Greg Black

I posted this when the board was going through some troubles, so it unfortunately got deleted, along with everyone elses posts

I was thinking of doing a challenge similar to the Annual HTF October Scary Movie Challenge, but with Christmas/holiday themed movies instead.

The rules:

Watch 12 Christmas/holiday themed movies before 12:00 AM Jan. 1st to complete the regular challenge, or go for the ultimate challenge of 25 movies. (12 and 25, get it? )





My list so far:

Powerpuff Girls: 'Twas The Fight Before Christmas

My 2008 Scary Movie Challenge Tally

nickGreenwood

Sounds like a good idea and since I love christmas movies, maybe I'll get into this one more than the Halloween one.
One question, since a lot of the christmas stuff is specials, and only run at about a half hour to maybe an hour, would they count?

-Nick G.

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Greg Black

Sure, I'd say they count. I don't think there were any time rules for the Halloween challenge. Do you think there should be a minimum time limit for it to count as one entry? I dunno. Perhaps two 1/2 hour specials would count as one slot?

I suppose there's all sorts of rationale for different ways of counting things, so I guess it'd be simpler to count each individually. Each show/special/movie counts as one?

If anyone has any ideas, I'd like to hear them.

streeter

I'll give this a try. Probably the 12

Nothing Lost Forever: The Films of Tom Schiller
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george kaplan

I'll play. I've already been playing anyway. After Thanksgiving, Christmas movies are the vast majority of what I watch. I'm going to count the 1/2 hour specials, though I'm not counting all the episodic Xmas tv shows I'm also watching.

So far:

How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000)
The Year Without a Santa Claus (1974)
A Christmas Carol (1938)
The Christmas Party (1931)
The Homecoming: A Christmas Story (1971)
Recess Christmas: Miracle on 3rd Street (2001)
Christmas in Connecticut (1945)
The Santa Clause 2 (2002)
Beauty & the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas (1997)
A Charlie Brown Christmas (1966)
Star in the Night (1945)
The Bishop's Wife (1947)

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george kaplan

Updated:

How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000)
The Year Without a Santa Claus (1974)
A Christmas Carol (1938)
The Christmas Party (1931)
The Homecoming: A Christmas Story (1971)
Recess Christmas: Miracle on 3rd Street (2001)
Christmas in Connecticut (1945)
The Santa Clause 2 (2002)
Beauty & the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas (1997)
A Charlie Brown Christmas (1966)
Star in the Night (1945)
The Bishop's Wife (1947)
Frosty the Snowman (1969)
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)

"Movies should be like amusement parks. People should go to them to have fun." - Billy Wilder

"Subtitles good. Hollywood bad." - Tarzan, Sight & Sound 2012 voter.

"My films are not slices of life, they are pieces of cake." - Alfred Hitchcock

"My great humility is just one of the many reasons that I am vastly superior to everyone else." - Ramrod Clerk

Lucia Duran

So we just list xmas movies we have seen recently up until Jan 1st?

Elf
The Ref

Inspector Hammer!

So far i've watched...

A Christmas Carol The George C. Scott version (my favorite version).

Jingle All the Way

The Night They Saved Christmas with Art Carney as Santa.

The Polar Express

Santa Claus: The Movie

The Santa Clause

How the Grinch Stole Christmas The original animated special.

Noel

The Ref

"There was that time I wanted to be an astronaut.
I wanted to be the first one to kill somebody on the moon."

george kaplan

My final count:

Christmas films: 34
Christmas episodes of tv shows: 35

"Movies should be like amusement parks. People should go to them to have fun." - Billy Wilder

"Subtitles good. Hollywood bad." - Tarzan, Sight & Sound 2012 voter.

"My films are not slices of life, they are pieces of cake." - Alfred Hitchcock

"My great humility is just one of the many reasons that I am vastly superior to everyone else." - Ramrod Clerk