Favorite Christmas Movie?

You forgot "A Charlie Brown Christmas" you blockhead!

These choices are far too modern.

Die Hard.

There are many versions of A Christmas Carol.

Mr. Magoo’s Christmas Carol

A Christmas Carol with Alastair Sim. By far the best version.

Metropolitan. I'm really not into Christmas movies, but this feels close enough for me.

From the list, A Christmas Story. But Gremlins is really my favorite.

Less Than Zero

Christmas In Connecticut!

I grew up with Charlie Brown Christmas (I still love the soundtrack!) and was raised an atheist, but was in an abusive relationship as a teenager where the family watched “It’s a Wonderful Life” whilst strong-arming the kids to attend midnight mass because the métis grandpa had died of alcoholism around christmas. Such a fucking mess, and I’m glad to be shot of it.

The Holiday!

No Wonderful Life, OP?

A Charlie Brown Christmas is my favorite, but my favorite on the poll would be A Christmas Story if it didn’t have the corny narration and the mother’s anachronistic ‘80s perm.

The Muppets A Christmas Carol is my favorite.

Miracle on 34th Street

Batman Returns

Miracle on 34th St and The Bishop’s Wife. Old classics with great stars. Home Alone and Christmas Story for newer ones.

Little Women

The Little Princess

The Secret Garden

Anne of Green Gables I & II

Meet Me in St. Louis

On Moonlight Bay...

I don't know.. there were several -- some not specifically "Christmas" or holiday themed but tradition to watch around that time.

R13, I always read the mother's perm in A Christmas Story as her being such a frumpy, frazzled hausfrau that she couldn't be bothered to -- or couldn't afford to -- have her hair marcelled, pinned up, etc. She just sort of let it fall in a way that would have been considered very frowzy by any decent woman of the era.

It doesn't even really look like an 80s-styled perm; more like someone with naturally curly hair who just doesn't bother to do anything with it.

The rest of the costumes, sets, etc, are totally on-point and other women (and men) seen in the film do have the correct hair for the period. That's why I assume the hairstyle was an intentionally anachronistic choice.

My Pussy At Christmas

A Hallmark movie, “November Christmas” with Sam Elliott, John Corbett, Sarah Paulson, okaying a mother, and Marian Ravenswood (Karen Allen). Tearjerker. The kid is terminal, parents are terrified, older couple offer help and everyone wins. I also watch “The Bishop’s Wife,” “Desk Set” and “National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation” every year.

It Happened on Fifth Avenue. May never be topped.

Requiem for a Dream

A Christmas Story is such Boomer propaganda

r24 so, would x be home for the holidays or ghostbusters?

My Fistula

R26 nice pick. That movie makes me feel cozy and icky at the same time, just like my family. It had an interesting release, the studio botched the trailer and poster and re-released it with a new campaign but the damage was done. Read about it on the wiki page, photo is the original poster and I always loved one critic’s comparison of it to Elmer Fudd.

Denholm Elliott's "A Child's Christmas in Wales."

Batman Returns (1992)

Die Hard

Full Metal Jacket

The Apartment (1960)

Gremlins (1984)

Silent Night, Deadly Night (1984)

Shelley Duvall's Faerie Tale Theatre: The Snow Queen

Swan Lake 1996

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The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (1982)

[quote] No Wonderful Life, OP?

Just as with a pig bottom on a lazy susan, there are only so many slots that can be filled.

Bob Hope in Lemon Drop Kid. Never heard of it. Watching it now. It's surprisingly quick witted and amusing. It's on YouTube.

Also, its "Silver Bells" debuted in this movie.

Did Doris Day ever make a Christmas movie. She made that remake of “Four Daughters” and Frank Sinatra had a supporting part. I think there was a Christmas scene in that one. It was a poor career move not to make a Christmas movie that could play on television forever.

Gremlins

Some of My Best Friends Are...

Krampus!

R49, By the Light of the Silvery Moon

I always watch Carol in December - most of it is set around Xmas and New Year's

I also like to watch In the Good Old Summertime, with Judy Garland and Van Johnson (Golden Age Queen!). In spite of the title, most of the movie takes place in winter

We're No Angels, with Humphrey Bogart

Bump

𝐀 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐢𝐞 𝐁𝐫𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐂𝐡𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐦𝐚𝐬 (1965)

𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐆𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐡 𝐒𝐭𝐨𝐥𝐞 𝐂𝐡𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐦𝐚𝐬! (1966)

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐋𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐢𝐧 𝐖𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫 (1968)

𝐒𝐜𝐫𝐨𝐨𝐠𝐞 (1970)

𝐋𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐀𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 (2003)

Just realized the only Danny Kaye movie I see with any regularity is White Christmas! That’s immortality!

A Very Brady Christmas. Watching Eve "I'm Not Bitter, Damn It" Plumb head for separation from her dorky husband and be an ice cold bitch throughout brings joy to my holiday.

Planes, Trains, and Automobiles is my favorite

Silent Night Deadly Night.

Just saw it on Christmas day. The last time I saw it was at least 30 years ago as a kid.

I didn't realize the actor that played Billy was so hot!

The double-sided dildo/electro-shock/infected arm amputation montage from Requiem for a Dream.

We watch that scene over and over while we're trimming the tree.

R61, he's on the horror convention circuit now. He's still good looking.

Auntie Mame and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolfe

"Holiday Inn," WITH the "Abraham" number.

A Midnight Clear - for it's all male cast.

Bad Santa

Meet Me in St Louis would be mine.

Edward Scissorhands

"White Christmas"...Bing was incredible, Rosie, Vera's high necks, Mary Wickes, Vistavision...can't go wrong.

We watched Christmas Vacation yesterday, and man, it has not aged well. Unfunny and looks cheap as hell.

R71 Do you watch that white lotus shit?

[quote] We watched Christmas Vacation yesterday, and man, it has not aged well. Unfunny and looks cheap as hell.

Thank you, R71. I liked the two Vacation movies and had never seen Christmas so I turned it on over the holidays. Didn't last 20 minutes. Maybe it gets better, but that first 20 or so was painful. I thought it was just me given its cult favorite status.

Family Stone because I love Diane Keaton. I know SJP is in it, and DL hates her but, she's good in that movie.

Yes, SJP excels at playing unlikeable

I’ve never watched Family Stone