What movie do you watch every year around this time? I've never seen 'It's a Wonderful Life", "A Christmas Story" or "Miracle on 34th Street." I watch "The Family Man" every year.
What movie do you watch every year around this time? I've never seen 'It's a Wonderful Life", "A Christmas Story" or "Miracle on 34th Street." I watch "The Family Man" every year.
Bad Santa. Seriously.
(Tom, I need backup.)
Fra-gee-lay. That must be Italian.
'A Christmas Carol' with Alastair Sim is a firm Christmas favourite and for some reason I always get a hankering to watch 'North by Northwest' around this time of year.
It's a Wonderful Life... nothing else comes close although I still enjoy the Burl Ives narrated version of Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer.
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
Die Hard
Lethal Weapon
No need to wait for Tom, I've got your back on that one :)Originally Posted by Enduro_Man
P.S. They can't all be winners.
You can't go wrong with any of the old Rankin Bass specials, but I'm especially fond of Jack Frost. Kubla Kraus's mechanical army was awesome.
And just in case this thread enjoys a long life, The Easter Bunny Is Comin' to Town with Fred Astaire is solid gold.
Nick: I said I am not gay.
Lord Of The Rings. My wife actually started this tradition.
I watch A Charlie Brown Christmas and The Shining. The Shining counts as a holiday movie because there's snow n shit.
Does thinking that Friday After Next is a funny movie make me a bad person?
A Christmas Story.
I'm looking forward to watching "The Homecoming" (I think that's the title - aka the TV movie that eventually became The Waltons) with my kids, who, this year, are hopefully finally old enough to watch it and not complain that it isn't a cartoon.
Yet another vote for Christmas Story. We watch it every year. I'm recording Rudolph tomorrow night...it's remastered in HD! Yay!
Rankin Bass. No other will do for me.
More shit than snow I think.
How about The Snowman?
Bernard and the Genie
Elf
Die Hard
I'm right there with you. It has been a tradition in our home for about a decade now.
Fa-ra-ra-ra-raaa ra-ra-ra-raaa!
I'm not terribly into Christmas, but when the subject of holiday movies comes up, I always vote for Gremlins.
A friend hosts a Christmas party every year where everybody votes on which recorded Christmas special to watch. I'm part of the Grinch Cabal, and as a voting bloc, we've managed to win juat about every year. As an alternate, I just love a Charlie Brown Christmas. As for Christmas movie, It's a Wonderful Life.
I'm getting the usual set of Xmas movies (Rudolph, Grinch, etc) because I have a 4 year old experiencing everything again for the first time.
But the wife and I always make room for The Christmas Story and White Christmas.
Family traditions, even with 2 of my 3 kids at college now:
Santa Clause is coming to town
Rudolph
Charlie Brown Christmas
A Christmas Story (on Christmas Day, while still in PJs, which is most of the day.)
Christmas Eve: A Muppet Christmas Carol (still perturbed that the DVD is pan and scan.) Super, super movie.
Most Christmases:
Miracle on 34th St. (wife and like the old one, kids prefer the new one.)
It's a Wonderful Life
Grinch
The same thing I always watch: Army of Darkness.
Ohhhh Fudge!
"If any of you are looking for any last-minute gift ideas for me, I have one. I'd like Frank Shirley, my boss, right here tonight. I want him brought from his happy holiday slumber over there on Melody Lane with all the other rich people and I want him brought right here, with a big ribbon on his head, and I want to look him straight in the eye and I want to tell him what a cheap, lying, no-good, rotten, four-flushing, low-life, snake-licking, dirt-eating, inbred, overstuffed, ignorant, blood-sucking, dog-kissing, brainless, dickless, hopeless, heartless, fat-ass, bug-eyed, stiff-legged, spotty-lipped, worm-headed sack of monkey shit he is. Hallelujah! Holy shit! Where's the Tylenol?"
I second "National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation" - the funniest Christmas movie out there.
I try to watch "How the Grinch stole Christmas" every year. I am talking, of course, of the cartoon version with Boris Karloff as narrator. It's great.
"My mouth is bleedin', Bert! My mouth is bleedin'!"
A Christmas Story
Miracle on 34th Street
It's A Wonderful Life
White Christmas (or Holiday Inn, either works!)
and I like the inclusion of Die Hard, maybe I'll put that on the list.
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