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Christmas Movies

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  • #122
    odyssey06
    Registered Users Posts: 27,788 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    Toto Wolfcastle wrote: »
    If you’ve watched a movie on Christmas 24 with any of the following, chances are you have:

    You forgot...
    * Cute dog
    * Vineyard \ business \ plot of land which the lead actress has inherited that needs the lead actor's local knowledge \ own plot of land \ business acumen etc to make work

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



  • #123
    annaboniface55
    Registered Users Posts: 24 ✭annaboniface55


    In no particular order

    Home Alone
    Elf
    Jingle all the way
    Die Hard
    A Nightmare Before Christmas


  • #124
    donegal_man
    Registered Users Posts: 5,700 ✭✭✭donegal_man


    Bad Santa (2003)
    It's A Wonderful Life (1946)
    Scrooged (1988)
    Big Business (1929)
    Deck The Halls (2006)


  • #125
    burgershack
    Registered Users Posts: 9 ✭burgershack


    The most wonderful time of the year. One of the better hallmark Christmas films. It's pretty funny
    Trapped in paradise with Nicholas Cage
    Gremlins
    The ref with Denis Leary
    National lampoons Christmas vacation

    The dead. John Hustons last film Based on the James Joyce story of the same name. Another one of my favourites though it is set on the feast of the ephinany


  • #126
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭[Deleted User]


    1.Elf
    2.Love Actually
    3.The Nightmare before Christmas
    4.Miracle on 34th Street
    5.Any cheesy romantic Hallmark Christmas movie


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  • #127
    Marty Bird
    Registered Users Posts: 1,860 ✭✭✭Marty Bird


    1.Trains, Planes and Automobiles (not a Xmas movie but I always watch it on Xmas eve)
    2.Santa Claus The Movie.
    3.The Polar Express.
    4.Trading Places.
    5.Home Alone.


  • #128
    Jude13
    Registered Users Posts: 3,794 ✭✭✭Jude13


    I love planes, trains and automobiles. It's very reminiscent of my trips home for Chrimbo


  • #129
    freida
    Registered Users Posts: 248 ✭✭freida


    Watched my first Christmas movie today doing the ironing 🙂

    https://youtu.be/8bJs45o_OyY


  • #130
    Deja Boo
    Registered Users Posts: 13,412 ✭✭✭✭Deja Boo


    watching this one now :)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LJLFvUf-e0


  • #131
    Galwayguy35
    Registered Users Posts: 16,246 ✭✭✭✭Galwayguy35


    A Christmas Carol.

    The one starring Patrick Stewart.


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  • #132
    honeybear
    Registered Users Posts: 5,648 ✭✭✭honeybear


    Deja Boo wrote: »
    watching this one now :)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LJLFvUf-e0

    Just started it...pure cheese. PERFECT


  • #133
    honeybear
    Registered Users Posts: 5,648 ✭✭✭honeybear


    Deja Boo...what have you started!!! Watched my second Christmas Movie “A Wish For Christmas”. As cheesy as the first one. PERFECT


  • #134
    mloc123
    Registered Users Posts: 9,454 ✭✭✭mloc123


    Loughc wrote: »
    Sky cinema Christmas channel starts on November 7th.

    E4/Channel 4 had home alone on a few weeks back... I wonder was this some rights issue (they can show it before November?) as IIRC Sky have the rights to that and everything else now.


  • #135
    Deja Boo
    Registered Users Posts: 13,412 ✭✭✭✭Deja Boo


    honeybear wrote: »
    Deja Boo...what have you started!!! Watched my second Christmas Movie “A Wish For Christmas”. As cheesy as the first one. PERFECT
    Ooooh, now I'm gonna have to watch it too, honeybear! :Dyay for cheese!


  • #136
    appledrop
    Registered Users Posts: 5,777 ✭✭✭appledrop


    Love Actually-l always watch this twice in run up to Christmas. Once a few weeks out + second on Christmas Eve!
    Die Hard- 'Yippee Ki yay Mother F##cker'
    Home Alone-'Keep the change you filthy animal'
    The Santa Clause-The one with Tim Allen
    It's a Wonderful Life-Still makes me cry every year


  • #137
    appledrop
    Registered Users Posts: 5,777 ✭✭✭appledrop


    Don't like Gremlins. Think it's because it was always on when I was a child at Christmas and I usually hid behind sofa! Creepy!


  • #138
    honeybear
    Registered Users Posts: 5,648 ✭✭✭honeybear


    Never seen It’s a Wonderful Life-should I be banned from the Christmas Forum?


  • #139
    appledrop
    Registered Users Posts: 5,777 ✭✭✭appledrop


    You really should watch it. Now need to keep in mind it's not a light hearted film so you would need to be in right mood to watch it. Also old black + white film so not for everyone. Story though very relevant for today's times.


  • #140
    Toto Wolfcastle
    Registered Users Posts: 25,005 ✭✭✭✭Toto Wolfcastle


    appledrop wrote: »
    Don't like Gremlins. Think it's because it was always on when I was a child at Christmas and I usually hid behind sofa! Creepy!

    I’m with you there. Don’t like it at all. My husband loves it but I didn’t find that out until after the wedding so I didn’t have a chance to call it off.


  • #141
    appledrop
    Registered Users Posts: 5,777 ✭✭✭appledrop


    Toto Wolfcastle wrote: »
    I’m with you there. Don’t like it at all. My husband loves it but I didn’t find that out until after the wedding so I didn’t have a chance to call it off.

    :D

    The big test will be if you have children will they or won't they be allowed to watch it?


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  • #142
    Tom Mann Centuria
    Registered Users Posts: 10,896 ✭✭✭✭Tom Mann Centuria


    It's a Wonderful Life.
    Elf.
    Arthur Christmas.
    The Shop Around the Corner.
    The Bishop's Wife.

    Lots of the others people have suggested would also be on my yearly viewing list.

    Oh well, give me an easy life and a peaceful death.



  • #143
    Jude13
    Registered Users Posts: 3,794 ✭✭✭Jude13


    I watched lethal weapon last night, it has loads of Christmas imagery and music.


  • #144
    Jimbob1977
    Registered Users Posts: 2,239 ✭✭✭Jimbob1977


    While it's really a Thanksgiving movie, Planes Trains and Automobiles is a festive season classic.

    It's incredibly funny and poignant


  • #145
    h7nlrp2v0g5u48
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,544 ✭✭✭h7nlrp2v0g5u48


    Polar Express with Tom Hanks doing the voice over.

    An old one but a great Chrismas movie Santa Clays The Movie with Dudley Moore.

    Deck The Halls. Clssic Danny De Viteo

    Home Alone,

    Miracle On 34th Street both the old and new versions.

    Jack Frost with Michael Keathing.

    Some of my favourite Christmas movies.


  • #146
    Jude13
    Registered Users Posts: 3,794 ✭✭✭Jude13


    So there are 48 days till the big day. I have done the below list of movies and tv shows in my possession, there are 37 of them. Add on 10 cheesy Netflix/hallmark films, that makes 47 things to watch without taking in to account any new releases. I have to start watching them now as Im away on work trips quite a bit so I'll miss a few days.

    Kind of Festive
    1. Die Hard 1
    2. Die Hard 2
    3. In Bruges
    4. Trading Places
    5. The Holiday
    6. West Wing Christmas Episodes
    7. Potter Films
    Festive
    8. Santa Clause 1
    9. Santa Clause 2
    10. Santa Clause 3
    11. Black Christmas
    12. Scrooged
    13. White Christmas
    14. Christmas with the Kranks
    15. Deck the Halls
    16. The Snowman (maybe for Christmas eve)
    17. The Grinch Animated version
    18. Santa Clause the Movie -
    19. A Miracle on 34th Street
    20. Kurt Doulas Christmas series
    21. Love Actually
    22. A Muppet Christmas Carol
    23. It’s a Wonderful Life (never seen it)
    24. Christmas vacation
    25. Home Alone 1
    26. Home Alone 2
    27. Harold and Kumar
    28. Polar Express
    29. I’ll be home for Christmas (Human one)
    30. I’ll be home for Christmas (German Shepherd) - Netflix
    31. Four Christmas’s
    32. Elf
    33. Extras Christmas special
    34. Gavin and Stacey
    35. Soooo many cheesy Netflix Christmas movies
    36. Bad Santa
    37. Batman Returns


  • #147
    Posy
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 27,517 Mod ✭✭✭✭Posy


    What a great list! I'm definitely going to use it for inspiration.

    If you're going to watch White Christmas, you should watch Holiday Inn- it's the film where the song White Christmas actually comes from, confusingly enough!


  • #148
    DvB
    Registered Users Posts: 10,106 ✭✭✭✭DvB


    Jude, definitely watch 'Its a wonderful life' ... its a genuine classic. I hold off until christmas eve every year to watch it after the kids are tucked up in bed as I want to savour it to the max when christmas is at its peak.

    FTR, do try & see the original black & white version, the later colourised one doesn't have the same 'charm' for me.
    "I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year" - Charles Dickens




  • #149
    Posy
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 27,517 Mod ✭✭✭✭Posy


    I watched It's a Wonderful Life a few years ago and didn't think much of it. I'll have to give it another shot this year. :)


  • #150
    Loughc
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 24,714 Mod ✭✭✭✭Loughc


    Posy wrote: »
    I watched It's a Wonderful Life a few years ago and didn't think much of it. I'll have to give it another shot this year. :)

    I still haven't watched it, the storyline is too bleak for me.


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  • #151
    Deja Boo
    Registered Users Posts: 13,412 ✭✭✭✭Deja Boo


    Loughc wrote: »
    I still haven't watched it, the storyline is too bleak for me.

    Same reason I've never watched more than a few minutes of it. Plus that violent family scene put me off ENTIRELY.


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