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Christmas Movies

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  • #1442
    Loughc
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 24,714 Mod ✭✭✭✭Loughc


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    How we all feeling about this list?

    im gonna say it. I don’t like it’s a wonderful life or the nightmare before Christmas they just don’t do it for me.



  • #1443
    DvB
    Registered Users Posts: 10,108 ✭✭✭✭DvB


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121521678#Comment_121521678

    You & me can never be friends!😉

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




  • #1444
    brokenbad
    Registered Users Posts: 1,347 ✭✭✭brokenbad


    My top 5 Xmas movies that i watch every year without fail.....

    1. Die Hard
    2. National Lampoon's Xmas Vacation
    3. Elf
    4. James Bond - On her Majesty's Secret Service
    5. Home Alone

    Top 5 TV Shows/ Series

    1. The Office (UK) Xmas Special
    2. Only Fools and Horses - Jolly Boys Outing
    3. Father Ted
    4. Mr. Bean
    5. Top Gear - Specials with Clarkson & Co.


  • #1445
    dubstepper
    Registered Users Posts: 592 ✭✭✭dubstepper


    James Bond is a new one on me.



  • #1446
    Smell the glove
    Registered Users Posts: 1,730 ✭✭✭Smell the glove


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121521678#Comment_121521678

    It's a Wonderful Life is a classic!



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  • #1447
    Loughc
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121524514#Comment_121524514

    Just too grim for me. Doesn’t feel that Christmassy to me.



  • #1448
    Worztron
    Registered Users Posts: 8,664 ✭✭✭Worztron


    My top 3:

    • It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
    • National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (1989)
    • A Christmas Carol (1984)

    Mitch Hedberg: "Rice is great if you're really hungry and want to eat two thousand of something."



  • #1449
    DvB
    Registered Users Posts: 10,108 ✭✭✭✭DvB


    It's a wonderful life and Christmas vacation are musts for me at Christmas. Its a wonderful life we'll watch on Christmas eve.

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




  • #1450
    Patrick2010
    Registered Users Posts: 2,966 ✭✭✭Patrick2010


    I find Its a wonderful life depressing but I'm obviously in a minority.



  • #1451
    Loughc
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121525327#Comment_121525327

    I’m with you on this one!



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  • #1452
    dubstepper
    Registered Users Posts: 592 ✭✭✭dubstepper


    I've attempted to watch it's a wonderful life about 5 times. Have never got through it.



  • #1453
    DvB
    Registered Users Posts: 10,108 ✭✭✭✭DvB


    I've easily watched it over a dozen times now, for me its the quintessential classic Christmas film. Though to be fair I can see why it may not be everyone's cup of tea too. At the end of the day we're all different & have different likes & dislikes, be boring if it was any other way.

    But I'll be watching it again Sunday night, will settle in with a whiskey & some crisps, sit back & enjoy some pure Christmas bliss!

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




  • #1454
    Worztron
    Registered Users Posts: 8,664 ✭✭✭Worztron


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121524514#Comment_121524514

    +1

    Mitch Hedberg: "Rice is great if you're really hungry and want to eat two thousand of something."



  • #1455
    Posy
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 27,517 Mod ✭✭✭✭Posy


    I always laugh at the part where Jimmy Stewart is playing the worlds oldest high school student. 😂

    The thing that annoys me about It's a Wonderful Life is that the horrible auld lad doesn't get his comeuppance for robbing the cash. That always pissed me off at the end!



  • #1456
    DvB
    Registered Users Posts: 10,108 ✭✭✭✭DvB


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121528162#Comment_121528162

    Aye. Agree with you there.

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




  • #1457
    Worztron
    Registered Users Posts: 8,664 ✭✭✭Worztron


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121525327#Comment_121525327

    Why?

    Mitch Hedberg: "Rice is great if you're really hungry and want to eat two thousand of something."



  • #1458
    Worztron
    Registered Users Posts: 8,664 ✭✭✭Worztron


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121525381#Comment_121525381

    What's depressing about it?

    Mitch Hedberg: "Rice is great if you're really hungry and want to eat two thousand of something."



  • #1459
    Worztron
    Registered Users Posts: 8,664 ✭✭✭Worztron


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121525586#Comment_121525586

    Same, I give it a watch every Xmas. :)

    Mitch Hedberg: "Rice is great if you're really hungry and want to eat two thousand of something."



  • #1460
    Patrick2010
    Registered Users Posts: 2,966 ✭✭✭Patrick2010


    Each to their own



  • #1461
    SCOOP 64
    Registered Users Posts: 5,205 ✭✭✭SCOOP 64


    I was watching it today always liked the film have watch it every year, but one scene makes me uncomfortable it's the scene when he is a young lad working in the chemist the old man continually slaps him round the head untill his ears bleed because he didn't make a delivery, he didn't make the delivery because the old man put poison in the bottle by mistake.



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  • #1462
    Loughc
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 24,714 Mod ✭✭✭✭Loughc


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    It’s either elf or home alone. But hard to pick between those two



  • #1463
    DvB
    Registered Users Posts: 10,108 ✭✭✭✭DvB


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121531620#Comment_121531620

    Thats the very scene that I dislike too.

    On the blueray I have it has a warning re attitudes and behaviours of a time and not representative of modern standards, or something similar ( i skip it so cant remember exactly 😆)

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




  • #1464
    Loughc
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 24,714 Mod ✭✭✭✭Loughc


    I watched the Family Switch last night on Netflix so ye don’t have to.

    Don’t watch it. Acting is up there with leaving cert musical standards, plot is as obvious as it comes and not overly Christmassy.

    however it does have a great cover of Santa Claus is coming to town. The last third of the film actually is better than the rest. But my verdict is skip it and watch the classics.



  • #1465
    Gusser09
    Registered Users Posts: 6,821 ✭✭✭Gusser09


    National lampoons christmas vacation is by far the best christmas movie.



  • #1466
    BaywatchHQ
    Registered Users Posts: 528 ✭✭✭BaywatchHQ


    Christmas with the Kranks is an underrated film, it seems to be trendy for people to hate on it for fickle reasons.

    Home Alone and Lost in New York. People hate on the sequel because "it's just a rehash of the first". Why is a rehash of a great movie a bad thing? Then when John Hughes changed things up for Home Alone 3 the public hated it even more. I take no notice of Rotten Tomatoes ratings of films.

    Jack Frost from 1998 is a film I grew up watching.

    Christmas Vacation is good but there isn't much nostalgia for it with me as I only discovered it 2 years ago.

    I'm not interested in The Grinch or Elf, I dislike Jim Carey and Will Ferrell.

    I like 'Surviving Christmas' which isn't well known.

    Another good winter film I found recently was 'Planes, Trains and Automobiles.'

    I watched 'It's a wonderful life' which is ok but isn't the sort of thing I would rewatch every year. I recently purchased a signed photo from one of the child actors from that as she has an online store selling Christmas ornaments, etc



  • #1467
    A cup of te
    Registered Users Posts: 170 ✭✭A cup of te


    Edit - might not be considered 'films' but anyway.

    i watched The Snowman and The Snowman and The Snowdog on both Christmas Eve and Day this year! I actually saw the Snowdog twice on Christmas Day. I could watch both over and over. My favourite Christmas films ever though the latter makes me very sad for my late doggie who I lost in 2021. Besides the beautiful imagery (and David Bowie), I just love the music. I listened to The Snowman soundtrack yesterday and realised that I know the scenes in the film just by the music. It conveys what's happening so well. An amazing piece of work all round.



  • #1468
    Loughc
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121545504#Comment_121545504

    Ah stop I watched both this year with my little boy and I sobbed at the ending of both. Seeing Christmas through the eyes of my little boy this year the theme of loss and grief had me turned into a mess.

    I love love love the animation in both I love how the snow dog kept to the traditional animation.



  • #1469
    Smell the glove
    Registered Users Posts: 1,730 ✭✭✭Smell the glove


    Both fantastic. Would recommend watching Father Christmas as well. Same author, although there's speaking in this one.



  • #1470
    Loughc
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121545785#Comment_121545785

    Another blooming year!



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  • #1471
    Smell the glove
    Registered Users Posts: 1,730 ✭✭✭Smell the glove


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121545836#Comment_121545836

    I always laugh when asks for chips and ketchup when he's in France!



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