Best Christmas movie

[Corcaigh]

2 hours ago, Jumbo said:

for an international bon vivant he's not as erudite as i'd presumed

 

He's a fan of Leeds United Football Club. Their fans have a history of making Eagles fans appear erudite.

 

 

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[mojo]

The first 45 minutes of The Night Before is pretty damn funny.

[Dan T.]

On 12/18/2021 at 12:30 PM, The Sisko said:

FTFY.

 

“An official Red Ryder, carbine action, 200-shot, range model air rifle, with a compass in the stock and this thing that tells time.” Classic!🎅🎄🎅🎄

 

 

You'll shoot your eye out kid.

 

Ho.        Ho.        Ho.

 

 

 

 

16 hours ago, Jumbo said:

i asked martinc c.  and he said 'porno'

 

not even a title, just 'porno'

 

for an international bon vivant he's not as erudite as i'd presumed

 

 

"Jingle Balls"

 

"Die Hard-on"

 

"Swap a Wonderful Wife"

 

"Oh Come On Ye Faithful"

 

 

I'll show myself out.

 

 

 

 

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[Dan T.]

The correct answer is Home Alone. Then A Christmas Story.

 

 

 

 

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[JCB]

The Godfather.

[China]

FATMAN

[Metalhead]

It's a long movie, but that third act...

 

 

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[Rogue Jedi]

I’d argue Batman Returns is a Christmas movie and a damn good one

[Going Commando]

26 minutes ago, Rogue Jedi said:

I’d argue Batman Returns is a Christmas movie and a damn good one

 

If true, then Iron Man 3 feels like a Christmas movie too.

 

I'm in the George C Scott A Christmas Carol camp too.  Scrooge was a cartoon villain for Millennial children like me.  Scott's version of the character was the first time I saw that he wasn't.  Love that guy.  I love Roger Rees in everything too.

 

White Christmas is my pick for my favorite.  Danny Kaye is a treasure and Irving Berlin was such a great librettist.  It's a classic that I watch every year and it never gets old.

 

I like Holiday Inn too, but that minstrel number is 😬.  And Fred Astaire's character was such an ass in the movie and his chemistry with Bing can't touch Danny Kaye's.  Less of a Christmas movie too, more of a movie about the American mid century holiday calendar.

[Warhead36]

Die Hard

 

that's it

[TheDoyler23]

Boomers argue with Millennials.

 

Millennials argue with Boomers.

 

GenXers argue with nobody in particular about Die Hard being a Christmas Movie. 

[Yohan]

It's not Christmas until Cousin Eddie proclaims "****ter was full!" So, I'm going with Christmas Vacation.

[Captain Wiggles]

🤓

 

[BatteredFanSyndrome]

Tied between Christmas Vacation and Home Alone.

[Riggo-toni]

[SkinFanInMinn]

On 12/18/2021 at 11:09 AM, GhostofSparta said:

So close. Michael Caine > George C Scott. Therefore "The Muppet Christmas Carol" is actually the best Christmas movie of all time.

Yes, seconded!  We had a tradition of watching this every year with the kids.  It may or may not be true that we still watch it now that the kids are gone. 

[JCB]

[TheDoyler23]

3 hours ago, SkinFanInMinn said:

Yes, seconded!  We had a tradition of watching this every year with the kids.  It may or may not be true that we still watch it now that the kids are gone. 

I watched Muppets Christmas Carol last night with my kids. Love that it’s just a little bit scary and leans in on some of the darkness of the story. 

[Yohan]

Bad Santa 1 & 2 and A Very Harold and Kumar Christmas are up there for me as well. 

[Forehead]

In our house, it is Home Alone, Christmas Vacation, and White Christmas in some order.

[gbear]

In our house, Elf is universally loved.

 

Christmas vacation is approved by the above 12 croud.

 

Jingle Jangle was watched many times last year. This year, A Boy Named Christmas got high marks from all age groups.

[purbeast]

Home Alone for me.

 

Christmas Vacation and Elf are very close seconds though.  Home Alone 2 as well.

 

I am also a fan of Four Christmas's as well as Jingle All the Way.

 

I have a short story about Home Alone which may be part of why I hold it in high regards...

 

Long story short, my uncle went to school with Daniel Stern.  A week before Home Alone came out back in 1990, for my cousin's 10th birthday, my other cousin and I stayed the night at his house.  That night, Daniel Stern got a full movie theater empty for us to see Home Alone a week before it was releasing.  So us 3 9 and 10 year olds, along with my aunt who sat a few rows behind us, watched the movie all alone in the theater a full week before it was out.  And it was mind blowing at the time!

 

To this day though it still holds up very well.  It's literally a perfect movie.  I can pretty much recite it word for word.  My son who is 6 also loves it.  He's watched it 3x this month lol.  He will randomly watch it throughout the year too.

 

On a related note, there is a new Home Alone movie that is on Disney+ that came out this year called Home Sweet Home Alone.  Buzz from the first 2 in it and he plays himself.  If you have young kids it's worth watching and it's super over the top and nowhere near as good as the originals, but my son and I enjoyed it.

[Forehead]

Home Alone came out when I was in 5th grade.  Besides the movie being awesome, I mostly remember it because we sang songs from it during our winter concert for elementary school choir.

 

Yes, I was in choir in elementary school.   No, my voice is not particularly great.  This was an instance of myself and my friend Jon hearing about elective activities that could get you out of class a few times a month and not really thinking things out before we volunteered.

[Captain Wiggles]

Idk if it's the best but Gremlins is still one of my favorites. Horror hits small town America during the holidays is a great premise.

 

Plus it's a solid critique on the US auto industry. 😆 Not as good a critique as say Gung Ho but still pretty good.

[The Evil Genius]