Christmas Movie Traditions....

[Ron M.]

Well, Thanksgiving soon to be a fond memory for 2016. Already have lined up our family holiday movies...here are the top six:

A Christmas Story (You'll shoot your eye out, kid.)
Scrooge (1951 version)
A Wish for Wings that Work (Bloom County)
Alf's Christmas Special (Cleavon Little guest starred)
A Charlie Brown Christmas
The Grinch That Stole Christmas (1965 (?) version, animated)


Others will come to mind once I wake up....

 

[LedFowl]

The Thin Man with William Powell and Myrna Loy (1934) is set at Christmas. Kind of an offbeat Christmas movie.

 

[RSBH44]

Die Hard. WHAT ? It's a good Christmas action movie!

 

[RSBH44]

Here are a couple others that we watch every year
A Christmas Story
Surviving Christmas
It's a Wonderful Life
Miracle on 34th St. ( original)

 

[Sconnie]

Yea, I am not a huge fan but the wife insists we have the A Christmas Story marathon on every year. I used to make a point of catching Charlie Brown's Christmas and It's a Wonderful Life but I can't say I have made a point of watching either in recent years.

Never heard of Alf's Christmas. Might have to try to find that one...

 

[Ron M.]

Yea, I am not a huge fan but the wife insists we have the A Christmas Story marathon on every year. I used to make a point of catching Charlie Brown's Christmas and It's a Wonderful Life but I can't say I have made a point of watching either in recent years.

Never heard of Alf's Christmas. Might have to try to find that one...

It's a real tear jerker...suprising being that Alf is the protagonist for once. A little girl is dying in the hospital...imagine It's a Wonderful Life with an alien life form and a recent widower about to end his life after his last hurrah at the children's hospital playing Santa.

 

[gregintenn]

It ain't Christmas til I've watched "Christmas Vacation".

 

[Bozz10mm]

Always enjoy "A Christmas Story" and "Its a Wonderful Life". The original "Miracle on 34th Street"

 

[Ranger17]

We watch each year a couple of the older classics; White Christmas and (as others have listed) the original Miracle on 34th.

Add a couple of the newer classics as well; Elf and Nightmare before Christmas (yeah i know lol).

And finally, I like the first Narnia movie, with Father Christmas making his appearance.

 

[steamloco76]

It ain't Christmas til I've watched "Christmas Vacation".

Clark's "We're going to have the happiest " rant is epic!!

Also have to watch "A Christmas Story".
My dad kept saying he wished he'd gotten a Daisy Red Ryder BB Gun for Christmas when he was a kid after seeing the movie for the first time. I bought him one. He must have fired 100,000 BB's out of that thing annoying wildlife around our place. Never shooting at them, just around, over etc. Dad's been gone for 13 years now, but I still have the Red Ryder.

 

[Jim1392]

The only one we have on is A Christmas Story Marathon. We have it on the entire day and we can't get enough of it.

 

[Muss Muggins]

Bad Santa . . .

 

[Ron M.]

Forgot about "It's a Wonderful Life". Two guys, Bert and Ernie (sound familiar). Only part I didn't like (Donna Reed was a babe) was that Potter didn't get what he had coming to him. Maybe a sequal..."Mr. Potter goes to Leavenworth?" might change my mind...or he gets pushed off a bridge somewhere.

 

[e3mrk]

A Christmas Story.

National Lampoons Christmas.

A Christmas Carol with Alistair Sim,(The best in My Opinion).

The Muppet's Christmas Carol with Michael Cane.

How the Grinch stole Christmas.(Boris Karloff narrates).

And last but by all means not the least, It's a Wonderful Life with Jimmy Stewart and Donna Reed.

 

[gregintenn]

Bad Santa . . .

That movie is just WRONG!

I hear they're coming out with a sequel.

 

[SC_Mike]

Scrooged wtih Bill Murray

Muppet Christmas Carol

And of course Christmas Vacation with the Griswalds.

 

[eb07]

Mine:

Die Hard
Lethal Weapon
A Midnight Clear (My FAVORITE Christmas themed movie BTW)
Elf
and of course..
A Christmas Story

 

[Watchdog]

Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
A Christmas Carol (1984) with George C. Scott as Scrooge)
It's a Wonderful Life

And last but not least, The Bishop's Wife (1947) starring Cary Grant, David Niven, and the astonishingly beautiful Loretta Young.

 

[DWalt]

I won't throw out any titles, but those of you who have AT&T U-Verse service should be aware that all of the pay movie channels are free for the entire Thanksgiving long weekend. May be some Christmas movies there.

If you like sappy romantic Christmas-themed movies, the Hallmark Channel has tons of them at present.

 

[shell627]

White Christmas with Bing Crosby.And this year my wife and I are going to see it on the big screen in a redone movie theater.