Christmas Movies

With only 33 days to go till Santa comes.

What Christmas themed films do you enjoy to watch during the holiday period?

My two I always enjoy, and make sure to mark in the Radio Times are - Scrooged (staring Bill Murray) and A Muppett's Christmas Carol.

Anyone else got films they look out for, or films they avoid like the plague at christmas time?

Elf!

"Santa's coming, I know him!" lol

Elf is legendary, but for me its not Christmas without Home Alone 2: Lost in New York!

Have u seen Bad Santa with Billy Bob Thornton?

Home Alone.

National Lampoons Christmas Vacation

The Nightmare before Christmas
Elf
Home Alone 1&2
Muppets Chrismas Carol
Die Hard 1&2

Muppet's Christmas Carol. Home Alone was on some time lasty week I think,pretty early for it! It's a poor enough film but Santa Claus with Tim Allen used to be on the Saturday before Christmas and would always get you ramped up for it!

My faves are Muppet Christmas Carol and Irvine Berlin's White Christmas - can't beat a Hollywood '50s musical at christmas, all about christmas

ELF has got to be the best Christmas film ever, absolutely love it.

Jingle all the way , makes me laugh it reminds me of the year i went everywhere and tried everything to get a Furby

It's a Wonderful Life - A standard at this time of year and while it's overrated in respect to Capra's other work it's still an exceptional piece of film making nonetheless.

Holiday Inn - Always felt this was the superior piece of work compared to the loose remake White Christmas just over a decade later. While both films used Irvine Berlin's wonderful songs the first also benefited from being based on Berlin's concept while the later deviated from that. Plus it's got Astaire in the mix which is always a win which the later didn't due to him turning it down.

The Shop Around the Corner - Another Jimmy Stewart film this time a film that often gets forgotten about but has one of the best on screen partnerships I've seen in any film of it's ilk. It would go onto inspire in it's plot premise the film You've Got Mail many decades later.

Does it have to be Xmas themed?

It's not Xmas without a good dose of Ray Harryhausen films

Sinbad series
Jason and the Argonauts
Clash of the Titans
It came from beneath the sea

Magic.

JPX wrote:Does it have to be Xmas themed?

It's not Xmas without a good dose of Ray Harryhausen films

Sinbad series
Jason and the Argonauts
Clash of the Titans
It came from beneath the sea

Magic.

I guess asking for xmas themed was a bit restrictive. Happy for any film that is regularly shown around the holiday period to be included in people's favourites.

Jason and The Argonauts is an absolute classic, and will always watch that when it's on!!

I watched "its a wonderful life" for the first time last year. The wife blubbed like a baby!

Personal favourites include any version of a Christmas Carol (taped the Jim Carey one earlier - havent seen it). Particularly like Scrooged.

Also really like Miracle on 34th Street as well - that has a real Xmasy feel.

Other than that - Die Hard?

For a true Christmas classic you can't beat "A Christmas Story"

The kid sticking his tongue to a frozen lamppost is iconic

Personally I love The Nightmare Before Christmas (being a Tim Burton fan).

Have to agree the Die Hard films are a must.

On a more classical note I love the version of A Christmas Carol with Patrick Stewart as Scrooge, not to mention Blackadder's Christmas Carol...never fails to make me laugh out loud. Although this may sound incredibly corny I also love watching The Great Escape.

One I avoid like the plague would have to be The Sound of Music

The Snowman, on the other hand, I'm failry ambivalent about. Don't mind watching it, but not bothered if I miss it.

have to watch elf, at christmas time have to!

The wife will make me watch A Miracle on 34th Street again . I love it really

Home Alone 1&2
Christmas Vacation
Elf
Fred Claus
Four Christmases
The Grinch
Santa Claus 1&2
Jingle All The Way

Will all be watched in my house between December 1st and 24th. I also like to do a Star Wars marathon on Boxing Day going in chronological order as oppose to release date.

Santa Claus: The Movie (one with Dudley Moore) loved that film and usually end up watching it every year, usually on xmas eve.

Planes, Trains and Automobiles. To me an absolute Christmas classic. Just hush until the family are all sleeping tight, then I watch and have a good cry at a great comedy actor (John Candy) and the ending, that is so befitting of the man.

westo147 wrote:Planes, Trains and Automobiles. To me an absolute Christmas classic. Just hush until the family are all sleeping tight, then I watch and have a good cry at a great comedy actor (John Candy) and the ending, that is so befitting of the man.

Agree with that, great film, great actor.

JPX wrote:

Sinbad series
Jason and the Argonauts
Clash of the Titans
It came from beneath the Sea

I actually have all of them on Dvd so I watch them through-out the year classic films especially the Sinbads

Yeah I'm pretty tempted to get the DVD's myself Dicey, love those HarryHausen films. Spent ages looking at the models used in some of them, at the Londen Film Museum.

Yeah I'm pretty tempted to get the DVD's myself Dicey, love those HarryHausen films. Spent ages looking at the models used in some of them, at the Londen Film Museum.

I love 'The Polar Express'

Someone mentioned 'The Snowman'.....I love this film but it has to be watched on Christmas Eve.....it's no use when they put it on Christmas Day or Boxing Day....it's too late then, it's not the same at all.

The funnest film I have ever seen was Polar Express in Irish they even had the songs in Irish with subtitles

"Te...te...te seacláid" Classic

Die Hard 1 and 2 haha?
gotta go with the old Elf ain't I

No mention of Gremlins alongside Die Hard, you'd be hard pushed to find another Christmas film that isn't too syrupy and vomit inducing.


Christmas...Bah, humbug!

Gremlins how could I have missed that, what a film but the second one was better I think

Dicey Reilly wrote:The Nightmare before Christmas
Elf
Home Alone 1&2
Muppets Chrismas Carol
Die Hard 1&2

Thank you dicey, I thought it was just me who put die hard down as a Christmas movie

Other than that

Elf - you're not Santa, you smell like beef and cheese
Polar express
It's a wonderful life

I'd also recommend On Moonlight Bay which has an amusing Christmas sequence in it, and Doris Day sings a Christmas song in it.

Muppet Christmas Carol
Elf

Those are my top two.

Love watching The Snowman as well and I quite like Love Actually too, can't help it, that film just makes me smile.

The bit in love actually with Rowan Atkinson in always makes me laugh

Always watch blackadder on st.Stephens(boxing day for you non Irish)
Home Alone 1+2
Elf(best Christmas film ever)
The Grinch

The BEST xmas movie is Miracle on 34th street

Then Muppets Christmas Carol and Muppets Family Christmas

Has to be It's A Wonderful Life for me. One my top 10 all time favourites.

And I love The Snowman too, can't wait to introduce my 3 year old niece to it. She needs to work on her attention span first though

Might also add Arthur Christmas to that list. Went to watch it last night and it was brilliant

not all xmas themed but all remind me of xmas movies

home alone 1+2
cool runnings
never ending story
amercian tail (the cartoon with the mouse)
clash of the titans (original)

Christmas 24 movie channel has started again on Sky channel 327

I get that channel Thanks for the tip Kenny, I wasn't aware of it's existence

littleswannygirl wrote:I get that channel Thanks for the tip Kenny, I wasn't aware of it's existence

No problem Swanny ............ ive watched 3 today

KingKenny7Heaven wrote:

littleswannygirl wrote:I get that channel Thanks for the tip Kenny, I wasn't aware of it's existence

No problem Swanny ............ ive watched 3 today

Which 3 have you watched? I don't get sky at university but I expect I'll be watching that channel a lot when I get back home.

Derbyblue wrote:

KingKenny7Heaven wrote:

littleswannygirl wrote:I get that channel Thanks for the tip Kenny, I wasn't aware of it's existence

No problem Swanny ............ ive watched 3 today

Which 3 have you watched? I don't get sky at university but I expect I'll be watching that channel a lot when I get back home.

Scrooge ..the Alistair Sim one , Deck the Halls , The Dog that saved Christmas

Not a movie but A Charlie Brown Christmas is still essential watching.