Love actually is actually one of my favorite movies. I love the movies where its all these seperate stories that come together. And I love The Holiday, its one of my Christmas movies. I do want to go and see This Christmas, I heard that was a good movie too.

 

"When I am right, no one remebers. When I am wrong, no one forgets."

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 Love actually is actually one of my favorite movies. I love the movies where its all these seperate stories that come together. And I love The Holiday, its one of my Christmas movies. I do want to go and see This Christmas, I heard that was a good movie too.

 

"When I am right, no one remebers. When I am wrong, no one forgets."

 "Sup Kare" "Effing Brian"

"Wha Happen????"

I'm in GenXer and although "A Christmas Story" is my absolute favorite Christmas movie and watch the 24 hrs of "A Christmas Story" on Christmas Eve each year, I love the orginal "Miracle on 34th Street" with Natalie Wood as well.  "Elf" has a special place in my heart too.

A Christmas Carol (with George C. Scott)

A Muppet Christmas Carol

Scrooged

A Christmas Story

Elf

Home Alone

It's A Wonderful Life

Three versions of Miracle On 34th Street (original B/W, original colorized, that one with Dylan McDermott)

White Christmas

To say nothing of Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer with its telling of the love story between Rudolph and Hermey.

 

 

Since winter weather seems to be taking its time coming to Texas, here is a list of movies I will watch to get in the holiday mood:

Elf
The Holiday 
A Christmas Story
Miracle on 34th Street
Love Actually
How the Grinch Stole Christmas (1966)
Home Alone - only the first one
The Santa Clause - only the first one

 

We do watch "It's a Wonderful Life", but our usual holiday line-up goes something like:

Nightmare Before Christmas

The 5th Element

Twilight Zone episodes

Star Trek

Secretary

Cold Comfort Farm

Edward Scissorhands

I guess these are just kind of our "family movies".

 

Muppet Christmas Carol .... sap 1

Home for the Holidays .... snarky 1 (I know it's a Thanksgiving film, but it's my prep movie for *any* holiday)

Love Actually .... sap 2 (Emma Thompson and Laura Linney and Bill Nighy ... I like it by default)

Scooge .... scary/sappy? (Albert Finney ... it's a family tradition ... http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066344/)

Nightmare Before Christmas .... scary/sappy/snarky (I used to work for Disney ... it's been ingrained)

A Charlie Brown Christmas ... sappy 3 (c'mon ... you know you love it.)

How the Grinch Stole Christmas ... sappy/snarky (the original animated version)

 

 

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 ...if you love the Hallmark movies that come out at X-mas? They are so emotionally manipulative and "B-star" packed I can't resist watching them while laughing through my tears.

Christmas? Christmas means dinner, dinner means death! Death means carnage; Christmas means carnage!

-Ferdinand the duck

Im just an all around sap....

Christmas story (I even bought the DVD lol)

A Christmas Carol (1938 version)

I'll be home for Christmas

How the Grinch Stole Christmas (I prefer the cartoon over the movie...)

Jingle all the way (this is such a guilty pleasure for me lol I mean Schwarzenegger? Argh... ) 

Scrooged is also a fave

And of course Home Alone 1 and 2   

Everyone is entitled to be stupid, but some abuse the privilege.

I heart both Black Christmas and A Christmas Story- opposite ends of the film spectrum, but both from the late great Bob Clark.

And though it's embarassing to admit, since I was a kid I haven't been able to watch Nestor, The Long-Eared Christmas Donkey without bawling like a little baby. "Ears, Nestor..."

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The only Christmas specials I love to watch over and over are the animated Christmas stories produced by RankinBass Productions in the 60s and early 70s. My favs were:

Rudolf the Rednose Reindeer

Santa Clause is Coming to Town

Frosty the Snowman

Little Drummer Boy

The Year Without a Santa Claus (love the Heat Miser Snow Miser song!)

 

 

 

we watched Rudolph last year in English before we got out for Christmas, and my friend and I just sat and joked about how Howie wanted to be a dentist....and whatever our tenth-grade brains could make out of that idea...it was horrible...*ahem* anyway...

 

Muppet Christmas Carol (My family would watch it every Christmas Eve, and I mean every Christmas Eve....until the damn VCR chewed it up. Grrr....)

 

It's a Wonderful Life (Jimmy Stewart and Donna Reed just make me happy)

 

Miracle on 34th Street

 

Elf (Cutie-pie Zooey Deschanel and Will Ferrell at his zaniest/lovablest? what's not to love?)

 

Any sappy ABC Family or Hallmark Christmas movie that comes on at like, 3AM....

 

The Tangerine Bear (This sweet little kids movie about a bear whose mouth was sewn on upside down, so he can't smile....it's quite sappy....)

 

How the Grinch Stole Christmas (I <3 the cartoon and the live-action has some funny lines...)

 

And OH! I know it's not a Christmas movie, but that Hey Arnold! episode when Helga finds Mr. Hyun's daughter and sacrifices her boots! *swoons* makes me tear up every time!

We definittely roll out the snark at my house! How the grinch stole christmas is fine by me. A Christmas Story is a must see every year, plus the Home Alone Movies (1 and 2 usually) keeps us company as well. Love the Christmas comedies!

Don't be a slave to the unavailable!

I love Jimmy Stewart, so It's a Wonderful Life is an absolute favorite.  And while I like A Christmas Story, i feel like i've seen it enough.  It's funny, but I can't watch it over and over again like It's a Wonderful Life.  And I heart Natalie Wood, so of course I love Miracle on 34th Street.  Other favorites are:

White Christmas--I can't believe no one else has mention this.  Rosemary Clooney and Bing Crosby singing "counting my Blessings" makes me feel warm and cozy.   And if seeing everyone come together to honor the old general doesn't tug at your heartstrings, check your pulse.

How the Grinch Stole Christmas (animated version)

Charlie Brown Christmas

Meet Me in St Louis--it's not exclusively a christmas movie, but what's the holidays without Judy singing "have youself a merry little christmas" in that heartbreaking way she does?

Holiday Inn--I like it, and I love Bing Crosby singing White Christmas on the movie set.  On the other hand, there is that pesky racist depiction of that mamie character.  While most of the movie is good, that makes me feel icky. 

I luv luv Miracle on 34th St, it has to be the original in black/white with Natalie Wood.

 Also love the lifetime movie "Ebbie" my favorite version of all the scrooge movies

I love The Santa Claus 1 and 2.

Rudolph

Mickey's Twice Upon A Christmas

Frosty the Snowman

Christmas with the Kranks

Home Alone 1 and 2

Prancer

Just to name a few....

Love Actually is the best.movie.ever. not just for christmas, but anytime of the year. in the summer i turn the AC on high, pop it in the dvd player and pretend it's november. i LOVE this movie. and if you watch the dvd extras you'll find there was a lesbian couple but the scene didn't make it to the final version. still, best.movie.ever.  i'll be watching it once or twice a week until january.

I would love to say maybe miracle on 34th street or some other classic christmas tale of happiness and merriment, but i find clark griswold's family way to similar to mine, minus burnt the cat

My partner and I have a new holiday movie tradition ... we always watch The Family Stone together. It's hilarious and sweet at the same time and best of all, it really parallels my family which provides us with a lot of fodder for discussion ...

deaf character - I'm deaf, though no one in my family signs and so I get a true pleasure out of watching a family that fully includes the deaf person (actually played by a deaf person), plus the deaf character has a hearing partner & so do I ... though I have a lot of respect for the actors who learned the language, I do have to giggle sometimes at the signing.

gay character - once again that's me, though I'm a lesbian and the movie has two guys instead of two girls - still, we're represented and I do love the support the family shows

character of color - the entire family is white, except for the gay guy's partner, who's black ... my partner is Australian while I'm Polish-American, so I don't represent that category, however my brother's wife is black (Dominican)

the number of siblings - 5, 3 boys and 2 girls ... I'm the youngest of 5, 3 boys and 2 girls

even the personalities of some of the characters are frightenly similar to my sibilings.

Plus ... it has Rachel McAdams & Diane Keaton - gotta love them!

 

...A Christmas Story

Black Christmas

Love Actually

Christmas Vacation (stay away from the sequel!!!)

Just Friends

Scrooged

Home Alone 1 & 2

 

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It's not even a Christmas movie but every single year The Sound of Music plays on tv during the holidays. And ever since I've been able to hold myself up I've always watched it. It's a classic in my family. Love Actually and The Family Stone hold a special place in my heart :)

has got to be my most fav xmas film ever. Also love LOVE ACTUALLY and dunno why. I just do :D

so does that make me a sap? :P

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I watch every year 

A Christmas Carol (with Patrick Stewart) and Christmas Vacation

I also like Love Actually, Scrooged and 8 Women (not really a Xmas movie but it has snow :-)

 

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I like both types of movies.  I think there's room for the sap and the comedy/snark.

How about White Christmas or Holiday Inn.  Who could resist Bing and Rosie Clooney?

One of my all time favorite Christmas offerings is Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol!  I've had a hankering for Razzleberry Dressing  since the first time I saw it.

you figure it out.

A Christmas Carol (with George C. Scott)

Scrooged

A Christmas Story

Elf

Home Alone

It's A Wonderful Life

Rudoloph the Red Nosed Reindeer

Miracle on 34th street

love actually

Home alone 1 & 2

The santa claus 1 & 2

Nightmare Before Christmas

Edward Scissorhands

Home for the holidays

How the grinch stole christmas

Santa Clause is Coming to Town

Frosty the Snowman

Little Drummer Boy

The Year Without a Santa Claus

The Tangerine Bear

White christmas

Christmas with the Kranks  

Prancer

Christmas Vacation

thats all I could think of.

 

 

Christmas Carol - i watch this every year on christmas eve, tho i won't be able to this year as I'll be working damn the nursery!

I could blame the fact that I work with children as to why I love this film so much but that would be unfair I've been watching every year since i was 10 I even recently bought the DVD of it to make sure i had a playable version for a few yaers to come!

Though I do also like love acutally I only watched it for kiera knightly but enging up loving the film! 

I'm not a Gen Xer; I'm a baby boomer , so I must be the oldest one here.  Which probably also means mine are going to be more sappy than snarky.   There some films I remember that aren't listed, but maybe that's because they aren't being shown on TV anymore.

Everyone and their grandmother has done a version of A Christmas Carol. My three favorites are:

!951 version of A Christmas Carol, that was renamed Scrooge for some reason.  Not to be confused with the 1970 musical version, Scrooge. Then of course, the Muppets Christmas Carol.

Meet Me In St Louis isn't all about Christmas, but one of the best songs ever came from the Christmas section of the movie..."Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas". 

Peace, Joy and Love
*B*

 

I just love Love Actually. I watched it at the movies three times, once in New Zealand making me homesick and happy at the same time, once in Amsterdam with an Australian friend and once in German with my mum and sis;) And I own the Polish version of the dvd. Gosh, do I have to say more?! Love actually is all around;) I would watch it at any time of the year really. And I just love Emma Thompson and all the others...

The other movie that makes me all happy and teary at the moment is Family Stone. Although the family portrayed in it is in many ways completely than mine, I feel the same kind of warmth and belonging that I know from my big crazy bunch;) Mhm, maybe I am watching the dvd again later tonight...

I'm not big on holiday movies sap or snark because eventually you have a warm fuzzy ending or somebody learns a lesson about " the joy of christmas" , but i must confess to loving love actually . minus kiera knightly.

This holiday season i plan to read alot and rewatch Buffy.

Maybe i've been invaded by the spirit of the Grinch??

1) A Christmas Story--I've always wanted my very own leg lamp

A Christmas Story is the best. Next I would have to say Love Actually then Scrooged. Although I've seen A Christmas Story about a million more times than the other two. I can't wait until the 24 hour marathon starts.