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Your Favorite Holiday Movies

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#25Your Favorite Holiday Movies
Posted: 12/16/15 at 9:45pm

You prefer the 1994 version?

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#26Your Favorite Holiday Movies
Posted: 12/16/15 at 9:50pm

I love to watch:

White Christmas

Mrs. Santa Claus (1996 TV movie)

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer

It's a Wonderful Life

A Christmas Story

and Mickey's Christmas Carol


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#27Your Favorite Holiday Movies
Posted: 12/16/15 at 10:04pm

Planes trains and automobiles


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#28Your Favorite Holiday Movies
Posted: 12/16/15 at 10:31pm

Definitely White & Planes

 

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#29Your Favorite Holiday Movies
Posted: 12/16/15 at 10:35pm

In no particular order:  uWhite Christmas, Original Miracle on 34 Street, A Christmas Carol (the one with George C Scott), Rudolph The Red Nose Reindeer, A Charlie Brown Christmas 

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#30Your Favorite Holiday Movies
Posted: 12/16/15 at 11:36pm

You prefer the 1994 version?

 

I don't necessarily think it's the better movie, it just happens to be the one all my fuzzy warm memories are attached to. Like "Santa Claus : The Movie", which is probably a dreadful movie but I just love it for sentimental reasons. 


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#31Your Favorite Holiday Movies
Posted: 12/17/15 at 12:52am

My family watches the 1987 TV movie version of A Child's Christmas in Wales with Denholm Elliott every Christmas Eve.  It's positively charming.

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#32Your Favorite Holiday Movies
Posted: 12/17/15 at 1:15am

"Tangerine."  By FAR.


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#33Your Favorite Holiday Movies
Posted: 12/17/15 at 2:32am

Home For The Holidays. Holly Hunter is divine.

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#34Your Favorite Holiday Movies
Posted: 12/17/15 at 11:43am

Silent Night Deadly Night is the ultimate Christmas movie to me, because it is simultaneously entirely sincere and entirely ludicrous. It's either brilliant satire or absolutely stupid, and is my prime example of how something can be pure camp without even a touch of queer perspective or influence. The soundtrack album was just released last year and it's just as mixed message as the film itself.

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#35Your Favorite Holiday Movies
Posted: 12/17/15 at 7:54pm

The Family Stone is first and then there's everything else.

 

Love Actually

Home for the Holidays

Christmas Vacation

A Christmas Carol - 1938

Mixed Nuts

A Christmas Story

 

And thought it's not "Christmas" really, it is somewhat set around the season...No Reservations.


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#36Your Favorite Holiday Movies
Posted: 12/18/15 at 2:02pm

Mister Matt said: "The Family Stone is first and then there's everything else.

 

 

" I forgot all about that one!  So funny! HOLIDAY INN is another great one too

 


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#37Your Favorite Holiday Movies
Posted: 12/18/15 at 3:06pm

 

Matt, I love the 1938 "A Christmas Carol," too.  I don't think it's the best version, but it always warms my cockles.


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#38Your Favorite Holiday Movies
Posted: 12/18/15 at 4:22pm

I love the 1951 version, too (though it gave me nightmares as a child), but for some reason, I've always found the 1938 version the most compelling and it's the one I always want to watch.


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#39Your Favorite Holiday Movies
Posted: 12/18/15 at 5:29pm

There are some peripheral holiday movies that I love watching this time of year, for one reason or another. Mostly because part of the story takes place at that time.

 

Die Hard

Fanny and Alexander

Auntie Mame

The Lion in Winter

All That Heaven Allows

 


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#40Your Favorite Holiday Movies
Posted: 12/20/15 at 6:40pm

So glad to see the love for Scrooge here. That was the version of A Christmas Carol that is the annual viewing in my family. I love the score. Albert Finney is incredible, especially considering how young he really was at the time (I think it adds a lot that he was able to play the younger version of himself in this), and it's clear that Alec Guinness was having a grand time as Marley, especially when he really gets to ham it up for the added scene in hell.

 

Some of my other favorites are pretty standard: Home Alone (I still remember my parents and all their friends having an "adults" night out at the movies and telling all of us they were going to see Dances With Wolves, then coming home and telling us they actually saw Home Alone, you wouldn't believe how upset we all were), Christmas Vacation, and A Christmas Story (being born and raised in Cleveland I don't think we are allowed to dislike that movie), and Meet Me in St. Louis.

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#41Your Favorite Holiday Movies
Posted: 12/21/15 at 9:29pm

A Cristmas Carol (1951)

Meet Me In St. Louis (for that one scene)

It's A Wonderful Life (gets me EVERY time)

 

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#42Your Favorite Holiday Movies
Posted: 12/23/15 at 1:05pm

I like them all but I really like a lot of the Christmas Vacation movies. Also I enjoy some of the ones that were back in the day and like seeing the changes that they brought to the movie for the younger generation to enjoy. Like Grinch Who Stole Christmas.

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#43Your Favorite Holiday Movies
Posted: 12/24/15 at 4:33pm

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and A Christmas Story.


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#44Your Favorite Holiday Movies
Posted: 12/24/15 at 4:57pm

Batman Returns


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#45Your Favorite Holiday Movies
Posted: 12/28/15 at 8:52am

Did anyone catch the Christmas Story 2 during the Christmas Eve on CMT? It was good as well and during the movie Ralphie wanted something again like in the first movie and he gets it in the end and is so excited. He is all grown up now in this movie.

 

 

Roscoe
#46Your Favorite Holiday Movies
Posted: 12/28/15 at 9:15am

For me, the 1951 SCROOGE with Alastair Sim is the best adaptation of A CHRISTMAS CAROL, the best Christmas movie ever and the best adaptation of Dickens yet on film.

Alastair Sim's Scrooge is the best.  Period.  No one else comes close -- it is absolutely definitive.  Sim's Scrooge moves from the darkest grimmest behavior (that horrible little smirk as he signs Marley's death certificate) to the most joyful ebullience (his elated dance on Christmas morning, singing "I don't know anything, I never did know anything, but now I know that I don't know, all on a Christmas morning"Your Favorite Holiday Movies with everything in between.

Ultimately, I think what sets Sim's Scrooge apart from all the others that I have seen is this: he really seems to be sorry for what he has been in the past, and deeply ashamed of himself, and this regret shows itself in many interesting little moments, most touchingly in his appearance at his nephew's Christmas dinner. Reginald Owens' Scrooge greets his nephew's fiance with a smile and a kiss and that's it. Sim's Scrooge meets his nephew's wife with a shamefaced smile and a sincerely heartfelt yet gentle apology for his past behavior that never fails to touch me. There's even one remarkable quiet moment upon Scrooge's arrival at his nephew's home, a privileged moment of Scrooge alone, having to work up his courage to enter the party room. There's a little maid standing nearby, who has just taken Scrooge's coat, who smiles at him and seems to motion to him to go ahead and go in to the party. Scrooge responds with a little flicker of a smile that is one of the loveliest little moments in the film.  And check out that little moment between Scrooge and his landlady on Christmas morning, as he's desperately trying to calm her fears at his sudden mad conversion -- when he asks her how much he pays her, there's this little appalled flash on his face when he hears the criminally low amount, which he forthwith raises 500%.  And the final moment in the office with Bob Cratchit is sublime -- when his laughter fades into embarrassment and the line, "I've not lost my senses, Bob: I've come to them."

I'm not a big fan of the George C. Scott version. Scott's Scrooge is amusing in places, but I felt that it gave short shrift to the big wakeup moment at the end, it feels rather rote. This version does have my favorite Marley's Ghost, a really terrifying Frank Finlay. Finlay is the only actor I've ever seen to convincingly dominate George C. Scott. That hideous shriek of rage he lets out when he demands "Man of the worldly mind, DO YOU BELIEVE IN ME OR NOT?!?!?!?!" is just bloody hair-raising. 

I rather like Finney's Scrooge, but it doesn't have quite the darkness that Sim's version has, somehow, and too many of the songs bring the story to a halt, especially Marley's.  Finney's a marvelous actor and all, but I find his Scrooge unappealing, which is of course the point, but that ghastly whiny voice and scrunched twisted face get on my nerves after a while. 


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#47Your Favorite Holiday Movies
Posted: 12/28/15 at 9:30am

Yes, CA all things Natalie Wood.

Surprised nobody mentioned Scrooged with Bill Murray.


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#48Your Favorite Holiday Movies
Posted: 12/28/15 at 9:45am

Never liked SCROOGED -- despite some good fun from Bobcat Goldthwaite and the sublime Carol Kane.  Murray's smirking persona doesn't allow for the unbridled joy in humanity that the role of Scrooge requires -- he'll be back to his old assh*lish ways after a couple of drinks.


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#49Your Favorite Holiday Movies
Posted: 12/28/15 at 10:46am

Kinda a Christmas  movie- tho not in the usual sense. I've always liked Gremlins.


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