Your favorite Christmas movie?

A Christmas Story

"Fra-Gee-Lay... It must be Italian!"

I pretty much always say fra-gee-lay when I notice something labeled fragile. I love it when somebody thinks I'm an idiot and corrects me. :mrgreen:
 
A Christmas Story is easily my #1, possibly due to the fact that TNT has slowly ingrained each scene permanently into my mind over the past few years....thank you, Mr. Turner.
 
Well, if we are talking purely *Christmas films*, then A Christmas Story is my runaway favorite. If we can expand out to a more general *Holiday* timeperiod, Trading Places would be a very *very* close second.

President of the Exchange: Mortimer, your brother's not well.
Mortimer: fuck him!

But the one *short* that I have to watch every year is "The Three Litte Dwarves" aka "Hardrock, Coco, and Joe". I remember watching it on the Bozo Show as a kid and love it still today.
 
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation.

"Merry Christmas...Merry Christmas...Kiss my A$$...Kiss his a$$...Happy Hanukah"

Oh, Chevy...What happened?
 
It's a Wonderful Life and How the Grinch Stole Christmas (animated, not that live action garbage)

My wife loves Year Without a Santa Clause, but I still haven't seen it. I have a feeling she's going to fix that this year.

Did anyone else see Shrek the Halls last night? I was hoping for a little more from that...you know, like longer than 20 minutes...

EDIT How could I have forgotten about The Nightmare Before Christmas!
 
Lets see: A Christmas Story, Christmas Vacation, Muppets Christmas Carol, The Grinch (animated), Charlie Brown, and Will Vinton's Claymation Christmas Celebration. It's not Christmas without the California Raisins!
 
Seems we're getting our Christmas movies confused with our Christmas specials, but oh well.

Merry Christmas Charlie Brown is the most sincere and has held up the best. I can go without seeing everything else, but if I miss this, it's not Christmas. BTW, it was kind of shady of ABC to run this on Tuesday (yes, you already missed it). The quintissential Christmas program shunted to late November? Shame.

Nightmare Before Christmas is my favorite "movie" of the season, but it really spans two holidays, so it kind of gets an asterisk. Nevertheless, like Charlie Brown, it is timeless and sincere and I expect I'll love it as much 30 years from now as I did when I first saw it.

Sentimental favorite: Emmet Otter's Jug Band Christmas from 1977. Perenially overlooked and with songs by Paul Williams (who also wrote "The Rainbow Connection" for The Muppet Movie), it's easy to love this obscure but heartfelt Christmas story. Jim Henson at his best. Seek it out on DVD if you haven't seen it.
 
"A Nightmare Before Christmas"

"Christmas Vacation"

"How the Grinch Stole Christmas"

"A Charlie Brown Christmas"

"The Fat Albert Christmas Special"
 
[quote name='Number83']National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation.

"Merry Christmas...Merry Christmas...Kiss my A$$...Kiss his a$$...Happy Hanukah"

Oh, Chevy...What happened?[/quote]

"Shitter's full!"

I love that movie... my #1 Christmas movie.
 
This is tough... there's been so many great ones... off the top of my head and not counting the animated classics like Rudolph, Charlie Brown, etc. I like:

A Christmas Story (probably my favorite)
Christmas Vacation
Nightmare Before Christmas
Die Hard
Trading Places
Love Actually
Home Alone
Ghostbusters II
 
[quote name='Tybee']
Sentimental favorite: Emmet Otter's Jug Band Christmas from 1977. Perenially overlooked and with songs by Paul Williams (who also wrote "The Rainbow Connection" for The Muppet Movie), it's easy to love this obscure but heartfelt Christmas story. Jim Henson at his best. Seek it out on DVD if you haven't seen it.[/QUOTE]

Definitely one everyone should see. It's not on TV these days? That's a shame.
 
[quote name='wubb']Definitely one everyone should see. It's not on TV these days? That's a shame.[/quote]

I don't know that I ever saw it in syndication, other than on HBO, which is where it originally aired.
 
[quote name='Tybee']I don't know that I ever saw it in syndication, other than on HBO, which is where it originally aired.[/QUOTE]

Ah okay. Yeah I had HBO as a kid so I guess that's where I saw it.

Somebody needs to pick up the rights to that show. It's primo stuff.
 
How come no one has mentioned the Star Wars Holiday Special?

Seriously though, Nightmare, Grinch (animated, the dog steals the show), Die Hard (never really thought it X-mas but you're right).

Wasn't Ghostbuster 2 more about New Years?
 
[quote name='wubb']Ah okay. Yeah I had HBO as a kid so I guess that's where I saw it.

Somebody needs to pick up the rights to that show. It's primo stuff.[/quote]
The rights are part of the reason it's been so hampered. Disney owns "The Muppets," so to release this on DVD they had to excise all of the introductory, interstitial, and epilogue bits with Kermit. Which kind of sucks.

More info here:

http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/Emmet_Otter's_Jugband_Christmas
 
[quote name='Jack']I'm rather fond of Miracle on 34th Street and The Bishop's Wife. Nightmare Before Christmas was pretty good too.[/quote]

Wrong thread, bub.
 
Another vote for Xmas story. Also I owned a Red Ryder BB gun when I was little and I grew up in Cleveland.
 
Didn't see anyone mention these yet, but they're two of my three must-watch Christmas shows:

Gremlins
It's a Wonderful Life

My third is Die Hard, but that seems to be getting enough love in here already.
 
A Christmas Story is a family movie, even through I hated it growing up.

I love Nightmare before Christmas, I'm glad people here see it as a Christmas movie and not a Halloween movie. I know a lot of people who think it is a Halloween movie!

And any cartoon and puppet movies from years back.
 
I'm all about It's a Wonderful life. In 2nd, 3rd and 4th place is Christmas Story, Home Alone and The Santa Clause (I hated the 2nd and didn't bother with the 3rd). The Nightmare Before Christmas rounds up my top 5. It's a Wonderful life is on my all time favorite list.
 
It's a Wonderful Life and Muppet's Christmas Carol for me. A Christmas Story is pretty good too, but I didn't grow up watching it (therefore I don't have much sentimental value attached to it).
 
[quote name='anomynous']nobody's said the undeniable class Santa Claus Conquers The Martians?[/quote]

I think I saw that movie mentioned earlier in the thread :lol:
 
[quote name='doraemonkerpal']I think I saw that movie mentioned earlier in the thread :lol:[/QUOTE]
There's not enough mentioning then. This is a CLASSIC movie people
 
[quote name='anomynous']There's not enough mentioning then. This is a CLASSIC movie people[/quote]

On Wheel of Fortune the other day, Pat Sajak was saying that was his favorite holiday movie.
 
[quote name='sp00ge']On Wheel of Fortune the other day, Pat Sajak was saying that was his favorite holiday movie.[/QUOTE]
Yeah, I saw that
 
Man, I too saw Sajak say that. And then I thought about posting it.

And then I immediately thought..."Do I really want people on here calling me The Wheel of Fortune Guy?
 
[quote name='shieryda']I forgot to mention "Elf".[/quote]

That's my wife's favorite, and I'm quite fond of it as well.

Besides being very sweet and downright hilarious, there are a lot of great inside jokes in that movie. I love that Amy Sedaris is in it, and at one point Zooey Deschanel's character asks Buddy, "Did Crumpet put you up to this?" which is a reference to David Sedaris' "Santaland Diaries."
 
I like a lot of the movies like Die Hard and Gremlins, but I'll skip putting them here for 2 reasons.

1) It still feels like Christmas if I don't watch them during the season
2) I'll watch these movies anytime of the year.

So, here are some of the Christmas movies I watch every year. Not really sure what my "favorite" is

1) Charlie Brown Christmas
2) Grinch the Stole Christmas (cartoon).
3) A Christmas Story

I think an honorable mention might go to Shrek the Halls. I really enjoyed it this year, and I can see that becomming a tradition much like the others.

Note, I watch others (like Rudolph) most years, but these are the ones I make a point to see each year at least once.
 
A Christmas Story
Miracle on 34th Street
How the Grinch Stole Christmas
Charlie Brown Christmas
Garfield Christmas
Nightmare Before Christmas

and one not mentioned yet: White Christmas (Bing Crosby)
 
I love "Christmas Story," but my favorite has to be "White Christmas" with Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye.

I saw it for the first time this year--it's a great mix of comedy and music and has a great storyline involving two old army buddies who try and save their old general's floundering inn in Vermont. It's fantastic.

Crosby and Kaye play off each other very nicely--It's refreshing to go back and watch a comedy that isn't written so badly that it HAS to rely on sex/penis/fart jokes to get cheap laughs like so many of today's "comedies."
 
Opus and Bill in a Wish for Wings that Work
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It's funnier every time I see it.
 
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