Christmas Viewing List for Men

Like most men, I don’t really get fully into the ‘Spirit of the Holidays’ as is culturally expected of everyone. I enjoy them yes, but I don’t always feel the need to, you know, go over the top like a cliché out of a Christmas movie.

Speaking of, I thought it might be worth throwing together a list of movies you can watch if you are like me or with others who may feel the same way… in other words, guys. The following movies are some of the best films I have seen over the years that feature the holidays – keeping to the theme – but appeal to the man in us who just want to laugh or see things blown up.

Genius Dreaming



This scene of a train blasting through a normal day of traffic is part of a brilliant psychological exploration of DiCaprio's character

 Caught the movie Inception the other night and I must say that I dearly regret not seeing this film in theaters originally. On the surface the visuals of the graphics are amazing throughout numerous sequences of the film, and beneath the surface the writing and acting in the picture are fantastic.

Inception picks off where the Matrix trilogy left off in several ways. First and foremost, the concept of the film exploring the depths of the mind and dreaming, including layers within layers, took the idea of artificial reality to new dimensions that the Matrix trilogy did not, which was something that I expected the series to explore in the final film, but ultimately fell flat with the superhero type embodiment that the main character Neo took on in the finale.

In addition, the movie brilliantly wove the storylines of three vastly different characters throughout in a manner that was worked flawlessly.