In Keeping With the Season, Which is Your Favorite Christmas Film?

[Maggie_T]

Feel free to mention films from Christmas past and present.

Mine is A Christmas Carol. The Alister Simms version, though I accept any other as long as it's not been effed up with.

There is something about that story that I find ever-uplifting. I can be down in the dumps, but that film will invariably heal me. Even if I see it in the middle of June. :biggrin:

A close second is A Christmas Story. How can one resist little Ralphie and his efforts to get the BB gun? Those were the good old days, now gone. :sad:

Anyway, those are my selections.

What are yours?

[Naturalized-Texan]

A Wonderful Life

[TeenageRepublican]

My favorite Christmas flicks in no special order are:

Elf
Home Alone 1
Home Alone 2
The Muppet Christmas Carol

I'm trying to think of some, but I can't. I shall post more when they come to me.

[TeenageRepublican]

Okay here are more:
Black Christmas (original)
A horror flick set around Christmas that is scary as hell. This isn't a slasher. There's no gore at all. This makes you want to double check your doors and windows. Freaks come out on Christmas.

White Christmas:
A cheery fun time musical kid type thing. This one doesn't involve absolute silence like Black Christmas does. And no, they are not related.

[Rhino]

It's A Wonderful Life.

I also like Miracle on 34th Street (the 1947 version), and A Christmas Story.

Though How the Grinch Stole Christmas really cracks me up. Jim Carrey was perfect for that role.

[gnome]

Scrooged, all the way.

Muppet Christmas Carol, seconded.

[HomeschoolrsRUs]

When I'm feeling sappy and sentimental:

It's A Wonderful Life and White Christmas (otherwise known as Holiday Inn)

When I want a good, hearty Christmas laugh:

Scrooged (with Bill Murray ... :roar: just LOVE it when Carol Kane beats the stuffing out of him with the toaster)

[Teenager]

Miracle on 34th Street

[MarlinsFan]

Golden Compass ;)

Seriously though, I liked the Grinch cartoon when I was a kid, and for more recent movies, I thought Fred Claus was funny.

[Elgalad]

Die Hard and Die Hard 2.

:D

Give me a minute or two and I'll think of a few more.


-E

[Neil Peart]

Gotta be A Christmas Story.

I also happened to like Jingle All the Way.

[Lubbock]

Home Alone and The Santa Clause in the "modern" era.

Miracle On 34th Street and It's a Wonderful Life from ancient times.

[Rhino]

Die Hard and Die Hard 2.Your name wouldn't be Joey or Chandler, would it? :rotflmbo:

[Riverboat]

It's a Wonderful Life
A Christmas Story
A Muppet Christmas Carol
A Christmas Carol - 1984 version with George Scott and Edward Woodward (remember him? The Equalizer?)

Christmas season doesn't officially begin for me until I've seen A Charlie Brown Christmas. I also love those animagic shows - Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer with Burl Ives narrating, The Little Drummer Boy always brings a tear to my eye, and Santa Claus is Coming to Town narrated by none other than Fred Astaire.

You probably already know that all the music to the Rudolph show was composed by the same writer as the famous song. If you don't love hearing Clarice sing There's Always Tomorrow as much as I do, then I just don't want to meet you.

[Elgalad]

Your name wouldn't be Joey or Chandler, would it? :rotflmbo:

Hey.. How you doin? :thumb:



-E

[Rhino]

:rotflmbo:

[Jack_Savage]

The Bishops wife (1947)

[TeenageRepublican]

Oh yeah, The Bishop's Wife was excellent. Call me racist, but I think The Bishop's Wife was a lot better than that remake The Preacher's Wife with entirely black people.
I thought the acting was a lot better.

[Neil Peart]

Oh yeah, The Bishop's Wife was excellent. Call me racist, but I think The Bishop's Wife was a lot better than that remake The Preacher's Wife with entirely black people.
I thought the acting was a lot better.We're not going to call you racist, because we're not leftists.

[Sarah]

This is my favorite.

http://img180.imageshack.us/img180/9649/christmasvacationef5.jpg

[TeenageRepublican]

We're not going to call you racist, because we're not leftists.

Where's the fun in that?

[Neil Peart]

Where's the fun in that? It's right in here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHg5SJYRHA0

[BarryC]

A short from 1905 called The Night Before Christmas, and a 27-minute short from 1950 called The Sprit of Christmas.
The latter is shown several times each year during this season. It's done with marianettes and narrated by Alexander Scourby. Both of these are extremely well done.

I also like Jingle All the Way and the Bishop's Wife, as others have mentioned. Unlike most people I have not seen A Christmas Story, and have no interest in it. If anything I have maybe seen short 5-minute sections of it on occasion.

Barry

[HomeschoolrsRUs]

Unlike most people I have not seen A Christmas Story, and have no interest in it. If anything I have maybe seen short 5-minute sections of it on occasion.

Ditto that. It's those stupid commercial trailer snippets, they totally turned me off to seeing that movie. They keep showing the same scene over and over with the store Santa shouting an LSD-like "Ho, Ho, Ho" and in slow motion kicking the boy down a red slide. Not my idea of Christmas spirit. I'll take "Miracle on 34th Street" or "The Santa Clause" trilogy over that.

[Rhino]

The Bishops wife (1947)Much better than the newer one. The newer one is still good, but it can't hold a candle to the original.

[Rhino]

Ditto that. It's those stupid commercial trailer snippets, they totally turned me off to seeing that movie. They keep showing the same scene over and over with the store Santa shouting an LSD-like "Ho, Ho, Ho" and in slow motion kicking the boy down a red slide. Not my idea of Christmas spirit. I'll take "Miracle on 34th Street" or "The Santa Clause" trilogy over that.Your choice, but you're really missing out. The snippets don't do the movie justice. There's plenty of Christmas spirit. In fact, that's the overall message of the movie.

[gnome]

It's also part of a larger body of work based on author Jean Shepherd's nostalgic stories. Some other movies about the same family have been made, including "Ollie Hopnoodle's Haven of Bliss" (1988) and "It Runs in the Family" (1994)

[DesertFox]

Christmas Story, hands down.

"You'll shoot your eye out, kid."

[Kathy30]

A Christmas Carol with Alistair Sim, A Christmas Story, The Nightmare Before Christmas,

And yes I love all those old animation films like Rudolph the Rednosed Reindeer. I look forward to seeing them year after year.