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My friend, cohort, neighbour, and part-time-colleague, died yesterday. He loved to laugh and invite others to laugh along with him.
He was also a creative genius... you've likely seen his work. Just last month he won an Oscar for his work on Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio.
Mark was one of those people who effortlessly brought joy into a world full of darkness. I will miss him.
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Danneel Ackles, Kal Penn, and John Cho attend the Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas premiere in Los Angeles, California on November 2nd, 2011
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Holidays 11.4
Holidays
Air-Conditioned Automobile Day
Bad Mood Day
Chair Day
Chicken Lady Day
Citizenship Day (Northern Mariana Islands)
Community Service Day (Dominica)
Day of Love (Egypt)
Flag Day (Panama)
Giorno dell’Unita Nazionale e Festa delle Forze Armate and Victory Day (Italy)
Honeymoon Day
International Cake Day
King Tut Day
Medical Science Liaison Awareness and Appreciation Day
Mischief Night (UK, Australia, NZ)
National Advent Calendar Day
National Easy-Bake Oven Day
National Professional Paint Contractors Day
National Skeptics Day
National Tonga Day (Tonga)
National Unity and Armed Forces Day (Italy)
Thanksgiving Day (Liberia)
Unity Day (Russia)
Use Your Common Sense Day
Victory Day (Italy)
Waiting for the Barbarians Day
Will Rogers Day (Oklahoma)
Yitzhak Rabin Memorial Day
Food & Drink Celebrations
National Candy Day
1st Friday in November
Fountain Pen Day [1st Friday]
J-Day (@ 8:59 PM, Tuborg releases Julebryg; Denmark) [1st Friday]
Love Your Lawyer Day [1st Friday]
National Jersey Friday [1st Friday]
National Medical Science Liaison Awareness and Appreciation Day [1st Friday]
World Community Day [1st Friday]
Feast Days
Americus (Christian; Saint) [America]
Boccaccio Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)
Brinstan (Christian; Saint)
Charles Borromeo (Roman Catholic Church)
Emeric of Hungary (Christian; Saint)
Feast of Qudrat (Power; Baha'i)
Federico Pelini (Muppetism)
Felix of Valois (Christian; Saint)
Hume (Positivist; Saint)
Joannicius the Great (Christian; Saint)
Listen to Sea Shanties and Dance Like a Pirate Day (Pastafarian)
Ludi Plebii begins (a.k.a. Plebian Games until 17th; Ancient Rome)
Not the Zombie Apocalypse Day (Pastafarian)
Our Lady of Kazan (Russian Orthodox Church)
Pierius (Christian; Saint)
Sigd (ends at Sundown) [Hebrew, Cheshvan 29]
Teresa Manganiello (Christian; Blessed)
Vitalis and Agricola (Christian; Saint)
Lucky & Unlucky Days
Taian (大安 Japan) [Lucky all day.]
Premieres
Chicken Little (Animated Film; 2005)
The Crown (TV Series; 2016)
Doctor Strange (Film; 2016)
The Fifth Elephant, by Terry Pratchet (Novel; 1999) [Discworld #24]
The Flash (Film; 2022)
G.I. Blues (Film; 1960) [Elvis Presley #5]
Great Performances (TV Anthology Series; 1972)
Hacksaw Ridge (Film; 2016)
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Film; 2001) [#1]
The Interpretation of Dreams, by Sigmund Freud (Book; 1899)
The Jungle, by Upton Sinclair (Novel; 1905)
The Last Waltz (Concert Film; 1977)
The Man Who Sold the World, by David Bowie (Album; 1970)
Rocket to Russia, by the Ramones (Album; 1977)
Symphony No. 1 in C, by Johannes Brahms (Symphony; 1876)
A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas (Film; 2011)
Walking on the Moon, by Police (Song; 1979)
Weird: The Al Yankoic Story (Film; 2022)
Today’s Name Days
Karl (Austria)
Drago, Dragutin, Karlo (Croatia)
Karel (Czech Republic)
Otto (Denmark)
Erla, Erle, Herta (Estonia)
Hertta (Finland)
Aymeric, Charles, Jessé (France)
Charles, Karl, Karla, Modesta (Germany)
Károly (Hungary)
Carlo, Guido, Rosalia (Italy)
Atis, Oto, Otomārs (Latvia)
Eibartas, Karolis, Vaidmina (Lithuania)
Ottar, Otto (Norway)
Emeryk, Karol Boromeusz, Mściwój, Olgierd, Witalis (Poland)
Karol (Slovakia)
Amancio, Carlos (Spain)
Nore, Sverker (Sweden)
Amory, Cara, Carl, Carla, Carley, Carlie, Carlo, Carlos, Carly, Carol, Carolina, Caroline, Carolyn, Carrie, Carroll Charles, Charlie, Chaz Chuck, Emery, Karl, Karla, Karlee, Karli, Karly (USA)
Today is Also…
Day of Year: Day 308 of 2022; 57 days remaining in the year
ISO: Day 5 of week 44 of 2022
Celtic Tree Calendar: Hagal (Constraint) [Day 7 of 28]
Chinese: Month 10 (Lùyuè), Day 11 (Xin-You)
Chinese Year of the: Tiger (until January 22, 2023)
Hebrew: 10 Cheshvan 5783
Islamic: 9 Rabi II 1444
J Cal: 8 Mir; Sunday [8 of 30]
Julian: 22 October 2022
Moon: 86%: Waxing Gibbous
Positivist: 28 Descartes (11th Month) [Hume]
Runic Half Month: Ngetal (Reed) [Day 10 of 15]
Season: Autumn (Day 43 of 90)
Zodiac: Scorpio (Day 13 of 31)
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Happy Birthday 🎂 🥳 🎉 🎈 🎁 🎊 To You
The Iconic Short But Funny Comedian & Actor In The World Of Hollywood's Cinema 🎥 Today
Born On January 27th, 1969
Oswalt was born on January 27, 1969, in Portsmouth, Virginia, the son of Carla and Larry J. Oswalt, a career United States Marine Corps officer. He was named after General George S. Patton.
He is an American stand-up comedian and actor. His acting roles include Spence Olchin in the sitcom The King of Queens (1998–2007) and narrating the sitcom The Goldbergs (2013–2023) as adult Adam F. Goldberg. After making his acting debut in the Seinfeld episode "The Couch", he has appeared in a variety of television series, such as Parks and Recreation, Community, Two and a Half Men, Drunk History, Reno 911!, Mystery Science Theater 3000, Archer, Veep, Justified, Kim Possible, Modern Family, and Brooklyn Nine-Nine. He portrayed Principal Ralph Durbin in A.P. Bio (2018–2021) and Matthew the Raven in the TV series The Sandman (2022–present).
Oswalt has voiced Remy in the animated film Ratatouille (2007), Max in the animated film The Secret Life of Pets 2 (2019) where he replaced Louis C.K., Jesse (male) in the game Minecraft: Story Mode, and M.O.D.O.K in the 2021 animated series of the same name. Other film credits include Man on the Moon (1999), Zoolander (2001), Blade: Trinity (2004), All Roads Lead Home (2008), Big Fan (2009), A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas (2011), 22 Jump Street (2014), and The Circle (2017). In the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) multimedia franchise, Oswalt guest starred as the Koenigs on Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (2014–2020) and voiced Pip the Troll in Eternals (2021). He was also in the web series Best of the Worst in 2019. And finally in Blark & Son
As a stand-up comedian, Oswalt has appeared in six stand-up specials and won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Variety Special and a Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album for the album of his Netflix special Patton Oswalt: Talking for Clapping (2016).
Please Wish This Iconic Short & Hilarious Comedian 😆 & Actor Of Hollywood A Very Happy Birthday 🎂 🥳 🎉 🎈 🎁 🎊
You Know Him
You Gotta Find Him Funny
& He Is Still Making Great Films & Voice Animations For The Whole Family 👪
The 1 & Only
MR. PATTON OSWALT 🤣
HAPPY 55TH BIRTHDAY 🎂 🥳 🎉 🎈 🎁 🎊 TO YOU MR.OSWALT, & HERE'S TO MANY MORE YEARS TO COME.
#PattonOswalt #TheKingsOfQueens #TheGoldbergs #Ratatouile #TheSecretLifeOfPets
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OAvec un nom comme celui-là, on s'attendrait à ce que Patton Oswalt commande des divisions de chars de l'armée américaine outre-Rhin, ou à tout le moins qu'il dirige des fonctionnalités mumblecore à budget zéro pour le marché super branché - mais non, Oswalt est en fait un étonnamment comique travailleur qui a joué dans des dizaines de films et d'émissions de télévision depuis le début des années 1990, ainsi que de faire un tas de spéciaux de comédie HBO et Netflix - très populaires et très drôles.Vous le reconnaîtriez certainement si vous le voyiez : dès son premier passage à la télé en tant que un employé de magasin vidéo dans un épisode de Seinfeld, Oswalt est apparu dans presque toutes les émissions de comédie, de Flight of the Conchords à Futurama, Bob's Burgers à Parks and Recreation. Il a joué le nerd de la bande dessinée Spence dans The King of Queens, l'agent Koenig (et ses frères) dans Agents of SHIELD et le harceleur sexuel en série Teddy Sykes dans Veep.Mais qui se soucie de la télévision, n'est-ce pas ? Le cinéma est le grand chien, et Oswalt a beaucoup de points au tableau. Il a fait pas mal de travail de voix d'animation – notamment Remy le rat-chef dans la comédie à succès Pixar Ratatouille, ainsi que Max le jack russell dans The Secret Life of Pets 2 – ainsi que des classiques comme A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas. et boules de fureur. Je plaisante bien sûr: il s'est fait voler une nomination aux Oscars pour son rôle dans Young Adult (en tant que copain de la vieille école de Charlize Theron) et a joué le «plus grand fan des New York Giants au monde» dans le bien nommé Big Fan.Un détail hors-piste vraiment surprenant: Oswalt a joué un rôle dans le clouage du Golden State Killer, complétant le livre de sa femme Michelle McNamara, I'll Be Gone in the Dark, après sa mort subite en 2016. Il a finalement été publié en 2018, sensibilisant à l'affaire, deux mois seulement avant l'arrestation du meurtrier en série Joseph James DeAngelo.Patton Oswalt, à gauche, avec Charlize Theron dans Young Adult. Photographie : Paramount/AllstarMaintenant, il a un nouveau film en route : J'aime mon père, où il joue un père confus qui pêche son propre fils (tous basés sur un incident de la vie réelle, nous sommes amenés à croire, qui est arrivé à l'écrivain/réalisateur/co -star James Morosini). Oswalt est aussi génial que jamais, et il y a beaucoup à lui demander, alors commencez à taper et à poster vos questions ci-dessous – et nous imprimerons les meilleures réponses le vendredi 20 janvier.
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Holiday Watch: A Very Harold and Kumar 3D Christmas (2011)
Watched: 11/30/2022
Format: HBOmax
Viewing: Second
Director: Todd Strauss-Schulson
Look, I'd seen this once back in 2012 and that was it for me, but Jamie is currently dealing with COVID, and so we're not looking for movies that are downers or super complicated at the moment.
And so it was that after approximately 45 seconds of looking, I tuned into A Very Harold and Kumar Christmas (2011) - a movie that a mere 11 years later could never be made. It's still relatively funny, but I'm also far older than I was when the first Harold and Kumar movie hit in 2004. So, you kind of have to put yourself into the mental state of the early 00's and then the shift to adulthood that this final installment reflects.
But, yeah, its maybe the last gasp of a string of movies featuring dudes behaving badly for yuks and a pre-#MeToo worldview that impacts a lot of key punchlines. Also: baby doing drugs (this absolutely does not hold up). And, of course, the charm of a stoner comedy doesn't necessarily hold up over time for reasons so complicated and out of the scope of this blog that I don't feel like getting into it - but I'll say "aside from their musical selections, stoners are mostly deeply boring and tedious IRL."
As left and right horseshoed into overlapping end-states driven by differing concerns, the movie landscape has become a very different and more... concerned place, in a way not really seen since the early 1960's. It's not that you can't make a movie like this - no one is stopping you, but it's often not seen as something for a general audience or theatrical release. Stuff like this now feels like it's a Netflix or Hulu drop.
It is also super weird that Kumar had spent a couple years in the White House and filmed this during a sabbatical.
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Holidays 11.4
Holidays
Air-Conditioned Automobile Day
Bad Mood Day
Chair Day
Chicken Lady Day
Citizenship Day (Northern Mariana Islands)
Community Service Day (Dominica)
Day of Love (Egypt)
Flag Day (Panama)
Giorno dell’Unita Nazionale e Festa delle Forze Armate and Victory Day (Italy)
Honeymoon Day
International Cake Day
King Tut Day
Medical Science Liaison Awareness and Appreciation Day
Mischief Night (UK, Australia, NZ)
National Advent Calendar Day
National Easy-Bake Oven Day
National Professional Paint Contractors Day
National Skeptics Day
National Tonga Day (Tonga)
National Unity and Armed Forces Day (Italy)
Thanksgiving Day (Liberia)
Unity Day (Russia)
Use Your Common Sense Day
Victory Day (Italy)
Waiting for the Barbarians Day
Will Rogers Day (Oklahoma)
Yitzhak Rabin Memorial Day
Food & Drink Celebrations
National Candy Day
1st Friday in November
Fountain Pen Day [1st Friday]
J-Day (@ 8:59 PM, Tuborg releases Julebryg; Denmark) [1st Friday]
Love Your Lawyer Day [1st Friday]
National Jersey Friday [1st Friday]
National Medical Science Liaison Awareness and Appreciation Day [1st Friday]
World Community Day [1st Friday]
Feast Days
Americus (Christian; Saint) [America]
Boccaccio Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)
Brinstan (Christian; Saint)
Charles Borromeo (Roman Catholic Church)
Emeric of Hungary (Christian; Saint)
Feast of Qudrat (Power; Baha'i)
Federico Pelini (Muppetism)
Felix of Valois (Christian; Saint)
Hume (Positivist; Saint)
Joannicius the Great (Christian; Saint)
Listen to Sea Shanties and Dance Like a Pirate Day (Pastafarian)
Ludi Plebii begins (a.k.a. Plebian Games until 17th; Ancient Rome)
Not the Zombie Apocalypse Day (Pastafarian)
Our Lady of Kazan (Russian Orthodox Church)
Pierius (Christian; Saint)
Sigd (ends at Sundown) [Hebrew, Cheshvan 29]
Teresa Manganiello (Christian; Blessed)
Vitalis and Agricola (Christian; Saint)
Lucky & Unlucky Days
Taian (大安 Japan) [Lucky all day.]
Premieres
Chicken Little (Animated Film; 2005)
The Crown (TV Series; 2016)
Doctor Strange (Film; 2016)
The Fifth Elephant, by Terry Pratchet (Novel; 1999) [Discworld #24]
The Flash (Film; 2022)
G.I. Blues (Film; 1960) [Elvis Presley #5]
Great Performances (TV Anthology Series; 1972)
Hacksaw Ridge (Film; 2016)
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Film; 2001) [#1]
The Interpretation of Dreams, by Sigmund Freud (Book; 1899)
The Jungle, by Upton Sinclair (Novel; 1905)
The Last Waltz (Concert Film; 1977)
The Man Who Sold the World, by David Bowie (Album; 1970)
Rocket to Russia, by the Ramones (Album; 1977)
Symphony No. 1 in C, by Johannes Brahms (Symphony; 1876)
A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas (Film; 2011)
Walking on the Moon, by Police (Song; 1979)
Weird: The Al Yankoic Story (Film; 2022)
Today’s Name Days
Karl (Austria)
Drago, Dragutin, Karlo (Croatia)
Karel (Czech Republic)
Otto (Denmark)
Erla, Erle, Herta (Estonia)
Hertta (Finland)
Aymeric, Charles, Jessé (France)
Charles, Karl, Karla, Modesta (Germany)
Károly (Hungary)
Carlo, Guido, Rosalia (Italy)
Atis, Oto, Otomārs (Latvia)
Eibartas, Karolis, Vaidmina (Lithuania)
Ottar, Otto (Norway)
Emeryk, Karol Boromeusz, Mściwój, Olgierd, Witalis (Poland)
Karol (Slovakia)
Amancio, Carlos (Spain)
Nore, Sverker (Sweden)
Amory, Cara, Carl, Carla, Carley, Carlie, Carlo, Carlos, Carly, Carol, Carolina, Caroline, Carolyn, Carrie, Carroll Charles, Charlie, Chaz Chuck, Emery, Karl, Karla, Karlee, Karli, Karly (USA)
Today is Also…
Day of Year: Day 308 of 2022; 57 days remaining in the year
ISO: Day 5 of week 44 of 2022
Celtic Tree Calendar: Hagal (Constraint) [Day 7 of 28]
Chinese: Month 10 (Lùyuè), Day 11 (Xin-You)
Chinese Year of the: Tiger (until January 22, 2023)
Hebrew: 10 Cheshvan 5783
Islamic: 9 Rabi II 1444
J Cal: 8 Mir; Sunday [8 of 30]
Julian: 22 October 2022
Moon: 86%: Waxing Gibbous
Positivist: 28 Descartes (11th Month) [Hume]
Runic Half Month: Ngetal (Reed) [Day 10 of 15]
Season: Autumn (Day 43 of 90)
Zodiac: Scorpio (Day 13 of 31)
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FULL EPISODE: AOTS! - Amalured Into A False Sense of Security (2.7.12)
Featuring the continuing adventures of Al Harrington: Time Dribbler!
#The Pile#G4#Attack of the Show!#Twilight#NBA#The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn#A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas#Transformers: Dark of the Moon#Transformers G1#Google#The Amazing Spider-Man#Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning#The Walking Dead (TV series)
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Today in stoner comedy / holiday movie history: on November 4, 2011 A Very Harold and Kumar 3D Christmas debuted.
Here’s some Harold and Kumar art!
#a very harold and kumar 3d christmas#harlold and kumar#sequel#john cho#kal penn#neil patrick harris#harold lee#stoner movies#stoner art#stoner film#stoner comedy#420 art#comedy movies#christmas movies#holiday movies#movie art#drawing#art#pop art#movie history#modern art#pop surrealism#portrait#cult movies#cult film#buddy comedy#movies#film
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A Very Harold And Kumar 3D Christmas (2011)
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A Very Harold and Kumar 3D Christmas (2011)
I don’t subscribe to the type of debauchery Harold and Kumar have been up to since the first film, but I have to hand it to them: funny is funny regardless. This raunchy stoner comedy will stop at nothing to get the audience smiling, even if that means being offensive. It could've gone so wrong but it’s clever, with genuine warmth and in its own twisted way, gets the spirit of the holidays right.
Seven years after the previous film, Harold Lee (John Cho) and Kumar Patel (Kal Penn) have had a falling out. Pothead Kumar's going nowhere, but Harold has cleaned up, given up cannabis and is nervously getting ready to welcome his father-in-law (Danny Trejo) for Christmas. When a chance meeting between the old friends ends with a prized Christmas tree reduced to cinders, they have to find a replacement, guaranteeing some wild adventures and some bewildering antics from Neil Patrick Harris (played by Neil Patrick Harris).
I truly regret not having seen this film in 3D. Even from this flat projection on Blu-ray, it's evident that director Todd Strauss-Schulson knows how to properly use the technology in a comedy. Even the fact that 3D is a thing now is a joke as characters inexplicably point towards the screen or end up in ridiculous setups that guarantee things get tossed towards the camera. It’s so absurd that even in 2D, where you don’t get the full effect you still laugh at the intentionally crow-barred effects.
What makes this movie work is that crucial element in all raunchy comedies: the love. This is a love story. Not the love between Harold and his wife Maria (Paula Garcés) or Kumar and his girlfriend Vanessa (Danneel Harris), but the love between friends. Though they might screw up, accidentally expose people to drugs, cause destruction, act irresponsibly and go on wild adventures that end in disaster more than they don’t… Harold & Kumar have always done it together. These guys have been through thick and thin. You don’t break up a duo like that, you work through those dark patches and smooth out any animosity that has crept up. Despite the title, it has never been about a duo. These films (the second to a lesser extent because it royally sucks) are about a trio, and you're the third member on the adventure. You’re ready to go and if they go their separate ways, they’re letting each other down and you too!
In this yuletide film, you'll find many funny elements that are staples of the duo’s adventures, such as Neil Patrick Harris and other recurring characters. It’s crass throughout, perhaps even tasteless at times but it’s perfectly inlined with your expectations. At this point, it would lose marks for not being a little nasty. As a Christmas film, it delivers jiggle-worthy laughs. There's a drug-fuelled, Claymation/Rankin-Bass inspired hallucination that’s very clever because once again, it goes where others would fear to tread and it’s not only inventive, but it looks terrific, particularly on Blu-ray.
I didn't expect to enjoy “A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas”, but here I am delighted to have viewed it. It won’t be for the sticks in the mud but for the rest, this is a good -I wouldn't say wholesome, but it kinda is in a way- holiday comedy. It’s good enough that I’m considering revisiting “Harold & Kumar Go to Guantanamo Bay". I remember it with a pain in my stomach, but with the first one surprising me upon a re-watch and this one also delivering, I can’t help but be enthusiastic for more. (2-D Unrated Version on Blu-ray, December 19, 2015)
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Christmas 2019: Day 4 - A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas (2011)
On the fourth day of Christmas, my true love gave to me...
Four rounds of sliders!
So, turns out I had the title of this movie wrong, it’s not just A Harold & Kumar Christmas, it’s a 3D Christmas! Which also answers the question of where we go from the second movie, apparently out goes all that racism and in comes just so, so many shots of things flying at the camera.
It’s 2011 by this point, have we not left all this in the past? Hell, they were doing this in House of Wax when I watched that last year and that was back in the 50’s. To their credit, they do poke fun at the whole 3D thing at times, like near the start Harold’s assistant brings in a big ass TV meant as a present for Harold’s father in law. Harold questions if the whole 3D thing hasn’t jumped the shark by now but his assistant disagrees, exclaiming that it’s going to be ‘amazing’ as he points down the camera for emphasis. Harold just dryly asks who he’s looking at.
Harold has been moving up in the world it seems, now a very successful businessman on Wall Street. Unfortunately this comes during the whole ‘Occupy Wallstreet’ movement and the streets outside his office is lined with protesters wanting to eat the rich. Perhaps with a side of eggs which they throw at him by way of the camera lens.
Like a good soldier though, his assistant steps into the line of fire and takes a barrage of eggs to the face. RIP in peace. They have this whole musical sting whilst it’s happening, I feel like this has to be referencing something but I’m not sure what, war movies aren’t my thing.
Harold’s father in law by the way is played by non other than Danny Trejo, which is a rather scary thought. Trying to impress the father in law is bad enough without factoring that into the equation. He’s predisposed to disliking Harold as well given that his mother was killed by a bunch of Korean street thugs when she came over to America.
We learn that in his youth, Mr Perez dreamed of celebrating Christmas with a Christmas tree but would never get his wish. It was only upon reaching America that his mother promised they would have one every year, only for his life to be cut short. That’s why he holds this season and Christmas trees in particular in such high esteem. We also learn that apparently he was born with his moustache, which honestly wouldn’t surprise me with Danny Trejo. Also, someone being viciously murdered by street thugs seems a bit dark for this franchise.
Speaking of facial hair, Kumar is still a layabout bum who got kicked out of medical school for failing a drugs test. I do dig the beard though. Vanessa has left him though and he lives in filth with a neighbor who rents out his bathroom to let homeless people take a shit. So yeah, little bit of a mismatch on how our two heroes lives panned out over the last 7 years. I’m digging the beard though, but he promptly shaves it off under the pretense of trying to finally mature somewhat when he finds out Vanessa is pregnant.
Although, he is a little distracted during this revelation by the unfolding scenes of A Christmas Story and Flick getting his tongue stuck to the flagpole. Clearly an Xbox man as well, seemingly playing some Crackdown and Gears of War recently. This isn’t like that time I kept seeing It’s A Wonderful Life everywhere, is it? I’m not going to start having A Christmas Story pop up in all these movies, am I?
H&K are reuinited for the first time in two years when a package turns up at Kumar’s apartment addressed to Harold, which turns out to be a massive joint. Kumar lights up, only for Harold to play narc and throw it out of the window. Miraciously though, it curves around and flies back in a different window, lighting up Mr Perez’s Christmas tree and nearly burning down the whole house. This only reinforces what a negative influence on Harold’s life Kumar is and it looks like our duo are going their separate ways again. But, this does give us our impetuous for another hour and a half of whacky shenanigans because if Harold doesn’t fix that tree, there’s a good chance Mr Perez might kill him.
So we get the odd foursome of Harold and his new white bread bestie, Todd (and his daughter) and Kumar and his neighbor, Adrian, out on the lookout for a tree. This does lead to perhaps the most racially driven portion of the movie as they head to a tree lot run by two African-American guys trying to do this ‘good cop, bad cop’ thing, the Fat Albert looking guy playing nice and the other wondering what a pair of honkey, cracker, white ass fools are doing coming up in their turf.
Turns out Mr Perez isn’t the only one out to kill Harold though, as the tree search takes them to a party by way of Adrian who has a hookup waiting for him that he met online. She’s a virgin because apparently all the guys at school are scared to go anywhere near her. Adrian realizes that’s because her dad is notorious Ukranian mobster Sergei Katsov. At first I thought this was Chris Meloni making his third outing in the series but no, it’s actually Elias Koteas who was Casey Jones in the Ninja Turtles movies.
After Adrian goes soft upon finding out this information, Mary will settle for anyone at this point and goes to start blowing Harold right in the middle of the party. An inopportune time then for Daddy to come home and find what looks like an Eiffel Tower situation going on.
Even after they barely escape though, the nightmare is far from over as they start tripping and think they’re in the middle of a multi storey evil snowman attack. And, this all takes place in claymation. This is a really awesome scene, the design of the snowman is great and the level of destruction going on is amazing.
I could do without Kumar showing off his clay cock though, I only dread to think how much worse this is in 3D with him waving it about in your face.
Luckily, old buddies Rosenberg and Goldstein are there to shake them out of their bad trip and take them to White Castle to relax. Man, they have a much easier time getting their this time. They’ve clearly learnt from their past experiences. Along with the whole 3D into the camera gimmick, the racism angle has been replaced somewhat with religion, notably here with a whole speech about how Goldstein’s wife had him convert to Christianity and him just going in on those ‘dirty Jew bastards’.
That and the use of his son as a distraction so Harold & Kumar can go steal a tree from a church. ‘Pillow fight in the altar boys room, last one there is a rotten egg!’. Going in on the Catholics as well, I see.
And of course, the big one, the main man JC. Apparently Heaven is like a nightclub and we get the story of how NPH was ushered in the front door following his altercation at the whore house. Only, Jesus didn’t take kindly to NPH macking on his ladies so put in a word to the big man upstairs to send NPH back down to Earth. I mean, it’s not 100% to the letter but I’ll take this as I fucking called it.
The third part of the trifecta of racism replacements in this movie is metaness. There’s a good example here how they call out NPH coming out of the closet in real life, only to reveal that NPH is as big of a poon hound as he’s ever been and this is all just a trick to get the ladies. David Burtka? He’s not his husband, he’s just his dealer!
There’s a couple of other moments like someone referring to Harold as ‘Sulu’ or Adrian saying he lied to Mary and said he was Robert Pattison’s acting coach and that Kumar worked in the White House.
NPH is starring in some big festive stage show and sweet talks one of the dancers back to his dressing room, suggesting she strip down so that he can give her a massage. Hey, it’s cool, we’re all girlfriends here, right? Now just give him a minute so he can squirt some of his special lotion on your back...
He hooks up H&K with a tree from the set but before they can head home, the gangsters catch up with them take them to a secluded part of town for an execution.
But as they make their escape, Harold finds his dick has become stuck to the pole they were tied to. Okay, firstly, between this and Office Chrstimas Party, I’ve seen just about enough dicks to last me til the end of the season. Secondly, maybe this is God’s way of reminding me that I have some unfinished business with A Christmas Story. Sure there was the original and that sequel no one asked for but there is another...
And just in case you forget this is a Christmas movie, Harold inadvertently shoots Santa out of the sky and Kumar has to perform impromptu surgery, because he always does. Santa being played by Richard Riehle who was in Grounded for Life and, relevant to this blog, Chillerama and the Rob Zombie Halloween II. Turns out he was the one who sent Harold the massive joint so that the two of them could reconcile. I never knew Santa cared so much about the friendship of two potheads. I don’t know if he’s a good fit for Santa though, a little too gruff and mean. Doesn’t have the heart of say, an Edmund Gwenn. That could have been an alternate way to do this actually, have a totally sacherine by the numbers Santa that gets corrupted by H&K when they get him to smoke with them, he’s on too much of a bad trip to deliver the toys like normal so it’s up to them to save the day.
I think I would have to put this above the sequel but behind the original in terms of quality. As one note and as fleeting an appearance as he is, the Ukranian gangster somehow feels more of a threat than the entire US government in the second film. Keeping this adventure local again makes it feel much more grounded and there’s just a more light hearted atmosphere to the whole thing when you don’t have that massively racist and oppressive tone pressing down on it.
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A Reappraisal Of The 'Harold & Kumar' Films
A Reappraisal Of The ‘Harold & Kumar’ Films
The Harold & Kumar movies, written by Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg, began with Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle in 2004. An atypical stoner movie, it featured John Cho as Harold Lee and Kal Penn as Kumar Patel, roommates of colour in their early twenties. It was followed up by Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay in 2008 and A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas in 2011. Given the rise…
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#A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christma#Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay#Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle#Hayden Schlossberg#John Cho#Jon Hurwitz#Kal Penn
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recommend me uhh a holiday movie to watch and tell me which Taylor swift song to put on my winterbaron mix even though you know nothing about them
The Lion in Winter is always one of my holiday movies and therefore a perennial favorite and recommendation, and so is The Muppet Christmas Carol, that latter one probably being more of a trad offering than the former.
I have since discovered that there is A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas, which I don't quite know how to feel about it.
One that I haven't thought about in AGES is Annette Funicello's Babes in Toyland, which my family and I used to watch when I was younger.
And, obviously, Batman Returns.
As for which TSwift song, "Bad Blood" and "Blank Space" are too obvious for winterbaron (I think?) and were the first ones that came to mind but, taking a wild guess, "Back to December"?
#I haven't listened to all that much of her earlier canon (for a variety of reasons - none particularly good)#and so this is me being doubly less-knowledgeable and possibly even funnier/more enjoyable
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A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas (2011)
Director: Todd Strauss-Schulson
Cinematographer: Michael Barrett
#indoors#night#cool#threeshot#groupshot#mediumshot#eye level#todd strauss-schulson#michael barrett#a very harold & kumar 3d christmas#harold & kumar christmas#harold & kumar#harold and kumar#wafflebot#fuck pancakes#christmas movie#christmas#2011#2.35:1
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