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Post by Deleted on Dec 8, 2015 13:53:49 GMT -5
But I kind of want to see Krampus. It'll probably be awful, but still. I'm a sucker for that stuff. I wanna see it! My niece loves horror films so I'm trying to turn it onto a family outing. It's not working so far. I wanna go!!! Kids love meeeee. |
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Post by Hoosier X on Dec 8, 2015 14:33:34 GMT -5
My sister-in-law loves Christmas in Connecticut, Scrooged and Elf, so I've seen those quite a few times. I'm not sure I need to see Christmas in Connecticut ever again, but I like the other two a lot, especially Scrooged. We had the annual Elf screening just a few days ago, and I watched it up to the part where he first arrives in New York. I really love the scene where he's leaving the North Pole and the Rankin/Bass animals say goodbye (a puffin and a walrus and the narwhals) and then on his journey it changes into the real world. But I really wasn't in the mood for the whole movie.
I've watched A Christmas Story almost every year for at least twenty years. Usually twice!
I used to watch It's a Wonderful Life every year but I haven't seen it for a while at this point. I'm really hoping it's on cable somewhere this year! I never did stumble across it last year.
The one I really really love, the Christmas movie that I eagerly look forward to (the last three or four years anyway) is the 1938 version of A Christmas Carol with Gene Lockhart as Bob Cratchit. I love it! I've seen it a few times over the years, but a few years ago I noticed how hilarious it is! Terry Kilburn as Tiny Tim is ridiculous! He's 13 or 14 and weighs almost as much as Gene Lockhart! And the Cratchit family (including Gene's daughter June Lockhart) is so cheerful that you want to puke. Throw in Leo G. Carroll as Marley and Ann Rutherford as the Ghost of Christmas Past and you have a hilariously wonderful holiday movie!
It DVRed it off TCM a few days ago but I haven't watched it yet. I'll probably watch it at least twice before I delete it.
I also DVRed Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, which I haven't seen for years, and I'm hoping to get A Charlie Brown Christmas.
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Post by DE Sinclair on Dec 8, 2015 15:08:59 GMT -5
We've recorded all the Rankin-Bass shows, plus Charlie Brown and The Grinch (animated, not the Jim Carry abomination). We will watch A Christmas Story at least twice all the way through on Christmas morning, and my wife will watch Miracle on 34th Street, It's a Wonderful Life, and possibly White Christmas at some point during the season. We saw the Grinch/Jim Carrey mess once and that was enough. No one can chew the scenery like Carrey, and watching him do it while dressed in green furry long-johns was an awful thing to see. The real Grinch, with the voice of the great Boris Karloff, is always watched at least once every December.
A Christmas Story is usually on for 24 hours Christmas Day, so we never really end up watching it all the way through in one sitting, but probably see all of it eventually as it's on in the background. You'll shoot your eye out!!
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Post by DE Sinclair on Dec 8, 2015 15:14:15 GMT -5
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation Gremlins Home Alone/ Home Alone 2 That's my go to list My wife's not a Gremlins fan, so that's usually not on the list. But Christmas Vacation, and Home Alone 3 (favorite of them all, because Culkin wears thin quickly, though I love the burglars, and the international arms smugglers in 3 are hilarious) with a young Scarlet Johansson, are always on our list.
"This is a full-blown, four-alarm holiday emergency here. We're gonna press on, and we're gonna have the hap, hap, happiest Christmas since Bing Crosby tap-danced with Danny f*****g Kaye. And when Santa squeezes his fat white a$$ down that chimney tonight, he's gonna find the jolliest bunch of a$$holes this side of the nuthouse."
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Post by DE Sinclair on Dec 8, 2015 15:17:01 GMT -5
My sister-in-law loves Christmas in Connecticut, Scrooged and Elf, so I've seen those quite a few times. I'm not sure I need to see Christmas in Connecticut ever again, but I like the other two a lot, especially Scrooged. We had the annual Elf screening just a few days ago, and I watched it up to the part where he first arrives in New York. I really love the scene where he's leaving the North Pole and the Rankin/Bass animals say goodbye (a puffin and a walrus and the narwhals) and then on his journey it changes into the real world. But I really wasn't in the mood for the whole movie. I've watched A Christmas Story almost every year for at least twenty years. Usually twice! I used to watch It's a Wonderful Life every year but I haven't seen it for a while at this point. I'm really hoping it's on cable somewhere this year! I never did stumble across it last year. The one I really really love, the Christmas movie that I eagerly look forward to (the last three or four years anyway) is the 1938 version of A Christmas Carol with Gene Lockhart as Bob Cratchit. I love it! I've seen it a few times over the years, but a few years ago I noticed how hilarious it is! Terry Kilburn as Tiny Tim is ridiculous! He's 13 or 14 and weighs almost as much as Gene Lockhart! And the Cratchit family (including Gene's daughter June Lockhart) is so cheerful that you want to puke. Throw in Leo G. Carroll as Marley and Ann Rutherford as the Ghost of Christmas Past and you have a hilariously wonderful holiday movie! It DVRed it off TCM a few days ago but I haven't watched it yet. I'll probably watch it at least twice before I delete it. I also DVRed Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, which I haven't seen for years, and I'm hoping to get A Charlie Brown Christmas. Haven't watched Scrooged yet this year, but we will. Funniest "A Christmas Carol" adaptation ever.
Frank Cross: The b***h hit me with a toaster!
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Post by Hoosier X on Dec 8, 2015 15:38:15 GMT -5
My sister-in-law loves Christmas in Connecticut, Scrooged and Elf, so I've seen those quite a few times. I'm not sure I need to see Christmas in Connecticut ever again, but I like the other two a lot, especially Scrooged. We had the annual Elf screening just a few days ago, and I watched it up to the part where he first arrives in New York. I really love the scene where he's leaving the North Pole and the Rankin/Bass animals say goodbye (a puffin and a walrus and the narwhals) and then on his journey it changes into the real world. But I really wasn't in the mood for the whole movie. I've watched A Christmas Story almost every year for at least twenty years. Usually twice! I used to watch It's a Wonderful Life every year but I haven't seen it for a while at this point. I'm really hoping it's on cable somewhere this year! I never did stumble across it last year. The one I really really love, the Christmas movie that I eagerly look forward to (the last three or four years anyway) is the 1938 version of A Christmas Carol with Gene Lockhart as Bob Cratchit. I love it! I've seen it a few times over the years, but a few years ago I noticed how hilarious it is! Terry Kilburn as Tiny Tim is ridiculous! He's 13 or 14 and weighs almost as much as Gene Lockhart! And the Cratchit family (including Gene's daughter June Lockhart) is so cheerful that you want to puke. Throw in Leo G. Carroll as Marley and Ann Rutherford as the Ghost of Christmas Past and you have a hilariously wonderful holiday movie! It DVRed it off TCM a few days ago but I haven't watched it yet. I'll probably watch it at least twice before I delete it. I also DVRed Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, which I haven't seen for years, and I'm hoping to get A Charlie Brown Christmas. Haven't watched Scrooged yet this year, but we will. Funniest "A Christmas Carol" adaptation ever.
Frank Cross: The b***h hit me with a toaster!
I don't know. That Mr. Magoo version of A Christmas Carol is totally hilarious. |
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Post by DE Sinclair on Dec 8, 2015 15:41:29 GMT -5
Haven't watched Scrooged yet this year, but we will. Funniest "A Christmas Carol" adaptation ever.
Frank Cross: The b***h hit me with a toaster!
I don't know. That Mr. Magoo version of A Christmas Carol is totally hilarious. Hmm. Forgot about Mr. Magoo. I may have to dig that up for comparison. |
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Post by batlaw on Dec 8, 2015 18:01:16 GMT -5
Not much of a holiday movie fan. But I do love Christmas Vacation and it would have to be my fave. I also like Scrooged quite a bit. While I like A Christmas Story, I like it less the more popular it's become over the years.
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Post by crazyoldhermit on Dec 8, 2015 18:28:38 GMT -5
My favorite is A Christmas Carol with Alastair Sim, both the 1951 live action version and the awesome 1971 animated version.
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Dec 8, 2015 18:30:42 GMT -5
Reindeer Games (2000) Ben Affleck
Any movie that opens with a bunch of dead Santas bleeding out on the sidewalk is quite endearing to me |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 8, 2015 18:31:33 GMT -5
My Top 10 Favorite Holiday Films
In Order
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
White Christmas (1954)
Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)
Miracle on 34th Street (1994)
Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
The Polar Express (2004)
A Charlie Brown Christmas (1965 TV Special)
Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer (1964 TV Movie)
The Bishop's Wife (1947)
Home Alone (1990)
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Post by Hoosier X on Dec 8, 2015 19:13:10 GMT -5
My favorite is A Christmas Carol with Alastair Sim, both the 1951 live action version and the awesome 1971 animated version. I really like the Alastair Sim version of A Christmas Carol, but I don't make it a point to watch it every year. It's probably objectively better than the 1938 version by a long shot! (I saw it last year and I really enjoyed it! Alastair Sim is the very best Scrooge, even better than Mr. Magoo!) But the 1938 version is just overflowing with charm, enthusiasm and good cheer, and I find it immensely entertaining from start to finish. I laugh out loud at every scene with the Cratchit family because of how spastic they are. I always expect Tiny Tim to jump up on the table and start rubbing himself against the Christmas goose. There aren't that many movies that I can watch every year and enjoy them without fail but the 1938 A Christmas Carol is one of them. |
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Post by Action Ace on Dec 8, 2015 19:31:58 GMT -5
I prefer Holiday Inn to White Christmas and my favorite version of A Christmas Carol may be the one with George C. Scott.
I also like Joyeux Noel from 2005 as a new Christmas "Classic."
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Post by Hoosier X on Dec 8, 2015 21:59:29 GMT -5
As much as I love Bing, Danny and Rosemary Clooney, I think I prefer Holiday Inn because of Marjorie Reynolds. Everybody else made so many good movies and White Christmas is not anybody's best movie. But Holiday Inn is one of the few movies where you see Marjorie Reynolds looking so good! Yeah, I love her in the low-budget Mr. Wong movies with Boris Karloff and she is pretty badass in Ministry of Fear (where she shoots the bad guy through the closed door! Love that scene!), but Holiday Inn is a great vehicle for Marjorie Reynolds, an actress who isn't nearly as well known as she should be. I especially find the blackface scene to be HILARIOUS!
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Post by crazyoldhermit on Dec 8, 2015 23:53:32 GMT -5
My favorite is A Christmas Carol with Alastair Sim, both the 1951 live action version and the awesome 1971 animated version. I really like the Alastair Sim version of A Christmas Carol, but I don't make it a point to watch it every year. It's probably objectively better than the 1938 version by a long shot! (I saw it last year and I really enjoyed it! Alastair Sim is the very best Scrooge, even better than Mr. Magoo!) But the 1938 version is just overflowing with charm, enthusiasm and good cheer, and I find it immensely entertaining from start to finish. I laugh out loud at every scene with the Cratchit family because of how spastic they are. I always expect Tiny Tim to jump up on the table and start rubbing himself against the Christmas goose. There aren't that many movies that I can watch every year and enjoy them without fail but the 1938 A Christmas Carol is one of them. I've never seen that version. Maybe I'll skip Sim and watch that instead this year. It's one of my favorite stories, I love how the second most iconic Christmas story ever is such a dreary depressing ghost story. |
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