Christmas must-see movies...

DrummerDeanna · #1 12-07-2004, 01:55 PM

I think this thread gets started every year but here goes:

What Christmas movies, if any, do you just HAVE to watch at least once every year?

My list:

-Smoky Mountain Christmas - Dolly Parton - I LOVE this movie

-Mixed Nuts - hilarious!!
-While you were Sleeping - not sure if that's considered a Christmas movie - but that's when I watch it

-A Muppet Christmas Carol - it's the only version I can sit through - otherwise I'm SO sick of this story...

and finally...

-It's a Wonderful Life...

Probably my all-time favorite movie - it makes me cry EVERY year - when Harry Bailey says "To my big brother George, the richest man in town...." LOVe it....

So what are your must see holiday flicks??

ontheEdgeof17 · #2 12-07-2004, 02:00 PM

Well, I've never seen It's A Wonderful Life....I know it's UnAmerican.

Movies I adore at Christmas Time:

-National Lampoons
-Rudoph the Red Nosed Reindeer
-Frosty The Snowman
-The Mirror Has Two Faces

skcin · #3 12-07-2004, 02:05 PM

A Christmas Story (usually bits & pieces during the 24 hour marathon on TNT)

Charlie Brown Christmas (when they're humming "Hark the Herald Angels Sing" around the tree & their mouhts turn completely round, lol!)

Scrooged (Bill Murray & Carol Kane are hilarious)

It's a Wonderful Life

Paula

TwistedGypsy · #4 12-07-2004, 02:11 PM

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-The Mirror Has Two Faces

Curtis, this is why I love you!

How 'bout when he yelling outside her window and then Nussen Dorma starts playing...awwww

Some of my other faves are naturally Christmas Vacation:
Where do you think you're going? Nobody's leaving. Nobody's walking out on this fun, old-fashioned family Christmas. No, no. We're all in this together. This is a full-blown, four-alarm holiday emergency here. We're gonna press on, and we're gonna have the hap, hap, happiest Christmas since Bing Crosby tap-danced with Danny ****ing Kaye. And when Santa squeezes his fat white ass down that chimney tonight, he's gonna find the jolliest bunch of assholes this side of the nuthouse.

Hey. 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 **** he is. Hallelujah. Holy ****. Where's the Tylenol?

The others are A Christmas Story and the first Home Alone.
Brit

wondergirl9847 · #5 12-07-2004, 03:13 PM

A Christmas Story (my dad and I watch it every year on TNT)
National Lampoons Christmas Vacation
Smoky Mountain Christmas (*high fives Deanna*)

Snoozefest:

It's a Wonderful Life (Sorry, man, it bores me.

)

DrummerDeanna · #6 12-07-2004, 03:19 PM

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Originally Posted by ontheEdgeof17

-The Mirror Has Two Faces

I love that movie - but for Christmas? haha ...I'm not gettin' it

DrummerDeanna · #7 12-07-2004, 03:20 PM

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Originally Posted by wondergirl9847

Smoky Mountain Christmas (*high fives Deanna*)

Sweet! haha...I am seriously obsessed with this movie - I watched it Sunday night (in the absence of Desperate Housewives) and was talking/singing along - haha..LOVE it!

dissention · #8 12-07-2004, 03:20 PM

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Originally Posted by DrummerDeanna

I love that movie - but for Christmas? haha ...I'm not gettin' it

The RIDICULOUS soft gauze shots on Babs make me vomit, same with The Prince of Tides.

Patti · #9 12-07-2004, 03:33 PM

Only two "must sees" for me:

1. A Christmas Story
2. White Christmas--my favorite *ever*, Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney and Vera Ellen. It just doesn't get any better than that, people. "Sisters, sisters, there were never such devoted sisters."

ryan8472 · #10 12-07-2004, 03:36 PM

No Christmas is complete without a full viewing of A Christmas Story.

TwistedGypsy · #11 12-07-2004, 03:40 PM

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The RIDICULOUS soft gauze shots on Babs make me vomit, same with The Prince of Tides.

For the love of God Dissention, please don't insult everything that I hold dear in my life. Especially not The Prince of Tides. Just this one time please

And the reason why for it being considered a Christmas movie, cause it takes place during Christmas, and dammit it makes you feel good. Also Jeff Bridges is so yummy in that!
Brit
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dissention · #12 12-07-2004, 03:42 PM

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Originally Posted by TwistedGypsy

For the love of God Dissention, please don't insult everything that I hold dear in my life. Especially not The Prince of Tides. Just this one time please

And the reason why for it being considered a Christmas movie, cause it takes place during Christmas, and dammit it makes you feel good. Also Jeff Bridges is so yummy in that!
Brit
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I love the Prince of Tides, it's one of my faves. But those gauze shots are ridiculous.

Hawkeye · #13 12-07-2004, 04:02 PM

The only Christmas movie that matters is Christmas Vacation. We watch every year and laugh just as hard every freaking time.

SuzeQuze · #14 12-07-2004, 04:08 PM

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Originally Posted by Hawkeye

The only Christmas movie that matters is Christmas Vacation. We watch every year and laugh just as hard every freaking time.

Omigod with the Christmas lights I love this movie! And Julia Louis Dreyfus playing the snooty neighbor is too much!

SuzeQuze · #15 12-07-2004, 04:45 PM

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Originally Posted by trackaghost

Well, It's A Wonderful Life obviously. It's one of my absolute faves.
And yep, I always cry. "Bert, doncha know me?" aww...

But I alway watched Scrooged too. I worship Bill Murray and he's fantastic in it. Carol Kane comes a close second in the movie though "Frank, what's this? It's a TOASTER!!!"

And I'll say it loud and proud, The Muppet Christmas Carol. Those singing vegetables get me every time.

A new one, that I'm sure will be become a Christmas fave too, is Elf. I just think Will Ferrell is a comic genius. I just love when he gets excited over the announcement that Santa will be in the store next day, jumping up and down shouting "Santa is coming" Santa is coming!" And then the next day realising it's just a man in a fake beard, telling him "You sit on a throne of lies!"
So funny.
I love it when his dad James Caan reluctantly tucks him into bed too... hehe

Elf is so funny! "Santa's coming? I know him!"

I saw this at the theater last year and almost peed it was such a riot. Then, I watched it again the other night because my roommate bought it