PLAY That time of year again: what are your all-time favorite Christmas/Christmastime movies or TV shows?

Dennis Olson

Dennis Olson

Chief Curmudgeon
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So, it being the Christmas season, I thought I’d ask what are your favorite Christmas movies, or movies shown at Christmastime. Same for TV shows.

Mine are:

Planes, Trains and Automobiles
Home Alone (the original)
Die Hard (the first one)

And as an added bonus:

A Charlie Brown Christmas
How the Grinch Stole Christmas
Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer (the one with puppets)

(I purposely didn’t add It’s a Wonderful Life because though I like it, it’s not a favorite.)
 
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PalmettoGirl

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National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation is one I have to watch every year. It still makes me laugh. I also love Elf and A Christmas Story. I’ve watched all three this week. Trying to get myself in the Christmas spirit. I’ve never seen Die Hard other than bits and pieces when my mom watches it. I guess I’ll need to watch it soon. It just doesn’t seem very Christmasy to me.
 
Blacknarwhal

Blacknarwhal

Let's Go Brandon!
Dennis Olson said:
Planes, Trains and Automobiles
Home Alone (the original)
Die Hard (the first one)

A Charlie Brown Christmas
How the Grinch Stole Christmas
Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer (the one with puppets)
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All of these are worthwhile.

I also throw in A Christmas Story. It's a good movie objectively, but I also have great memories of it. We'd watch it in band class during finals season. What kind of final exam can you really have in band class? But we'd watch Ralphie try to get that rifle and laugh every year.

I have a special fondness for the Alistair Sim Christmas Carol. He does a great job of it. There have been other Scrooges and good ones at that, but Alistair Sim has it on lock.

And how can you forget National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation? It was a full-blown, four-alarm holiday emergency! And when Santa Claus squeezed his fat white ass down that chimney, what did he find? The jolliest bunch of assholes this side of the nut house, that's what he found!

So many good ones we hardly think about. Scrooged. Elf. The Nightmare Before Christmas. The Ref. Jingle All the Way. I could go on and on....
 
The Hammer

The Hammer

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Muppet Christmas Carol
Rudolph
The Grinch
It's A Wonderful Life
Holiday Inn
Charlie Brown

I love several versions of A Christmas Carol, particularly the ones that are true to the text to a greater degree. Patrick Stewart's version is particularly good, though a couple older ones do it justice, like Sim's 1951 version. I also try to read it every year.

This year, I'd like to try to watch some movies/specials that I'm not as familiar with, try to find some new favorites.
 
Krayola

Krayola

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How the Grinch stole Christmas and Charlie Brown Christmas tie for first place. I also have the Charlie Brown soundtrack which I play a lot throughout the season.

The Shop Around the Corner
The Christmas Chronicles (just the first one, the sequel wasn't good)
It's a Wonderful Life
Prep and Landing
When Harry met Sally
Klaus
ETA: forgot to add A Christmas Story. I've always wanted to get a clip of the Chinese waitstaff singing Deck the Halls and put it as a ring tone for my phone at Christmas. It would be hilarious.
 
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Illini Warrior

Illini Warrior

Illini Warrior
Christmas in Connecticut needs to be mentioned ...

a few of the Hallmarks aren't bad >>>>

Christmas in Conway
Christmas Shoes
Silver Bells
Dog Named Christmas
Christmas in Vermont
Journey Back to Christmas
 
dioptase

dioptase

Veteran Member
I love 'A Christmas Story' because the "old man" reminded me very much of MY father.

I also like 'It's A Wonderful Life', mostly because I like Jimmy Stewart.
 
jward

jward

passin' thru
Aww, threads' too early, now I won't have anything to look fwd to Christmas week :: pouts ::
O well. First that comes to mind is below. If I knew it was going to be on, I'd hunt down the remote controls, try to recall how to use em, and turn on a TV n watch...coz its just.that.sweet...and of course, I'm a sucker for a lovely ol house! : )


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It Happened on 5th Avenue (DVD)

As he does every winter, hobo Aloysius T. McKeever (Victor Moore) moves in to a mansion on New York City's 5th Avenue while its owners are away for the winter and invites all his hobo friends in from the cold. But this Christmas, Mary O'Connor (Ann Harding) comes home unexpectedly after a quarrel with her boyfriend to find her house occupied by jovial street dwellers. To make matters even worse, her father (Charles Ruggles) disguises himself as a hobo to get an invitation to stay in his own home -- and keeps his identity secret in this perennial Christmas favorite about rediscovering family and the joy of being together.
 
Cardinal

Cardinal

Chickministrator
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Polar Express-watch it every year, never get tired of it.
Jack Frost--first saw that with my daughter.(The one with Michael Keaton)
Charlie Brown Christmas
Deck the Halls
Prancer
Home Alone 1 and 2-the originals
White Christmas
Holiday Inn
It's a Wonderful Life
Miracle on 34th St.
Snowmen
Spies Like Us-OK, not exactly a Christmas movie but it has a lot of snow in it.

I think it's about time to start binge watching.
 
psychgirl

psychgirl

Has No Life - Lives on TB
Don’t forget The Bishops Wife!!

There are a few other old black and white films that are the best, in my opinion.
Darn it, there’s one I’m not remembering the name of right now... hmm..
 
mrrk1562

mrrk1562

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Die hard and a Christmas story.
Also mighty Joe young .. because it used to be a shown on Thanksgiving on wpix channel 11
 
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xtreme_right

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Most of mine have already been mentioned except

Mixed Nuts 1994

Philip (Steve Martin) manages a suicide-prevention hotline called Lifesavers, assisted by Mrs. Munchnik (Madeline Kahn) and Catherine (Rita Wilson). On Christmas Eve, Philip learns that their landlord (Garry Shandling) is evicting them from their office. Amid all this unrest, Catherine proclaims her love for Philip. And when a transvestite (Liev Schreiber) and a pregnant woman (Juliette Lewis) enter into the equation, things get even more interesting.
 
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WalknTrot

Veteran Member
Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer.

Ever since a kid, related to the Island of Misfit Toys.
Somebody, somewhere got it and got me. ;)


Oh..and (The Walton's) vintage "Homecoming". Like a warm blanket fresh out of the dryer. I have the DVD and watch it every year. Same for "A Charlie Brown Christmas".

"Prancer"..have that one too. A cranky Sam Elliot...who could resist.
 
Chicory

Chicory

#KeeptheRepublic
Just watched A Muppet Christmas Carol last night. Tonight we're watching A Christmas Carol (1951 version with Alistair Sim).
I also LOVE The Tailor of Gloucester, a beatrix potter story, probably not well know.
Great ideas here, I'll be reading through everybody's favorites to get some new ideas...
 
Texican

Texican

Live Free & Die Free.... God Freedom Country....
All time favorites:

All Mine to Give - I have watched this movie many times and the first time as a young teenager. This movie still brings tears to my eyes when a young teenagers takes his 5 young brothers and sisters to live with other families on Christmas when his mother dies and walks away into the snow after finding a family for his baby sister. If you have the chance, please watch for it shows the love possible between brothers and sisters and the older brother's love for his siblings, mother and father to do what he was asked to do. The memories of this movie still brings tears to my eyes.

God bless all.

Merry Christmas.

Texican....
 
Toosh

Toosh

Veteran Member
Die Hard (all of them)
While You Were Sleeping
You've Got Mail (remake of Shop Around the Corner...I just like Meg Ryan)
Trading Places
Christmas Story

but now I have to go watch Mixed Nuts
 
Toosh

Toosh

Veteran Member
xtreme_right said:
Most of mine have already been mentioned except

Mixed Nuts 1994

Philip (Steve Martin) manages a suicide-prevention hotline called Lifesavers, assisted by Mrs. Munchnik (Madeline Kahn) and Catherine (Rita Wilson). On Christmas Eve, Philip learns that their landlord (Garry Shandling) is evicting them from their office. Amid all this unrest, Catherine proclaims her love for Philip. And when a transvestite (Liev Schreiber) and a pregnant woman (Juliette Lewis) enter into the equation, things get even more interesting.
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Now I gotta go find this and watch it.
 
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HDC

Contributing Member
Not TV but Old time Radio.

The "Cinnamon Bear and the Crazy Quilt Dragon" Would run as a series from Thanks Giving to Christmas eve in the 1940"s. Looking for the missing Christmas tree Star. One of the many great radio programs of that era.
 
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