Fat Man Movie

[Tonyblack]

I saw this clip of a new Christmas movie with Mel Gibson. It kind of reminded me of something . . .

 

[Who's Wee Dug]

It looks quite good.
Santa

maybe

 

[Tonyblack]

What I was getting at was there seem to be some similarities to Hogfather.

 

[RathDarkblade]

The plot is only superficially similar. It's like Hogfather, but without Death providing both comic relief and philosophy.

The title is definitely reminiscent of Jake and the Fatman.

As for the idea of Santa having guns ... I've seen it at least twice before: Dan Aykroyd dressing up like Santa in the movie "Trading Places" (classic!), and "Weird Al" Yankovic's song, The Night Santa Went Crazy (now animated with lego! ).

***WARNING: Song not safe for work or kids. This is the "extra gory" version, in which Santa

Spoiler

is actually killed.

In the "clean" version, Santa is just arrested.***

TBH, Mel Gibson hasn't made a decent film since the mid-90s, IMNSHO. But then, I never forgot that horrible anti-Semitic rant of his while he was arrested for DUI (back in 2006).

After that, all his movies basically looked like increasingly cheap copies of the "Lethal Weapon" movies - cheap and nasty - which is a shame.

 

[raisindot]

I absolutely can no longer see any new or old Mel Gibson movie. He is an unrepentant anti-semite whose father was a notorious right-wing extremist, anti-semite and Holocaust denier. Like father, like son.

 

[=Tamar]

I don't recall ever watching a movie with Mel Gibson in it. I guess he never was cast in anything that appealed to me.

The current abomination sounds like somebody decided to cross Artemis Fowl (originally a book series which IMO went down hill sadly but I hear wasn't as bad as the movie) with Hogfather (because in Hogfather, the villains do refer to the Hogfather as "the fat man").

Fortunately, we already have Hogfather!