3. A Christmas Story
2. Christmas Vacation
1. Die Hard
2. The Nightmare before Christmas
Quote: thecesspit1. It's a Wonderful Life.
'Its a Wonderful Life' and I make up my own dialog as I go along. And Ralphie, of course, in 'A Christmas Story'.. And the old 'Christmas Carol' made in 1938.
Quote: EvenBob'Its a Wonderful Life' and I make up my own dialog as I go along. And Ralphie, of course, in 'A Christmas Story'.. And the old 'Christmas Carol' made in 1938.
Oh yes... The Christmas Carol, and the Muppet's Christmas Carol. In fact most versions of the Christmas Carol make me have happy Christmas thoughts.
Quote: thecesspitOh yes... The Christmas Carol, and the Muppet's Christmas Carol. In fact most versions of the Christmas Carol make me have happy Christmas thoughts.
The best "A Christmas Carol" to me is the Mr Magoo version. Dunno why, just is. Probably because while it is a good story ACC is beyond overdone.
There was some short-lived TV series where the jagoff boss is in the story, but upon waking up says, "forget that" and keeps being a jerk. At least that one was clever.
Quote: AZDuffmanThe best "A Christmas Carol" to me is the Mr Magoo version.
The one with George C Scott isn't bad. I saw part of one the other day with Kelsey Grammer (Frasier) and it was a musical and it was so noxious I had to turn it off.
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favotites. They filmed the 75th anniversary spectacular
in 2007. If watching 36 uber talented gorgeous women
do precision dancing doesn't put you in a Christmas
mood, nothing will. How they do some of that is a
mystery, but damn, it's fun to watch. For 80 years,
'my girlfriend is a Rockette' has given NYC men the
bragging rights over all their friends.
White Christmas
Christmas Vacation
All three get extensive play in our home during the holidays...
Home Alone is not played as much...
2nd place- Bad Santa
WINNER- it's actually a porn movie titled "The North Pole" staring Peter North and lots of naughty hot babes.
Each year I go to Vegas before Christmas, and fly home on Christmas eve. During the return trip I watch Christmas Vacation, followed by Bad Santa.
Christmas Vacation
It's a Wonderful Life
Miracle on 34th Street (the original)
Quote: Wavy70Golly gee willikers no one said Laurel and Hardy's Babes in Toyland?
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I've had it on order for awhile now with Netflix: long wait.
My second favorite is A Christmas Carol with Patrick Stewart as Scrooge. He may be one of my favorite actors of all time. I also liked him in Moby Dick as Ahab.
I'll take, A Christmas Story for number three. I don't actually like that movie very much, but somehow I end up watching it every year through circumstances of varying strangeness.
My fourth favorite Christmas movie is Empire Records, which has exactly nothing to do with Christmas, but for the last decade or so it has just so happened that I've felt compelled to watch it every year around Christmas.
EDIT: Good gambling scene in Empire Records by the way, Craps, "I am guided by a force much greater than luck."-Lucas
No wonder people head to bars and casinos on holidays.
Quote: teddysThe Home Alones are very underrated as Christmas movies. Hardly anyone mentions them. I think they are some of the best. I prefer 1 to 2, though.
Home Alone 1 and 2 are my favorite Christmas movies. For me, it's not the Christmas season without seeing at least one of them start to finish.
That said, as far as I'm concerned, any of them without Macaulay Culkin, Joe Pesci, and Daniel Stern don't even exist to me.
times he swears he remembers the Santa slide in
the downtown dept store. They got rid of it in the
late 50's, I do remember it. He was born in 1960.
He's made the movie part of his childhood memories.
Kinda spooky.
Quote: EvenBob'Its a Wonderful Life' and I make up my own dialog as I go along. And Ralphie, of course, in 'A Christmas Story'.. And the old 'Christmas Carol' made in 1938.
Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after the cop and taxi driver in It's a Wonderful Life.
The cop went on to star on TV in Wagon Train. But my memory of Ward Bond is as Captain Clayton in " The Searchers " He was also in 22 other movies with John Wayne. But surprisingly not my favorite " Stage Coach.
The cab driver went on to be Dobie Gillis's dad ( Herbert T Gillis )on TV. Frank Faylen appeared in over 200 movies. The only one I remember is " The Lost weekend ".
The reason every station showed It's a wonderful Life every Christmas. Because somebody forgot to review the trademark. The movie bombed in 1946.
Plus talk about RED hunting :
In 1947, an FBI analyst submitted, without comment, an addition to a running memo on "Communist infiltration of the motion picture industry," recording the opinion of an industry source who said that the film's "obvious" attempt to discredit bankers "is a common trick used by Communists."
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The cop went on to star on TV in Wagon Train. But my memory of Ward Bond is as Captain Clayton in " The Searchers " He was also in 22 other movies with John Wayne.
The guy who played the bartender is Sheldon Leonard.
If you watched Andy Griffith, Gomer Pyle, I Spy, Dick
VanDyke, Make Room for Daddy, and many many others,
you saw Sheldon Leonard's name on every episode. He was the
executive producer. He was a huge force in TV from the
50's thru the 80's.
Quote: EvenBobThe guy who played the bartender is Sheldon Leonard.
If you watched Andy Griffith, Gomer Pyle, I Spy, Dick
VanDyke, Make Room for Daddy, and many many others,
you saw Sheldon Leonard's name on every episode. He was the
executive producer. He was a huge force in TV from the
50's thru the 80's.
And he's the reason it's -Sheldon- Cooper and -Leonard- Hofstadter in the Big Bang Theory.
(Hofstadter comes from Douglas Hostadter and his seminal work 'Godel, Escher, Bach. Not sure where Cooper comes from).
2. A Christmas Story
3. It's A Wonderful Life
4. Home Alone
5. Scrooged
Honorable Mention: Christmas Vacation
(I probably need to see Bad Santa again. It hit me wrong the first time.)
searching on Xmas Eve for the sold out action figure toy
for his son. Sinbad is in it, lots of action and funny situations.
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Christmas Vacation
It's a Wonderful Life
Miracle on 34th Street (the original)
Hats off to Macy's department store for refusing their name to be associated with this dreadful remake.
My daughter cracked me up one time when she said she had something important to tell me and it turned out to be "I saw a dog today". She did the same thing to Mrs. Q who was in a hurry and was not amused ! It's an excellent inside joke we tell each other about once a year.
I can't remember what my second one for the list was.
Quote: JohnnyQI can't remember what my second one for the list was.
Cesspit had it ! Tim Burton's NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS is excellent. If you haven't seen it, run don't walk to the local video store / netflix to get it.
I dunno. I don't really like Christmas. I can feel the depression starting already.
If I had to pick a classic, I'd go with The Grinch. I like cartoon musicals and love the voice of Thurl Ravenscroft.
But all around I'd have to pick The Polar Express. When my boy was old enough to request things it was this that he wanted to watch 5 times a day for two months, so it holds a lot of memories for me.