Comments on: Saint Nick: Jolly gift-delivery man, or evil cold blooded killer?

By: Deuce

Deuce — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 01:56:32 +0000

I can only hope you’re a real friend rather than an imaginary one. Hope I didn’t spoil that….

By: Ryan

Ryan — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 04:17:22 +0000

Germans also celebrate Sankt Niklaus by leaving shoes out on the 5th. I remember I did it when I was living there with my host family, and I believe I got some chocolate and some new socks. But one can see how it could lead to a shoe and foot fetish later in life.

And that’s fine to keep the stats to yourself, as long as you don’t turn out like the guy in A Beautiful Mind.

By: Deuce

Deuce — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 03:14:00 +0000

Well, I was planning on leaving out my movie log stuff out of the blog. Boring stuff… Really it’s just for me to be a geek… By myself…

Anyway, yes, Jake! I recently read somewhere that the Dutch celebrate Saint Nikola (sp?) starting sometime in November, leaving their shoes outside as part of it, and the it culminates to the Saint’s birthday on Dec. 5th. It was cool in the movie that the evil Saint Nick visited this village but was displeased with what they had left for them, so he posted, or rather stabbed with a large knife, a note listing all of the things he wanted. Check it out! I would love to hear if anyone actually watched this film.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 00:20:37 +0000

To each his own (movie rating scale). Deuce, I also like how in your movie log you include other aspects like if it’s the first time you’ve seen it, the year, the movie’s rating out of that year, and about 10 other statistical points that I didn’t really understand. But I was indeed impressed!

By: Deuce

Deuce — Sun, 16 Dec 2012 14:31:26 +0000

I do enough math everyday. I’ll keep my ratings under the “normal person” scale.

By: Jake

Jake — Sun, 16 Dec 2012 08:07:20 +0000

Thats a pretty good rating, Dusty. I wasn’t expecting you to rate it so high. I want to watch this now.

That Krampus looked awesome! Weren’t you telling me the other day, Dustin, that this movie took place on December 5th and they put their shoes on their porch at night? I might have dreamt that. But, yeah, a Krampus movie would be fantastic. You should write it!

I agree with Sitzman, I’m glad you started putting these ratings on here. I especially like rating the individual aspects of the film. I might do that too. Also, I personally enjoy Sitzman’s rating scale (especially because you have to do some math in your head to see what percentage it is).

By: Deuce

Deuce — Sat, 15 Dec 2012 22:16:21 +0000

Whoa! Krampus is scary! I’d be interested in a Krampus movie.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Sat, 15 Dec 2012 17:03:51 +0000

Hey Deuce!

Nice review, and I like your rankings at the end. I agree with Jake that it’s kinda fun/interesting to have some kind of ranking or ratings, especially since I know you both are in to that. And sorry that my scale outrages you, but I guess that’ll just have to be my thing, haha!

I’ll have to see if it’s on Netflix here in Costa Rica, since the selection is often quite different. Although in this case, maybe it’d have subtitles instead of dubbing, so it could be better.

And about the weird premise, have you ever heard of Krampus? I don’t know too much about him (though I should probably, since I studied German), but I guess he’s kind of an evil equivalent to Santa Claus or Saint Nick. I guess they mainly talk about him in Germany, but maybe that helped influence this movie, since the Dutch are fairly close to the Germans in some ways (just don’t tell that to the Dutch, though!).

Anyhow, here’s a bit more about that guy:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krampus