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Boards Top Christmas Movie

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  • Registered Users Posts: 6,557 ✭✭✭jaykay74


    1/ Deck the halls
    2/ Its a Wonderful Life


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 136 ✭✭nightie


    You’re killing me!

    Die Hard 2 (HMIAV)
    It’s a Wonderful Life


  • Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 24,733 Mod ✭✭✭✭Loughc


    Die Hard 2 & It's a Wonderful Life both Advance :)


  • Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 24,733 Mod ✭✭✭✭Loughc


    Match 5

    The Santa Clause

    https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111070/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
    When a man inadvertently makes Santa fall off of his roof on Christmas Eve, he finds himself magically recruited to take his place.


    VS.


    The Happiest Season

    https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8522006/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
    A holiday romantic comedy that captures the range of emotions tied to wanting your family's acceptance, being true to yourself, and trying not to ruin Christmas.


    Match 6


    Jingle All The Way

    https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116705/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
    A father vows to get his son a Turbo Man action figure for Christmas. However, every store is sold out of them, and he must travel all over town and compete with everybody else in order to find one.


    VS


    Lethal Weapon

    https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093409/?ref_=fn_al_tt_2
    Two newly paired cops who are complete opposites must put aside their differences in order to catch a gang of drug smugglers.


    First to 4 or leaders by 2.30pm.


  • Registered Users Posts: 27,903 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    5. Vote for The Santa Clause. The Happiest Season was a good film but not chrismassy at all, could have been set at any holiday.
    6. Jingle All The Way. Again I like Lethal Weapon but it's not a christmas movie for me.

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 136 ✭✭nightie


    The Santa Claus
    Jingle All The Way (sorry Mel)


  • Registered Users Posts: 6,865 ✭✭✭TRS30


    Loughc wrote: »
    Die Hard 2 & It's a Wonderful Life both Advance :)

    You go do a bit of work and miss a whole match :eek:

    Luckily both my picks went through.
    Loughc wrote: »

    The Santa Clause & Jingle all the Way


  • Registered Users Posts: 10,123 ✭✭✭✭DvB


    1. Die Hard 2 - only getting my vote because Deck The Halls is crap :)
    2. It's a Wonderful Life

    This for me too.

    Just saw i missed this match completely, thankfully both choices progressed in my absence!
    "I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year" - Charles Dickens




  • Registered Users Posts: 10,123 ✭✭✭✭DvB


    TRS30 wrote: »
    You go do a bit of work and miss a whole match :eek:

    Luckily both my picks went through.



    The Santa Clause & Jingle all the Way

    Same for me.
    "I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year" - Charles Dickens




  • Registered Users Posts: 6,379 ✭✭✭Aisling(",)


    The Santa Clause
    and
    Jingle all the way


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  • Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 24,733 Mod ✭✭✭✭Loughc


    The Santa Clause
    and
    Jingle all the way


    They both advance easily :)


  • Registered Users Posts: 6,865 ✭✭✭TRS30


    Loughc wrote: »
    They both advance easily :)

    No controversy........so far!


  • Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 24,733 Mod ✭✭✭✭Loughc


    Match 7


    It's the battle of the Families


    The Family Man
    https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0218967/?ref_=fn_al_tt_2
    A fast-lane investment broker, offered the opportunity to see how the other half lives, wakes up to find that his sports car and girlfriend have become a mini-van and wife.

    Vs.


    Bad Moms 2: A Bad Moms Christmas
    https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6359956/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_6
    As their own mothers drop in unexpectedly, our three under-appreciated and over-burdened moms rebel against the challenges and expectations of the Super Bowl for mothers: Christmas.

    Match 8

    The Nightmare before Christmas

    https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107688/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
    Jack Skellington, king of Halloween Town, discovers Christmas Town, but his attempts to bring Christmas to his home causes confusion.

    Vs.

    The Shop Around the corner

    https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033045/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
    Two employees at a gift shop can barely stand each other, without realizing that they are falling in love through the post as each other's anonymous pen pal.


    First to 4 or winner by 4pm.


  • Registered Users Posts: 27,903 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    7. Family Man
    8. Nightmare Before Christmas

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



  • Registered Users Posts: 1,789 ✭✭✭JohnGreenFan


    The Nightmare Before Christmas.

    Abstain on the other match, not familiar with either film.


  • Registered Users Posts: 6,379 ✭✭✭Aisling(",)


    Bad Moms Christmas

    and

    The Nightmare Before Christmas


  • Registered Users Posts: 10,123 ✭✭✭✭DvB


    odyssey06 wrote: »
    7. Family Man
    8. Nightmare Before Christmas

    Same.
    "I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year" - Charles Dickens




  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 27,527 Mod ✭✭✭✭Posy


    7- Family Man
    8- Nightmare Before Christmas


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 27,527 Mod ✭✭✭✭Posy


    Nightmare before Christmas sails through 5-0. :)


    Match 8 is currently 3-1 in favour of the Family Man.


  • Registered Users Posts: 22,235 ✭✭✭✭Autosport


    Family man for me


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  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 27,527 Mod ✭✭✭✭Posy


    Nightmare before Christmas and The Family Man both sail through, both 5-1 - edited to count nightie's below vote which couldn't save the Shop Around the Corner I'm afraid. :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 136 ✭✭nightie


    :eek: too late

    The Family Man
    The Shop Around the Corner (an oldie but a goodie)

    I better not miss Casablanca


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,351 ✭✭✭Littlehorny


    Of the 4 only ever seen The Family Man years ago and never really knew it was a Christmas film so will have to abstain I'm afraid.


  • Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 24,733 Mod ✭✭✭✭Loughc


    Match 9

    Home Alone 2

    https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104431/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
    One year after Kevin McCallister was left home alone and had to defeat a pair of bumbling burglars, he accidentally finds himself stranded in New York City - and the same criminals are not far behind.

    Vs.

    Mickey's Once Upon A Christmas


    Match 10

    A Christmas Story (1983)

    https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085334/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
    In the 1940s, a young boy named Ralphie attempts to convince his parents, his teacher and Santa that a Red Ryder BB gun really is the perfect Christmas gift.

    VS.

    A Christmas Carol (Disney Animated 2009)

    https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1067106/?ref_=fn_tt_tt_3
    An animated retelling of Charles Dickens' classic novel about a Victorian-era miser taken on a journey of self-redemption, courtesy of several mysterious Christmas apparitions.


    First to 4 or winner by 6pm


  • Registered Users Posts: 27,903 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    9. Mickey's Once Upon A Christmas
    10. A Christmas Story (1983)

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



  • Registered Users Posts: 5,993 ✭✭✭Declan A Walsh


    9. Home Alone 2. (Did not see the other one)
    10. Abstain - haven't seen either.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,776 ✭✭✭snowgal


    Home Alone 2, classic
    and
    A Christmas Carol


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,789 ✭✭✭JohnGreenFan


    Home Alone 2
    A Christmas Carol


  • Registered Users Posts: 592 ✭✭✭dubstepper


    Home Alone 2

    A Christmas story


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  • Registered Users Posts: 10,012 ✭✭✭✭Caranica


    Mickey's Once upon a Christmas
    A Christmas carol


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