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Muppets Christmas carol
I suppose it depends on your family but here are our Christmas staples:
Elf
Die Hard 1 & 2
Home Alone 1 & 2
Scrooged
Office Christmas party
Daddy’s home 2
National Lampoons Christmas vacation
Gremlins
The Grinch (Jim Carey version)
Polar Express
Holiday Inn
White Christmas
Muppets Christmas Carol
Its a wonderful Life
I also give Planes Trains & Automobiles a honourable mention even though it’s though a thanksgiving film, and normally kicks off our “seasonal films” binge..
Gremlins was rated 15 when it came out, possibly explaining the Santa Claus story in the script.
Amazon prime has the grinch and how the grinch stole Christmas
Big fans of Angels Sing in our house. Willie Nelson, Harry Connick, Lyle Lovett among others. Sure it’s schmaltzy, but hey it’s Christmas
Rare Exports.
We watched Gremlins the other day, I had fond memories of it and thought my 10 year old would enjoy it.
It's rubbish! It hasn't aged well. The part in the bar is too long and just stupid, not funny stupid, but puppeteers going "let's dick about with some more costumes" stupid. The end bit in the department store is pants. The whole film was pretty disappointing, which is a big shame as I really wanted a good Christmas film as an alternative to all the Richard Curtis crap.
Depending on the age of the kids ...
Scrooged
Trading places
For anyone whose family is all older than 15, Violent Night.
Xmas story, people questioning if Santa (David Harbour) is real or not etc combined with Die hard and gratuitous gory violence.
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt12003946/
The Futurama episodes with Santa Bot.
For anyone whose family is all older than 15, Violent Night.
I caught some of this over the weekend, maybe 20 minutes. I'd have to be drunk to think it was worth watching any more than that.
The Madagascar Penguins in a Christmas Caper, sadly only 11 minutes long, but well worth it.
on Netflix with some other Dreamworks titles, that I haven't seen.
Watch DreamWorks Holiday Classics | Netflix
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