE GODFATHER PART 2. It’s not a better movie in general but it is a better one in regard to the holidays. This could be considered a Christmas movie just as much as a New Year’s Eve movie, both holidays play a role in the film. This is a classic and great 80’s humor that sees a deadbeat from the streets switch places with a rich businessman because of a one-dollar bet.
