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Films You only see on telly around christmas

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  • #32
    Siuin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,659 ✭✭✭Siuin


    Looking forward to watching the Titanic sink for the millionth time :)


  • #33
    bullets
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,612 ✭✭✭bullets


    Iam 35 now but growing up , Indiana Jones and some of the Bible related films were always a feature around Christmas with Willy Wonka on every year too,
    Superman used to be always on around Christmas growing up too.

    ~B


  • #34
    LordSutch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,069 ✭✭✭✭LordSutch


    Gremlins

    Sound of Music

    Railway Children

    The Great Escape


  • #35
    starlit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,349 ✭✭✭✭starlit


    Santa the Movie
    Miracle on 34th Street
    Home Alone
    Christmas Carol (anything with Scrooge in it)
    Casper (often on at Christmas)


  • #36
    Witcher
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,521 ✭✭✭✭Witcher


    The Santa Clause


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  • #37
    jiffybag
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 193 ✭✭jiffybag


    Elf

    The Quiet Man .


  • #38
    Rocky_Dennis
    Closed Accounts Posts: 433 ✭✭Rocky_Dennis


    Oliver.


  • #39
    saintsaltynuts
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,149 ✭✭✭saintsaltynuts


    Scum with Ray Winstone.
    Once Were Warriors.
    Hostel and Dirty Harry.


  • #40
    R0ot
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    A Bridge Too Far.


  • #41
    padd b1975
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,913 ✭✭✭✭padd b1975


    Siuin wrote: »
    Looking forward to watching the Titanic sink for the millionth time :)
    Spoilers!! FFS.


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  • #42
    mystic86
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,983 ✭✭✭mystic86


    abouttobebanned wrote: »
    To be honest they've been on all year. You just pay more attention to them at Xmas. 11:11 syndrome.

    that's nonsense.


  • #43
    Deus Ex Machina
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,556 ✭✭✭Deus Ex Machina


    Great thread!

    Reminds me of Christmas holidays when I was younger and I'd come home during the day still drunk and on whatever drugs and sit down with the family halfway through "The Santa Clause" or something of that ilk. I'd be roaring laughing uncontrollably at the limpest punchline or gag. They'd all start laughing too and suddenly every joke was then times funnier.


  • #44
    knotastic
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22 ✭knotastic


    what do you call it....?

    a white christ mass epic. with that guy in black and white.


  • #45
    Dudess
    Closed Accounts Posts: 37,214 ✭✭✭✭Dudess


    Nobody mentioned Back To The Future yet?!


  • #46
    MidnightQueen
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    Love Actually
    Gremlins
    Home Alone
    Charlie and The Chocolate Factory
    Where Eagles Dare
    I'll Be Home For Christmas


  • #47
    Mint Sauce
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,293 ✭✭✭✭Mint Sauce


    Mr.Success wrote: »
    Ever notice how there are some well known films that only seem to show around christmas.
    Michael Collins, Chitty chitty bang bang, titanic, Die Hard... Just to name a few

    Mmmmm, both Die Hard I and II have been on TV 3 times between them in the last few months on RTE and C4.


  • #48
    BluesBerry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,221 ✭✭✭BluesBerry


    Romancing the stone and jewel in the nile christmas is not christmas without those two gems :pac:


  • #49
    the groutch
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    The Snowman

    when we were kids we got up early on xmas morning just as much to watch this as to open the pressies.


  • #50
    Dudess
    Closed Accounts Posts: 37,214 ✭✭✭✭Dudess


    the groutch wrote: »
    The Snowman

    when we were kids we got up early on xmas morning just as much to watch this as to open the pressies.
    Sadistic ending though - worse than Bambi. :(


  • #51
    John Doe1
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    Santa Clause


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  • #52
    Mike 1972
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,017 ✭✭✭Mike 1972


    Channel 4 still seem to think that showing the Life of Brian around Christmas (or Easter) ensures that their reputation as an edgy/controversial broadcaster remains intact

    Theyve been wrong on both counts since about 1992 which was around the last time something on Channel 4 had the Daily Mail foaming at the mouth.
    Chris P. Bacon wrote: »
    And dont forget blazing saddles...:D

    One can watch Blazing saddles for the thousandth time and its still funny though.


  • #53
    vampire of kilmainham
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,048 ✭✭✭vampire of kilmainham


    ya dont have to watch them just get a load of DVDS and watch what you want i usually get pissed on xmas day so i dont have to go through the same ol crap ye get every year after a bottle or two of whiskey things just go out of focus and i just drift into a lovley sleep for the evening and i go into a fantasy world and when i wake it's normally all over yay


  • #54
    Lady von Purple
    Closed Accounts Posts: 318 ✭✭Lady von Purple


    Michael Collins is always on at Christmas? :confused:

    Jeez, as festive films go... Not the most jolly!


  • #55
    Dudess
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    Lady von Purple wrote: »
    Michael Collins is always on at Christmas? :confused:

    Jeez, as festive films go... Not the most jolly!
    And The Field - and its French equivalent Jean De Florette. Two of the gloomiest films ever...


  • #56
    Abi
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    Dudess wrote: »
    And The Field - and its French equivalent Jean De Florette. Two of the gloomiest films ever...

    Watched The Field about two weeks ago, always loved it. Was part of my LC years. Dark yes, but I enjoyed it (:


  • #57
    Mint Sauce
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,293 ✭✭✭✭Mint Sauce


    The only film I want to see this xmas is 'Its a Wonderful Life', only problem is, any of the channels that show it, always seem to put it on at a rediculus time of day, ie, 6 in the morning.

    :mad:


  • #58
    dark crystal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,962 ✭✭✭✭dark crystal


    Christmas wouldn't be Christmas without The Wizard of Oz.

    They also always seem to show a Harry Potter film every Christmas day for the last few years.


  • #59
    brimal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,222 ✭✭✭brimal


    Mrs. Doubtfire

    It is on TV every year without fail


  • #60
    plastic glass
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 322 ✭✭plastic glass


    cant believe nobody mentioned Dr.Zhivago yet. First movie I look for when the guide comes out. Fantastic film.


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  • #61
    missbelle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 494 ✭✭missbelle


    KittyKat wrote: »
    Love Actually

    Love this movie :)
    Is Sister Act usually on around this time? Heard "I will follow him" playing on Ray foley's show earlier, felt like belting out a few lines of it only I was in the office :D


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