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Best Christmas Movie - Boardsies Decide

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  • #1052
    circadian
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,487 ✭✭✭circadian


    TheValeyard wrote: »
    Deck the halls with Hans Gruber bloods, la, la, la, la, la, laaaa

    Do a line with Ellis on the table, tra la la la la


  • #1053
    Rikand
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,631 ✭✭✭✭Rikand


    Trigger wrote: »
    Missed the whole bloody thing wth! Gremlins gets 3rd place because Rikand needs to write a big long word.. boooo

    If you're not first, you're last


  • #1054
    quickbeam
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 16,287 Mod ✭✭✭✭quickbeam


    Tell me how wrote: »
    Open it, give it until 22:00 and call it.
    Be surprised if 15 has not been reached by then anyway.

    some awful weirdos lurk these halls overnight.

    Okay, I can make it until 10pm, so we'll do this (as compensation for me not thanking your vote, though it had been counted :))


  • #1055
    Rikand
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,631 ✭✭✭✭Rikand


    Trigger wrote: »
    Missed the whole bloody thing wth! Gremlins gets 3rd place because Rikand needs to write a big long word.. boooo

    Besides, it's all the people who voted against christmas that let gremlins win


  • #1056
    quickbeam
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 16,287 Mod ✭✭✭✭quickbeam


    GRAND FINAL



    It's A Wonderful Life (1946)






    v






    Die Hard (1988)








    Voting closes 10pm sharp. Reasons required.


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  • #1057
    pc7
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 14,279 Mod ✭✭✭✭pc7


    It’s A Wonderful Life, made in 1946 and still amazing! Jimmy Steward does it all every emotion, it has such a lovely message to it and anytime I hear a bell it reminds me of Clarence. Do the right thing boardsies


  • #1058
    circadian
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,487 ✭✭✭circadian


    quickbeam wrote: »
    Okay, I can make it until 10pm, so we'll do this (as compensation for me not thanking your vote, though it had been counted :))

    Is this real life?
    Is this just fantasy?
    Hans Gruuuber,
    Falling fantastically,

    Open your eyes,
    Look the skies and seeeeeeeeee!

    Die Hard is a staple in my household, so much so that even my wife has adopted it. Its simply fantastic. Hats, catch lines, guns and explosions. Can't wait until the kids are old enough for it.


  • #1059
    Pretzill
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,756 ✭✭✭Pretzill


    It's a Wonderful life gets my vote (I may be a voice in the wilderness) it is the essential Christmas movie but I'd watch Die Hard anytime of the year.


  • #1060
    Trigger
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 18,494 Mod ✭✭✭✭Trigger


    Die hard, the ultimate Christmas movie, nothing like sitting down on Christmas day with a belly full of grub and watching John McClane and his Christmas hat jump through windows.

    My first vote of the comp, so if you dont want to include it, it's all good. Only fair

    Moderator: Forum Games, Conspiracy Theories



  • #1061
    TheValeyard
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,462 ✭✭✭✭TheValeyard


    Die Hard


    Bruce Willis, Alan Rickman

    German terrorists.

    Great one lines, happy ending, bad guys loose in the end.

    It's got explosions, Christmas trees, santa hats and machines.

    All eyes on Kursk. Slava Ukraini.



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  • #1062
    Spook_ie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,896 ✭✭✭✭Spook_ie


    It's a wonderful life, it's got that Christmas feel good factor and Diehard is just a movie set at Xmas time, it could just as easily be set at any time.


  • #1063
    Necro
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 56,586 Mod ✭✭✭✭Necro


    Die Hard because it's the best.

    Endlessly quotable

    Action

    terrorists

    Willis in a wife beater for the ladies

    Alan Rickman with a brilliant performance as Hans Gruber

    It's gotta be Die Hard

    Moderator: Current Affairs/IMHO, Soccer, Pro Wrestling



  • #1064
    Also Starring LeVar Burton
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,503 ✭✭✭✭Also Starring LeVar Burton


    Die Hard

    Was there ever any doubt this would make the final. It's up against some stiff competition, but for pure re-watchability and quotability it has to be my choice for winner!!!


  • #1065
    Mam of 4
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,924 ✭✭✭✭Mam of 4


    It's A Wonderful Life .

    Old movie , story still relevant today , we all need a touch of reality at times , even if it is in b/w , and for the last time , because Die Hard is not a Christmas movie :p

    (I'm expecting DH to win easily though dammit)


  • #1066
    Toto Wolfcastle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,005 ✭✭✭✭Toto Wolfcastle


    Die Hard. Hans Gruber falling out the window gives me all the Christmas feels.


  • #1067
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 18,749 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Is a wonderful life
    Because it's got that lovely message, it's a real Christmas movie.
    Did hard is not!


  • #1068
    Ted_YNWA
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 71,802 ✭✭✭✭Ted_YNWA


    Die Hard.

    Great script, great actors.

    Great performance for Alan Rickman as Hans.

    Ho Ho Ho, now I have a machine gun ..

    Yippee-kayeee.


  • #1069
    ArnoldJRimmer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,509 ✭✭✭ArnoldJRimmer


    Two very worthy candidates in the final

    But it has to be Die Hard. So many quotable scenes, one of the greatest ever movie villains in Alan Rickman, and every 1980's film cliche in the book

    IAWL has a lot going for it too, given the uplifting ending, some people forget just how dark it is.

    But Die Hard it is


  • #1070
    tonytiger81
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 464 ✭✭tonytiger81


    It's a wonderful life - it's a movie you watch once a year to remind you how your actions affect others. Die Hard can be watched any time of the year.


  • #1071
    Die Hard 2019
    Closed Accounts Posts: 362 ✭✭Die Hard 2019


    It's a Wonderful Life because "Uncle Billy: Uncle Billy: They did it, they did it, George, they voted Potter down,"


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  • #1072
    Necro
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 56,586 Mod ✭✭✭✭Necro


    Die Hard 2019 wrote: »
    It's a Wonderful Life because "Uncle Billy: Uncle Billy: They did it, they did it, George, they voted Potter down,"

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    Moderator: Current Affairs/IMHO, Soccer, Pro Wrestling



  • #1073
    Hippykitten
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 292 ✭✭Hippykitten


    Die Hard because I’ve watched it LOTS of times!


  • #1074
    Monokne
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,952 ✭✭✭Monokne


    Die Hard for all the reasons already listed.


  • #1075
    Clarabel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,985 ✭✭✭Clarabel


    Is a wonderful life
    because I am being paid to vote againt Die Hard


  • #1076
    Clarabel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,985 ✭✭✭Clarabel


    i mean cause Is a wonderful life
    is a wonderful Christmas movie


  • #1077
    Hercule Poirot
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,231 ✭✭✭Hercule Poirot


    I love both of these films and watch them both every Christmas but for me it has to be It's a Wonderful Life

    Die Hard is the ultimate action film and a Christmas classic with an excellent combination of violence and humour

    But for me It's A Wonderful Life IS Christmas and everything it entails


  • #1078
    Siobh73
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 343 ✭✭Siobh73


    Voting for Its a Wonderful Life. It's got snow, kids, charity, hugs and love is all around


  • #1079
    Monokne
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,952 ✭✭✭Monokne


    Clarabel wrote: »
    Is a wonderful life
    because I am being paid to vote againt Die Hard
    I'll double it.

    DIE HARD.


  • #1080
    tusk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,895 ✭✭✭tusk


    The Santa Clause surely is one of the best Christmas movies?


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  • #1081
    1percent
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 127 ✭✭1percent


    Die hard!
    Because it is a more believable movie than George NOT going to prison in the end of IAWL! Just because the town had a whip around does my mean the money has not been embezzled, Potter will still get the bank AND the whip around money, and the official guy losses his job for gross misconduct for turning a blind eye.

    Ps. spoiler alert!


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