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.
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 - ModeratorÂ
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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Unless there's a bond film on obviously."
Drac - ModeratorÂ
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.
There are no good xmas films .It`s the dullest day of the year ,I shall walk up a mountain then eat curry and try and avoid all the greed ,cheer and godly dross
There are no good xmas films .It`s the dullest day of the year ,I shall walk up a mountain then eat curry and try and avoid all the greed ,cheer and godly dross
That's the spirit!
In no particular order:
Polar Express
Muppets Christmas Carol
Die Hard
The Night Before
Home Alone
Elf
There are no good xmas films .It`s the dullest day of the year ,I shall walk up a mountain then eat curry and try and avoid all the greed ,cheer and godly dross
If thats what you enjoy doing then it isn't going to be dull. Christmas means different things to different people so don't try and pretend you are special, just enjoy what you decide you want to use that day/s for.
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It was good in the 80s anyway.
I don't understand you lot. There's one Christmas film beyond all the others and no one acknowledges it!
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This will be Christmas Eve for me. My mum and I will be chuckling away merrily, and my Dad will either be trying to act like it's beneath him, or snoring.
There are no good xmas films .It`s the dullest day of the year ,I shall walk up a mountain then eat curry and try and avoid all the greed ,cheer and godly dross
Why try something else if you find that dull?
I don't understand you lot. There's one Christmas film beyond all the others and no one acknowledges it!
Wizard of Oz? Not much of a Christmas theme in that.
The Wizard of Oz [i]is[/i] Christmas!
