Merry Christmas! Ho! Ho! Ho! And all that kind of junk!
Today we begin our new series of posts, COUNTDOWN TO CHRISTMAS!!!!!
Each post will feature a look at a holiday movie I have seen, a link to a weird holiday song, a look back at some of the Doctor Who Christmas specials and finally, a complete comic book story featuring the heroes of the DC Universe!
Each post will be packed with all sorts of stuff!!!
And I’m going to do that 7 frickin’ times!!!
Merry Christmas! Ho! Ho! Ho! Blah, blah, blah! Let’s get on with this!
Today’s movie spotlight falls on Office Christmas Party,a 2016 movie about that dying institution known as the “office Christmas party”.
As
companies look to cut their budgets of any discretionary spending, a favorite
target has been the office Christmas party.
Besides the expenses with food and drinks, music and renting a venue,
there are also concerns about liability issues with employees getting
intoxicated at a company sponsored event and having sex with people they really
shouldn’t be having sex with. The office
Christmas party is a nightmare for accountants and human resources.
Office
Christmas Party is that nightmare made manifest a hundred fold. The Chicago branch of a tech company is being
eyeballed for closure by nylon Nazi Jennifer Aniston.
Her ne’re do well brother T J Miller who runs the branch is determined to save the branch by throwing a major kick ass office Christmas party blow out to end all office Christmas parties to impress a potential new client and if it doesn’t work, at least the branch went out with a bang!
Jason Bateman does what Jason Bateman does best, trying to be the voice of reason when nobody’s in the mood to listen to reason. Olivia Munn is around as a savvy tech person who seems to know what she’s doing which makes her quite exceptional in this dysfunctional office. Jason and Olivia’s characters have a thing for each other but as is usually the case for Jason Bateman characters, he has zero clue what to do about it.
Kate McKinnon is on hand as a human resource manager who is always on hand to remind anyone engaged in a fun expression of individuality that fun expressions of individuality are in violation of company regulations.
Her ne’re do well brother T J Miller who runs the branch is determined to save the branch by throwing a major kick ass office Christmas party blow out to end all office Christmas parties to impress a potential new client and if it doesn’t work, at least the branch went out with a bang!
Jason Bateman does what Jason Bateman does best, trying to be the voice of reason when nobody’s in the mood to listen to reason. Olivia Munn is around as a savvy tech person who seems to know what she’s doing which makes her quite exceptional in this dysfunctional office. Jason and Olivia’s characters have a thing for each other but as is usually the case for Jason Bateman characters, he has zero clue what to do about it.
Kate McKinnon is on hand as a human resource manager who is always on hand to remind anyone engaged in a fun expression of individuality that fun expressions of individuality are in violation of company regulations.
There
is a high speed chase late in the movie through the icy snow covered streets of
Chicago for reasons that escape me right now but it does end a really bad crash
that takes out the city’s internet somehow. Olivia has a doohickey that can save
the internet somehow. And because the doohickey works, it saves the company
somehow.
Who
cares how. Everyone ends up happy thanks to the magic of Christmas. Or the
magic of the office Christmas party.
Today’s
holiday song looks at another cog in corporate America.
A
lot of people attribute this little ditty to Family Guy’s Peter Griffith. Yes,
there is a version of this featuring Peter. But the poor nameless schmuck in
the video above did it first.
Personally,
I find most versions of Carol of the Bells to be very annoying. There’s at least one version that sounds like
it would be at home in a horror movie soundtrack.
And
now it’s DOCTOR WHO CHRISTMAS SPECIAL TIME. We begin with what is (for now) the
last Doctor Who Christmas Special, “Twice
Upon a Time”.
Many Doctor Who Christmas specials are
Christmas specials in that they air on Christmas Day. Christmas is given a cursory
mention.
“Twice Upon a Time” focuses mostly on
the dynamic of the 12th Doctor interacting with the 1st. But the use of Christmas in this episode,
however minor, is very effective.
The wibbly wobbly that has brought
our two Doctors together has also pulled a World War I soldier out of
time. He must be returned to the moment
he left when he was in a stand off with German soldier, facing certain death. The Doctor (the 12th) does deliver
the soldier to his appointed place and hour. But he fiddles with the date, depositing
the soldier within moments of a Christmas truce.
The Doctor uses Christmas to replace certain death with a moment of peace and a chance at life.
The Doctor uses Christmas to replace certain death with a moment of peace and a chance at life.
OK, 1 more thing to do for our
overstuffed blog post. It’s time for today’s Christmas Comic Book Story!!!!
From December 2009, Batman in "Silent Knight" by Jay Faerber & Peter Nguyen.
Well, that is that for today’s
Countdown to Christmas.
The countdown continues tomorrow
with another movie, another weird song, more Doctor Who and another comic book
story!
Happy holidays and remember to be
good to one another.
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