Frozen as the Xmas day movie? Why?

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Seriously. Hasn't everyone who wants to see it seen it already? Aren't some of us poor buggers stuck watching it daily?

Why the heck have they spent a load of money to show it on Xmas day? I get why the Xmas movie was a big deal in the eighties, but now? Can't they break with tradition and come up with some original programming instead?

Gillybeanz -- just because they might take under 2 hours out to watch a film on Christmas Day doesn't mean parents aren't then spending plenty of the other time with them doing other stuff!!! Children don't need a parent with them 100% of the whole day, regardless of which day of the year it is!

Believe me OP , I would rather Frozen than the standard Christmas Day film when I was a child , , well there were two mainly .

The Sound of Music or The Wizard of Oz . Every. Single. Year .

Sorry but does anyone actually watch TV Christmas day?! I am usually with family, opening gifts & eating.

For goodness sake - not everyone spends Christmas Day int he exact same way. Some people choose to have a quieter less busy day and just enjoy time together as a smaller family unit, and yes, watching an hour or two of TV might come into those plans!

FWI by 3pm we will have finished opening gifts, we will have spoken to both sets of parents (who we see the day before and the day after) as well as all of our siblings either by phone or Facetime, 'spoken' in some form with close friends and we will also have visited local friends for drinks and nibbles, and be back home again. We won't be eating the main meal for few hours yet but will probably have cracked open a bottle of fizz and the chocolates. We might - yes, horror of horrors - dare to put the Tv on and watch something together whilst chatting, drinking and eating!

Sorry but does anyone actually watch TV Christmas day?! I am usually with family, opening gifts & eating.

Well suprise, suprise, not everyone has the same sort of Christmas

The Sound of Music

Or Mary Poppins.

They are great films though

DS doesn't think so.

Looked through one of the Xmas TV mags the other day and the whole of Xmas telly looks shit tbh! Every bloody year the telly is shit!

Your Christmas Day sounds pretty wonderful Hulababy! Throw in a bit of snow and a roaring log fire and it would be totally perfect. I am hugely envious .

I've not seen it. I think,it's a good family choice.

Funny you mention Mary Poppins

Waiting for A Christmas Carol and there is something on about Walt Disney and right now its about when he made Mary Poppins

Cos it's a fabulous film and there's snow, so Christmas. In fact, I was personally offended that the Radio Times only gave it 4 stars. If anything's a 5 star film, it's that. 6 stars maybe.

I definitely agree, those were my thoughts exactly when I saw that it was on, and for some people after pressies etc sitting down to veg out and watch xmas tv/films is a tradition, well it is in my house and the same for friends and family. bloody frozen my girls have seen it so many times I could recite the film word for word and I know all the songs and lyrics to them ( sad I know ) but saying that there are some decent films on over xmas. Also GhostOfChristmasYetToCome I completely agree with you superman is brill and Deadpool was the best film of 2016

Well, I don't think we'll be watching, the DCs think it's babyish and I think it's beyond tedious.

I haven't seen it and have no intention of ever seeing it, it's enough to see the merchandise in just about every shop.

But come on! It really doesn't matter what film is on tv on Christmas Day anymore. It's not the big event it used to be.

People can watch more or less what they like!

It's a pretty, Christmassy film with nice music. It's quite hypnotic, and would probably be nice to just have on in the background on Christmas day.

I don't know if we'll have it on. We won't be able to hear the telly over the noise of kids, and my dad and my brother might fight over the remote. My dad might put on YouTube alien conspiracy videos (hopefully not), which will piss my mum off. Got to love Christmas.

Remember when Christmas day Eastenders was a big deal? What a miserable programme that was. I'm so glad that my mum stopped watching soaps.

I can see why it's on but I will not sit through it again unless paid a lot of money. It was terrible, one of the worst films I've ever seen. So glad I didn't have a child old enough to get caught up in the hype of it all at the time!

I usually watch Muppets Christmas Carol on the day, but my FIL can't stand it so having to watch it sooner this year. It's ok, I'm putting a ban on the sodding Queen speech, I don't care how bloody 'patriotic' my partner's side of the family is.

Why not? Loads of movies have been seen 1001x it's a good children's movie.

Record flight of the navigator from bbc2 and re live your childhood

Why does it matter? If you want to watch it, watch it, if you don't, don't.

It's not as if it's hard to find something else to watch these days if you're desperate to watch telly!

High Noon
National Velvet
The Wizard of Oz
The only possible Christmas movies ...

I've never seen Frozen and will probably never watch it. We won't watch tv on Christmas Day (too busy but would if we could) but it's no biggie. We could record any number of movies this week to watch on Christmas day if we can't find anything on Netflix or our average pretty extensive dvd collection.

Does anyone actually sit down long enough to watch Christmas tv, who wants to sit for 2 hours watching a film - especially kids who surely full of sweets and excitement?

I've always just thought of it as background scenery to have on while pottering about doing Christmas

Bibbity - we do do the family bits with parents etc. But that's Christmas Eve and Boxing Day. Yay days with lots of fun with family. But Christmas Day is very relaxed and chilled, with the three of us doing what we want together.

Great film to keep the kids occupied while the adults nap, chat, get drunk or whatever.

YABU, the world doesn't revolve around people with primary school aged children. There are huge chunks of the population who won't have seen it, my mum and dad immensely enjoyed Tangled when it was the Christmas Day movie a couple of years ago, but had never even heard of it before then. I probably won't watch it having seen it a few times, and we tend not to have the tv on at that time of day at Christmas, but I bet it still gets a reasonable audience and a lot of people watching won't have seen it before. Not everyone has Sky or Netflix etc or can afford it.