Favorite Christmas movie of all time? Why?

Mary - posted on 12/10/2010

I too, absolutely LOVE A Christmas Story. Like Dana, I look forward to that 24 hour marathon - I just keep it on in the background so I can catch my favorite parts.

A few years ago, we were cleaning out my grandmother's house, and much to my utter delight, I found my dad's original Red Ryder BB gun from the 1940's!! My father had no idea my grandmother had kept it all those years. I think part of the reason I love this movie is that it captures a lot of what I imagine my dad's childhood was like growing up - listening to Little Orphan Annie on the radio, Ovaltine, and those department store Santa's.

Not to mention, that movie is just flat out funny as shit =)

Erin - posted on 12/10/2010

Hey Dana do you live by the Christmas Story house or ever been to it?

Sarah - posted on 12/10/2010

I'll have to keep an eye out for it over Xmas! See what all the fuss is about ;)

Dana - posted on 12/10/2010

Sarah, you HAVE to see it, you won't be disappointed, I know you'll laugh your ass off.

Krista - posted on 12/10/2010

Krista - posted on 12/10/2010

I love 8 Crazy Nights. It's frickin' hilarious! The whole technical foul song is priceless.

Sarah - posted on 12/10/2010

YAY to all the people who love Muppet's Christmas Carol......you are ALL totally awesome! (like me!!) hehehehe

I've never seen (or heard of for that matter) A Christmas Story!

Jocelyn - posted on 12/10/2010

A Muppet's Christmas Carol of course!!!

~Jennifer - posted on 12/10/2010

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Laura - posted on 12/10/2010

Frosty the Snowman, the cartoon version of Grinch, and the original Miracle on 34th St.

I hate A Christmas Story and Rudolph. I don't know why the characters in Rudolph are just creepy.



*edit* I hate a christmas story because one time they played it over and over through the whole month of July and I got burnt out. plus it's just kinda stupid :)

Dana - posted on 12/10/2010

Jackie, I have seen that leg lamp on sale, we almost bought it for our BIL. Hilarious!

Dana - posted on 12/10/2010

Laci, you HATE A Christmas Story?? Who could hate that movie, it's blasphemous!

Dana - posted on 12/10/2010

I've got to stick with the classic "A Christmas Story" I can't wait for our TV station that plays it for 24 hrs straight! I LOVE that movie, a must see if you haven't seen it!

Jennifer - posted on 12/10/2010

IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE! (yes, i love it so much i had to yell at all of you). seriously, though...i love it so much! Chirstmas isn't christmas for me unless i've watched it.



George Bailey, i'll love you til the day i die ♥

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i can't get the other one to post...
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Good Day! - posted on 12/10/2010

Hehe love Cousin Eddie's face at the end of that clip!

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Jackie - posted on 12/10/2010

I LOVE the "A Christmas Story" Fararara ra ra ra ra! hahaha. Did anyone see that they actually sell a leg lamp? I've come sooo close to buying one for the past 2 years now but it would end up in a closet somewhere, I'm sure.

National Lampoons is my all time fav though.

~Jennifer - posted on 12/10/2010

White Christmas ( this is the movie in which "Bing Cosby tap dances with Danny fuckin' Kaye", as so eloquently stated by Chevy Chase in Nat'l lampoon's Christmas Vacation).....I always put up my tree while watching that movie.

The Bishop's Wife ( the one with Cary Grant and David Niven) - it was my grandmother's favorite and goes in the dvd player when WC is over.

It's a Wonderful Life (*ding* "Hey look @ me, I'm giving out wings!)



...and my mom's Christmas eve tradition - A Christmas Carol - the one with Alastair Sim - it was her favorite..this will be the first Christmas without her, but I'm still going to watch it on Christmas eve.

=)

Bonnie - posted on 12/10/2010

National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation! My husband watches it any time of the year, but he starts REALLY watching it in September more often and more as Christmas comes closer. I would say he pretty much knows all the lines hahaha.

Kate CP - posted on 12/10/2010

Muppets' Christmas Carol here. I love the songs and the muppets are always funny. :)

Erin - posted on 12/10/2010

Oh and I can't go a year without watching A Christmas Story at least 2 or 3 times on Christmas Eve/Day.

Erin - posted on 12/10/2010

National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation is my favorite of ALL time. It always puts me in the Christmas spirit. For the couple of weeks leading up to Christmas, I watch it at least 4 times! Wyatt is loving all of the Christmas specials that I used to love as a kid, Rudolph, Santa Clause is coming to town, The Grinch, and Charlie Brown Christmas. I love this time of year!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sara - posted on 12/10/2010

National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation is the best holiday movie EVER!!!! It's just fucking funny.

Good Day! - posted on 12/10/2010

I'm in the Muppet Christmas Carol fan club!

I never buy DVD's but the first Christmas I was married, I missed it so much that I made a trip to Wal-Mart just for that movie. It was always the movie we watched while decorating the tree...and I still carry that tradition in my household!

I also love National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation...we quote it all Christmas long.

And the classic clay-mations are fun to watch. Does anyone remember A Garfield Christmas? I used to look forward to that one every year.

LaCi - posted on 12/10/2010

Elf. Nightmare before christmas.



I'm not really into xmas movies. I do love the old school animations though, the charlie brown, rudolph, and frosty stuff. I have to watch them every year.



Oh, and I hate a christmas story. Hate.



My dad watches the entire 24 hour marathon lol



My boyfriend does the same.



Its a tradition that wont die no matter how much I want it to.

Sarah - posted on 12/10/2010

I don't know what you mean!!!!!!!!
I barely use exclamation marks!!!!!!!

Ok, I think it's all the coming festivities getting me excited!!!!!!!!!!

Toni - posted on 12/10/2010

I love Christmas movies, y=there are so many I can't possibly choose one:

Miracle on 34th St (original and new one)
Home Alone 1 and 2
Elf

Erm these are my favourites but I love any Christmas film, tis the season to be jolly tralalalala la la la la....

*sigh* I do LOVE Christmas

~♥Little Miss - posted on 12/10/2010

A Christmas Story..it is a tradition to watch it every year! My son is going to watch it this Christmas for the first time! I can't wait to see how he likes it!

Iris - posted on 12/10/2010

Sarah, what's up with all the "!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" lately?

Power trip? ;)



Edit: Girl you know I love you!!!!!!!!!!!

C. - posted on 12/10/2010

Haha, Sarah.. You just made me think of a Celtic Woman song..

Sarah - posted on 12/10/2010

Ooooh I forgot "The Snowman" !!!!!
*we're walking in the aiiiiiiiiirrrrrr!*

Iris - posted on 12/10/2010

love Christmas with the Kranks!

Mary - posted on 12/10/2010

My favorites are the Rankin/Bass Christmas specials, particularly The Year Without a Santa Claus. (the one with the heat and snow misers). They were staple in my childhood christmases, and I just love them all - Rudolph is among them, but I also love Nestor the Long Eared Donkey and the Little Drummer Boy (although both are a little bittersweet - Nestor's mother dies in the beginning).

I was thrilled that my two y/o seemed really into these old claymation shows form my childhood - although she's more into Rudolph than Santa.

C. - posted on 12/10/2010

Oooh, wow, let's see..



It's a wonderful life, Holiday Inn, White Christmas, How the Grinch stole Christmas, The Grinch (old one), A Christmas Carol, Miracle on 34th Street (the one w/ Natalie Wood), A Charlie Brown Christmas, Santa Claus is Coming to Town, Jack Frost (old animated movie), The Bells of St. Mary's, The Bishop's Wife, Christmas in Connecticut, Jingle All the Way, The Shop around the Corner, Susan Slept Here, Frosty the Snowman (the original), Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer (original), Home Alone 3- Grew up watching those around Christmas time and I love them. They bring back such great memories..



CHRISTMAS STORY!!!!- It's hilarious! Love it!



Elf- Hahahaha.. Love it..



Christmas w/ the Kranks- :)



The Santa Clause 1, 2 and 3- Like the first one as I was growing up and the latest two have grown on me..



I think that covers it..

Katherine - posted on 12/10/2010

Rudolph, I always looked forward to that as a kid.

Iris - posted on 12/10/2010

National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation! There is no Christmas in my house without that movie.

Cathy - posted on 12/10/2010

Gremlins ... Does that count?

Barb - posted on 12/10/2010

A Christmas Story, its from the book, "In God we trust, all others pay cash"

It is based on a christmas when he was around 9 years old growing up here in Indiana.

They show it every year here on TV here in Indiana on Christmas.

Lucy - posted on 12/10/2010

The Nightmare Before Christmas, for me!

It came out the year I got together with my husband and was the first movie we went to see together.

Also, great characters, great songs, cute Tim Burton design, what more could you want in a festive movie? I LOVE it x

Johnny - posted on 12/10/2010

The Grinch. Love that movie. In my family, when someone is crabby or selfish or a jerk, we always say that their "heart is 2 sizes too small".

Muppet Christmas Carol is a close second. I adore the muppets and it is probably their best movie.

Meghan - posted on 12/10/2010

The cartoon version of the Grinch and the old Miracle on 34th street were always my favs growing up.
My dad used to make us watch "It's a wonderful life" and I hated it..until I became an "adult" and could empathize with George.

Sarah - posted on 12/10/2010

Muppet Christmas Carol!!!!!
I've watched it every Xmas eve since I was little.
I know all the words, sing along to every song and just LOVE it!