Favorite Christmas movies

[cassiesmom]

There are two threads, one for favorite Christmas song and one for un-favorite Christmas song. Can I please ask, what's your favorite Christmas film(s)? My family was talking about this on Thanksgiving and we came up with several.

My favorite "new" Christmas movie is Elf, with Will Ferrell and Zooey Deschanel. My all-time ever favorite Christmas movie is "It's A Wonderful Life". I haven't seen the movie of "Polar Express", but I love the book.

Anyone else?


Thanks,
Elyse

[kt_luvs_kitties]

How the Grinch Stole Christmas cartoon, of course! For years I have asked for the DVD, but NOONE ever gets it for me:p

A VERY close second is A Christmas Story;)

[Taz_Zoee]

[QUOTE=kt_luvs_kitties;2095043]How the Grinch Stole Christmas cartoon, of course! QUOTE]

Me too!! And that's why I was Cindy Lou Who for Halloween this year. Well, also because tons of people call me Cindy Lou Who. :D

I also love the classic movies; Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer, Frost the Snowman, Santa Claus is Coming to Town and The Little Drummer Boy.

My mom's favorite is It's a Wonderful Life.

[Zippy]

A christmas story and It's a wonderful life

[moosmom]

White Christmas with Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye. It's on tonight!! I also love National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation. It's the kind of movie you can watch over and over without getting sick of it.

[kt_luvs_kitties]

I must admit, I have never sat through the whole movie (i.e Its a Wonderful life)... it seems to bore me a bit in the middle, but I do enjoy the ending!

In A christmas story, I always laugh at the little boy in the bunny outfit! I bought one for Billy kitty just because of that show:D

I love Cindy Lou Who... Could she get any cuter??:love:

[mustlovedogs]

I also love Elf with Will Ferrell. :) And, I love the Grinch movies.

[RICHARD]

There is a cartoon about a penguin and a dog-They end up in a postal truck looking for santa?

I think one of the characters name is Olive.....Help!

Anyone?

FOUND IT!!!!

OLIVE, the other reindeer!!


Check this out!
It a listing of all the Christmas specials/movies.

The Faith Hill Special is on CMT on Nov. 30!

http://tv.spreadit.org/christmas-tv-specials-movies-schedule-2008/

[jazzcat]

A Christmas Story
A Muppet Christmas Carol (for that matter most Christmas Carol movies)
Christmas Vacation
How the Grinch Stole Christmas - both movie and cartoon
Bernard and the Genie

I also love to go the University of TN Theater to see their production of A Christmas Carol. We haven't been for several years so I'd love to go this year to help me get in the spirit.

[Suki Wingy]

I'm not really sure. All I know is that I absolutely hate the one with the kid who wants a rifle for Christmas. I will never ever sit through that one more time.

[jennielynn1970]

I love A Christmas Story (we have it as a 24 hr marathon over here on the one TV station!!! :D ). I love Christmas Vacation as well.


I have a thing about the Polar Express, and Olive, the other Reindeer. They are based on books, and I just have issues with movies made from books. They never follow the story exactly, and that ticks me off. I mean, the Polar Express is 32-48 pages long. How are you gonna get a MOVIE outta that one?! I just refuse to watch them.. :p :rolleyes: Maybe if I saw the movies before I became a librarian and didn't know the book, I'd be better about it, lol.

[RICHARD]

I didn't know Olive was a kid's book. I saw the cartoon one year and I like it because it wasn't 'cartoony'-the drawings were off and not in the typical cartoon style.

Yep, it's better to see the flicks first.:)

The other thing is the way a director makes his version of a movie.

Polar Express just creeped me out. I didn't like the way the movie looked.

[Killearn Kitties]

The one that comes to mind is the version of A Christmas Carol with Alistair Sim as Scrooge. I like that one.

[jennielynn1970]

All I know is that I absolutely hate the one with the kid who wants a rifle for Christmas. I will never ever sit through that one more time.

It's a BB gun, not a rifle, lol.

[Casper]

There is not a particular movie that comes to mind, but I love all the classic christmas cartoons (the ones from the 30s & 40s). I always managed to catch them on TV each year while growing up.
My favorite was always "Christmas Comes But Once Each Year".

I would absolutely love to have this (http://www.amazon.com/Classic-Christmas-Cartoons/dp/B00008G7ED) DVD! I just might buy it for myself this year. :-D

[davidpizzica]

1) The Alistair Sim version of "A Christmas Carol" (or any version of that story). 2) Bing Crosby's "White Christmas". 3) "It's a Wonderful life" (because Jimmy Stewart and my father went to the same school in Indiana, Pa). 4) " A Christmas Story".

[RICHARD]

They filmed the "Grinch" movie out here in Simi Valley, CA. The housing was built next to the hills, a flipping purple color that you could see from the freeway and you could not ignore it. I remember driving past it and knowing what it was-out here any huge production that throws the world out of balance scares everyone-and wondering what people living in the area thought.

http://edition.cnn.com/2003/SHOWBIZ/Movies/11/24/filming.drseuss.ap/


Another two movies that I saw and loved are, "Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence" That was a movie set in a POW camp run by the Japanese during WWII and
"Midnight Clear", that movie was about a truce between American and German soldiers during Christmas, Quirky movies but worth a look!

[rosethecopycat]

It's a BB gun, not a rifle, lol.

...no, you'll shoot your eye out.

[rosethecopycat]

My favorites are in pretty poor taste. :rolleyes::D

Christmas Vacation

Bad Santa

[blue]

A Chistmas Story.

The Nightmare before Christmas.

Silent Night, Bloody Night.

[3Catcondo]

Mine are A Christmas Story and The Grinch Who Stole Christmas (Jim Carrey Version)

[Flatcoatluver]

Holiday in Handcuffs. :p Two of my favorite people are in the movie.

I also loved polar express, can't wait until it comes on TV this year.

[Suki Wingy]

It's a BB gun, not a rifle, lol.

Yeah, well, I think I've sat through that movie about four times and it disgusted me every time.

[fritz03]

I have two favorites,one is The Polar Express,the other one is National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation with Chevy Chase,it's on every year at Christmas and I like it each time.

[Alysser]

Definitley a Christmas Story LOL, it was very funny and cute.

[Nomilynn]

I also hate "A Christmas Story" - I always have. It's just not a real Christmas movie to me.

My all time favourite movie (not just Christmas movie) is "One Magic Christmas."

Some other favourites are "Prancer" and "Muppet Chirstmas Carol," and more recently "Polar Express."

Of course I always love "Rudolph!!!"

[Marigold2]

I love Rudolph the Red Nosed Raindeer. Watched it every year with the kids and my daugher who is 22 still comes over and watches it with me.
Also the Polar Express is just so lovely as is A Christmas Story.
Little Ralph is a cutie.

[finn's mom]

Emmett Otter's Jugband Christmas! :)

[sparks19]

I dont' know if I can list them all LOL

Rudolph the red nosed reindeer
How the grinch stole chrstimas (the cartoon and the live version)
a christmas story
a shrek chrsitmas
National Lampoons Christmas Vacation
The santa claus (all of them)
Home Alone
charlie Brown Christmas


I can't name them all lol

I love all of them.

[allmycats]

My all-time ever favorite Christmas movie is "It's A Wonderful Life".

Anyone else?


Thanks,
Elyse

I love IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE:)


I haven't seen the movie of "Polar Express", but I love the book.
I also have not seen that movie but it is one I want to see.

I like Miracle on 34th street and I love Rudolph and Frosty.

[pomtzu]

Oh no! It's too early to revive this thread. Can we wait another month - please???? :eek::D

[todd]

It's a wonderful life

[blue]

A Christmas Story! FTW!

[allmycats]

xmas in connecticut:D

[Medusa]

1) The Alistair Sim version of "A Christmas Carol"

This is my all time favorite, too. There is also a 30 minute cartoon of "A Christmas Carol" but I haven't seen it in years. Brief but very good.

[davidpizzica]

My favorite version of a Christmas Carol isn't a movie. I have a hour-long version of it on a CD starring Lionel Barrymore as Scrooge. It was produced by Orson Welles who had produced the broadcast that scared everyone called "The War of the Worlds".

[Genny]

A Christmas Story and How the Grinch Stole Christmas. ( the cartoon!! :)))

[Hellow]

National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation :P

It's utterly hilarious.

[Genny]

National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation :P

It's utterly hilarious.

I forgot about that one; it's very funny! I love all the National Lampoon movies with Chevy Chase

[Asiel]

Oh no! It's too early to revive this thread. Can we wait another month - please???? :eek::D


No, we're in the Christams mood NOW:D

A Christmas Carol has always been my favourite.

[Lady'sOtherHuman]

My favorite Christmas movie? There are so many, how can I pick just one:

All the Rankin & Bass Classics
A Charlie Brown Christmas
How the Grinch Stole Christmas, the animated one.
White Christmas
Original Miracle on 34th Street though the remake wasn't bad either
The Polar Express
Anything Muppets ie; Muppet Christmas Carol,Muppet Family Christmas, Emmit Otter's Jugband Christmas. I know there's a new muppet Christmas movie that just got released to DVD but I haven't seen it yet.
Christmas Vacation and I could go on and on.:D

[Barbara]

Does anybody know the 1955 Michael Curtiz movie "We're no angels" with Humphrey Bogart and Peter Ustinov. It is so funny and heartwarming :)

[Catherinedana]

I generally shy away from Christmas movies. I did, however, quite enjoy "Bad Santa". Don't know what that says about me. . .

I love the Grinch cartoon as well. I have the VHS and a CD of it being read by Boris Karloff with the songs from the cartoon as the rest of the tracks. Love that!

I also have Patrick Stewart reading "A Christmas Carol" and I play that every year. . .I never get tired of it.