Guilty pleasure Christmas movies

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Is it too early for a Christmas film thread?

A sick dc means I've been up since 5.30am so I just gave up and got up and decided to break the Christmas movie seal!

It was actually pretty good and I'd recommend, a bit of a different twist which was good. Journey back to Christmas with Candace CB on My5.

This is mine and DH's Xmas movie too. Can't wait for the second one 😁

Family Stone
Home Alone
Deck the Balls
All I want for Christmas
Did Hard

Christmas in the Sky - a hotel run by native Americans with a vegetarian chef who are expecting a hotel inspector to come and review them. There’s a love interest as well. It’s quite an old film but really lovely and a bit quirky.

The Christmas Card - a real romance and everything you expect from a Christmas movie with quite a few actors who make you think, “ooh what have they been in?”

The Long Kiss Goodnight with Samuel L Jackson and Geena Davies. A bit like Die Hard. I love it!

The Seeker - The Dark is Rising.
Sort of young teenage kid/ supernatural Christmas film with Christopher Ecclestone. I love it.

With the kids deck the halls, nativity, home alone 1 and 2, Fred Claus, it’s a wonderful life and the guardians of the galaxy Christmas special, for adults Die Hard, Bridget Jones’s Diary and Love Hard. I feel the need to add NOT The Holiday- it is a travesty that that became what it did in terms of popularity!!!

I’m loving that people have their own “Christmas movies” between them and their partners, but also embarrassed to say me and my husband have one, mainly because the ending is SO CHEESY. Anyone else seen Christmas Magic with the woman who’s an “angel”?

I've seen Christmas magic it was good - the main actor has done quite a few Christmas films. There was one about saving a music school too.

Not sure it’s a Christmas movie, but I watched The Family Man tonight.

Anyone else think the first half is gratuitously depressing? Did they have to paint such an awful picture of what happens when you leave Manhattan to ‘settle down’ in New Jersey?! 😂

Sorry I also love A Castle for Christmas!

A nice change from Chad Michael Murray in every other Netflix one

So, after enjoying A Merry Little Ex-Mas, I endured the one about the Duke with Danica McKellar (Winnie from The Wonder Years) called A Royal Date for Christmas. He was awful to her all the way through and we are meant to believe she fell in love with him. Nah.

Anyway, onwards. I am now watching the one about the Northern Lights. The chap in it is both handsome and nice. Back to the formula. 😊

Not actually a Christmas film but I like to watch it at Christmas is baby boom from 1987 , the family stone , love actually , last Christmas and my all time favourite that i only watch at Christmas is the book thief again not a Christmas film but I love it 😍

I do like the one with Danica McKellar and Rupert Penry-Jones where he’s the king of an obscure European country (as per). Mostly because I fancy him a bit though.

I added Baby Boom to my watchlist when Diane Keaton died. I have seen it several times already. It never disappoints.

We love Scrooged in this house. And Bad Santa, and Die Hard (of course, lol). Love a Muppet Christmas Carol too. I love The Holiday but rarely get to see it as my partner has declared it ‘pish’, lol.

A Childs Christmas in Wales

It's a Wonderful Life

Mickeys Christmas Carol

Came to say The Family Stone. It's my secret guilty Christmas film pleasure. I love curling up alone with a hot cuppa, a ton of shortbread, and Luke Wilson.

More poignant this year with Diane Keatons passing.

Super cheesy ones my DS and I love are:

National Lampoons Christmas Vacation
Jingle all the way
Daddy's Home 2
Home Alone 1 & 2
Pottersville
Love Hard

I love all of them except The Grinch with Jim Carrey in it. 4 Christmases, A Christmas Story, Surviving Christmas with the relatives all good. Scott Wolf and Lacey something from party of five have made so many Christmas films!

I love Rupert Penry-Jones too. Just looked this film up and it's called Crown for Christmas.

Will see if I can find it anywhere. Looks good.

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I watched one recently called Hot Frosty. It's about a snowman, who turns into a hot man. It's pretty funny.

Re A Castle for Christmas. I saw a tiny bit of it getting filmed, in Culross! I'm sure there was a thread on here when it came out, slating much of it, but especially the food scene at the end. It's so bad it's good.

Goodness I have to add my other filthy secret - every year I also watch all three of those "A Christmas Prince" films set in the royal kingdom of "Aldovia" where everyone lives like a 1920s Bavarian but speaks perfect English.🤣🤣🤣👌

Just watched a net flix one with lindsey lohan which was good

I watched one years ago called ‘ holiday in handcuffs’
complete fluff, but it was so endearing !

Christmas with the Coopers! I forgot to add that. Great cast (including the wonderful Diane Keaton) fun script and high production values. I notice most of these Netflix productions look like cheap daytime soap operas and it takes me right out of the festive mood.