Favorite Christmas movies

[nobodyspecial]

Love Actually, a once per year must see for me.

 

[flat-top]

The first Home Alone has been on cable several times this Summer. I really forgot how warm and fuzzy it makes you feel.

 

[TCMfan25]

#1 Holiday Inn!!!! Bing and Fred masterpiece! #2 The Bells Of St. Mary's, I'm not Catholic, but Bing always gets me. #3 Miracle On 34th Street is a perfect Christmas flick.

 

[TCMfan25]

Actually, Going My Way is #2.

 

[TCMfan25]

Oh! And White Christmas! Christmas films are great!

 

[Gregg Axley]

White Christmas, Holiday Inn, A Christmas Story, and A Christmas Carol (1938 and 1999).
The 1999 version if you don't know, has Patrick Stewart and IMHO this is one of his best roles. He personifies Scrooge perfectly and it's a joy to see each year. A Christmas Story??? Yeah, I got on that film about 12yrs ago and watch it several times a year during it's 24hr showing. I also have 3 copies on VHS, and 3 copies on DVD, as well as a full sized leg lamp.

 

[Sam Diamond]

I'm 47, but I still love the Rankin and Bass puppet animations. Especially "A Year Without a Santa Clause".
And "A Christmas Story".

 

[Steven180]

Single favorite Christmas movie is “Miracle on 34th Street.” Watching it serves as our the traditional ‘kick off’ of the season for our family.

“The Bishops Wife” is a close second, and George C Scott in “A Christmas Carol” rounds it out.

The season is fast approaching...
M.

 

[Mister Cairo]

Has anyone mentioned Planes, Trains and Automobiles?

I know it's set at American Thanksgiving but we consider it a Christmas movie too! As Canadian Thanksgiving is in October, the snow-covered settings in the film lend it a Christmasy feel to us!

"Those aren't pillows!!!!!"


My Christmas film list:

A Christmas Carol/Scrooge (Alistair Sim)
It's A Wonderful Life
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
Elf

TV Specials/Cartoons:

Rudolf/Frosty the Snowman/Little Drummer Boy/Year Without a Santa Claus/Santa Claus is Coming to Town/Etc.
A Charlie Brown Christmas
Polar Express
Pee-Wee Herman's Christmas Special (really - where else can you meet Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello and Cher, k.d. lang and Grace Slick?)
The Trailer Park Boys Christmas Special (yes, really, and it's a Christmas Eve tradition as that's when my wife and I first watched it. Naturally, we have the DVD....)

 

[hatophile]

A Chritmas Story.

"You'll put your eye out!"

 

[Gregg Axley]

I forgot those Sam...yeah I put the DVR on Rudolph each year, whether I'm watching or not, to give it the ratings. I bought them on DVD years ago, and still enjoy them. Is there an age limit? I'm 41....

 

[Mister Cairo]

Others in our collection:

A TRUE FAV of mine I'd forgotten earlier - Emmet Otter's Jug Band Christmas, a Jim Henson Muppet production.

Guilty pleasures:

Christmas With the Kranks
Jingle All The Way
Love, Actually (soppy at times, and appreciationographic at others - saw it on a plane once. My wife asked me how they dealt with one particular story line. Simply - they deleted it in its entirety! Those who've seen the film will understand...)

 

[rue]

(of course, Ive never seen A Christmas Story.)

:eeek: I hope you have now......

A Christmas Story is great! Finally saw it this year.

Thank goodness

 

[rue]

I have to see these two during Christmas no matter what or it feels like something is missing:

It's a Wonderful Life
Miracle om 34th Street (the original version)


But I love all of these too:

Christmas Vacation
A Christmas Story
Scrooged with Bill Murray
Miracle on 34th Street (the remake with Dylan McDermott.... in that overcoat, suit and scarf.... be still my heart)
Scrooge (any of them)
Home Alone
Home Alone 2
Elf


And of course all the cartoon specials:

How the Grinch Stole Christmas
Frosty the Snowman
Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer
Rudolph’s Shiny New Year
Santa Claus is Coming to Town
The Year Without a Santa Claus
T’was the Night Before Christmas
Charlie Brown Christmas
The Nightmare Before Christmas
The Polar Express

Can you tell I love Christmas? lol

 

[olive bleu]

Lets not forget, EMMET OTTER'S JUGBAND CHRISMAS

 

[Mister Cairo]

I had at first but then remembered above! Great, isn't it?!

Lets not forget, EMMET OTTER'S JUGBAND CHRISMAS

 

[flat-top]

One Lounger said a few years ago that she felt "unclean" if she missed A Charlie Brown Christmas. A perfect description I think. Even if I own these Christmas specials on DVD, it's always more...um, special to watch them when they're actually on!

 

[eldredbucknor]

Mine favorite Christmas movies are: A Christmas Story, It’s a Wonderful Life, The Muppet Christmas Carol, The Polar Express, Home Alone, Miracle on 34th Street and Scrooged.

 

[michaelwaughan]

As per my opinion these are all my favorite christmas movies :
1. ELF
2. A Charlie Brown Christmas
3. A Christmas Story
4. The Nightmare Before Christmas
5. Home Alone

 

[flat-top]

Oh Good Lord......
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