O/T: Holiday Movies

[chicajojobe]

Last night my mom and I were talking about the fact that the holiday
movies they show on tv during Christmas week are always the really
sappy/dull ones. We were wondering why they never show any better ones
just the same ones year after year. That lead to us joking that we
should just rent the decent ones and have our own movie marathon, which
then lead to us trying to come up with ideas about which ones we'd use.




So what I was just wondering what some of your favorites are. Here's what we came up with so far......



Love Actually (If any of you haven't seen this one, do! It's great.)

Die Hard

8 Crazy Nights

Christmas Carol

[meercat]

Oh i love watching Christmas movies, but yeah, like you said, a lot of them today are so dull and sappy lol. I like the old faithfuls, like:

-A Christmas Carol (starring Alastaire Sim or George C Scott)
-Miracle on 34th Street
-It's a Wonderful Life
-The Grinch Who stole Christmas (the cartoon)
-The Year Without A Santa Claus
-Rudolf
-Santa Claus is Coming to Town
-Nestor the Long Eared Christmas Donkey
-A Christmas Story (you'll shoot your eye out lol)

Regular movies that i love are :

-ALL Alfred Hitchcock movies
-So I Married an Axe Murderer (Mike Myers..my favorite comedy)
-ALL Jerry Lewis movies (minus Dean Martin)
-What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
-Clue (Tim Curry)
-Arsenic and Old Lace (another all time favorite comedy)

[roxxi277]

Christmas is my favorite time of year, and I LOVE Christmas movies! My favorites are:

Elf
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
All I Want for Christmas (not very well-known, but VERY cute)
Home Alone

Other movies I love:

Dragonfly (with Kevin Costner)
Frequency (with Bill Paxton) Awsome Movie!
Tommy Boy
The Silence of the Lambs (I love horror movies)

[tayda]

I LOVE the National Lampoon Movies


I also like:
<UL>
<LI>THe Grinch Who Stole Christmas (the cartoon version also)
<LI>8 Crazy Nights
<LI>Frosty the Snowman
<LI>The Earnest Christmas Movie (can't remember the name of it)
<LI>Home Alone (all of them) .. If those count
<LI>I almost Forgot.. "Muppet Christmas Carrol"</LI>[/list]Edited by: tayda

[*mandi*]

Christmas Vacation! I love that movie..Its so funny


I always have to watch that, Muppet Christmas Carol, and Home Alone to get in the christmas mood!


I even still watch the animated classics..like Rudolph...and Jackfrost..and The year Without a Santa Claus!

[mistyeyes]

I have4 favorite Christmas shows:
<UL>
<LI>It's a Wonderful Life</LI>
<LI>The Year Without a Santa Claus</LI>
<LI>Nestor, the Long-Eared Donkey</LI>
<LI>How the Grinch Stole Christmas (NOT the one with Jim Carrey)</LI>[/list]


Those are the only ones that really stick with me.

[crimgoddess]

I'm with Chica- LOVE ACTUALLY is one of my favourite movies ever....just watched it again last night. One of the few chick-flicks I can tolerate. Piece of advice- watch it with the commentary- it's hilarious


Others:
<UL>
<LI>Muppet Xmas Carrol</LI>
<LI>Garfield's Xmas Special</LI>
<LI>Merry Xmas Charlie Brown (or whatever it is called)</LI>
<LI>A Christmas Story! (a true classic if there ever was one)</LI>[/list]


Others that usually make the rounds:
<UL>
<LI>A philadelphia story (Katharine Hepburn is truly the best ever)</LI>
<LI>Slap Shot (go Chiefs!)</LI>
<LI>The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover (deliciously demented and funny at the same time)</LI>
<LI>Dogma (Kevin Smith at his best)</LI>[/list]


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