Here's a post that has nothing to do with Christmas.

First of all, I've got the montage song/scene from "Team America: World Police" stuck in my head for some odd reason. It's one of the Parker/Stone movies I actually don't own, but it's still funny regardless. Never seen it? Watch it or the terrorists win. YOU ARE USERESS TO ME, AREC BARDWIN.

You all know what I'm watching just five days away from Christmas? "Elysium". It's not one of my favorites of the year, and I don't think it's as good as "District 9", but I enjoyed watching this one again. The effects are great, and it's obvious that everyone that made the movie worked really hard to pull everything off (may Santa/Jesus/the Airing of Grievances be especially good to the production designers and the people at WETA this year). It's a fun-filled S/F romp, the movie equivalent of a Brian Aldiss novel like Non-Stop or Hothouse. Fun and refreshing.

Also, what makes "Elysium" great is Sharlto Copley as the crazed, biomechanically-enhanced mercenary Kruger. Fucking SHARLTO COPLEY, man. In any movie he's in every second of screen time is GOLD. He and Zeus Neeson are the only things that made "The A-Team" worth watching. In "District 9" his van der Merwe character was great, starting as a loathsome, pencil-dicked bureaucrat. Then he turned into a CHAMPION for alien-kind and humanity after being exposed to an alien mutagen and crossing the threshold into The Hero's Path.

If you've never watched "District 9", you're a bottom-feeding troglodyte. Rectify this problem immediately.

Sharlto Copley, I can't sing your praises high enough. I hope people put you in a ton more movies. You deserve it. Merry Christmas to you, sir.

Also, I'm watching an early 80's horror flick called "Strange Behavior". I enjoy this one because of the simple fact that I can't just pin it down. It's just too out there. Absolutely nothing fits, which is maybe the reason it's crazy enough to work. 

First, the identity of one of the killers is revealed early on, which usually doesn't happen until the eleventh hour in most slashers. Also, it's a horror film that takes place in Illinois, but was filmed in New Zealand, and co-funded by none other than David Hemmings, star of "Deep Red". The movie takes place in the early 80's, but the kids do a choreographed dance to "Lightnin' Strikes". It's just too wild to miss. Also, I love plot twists where creepy fuckers fake their own deaths, and we've got that here.

"Strange Behavior" lives up to its namesake. It's just a weird, creepy, jumbled mess that feels like a complete movie for some odd reason. Check it out along with "Elysium" and "Team America".