3º – Bad Santa (Terry Zwigoff, 2003)
Two criminals decide to take a job as Santa to try to rob a store. The film will use its 91 minutes of duration showing this pausing journey of both in pursuit of their non-humanitarian goals. One of the most iconic works of the Christmas period, ‘Bad Santa’ is fun from beginning to end, never using the traditional cliches of the subgenre and subverting all that we had as essential for works on this subject. Highlight, of course, for the performance of Billy Bob Thornton as the protagonist.
2º – Die Hard (John McTiernan, 1988)
Allocated at Christmas, the film follows the kidnapping of a business building by a “terrorist group” that, in fact, intends to carry out a major robbery. Plans for criminals begin to succumb when they realize that John McClane, a police officer off duty, is stuck on the scene and determined to mess them up as much as possible. Marco of the genre of action, ‘Die Hard’ is responsible for the emergence of various clichés of the genre. It is also worth mentioning the character of Hans Gruber, masterfully performed by Alan Rickman, one of the biggest and most fun movie villains.
1º – Groundhog Day (Harold Ramis, 1993)
A reporter is tasked with covering an event he hates in a small town. Instead, nurturing a disdain for local nuances, inexplicably, man will relive the same day endlessly. ‘Groundhog Day’ is one of the greatest comedy films ever conceived, with the construction of a unique plot, being able to be funny and cause natural laughs in your viewer from beginning to end. The whole central theme that the character lives, with the incessant repetitions of the same day until he realizes the importance of the figure of the present to the human being, puts the film under the intricacies of the “eternal return” (philosophical concept proposed by Nietzsche). Fun and philosophy walking hand in hand.
