Christmas favorites
Scrooge - 1970
A Muppet Christmas Carol
The Grinch
The Nightmare Before Christmas
Love, Actually
A Muppet Christmas Carol
The Grinch
The Nightmare Before Christmas
Love, Actually
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When I was a kid I couldn't go to sleep on Christmas Eve until I had watched A CHARLIE BROWN CHRISTMAS and WHITE CHRISTMAS. Now, nether is rarely shown on regular network television on Xmas Eve, but thanks to technology, this is no loner an issue.
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Film society is doing a showing of Die Hard tomorrow evening, essential Christmas viewing
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We watch the same movies every year:
It's a Wonderful Life
Elf
A Christmas Story
Chrismas Vacation
A Christmas Carol (1941)
It's a Wonderful Life
Elf
A Christmas Story
Chrismas Vacation
A Christmas Carol (1941)
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Home Alone easily.
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Sure, I'm watchin' all kinds of movies during the Christmas season but when I think of Christmas movies I think of animated oldies.
Rudolph, the red nosed reindeer.
A Year Without Santa Claus.
A Charlie Brown Christmas
How The Grinch Stole Christmas
Rudolph, the red nosed reindeer.
A Year Without Santa Claus.
A Charlie Brown Christmas
How The Grinch Stole Christmas
Among my favorites are...
A Charlie Brown Christmas - Short, a little preachy, but ultimately spot-on
A Christmas Carol (1999) - my favorite adaptation of the story
A Christmas Story - perhaps a bit overrated (but only compared to its competition)
Christmas Vacation - the second funniest movie that I ever watched
Die Hard - It counts
Home Alone - A really fun movie with well-executed humor
How the Grinch Stole Christmas (1966) - Nothing says Christmas quite like Boris Karloff
It's a Wonderful Life - Like Stephen King, it takes a simple enough story and tells it in the slowest way possible. Still, the acting and direction is really top-notch.
A Miracle on 34th Street (1947) - especially for the trial, which was so well-done
The Polar Express - While I find it to be the weakest on this list, it still is worth mentioning
Rudolf the Red-Nosed Reindeer - I especially love the Island of the Misfit Toys
Santa Claus: The Movie - nothing beats exploding candy canes!
Santa Claus is Coming to Town - Another stop-motion Christmas classic
The Santa Clause - An incredibly well-made, modern-day Santa origin story
White Christmas - While a little too "1950's / 1960's Musical" for my taste (dancing superceding the singing in music numbers), it's the best of the bunch (ie, 1950's / 1960's musicals)
The Year Without a Santa Claus - The music was especially good.
Also, I greatly dislike Elf (except for the bit about the employment opportunities of being an elf) and I consider The Nightmare Before Christmas to be a Thanksgiving movie (too Christmas for Halloween; too Halloween for Christmas; ultimately splitting the difference between those two holidays, which puts it in November).
Honorable mention: Jack Frost (1997) - because nothing says Christmas like a killer Snowman.
A Charlie Brown Christmas - Short, a little preachy, but ultimately spot-on
A Christmas Carol (1999) - my favorite adaptation of the story
A Christmas Story - perhaps a bit overrated (but only compared to its competition)
Christmas Vacation - the second funniest movie that I ever watched
Die Hard - It counts
Home Alone - A really fun movie with well-executed humor
How the Grinch Stole Christmas (1966) - Nothing says Christmas quite like Boris Karloff
It's a Wonderful Life - Like Stephen King, it takes a simple enough story and tells it in the slowest way possible. Still, the acting and direction is really top-notch.
A Miracle on 34th Street (1947) - especially for the trial, which was so well-done
The Polar Express - While I find it to be the weakest on this list, it still is worth mentioning
Rudolf the Red-Nosed Reindeer - I especially love the Island of the Misfit Toys
Santa Claus: The Movie - nothing beats exploding candy canes!
Santa Claus is Coming to Town - Another stop-motion Christmas classic
The Santa Clause - An incredibly well-made, modern-day Santa origin story
White Christmas - While a little too "1950's / 1960's Musical" for my taste (dancing superceding the singing in music numbers), it's the best of the bunch (ie, 1950's / 1960's musicals)
The Year Without a Santa Claus - The music was especially good.
Also, I greatly dislike Elf (except for the bit about the employment opportunities of being an elf) and I consider The Nightmare Before Christmas to be a Thanksgiving movie (too Christmas for Halloween; too Halloween for Christmas; ultimately splitting the difference between those two holidays, which puts it in November).
Honorable mention: Jack Frost (1997) - because nothing says Christmas like a killer Snowman.
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Santa Clause: The Movie
Scrooged
Home Alone
National Lampoons Christmas Vacation
Miracle on 34th Street
The Snowman (animated, 1982)
Its a wonderful life
Gremlins
Trading Places
Scrooged
Home Alone
National Lampoons Christmas Vacation
Miracle on 34th Street
The Snowman (animated, 1982)
Its a wonderful life
Gremlins
Trading Places
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Unmentioned (recently) favorites:
Remember the Night
The Man Who Came to Dinner
The Bishop's Wife
Joyeux Noel
A Midnight Clear
Remember the Night
The Man Who Came to Dinner
The Bishop's Wife
Joyeux Noel
A Midnight Clear
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The Grinch, I loved every minute of it. It comes on every Christmas and I get all invested as if its the first time I am watching it- done it since a kid. Also home alone is on my list too
I grew up watching Jesus of Nazareth (Spanish version) on Telemundo lol they like to play it every year, and every year I would watch it, I'm not super religious or anything but it was really the only Christmas movie I have seen until my bf introduced me to A Christmas Story.
I hate Christmas movies as a whole , but 2 I find tolerable are A Christmas Story and Die Hard (not really an xmas movie, but its so darned good)...
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