[Closed] There are only two good Christmas films.

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FFS, it's like Beethoven didn't exist 🙄

the grinch.

Err... Home Alone!?!?!?

Elf?!?!?!?

Rong.. der is dis

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An dis..
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You know? I've never seen "It's a Wonderful Life".

You smell like beef and cheese, you don't smell like Santa.

Tokyo Godfathers.

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Bad Santa is ok
I waited until my 31st Christmas until I watched It's a Wonderful Life, I've watched in every Christmas since.

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Also, what about the insatiable Vera Ellen and Danny Kaye in White Christmas?

Epic ness doesn't come close..

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Muppets Christmas Carol

How is Sneakers a Christmas film? It's good, but no Christmas

Rare Exports : A Christmas Tale

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[b]Santa! I know him!!!![/b]

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How is Sneakers a Christmas film? It's good, but no Christmas

My thought, too.

Muppets Christmas Carol

Yep.

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Only Two films!!

I've put up Four already..

Charlie Browns Christmas .. ferchristsake..

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yup, Die Hard, at number 1.

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and yes, Muppets - a Christmas Carol, at n2.

that's it.

Home Alone.
Holiday Inn.
Scrooge - The Alastair Sim version.

llama - Member

How is Sneakers a Christmas film?

I don't know! It's like that Frankie Goes To Hollywood song, nothing to do with Christmas at all and yet...

Starts in the snow? Oh no wait

Scrooged.

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Does Gremlins count?

+1 HOME ALONE

Does Gremlins count?

It's set at Christmas.

You know? I've never seen "It's a Wonderful Life"

@mikey you have to fix that

You know? I've never seen "It's a Wonderful Life"

Snap!

Trains, planes and Automobiles!!!

Trains, planes and Automobiles!!!

Ermmm!

Okay TV and not actually billed as Christmas but near enough (of a turkey) 😀

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Home alone and one of the Christmas carol variations for me

@mikey you have to fix that

I tried, earlier, but the version on youtube has been messed with so the image is mirrored and the sound has an echo applied to it.

The Great Escape for me. The theme tune makes me feel as Christmassy as Good King Wenceslas.

I've not seen Its a wonderful life either.

My Christmas film list would include
Die Hard
Gremlins
Muppets Christmas Carol
Scrooged
Home Alone
Elf
and Bad Santa

So there is a difference between films shown at Christmas and those with a Christmas theme.

Surely they have to be either set around Christmas (as their thematic backdrop), or have Christmas as their central theme.

Exactly otherwise it's just a filum.

As a kid it was always Jason and the Argonaughts on Christmas Eve- for me that is the one film that makes me think of Christmas.

next week i shall be watching

National Lampoons Christmas vacation

+1 johndo and The Polar Express

After this thread (and my return from the pub) Die Hard (1 or 2) will be my fall asleep viewing matter....

National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation - bingo! Few times did I chortle so much!

I've got the lampoons box set,

watched european vacation and lampoons vacation, Christmas one next

Reckon the world would be a better place if everyone watched It's a Wonderful Life.

Was totally unprepared for it's undermining of the free market and glorious communitarianism 😉

A Christmas Carol with George C. Scott.

He is superb as Scrooge.

But I'll add to that Holiday Inn, Home Alone, and A Child's Christmas in Wales.

It's A Wonderful Life is an absolute must-see - make some time, be in a Christmassy mood and it will deliver. Outstanding.

Nightmare before Christmas...

National Lampoons Christmas Vacation goes on every year

Die Hard 2

It's a Wonderful life is hopelessly sentimental and completely irresistible at Xmas. I can't imagine not having seen it; it's influenced so many other films and tv plots. Don't bother with youtube, it'll be on normal tv before the big day. Make the time to sit and wallow in the relentless assault on your grumpy bone.

National Lampoons Xmas - definitely.

Polar Express - 3D preferably.

Anyway my choice:

Die Hard
Lethal Weapon
Trading Places

Reckon the world would be a better place if everyone watched It's a Wonderful Life.

Yep. I haven't seen it for about ten years. Been too busy or it's been tucked away at 8.00 am on Christmas eve.
This year, though....

A Christmas Story - About a kid who wants a bb gun.
Scrooge - Alistair Sim
Scrooged - Bill Murray
Scrooge - The animated version with Jim Carrey (yep I like Scrooge)

70/ version of Christmas Carol with be sacred ghost of Christmas future

Sound of music - which I hated at Xmas as a kid - for the greatest love scen ever - the dance outside.

It's a Wonderful Life

http://putlockers.ch/watch-its-a-wonderful-life-online-free-putlocker.html

Can have Christmas Carol (Scrooge if you like) without:

Patrick Stewart

or Blackadder 😀

I feel a little disappointed that it seems some people don't understand that Die Hard *is* a Christmas movie.

Seriously, no Bond? I'd happily watch any of them at any time over the Christmas festivities.

I haven't seen Jason and the Argonauts for years, was one of my faves as a kid.

The original The Bishop's Wife with Cary Grant. It's completely different to my normal film but always a hit at Christmas.

been messed with so the image is mirrored and the sound has an echo applied to it.

It's on Netflix 🙂

I don't have Netflix

Erm, sorry, but this wasn't a debate. It's a statement of fact.

When Harry Met Sally
Iron Man 3

Seriously, no Bond? I'd happily watch any of them at any time over the Christmas festivities.

Only one of them features Christmas. Watching a film at Christmas does not make it a Christmas film.

Iron Man 3

Shane Black likes his Christmas theme.

Drac - Moderator 
Only one of them features Christmas. Watching a film at Christmas does not make it a Christmas film.

It is the best Bond film though, even with Lazenby's wooden acting (is Roger Moore any less wooden though? 😀 ). Does feel Christmasy.

No not that one.

Reindeer Games with Charlize Theron

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"Nobody watches the TV untill the queens speech.
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Unless there's a bond film on obviously."

Drac - Moderator 
No not that one.

Christmas Jones?

James Bond: "I was wrong about you."
Christmas Jones: "Yeah? How so?"
James Bond: "I thought Christmas only comes once a year."

That's the one.

There are only two good Christmas films.

Well if we're restricted to, two films. Then obviously, it's the great escape and scrooged.
8)

My wife just said she fancied watching a Christmas film. Without any input from me, she put Die Hard on.

That's why I married her. 8)

Die Hard On?

German arthouse film?

😆

For me the only Christmas film as a child was "Battle of the Bulge" on every year I remember till I was about 12. Now definitely " its a wonderful life " I love explaining every scene to cranbrat ( now 5.)

A friend of ours made us watch 'It's a Wonderful Life' last year and I couldn't stand it. Perhaps I'd had it ruined by seeing the Family Guy pastiches of Jimmy Stewart before the actual thing.

To make up for it we watched Die Hard this year.

I also (for some reason) always remember the first Tim Burton Batman always being on at Christmas, great film with fantastic music.