Favourite Christmas Film Ever?

[Insomnibrat]

I was just thinking about all the films I can put on while i'm wrapping presents. There are so many good ones now but which one really makes you feel like its Christmas above all others?

For me its The Grinch.
I love love love the set design, the rhyming verse, the music, the humour. I could recite it backwards!

Arthur Christmas
Elf (we watch this the day we put the tree up)
Muppet Christmas carol
The Santa Clause

Scrooged - I love love love this film and usually watch it by myself one night in December with a large Bailey's.
I also watch love actually at some point too, makes me all warm and tingly

And for Christmas eve it has to be Prep and Landing. Isadora that might be good for younger children, it's more a long cartoon than full movie.

It's A Wonderful Life ("Here's to my big brother George, the richest man in town!"). Muppets Christmas Carol a close second because it's not twee, like a lot of the film versions of A Christmas Carol. And Home Alone, Elf, Miracle on 34th Street. I love all of them tbh. even the made for TV Christmas films which all have identical storylines

Monr0e yes Scrooged is great, love Bill Murray in pretty much anything.

@TrinityBelle I love the Box of Delights! I thought it was just me! I really remember watching the last episode on Christmas Eve as a kid. It's so surreal but magical. I have it on dvd now but I can't only watch it when no-one else is home as they all think it's weird!

It's a Wonderful Life and Elf.

Elf

A Muppets Christmas Carol. Everything about Christmas all rolled into one. A Dickensian Christmas scene, children's puppets/characters and the message of Christmas. It's really all about the people you love.

Gets me teary eyed and all warm and glowy inside. (But that may also be a side effect of the Baileys 😜)

Also I adore Its a Wonderful Life, The Bishops Wife, Elf and The Wizard of Oz. The latter is not Christmas related but it's been a part of my essential Christmas viewing since the 1970's. (Old 😂)

I always watch The Holiday/Love Actually once a year in December. Makes me feel Christmassy. Always try to catch Muppets Christmas Carol too. Kids loved it when they were little. Nice memories.

Sorry, I know I sound miserable but something I just don't 'get' is watching the same film year after year, surely you know the ending ...... I wish I could watch films more than once as it would save having to look for new titles all the time but I would just get bored senseless if I had to sit through Polar Express et al more than once.

Love Actually, Jack Frost and The Santa Clause

I love the grinch, gremlins, Arthur Christmas, home alone and love actually. I watch all of these every Christmas and sometimes throughout the year

The Grinch is the dc's favourite. We watch it every year.

I'm a huge fan of the really awful, twee, predictable, sexist, wooden, made for t.v. Christmas films. The Christmas Card is my favourite.

Muppets Christmas Carol is essential viewing. We also enjoy Die Hard.

Basically anything set at Christmas! Including the Christmas specials of Friends, Vicar of Finley, Gavin and Stacey...

The Santa Clause is my absolute favourite and I watch it every year. I actually enjoy it more now I'm older. Last year I felt genuinely heartbroken when Scott couldn't see his son anymore but I also felt so bad for his ex-wife who thought he had gone crazy!

Elf!

Although I have never seen the Grinch, so I need to give that a watch this year! It could become my new favourite.

Does Rise of the Guardians count? It has Santa in it... one of my favourite movies.

As a kid we would watch Dolly Partons Smokey Mountain Christmas all year long.

Miracle on 34th street. I watch it all year round.

Snailo, come to mine the week before Christmas, we'll crack open the mulled wine, put The Box of Delights on and be weird together!

Thanks Trinity sounds great!

How could I forget The Holiday and The Bishops Wife,? Two of my fave men. Cary and Jude!!

Arthur Christmas, closely followed by the 90's version of Miracle on 34th Street.

I found Polar Express a bit scary. Well, no, not scary as such. There's just something about it that makes me feel a bit squiffy and I don't really like it.

The Santa clause and elf

susurration
Yes that's how I feel about Polar Express. I find it a bit creepy. I think it's the type of animation - the characters' faces are sort of expressionless. Give me a gang of Muppets any day

I might start watching some of these immediately! I'm right in the mood now!

I'm another who loves Polar Express but it IS a bit eerie!

'Lost Christmas' (Eddie Izzard) LOVE IT

And 'The League of Gents Christmas Special'

Planning to watch I'nside No 9 The Devil Of Christmas' this Christmas Eve