Christmas Movies 2022 (Part 6)

 Christmas Movies 2022 (Part 6)

Die Hard

You can't really go wrong with this high action, suspenseful movie set in a LA tower block on Christmas Eve. A lone New York cop is pitted against a dozen well armed bad guys and Bruce Willis delivered perhaps one of his best theatrical performances of his career. Oh, Alan Rickman comes pretty darn close to stealing the show.

The Bishop's Wife

Cary Grant, David Niven and Loretta Young bring to life the story of an Angel sent to provide guidance to a Bishop whose family is suffering as he struggles to fund the building of a cathedral. Sounds a little dull but the acting is spectacular and the movie full of warmth and humour.

Hogfather

A TV adaptation of the Terry Pratchett Discworld novel doesn't do too bad a job of bringing the book to the small screen. Granted it's not as good as the novel but there's plenty there for someone to enjoy who is not familiar with the writings and while the visuals were never state of the art they don't look too bad even now and you can not fault the majority of the performances. 

Hogfather by Terry Pratchett

 

Hogfather by Terry Pratchett
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Hogfather was one of the novels I tended to avoid, for some reason it didn't quite work for me and only recently have I started to enjoy the TV adaptation. There is no reason it shouldn't be high on the list, it has plenty of Death and Albert and Susan comes into herself along with the Death of Rats and the look into the Assassins Guild and Auditors was certainly world building. The concept of a contract being put on the Hogfather in interesting enough, the idea of negating children's belief in him through old magic is pretty inspired and Death choosing to play the part of the Hogfather is wonderful because the consequences of kids not believing in the Hogfather goes way beyond the delivery of gifts once a year. Overall I'd say it is an average Discworld novel and I think I like the TV adaptation a little more as the story is more compressed and faster paced and that doesn't hurt.


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Hogfather - SF Debris

A two part SF Debris Opinionated Review of the first half of the TV adaptation of Terry Pratchett's Hogfather.  SF Debris