Favorite Christmas movies

[Dexter'sDame]

Favorite modern one I forgot to list

I forgot to mention my favorite modern Christmas movie:

Elf

The reviews usually aren't great, so ignore them; it's a fabulously funny and sweet movie that makes me laugh out loud. I'm not a Will Farrell fan at all, but he was terrific in it.

 

[MissJeanavive]

'White Christmas'; loved it since I was a kid...when we drove up to Tahoe for snow when I was a kid I would start singing 'Snow, Snow, Snow' and 'The Bishops Wife' watched it a couple nights ago on Free On Demand; one I forget about but heart because of Cary Grant.

 

[Lau Mo]

My family is OBSESSED with A Christmas Story. When my parents were dating, they brought my cousins to the movie...well, my cousin triple dog dared his younger sister to stick her tongue to the inside of freezer...and it stuck. Luckily, they got it off without needing the fire department lol

I also love It's A Wonderful Life, and I'm watching White Christmas right now for the first time, and I'm loving it.

Elf is my favorite modern holiday film (when he puts that cotton ball in his mouth...I crack up everytime.)

And my childhood favorite (which I need to get on DVD because I only have the VHS version) is Muppet Christmas Carol.

 

[Paisley]

Has anyone mentioned Planes, Trains and Automobiles?

 

[Kermez]

While I remembered that the first Die Hard movie is a Christmas movie, I had forgotten that the first Lethal Weapon movie is also a Christmas movie too.

Please note my post earlier on this thread - they are my top 2 Christmas movies.

 

[MissJeanavive]

White Christmas

I posted earlier that 'White Christmas' has been my all time favorite movie since I was a child.

In recent years when watching the movie I was always bothered by Vera-Ellen's legs which look uncomfortably skinny. I looked her and the movie up on Wikipedia which says:

"Every single costume worn by Vera-Ellen in the film — including her nightclothes — has a high neckline, as Vera-Ellen was battling anorexia at the time the movie was made, which caused her neck to look very aged. The actress struggled with anorexia throughout most of her career."

Its sad to see a beautiful woman with such an infliction....

 

[Harp]

A Christmas Carol with George C. Scott as Ebenezer Scrooge.
The Alistair Sims' earlier version is fantastic too.

 

[Burnsie]

A Christmas Carol with George C. Scott as Ebenezer Scrooge.

YES!! An every year favorite here. Also Miracle on 34th Street - Natalie Wood is amazing.

 

[ShoreRoadLady]

In recent years when watching the movie I was always bothered by Vera-Ellen's legs which look uncomfortably skinny. I looked her and the movie up on Wikipedia which says:

"Every single costume worn by Vera-Ellen in the film — including her nightclothes — has a high neckline, as Vera-Ellen was battling anorexia at the time the movie was made, which caused her neck to look very aged. The actress struggled with anorexia throughout most of her career."

Its sad to see a beautiful woman with such an infliction....

It is indeed. I was watching White Christmas again recently, and it's almost painful to watch her, she's so unhealthily thin.

I have to say, I like all the *color* in White Christmas, but I much prefer watching Holiday Inn.

 

[scotrace]

A Christmas Story is great! Finally saw it this year.

 

[Lady Day]

Scrooged of course, but I really, really think A Muppet's Christmas Carol is magical.


LD

 

[Mike in Seattle]

I can't believe I forgot this one this year - The Thin Man - most of the action takes place on Christmas Day. Nick gets shot on Christmas Eve.

 

[nola89]

I'm a sucker for A Christmas Story and A Charlie Brown Christmas. Vince Guaraldi is just wonderful.

 

[imoldfashioned]

I can't believe I forgot this one this year - The Thin Man - most of the action takes place on Christmas Day. Nick gets shot on Christmas Eve.

I was just going to mention this one! Great minds Mike! One of my favorite lines in a movie full of wonderful lines concerns Christmas:

Nora: I'II give you your Christmas present now,if you'II give me mine.

Nick: At breakfast.

Nora: It's Christmas now.

Nick: Breakfast.

Nora: What did you get me? I hope I don't Iike it.

Nick: Well, you'll have to keep them anyway...because the man at the aquarium said he wouIdn't take them back.


Remember the Night, which has already been mentioned, is another one of my favorites. The Sturges script is marvelous and I'd watch Barbara Stanwyck read the phone book ("One of these days one of you boys is going to start one of these scenes differently and one of us girls is going to drop dead from surprise"). There's several scenes in that one that make me tear up.

 

[Wally_Hood]

Even though it’s a little early in the year, I am already gearing up for Christmas. For Mr. and Mrs. Hood and all the little Hoods, that means roughly this:
First weekend in December it’s Elf to kick off the Christmas film festival. Gotta start with Elf, it’s a real family tradition. Throughout the month it’s Santa vs. the Snowman, some episodes of the Jack Benny TV show as well as an Ozzie and Harriet show, along with Holiday Inn, White Christmas, and A Christmas Story. Generally we reserve Miracle on 34th Street for Christmas Eve, and then It’s a Wonderful Life on Christmas Day night. We’ve got some Christmas odds and ends in the video vault that we might watch, but the above list is pretty much the traditional family film viewing fare.

 

[ThesFlishThngs]

Though I love most all classic films, the first one I think of for Christmas is "The Bishop's Wife".
Modernly, I favor "Jingle All The Way." Maybe because my husband was a mailman when we first saw it, so Sinbad's part thoroughly amused me. Even now, when I'm driving and a slow poke mini van is cramping my style, I find myself saying, "out of my way, box."
"A Christmas Story" is always good too, of course. Funnily, I have no memory of when that one first came out. I must have been out of the loop, as I only know of it after 1990, when it had already become a repeat-all-day instant classic.

 

[John in Covina]

One of many: National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation. Truly a diasterous family Christmas not unlike some of the things that happened at my parents house or at our cousins home on Staten Island. Series of false peaks and a calamitous full creshendo of insanity.

I wouldn't kiss him, he's got a lip fungus they ain't figured out yet.

 

[BinkieBaumont]

"Christmas in Connecticut" with Barbara Stanwyck"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqL1T-ovkfw

 

[C-dot]

The Man Who Came to Dinner- I just love Monty Woolley.

A Christmas Story- Some of it was filmed in my hometown... I've never missed it at Christmas.

It's a Wonderful Life- The ending always makes me cry.

Christmas Vacation- "Can I refill your eggnog for you? Get you something to eat? Drive you out to the middle of nowhere, and leave you for dead?"

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer- The TV classic!

Holiday Inn- Shows all the holidays, but it starts and ends with Christmas, and Bing's voice tugs at your heartstrings.

Elf- "Look at you!"

Have I missed any?

 

[Lollipop]

A Christmas Story. It's my all time favorite Christmas Movie. It's a tradition for my sisters and I(Started by my elder sister.) to watch it every Christmas.

National Lampoons Christmas Vacation...I forgot that one..That is one of the BEST Christmas movies ever.