Favorite Christmas Movies?

[Bradford]

OK - just sitting here watching Love Actually and wondering what everyone's favorite Christmas movie's are?

I would say, this one, A Charlie Brown Christmas and Die Hard

 

[whodini]

Christmas Story and Christmas Vacation. A tie.

 

[Aaron]

A Christmas Story. There is no other Christmas movie in my books.

 

[mrchapel]

A Christmas Story is good, but I feel its overhyped; especially when it's always played for a 24 hour period before Christmas on Christmas Eve.

My favorites:

It's a Wonderful Life
A Christmas Carol (1951 with Alastair Sim as Scrooge)
Muppet Christmas Carol

 

[clarinetplayer]

It's A Wonderful Life
A Christmas Carol (With Alister Sims as Scrooge)

 

[whodini]

Originally Posted by mrchapel

A Christmas Story is good, but I feel its overhyped; especially when it's always played for a 24 hour period before Christmas on Christmas Eve.

My favorites:

It's a Wonderful Life
A Christmas Carol (1951 with Alastair Sim as Scrooge)
Muppet Christmas Carol
Yeah, thank God "It's a Wonderful Life" is shown only once @ 3am Dec 16th...

I like Capra, I like Stewart, but this film drives me nuts.

 

[javyn]

Christmas Story, Christmas Vacation....

I also really liked The Ref, although generally I don't like Leary.

 

[VMan]

The Snowman.

 

[whodini]

Originally Posted by VersaceMan

The Snowman.
Man, I was so tempted to put this down but figured it was more a short than a movie. If considered a movie, it'd probably be one of my all time favs in any category. It has huge nostalgic value for me and is the original source of my musicianship today. Massively underrated and unknown except in the UK as I came to find out. Kudos, Versace.

 

[VMan]

Originally Posted by whodini

Man, I was so tempted to put this down but figured it was more a short than a movie.

If considered a movie, it'd probably be one of my all time favs in any category. It has huge nastalgic value for me and is the original source of my musicianship today.

Huge and hugely underrated and unknown. Kudos, Versace.

Yeah, I agree with all the above.

That YouTube link is only something like 9 mins. I have the original on my computer. I believe it's 25 mins or so. You can buy it on amazon, or download the torrent from isohunt.

 

[Lamo]

+1 for Christmas Story. I don't know why I never get tired of watching that movie.

 

[whodini]

Originally Posted by VersaceMan

Yeah, I agree with all the above.

That YouTube link is only something like 9 mins. I have the original on my computer. I believe it's 25 mins or so. You can buy it on amazon, or download the torrent from isohunt.
I've owned the VHS copy since '85 and then the DVD once it came out in the Father Christmas/Snowman set. P.S. If you want the soundtrack, I've got it in mp3 or m4a form. PM me.

 

[whodini]

Originally Posted by Lamo

+1 for Christmas Story. I don't know why I never get tired of watching that movie.
I've often imagined it as to how my father's christmas was growing up. He, too, got a Red Ryder BB rifle for christmas. I did, too, at 11.

 

[Hawkeye]

I used to love A Christmas Story when I was a kid. As a teenager, I spent many a Christmas watching Die Hard.

 

[DocHolliday]

Scrooged
Scrooge (The Albert Finney musical, with the vaguely psychedelic trip to Hell)

If we're counting TV specials, the Rankin-Bass Rudolph