It's Christmastime! Watchlist?

[lerxt1990]

My mandatory watches:

Christmas Vacation

A Christmas Story

Elf

Die Hard (yes it is!)

Home Alone

Planes Trains and Automobiles (Ok thats Thanksgiving but a must)

 

Y'all?

[1-0-0-1-0-0-1]

The Hallmark Channel!!!!!

 

 

 

 

[1-0-0-1-0-0-1]

16 minutes ago, lerxt1990 said:

Christmas Vacation

A Christmas Story

Elf

Die Hard (yes it is!)

Home Alone

Planes Trains and Automobiles (Ok thats Thanksgiving but a must)

 

Good list, I'll add the original animated The Grinch Who Stole Christmas.

 

Planes Trains and Automobiles feels more like a Christmas movie, so it belongs here.

[blackhawkrush]

The start of 'Life of Brian'.  

[lerxt1990]

2 hours ago, blackhawkrush said:

The start of 'Life of Brian'.  

It was a tradition for me and my high school friends to watch it every Christmas eve. :)  Loved it.

[Union 5-3992]

I've started a yearly tradition of watching Violent Night since seeing it. It's a pretty funny action comedy with lots of homages to older Christmas movies.

[invisible airwave]

Scrooged

The Ref - Spacey is a creep but I love this movie.

both Die Hards - Yes, 2nd one is Christmas.
Long Kiss Goodnight

Home Alone - Underrated John Williams score.

Running Scared (1986)

Kiss Kiss Bang Bang

Trading Places - Ditto New Year's.

 

 

[laughedatbytime]

 

[JohnRogers]

In Excelsis Deo

The West Wing: Season 1, Episode 10

[pjbear05]

A Christmas Carol (1951, Alistair Sim, the best of the lot).

[zepphead]

Wallace & Gromit

Doctor Who

[blueschica]

Christmas Vacation

White Christmas. (corny as anything, but a family tradition)

A Christmas Story

Its A Wonderful Life

Home Alone

The 1950s A Christmas Carol

 

We caught The Christmas Chronicles with Kurt Russell as Santa last year and it was pretty entertaining!

[Nova Carmina]

22 hours ago, pjbear05 said:

A Christmas Carol (1951, Alistair Sim, the best of the lot).

 

Make the case for the "best of" status!

 

A Christmas Carol is always on my list, too, but I've never quite understood the affection for the Sim version. Too much of its time, maybe. I've got a soft spot for the Patrick Stewart one from TNT, and I've even learned to tolerate the kinetic adhd of the Jim Carrey animated version. The "dark" one with Guy Pearce is an abomination and should be confined the to Krampus bin.

 

Scrooged

A Charlie Brown Christmas

Rudolf

1970s claymation Little Drummer Boy

original Grinch

Christmas Vacation

[blackhawkrush]

On 12/2/2024 at 11:58 AM, zepphead said:

Wallace & Gromit

Doctor Who

Yes, and how about all the British comedies and their Christmas specials.   

[zepphead]

3 hours ago, blackhawkrush said:

Yes, and how about all the British comedies and their Christmas specials.   

I fear the good old days where lots of great comedy Christmas specials premiered on UK TV are over. It all looks a bit dull this year. 

[blackhawkrush]

2 hours ago, zepphead said:

I fear the good old days where lots of great comedy Christmas specials premiered on UK TV are over. It all looks a bit dull this year. 

Oh yes, I didn't mean the specials in this century.   

[invisible airwave]

On 12/2/2024 at 8:16 PM, blueschica said:

Christmas Vacation

White Christmas. (corny as anything, but a family tradition)

A Christmas Story

Its A Wonderful Life

Home Alone

The 1950s A Christmas Carol

 

We caught The Christmas Chronicles with Kurt Russell as Santa last year and it was pretty entertaining!

Loved that inside joke ending for that Russell movie.  Definitely a better movie than that disappointing comeback, Snatched.

 

Might as well mention the other Shane Black Christmas action movies, Lethal Weapon and The Nice Guys.  Won't be watching the former for the same reason as The Ref regarding actors who repulse me personally.

Even though it's not a great movie, I had a blast mocking Santa Claus (1985) MST3K/Rifftrax style on Showtime streaming a few years ago.  Mike, Kevin, and Bill need to get to this one.  Dudley Moore as an elf, Lithgow hamming it up as a cartoonish villain and the non dude Lebowski as Santa.

Enough said.

[Nova Carmina]

Oh, and Love, Actually!

[blueschica]

1 hour ago, Nova Carmina said:

Oh, and Love, Actually!

Yes!

[invisible airwave]

Can't believe I forgot the best movie I've seen this decade so far, The Holdovers.  Will have to buy this on Fandango or Apple TV soon.

 

 

 

[metallithrax]

Christmas carol (Muppet, Carrey, Sim)

Die hard 1 & 2

Grinch

Violent night

Silent night deadly night

Terrifier 3

Fred Claus

Christmas vacation 

Polar express

 

 

 

[Derek19]

It's A Wonderful Life

Miracle On 34th Street

A Christmas Story

A Christmas Carol

Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas

the Polar Express

the Nightmare Before Christmas (It's considered, and classified as a Halloween movie, too.)

Edward Scissorhands

Gremlins

Lethal Weapon

Die Hard

Die Hard 2: Die Harder

Serendipity

Sleepless In Seattle

While You Were Sleeping

the Family Man

Edited December 18, 2024 by Derek19