Red Mosquito

List/talk about your favourite Christmas movies.

Without fail, every year I watch with my kids:

• Santa Claus: The Movie
  A Christmas Story
  The Polar Express
  National Lampoons Christmas Vacation (OK, my kids don't watch this one)

And sometimes:

• Bad Santa
  Scrooged
  Die Hard

There's a number of classic versions of A Christmas Carol that I always loved

A Christmas Carol (with Alastair Simm) from 1951
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0044008/?ref_=nv_sr_3

Scrooge (with Albert Finney) from 1970, a musical!
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066344/


two of my favorites... if you've never seen them you're missing something about Christmas

I love the tale/story of Scrooge, but I haven't watched one of the originals since I was a kid. Only the various TV/take off versions that are circulated each year. Perhaps it's time I watched one, and introduced my kids to it too.

Sgt. Crackpot wrote:I love the tale/story of Scrooge, but I haven't watched one of the originals since I was a kid. Only the various TV/take off versions that are circulated each year. Perhaps it's time I watched one, and introduced my kids to it too.

the musical includes this, how do you go wrong with a song about thanking someone for dying?

just sayin'

Sgt. Crackpot wrote:Die Hard

Back in the 80s Christmas was Lethal Weapon, Die Hard and Rocky 4!

BATMAN RETURNS

Always watch

Christmas vacation
Christmas story
Home alone 1 & 2
Scrooged
The grinch
And a ton more

Black Christmas

Me and the Mrs. watch a few, pretty much the same ones, every Christmas / Winter Solstice.

Christmas Vacation
Elf
Love Actually (this one isn't my choice, I pretty much hate this movie, but I get points watching with the Mrs.)
Home Alone
A Christmas Story

Some others that aren't necessarily Christmas movies, but they tend to get revisited at least every other year around this time:

Harry Potter (not all but maybe like one or two of them)
The Empire Strikes Back
The Shining
Planes Trains & Automobiles
Scrooged
A Christmas Carol (I like the one from the 50's)
Lord Of The Rings (the first two, I don't like the 3rd as much)
Home Alone 2

darth_vedder wrote:
Some others that aren't necessarily Christmas movies...

Scrooged
A Christmas Carol (I like the one from the 50's)

Yeah, those aren't Christmas movies, even though, you know, one of them has Christmas in the damn title. For pete sake.

The Ref

Gremlins.

I usually watch A Nightmare Before Christmas around Thanksgiving.

Not a Christmas movie, but I watch it every year, Catch Me If You Can. Probably Spielberg's best post-SPR.

theplatypus wrote:BATMAN RETURNS

Good one!

bada wrote:

theplatypus wrote:BATMAN RETURNS

Good one!

Harry Lime wrote:

darth_vedder wrote:
Some others that aren't necessarily Christmas movies...

Scrooged
A Christmas Carol (I like the one from the 50's)

Yeah, those aren't Christmas movies, even though, you know, one of them has Christmas in the damn title. For pete sake.

I meant I watch these other movies too now and then, and some are and some are not Christmas movies.

Must watches..
Alastair Simm Christmas Carol
A Christmas Story
Christmas Vacation
Scrooged

sometimes..
Gremlins

i usually watch the griswold's christmas 2-3 times christmas day

I watched Rocky IV the other day.

Jingle all the way is my favorite christmas movie. I make my family watch it every year.

Emmet Otter's Jugband Christmas