7. Memorabilia Is the Best Present
Every year for Christmas I ask for the same thing. Movies. Every year, I just say that one word and my family shrugs and sighs. And almost every year, I get a collection of films I either already own or loathe with a burning passion. I have no one to blame but myself, because I strangely assumed that the people closest to me know exactly what I know, or that they really care enough to go out and search for "those daggum movies Cameron ain't seen yet!" And how unfair of me is it to put all that on them? Incredibly. It's just another unrealistic expectation. But there is a solution to outsmart both me and the other cinephiles out there. Unless we're all packrats, cinematic memorabilia is almost always appreciated. Even if it's from a movie we haven't seen or that we hate, we're still prone to thinking the gift you gave us is pretty damn cool. Like lamps! I personally can't stand
A Christmas Story, but if you got me a Leg Lamp, you can bet your bottom dollar I'll display that mofo like it was a photo of my son winning the Indy 500 (that's a joke, I'd never let my son go to Indianapolis). I was in the mall the other day and saw a
Boondock Saints lamp, in the shape of two guns. I can't stand the movie, but I also can't legally say the things I would have done to own that lamp. And for many, movie posters are the bomb. From the 80s, from the 90s, from Japan or other countries...movie posters are pretty much always awesome, as long as they aren't from
The Accidental Husband.