Favorite Holiday Movies?

What are your favorite Holiday Movies?

For me, it's a combo of old and newer classics. All of these have a nice tear-jerk ending.

Miracle on 34th Street

It's a Wonderful Life

Scrooged

Elf

Santa Claus: The Movie

The Santa Clause (first one)

Then of course, there are the stop-animation favorites and cartoons:

How the Grinch Stole Christmas (cartoon, not movie)

Rudolf the Red-Nosed Reindeer

Santa Claus is Coming to Town, etc.

reply to post by Gazrok


There can be only one...







~meathead

Even though a wonderful life has been shown for every christmas I have been alive I have missed it on every ocaision. I'll make a note to catch it this year.

As for me, my favorites are A Christmas Carol, The Nightmare before Christmas and National Lampoons Christmas Vacation.

reply to post by Gazrok


C'mon Gazrok! How could you leave out A Christmas Story?



Pure Christmas hilarity!

~Heff

reply to post by Hefficide


niener niener niener beat you by 1 minute ...


LOL, heff It is scary how alike we think..

Here is one of my favorite scenes :



~meathead

reply to post by Hefficide


I've been wondering that too...How DID I leave that one out? I can recite it basically word for word!

That scene where they go to the Chinese Restaurant on Christmas....
The bully with yellow eyes....
You'll shoot your eye out!
Drink your Ovaltine....
The tongue to the flagpole (I've actually seen this done...the real solution is just to use warm (not hot or cold) water...)
The visit with Santa... Ho, Ho, Ho!

Santa Claus : The Movie (Been watching it every christmas since i was young)

National Lampoons Christmas Vacation - Absolute classic!

" A Christmas Story" for sure !
and I love the clay-mation's also.
Rudolph, the red nose reindeer,
Frosty the Snow-Man.
Berill Ives,love that silver and gold' song.
Ives' brings a tear to the eye's.

Merry Christmas to all ,and to all a good- night !

A Christmas Story
Christmas Vacation
The Family Stone
It's A Wonderful Life
A Christmas Carol
How The Grinch Stole Christmas
The Year Without A Santa Clause (Heat Miser and Cold Miser just tickle me)
Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer (gotta love the dentist elf)



Doesn't the Heat Miser look like Jerry Stiller?

Gremlins!



and of course if you have a very strong stomach

Black Christmas (the original one)

I don't think I could find a clip of that film that doesn't contravene the T&C's though

My three faves...

A Christmas Story
How the Grinch Stole Christmas
A Christmas Carol

Honorary mention: The Polar Express

Since everyone has covered all of the ones I would have mentioned....hmmmm

Actually, my favorite holiday movies are the personal ones from a Christmas past. I never need a TV or DVD player for any of those.

The old Charlie Brown Christmas.....love to hear Linus rock that piano! My favorite is "A Christmas Story", and my favorite scene is where he is fantasizing about being sharp shootin cowboy and saving his family from the bad guys.....oh.....and the "leg lamp" delivery! LMAO!

I watched a 1984 horror called "silent night, deadly night" that was on the Horror channel last night. I would recommend it as a great holiday film.
All of the traditional value of a low budget 80's horror movie, a man with psychological problems going on a killing spree dressed as Santa, and as in all good 80's horrors you get to see linnea quigley half naked