Christmas Films

Das Kitty

I was doing a bit of a tally of our DVD collection yesterday looking at what festive gems I could wheel out in the run up to Christmas.

We started a tradition three years ago where we watch It's a Wonderful Life every Christmas week. I adore the film and even if it weren't set at Christmas I'd watch it over and over. God bless you George Bailey.

Also on the shelf we have, Miracle on 34th Street (the original, please!), The Nightmare Before Christmas, The Muppets' Christmas Carol (Tiny Tim and the Ducks gets me every time) and Gremlins. Being a lover of all things festive I'm wondering if there are any I'm missing (apart from Scrooged, but this is being rectified)?

What films do you like to wheel out for the Christmas season?

camel toe

snow day

Not a particulary great film, but puts me in good mood while eating a mince pie and irish coffee.

*i need to grow up*

kevmy

Scrooged

Die Hard 1 and 2

Lethal Weapon 1

Home Alone 1 and 2

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (the original)

~Rebel~

Oh my god, i just had an epiphany! Its so clear to be now! The movie which MUST be made!

Zombie Christmas

It'd be awesome!

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aww gay, someones (kinda) beaten me to it. A 5 min canadian short: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1330537/

starflake

Santa Claus the movie, All the Home alone movies and the Snowman!!

Das Kitty

I hate the Snowman. There's something unspeakably creepy about a naked overweight snowman flying away with a little boy in his dressing gown.

*shudder*

I also saw the Charlie Brown Christmas Special last year for the first time. I didn't think much of it.

We have the Die Hards, but Home Alone might be a good investment .

Auvers

Always go through some of these

The Goonies
Raiders of the last ark
El Cid
Spartacus
Wille Wonka (original)
The Princess Bride
Scrooged
Bad Santa

evil-monkey

The Grinch all the way!! What a flick. Watch it every year

camel toe

evil-monkey wrote: »

The Grinch all the way!! What a flick. Watch it every year

...my love is changing, its rearranging, does that mean christmas changes too?

evil-monkey

camel toe wrote: »

...my love is changing, its rearranging, does that mean christmas changes too?

lol. Awww I wana watch it now.

Tabnabs

The Great Escape and the Star Wars IV, oh and a bit of 80s superman.

Kingp35

Santa Claus Conquers The Martians

Hrududu

Gremlins.

Mr. Presentable

The first two Alien films.

Movies with faux Christmas sentiment like It's a wonderful life, and Miracle on whatever st etc make me want to puke.

grahamo

Trading Places. Funniest film ever

Das Kitty

nipplenuts wrote: »

The first two Alien films.

Movies with faux Christmas sentiment like It's a wonderful life, and Miracle on whatever st etc make me want to puke.

Out of interest, have you seen either?

I wouldn't describe It's a Wonderful Life as "faux" sentiment. Very little of the film is even based in winter.

To be honest I only bought Miracle last week so I haven't seen it yet.

Gremlins is very Christmassy too and you approve of that!

Thought of another, Elf.

akaredtop

Would have to include:

A wonderful life
Big
The Great Race
The Santa Clause
Willy Wonka
Spartacus
Home Alone
All Indiana Jones
Ben Hur

JP Liz

Santa Claus movie with Dudley Moore

Home Alone 1 & 2

Miracle on 34th Street

All I Want for Christmas

Home for the Holidays

Bad Santa

Das Kitty

JP Liz wrote: »

Bad Santa

I actually haven't seen Bad Santa. Must check it out. I picked up Home Alone yesterday, it was 7.99 with another purchase in HMV

Kingp35

A Christmas Story

Brilliant film.

Das Kitty

Oh yeah, it's a big tradition in America isn't it? When we were over last year they were selling Leg Lamps in places and it had me totally confused until I found out it was from a film.

pixiestix

Das Kitty wrote: »

I was doing a bit of a tally of our DVD collection yesterday looking at what festive gems I could wheel out in the run up to Christmas.

We started a tradition three years ago where we watch It's a Wonderful Life every Christmas week. I adore the film and even if it weren't set at Christmas I'd watch it over and over. God bless you George Bailey.

Also on the shelf we have, Miracle on 34th Street (the original, please!), The Nightmare Before Christmas, The Muppets' Christmas Carol (Tiny Tim and the Ducks gets me every time) and Gremlins. Being a lover of all things festive I'm wondering if there are any I'm missing (apart from Scrooged, but this is being rectified)?

What films do you like to wheel out for the Christmas season?

The Snowman

pixiestix

Oliver Twist always reminds me of Christmas, we used to always watch it at Christmas... Bullseye the dog is my fave carachter

Mackman

Kiss Save Santa

The Sparrow

Groundhog Day. Not technically Christmassy but there is enough snow that you won't notice.

opr

woooo232 wrote: »

Groundhog Day. Not technically Christmassy but there is enough snow that you won't notice.

I was gonna post more or less word for word this post. Just checking down the to see if anyone else mentioned it and then i come across the last post in the thread. I actually got a little freaked as i thought i maybe didn't remember posting before reading the thread.

Opr

BlackMamba

Go through these films over the festive season:

It's a Wonderful Life
Love Actually (sorry:o)
Life of Brian
Batman series
A Star Wars or two
True Grit and/or El Dorado (not my personal film choice..it's the peoples)
Pulp Fiction
Willy Wonka

Hande hoche!

Kiss kiss bang bang.

ThOnda

Life of Brian all the way, as mentioned above.

SpitfireIV

I like to watch 'A Midnight Clear' around this time of year, 'tis a war movie, but set around Christmas '44. Another Christmas/wartime flick that has more meaning at this time of year is 'Joyeux Noel', a fictional account of the unofficial truce held along the front line at Christmas 1914.

iguana

Das Kitty wrote: »

I actually haven't seen Bad Santa. Must check it out. I picked up Home Alone yesterday, it was 7.99 with another purchase in HMV

Just don't watch it with young children unless you want to have an awkward conversation about what Santa was doing to that lady in the car and why she was so happy about it.;)

Robbo

Das Kitty wrote: »

I was doing a bit of a tally of our DVD collection yesterday looking at what festive gems I could wheel out in the run up to Christmas.

We started a tradition three years ago where we watch It's a Wonderful Life every Christmas week. I adore the film and even if it weren't set at Christmas I'd watch it over and over. God bless you George Bailey.

Also on the shelf we have, Miracle on 34th Street (the original, please!), The Nightmare Before Christmas, The Muppets' Christmas Carol (Tiny Tim and the Ducks gets me every time) and Gremlins. Being a lover of all things festive I'm wondering if there are any I'm missing (apart from Scrooged, but this is being rectified)?

What films do you like to wheel out for the Christmas season?

It's never a proper Christmas in our house without Raiders of the Lost Ark. I have a strange festive association with Nazis on motorbikes. Makes about as much sense as reindeers and sleighs in Ireland...

grahamo wrote: »

Trading Places. Funniest film ever

Bonus family awkwardness as well when Jamie Lee Curtis unfurls her chebs.

Alicat

'A Christmas Story' is just brilliant The Red Ryder carbine-action 200-shot range model BB rifle and the leg lamp! :pac:

Muppet Christmas Carol

Home Alone I and II - even hearing the theme music makes me think of Christmas

National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation - an absolute classic in our house - aunt Bethany saying "Grace" :pac: and Clark's request for a last minute gift...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuBUNFPRjJo

And loads of others but these are the main Christmas-y ones

krudler

Die Hard, greatest xmas movie ever made, its a christmas eve tradition with me for almost 15 years

Ann22

The Wizard of Oz
It's a wonderful life
Oliver
Anything with Laurel and Hardy
or Abbot and Costello
Elf
The Muppet Christmas Carol
The Santa Claus
Prob loads more I can't think of right now.

ronnie3585

Home Alone 1 & 2 - love the music.
National Lampoons Christmas Vacation - "Sh*ttin rocks", brilliant!
Willy Wonka (original) every Christmas morning after mass.
Die Hard 1 & 2
Elf

Inglorious

Big Fish.
No idea why, something about it just feels right for Christmas.

Das Kitty

iguana wrote: »

Just don't watch it with young children unless you want to have an awkward conversation about what Santa was doing to that lady in the car and why she was so happy about it.;)

No fear, the oldest child I know is 5 months old, unless you count me!

Lamper.sffc

As mentioned earlier. A Christmas Vacation is a must see. Very funny with good christmas spirit.

Jack frost is another good one (not to be mistaken with the horror one) Its the one with Michael Keaton.

A little known one is Hostile Hostages or also known as The Ref (i think the second name is the name they used in america) This is my favourite christmas comedy. Denis Leary at his best. Kevin Spacey is billiant in it too. Great movie

faceman

Most have been said already. For me its:

Scrooged
Muppets Christmas Carol
Charlie and the Chocolate Family (original) however it can only be watched Christmas morning and no other time.
Its a Wonderful Life

I prefer to watch my good mate Jimmy Stewart after dinner while having consumed a few glasses of wine and the fire is a blazing.

Funny how its the little things that make Christmas

pq0n1ct4ve8zf5

Well, the obvious ones:

Scrooged, Bad Santa, Charlie and the chocolate factory, Oliver, Miracle on 34th street, The grinch, Elf, and home alone one and two.

Also, purely because they're two of my favourite movies and I saw them both for the first time at christmas-They Royal Tenenbaums and Rocky Horror Picture Show. Watch em every year now

iguana

Ended up watching The Long Kiss Goodnight last night. Forgot that was christmassy.

Ann22

I watched 'Perfume' last Christmas for the first time. I was totally engrossed from the start to the finish. I enjoyed every bit of it, sitting among the twinkling lights, with a tin of Quality Street on my knee. Lovely memory. Your man was a creepy fcuker though.:pac: Will probably always associate it with Christmas.

Puck

Just watched "It's a Wonderful Life" for the first time. There were moment's when I was welling up to be honest. For some reason that scene with the line "George Bailey, I'll love you till the day I die!" always gets me and it's only at the start of the film. Love this film!

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4867975537967299162

omgiluvxmas

a christmas story

Das Kitty

Puck wrote: »

Just watched "It's a Wonderful Life" for the first time. There were moment's when I was welling up to be honest. For some reason that scene with the line "George Bailey, I'll love you till the day I die!" always gets me and it's only at the start of the film. Love this film!

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4867975537967299162

Yes! Another convert, people seem to be suspicious of this film because the end has been shown on nearly every American sitcom. When the Northern Rock thing happened I was hoping for George Bailey to show up:

You're thinking of this place all wrong. As if I had the money back in a safe. The money's not here. Your money's in Joe's house...right next to yours. And in the Kennedy house, and Mrs. Macklin's house, and a hundred others.

guapos

blazing saddles for me, rte used to show it every christmas eve. Watched Elf the other night and that will be joining the list

Boo-yah

Kingp35 wrote: »

A Christmas Story

Brilliant film.

Easily my favourite Christmas film of all time. "Fra-gee-ley....that must be Italian"

Also contains possibly the best narrator for any film ever made

bnt

My DVD collection isn't that big, but it doesn't need to be at this time of year. Plenty of decent films on the telly, according to the Christmas RTE Guide. For example, on just one channel (BBC2) on one day (20/12), they have The Nightmare Before Christmas at 11:50am, then V for Vendetta at 10:25 PM.

Aidric

It's A Wonderful Life
Home Alone
National Lampoons Christmas Vacation
Trading Places

All brilliant christmas movies.

Gillie

Just watching Love Actually er actually and Bill Nighy's pure gold!!
"Yes indeed Ant or Dec":D

A real Xmas movie also. IMHO