It's that time of year again - what are your favorite Christmas movies?

[Initech]

Mine are Bad Santa and National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation.

[xchrom]

1. a christmas carol -- the first movie.

i love that movie.

more on alistair sim: http://www.britmovie.co.uk/actors/s/003.html

[cmkramer]

7. Alistair Sim was in the second "talking" version

The first was with Reginald Owen in 1938 or 1939. Useless Trivia: June Lockhart of Lassie's Mom fame was in the movie with her parents who played the Cratchits. She played one of the Cratchit daughters.

I love all the Christmas Carol movies, but my absolute favorite is the one starring Mr. Magoo. The guy who does the TV reviews for THE NEW YORK DAILY NEWS did a column a few years back which mentioned that it was going to be shown for the first time in many years and I e-mailed him to thank him because I wouldn't have known about it. Anyway, he e-mailed me back and said he got a lot of very posiitive responses so I guess I'm not the only one who remembered it.

[xchrom]

8. you're right.

but alistair sim crowds everyone else out for me.

[Lautremont]

2. Black Christmas, definitely.

Others are Silent Night Deadly Night, Christmas Evil, Don't Open 'Till Christmas, To All A Goodnight and Silent Night Deadly Night part 3.

[Kerrytravelers]

3. A Christmas Story

[BarenakedLady]

16. Definately.

:thumbsup:

[CatholicEdHead]

4. Christmas Vacation

[GoddessOfGuinness]

5. The Bishop's Wife...

the old one, with Cary Grant, David Niven, and Loretta Young

How the Grinch Stole Christmas (both the cartoon and the movie)
It's a Wonderful Life (Jimmy Stewart)
A Christmas Carol (both Alistair Sim's and Patrick Stewart's)
A Christmas Story (even though they insist on airing it for 24 hours on Xmas Eve-Xmas Day)
Miracle on 34th Street (Maureen O'Hara, Edmund Gwenn, and Natalie Wood)
Prancer

[Oeditpus Rex]

6. 'Santa Claus Conquers the Martians'

:bounce:

[ghostsofgiants]

9. Sounds like a masterpiece of epic proportions.

[Initech]

10. Sweet - #77 on IMDB's bottom 100 list.

http://www.imdb.com/chart/bottom

[Oeditpus Rex]

14. Only 77th?

Huh. Sucker oughta be dead last. :shrug:

[NMDemDist2]

11. The Santa Clause, the Muppets "A Christmas Carol, Scrooged

are all "must see" on Christmas week

[Broken_Hero]

12. hmm

christmas story, national lampoons xmas, ernest saves xmas...a few others.

[mzteris]

13. A Wish for Wings that Work

(Opus and Bill) - is our standard Christmas Eve film.

Rhinoceros! How about a Water Buffalo??

[Art_from_Ark]

15. Technically, they don't qualify as movies, but

How the Grinch Stole Christmas
A Charlie Brown Christmas
Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol

(Yeah, they're all cartoons, what can I say?)

[BarenakedLady]

17. There is one classic movie I've been looking for forever

Classic, meaning old. Not particularly popular. About a young girl growing up in NYC. It may have been called Junior Miss or something similiar. I don't know why exactly I liked it, but it stuck with me. She had an older sister and an uncle just out of "rehab" though I think they called it something else. They went skating in Rockerfeller Center. Any help would be appreciated. I haven't seen it in years.

[BarenakedLady]

19. Oh I found it.

Gawd I love Google!

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0037840/

[peacefreak]

18. It's a Wonderful Life

Gift of the Magi--O Henry's Full House
and



Scrooged!:evilgrin:

[smtpgirl]

20. Definitely BAD SANTA

that movie was so good!!

My dad thought the screenplay came from me because there were so many f bombs in that movie.

[Drum]

43. LOL

:D

[rurallib]

21. Still love the original "Miracle on 34th Street"

Loved it the first time I saw it nearly 40 years ago and haven't seen anything measure up to it since.
"Bells of St. Mary's" and "Christmas Story" and the first "the Santa Clause" also very good.

[Sequoia]

38. Yes, and The Christmas Carol with Albert Finney (funny stuff), and

A Christmas Story.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

22. "Love Actually"........and "Scrooged"

They are both terrific, for different reasons....... :bounce: :bounce:

[Drum]

23. Scrooged, It's A Wonderful Life...

but unfortunately there are many many Christmas movies I haven't seen, so I cannot say with much authority....:shrug:

Edit to add: upthread was reminded of Nat' Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (the Griswold family, right?) and as a little tyke I did enjoy the animated ones, both cartoon and the stop-action ("Rudolph" et al) type.

Additionally, I nominate the Eddie Murphy / Dan Ackroyd movie "Trading Places." Much of it centers around Christmastime.

:)

[VespertineIconoclast]

32. I second your picks!

I especially liked Trading Places and Scrooged. :)

[mohinoaklawnillinois]

24. Mine would be in no particular order:

A Christmas Carol with Alastair Sim
It's A Wonderful Life
A Christmas Story
White Christmas
Love, Actually

BTW, when is NBC doing their annual airing of It's A Wonderful Life? I'm hoping they show it before December 15th. Mr. Wonderful and myself are leaving for Ireland that night and I don't think this movie will be shown in the "ould country"...

[bumblebee1]

25. Mine Are:

Home Alone (1 & 2)
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
Scrooged
The original "A Christmas Carol" the b&w version
It's a Wonderful Life-original version

[terrya]

26. It's not a Christmas movie per se....

But I have to choose "The Lion in Winter". The story takes place during Christmas in 1183. It's the perfect antidote to the syrupy, gooey Christmas movies out there.

[miss_american_pie]

27. Meet me in St. Louis

I know, not really a Christmas movie.

[BigMcLargehuge]

28. Bad Santa

Favorite quotes -

Kid: Your beard's not real.
Willie: No Shit!It was real, but I got sick and all the hair fell out.
Kid: How come?
Willie: I loved a woman who wasn't clean.
Kid: Mrs. Santa?
Willie: No it was her sister.

Willie: It's Christmas and the kid's gettin' his fuckin' present.

Marcus: If I call you next December, IF I call you next December, you're gonna be so happy to hear from me, you're gonna do a goddamn back flip. You're gonna put that Santa hat on so fast that you're gonna get fucking hat-burn.

[Mad_Dem_X]

29. Bad Santa, The Ref, Christmas Story n/t

[peekaloo]

30. The Ref, Bad Santa, The Ice Harvest.

I've gone dark in my later years. }(

[TommyO]

31. Muppets Christmas Carol

A Christmas Story
Scrooged

[noonwitch]

33. The Lion In Winter

It's my favorite movie, anyways, and it does have a holiday theme.

If you have a dysfunctional family, it's like your family only each member has an army to back him or her up.

[azmouse]

34. A Christmas Carol (George C Scott version)

While You Were Sleeping
A Christmas Story
It's a Wonderful Life
Miracle on 34th Street

[sakabatou]

35. Muppets Christmas Carol

[NYCGirl]

36. "Holiday Affair" with Robert Mitchum and Janet Leigh. Sexy romantic comedy.

http://www.allmovie.com/cg/avg.dll?p=avg&sql=1:22717

[Mz Pip]

37. A Christmas Story.

I was a little kid in the 50s living in the midwest. This movie really captures the period and is a nostalgic treat for me.

Mz Pip
:dem:

[NC_Nurse]

39. It's a Wonderful Life

A Christmas Story
Bad Santa
A Christmas Carol (the one with George C. Scott)
Scrooged

[AllegroRondo]

40. Hulk Hogan as "Santa with Muscles"

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117550/

truly one of the worst films ever made.

[Phillycat]

41. Love, Actually.

That movie is just utterly charming. :loveya:

[LanternWaste]

42. Scrooge (the musical) w/ Albert Finney & Alec Guinnes

Scrooge (the musical) w/ Albert Finney.

Oh, man... I love that one. The songs are great and Albert Finney is fantastic in the role. O-kay, the little kid grates on me a bit, but Scrooge getting drunk on the Milk of Kindness and then singing, "I Like Life" more than makes up for it!

Merry Christmas, everyone!