Broadway Legend Joined: 7/8/05
inspired by the favorite Christmas song thread.
my favorites A Christmas Story.
lets hear them!
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/29/05
Ditto - A Christmas Story. Love that movie!
White Christmas
The Santa Clause - cheesy but cute
Miracle on 34th Street
A Christmas Story
Gotta love that "Leg Lamp!"
Charlie Brown Christmas
It's a Wonderful Life
A Christmas Story
...in that order.
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/2/04
Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas
A Christmas Story
Charlie Brown Christmas
Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer (the one with the Island of Misfit Toys)
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/10/05
OK, I have a few:
Christmas Vacation (damn! it's funny!)
Scrooged
A Christmas Carol (with Alistair Sim)
Holiday Inn
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/5/04
The Ref (far and away my absolute favorite Xmas movie)
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/14/05
A Christmas Story hands down and second is the new Grinch.
GAH! How could I foget about Christmas Vacation??!! One of my family's all-time favorites!
Leading Actor Joined: 2/16/05
I HATE A Christmas Story. I looked exactly like Ralphie when I was a kid, and that movie used to scare the crap out of me.
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
I have to say A Christmas Story is my favorite too.
"Show me how the piggies eat!!"
A Christmas Story, far and away.
I always KNEW my fear of department store Santas was justifiable.
Christmas in Conneticut
Miracle on 34th Street (NW version)
Remember the Night
A Christmas Story
Broadway Star Joined: 1/2/05
Movies:
Nightmare Before Christmas
Miracle on 34th Street (the original, in glorious B&W)
The George C. Scott version of "A Christmas Carol"
"Scrooge" the musical Christmas Carol w/Albert Finney
The Muppet Christmas Carol (still love The Great Gonzo as the Great Charles Dickens)
TV Specials:
The Chuck Jones/Boris Karloff "Grinch"
A Charlie Brown Christmas
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/16/05
The Nightmare before Christmas.
Don't kill me, but I didn't see A Christmas Story.
A Christmas Carol (w/ George C. Scott)
A Christmas Story
Christmas Vacation
White Christmas
Hmm...Love Actually count?
and Holiday Inn
and I'm all about Charlie Brown Christmas and the Muppet Christmas Carol
Wow no one mentioned Elf yet...I could definetly see watching that every year...
The Bells of St. Mary's. All for one scene - when the little tiny children put on their own version of the Christmas story. Their favorite Christmas song? "Happy Birthday to You"
Home Alone, it's naustalgia more than anything.
The Santa Clause almost always makes me cry. Second one was crap.
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/2/05
Stand-by Joined: 1/15/05
Holiday Inn. Nothing else even comes close.
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