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i do enjoy a good film thread, so in keeping with the season.. what are your favourite christmas films?
for me the childhood memory one is Santa Claus with Dudly Moore as the elf. then there's Die Hard and Gremlins. Mrsconsequence is a big fan of Muppets christmas carol.
ELF.
Bad Santa.
for adult-ish
Home Alone... for the kid in me.
Kelly's Heroes.... what can I say it always on at christmas
Okay, I'll admit to Trapped in Paradise.
I likes a little Yuletide Jon Lovitz, me.
Elf was watched last night and Home alone is queued up ready to watch 😀
will give bad santa a watch now its been recommended!
Muppets Christmas Carol.
Favourite Christmas Short: The video from Last Christmas
Die Hard.
will give bad santa a watch now its been recommended!
Don't you'll regret it.
The Grinch.. I simply couldn't stand rubberface when he did those stupid "pet detective" movies, but once over that period of his life I think he a Most Excellent Actor now..
One not to be missed in the Bouy Household.
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the santa clause, 1 & 2, 3 is not so good.
and i count groundhog day as a chrstmas movie.
oh and scrooged.
Wait a mo, though...
How's Die Hard a Christmas Movie? 🙄
Sure, it's set at Christmas time, but it's got nothing to do with Christmas, has it? Or, if there is a connection, it's seriously peripheral.
I don't think people should start these threads unless everyone has a proper grasp of the milieu.
Muppets Christmas Carol
It's A Wonderful Life
heroes of telemark
(it has snow in it, so it is a christmas film)
its a wonderful life is also sitting at home waiting to be watched 🙂
die hard is a christmas film. how very dare you suggest otherwise!
pretty sure i've got the grinch on dvd at home too.... must cross check this thread with the collection tonight 🙂
Sure, it's set at Christmas time, but it's got nothing to do with Christmas, has it? Or, if there is a connection, it's seriously peripheral.
It's on everyone Christmas time, it's got Christmas references right the way through it, the bad guy wants to cancel Christmas bit like the Grinch.
But if you insist.
Lethal Weapon.
die hard is a christmas film. how very dare you suggest otherwise!
Okay I'll have Point Break then – it's got surf boards in it and surf boards are (mostly) white, which is kind of like snow. Snow, we know, is Christmassy.
It's a wonderful Life is sweet – but it's no Point Break.
drac is right it is a Christmas movie he is trying to get back to/with his ex wife at xmas and for the kids ....its deffo an xmas movie if unconventional
Point break is just a shit film
Its a wonderful life must be the best I assume
A Nightmare Before Christmas.
Bad Santa is great.
Indiana Jones and Die Hard are Christmas time schedule filler films 🙂
Santa's Slay
Silent Night, Deadly Night
😈
IHN - Member
Muppets Christmas CarolIt's A Wonderful Life
Those two
The Big Lebowski.
Home Alone for me - was the first film I ever seen at the cinema
Hahaha! My Pretty!!
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My Nephews love The Polar Express
Die Hard is a well-known Christmas film. I don't really recall Gremlins being specifically about Christmas but would you argue that that isn't a Christmas film?
Come to think of it, isn't It's a Wonderful Life basically about a run on the bank and a guy who can't escape his mundane life? It just happens to be set at Christmas? So maybe that's not a Christmas film either eh?
Pfffft.
Polar Express!
Ooh, I forget about the Wizard of Oz.
Pfffft.
Well excuuuuuuuse me!
Moonraker
Batman Returns
Is Trains, Planes & Automobiles Xmas or Thanksgiving?
gremlins is set at christmas, remember the scene at the beginning where the kid is dressed up as the xmas tree?
some films are like the wallis and gromit films... not exactly set at or about christmas but its traditional that they always appear on tv around xmas and as a result become a christmas film by way of tradition and association 🙂
Is Trains, Planes & Automobiles Xmas or Thanksgiving?
I think he was trying to get home for Thanksgiving.
Any Bond film.
jon1973 - Member
Is Trains, Planes & Automobiles Xmas or Thanksgiving?
I think he was trying to get home for Thanksgiving.
He was.
[b]THOSE AIN'T PILLOWS![/b]
It's A Wonderful Life
This^^ plus Home Alone (watched it only yesterday).
The Mogwai is a Christmas present in Gremlins- and
It's a christmas film!
Trading Places is a classic Xmas film
Blackadder's Christmas Carol.
I've never understood the appeal of "It's A Wonderful Life". It seemed the most patronising load of twiffle to me. For instance - the idea that the wife would have been a Spinster Librarian, as if that's somehow a BAD THING to be.
And what passes for an idea of how economics works? Where exactly was the money coming from for all these houses to be built, then?
And so on...
Bah. Hum. Bug.
hmmmm not seen its a wonderful life, was thinking of a different film completely... the one with the waiter and the nazis.
hmmmm not seen its a wonderful life, was thinking of a different film completely... the one with the waiter and the nazis.
It's eine vunderful reich?
Way too angry to be a decent Christmas movie, that one.
Miracle on 34th Street (because of Mrs S)
Muppet Christmas Carol some of Maurices finest work!
Trading Places was set over Xmas wadnit?
they desperately need to make a zim christmas film instead of 20 minute episode.
I've never understoofd the appeal of "It's A Wonderful Life". It seemed the most patronising load of twiffle to me. For instance - the idea that the wife would have been a Spinster Librarian, as if that's somehow a BAD THING to be.And what passes for an idea of how economics works? Where exactly was the nmoney coming from for all these houses to be built, then?
And so on...
Bah. Hum. Bug.
The subtext of It's a Wonderful Life is actually pretty depressing imo. It's basically about a guy who is trapped in his small-life in a small-town and never escapes.
Happy endings are just a device really so I think Capra was saying a lot more with that film than lots of people seem to think.
Its a Wonderful Life - Christmas eve mince pies at the GFT, only way to do it!
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation - Chevy Chase, Randy Quaid and Christmas, how could it fail? That's the sort of family Christmas I aspire to.
Nightmare Before Christmas is brilliant, but doesn't feel like a Christmas film to me - maybe because my kids insist on watching it all year round.
hmmmm not seen its a wonderful life, was thinking of a different film completely... the one with the waiter and the nazis.
La vita è bella or Life is beautiful is the one you were thinking about
Holiday Inn -1942
The song White Christmas is a treat.
Trading Places was set over Xmas wadnit?
Yes and Jamie Lee Curtis gave me two lovely presents the first time I watched that film.
8)
Seriously - yes it was, starts with Eddie Murphy begging in the snow, and towards the end it is New Year's Eve on the train.
[b]MERRY NEW YEAR![/b]
The great escape
Christmas Carol with Alastair Sim
[url= http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085334/ ]A Christmas Story[/url] where a kid wants a BB gun.
The Polar Express watched with my two boys and a large Whiskey Mack
Die Hard.
+1, also definitely a Christmas film, it's got Christmas music in it. And the words "Ho ho ho".
Only two for me [b]"The Snomman"[/b] and [b]"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory"[/b] (orginal)
The Polar Express watched with my two boys and a large Whiskey Mack
Isn't the animation in that really freaky though? It's a good illustration of the realism/ freakiness curve that Japanese robot designers have drawn up.
Bad Santa. And Trading Places.
Die Hard,natch!.Action,laughs,crazy terrorists,great quotes AND Christmas!
Scrooged, its a little bit dated now but still one of the best Christmas Carol re-imaginings
Bad Santa, without question!