Christmas Films

Toto Wolfcastle

There's nothing like a Christmas film marathon to get you in the mood for Christmas. What are your favourites?

My latest favourite is Elf. I also like Bad Santa and A Muppet Christmas Carol.

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Everyone always gives out to me over this one, but my favourite Christmas film is Die Hard 1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KShj0gPAH0g

Ho- Ho- Ho...

Toto Wolfcastle

Actually someone else mentioned Die Hard in their list of Christmas films today.

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It always gets me in the mood for a bit of german killing christmas!

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we'llallhavetea_old

Home alone. Just so christmasy!

Tabnabs

'It's a wonderful life', absolute must see film every christmas

Toto Wolfcastle

Dyflin wrote: »

'It's a wonderful life', absolute must see film every christmas

I've never seen it.

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Neither have I, I've heard it's very sad though :eek:

Ginny

janeybabe wrote: »

Actually someone else mentioned Die Hard in their list of Christmas films today.

Yup Our Chrismtas Eve film list is:
Nightmare before Christmas,
Elf,
Die Hard,
Grinch,
Scrooged
Muppets Christmas Carol,
Love Actually

The Recliner

I will add Gremlins to the list of movies so far

Pigwidgeon

Elf is amazing.
Not totally christmassy, but I love Love actually too, always watch it around christmas time.
The Santa Clause and Home Alone ones are fairly good too I think.

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Love Actually is lovely. Great stuff!

funkyjebus

Here's two I used to love as a kid;

A Christmas Story (8.0 on IMDB) & The National Lampoons Christmas Vacation (7.3 on IMDB)

Watched them last Christmas and was amazed to find they still held up and I enjoed them. Even with my ridiculous at times film snobbery!!:p

Oh and another vote for elf - Ferrell at his best

missmatty

Stuart Little seems to be on every Christmas day, me and my granny have watched it the last two years on the trot i think!

messrs

for me it has to be miracle on 34th street - gets me every time

abouttobebanned

Santa Claus The Movie - This is a must have for anyone with kids, it creates the Santa Fantasy perfectly.

Love Actually - Great Christmas film

Muppet Christmas Carol - After all there's only one more sleep til Christmas. Classic.

Home Alone 1&2 - Hughes and Columbus did a great job on these.

Scrooged - Never gets old.

R.Shackleford

Lampoons christmas vacation! watch it ever year! its on TG4 one night this week.

The Goonies- i know its not a christmas film but it floats my boat.

petes

R.Shackleford wrote: »

Lampoons christmas vacation! watch it ever year! its on TG4 one night this week.

You don't happen to know which night it's on. Love that film. "Burn some dust here, eat my rubber"

smoochie06

Santa clause the movie and Miracle on 34th Street. Its not christmas until ive seen them. BTW love the forum.

Tea 1000

abouttobebanned wrote: »

Santa Claus The Movie - This is a must have for anyone with kids, it creates the Santa Fantasy perfectly.

100% agree. I remember going to see that in the Cinema when I was a little-un. 1984 is it? Or a bit later?

smoochie06

Tea 1000 wrote: »

100% agree. I remember going to see that in the Cinema when I was a little-un. 1984 is it? Or a bit later?

84 would be about right. I remember my mother bringing me and my brothers out to the cinema for it. We queued up for it but when we got to a few places to the cinema door it was full.:mad: Never got to see it in the cinema then. Had to wait to see it on telly.

SteelyDanJalapeno

Love actually???

Are ye serious???

Pigwidgeon

Horgan wrote: »

Love actually???

Are ye serious???

What's wrong with it?
It's a great feel-good movie, and I already said early it's not overly christmassy, if that's what your problem with it is.
But then everyones entitled to their own opinion, and mine is that it's a great movie.

SteelyDanJalapeno

Hmmmm, its the one with Hugh Grant?

Cant really remember it, but i remember not liking it,

i might give it another go over christmas

alibabba

My god, Im shocked The Polar Express hasnt been mentioned already
Great for the kids (in us all)

cable842

hands down Scrooge with Bill Murray

Useful.Idiot

Gladiator

monkeyfudge

The Recliner wrote: »

I will add Gremlins to the list of movies so far

Although it does have really oddly out of place and creepy scene where Phoebe Kate says why she doesn't celebrate Christmas.

I'll be going to see Meet me in St. Louis on the 23rd in the Screen Cinema.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5g4lY8Y3eoo

KnifeWRENCH

Does The Snowman count as a film? I love that. It's so sad though.

Love Actually is one of the few "chick flicks" I really like (of course, anything with Alan Rickman is automatically awesome.)

I also love The Santa Clause and the original Miracle on 34th St (haven't seen the remake). Never seen Muppets Christmas Carol but would like to.

mrmac

The Top 3 in our house:

The Santa Clause 1 (I'm full sure this was released in the mid 90's!)
The Polar Express
Scrooged

We've a hugh collection of Christmas movies on a media player, which gets great use over the holidays
Such classics as:

A Nightmare Before Christmas
Miracle on 34th Street, old & new versions
The Grinch
Ernest Saves Christmas
All the blasted Barbie Christmas releases!
White Christmas

Also have to agree that ALL the Die Hard movies are great for Christmas

P.S. The Wizard of Oz, Gone With The Wind & The Robe usually get aired sometime during the 25th/26th.

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KnifeWRENCH wrote: »

Does The Snowman count as a film? I love that. It's so sad though.

Love Actually is one of the few "chick flicks" I really like (of course, anything with Alan Rickman is automatically awesome.)

I also love The Santa Clause and the original Miracle on 34th St (haven't seen the remake). Never seen Muppets Christmas Carol but would like to.

:eek:

WHAT. THE. HELL. That's the greatest Christmas film (featuring muppets) ever, how have you not seen it?! There you go, now you know what you're getting off your parents for christmas!!

WoollyRedHat

+1 on Love actually, always gets me in the mood for Christmas.

Also Harry Potter movies, but mainly the first one.

blond45

alibabba wrote: »

My god, Im shocked The Polar Express hasnt been mentioned already
Great for the kids (in us all)

exactley what i was thinking, love that movie, my boys love it. its very well made. tom hanks done it all.some one now is going to say ' oh no he didint'

phlegms

Love Actually
In between all my manly activities like Beard Growing and hunting and the like, I do enjoy having a sit down to watch it..

biko

D4RK ONION wrote: »

Love Actually is lovely. Great stuff!

I feel it in my fingers,
I feel it in my toes,
Christmas is all around me,
and so the feeling grows

You gave your presents to me
And I gave mine to you
I need Santa beside me
In everything I do

Classic stuff!

KnifeWRENCH

D4RK ONION wrote: »

:eek:

WHAT. THE. HELL. That's the greatest Christmas film (featuring muppets) ever, how have you not seen it?! There you go, now you know what you're getting off your parents for christmas!!

Oh I had a deprived childhood. :pac: Never seen the Nightmare Before Christmas or The Polar Express either.

WesternNight

Love Actually
Home Alone

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KnifeWRENCH wrote: »

Oh I had a deprived childhood. :pac: Never seen the Nightmare Before Christmas or The Polar Express either.

That's just not good enough! I demand you view them immediately!

Pigwidgeon

I haven't seen nightmare before christmas either. Not the biggest Tim Burton fan.

Tom Dunne

Can't believe nobody mentioned Bad Santa.

Possibly the only 18's rated Christmas film. Not for kids, but brilliantly cynical. And the cameo by a certain well known police officer at the end had me in stitches.

Toto Wolfcastle

Tom Dunne wrote: »

Can't believe nobody mentioned Bad Santa.

Possibly the only 18's rated Christmas film. Not for kids, but brilliantly cynical. And the cameo by a certain well known police officer at the end had me in stitches.

Um....I mentioned it in my opening post.

House9

HOME ALONE 1 AND 2 BT NOT 3!!

Ginny

Oh yeah Bad Santa is on our list too, forgot that one.:D

TheCandystripes

Snow Day

alexcorb1991

a charlie brown christmas and in fact the others too like race for your life, charlie brown

Agricola

To divert for a second from films that are explicitly about Xmas to films that are perfect for watching over the xmas period....

Indiana Jones and the last Crusade - Not the earlier ones which i think are pants. But this film is a great adventure flick for xmas.

The Lord of the Rings Trilogy - Spaced out over Xmas Eve, Xmas Day and Stephens Day maybe. Epicness.

CombatCow

Ah yeah it wouldn't be christmas without Die Hard on the telly, also Willy wonka and the chocolate factory,A Muppet Christmas Carol or Scrooged.


CC

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TheCandystripes wrote: »

Snow Day

Now there's one I haven't seen in a long time. Great kid's film, love the side story with the kid fighting the snow clearing guy

alibabba

http://tvsales.rte.ie/programming/movies.htm

TheCandystripes

D4RK ONION wrote: »

Now there's one I haven't seen in a long time. Great kid's film, love the side story with the kid fighting the snow clearing guy

I think I must have watched it a certain time of my life, but the film made a lasting impact on me. Hhahah don't know why. That christmas I watched it again on rte(i had seen it before 3 yrs previously) I was about 13 and it was probably my favourite christmas ever. so ye i was obsessed with the girl in it schuyler fisk(the ginger one) ahahha even had a letter i was gonna send to her. :rolleyes:

liv26

The original charlie and the chocolate factory gets watched every christmas day in our house. Not technically a christmas film but it always will remind me of christmas