Christmas Movies

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IKnowWhatYoureThinking · Wed Dec 03, 2008 4:00 pm

What are your favorite Christmas movies? Chirstmas Vacation and Bad Santa are a couple of mine.

Frodoleader · #2 Post by **Frodoleader** » Wed Dec 03, 2008 5:04 pm

It has got to be "A Christmas Story"; by far the best ever made.

"You'll put your eye out!"

#3 Post by **J.J. Walters** » Wed Dec 03, 2008 5:17 pm

Here are some of my favorites:

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
Santa Claus Is Comin' To Town/The Little Drummer Boy
It's A Wonderful Life
Miracle on 34th Street
Mickey's Once Upon A Christmas
The Nightmare Before Christmas
A Charlie Brown Christmas
Gremlins*

* not a true christmas movie, but it has a christmas-time setting

#4 Post by **ConchRepublican** » Wed Dec 03, 2008 5:48 pm

Year Without a Santa Claus STILL kicks booty!

I'm Mr Heat Miser, I'm Mr Sun
I'm Mr Green Christma, I'm Mr 101

MPS · #5 Post by **MPS** » Wed Dec 03, 2008 6:18 pm

Some of my favorites are:

Christmas in Connecticut
A Christmas Story
Meet Me in St Louis (not entirely Christmas, but it does have Judy Garland singing 'Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas')

IKnowWhatYoureThinking · Wed Dec 03, 2008 7:22 pm

James J. Walters wrote:Here are some of my favorites:

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
Santa Claus Is Comin' To Town/The Little Drummer Boy
It's A Wonderful Life
Miracle on 34th Street
Mickey's Once Upon A Christmas
The Nightmare Before Christmas
A Charlie Brown Christmas
Gremlins*

* not a true christmas movie, but it has a christmas-time setting

James, I love all of the cartoon/puppet Christmas shows as well and have them on DVD. The Grinch is another good one.

Steve · #7 Post by **Steve** » Wed Dec 03, 2008 11:57 pm

My top of the list will always be
A Christmas Story
I also love
Polar Express
But, you have to see that one in I-Max 3-D to truly appreciate the absolutely awe inspiring effects of the Movie........My wife, son and I saw it on Christams Eve when it came out in the I-max/3D format and it is a Movie experience I will never forget......

Italian Ice · #8 Post by **Italian Ice** » Thu Dec 04, 2008 12:14 am

A Christmas Carol has to be my favorite out of all the classics. I try to catch that one every year.

Some of the Christmas comedies are worth watching at least once or twice, like Elf or Jingle all the Way. (Arnold: Put those cookies down!")

Good call on Christmas Vacation!

SelleckLover · #9 Post by **SelleckLover** » Thu Dec 04, 2008 2:04 am

Steve wrote:

I also love
Polar Express

I love the book and the actual story of Polar Express, but I didn't care for the movie. Dunno why, but the animation just looked creepy to me. It's probably just me...

layne · #10 Post by **layne** » Thu Dec 04, 2008 3:38 am

I'll add Elf and The Grinch. Both are favorites in our house.

rubber chicken · #11 Post by **rubber chicken** » Thu Dec 04, 2008 4:34 am

A Christmas Story has lost it's luster for me, due to my family watching it too much, often when I'd rather watch something else.

Although I only liked A Christmas Story, they did the same thing to my favorite pizza place. Every Friday they'd get the same pizza, and I'd often prefer pizza from another place - that went on for years, with me getting more a more tired of it. Then I got them to try out a new place, and eventually they started getting that pizza every week! Needless to say I soon grew tired of that pizza, and started to yearn for pizza from the first place which I hadn't had for a long time. But they wouldn't get that because they now liked the new pizza!

Family! You can't really live with them and you can't really live without them.

Anywho, my favorite Christmas movie is Mickey's Christmas Carol. It's only 24 minutes long but those 24 minutes are filled with 100-proof awesomeness.

You'll have to copy and paste to get to the wiki page since it doesn't work in code.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mickey's_Christmas_Carol

Another favorite is Scrooged.

And another is The Blue Carbuncle Sherlock Holmes episode with Jeremy Brett.

I'm sure there's more...

Carmen · #12 Post by **Carmen** » Thu Dec 04, 2008 9:50 am

Def. The Grinch, to be honest it`s the only Jim Carrey movie I like and Die Hard, not to forget Lethal Weapon I.

#13 Post by **Doc Ibold** » Fri Dec 05, 2008 3:56 am

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
How the Grinch stole Christmas
Christmas Vacation ( A Xmas Eve staple for my family)
Elf

I also have much love for a lot of your faves, but these are my "Must Sees"

rubber chicken · #14 Post by **rubber chicken** » Fri Dec 05, 2008 7:35 am

When I said "I'm sure there's more" I must have been thinking about Christmas Vacation. Or not thinking rather, can't believe I forgot that, thanks Doc.

#15 Post by **J.J. Walters** » Fri Dec 05, 2008 3:23 pm

Man, I don't think I've ever seen Christmas Vacation! I can't believe it. I LOVED the first Vacation, too.