oft wears hats and I were trying to come up with some, but couldn’t think of any. This is a shame, since Thanksgiving has such potential, and it seems like every other American holiday has its own kickass action movie. Which ones do you know of?
Spider-Man.
“I give you the F.D.A.”
Nice.
Well, the movie passes through T-day but isn’t exactly set on it.
I think there’s a reason action movies tend to settle on Christmas over any other day - it’s the same thing as Thanksgiving or Easter or whatever, but with the glurge and sentiment and wrongity-wrongness turned up to eleven. If you’re going to shoot around a winter holiday, may as well dress it with Sanny Claus and cute reindeer as a… cardboard turkey and pilgrims.
Missed the edit. Meant to write “instead of… a cardboard turkey and pilgrims.”
It doens’t exactly fit the bill, but in Tower Heist the main caper takes place in a New York skyscraper during the Macy’s parade.
Not a movie, of course, but there is an episode of *Buffy the Vampire Slayer *set on Thanksgiving.
Depending on how loosely you’re defining “kickass” (and “Thanksgiving”, for that matter) but Paul Blart, Mall Cop was set on Black Friday.
Oops, missed the thread was looking for action movies. Carry on.
I don’t get it. Fill me in, please.
I’d say the reason is that action movies need international sales and Thanksgiving isn’t international. Some other countries have it, but not on the same day or in the same way. Much easier to set an action movie at Christmas, which the majority of your target markets now about even if they don’t celebrate it themselves, and also you can add snow slightly more believably.
That must be why there’s no kickass action movie set on Flag Day.
Or is there???
It’s a take on the line from Die Hard, “I give you The F.B.I.”
A longer explanation:
When villain Hans Gruber notices that the FBI has arrived in Die Hard:
Hans Gruber:*** “The circuits that cannnot be cut [and prevent the safe to be opened] are cut automatically in response to a terrorist incident. You asked for miracles, Theo, I give you the FBI.”
So in a Thanksgiving adventure:
Hans Gobbler: The alerts (that we will use in our scheme) in response to a poisoning incident regarding turkeys. You asked for miracles, Pio, I give you the FDA." (From the not made yet “Turkey Run”, I expect Aardman Animation to call me about the script.) 