The Obligatory Holiday Movie & TV thread

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The Obligatory Holiday Movie & TV thread

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Ok so I have a soft spot for holiday entertainment. Throw out some favorites. I'll start:

All the Claymation stuff particularly Santa Claus is Coming to Town
It's a Wonderful Life
A Christmas Carol (Alistair Sim version for a classic and Patrick Stewart's for a more modern take)
White Christmas
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Elf
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Smitty wrote:Elf


Yes! Very funny plus it has Zoe Deschanel...Image
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It's a Wonderful Life - when you're feeling beat down, battered and ready to give up it will set you right every time.
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best movie EVER
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LuthierJustin wrote:best movie EVER
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Absolutely!

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never going back wrote:
LuthierJustin wrote:best movie EVER
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Absolutely!

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everytime Katharine would rev up the microwave i'd piss my pants and forget who i was for a half hour or so...
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Bad Santa.

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Anyone remember when MST 3000 did "Santa vs the Martians" ? always one of my favorites!
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Die Hard
Bad Santa
Nightmare before Christmas (bit soppy but OK)


but admit it, Die Hard is the best christmas movie EVER.
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GW in IA wrote:Anyone remember when MST 3000 did "Santa vs the Martians" ? always one of my favorites!



MST3K Santa Claus a mexican movie from the 60's or 70's
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This was a Chicago Christmas classic when I was a kid. Semi creepy but oddly awesome.

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Our holiday movie triumvirate (and usually in pretty much this order):
Miracle on 34th Street (1947). I always lose it when Kris sings "Sinterklaas Kapoentje" with that little Dutch girl.
It's a Wonderful Life (1946). Capra rocks, one of Jimmy Stewart's last great roles before he took up mumbling as a theatrical device, and Donna Reed is an underrated stunner.
A Christmas Carol (1951). Not just a good Christmas movie, but an all-round excellent film. Alastair Sim is brilliant in the role he was almost born to play.

Other good ones:
Christmas in Connecticut (1945) with Barbara Stanwyck, Sydney Greenstreet, and one very cool house.
How the Grinch Stole Christmas (1966), the one and only original with the one and only Boris Karloff.

And not a holiday movie per se, but The Apartment, along with being an excellent film, has some great Christmas/New Years bits.

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Okay - time to confess. I've never actually sat down and watched Miracle on 34th Street or It's a Wonderful Life all the way through. I've got nothing but time on my hands this year, so maybe I'll try to catch them.

Meanwhile, my favorites are Bad Santa and Elf and the Christmas Story.

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Hey Lurleen ~ maybe we should plan to watch at the same time. Different countries, yet together.. I confess, I've NEVER watched It's a Wonderful Life or Miracle on 34th Street.. I don't even really know what either are about except to say it must have sometime to do with Christmas.. :oops:

My fav holiday movies are the original Scrooge and White Christmas. My holidays wouldn't be the same if I missed either.

At some point, the Christmas Vacation dvd will go in as well as Bad Santa..

TV ..mmm.. Grinch, of course! In my younger days, The Little Drummer Boy always made me cry.. esp the part when the poor little lamb gets run over :cry:
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