🎄Reel Christmas: Your Go-To Holiday Movies?🎅🏼

[Floyd R. Turbo]

[IcyPeas]

1. The Snowman

...based on the award winning children's novel "The Snowman" by Raymond Briggs.

Intro by David Bowie.

Only 1/2 hour. Hand drawn. Nothing spoken. Just music and animation. Great for kids and big kids alike.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

2. Very cool!

[yellowdogintexas]

18. I love this film and the music is heavenly

Our church youth choir sang a song from it for Christmas Eve services a few years ago.

[TlalocW]

26. I liked the original intro better

TlalocW

[IrishEyes]

3. Die Hard

I watch it every year on or around Christmas.

I also love

The Shop around the Corner
The Apartment
Scrooged

[Floyd R. Turbo]

4. Good choices! It isnt Christmas until Hans Gruber falls off the Nakatomi Tower! 😂

[jmowreader]

9. Lethal Weapon is also a good Christmas movie

The scene where Riggs gives Murtaugh the bullet he'd been saving to commit suicide with is proof of Christmas Redemption.

[maryellen99]

5. When Harry Met Sally nt

[Floyd R. Turbo]

6. Every year I take one for the team and watch it with my wife! 😂

[maryellen99]

7. LOL Ive tried to get my husband to watch it with me but no dice nt

[Floyd R. Turbo]

8. Make him a deal! Trade him Harry/Sally for some murder and mayhem or whatever his preferred

genre is! 👍🏻

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

10. I hate just about all holiday movies.

All that saccharine makes me queasy.

I do like "Scrooged," though.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

11. In that case,.....

[gratuitous]

28. Perhaps The Ref is more up your alley

Denis Leary as a burglar who stumbles into the most dysfunctional family on the planet. Yeah, yeah, Kevin Spacey is in it, but he doesn't molest anyone on camera.

[Wolf Frankula]

12. A Christmas Story

I love it because it's Jean Shepherd. I loved hearing his stuff. And my go to TV special is
"A Wish for Wings that Work" by Berke Breathed starring Opus the Penguin. I have that recorded and watch it each year.

Wolf

[Floyd R. Turbo]

13. Christmas Story every Xmas eve! 🎅🏼

Haven’t seen the Opus one! I’ll try to find it!

[Wolf Frankula]

21. Here is A Wish for Wings that Work, full video

on YouTube

Wolf

[Floyd R. Turbo]

23. Thanks!

[yellowdogintexas]

19. I second this. Have to watch this nt

[red dog 1]

14. Bad Santa

Also:

- National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
- Lethal Weapon
- Home Alone
- It's a Wonderful Life

(I liked "29th Street" and I wouldn't mind seeing it again)

[Floyd R. Turbo]

15. Good choices! 🎅🏼

[SammyWinstonJack]

16. Lots.

The Holiday
Love Actually
While You Were Sleeping
Home Alone
Christmas Story
National Lampoons Christmas Vacation
It's A Wonderful Life
Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol

[Floyd R. Turbo]

17. Nice list!

I’ll have to check out a couple of those that I haven’t seen!

[yellowdogintexas]

20. "March of the Wooden Soldiers" (Laurel and Hardy)

This is a Holiday Must See for me:

Many years ago, the CBS affilitate in Nashville would broadcast this movie at random times throughout December. This was back when local stations had more local option time available to them, and would fill them with local programming or movies or whatever.

So anyway this started showing up when I was around 9 or so and became a thing for us. I can remember wrapping presents while watching it, frosting cakes while watching it, trimming the tree while watching it. etc

It was such a thing that I called my sister one night long after we were all grown and married and she said I can only talk 10 minutes, March of the Wooden Soldiers is coming on!!!

Well, I found DVDs of it with the original B & W and a colorized version and sent copies to each of them and two for me. Now we can schedule a group watch, with one in North Carolina, one in Ky and one in Texas

google search brings it up as March of the Wooden Soldiers and Babes in Toyland. It is based on the Victor Herbert operetta. Singing in this version is much better than the Disney one with Frankie and Annette

[Floyd R. Turbo]

24. Excellent! 👍🏻

[yellowdogintexas]

22. Christmas in the Clouds A true gem.

Won a prize at Sundance Film Festival.


Also, Better off Dead - while not a real Christmas movie has a hilarious Christmas vignette in it.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

30. Ill have to find those!

[yellowdogintexas]

25. The Original We're No Angels, with Bogart

This is a real treasure too.

Bogie, Aldo Ray, Ustinov, Joan Bennett, Leo G Carroll, Basil Rathbone

and Adolphe (you have to watch it to find out who Adolphe is)

A strangler... A swindler... A safecracker... Yet you'll love them!

[Floyd R. Turbo]

31. A great movie! 👍🏻

[Zoonart]

27. Love Actually

[Floyd R. Turbo]

32. Nice! 👍🏻

[TlalocW]

29. A Cosmic Christmas

It's pretty bad with animation that places it directly in the 1970s, but I remember watching it as a kid and choking up at how happy the aliens made grandma.

TlalocW

[Floyd R. Turbo]

33. Cool! Thanks!

[bigbrother05]

34. Lots of good ones, but will have to strike 'The Ref' from the list

Denis Leary is great and the family dysfunction hits the mark, but Kevin Spacey makes it a no go.

Too bad, will miss the candle/wreath hats.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

35. Yep! 👍🏻