Christmas Movies

[jmar]

We all have our favorites and I generally watch the cutesy ones that my grandchildren enjoy and understand when they stay over like the many versions of Home Alone, The Grinch and Elf.

Watched National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation again last night and plan to view the *Holdovers next because I've never even heard of this movie.


* It would be easy to ignore completely like so many others if not for Paul Giamatta.
Anyone recommend it?


Also, tis the season to make lists so give up your top five.
Why five?
It's hard to limit it to five you say.
Precisely!

[Snakebite]

We all have our favorites and I generally watch the cutesy ones that my grandchildren enjoy and understand when they stay over like the many versions of Home Alone, The Grinch and Elf.

Watched National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation again last night and plan to view the *Holdovers next because I've never even heard of this movie.


* It would be easy to ignore completely like so many others if not for Paul Giamatta.
Anyone recommend it?


Also, tis the season to make lists so give up your top five.
Why five?
It's hard to limit it to five you say.
Precisely!

1. Die Hard
2. Violent Night
3. Christmas Chronicles
4. Elf
5. Christmas Vacation

[wesfau2]

Trading Places
Christmas Vacation
Bad Santa
...
...
...
Most other xmas movies suck balls.

[Snakebite]

Trading Places
Christmas Vacation
Bad Santa
...
...
...
Most other xmas movies suck balls.

Didn't think of Bad Santa, but I would replace Christmas Chronicles with that one.  Kurt Russell is/was tits, though.

[Kaos]

No particular order.


Christmas Vacation
Krampus
Die Hard
Christmas Story
Home Alone
Violent Night
Elf
Wonderful Life
Deck The Halls
Madea’s Christmas

[Snaggletiger]

Not movies ,but I have to spend an hour watching the standards I grew up on:

Charlie Brown Christmas
Rudolph
How the Grinch Stole Christmas

Cheesy, I know, but it ain't Christmas without em'.

The other standard is A Christmas Carol, with Jim Carrey.  BTW, I'll be seeing that one live at the Alabama Shakespeare Festival this Sunday.  Love that place.

[AUJarhead]

Can we change it to Christmas episodes of sitcoms?

Because I watch The Strike every year.

[The Six]

Trading Places
Christmas Vacation
Lethal Weapon
Batman Returns
Die Hard/Die Hard 2
A Christmas Story

Miss me with It's a Wonderful Life! What a boring, morose, piece of overhyped trash.

[Snakebite]

Another honorable mention: Edward Scissorhands

The Tim Burton/Johnny Depp partnership throughout my lifetime has been mostly a treat.  None have touched the greatness of Big Fish, which didn't have Depp in it obviously.

[wesfau2]

Another honorable mention: Edward Scissorhands

The Tim Burton/Johnny Depp partnership throughout my lifetime has been mostly a treat.  None have touched the greatness of Big Fish, which didn't have Depp in it obviously.

Damn.  Good call.  And totally agree about Burton/Depp.  Though, Burton's finest, in my estimation, is Beetlejuice.

[The Six]

Damn.  Good call.  And totally agree about Burton/Depp.  Though, Burton's finest, in my estimation, is Beetlejuice.

For me, Burton is a lot like Stephen King. Acts 1 & 2 are phenomenal, but Act 3 somehow, someway falls apart.

Beetlejuice is a prime example. That unravels in a spectacular fashion. Low key interested in this sequel they've supposedly finished. Curious which streaming service it gets shoved to.

[chinook]

Another honorable mention: Edward Scissorhands

The Tim Burton/Johnny Depp partnership throughout my lifetime has been mostly a treat.  None have touched the greatness of Big Fish, which didn't have Depp in it obviously.

 

[chinook]

it's a wonderful life 
nightmare before christmas
christmas vacation
a christmas story
elf
gremlins

[wesfau2]

gremlins

Oooooh.  Good call.

[Snakebite]

Which part?

[chinook]

Which part?

i struggle with it being considered a Christmas movie...i mean at least lethal weapon and die hard was centered around the holidays both of which are debated as being a Christmas movie.  scissorhand...that's a long stretch. 

[Kaos]

Not movies ,but I have to spend an hour watching the standards I grew up on:

Charlie Brown Christmas
Rudolph
How the Grinch Stole Christmas

Cheesy, I know, but it ain't Christmas without em'.

The other standard is A Christmas Carol, with Jim Carrey.  BTW, I'll be seeing that one live at the Alabama Shakespeare Festival this Sunday.  Love that place.

I was with you until the end.  Jim Carrey has never been and will never be funny.  I won’t watch shit he’s in. 

[Kaos]

i struggle with it being considered a Christmas movie...i mean at least lethal weapon and die hard was centered around the holidays both of which are debated as being a Christmas movie.  scissorhand...that's a long stretch.

The definitive answer to this age old question is whether the movie would have existed absent the Christmas trappings.


Die Hard?  Yes. It’s a Christmas movie. It being Christmas Eve was central to the plot. 


Lethal Weapon? No.  Sure there was a Christmas tree in the room but that was inconsequential.  Same with Scissorhands. It could just as easily been Halloween or Fourth of July and the story is the same.

[War Damn Six]

it's a wonderful life 
nightmare before christmas
christmas vacation
a christmas story
elf
gremlins

It’s A Wonderful Life is awful.  I agree with your list except for that piece of shit.

[jmar]

So much for seeing The Holdovers.
Hasn't been released although it can be streamed for $18.99.
Can't do it.