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Favorite/Best Christmas Movie

Lammycat

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Which, in your eyes, is the best?  

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    • Holiday Inn (1942)
      0
    • It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
      13
    • Miracle on 34th St. (1947)
      0
    • Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (1964)
      4
    • A Charlie Brown Christmas (1965)
      11
    • How The Grinch Stole Christmas (1966)
      5
    • The Year Without A Santa Claus (1974)
      0
    • A Christmas Story (1983)
      31
    • Home Alone (1990)
      3
    • The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)
      5

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Clouds of Fluff

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The Grinch and A Christmas Story are definately up there. I think Lammy mentioned it, but Scrooged is a classic in our family. It's my favorite for comedy, but It's A Wonderful Life is truly a classic for the pure sap/holiday spirit factor. :wub

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EL the Famous

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Even if A Christmas Carol (the old version with Alister Sim as Scrooge) had been on the list, I still would have said Wonderful Life. Carol would have been #2, though.

 

I fully endorse that post. I remember that version of A Christmas Carol being a holiday staple for much of my youth...even more so than Wonderful Life. That said, we watch Wonderful Life every year and it never gets old...

 

#3: Santa Claus vs. The Martians (MST3K Version)

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boywiththorninside

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The inclusion of Home Alone should open the floodgates as far as the definition of a "Christmas" movie" goes.

 

I'd also count:

GoodFellas

 

I'm relieved that I'm not the only one who associates this movie with Christmas. The scene where Henry brings the tree home. The party at the bar after the Lufthansa heist - Jimmy on the fur coat: "Bring. It. Back." Darlene Love, the Ronettes, and the Drifters Xmas songs on the soundtrack. I always break out this DVD once during the holiday season just for these scenes. I know this is weird, but I do it.

 

I voted Charlie Brown, but it was close with Rudolph.

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Sir Stewart

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I'm relieved that I'm not the only one who associates this movie with Christmas. The scene where Henry brings the tree home. The party at the bar after the Lufthansa heist - Jimmy on the fur coat: "Bring. It. Back." Darlene Love, the Ronettes, and the Drifters Xmas songs on the soundtrack. I always break out this DVD once during the holiday season just for these scenes. I know this is weird, but I do it.

 

Paisano! :hug

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IATTBYB

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I would have voted for A Charlie Brown's Christmas, but it really isn't a movie IMHO. However, it is handsdown the best Christmas special. One year I bought all my brothers and their wives the VHS of the special and the soundtrack CD.

 

I voted for A Christmas Story. That movie has so many great scenes and lines. It's not Christmas until someone opens a present and says "Oh boy, a Zepplin" or "Fra-Jee-Lay, it must be Italian".

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When "A Charlie Brown Christmas" was on TV last week, we watched it for nostalgia and I was surprised by how overtly religious it was -- I know it's from the late 60s, but I just remembered watching it as a kid and rooting for the poor xmas tree that Charlie Brown picked out. Years later, that's the "moral" I remember -- don't judge a tree until it's shown some love (and stolen decorations from Snoopy's dog house) ;)

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kimcatch22

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When "A Charlie Brown Christmas" was on TV last week, we watched it for nostalgia and I was surprised by how overtly religious it was

Well, Charles Schulz was a religious zealot in his 20s. In interviews later in life he said that Linus's speech represents his spiritual side.

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tugmoose

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The Homecoming (The Waltons pilot 1971).

 

This is the only I care to watch, really.

Great one. I watched it the first time it was on. Patricia Neal: "But John, what are we gonna live on?"

 

Plus Edgar Bergen and Cleavon Little!

 

Olivia: What were you doing up there?

John-Boy: Nothing, Mama.

Olivia: Then what's the door locked for?

John-Boy: I reckon it just got locked.

Olivia: A door don't get locked all by itself. Now what were you doing up there behind locked doors?

John-Boy: Sometimes I like a little privacy, Mama.

 

 

 

Elizabeth: Good night, John Boy.

John-Boy: Good night, Elizabeth. Good night, Daddy.

John: Good night, Son. Good night, Mary Ellen.

Mary Ellen: Good night, Daddy. Good night, Mama.

Olivia: Good night, Mary Ellen. Good night, Jim Bob.

Jim Bob: Good night, Mama. Good night, Erin.

Erin: Good night, Jim Bob. Good night, Ben.

Ben: Good night, Erin. Good night, everybody.

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