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Favourite Christmas Film Ever?

76 replies

Insomnibrat · 29/10/2017 01:46

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!

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KichenDancefloor · 29/10/2017 17:09

Elf
Die Hard (can’t believe I’m the first to mention this!)

Home alone - I watch the kids watching this though; their expressions are hilarious.

Popsicle789 · 30/10/2017 13:32

Ooooh, so many, but one to add to that pile is Eloise At Christmastime. It is set in a very Christmassy New York and stars Julie Andrews. I love it

m.youtube.com/watch?v=fcIHOWnoUj8

goose1964 · 30/10/2017 21:04

I start the DVDs with the nightmare before Christmas, tomorrow yay. I love most of the mainstream films an ten to watch Christmas 24 all the time. Just avoid Santa with muscles. It beyond crap

LexyD1986 · 31/10/2017 09:18

Couldn’t agree more about santa with muscles, think I got about 5mins in (how I watched that much I don’t know) and gave up. Reckon it’s the worst Christmas movie ever made

stormnigel · 31/10/2017 10:43

Love actually.
And national lampoons Christmas one....

BiddyPop · 31/10/2017 10:56

I have no names, but have been quietly enjoying some of the more "made for tv" movies on True Movies and Sony channels in the past few years. Truly schmaltzy! There was one about Christmas around Halloween for a child going through cancer treatment, and another about a veteran arriving into a town and being made welcome (and falling in love of course), a young woman saving a young man's toy store (and also falling in love!) and various others that you just happen upon and enjoy stepping away from reality with.

I like Home Alone, but prefer the entire The Santa Clause franchise (mostly films 1 & 2, but the later ones are good too).

I love Its a Wonderful Life.

I keep meaning to watch The Bishop's Wife, The Grinch, and The Nightmare before Christmas, all as films I think I would enjoy (in different moods).

I love most of the West Wing Christmas episodes as well, they are usually lovely and have some bite to them too.

I know it's a bit dated, but the Dudley Moore film (Santa, Santa Claus?? ) was lovely too. Where as an elf, thinking he knew better than Santa, he went off to automate toy production but it didn't work.

I'd love to sit down some day and watch wall-to-wall Christmas movies - but I will settle for a few here and there in between times. And some lovely choral music in between as I do my wrapping etc.

WitchesHatRim · 31/10/2017 10:58

I have no names, but have been quietly enjoying some of the more "made for tv" movies on True Movies and Sony channels in the past few years. Truly schmaltzy!

I agree with that.

One of my favourites they show is 'Hats off to Christmas'

blue25 · 31/10/2017 11:03

Fred Claus
Elf
Bad Santa

Bellybootcut · 31/10/2017 11:07

Christmas With the Kranks
Scrooge
Scrooged
Elf
The Grinch

singadream · 31/10/2017 11:44

When Harry Met Sally

Threeandabit · 31/10/2017 12:39

Nativity
Snowglobe Christmas
I'm Not Ready For Christmas
Arthur Christmas

SummerRoberts · 31/10/2017 13:01

Miracle on 34th Street
Elf
Love Actually
But it’s not truly Christmas until I’ve watched the Gavin and Stacey Christmas special.

ScaryMonstersAndSuoerCreeps · 31/10/2017 20:37

Julie Andrews James Garner One Special Night'
Lovely film!!

70isaLimitNotaTarget · 31/10/2017 21:06

Oh jings "Hats Off To Christmas". I watched it when I was too ill to change channels then it seemed to be on every time I put the Christmas channel on.

There's also one where an artist (who lives with her sister) acts as a Christmas Personal Planner for a rich-but-too-busy businessman (and of course they fall in love)

And a woman who goes to price up real estate (but I didn't finish because he lived on a vineyard so there was no snow involved)

Makes note to avoid Santa With Muscles , what was Hulk Hogan thinking?

Mrsmadevans · 31/10/2017 21:13

Has to be Scrooged and It's a wonderful life. Christmas carol with Alisdair Simms and National Lampoons Christmas Vacation

Andylion · 31/10/2017 22:14

Ragwort 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

I know what you mean. I think I watched It's a Wonderful Life every year from the age of 7 to 18, then I got bored of it. Keeping this in mind, I try to rotate my Christmas movies or sometimes just have them on in the background while I wrap presents.

I think I'm ready to give It's a Wonderful Life a try again, as it's been quite while since I've seen it. (I'm now n my 50s.)

One movie that I will never tire of is A Christmas Carol with Alastair Sim. He was the best Scrooge ever!

singadream · 01/11/2017 00:03

@70isaLimitNotaTarget he was thinking $$$$$$$$

lostlalaloopsy · 01/11/2017 07:19

Home Alone folllowed closely by Scrooged

NellyTimes · 01/11/2017 07:36

trinity and snailo please may I join you, I bloody LOVE the Box Of Delights. I'll bring a hot posset.

Snailo · 01/11/2017 13:39

@NellyTimes ooh maybe there are a lot more of us BoD lovers than I thought! I will be breaking out my dvd of the series for my annual festive viewing... Hot possets and buttered muffins all round!

PasDeDeux · 01/11/2017 13:48

Jingle all the way! I love it.

lirael92 · 01/11/2017 17:36

National Lampoons Christmas Vacation, watching it Christmas Eve is a tradition in our house.

TrinityBelle · 02/11/2017 06:33

NellyTimes, a posset would be lovely. I'll wear my pyjamas and you can bring it in with ceremony. Snailo you're on buttered muffin duty. No buttered eggs though.

insertcleverusername · 02/11/2017 07:16

It's got to be scrooged for me, I love a Bill Murray film.

Snailo · 02/11/2017 08:20

Trinity and Nelly I was racking my brain for the name of the bakery where Kay buys the muffins on his way home from school - is it Bob's? Agree buttered eggs are a step too far!

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