Elf

Bad Santa

Home Alone

Die Hard (yeah, always!!!)

-and-

The Grinch (original)

Rudolph (the old start-stop animation)

Frosty (short cartoon)

.

PS.

As an intermission, the live video of Mariah in Tokyo doing "AIWFCIY" sneaks in there, too

(forgetful edit)

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You guys ok?

Its a Wonderful Life

A Christmas Carol

Home Alone

Bad Santa

Gremlins.

FragileUndertow said:

It's A Wonderful Life (1946)

The Bishop's Wife (1947)

Christmas Carol (1951)

The Man Who Invented Christmas (2017)

Holiday Inn (1942)


The Man Who Invented Christmas is newer but I didn't know about some of these classics until later in life and they've knocked out some of my former favorites.

Part of my Christmas ritual is watching these movies (and a few others) and I still have a couple to watch before Christmas

ShellyMcG said:

I kind of feel like I'm the only person who doesn't like Bad Santa. I saw it years ago when it first came out and I just didn't enjoy it. It's my dad's second favourite Christmas movie (next to Jingle All The Way) but it's not my kind of thing. I prefer to think of Santa Claus as Richard Attenborough in Miracle On 34th Street or even Tim Allen in The Santa Clause. A drunken Billy Bob Thornton is not my idea of Santa Claus. [Edited 12/21/23 11:35am]

Damn it, how could I forget Miracle on 34th Street?


Bad Santa was alright but Jingle All The Way is out for me.

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S2DG said:

In no order:

Home Alone

Gremlins

Rudolph

Elf

Scrooged


Of course Die Hard. I can't stand that Frosty thing. It never hit with me. Santa Claus is Coming To Town is great, too.

forgot 'Planes, Trains & Automobiles' !!!!

Most of the popular choices I've never seen: Elf, Home Alone, Scrooged, Bad Santa, It's a Wonderful Life, etc. I generally prefer watching non-Christmas Christmas movies--the ones that are set primarily around the holidays, but aren't really about Christmas. Taking all that into account, these are the top five films I enjoy watching in December:



1. In Bruges (2008)

2. The Apartment (1960)

3. Un conte de Noël / A Christmas Tale (2008)

4. The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)

5. Batman Returns (1992)

My top 5 Christmas movies that are actually about Christmas would be:

1. Un conte de Noël / A Christmas Tale (2008)

2. The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)

3. Tokyo Godfathers (2003) - a Christmas anime

4. Joyeux Noël / Merry Christmas (2005) - about the WWI Christmas truce of 1914

5. Black Christmas (1974) - Christmas slasher film

Honorable mention that doesn't fit on either list is the Hawkeye TV miniseries.

Sexton so artsy lol

Edward Scissorhands

kpowers said:

ShellyMcG said:

kpowers said:

I've never even heard of 3 of those and the only one I've seen is A Christmas Story.

Which 3?????

kpowers said:

ShellyMcG said:

kpowers said:

Which 3?????

The Year Without Santa Claus, Little Drummer Boy and Santa Claus Is Coming To Town.

Classics, check them out

double

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If we're including Rankin-Bass stop motion specials (which are the most essential) and Thanksgiving stuff I'm doing a Top 10.

#01. Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (Rankin-Bass)

#02. The Santa Clause

#03. Dutch

#04. Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town (Rankin-Bass)

#05. The Year without a Santa Claus (Rankin-Bass)

#06. Batman Returns

#07. trailer

#08. Home Alone 2: Lost in New York

#09. Black Christmas (1972)

#10A. A Very Harold and Kumar 3D Christmas

or

#10B. Jingle All the Way

or

#10C. Bad Santa

The one I badly want to like is Scrooged, but that film is very very uneven and kind of weird/coked-out 80s. The whole part where he takes over the TV special is wacked out.

ShellyMcG said:

the only one I've seen is A Christmas Story.

Rudolph is on YouTube. It's beyond a holiday staple for us Americans. More beloved than egg nog, it's up there with Christmas trees and holiday cookies.

https://www.youtube.com/w...1u7lHSMoIU

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WhisperingDandelions said:

nayroo2002 said:

FragileUndertow said:

Watched this last night. It was a Thanksgiving movie. Close enough though nayroo2002 said:

forgot 'Planes, Trains & Automobiles' !!!!

oops

"...THOSE AREN'T PILLOWS!!!"

nayroo2002 said:

ShellyMcG said:

WhisperingDandelions said:

Rudolph is on YouTube. It's beyond a holiday staple for us Americans. More beloved than egg nog, it's up there with Christmas trees and holiday cookies.

https://www.youtube.com/w...1u7lHSMoIU

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I might check it out. But it feels a bit sad to be watching Christmas movies after Christmas I always see people talking about eggnog in American shows and movies. I never even knew what it was. But I've been told that it's fucking disgusting so I'll probably steer clear of that.

Well can you watch Die Hard & Lethal Weapon (as you said they are Christmas movies) after Christmas?

kpowers said: