It seems that every year some TV show comes out with a list/poll of people's favorite Christmas or holiday movies and specials. The list usually consists of the following movies and specials:

Miracle On 34th Street
It's A Wonderful Life
White Christmas (a.k.a. Holiday Inn)
A Charlie Brown Christmas
Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer
Santa Claus Is Coming To Town
The Year Without A Santa Claus
Dr. Seuss' How The Grinch Stole Christmas (cartoon)
Dr. Seuss' How The Grinch Stole Christmas (live action movie)
A Christmas Carol (starring Alistair Cooke)
A Christmas Carol (starring George C. Scott)
Meet Me In St. Louis
A Christmas Story
Christmas In Connecticut
Jingle All The Way
Love Actually
Die Hard
Silent Night, Deadly Night

Which one of these Christmas-themed movies is your favorite? Or is there some other movie or special not listed here?

A Christmas Story

Eyes Wide Shut - I watch it every year around Christmas.


Morvern Callar is another holiday fave for me. Samantha Morton wakes up Christmas day to find her live in bf has committed suicide. So she empties his bank account and goes on a trip across Europe. Good stuff.

JessieJ said:

you'll shoot your eye out kid!


Jean Shepard, the radio essayist who originally wrote the story, plays a cameo as a customer in the department store (man with beard)

BlackAdder7 said:

where are the reindeer?

XxAxX said:

no reindeer is poor if he has friends

BlackAdder7 said:

oh. well, their loss

I usually watch at least one or more of these over Christmas

Miracle On 34th Street
It's A Wonderful Life
White Christmas (a.k.a. Holiday Inn)
A Charlie Brown Christmas


[Edited 12/12/08 13:38pm]

Pochacco said:

White christmas was a song in the movie holiday inn, but isn't a movie, technically.

Jingle this, baby

JessieJ said:

Yep.

BlackAdder7 said:

I know. The song was originally in the movie Holiday Inn, but over time people kept referring to "that movie with the song 'White Christmas' in it", and I believe that once the original copyright expired on the movie, a bunch of two bit studios released a number of versions on VHS and DVD, of which one of them just simply titled it White Christmas and the name stuck.

My new fav is ELF...

I love most of them though...

NOTAFINGA!!!!!

Movies:

A Christmas Story - Lemme tell you guys something, if Santa were to leave an official Red Ryder carbine-action 200-shot range model air rifle/BB gun under my tree this year, even at my current age, I'd be beating my chest & proclaiming to the whole world that it's a wonderful life.
And before anyone says anything,
lemme just say
"Fuck my eye. I don't care."

Die-Hard 2 - Actually, I guess we should include the 1st Die-Hard tied with this one, though I definitely feel that this 2nd one is better.
Now the test of any holiday film is if answers this question: Does it inspire the holiday spirit within me?
Yippy-kay-yay, mother-fucker.
This is how great Christmas-themed action movies are supposed to be made.

Nightmare Before Christmas - Is it a Halloween movie with a Christmas twist, or a Christmas movie with a Halloweenic slant? Or is it both?
For me, I look at it like discovering that your trick-or-treat bag has been filled with presents instead of candy.
And no rocks.
Or coal.
IMO, Tim Burton's best film, by far. Such a great cast of characters. Innocent enough for kids who can still see the world thru bushy-tailed bright-eyed glasses, yet twistedly dark enough to keep the interests of those of us adults who've had that part of our spirits crushed a long time ago.
A holiday movie for all ages on either side of the perspective spectrum.

Nobody's Fool - This is simply one of those movies that I really enjoy that never really gets any mention anywhere. Paul Newman, Jessica Tandy, Bruce Willis, Melanie Griffin & Phillip Seymour Hoffman are a great cast of actors playing a great cast of characters. And each one a piece of the the puzzle that, despite their sharp edges, all still fit in perfectly.

Bad Santa - Best. Santa. Movie. Ever.



Specials:

Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer - As a kid who grew up incredibly poor, there was more than one year whereupon Santa didn't leave me or my siblings any presents.
That fact combined with Santa's bad attitude towards Rudolph in the first half of this special is reminder to me what an asshole Santa really is.
This movie helps to remind me to keep the holidays real.

Star Wars Holiday Special - What does a Christmas train wreck look like? This special answers that question.
And as horrible as it is, morbid curiosity prevents me from looking away.

PeeWee's Playhouse Christmas Special - What does a Christmas train wreck look like if the train could talk, was gay and knew exactly how to walk a slightly twisted tightrope of childhood innocence & just good ol' fashioned grown-up holiday cheer?
Fuck Santa.
I prefer Pee Wee.

Charlie Brown Christmas Oh, just in case I forget to wish any you fuckers a happy holidays,
"Merry Christmas, you blockheads".
[Edited 12/18/08 23:26pm]

hokie said:

TheMightyCelestial said:

Or if you're watching the horribly edited TV-version, that's "Yippy-kay-yay, Mister Falcon!"

728huey said:

I always love those puppet ones like rudolf/a year without santa claus/santa claus is coming to town

Don't forget 'Home Alone'...I watch it about every other year.

'National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation'...great fun

I still love 'White Christmas'....nostalgia I guess...mmmmm
Either the 1954 or 1942 versions are OK by me.

'Scrooged', with Bill Murray...since you don't always see it on TV every
year, I'll rent it now and then.

'A Christmas Carol'(1938)....definite classic

Once in a blue moon I'll watch 'Miracle' or 'It's A Wonderful Life'
It's not a steady diet however....

And in addition, the usual specials like 'Rudolph' and 'Charlie Brown'

The Wiz
And the flick with my man "Mr. Heat Miser" - "I'm too much!"

A Christmas Story

A Christmas Carol- the really old one

Christmas Vacation

Holiday Inn

BlackAdder7 said:

It's A Wonderful Life, my all time fave.

The animated Grinch Who Stole Christmas
A Christmas Carol - w/ Allistair Sims b/w original version
Christmas Vacation w/ Chevy Chase
Home Alone movies (1st and 2nd movie)
All animated Christmas cartoons

This is not only my favorite christmas movie, its one of my favorite flicks of all times as well

claymation christmas. It was my fave. It was not as popular, but it had the california raisins!

i am now inspired to go look 4 it.....

Yup...my freakin' favorite.




I need to post some video...but here's the link. Dude...I freakin loved that special!

1987 - wow.....

http://www.youtube.com/wa...re=related

It's a 3 way tie between Nightmare Before Christmas, How The Grinch Stole Christmas and A Charlie Brown Christmas.

even though i have a special place in my heart for Jack Skellington