Christmas flicks

[bmdubyou]

What is your favorite Christmas movie?
I love them all...A Christmas Carol is on now...the original '38 version with Reginald Owen & Gene Lockhart. I like it better than the later one with Allister Sim. But, I think my fave flick would be Christmas in Connecticut with Barbara Stanwyck.

[BradfordBenn]

We start the Holidaze Season by watching The Santa Clause each Black Friday (the day after Thanksgiving)

[BubbaZanetti]

Christmas Story gotta see it at least once a year

[The_Veg]

I'm with BZ. That film is just surreally cute, with the pink-bunny-jammies and the imagination sequences and you'll shoot you eye out and Fa-ra-ra-ra-ra and THE LAMP.

My mom likes it because when she was in high school she worked in the Higbee's store they used in it.

There is also a nearly unknown sequel, which I think never made it to the big screen and was shown once on PBS in the mid-1980s. It was called Ollie Hopnoodles' Vacation Haven, or something to that effect. It was about packing up the family and taking a summer vacation at a dumpy little lakeside cabin place (Ollie Hopnoodle was the guy who owned the cabins).

[Hodag]

"Its a Wonderful Life" all time best movie for this season

"Peanuts Christmas"
"Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer"


and I try to watch at least 3 different versions of "A Christmas Carol"

[Bob_M]

This dated, stiff animation never seems to get old. Largly because of the sound track by Vince Garaldi. The CD makes a great gift & it and is in our player for a lot of December.

[GregFeeler]

"Its a Wonderful Life" all time best movie for this season

"Peanuts Christmas"
"Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer"


and I try to watch at least 3 different versions of "A Christmas Carol"


Another vote for "It's A Wonderful Life". I have it on DVD but even better, one of the cool classic theaters in town does a food drive fun raiser each year where they show it on the big screen. A real popcorn fesitval.

[displaced]

Has to be "The year without a Santa Claus". Still the best Christmas movie ever!

[SCQTT]

Christmas Vacation is my favorite.

[PUDGYPAINTGUY]

The 1980's version of Christmas Carol was cool, it was filmed in the town where I lived in England. Shrewsbury was the name of the town, and what was cool was the buildings were real and not sets.

Another great movie was Black Adder's Christmas...with Rowan Atkinson, it is hilarious.

[BobFV1]

The Royal Tenenbaums

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[BeemoKat]

I'm with BZ. That film is just surreally cute, with the pink-bunny-jammies and the imagination sequences and you'll shoot you eye out and Fa-ra-ra-ra-ra and THE LAMP.

My mom likes it because when she was in high school she worked in the Higbee's store they used in it.

There is also a nearly unknown sequel, which I think never made it to the big screen and was shown once on PBS in the mid-1980s. It was called Ollie Hopnoodles' Vacation Haven, or something to that effect. It was about packing up the family and taking a summer vacation at a dumpy little lakeside cabin place (Ollie Hopnoodle was the guy who owned the cabins).

The stories in those movies are taken from books by Jean Shepherd. Very funny! I read "Ollie Hopnoodle's Haven of Bliss" in Playboy back when I was 12 or 13. First time I actually read one of the articles! ;)

[BMWBeauty]

Chevy Chase Christmas Vacation...

[redhot]

Christmas Vacation is my favorite.



YUP - that one gets my vote too - I like funny not serious :clap

[screwtop]

The Outlaw Josey Wales and AIRPLANE!

[The_Veg]

Thanks Beemokat, Shepherd is indeed great stuff! I've also heard him on NPR tell a hilarious tale of being an army radar operator reclassified as a telegraph operator, and several other great stories too. I have yet to actually read him, but he always gets me grinning.

[Mika]

I am a snob this year. I took my daughters to the Guthrie's rendering of A Christmas Carole. It was really good live theater.

Christmas eve the family will be over. Christmas day they will all be gone. Christmas service, the Packers Bears game, then an evening with 'The Long Way Round' dvd set I gave myself as a Christmas present.

[GregFeeler]

...Christmas service, the Packers Bears game, then an evening with 'The Long Way Round' dvd set I gave myself as a Christmas present.

Sweet! Reminds me of a Christmas day seveal years ago when the Art of the Motorcycle was current. I received the book as a gift, so spent the day by the fire with a drink and that book while it snowed. :thumb

[clowry]

Ooh. That's a toughie - there are so many good ones! Miracle on 34th Street with Natalie Wood, Maureen O'Hara and Edmund Gwenn; White Christmas and Scrooged with Bill Murray, David Johannsen and Carol Kane are all great...

[r11rs94]

A Christmas Carol, the one with George Scott as Scrooge. Also Scrooged with Murray, and It's a Wonderful Life.

[RJM2096]

I just laugh out loud when I watch the Santa "Clause" with Tim Allen. I know it is corny, but when he starts gaining 50 lbs a day and his beard starts growing overnight, I crack up. The script is great. It is hilarious. I don't think the sequels were any good. Never bothered with them.

[terham]

My personal collection has Charlie Brown Christmas, The Grinch (the cartoon, not the Jim Carey abomination) and Christmas Vacation.

[tourunigo]

... Christmas Vacation. Mary really doesn't like it but WTF I do. Just got done watching it. Chase at the dept store counter with a clerk named Mary is my favorite part ..... we're really an incurable bunch eh? May you all have the happiest of holidays! -Bob

[bmdubyou]

good flick! its funny you remember her name!:bolt

[sfdave]

Another vote for both Christmas Story and It's a Wonderful Life.

And throw in the Grinch for good measure.

[John Brase]

Thanks Beemokat, Shepherd is indeed great stuff! I've also heard him on NPR tell a hilarious tale of being an army radar operator reclassified as a telegraph operator, and several other great stories too. I have yet to actually read him, but he always gets me grinning.

For all you Shepherd fans )and I count myself as one since I first discovered him in the pages of Playboy in the 60s), most of his radio shows are being archived and are available for download. Fantastic stuff. Go here:
http://shepcast.blogspot.com/
Then follow the links to whatever download site you prefer.

John

[JCabranes]

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[Mar]

Christmas Vacation is my favorite.

I'm with you. :D

[swbell]

For me... it is "Band of Brothers" ... when else do i have a little extra time to get through all 10 parts.

But It's a Wonderful Life is a favorite between my wife and me!!!!:clap

[OUTBACKUFO]

i started this morning with ELF and fell a sleep about 20 mins into it... then awoke back at the place i fell asleep when TBS was replaying it... :hungover ... go figure..