Favorite Christmas Movies?
December 14th, 2010 at 4:22:57 PM
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Anyone else care to share their top 3-5?
3. A Christmas Story
2. Christmas Vacation
1. Die Hard
3. A Christmas Story
2. Christmas Vacation
1. Die Hard
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December 14th, 2010 at 4:41:02 PM
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Don't forget Die Hard 2.
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December 14th, 2010 at 4:44:45 PM
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1. It's a Wonderful Life.
2. The Nightmare before Christmas
2. The Nightmare before Christmas
"Then you can admire the real gambler, who has neither eaten, slept, thought nor lived, he has so smarted under the scourge of his martingale, so suffered on the rack of his desire for a coup at trente-et-quarante" - Honore de Balzac, 1829
December 14th, 2010 at 4:57:21 PM
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About this there can be no doubt -- Bad Santa.
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December 14th, 2010 at 5:04:28 PM
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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.
"It's not called gambling if the math is on your side."
December 14th, 2010 at 5:38:55 PM
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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.
"Then you can admire the real gambler, who has neither eaten, slept, thought nor lived, he has so smarted under the scourge of his martingale, so suffered on the rack of his desire for a coup at trente-et-quarante" - Honore de Balzac, 1829
December 14th, 2010 at 5:43:23 PM
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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.
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December 14th, 2010 at 5:55:42 PM
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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.
"It's not called gambling if the math is on your side."
December 15th, 2010 at 8:50:41 AM
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DUHHIIIIIIIII HEARD THAT!
December 15th, 2010 at 9:29:44 AM
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Christmas Vacation is probably my favorite. I saw someone at the store this past weekend wearing a T-shirt with Cousin Eddie's line on it - "MERRY CHRISTMAS!! SH*TTER WAS FULL!"
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December 15th, 2010 at 9:52:26 AM
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Being only 28 (29 on monday), and spending nearly every Christmas in New York for the last 6 years, I am afraid to say I always love to watch Home Alone 2 on Christmas Morning, my daughter loves it too!
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December 15th, 2010 at 10:20:30 AM
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The 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.
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December 15th, 2010 at 10:35:56 PM
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I've always thought of the first "Gremlins" as a Christmas movie.
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December 15th, 2010 at 10:54:29 PM
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Golly gee willikers no one said Laurel and Hardy's Babes in Toyland? Loved it as a kid and even more after I bought a bong!
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December 16th, 2010 at 7:16:58 AM
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Not a movie, but does anyone like the two Futurama Xmas episodes? I found the killer robot Santa to be hilarious ("Your mistletoe is no match for my TOW missile!")
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December 28th, 2010 at 2:08:46 AM
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December 10th, 2013 at 12:37:37 AM
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Got Netflix? Add Radio City Christmas to your list of
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.
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.
"It's not called gambling if the math is on your side."
December 10th, 2013 at 3:21:45 AM
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Elf
White Christmas
Christmas Vacation
All three get extensive play in our home during the holidays...
Home Alone is not played as much...
White Christmas
Christmas Vacation
All three get extensive play in our home during the holidays...
Home Alone is not played as much...
December 10th, 2013 at 6:14:06 AM
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3rd place- Christmas Vacation
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.
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.
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December 10th, 2013 at 6:32:52 AM
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Elf
Christmas Vacation
It's a Wonderful Life
Miracle on 34th Street (the original)
Christmas Vacation
It's a Wonderful Life
Miracle on 34th Street (the original)
December 10th, 2013 at 7:07:30 AM
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The Grinch.
December 10th, 2013 at 7:22:32 AM
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Quote: Wavy70Golly gee willikers no one said Laurel and Hardy's Babes in Toyland?
+1
I've had it on order for awhile now with Netflix: long wait.
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December 10th, 2013 at 7:30:38 AM
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None. Christmas is -EV for me. :(
December 10th, 2013 at 7:59:09 AM
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My favorite Christmas movie is Planes, Trains and Automobiles, I just pop it in and pretend it's about Christmas instead of Thanksgiving.
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
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
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December 10th, 2013 at 9:04:19 AM
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Its so difficult to find a real movie on TV during the holidays... its all "family fare" stuff with no naked broads or anything.
No wonder people head to bars and casinos on holidays.
No wonder people head to bars and casinos on holidays.
December 10th, 2013 at 9:13:36 AM
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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.
December 10th, 2013 at 9:15:39 AM
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Perhaps the original Home Alone, could be my fifth. Actually, it definitely is, I just wanted someone else to say it first!
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December 10th, 2013 at 10:45:56 AM
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Christmas Story #1
♪♪Now you swear and kick and beg us That you're not a gamblin' man Then you find you're back in Vegas With a handle in your hand♪♪ Your black cards can make you money So you hide them when you're able In the land of casinos and money You must put them on the table♪♪ You go back Jack do it again roulette wheels turinin' 'round and 'round♪♪ You go back Jack do it again♪♪
December 10th, 2013 at 11:17:42 AM
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Every decade has their own Christmas movie. Since I grew up in the 90's I would say Home Alone is the best Christmas movie. I don't even know why they made Home Alone 3 and so forth since the McCaulkin kid was already gone. Joe Pesci and him made the movie.
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December 10th, 2013 at 12:05:10 PM
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I know a guy who's seen Christmas Story so many
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.
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.
"It's not called gambling if the math is on your side."
December 10th, 2013 at 12:15:14 PM
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Trapped in Paradise with Nicholas Cage, Dana Carvey, and Jon Lovitz. To add to the list, not top 5 per se, but decent none the less.
December 10th, 2013 at 12:19:19 PM
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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."
Shed not for her
the bitter tear
Nor give the heart
to vain regret
Tis but the casket
that lies here,
The gem that filled it
Sparkles yet
December 10th, 2013 at 12:50:11 PM
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Quote: Buzzard
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.
"It's not called gambling if the math is on your side."
December 10th, 2013 at 2:24:50 PM
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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).
"Then you can admire the real gambler, who has neither eaten, slept, thought nor lived, he has so smarted under the scourge of his martingale, so suffered on the rack of his desire for a coup at trente-et-quarante" - Honore de Balzac, 1829
December 10th, 2013 at 3:02:40 PM
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1. Love, Actually
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.)
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.)
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December 10th, 2013 at 3:08:49 PM
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I saw 'Jingle All the Way' the other day. Not bad. Arnold
searching on Xmas Eve for the sold out action figure toy
for his son. Sinbad is in it, lots of action and funny situations.
searching on Xmas Eve for the sold out action figure toy
for his son. Sinbad is in it, lots of action and funny situations.
"It's not called gambling if the math is on your side."
December 10th, 2013 at 3:39:06 PM
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Quote: FrGambleElf
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.
Shed not for her
the bitter tear
Nor give the heart
to vain regret
Tis but the casket
that lies here,
The gem that filled it
Sparkles yet
December 10th, 2013 at 4:43:34 PM
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Definitely ELF.
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.
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.
There's emptiness behind their eyes
There's dust in all their hearts
They just want to steal us all and take us all apart
December 10th, 2013 at 4:46:02 PM
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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.
There's emptiness behind their eyes
There's dust in all their hearts
They just want to steal us all and take us all apart
December 12th, 2013 at 3:57:48 PM
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The saucer sledding scene from Christmas Vacation still cracks me up.
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December 12th, 2013 at 4:29:34 PM
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Gremlins? Die Hard 1 and 2?
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.
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.
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