Best Christmas Movie

[saintsaucey]

Okay so I was talking with a friend of mine on line and she has never seen Elf. Which is a crime since I think its one of the best modern Christmas movies there is. I thought I'd list my faves and see what you all think of as your faves.

No particular order here

Elf
White Christmas
Miracle On 34th Street(both versions)
The Santa Clause
Jack Frost(With Michael Keaton and Kelly Preston)
Rudolf
Frosty
Home Alone and Home Alone 2
Its A Wonderful Life(becuase if i didn't mention it my dad would kill me) these are the only ones i can think of at the moment. anyone else have anything to add

[Arilou]

Karl-Bertil Jonsson's Julafton. *nods*

"Jag har närt en KOMMUNIST vid min barm!"

[Ontir]

Bad Santa the Director's Cut
Black Christmas
a Christmas Story
a Christmas Carol the really old English one with Lassie's Mom as a little girl.

[Ryan K]

National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
It's a Wonderful Life
Bad Santa
Scrooged
A Christmas Story
A Muppet Christmas Carol

[BoosterBronze]

Reindeer Games and Surviving Christmas.

Affleck is the BOMB!

[SnowTrooper]

National Lampoons Christmas Vacation, best christmas movie in the history of christmas movies.

Honorable Mentions: A Christmas Story and Elf

[Lord of Denial]

A Christmas Story

Christmas Vacation

Merry Christmas Shitters full.

No can do Clark I got a steel plate in my head and when I stand to close to the microwave I piss my pants and forget who I am for a week!

[Royal]

Lethal Weapon
Stalag 17
.....

[Lord of Denial]

Lethal Weapon
Stalag 17
.....


Die Hard 1 and 2 !

[the film freak]

Lethal Weapon
Stalag 17
.....

What about Die Hard?

[Royal]

Thank you. I was blanking there.

Must be getting old.

LA Confidential
Hudsucker Proxy?

[Ontir]

This is on the fringe of a Christmas movie, and I love it, so I'm mentioning it here: Home For the Holidays!

[Aggie]

This is on the fringe of a Christmas movie, and I love it, so I'm mentioning it here: Home For the Holidays!


i'll see your home for the holidays and raise you a "ref"...love,love,love, that movie...as for the more traditional choice...nothing beats the charlie brown christmas special...dude, charlie brown and that little jacked up tree...it gets me every time...:)

[LordEd1976]

National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation. I always laugh myself to death from the minute the opening credits start to when Uncle Lewis sets off the sewer gas and sends santa and his reindeer flying.

Love Actually. This movie is the perfect Christmas date movie. And its the first movie I've seen that has acknowledged the important contribution made by the lobsters at the birth of Christ.

[Tazirai]

a Christmas Story " RALPHIE!!!!" Classic..

Anything from the early 80's - mid 80's.

[Kirayoshi]

It's a Wonderful Life, obviously. My favorite movie of all time.

Miracle on 34th Street. The original, with Edmund Gwenn, Maureen O'Hara and Natalie Wood.

A Christmas Story. I worked with a man who loved that movie, and the easiest way to make him crack up was to say "Be sure to drink your Ovaltine" around him.

Die Hard. Seriously.

Three Godfathers. Preferably the John Ford version with John Wayne. Also, the recent anime version, Tokyo Godfathers.

A Christmas Carol. Alastair Sim version. Honorable mention, The Muppet Christmas Carol. Michael Caine was surprisingly good, considering his costars were a frog, a pig and a bear!

Love Actually. And check out the DVD for the edited scenes. There's a great bit where Emma Thompson's son writes an essay about why he wishes farts were visible. You will laugh your arse off!

Honorable mention: Holiday Inn. Not strictly a Christmas movie, but it did introduce the song White Christmas.

Also, The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe. Again, not a Christmas movie, but Father Christmas does put in an appearance.

[Frodo-X]

My favorites:

The Ref
An American Christmas Carol (my favorite version)
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
Miracle on 34th Street (the original ONLY)
The Santa Clause Movies
Bad Santa (Off the wall, but cool)
And the Rankin/Bass TV Movies (Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, Year Without a Santa Claus, Santa Claus is Comin' to Town)

[saintsaucey]

Should i hide in mortal shame for forgetting national lampoons christmas vacation and mupet christmas carol. i think i should. i love the muppet christmas carol

cheap rotten no good (wishes suddenly he could remember the rest of the quote with out looking it up on the internet)


i scoured for the internet for this
cheap, lyiny, no good, rotten, four-flushing, low-life, snake-licking, dirt-eating, inbred, overstuffed, ignorant, bloodsucking, dog-kissing, brainless, dickless, hopeless, heartless, fat-assed, bug-eyed, stiff-legged, spotty-lipped, worm-headed sack of monkey bleep he is! Hallelujah! Holy bleep! Where's the Tylenol?"

[Buzz Dixon]

I'm agreeing -- with varying degrees of enthusiasm -- to amost all the entries posted here.

Here's a sub-genre that deserves note: Remakes of THREE GODFATHERS. This would include the John Wayne version, HELL'S HEROES (my personal fave of the several versions of this story), and TOKYO GODFATHERS, which turned the story from a Western into an "Eastern."

[SlightlyMad]

A Nightmare Before Christmas

Gremlins

[Dennis K]

1) A Christmas Story

2) It's A Wonderful Life

3) Bad Santa

4) A Christmas Carol (starring Patrick Stewart, I'm a ST:TNG nerd, sue me)

5) Christmas Vacation

6) Home Alone

[The Joker]

Bad Santa

A Christmas Story

and

It's a Wonderful Life

^ Those are the trinity of Christmas movies that I seem to have any interest in.

[DWEarhart]

Santa Claus: The Movie
Nightmare Before Christmas
Christmas Story
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
Die Hard
The Ref

Shoot me, I liked Jingle All the Way

[ponset]

"Holiday Inn", Bing Crosby first croons "White Christmas" is this movie.

"Meet Me in St. Louis". Judy Garland first croons "Have Yourself a Merry Little
Christmas" in this movie.

"Will Penny" Good Christmas scene with Charlton Heston and Joan Hackett.

[DWEarhart]

I need to add Scrooged, with Bill Murray.

[Julusnc]

Its A Wonderful Life
A Christmas Carol
A Christmas Story
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation