OT: Your favorite Christmas movies

[Chin Diesel]

Office Christmas Party

 

[3rdbass]

We just watched "Last Christmas" with my 2 brothers and 10 year old niece last night. I had seen and loved it. Everybody liked it. Who doesn't love a move filled with Wham songs? hehe. I also like: It's a Wonderful life, Elf, Just Friends, Bad Santa and National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation.

 

[alphasigko]

A Christmas Story, and
Silent Night

 

[ctchamps]

Surprised no one has mentioned Ted Lasso’s “Carol of the Bells”.

 

[CONN78SEJ]

I'm an old man, so my favorites are the classics.
White Christmas
Holiday Inn
It's a wonderful life
Miracle on 34th Street
Although it's technically not a Christmas movie ala DIE Hard,
Going My Way's climatic scene takes place on Christmas eve, so I call it one.

My favorite Christmas movies…….

1) The Apartment (surprisingly very Christmasy and also flat out one of the greatest films ever made)
2) White Christmas
3) It’s a Wonderful Life
4) The Shop Around the Corner
5) Christmas in Connecticut
6) Edward Scissorhands
7) Miracle on 34th Street
8) The Bishops Wife
9) A Christmas Carol (1951)
10) Ben-Hur 1959. Not a Christmas movie in the traditional sense but its sub title is “A Tale of the Christ”, it begins at Christ’s birth in a manger and ends just after his crucifixion, as Judah’s mother and sister are cured of leprosy.

 

[treesap32]

1 - Home Alone
2 - A Christmas Story
3 - National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
4 - White Christmas

 

[UCTitleTown]

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"You closed Walter Davis?"

 

[The Viking]

Daddy's Home 2, saw it for the first time this year and I recommend.

Just watched that 3 years ago for the first time and make sure I watch it every year. Not sure i even saw the first one but adding Mel Gibson and Jon Lithgow as the grandparents and then throwing in John Cena- lot of funny moments. Especially with the kids in the movie.

 

[StllH8L8ner]

Mrs StllH8L8ner forces the kids and I to watch “The Night They Saved Christmas” every year on Christmas Eve. She used to watch it with her siblings when they were young so we’re continuing the tradition with our kids.

 

[87Xfer]

The Year Without a Santa Clause
Santa Clause Is Comin' to Town

The second one really launched Mark Few's career, playing Snow Miser. Credit to someone else here for noticing...

 

[Deepster]

The second one really launched Mark Few's career, playing Snow Miser. Credit to someone else here for noticing...

My take? Other than the Miser Bros songs, the rest of the hour is a D-

 

[Huskygamble19]

A Christmas Carol..Alistair Sim.
Its A wonderful Life
National Lampoon Christmas Vacation
Home Alone
Trains, Planes and Automobiles
Elf
Bad Santa
the Santa Claus
Scrooged
A Christmas Carol..George C Scott

 

[Kolumbo]

Since this is a holiday thread, just learned they have holiday lights at The Rent

Magic of Lights

magicoflights.com

 

[The Yakk]

Surprised "Bad Santa" was not mentioned more often. That's my clear number one. The exact right balance between dark humor/meanness/venality and spiritual redemption.

But my wife hates that movie, so maybe I'm the crazy one.

 

[HCCForever]

Surprised "Bad Santa" was not mentioned more often. That's my clear number one. The exact right balance between dark humor/meanness/venality and spiritual redemption.

But my wife hates that movie, so maybe I'm the crazy one.

It's not my favorite but deserves mention. I know that I'm crazy as many including my wife have offered that opinion of me.

 

[storrsroars]

Surprised "Bad Santa" was not mentioned more often. That's my clear number one. The exact right balance between dark humor/meanness/venality and spiritual redemption.

But my wife hates that movie, so maybe I'm the crazy one.

It's not my favorite but deserves mention. I know that I'm crazy as many including my wife have offered that opinion of me.

I've enjoyed Bad Santa pretty much every year, but much more as a straight up raunchy comedy than a "Christmas" movie as my particular criteria for that is a film that puts me in a Christmasy mood - something Bad Santa distinctly does not do. I actually feel more naug.hty than nice each time I watch the thing, lol. I'm happy that Brett Kelly ended up a normal guy as I think many child actors could've been traumatized for life by the Thurman Merman role.

Anyway, here's a pretty great article on a lot of backstory stuff regarding making Bad Santa. Including the fact that the first actor the Coen brothers wanted to play Santa was James Gandolfini. And that Thornton was legitimately wasted for several of his drunken scenes. Now that's Method Acting.

(wth, "naugh.ty" is a verboten word here?)

 

[The Yakk]

I've enjoyed Bad Santa pretty much every year, but much more as a straight up raunchy comedy than a "Christmas" movie as my particular criteria for that is a film that puts me in a Christmasy mood - something Bad Santa distinctly does not do. I actually feel more naug.hty than nice each time I watch the thing, lol. I'm happy that Brett Kelly ended up a normal guy as I think many child actors could've been traumatized for life by the Thurman Merman role.

Anyway, here's a pretty great article on a lot of backstory stuff regarding making Bad Santa. Including the fact that the first actor the Coen brothers wanted to play Santa was James Gandolfini. And that Thornton was legitimately wasted for several of his drunken scenes. Now that's Method Acting.

(wth, "naugh.ty" is a verboten word here?)

Nice article, thanks

 

[dbmill]

My four favorite Christmas movies, in no particular order:

Miracle on 34th Street - 1947
Christmas Story
It's a Wonderful Life
A Christmas Carol - Alistair Sim 1951 version.