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

[Lupek]

Its A Wonderful Life and A Christmas Story are probably my all time favorites.

March of the Wooden Soldiers/Babes in Toyland would be my number one but I most associate it with Thanksgiving (along with King Kong, Son of Kong and Mighty Joe Young).

I also like..........

Miracle On 34th Street (b&w)
A Christmas Carol - Reginald Owen
Scrooge - Alistair Sim
Christmas in Connecticut - Barbara Stanwyck is the bomb
Belles of St Mary's - Bing may have made his kid eat week old scrambled eggs but I sitll love that guy's voice.
We're No Angels - cant go wrong with Bogey
3 Godfathers - cant go wrong with the Duke

I saw Holiday Inn for the first time last year. The music was good but I probabaly wouldn't watch it again. I felt the same way about White Christmas.

I know it's awful but I sitll havent seen Nightmare before Christmas or Elf.

[The Zapper]

Scrooged
A Christmas Story
Bad Santa
Nightmare Before Christmas
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation

[suttercain]

a Christmas Story


That's the one.

[Maxwell Edison]

Die Hard, Batman Returns and Olive the Other Reindeer

[Sean Whitmore]

It's A Wonderful Life for me.

What a weird thread resurrection. Usually people can't wait to start new "favorite ____ movie" threads.


SEAN

[AbsurdistEmergence]

Scrooge (Alastair Sim version)
It's A Wonderful Life

Great movies that are played every year.

[the goddamn batman]

I've nothing to add to the film list; seems all the bases are covered.

I will add, though, while not proper films, there's three things I need to see each year or it's just not Christmas:

The Grinch Who Stole Christmas. C'mon. No love for the Grinch? For shame.

Mickey Mouse: Pluto's Christmas Tree & Donald Duck: Toy Tinkers. These two especially. I remember when I was a kid, Disney would always do their holiday special and these two were my favorites. I've got them on my HD just in case I don't catch them elsewhere.

[Lupek]

It's A Wonderful Life for me.

What a weird thread resurrection. Usually people can't wait to start new "favorite ____ movie" threads.


SEAN

It's the Ghost of Christmas Past.

[kalorama]

Bad Santa and The Ice Harvest.

[suttercain]

Die Hard

That's a great one actually! Anyone mention "Silent Night, Deadly Night?"

[Monty_Cristo]

Gremlins (only the 1st one)

[Damiean Dark]

Home Alone. it is a great little movie at the time when i was a young pup and it still stands up today all elements blended perfectly for me the big empty house the clownish crooks getting beat in cartoonish ways the perfect light hearted childrens christmas movie imo.

[ultramandingo]

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Dawn Davenport: Gimmie those presents, I'll never wear those ugly shoes! I told you the kind I wanted! You ruined my Christmas!
[stomps the Xmas presents]
Mrs. Davenport: Please, Dawn! Not on Christmas!
Dawn Davenport: Get off me, you ugly witch!
[pushes mother into the Xmas tree]
Mr. Davenport: Dawn Davenport, are you crazy, look at your mother!
Dawn Davenport: Get off me... LAY OFF ME! I hate you, f#ck you! F#ck you both, you awful people! You're not my parents! I hate you, I hate this house, and I hate Christmas!
Mrs. Davenport: Not on Christmas! Not on Christmas!

[2-4-5_Trioxin]

The one and only good christmas ever made or ever will be made. I hate this damn holiday but this movie always makes me smile when I see it.

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And I see movies like die hard and black christmas listed, yes both good movies (except the remake of black christmas was horrible) but they arent christmas movies. They are just set in the season of christmas but the movie isnt about christmas itself.

[jdwrocks]

For myself it's an odd choice but true to the Christmas tradition. It is the movie musical "Scrooge" starring Albert Finney. It came out in the early or mid 70's. But I love that movie so much. Great songs, great adaption of Dickens tale. It warms my angry heart every year.

[Black Vespa]

Holiday Affair (robert mitchum)
Lemon Drop Kid (bob hope)
A Christmas Story (based on excerpt of book In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash by raconteur Jean Shepherd

[GozertheGozarian]

Bad Santa, Scrooged, and Muppet Christmas Carol are the only ones I'll watch. I can't stand Miracle on 34th Street, It's a Wonderful Life, or Christmas Story.

[broad]

The best Christmas movies are in the following,

The Santa Clause
Elf
White Christmas
A Christmas Story
A Christmas Carol
The Polar Express

[Street Worm]

A Christmas Carol (1938- Reginald Owen version),
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation

(& a whole bunch of 'toons)

[ZombieHavoc]

Jack Frost (killer snowman one)
Black Christmas (orig and remake)
Silent Night, Deadly Night
Santa's Slay
Christmas Evil
Muppet Christmas Carol

[Pauly T]

"If this is their idea of Christmas, I gotta be here for New Year's!"

Die Hard
Lethal Weapon
The Long Kiss Goddnight
Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang
The Last Boyscout

[Lupek]

Here is one that I am sure scarred kids psychologically in the 1940's........

Santa Claus' Punch and Judy (1948) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXVFhF94eUQ)

[Kirayoshi]

"If this is their idea of Christmas, I gotta be here for New Year's!"

Die Hard
Lethal Weapon
The Long Kiss Goddnight
Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang
The Last Boyscout
If you're going for movies that happen to take place during Christmas, there's always The Lion in Winter. Damn good movie, but talk about dysfunctional families! This movie makes Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? look like A Very Brady Christmas!

[P-Man]

I just scanned the replys and didn't read every single thing everybody said, but I notice a lack of Gremlins. I just re-watched this movie a couple days ago, and man, is it great. A wonderful, insane, live action cartoon.

[Lupek]

It doesn't get better than....

Santa Claus Conquers The Martians (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=M-TGnBOZj1U)

well maybe it does,but here it is anyway.

[Cam63]

A Christmas Story still rates high with me.

[Sean Whitmore]

A Christmas Story still rates high with me.

Which one?



Du-dum-tish!


SEAN

[Wannabe]

Jack Frost (killer snowman one)
Black Christmas (orig and remake)
Silent Night, Deadly Night
Santa's Slay
Christmas Evil
Muppet Christmas Carol

One of these things is not like the others.


I'll go with...
Home Alone
Home Alone 2
Gremlins
The Santa Clause
Die Hard
Black Christmas
Muppet Christmas Carol
Jingle All the Way.