To feel so emotional about Christmas films

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I am sat here watching Santa Claus the Movie and just feel like I could cry. It just brings back so many memories of feeling Christmas was so magical and my Dad was still with us. Silly really.

Eldest DD has requested Home Alone 2 next and I'm already having feelings about that now 😆

This is me also - not silly at all.
Both of my parents have passed away in the last two years (mum in June this year) and I’m feeling it so much at the moment.
I let the tears flow and try to think of happier times, as I cry at things now that never affected me before.

I think Christmas can definitely be bittersweet as we remember people no longer with us and time that is past

You can cure yourself of that easily by watching some of the American Christmas films on Sky that are on during the daytime. God they are absolutely eyeroll worthy tosh. They usually involve a woman travelling to a different place, and falling in love with a handsome local. OR a woman finding love with a man right under her nose. or someone returns to their home town after time away and falls in love with someone they knew at high school who'd had a secret crush on them for years.

The most cheesy one that I saw (I only ever see 20 minutes of them when I'm channel hopping, and wonder if I can actually find a decent one for once), had Caprice in it. "A Scottish Christmas secret". Had ALL the cliches and tropes in it.

Watch a few of those and you'll be sick of ALL Christmas films.

No, don’t do that, OP! Just watch the good ones and know that lots of people feel the same way. Don’t spoil it by watching rubbish.

I was watching It’s A Wonderful Life last night, not even the whole film, just clips and commentary about the film and how it was made. That was enough to have me welling up. I wouldn’t want to spoil that by watching a load of old tosh.

Ah I love that film.

I can't watch it without crying! "I'll never want another thing as long as I live if I can just see my mother". I saw my mother this afternoon, but I still can't breathe when it gets to that bit!

Hmmm, call me a cynical bitch but most Christmas movies just feel Hallmark saccharine by numbers to me.

The greatest ones are timeless, and most of the ones I love best are not fully Christmas films but "Christmas-situational", like Die Hard and Trading Places. It's a Wonderful Life also gets a mention.

Home Alone is unbearable schmaltz. Can't be in the room when its on, I find it nauseating.

The Muppets Christmas Carol is the best Christmas film IMO

Agree with you the muppets is my all time favourite watch it loads over Christmas and I’m 50 lol