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Favourite films at Christmas
Posted by Baskerville Old Face on 5 December 2011 - 11:50pm.
We've all got them. The ones we like to watch at this time of year. My 3 favourites are:
Scrooge
It's A Wonderful Life
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If you could pick 3 films to watch over Christmas, what would they be?
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Top 3
Home Alone
Miracle on 34th Street
Elf
I love Elf
Good choice.
I watched 'The Year My Voice Broke' one Christmas and I have never recovered.
Let's see...
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Straw Dogs
Babe
My three
The Great Escape (obviously)
The Muppets Christmas Carol
Die Hard
Every year when the nights draw in...
..I dedicate a night to watching two of my favourite films. None of them have anything to do with Christmas, but they both remind me that there is goodness, hope and romance in the world. The films are:
Dazed and Confused and Local Hero. If I were to add a third it could be another from the director from either of the above. Bill Forsythe's Gregory's Girl or Richard Linklater's Before Sunrise.
All Round to Yours,AdamRob
What a fine selection
OK. Tomorrow night.
After the Public Enemy documentary, if you're in the area.
Muppets Christmas Carol
Restless Natives
To Kill a Mockingbird
Apart from The Great Escape?
Meet Me in St Louis
About a Boy
Joyeux Noel
Bing and Rosemary
White Christmas. My whole extended family watches it every Christmas Eve, shouting out the lines ("Mutual, I'm sure." "Vermont should be beautiful this time of year, all that snow." "What is this? The best two outta three?" ) that are probably unmemorable to anyone else but us. We also sing the songs -- rather badly.
The Nightmare Before Christmas is another favorite.
The best Christmas film ever
Not enough Ups
Terrific film that no-one seems to have heard of.
Never heard of it
...but bought the DVD for £3 in Tesco on the strength of the trailer.
It's bliss.
Thank you!
"You'll
shoot your eye out!"
My 3
Muppets' Christmas Carol
Comfort and Joy
Elf
our top 1 that we watch every Christmas
Bad Santa. The uncensored version. We will have to watch it before my mother arrives for Xmas. I can still remember the atmosphere a couple of years ago when I played my new Frank Skinner dvd on Christmas night and we sat through two hours of him mainly going on about anal sex.
A different take on the 'Yule Log' perhaps?
Perhaps Frank should be sentenced to his 'Chestnuts roasting on an open fire' but he'd probably enjoy it.
Bad Santa for sure....
.....me and the Mrs watch it every year. I notice from the Christmas Radio Times that Channel 5 are showing it during the week before Christmas but one night over the next few weeks, after the kids are in bed, a few drinks and watch the Bad Santa DVD. Its fabulous.
And as we all know, Shit Happens when you party naked ;oP
Every year at Christmas me and Mrs Spocket...
... watch a DVD of The Box Of Delights.
Robert Stephens, Patrick Troughton, what's not to like?
Elf
The Grinch
When Harry Met Sally
Planes, Trains and Automobiles
"Those ain't pillows!"
Goodfellas - for the Xmas scenes
Home Alone - brilliant, brilliant film. Just love it
The Spy Who Loved Me.
These always make me feel festive.
It's A Wonderful Life
Back To The Future
Strap On Sally 7
3 winners from Todd Towers
Home Alone 3 (no really, the cartoon violence is ramped right up and my youngest son can barely breathe throughout for laughing. Features a pre-pubescent Scarlett Johanssen.)
Twas The Night before Christmas (Tom & Jerry short that we always watch before the kids go to bed on Christmas Eve).
Looking forward to the new Phineas and Ferb Christmas Special. Last years was worth it for the line 'You're Feliz Navidad to me'
In the spirit of giving
here are four
Home Alone
Scrooged
A Christmas Carol (pretty much any version)
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
Gremlins
Fun for all the family.
my only problem with Gremlins
is where they give away the fact that there ain't no Sanity Clause. Not a big deal for many folk here, obviously, but I remember my Mam and Dad talking very loudly at that point one time it was on the telly when the younger brother was only 8 or so...
Kiss Saves Santa
Family Guy - Kiss Saves Santa
A confession... I can't stand It's A Wonderful Life.
Tim Burton clearly
The Nightmare Before Christmas
The Snowman (with the Dame's jumper intro of course) - played last week to get us in the mood and did the job.
Everytime a churchbell rings...
It's a wonderful life for me and the lads.
I like any old Christmas Carol movie too. (Muppets, Disney, Scrooged...)
Miracle on 34th Street.
Gremlins.
Ooh..
The Poseidon Adventure
When Harry Met Sally
Blizzard Of Aaahs
Blizzard Of Aaahs...
Is that the one starring Randy Rhoads?
No. Glenn Plake, Scott Schmidt and Mike Hatrup
Ski film.
Ace soundtrack. Sponsored by ZTT records.
I think my poor joke may have passed you by...
Randy Rhoads was the guitarist on Ozzy Osbourne's Blizzard of Ozz LP!
Ho ho... eurrgh.
I think my flat-bat response was too obtuse.
We'd best both stick to the day-jobs, Patrick.
Elf
The Railway Chidren
The Odessa File
Three from me
The Little Shop Around The Corner
Holiday
The Holly And The Ivy
(It's A Wonderful Life isn't listed because it just gets watched, no matter what)
Shaving Ryan's Privates
Three times.
If I have to watch "Love Actually" again this Christmas
I shall be most upset.
Every year without fail it
Every year without fail it has to be Groundhog Day! It's a classic!
Every year without fail it
Every year without fail it has to be Groundhog Day! It's a classic!
Every year without fail it
Every year without fail it has to be Groundhog Day! It's a classic!
I know - I am childish!
But if I had not have done this old joke I would not have slept tonight!!
I really do watch this film every Christmas though - me & the lovely GF think it's a classic!
One more for Home Alone
1.Home Alone
2. Die Hard
Glad to see a lot of love for 'Elf' on this thread
This has very quickly become our favourite Christmas film. If you haven't seen it, you should. It'll no doubt be somewhere in the TV schedules, but I think the DVD is around £3, the blu-ray £5, so no excuses! Utterly brilliant.
The other day my boss
informed us that she watches 'The Shining' every Christmas, with her mother.
I am looking for another job.
The original
The original Miracle on 34th st
The original Grinch cartoon with Boris Karloff doing the voices
The Snowman.. complete with Bowie intro.
The ...
The great escape
Shrek,
with the kids plus Casablanca and It's a Wonderful Life.
For some reason...
...I really enjoy watching really really bad films on Christmas.
Preferably those awful Christmas TV movies made in the USA as seen on the Crap Channels once a day all through the holiday season.
Usually includes orphans, thirty-something career women longing for love and marriage, lost pets, unlikely coincidences dressed up as miracles and/or estranged siblings.
The bad acting by soap stars, saccarine plots, abundance of brightly coloured knitwear, hilarious lines being uttered by precocious child actors and general sentimentality of these monstrosities cheer me up no end.
A cup of hot chocolate with brandy in it, some festive cake, a cosy blanket and one of those LOL-feasts on the telly will get me in the right Christmas spirit.
For me Christmas is all about excess, so I crave films that are just too much of everything!
Elvis & Hammer
As a kid there always seemed to be loads of Elvis films on at the run up to Christmas and Hammer horrors late at night.. so some of either would be welcome.
Wonderful life
It appears to be impossible to buy a nice black and white print of "it's a wonderful life". Bizarre. I love "White Christmas" too tho.
Seek out the James Stewart Collection
It's a Wonderful Life, Harvey (ace!), Mr Smith Goes to Washington and RearWindow. For a silly price at an online emporium near you. All in glorious black and white -o -vision. Except RearWindow.
Amazon
I looked at it on Amazon and the feedback said although it is supposed to be in black and white in fact it is colourised. It's not clear to me whether it's B&W or not. What version do you have - is there a reference number or something?
Let's see...
On the front of the box it has:
Icons
James Stewart 4 film collection
Serial number on side is 8280113
Hope that's of some help...
Edit: it was one http://www.play.com/DVD/DVD/4-/15903307/The-James-Stewart-Collection-Box...
An astonishing £4.99 back in October and still good value now, I'd say.
The blu-ray
of It's A Wonderful Life is well worth getting - you get both versions, the print quality is top notch, and the poor sound quality that plagued the DVD versions I saw is beautifully cleaned up.
I have this one, right here in front of me
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Its-Wonderful-Life-Colourised-DVD/dp/B002QEBP52/...
it's got two discs - one B/W and one colour.
A few from the Gooner household
Home Alone (1 and 2 - perfect family films)
It's a wonderful life (nuff said!)
Harvey (not sure why I turn to this a xmas - must be the first time I saw it)
Casablanca (again not sure why I like it at this time of year but I love to sit and play it again!)
Not seasonal, but...
The Philadelphia Story, Bringing Up Baby and Die Hard will be adding to the Christmas cheer for me and Mrs Bee.
Me
Polar Express
The Night Before Christmas (Tom and Jerry)
The Battle of Britain
Anyone mention "The Apartment" yet?
It's funny, it's touching and Shirley Maclaine is so cute (yes, really, she's very young in this!)
The Trouble With Harry
An interesting Hitchcock black comedy with the agreeably cute Shirley MacLaine in her first starring role. Beautifully filmed in a New England Autumn, one of my favourite films.
Christmas Tradition
This year (and just about every other year) I will be mostly watching:
Carry On
Oliver !
Wallace and Gromit
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory ( not the Burton-Depp farrago )
festive viewing
Scrooge - the Alistair Simm version
Jason and the Argonauts
The Railway Children
I forgot this classic. THE
I forgot this classic. THE best imho
Whistle Down The Wind
Best Christmas film ever update
A Christmas Story on TCM @ 7-20,going to watch it after seeing trailer.
I don't know if the moral...
... in "Ben Dover's Anal Spunkfest" (my festive favourite) is as emotive as "It's A Wonderful Life", but it alway reminds me that giving is just as important as receiving.
Not strictly a film
but I'm rather looking forward to my annual treat of The League of Gentlemen Christmas Special. Feel the knackers.
Christmas ....
.... and indeed any time:
"What Have You Done today, Mervyn Day?"
http://linefeed.me/1660/now-playing-what-have-you-done-today-mervyn-day/
Trapped in Paradise
... dumb but funny.
The Apartment
Miracle on 34th Street (1973 TV film)
And 'Yellow Submarine', which I always associate with Christmas
Holiday Affair
- Robert Mitchum, Janet Leigh - lovely film.