For my own part, Christmas movies have become very scarce for Christmas 2025. But… On Christmas Eve itself, however, my aunt and I had time to watch the Netflix reel A Merry Little Ex-Mas with, among others, Alicia Silverstone (Batgirl in Batman & Robin and Clueless) and Melissa Joan Hart (Sabrina the Teenage Witch). A romcom trifle you grasp the end of long before we’re there – and where everything is so very obvious that we wondered for a while if there was some kind of twist going on.
Fortunately, a movie can still be entertaining of course and it’s the journey that is most important. Most of us who saw the Titanic probably had an idea that things could go bad somewhere south-southeast of the coast of Newfoundland, and basically no one sat in the darkness of the cinema and hoped that Captain Edward John Smith would keep to the schedule to New York. But… Not even this part was that remarkable really and everything is going sugary sweet and maximally good.
This is something I would normally have seen a film for, but Christmas is Christmas, and other premises prevail. Instead of bothering me on a predictable reel without surprises, I thought it was a pretty cozy movie night. I guess it’s the same mechanisms that make us eat pretty much exactly the same food, the same candy and listen to the same songs – where basically none of it is viable other than just at Christmas time.
This should therefore definitely not be seen as a movie review, but a tip at Christmas time for those who want a little Christmas coziness to disconnect their brain with for a while. Because right then and there, A Merry Little Ex-Mas actually works.
What do you say, do you also watch Christmas movies at Christmas time on their own scale?