Happy Groundhog Day!

According to Punxsutawney Phil, we are to see an early spring. In my opinion, it really doesn't matter. We will either see Spring come in 6 weeks or Winter will be with us another 6 weeks...kinda silly I must say.

This holiday is one of the many holidays that people decide to make movies. For example, today, many people will probably watch the comedic Bill Murray live the same day over and over again in Groundhog Day. I do like this movie, and it is one of the better ones that revolves themselves around a specific day. There are also some other notable ones, including Gary Marshall's duo of movies Valentines Day and New Years Eve. I prefer New Years Eve over Valentines Day because I think it had better acting and a story line, but I also might prefer it because I'm not the biggest fan of Valentines Day in general. Something about too much pink and PDA, who knows. I'll let you all decide for yourselves. 

Some other notable films include the action packed Independence Day, which is one of my favorites. Will Smith definitely brings a humor factor to this film and Bill Pullman adds the drama factor with his ever famous speech before the soldiers fly out to battle. "Today We Celebrate Our Independence Day". What impressed me a lot was the special effects in this movie. I forgot that it came out in 1996, way before a lot of more CGI intense movies came out. I give them props for this movie.

Then you have the ever long list of movies that revolve around Christmas and the Holiday Season. Home for the Holidays, Die Hard, Gremlins, A Christmas Story, The Holiday, How the Grinch Stole Christmas...and the list goes on and on. Even Pokemon has a Christmas movie...what is this world coming to? I ask myself this on a daily basis...

Probably one of my favorite holidays that movies surround themselves in Halloween. Most of the time the movies are not that scary and probably more humorous than anything. But I think it is interesting that each year someone tries to come out with a new movie that is to scare the pants off of you and it never seems to happen that way. I prefer the Halloween themed ones, such as Tim Burton's Nightmare Before Christmas which can go either for Halloween or Christmas. It's one of those special movies! But I do also like the classic scary movies like M. Night Shyamalan's The Sixth Sense, Signs, and The Village. Those are the type of scary movies I like.

There are so many others that I could have covered, but we could be here all afternoon. As always, I ask a question to get your comments flowing. What is your favorite holiday movie? What is it about it that makes it great? Are there any that shouldn't have been made?