Top 10 Christmas movies (1 Viewer)

[homevideo45]

Do you like christmas movies? What's your top 10 christmas movie list?
Personally I can't remember too much, only these few ones I quite like:
It's a Wonderful Life
Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas
A Christmas Story
A Christmas Carol
Scrooged
White Christmas
And I have found a Top10 Christmas movie list, I going to try some of them out.

 

[Dale MA]

Here's my top five:

1.) It's a Wonderful Life

2.) A Christmas Story

3.) Scrooged

4.) Die Hard

5.) Home Alone

 

[EricSchulz]

Yeah, a top five is much easier:
"It's A Wonderful Life"
"Scrooge"
"A Christmas Carol"
"March of the Wooden Soldiers"
"The Grinch Who Stole Christmas" (yeah, it's a cartoon, but it rocks!)

 

[Brett_B]

For me, a top ten list would have to include Christmas Vacation.

 

[hodedofome]

I just got my favorite A Christmas Story on blu-ray in from Netflix last night, and it doesn't play! Hopefully they'll send a replacement by Christmas...

 

[Sam Favate]

Great article here, in today's NYT, on It's a Wonderful Life:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/19/mo...?_r=1&ref=arts

Well worth the time to read.

 

[Steve Christou]

Not much of a Christmas theme but these are the films I usually watch every Christmas -

Ben-Hur (1959)
North by Northwest (1959)
Singin' in the Rain (1952)
The Band Wagon (1953)
Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)
Some Like it Hot (1959)
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954)
Jason and the Argonauts (1963)
Golden Voyage of Sinbad (1974)
Dr. Strangelove (1964)
You Only Live Twice (1967)
The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)
Legend (1985)
Young Sherlock Holmes (1985)
Something Wicked This Way Comes (1983)

 

[Raasean Asaad]

I have added Love, Actually to my list of Christmas movies.

 

[mattCR]

Love, Actually is near the top of my new Christmas movies list. It didn't get the best reviews, but damn, it's one of those films that grows on me. And the sequence where the kid runs through the airport.. I LOVE everything about that. I do wish that they had dropped the plot about the trip to America, but it weaves together so many stories about different aspects of Love, and I did enjoy it

My other Christmas films:

A Christmas Story, It's Christmas, Charlie Brown, Die Hard

And films that have nothing to do at all with Christmas, but films I watch every Christmas:

Sound of Music, Ben Hur, Dr. Strangelove, Stephen King's "The Stand" (mini-series), Savannah Smiles

 

[Shad R]

I always watch Die Hard and Christmas Story.
My family, when I was a kid, always watched Christmas Vacation.

 

[Joe Karlosi]

WHITE CHRISTMAS is such a gyp. I checked it out once and it had practically nothing to do with the holiday.

MIRACLE ON 34th STREET (1947 of course) is one of my favorites.

 

[Malcolm R]

1. The Muppet Christmas Carol
2. The Bishop's Wife
3. Gremlins
4. National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
5. A Christmas Story

 

[John Kilduff]

I don't know if I can do a Top 10, but I can do a Top 5.

5.) "Scrooged". Easily my favorite adaptation of "A Christmas Carol", it's a wonderful combination of show-business satire, and black humor. Bill Murray as Frank Cross does a great job, whether it be reciting funny lines or delivering a sterling monologue about what Christmas is really about. Oh, and the soundtrack is wonderful, too.

4.) "Lethal Weapon". It may not seem like a Christmas movie, but from the beginning, with "Jingle Bell Rock" playing over a pan of the California night to the end where Riggs (Mel Gibson) and Murtaugh (Danny Glover) cement their friendship to the song "I'll Be Home For Christmas", this is a movie that puts me in the Christmas spirit, and when it comes to snow, "GET THAT SHIT OFF MY LAWN!"

3.) "National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation". I loved this movie from the first time I saw it. My favorite scene is the one where Clark Griswold (Chevy Chase) applies a special coating to the bottom of a sled, and then takes a ride that seems more like an action scene than a portrait of Christmas frivolity. As a Wal-Mart employee, I find it hilarious that Clark ends up in front of one after his long ride is done.

2.) "Christmas Eve On Sesame Street". I'm going with an oldie here, and I don't know if it could be considered an actual movie, but I loved it growing up. I'm a particular fan of the song "Keep Christmas With You"...Truly moving with simple, but not simplistic lyrics.

1.) "Die Hard". All I can say is: Christmas is the time to say "Yippie-Ki-Yay, Motherfucker!"

Sincerely,

John Kilduff...

Come out to the coast, we'll get together, have a few laughs!

 

[BrettV]

1) Scrooged
2) Die Hard
3) Christmas Story
4) Christmas Vacation
5) Rudolph the red nosed reindeer

 

[Jason44]

Haha this post cracked me up, but my list would be something similar to this as well all of those are good movies!

 

[Audioman321]

It's a Wonderful Life
A Christmas Story
A Christmas Carol
Scrooged
White Christmas
Christmas Vacation

 

[Michael:M]

In no particular order:

1. It's A Wonderful Life
2. Die Hard
3. Lethal Weapon
4. A Christmas Carol (George C Scott version)
5. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang

Loved the inclusion of Young Sherlock Holmes on someone's list above - I first saw around Christmastime when it was released, and considering that it takes place in winter, it's a natural to watch when the days are short and the air is cold.

 

[David Norman]

In no particularl order:

A Christmas Story
Scrooge (A Christmas Carol) (1938/1951/1970/1984/1994/1999) -- (OK I'm a sucker for just about any version icluding Scrooged)
It's a Wonderful Life
Nightmare Before Christmas
A Muppet Christmas Carol
Miracle on 34th St.
Double Feature of Rudolph/Santa Claus in Coming to Town

Movies set around Christmas sort of:
Easily my favorite in this list -- The Ref
Die Hard
Trading Places
Lethal Weapon
WHile You Were Sleeping
Holiday Inn (the real White Christmas)
Bells of St Mary's

 

[Jerome Grate]

It's A Wonderful Life
Christmas Story
Miracle on 34th Street. (The original)
Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer
The Year Without a Santa Clause
Santa Claus is coming to town
Die Hard 1 and 2
Christmas Vacation
A Christmas Carol
Family Man

 

[Malcolm R]

Is that a new Tim Allen sequel?