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Best Christmas Movie - Boardsies Decide

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  • #52
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 18,749 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    bit late here to this

    my first vote is for planes trains & automobiles, just because it feels more christmassy:D


  • #53
    Kolido
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,421 ✭✭✭✭Kolido


    I vote for Gremlins.

    I really like train, planes....but is it a Christmas movie, also not a fan of Steve Martin. Still a great movie, but Gremlins edges it for me due to the theme.


  • #54
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Gremlins. Great childhood memories!


  • #55
    [Deleted User]
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    Gotta give it to the gremlins, great film


  • #56
    ZV Yoda
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,451 ✭✭✭ZV Yoda


    Has to be Planes, Trains & Automobiles.

    Gremlins hasn't aged well at all, whereas Planes, Trains & Automobiles gets better every time.


  • #57
    c.p.w.g.w
    Registered Users Posts: 4,994 ✭✭✭c.p.w.g.w


    Planes, Trains & Automobiles... despite being a Thanksgiving movie, it ticks all the feel good boxes of a heartwarming Xmas movie...oh and it has John Candy


  • #58
    Pretzill
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,696 ✭✭✭Pretzill


    Late to this :)

    I'd vote for Trains...eventhough it is possibly one of the most frustrating movies I have ever watched it has far more of a Christmassy feel.


  • #59
    Morpork
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 727 ✭✭✭Morpork


    I vote P,T&A because it has more of a Christmas feel good mood for me.


  • #60
    sKeith
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,404 ✭✭✭✭sKeith


    trains planes & automoboles is not an xmas movie, it's a thanksgiving movie, so it has to be gremlins as the only xmas movie of the two.


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  • #61
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 21,679 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Gremlins!! :D


  • #62
    Green&Red
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,433 ✭✭✭✭Green&Red


    PT&A for me, great movie

    Gremlins is over rated IMO


  • #63
    quickbeam
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 16,287 Mod ✭✭✭✭quickbeam


    The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) and Gremlins (1984) into the next round.


  • #64
    quickbeam
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 16,287 Mod ✭✭✭✭quickbeam


    Round 1, Match 5

    A Christmas Carol (2009)

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    https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1067106/

    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.

    Stars: Jim Carrey, Gary Oldman, Colin Firth



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    Die Hard (1988)

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    https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095016/

    An NYPD officer tries to save his wife and several others taken hostage by German terrorists during a Christmas party at the Nakatomi Plaza in Los Angeles.

    Stars: Bruce Willis, Alan Rickman, Bonnie Bedelia


  • #65
    Necro
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 52,136 Mod ✭✭✭✭Necro


    Die Hard.

    Iconic classic.

    Theres so many versions of A Christmas Carol and none of them are very good tbh.


  • #66
    davidsatelle100
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 503 ✭✭✭davidsatelle100


    Die Hard everytime


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  • #67
    c.p.w.g.w
    Registered Users Posts: 4,994 ✭✭✭c.p.w.g.w


    Die Hard all day long. Set at the Xmas party, and the role of John McClain was originally offered to Frank Sinatra... Christmas classic and one of the greatest action movies ever to booth


  • #68
    Also Starring LeVar Burton
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,503 ✭✭✭✭Also Starring LeVar Burton


    Die Hard, easiest choice of the competition. Anyone who says it isn't a Christmas Movie is just plain wrong.


  • #69
    Zaph
    Registered Users, Subscribers, Registered Users 2 Posts: 47,336 ✭✭✭✭Zaph


    Die Hard, obviously. The greatest Christmas movie ever made.


  • #70
    [Deleted User]
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    A christmas carol die hard is not an xmas movie


  • #71
    Zaph
    Registered Users, Subscribers, Registered Users 2 Posts: 47,336 ✭✭✭✭Zaph


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    A christmas carol die hard is not an xmas movie

    Burn the heretic!!!


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  • #72
    mloc123
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,454 ✭✭✭mloc123


    die hard of course


  • #73
    Spook_ie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,896 ✭✭✭✭Spook_ie


    Christmas Carol let Die Hard just feckkin DIE!!!!


  • #74
    Declan A Walsh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,173 ✭✭✭Declan A Walsh


    Round 3:
    Four Christmases (2008) - it is a quite an amusing film. I don't know the other one.
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  • #75
    irishejit
    Registered Users Posts: 657 ✭✭✭irishejit


    A Christmas Carol because...............................

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    MOVIE!!!!!!


  • #76
    RebelButtMunch
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,385 ✭✭✭RebelButtMunch


    Die Hard. Planes trains, Nightmare before xmas


  • #77
    Declan A Walsh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,173 ✭✭✭Declan A Walsh


    Round 1, Match 5

    Die Hard - great action movie. I know A Christmas Carol, but have not seen that particular version.
    https://forumofgames.com/




  • #78
    Toto Wolfcastle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,005 ✭✭✭✭Toto Wolfcastle


    Die Hard. Obviously. One of the greatest Christmas films.


  • #79
    quickbeam
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 16,287 Mod ✭✭✭✭quickbeam


    And Die Hard through to the next round.

    Remember to give reasons for your votes, or they won't be counted!!!


  • #80
    quickbeam
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 16,287 Mod ✭✭✭✭quickbeam


    Round 1, Match 6

    Edward Scissorhands (1990)

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    https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099487/

    An artificial man, who was incompletely constructed and has scissors for hands, leads a solitary life. Then one day, a suburban lady meets him and introduces him to her world.

    Stars: Johnny Depp, Winona Ryder, Dianne Wiest



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    Love Actually (2003)

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    https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0314331/

    Follows the lives of eight very different couples in dealing with their love lives in various loosely interrelated tales all set during a frantic month before Christmas in London, England.

    Stars: Hugh Grant, Martine McCutcheon, Liam Neeson


  • #81
    Also Starring LeVar Burton
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,503 ✭✭✭✭Also Starring LeVar Burton


    Edward Scissorhands, it's a fantastic film and feel good Christmas. Also I've never seen nor had the desire to sit down and watch Love Actually.


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  • #82
    Toto Wolfcastle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,005 ✭✭✭✭Toto Wolfcastle


    Love Actually all day long. Bill Nighy is fantastic in it and even though Professor Snape is a dick in it and Martine McCutcheon is considered fat, it’s still pretty heartwarming.


  • #83
    irishejit
    Registered Users Posts: 657 ✭✭✭irishejit


    Edward Scissorhands......contradicting myself from my last vote as it isn't really a Xmas movie either, but Love Actually is such pile of steaming unmentionable, to utter it in the same breath as our Edward should be a paddling offence


  • #84
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Love actually it was it all love and Christmas and that Mariah Carey song not to forget Bill Nighy what a wonderful actor and played his character to perfection.

    Remeber Chris-mas is all around you


  • #85
    Declan A Walsh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,173 ✭✭✭Declan A Walsh


    Round 1, Match 6
    Love Actually gets my vote because it is an enjoyable multi-layered comedy. Also, yet again, I have not seen the other...although I have heard it!
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  • #86
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Omg boards is acting the maggot and I couldn't get back in here. LOVE ACTUALLY cause I ACTUALLY LOVE it. It's probably my favourite Christmas movie. Or definitely top two!!


  • #87
    mloc123
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,454 ✭✭✭mloc123


    Edward scissorhands... had never considered it a xmas movie, but better than love actually


  • #88
    Green&Red
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,433 ✭✭✭✭Green&Red


    Love actually cause it’s an actual Christmas film


  • #89
    tusk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,882 ✭✭✭tusk


    Eddie for me please.

    It's a fantastic tale of how christmas spirit can overcome even the scariest of demons


  • #90
    Green&Red
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,433 ✭✭✭✭Green&Red


    mloc123 wrote: »
    Edward scissorhands... had never considered it a xmas movie, but better than love actually

    And if this was a which film is better competition then that vote would be fair enough


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  • #91
    Necro
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 52,136 Mod ✭✭✭✭Necro


    Love Actually if I'm not too late.

    Great feel good Christmas movie


  • #92
    Kolido
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,421 ✭✭✭✭Kolido


    I vote Love Actually

    I never saw it but I know someone who actually loves it. Also, Tim Button, get out, except Beatlejuice and Batman, you can get in, but not at christmas.


  • #93
    tusk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,882 ✭✭✭tusk


    Tim Button :D


  • #94
    quickbeam
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 16,287 Mod ✭✭✭✭quickbeam


    And Love Actually is into the next round.


  • #95
    Necro
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 52,136 Mod ✭✭✭✭Necro


    Buh bye Edward Sissyhands :P


  • #96
    quickbeam
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 16,287 Mod ✭✭✭✭quickbeam


    At least this match, I think, won't have any arguments about whether they're Christmas movies or not, Round 1, Match 7 (It's also a Tim Allen showdown - that's the way the rand happened!!)

    The Santa Clause (1994)

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    https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111070/

    When a man inadvertently makes Santa fall off of his roof on Christmas Eve, he finds himself magically recruited to take his place.

    Stars: Tim Allen, Judge Reinhold, Wendy Crewson



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    Christmas with the Kranks (2004)

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    https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0388419/

    With their daughter away, the Kranks decide to skip Christmas altogether until she decides to come home, causing an uproar when they have to celebrate the holiday at the last minute.

    Stars: Tim Allen, Jamie Lee Curtis, Dan Aykroyd


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  • #97
    Toto Wolfcastle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,005 ✭✭✭✭Toto Wolfcastle


    Both pretty good but The Santa Clause definitely edges it for me. So funny and it has aged really well.


  • #98
    Necro
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 52,136 Mod ✭✭✭✭Necro


    Santa Clause.

    Not sure if I can use the term better here but it's less sh1t out of the two.


  • #99
    Kolido
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,421 ✭✭✭✭Kolido


    I vote the Kranks,

    Probably the best Christmas movie in recent years. Although I don't really like Tim Allen but I can't use that excuse this time.


  • #100
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    The Santa Clause, is a really heartwarming movie gets my vote


  • #101
    Also Starring LeVar Burton
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,503 ✭✭✭✭Also Starring LeVar Burton


    I actually like both of these, but I guess for childhood nostalgia alone it will have to be The Santa Clause, as that whole trilogy is actually pretty decent.


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