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Today’s question:
QUESTION: What’s your favorite Christmas movie?
Talk about it….
It’s a Wonderful Life….you’ll shoot your eye out right behind.
Die Hard
Definitely Die Hard! Number two is Gremlins
Precisely! “WELCOME TO THE PARTY, PAL!”
It’s a tie between Home Alone, and National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation.
I heard Bad Santa is a funny movie, so I watched it a couple of nights ago, and I didn’t see what the big deal was. I like Billy Bob Thornton, but in Bad
Santa, he played a drunk who was always cussing, and abusing a little kid who only wanted to be his friend. I just don’t see the humor in a foul mouthed drunk, abusing children.
Polar Express and A Christmas Story
All the Harry Potter movies.
It’s a Wonderful Life. My wife’s favorite is Going My Way. (She seriously considered Love Actually)
Yippee-ki-yay…..
Home Alone
Bad Santa 1 and 2
Apocalypse Now
Home Alone.
Kevin! 😱
National Lampoon Christmas Vacation – w/ Chevy Chase
Scrooged
A Christmas Elf
My favorite Christmas movie is “A Christmas Carol” from 1951 (Alistair Sim version). I also enjoy reading Dicken’s novella once a year.
I could list all the Christmas movies that are just soooo close, but perhaps that will be a future topic.
“I don’t know anything, I never did know anything”.
Yes! My favorite, too!
1. Die Hard
2. Christmas Story
3. Home Alone
4. Bad Santa
White Christmas
Christmas Story
It’s A Wonderful Life
The Santa Clause, all three.
It’s A Wonderful Life
Christmas Story
Christmas in Connecticut
I do love Die Hard but will put it in a different category arbitrarily designated by myself. Yippee-ki-yay
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The Epic Failure of Joe Biden and Democrats.
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It’s a daily reality.
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Dirty Harry
Wizard, it’s funny you mention Dirty Harry….I saw Magnum Force (I think) when it came out on Christmas Day.
Funny you mentioned Magnum Force. I was part of the protest scene at SF City Hall. A bunch of us played softball every weekend at Big Rec baseball fields and were asked to be extras by a friend who was involved in production. We showed up around 5:30, gave our information to get paid (like $5 an hour), and hung around while the crews set everything up. We got a little direction on how to “act” as protesters (not hard, given it was SF in the 70’s!) and then did a couple of takes. My buddies and I went to the opening matinee and were calling out names of our buddies when they appeared on screen.
Magnum Force is another Christmas watcher for me…Great insider info Phil.
1. Die Hard
2. Christmas Vacation
3. Elf
4. How The Grinch Stole Christmas (Jim Carrey)
5. A Christmas Story
6. Scrooged
7. Gremlins
8. Christmas In Connecticut
9. Rudolph (1964)
10. The Ref
Honorable Mention
All Mine To Give
Remember The Night
I don’t get the Bad Santa thing, I think it sucks.
All Mine To Give …. definite full box of tissues.
Family Man
The Ref (what this family needs is a mute!)
Exodus
Skipping Christmas
Although the book was better
Babes in Toyland with Laurel and Hardy…all time classic!
Hmmm, never saw this one (I always just assumed it was the Keanu Reeves/Drew Barrymore vehicle). Laurel and Hardy, will check this out, now. Appreciate the comment…
Rare Exports.
The Bishops Wife (old version)
Miracle on 34th Street (old version)
This one……
https://tinyurl.com/2p8kcvne
The new Christmas movies have to be:
Why him?
Four Christmases.
Die Hard
Christmas Vacation
“Scrooge” with Alastair Sim.
There is a neat little Christmas vignette which appeared on MAD TV called “Raging Rudolph”. Think Rankin-Bass meets Martin Scorsese.
It’s a wonderful life, watch it almost every Christmas, has so many uplifting messages, and of course stellar cast of old time hollywood stars, James Stewart and Donna Reed. Have seen “Scrooged” several times both the original and a later version, but haven’t seen it in years. Also like a lifetime movie with Linda Hamilton “Home by Christmas” it’s about a well to do suburban housewife, that finds out her husband has an affair with excerise instructor, much younger of course, and leaves her for the younger woman. Linda ends up being homeless for awhile, due to several unfortunate events, getting robbed, not taking a big settlement etc. in the end she prevails, finds a new career and much nicer man, a story many divorced woman can relate to.
It Happened On Fifth Avenue – great story.