Greatest Xmas Movie of All Time

[stopbush]

Classic movies, not TV shows.

Too bad there's only room for 10 choices.

Vote below:

[gizmo1979]

1. xmas vacation is my all time favorite.

I watch it every year.

[stopbush]

2. "They want you to say the blessing!"

[UnrepentantUnitarian]

6. Squirrel !!!!!!

[stopbush]

9. "It was an ugly tree anyway." "At least it's out of its misery."

"He worked really hard on it, Grandpa." "So do washing machines."

[UnrepentantUnitarian]

3. Love it. And, whenever "Funny Farm" comes on,..

that's good too. It's got some good "XMas stuff" too.

[End Of The Road]

4. It's a perfect depiction...

...of my mother-in-law's turkey dinner.

[stopbush]

7. Our family tradition at the holidays is to segue out of the Macy Thanksgiving Parade

into "Miracle," followed by "A Xmas Story" and "Xmas Vacation." If we're not Christmased-out at that point, we may watch something else. This year, we skipped Xmas Vacation and watched The Bishop's Wife.

BTW - the Macy's Parade has become useless. We watched about 30 minutes this year before the irritating baby talk of the anchors sent us running for the alcohol.

We'll end up watching them all at least once...and - god help us! - we have the "A Xmas Story" marathon going most of the day on Xmas.

At least the kids are old enough now that we don't need to watch the made-for-TV specials like "Rudolph" and "Frosty" - or their myriad god-awful knock-offs.

[shadowknows69]

27. A Christmas Story. First snowfall or first day of December

Whichever comes first. Never fails to make my sides hurt from laughing

[RavensChick]

21. Mine too!

I saw It's A Wonderful Life at least 3 times when I was little. Haven't watched it sense 'cause it puts me to sleep.

[drmeow]

5. I'm not going to call it the Greatest

but I LOVE Holiday Inn - the tap dance with firecrackers!

[JuniperLea]

11. Is that the one with Rosemary Clooney?

I just love her! I met her when I was a youngster... she sang at my home town beauty contest one year. I have a soft spot for a good set of pipes, and this lady has a set of the best!

[drmeow]

18. No

Marjorie Reynolds and Virginia Dale

[JuniperLea]

20. White Christmas...

You're right.

[drmeow]

22. They both had the song in them

Holiday Inn first, of course.

Amazingly, I don't think I've ever actually seen White Christmas - and I've seen a lot of movies from that era. I may have to rectify that this Christmas.

-M

[annabanana]

8. Oh, Christmas Carol !

"Forgive me if I am not justified in what I ask," said
Scrooge, looking intently at the Spirit's robe, "but I see
something strange, and not belonging to yourself, protruding
from your skirts. Is it a foot or a claw?"

"It might be a claw, for the flesh there is upon it," was
the Spirit's sorrowful reply. "Look here."

From the foldings of its robe, it brought two children;
wretched, abject, frightful, hideous, miserable. They knelt
down at its feet, and clung upon the outside of its garment.

"Oh, Man! look here. Look, look, down here!" exclaimed
the Ghost.

They were a boy and girl. Yellow, meagre, ragged, scowling,
wolfish; but prostrate, too, in their humility. Where
graceful youth should have filled their features out, and
touched them with its freshest tints, a stale and shrivelled
hand, like that of age, had pinched, and twisted them, and
pulled them into shreds. Where angels might have sat
enthroned, devils lurked, and glared out menacing. No
change, no degradation, no perversion of humanity, in any
grade, through all the mysteries of wonderful creation, has
monsters half so horrible and dread.

Scrooge started back, appalled. Having them shown to
him in this way, he tried to say they were fine children, but
the words choked themselves, rather than be parties to a lie
of such enormous magnitude.

"Spirit! are they yours?" Scrooge could say no more.

"They are Man's," said the Spirit, looking down upon
them. "And they cling to me, appealing from their fathers.
This boy is Ignorance. This girl is Want. Beware them both,
and all of their degree, but most of all beware this boy, for
on his brow I see that written which is Doom, unless the
writing be erased. Deny it!" cried the Spirit, stretching out
its hand towards the city. "Slander those who tell it ye!
Admit it for your factious purposes, and make it worse.
And bide the end!"

"Have they no refuge or resource?" cried Scrooge.

"Are there no prisons?" said the Spirit, turning on him
for the last time with his own words. "Are there no workhouses?"

The bell struck twelve.

[JuniperLea]

10. There's no "double dog daring" my family...

To go one Christmas without watching A Christmas Story. I'm digging up some other Jean Shepherd movies for later:)

I love most of the old movies, but this one is always watched first, and always watched a few times. The rest I watch as they come... this one I own.

[childslibrarian]

12. Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol is also awesome

The award winning duo who wrote the music for "Three Coins in A Fountain" and "On a Clear day"
wrote the score for this one. It is very faithful to the Dicken's novel.
Worth a look, (and the razzelberry dressing is great.)

[stopbush]

32. Made for TV, so not included in my list.

[laconicsax]

13. Die Hard

Movie that takes place at Christmas=Christmas movie.

:P

[stopbush]

31. Yeah, and "The Longest Day" is a surfer movie

because it takes place in June at the beach...

:)

[rawtribe]

14. Life of Brian n/t

[Sinistrous]

15. A Christmas Carol with George Scott.

It's the only Christmas movie I will go out of my way to see.

[stopbush]

25. Strange as that's one of the versions of the Dickens' classic that leaves me cold.

IMO, no one equals Alastair Sim.

[Qanisqineq]

16. I have to go with Christmas Vacation

I hear the theme song and I just feel happy. I think a big part of why that movie is special for me has to do with the first time I saw it. I went to the theater with my dad. A teenage girl going to a movie with her dad -- may not be strange to some people but for my father and me it was unbelievable. I think the fact that I sat by him during the movie was also unexpected.

Love that movie.

[MaineDem]

17. A Muppet Chirstmas Carol?

I love it but I went with "A Christmas Story".

[MorningGlow]

19. I voted for It's A Wonderful Life

because I like a good cry...and I cry EVERY TIME.

But I also have to mention Better Off Dead. Because I laugh EVERY TIME. "Sorry your mom blew up, Ricky."
:rofl:

[Onceuponalife]

23. I never tire of It's a Wonderful Life

One of the best movies-period. Ever.

Did anyone see that hilarious sketch they did on SNL with Dana Carvey playing George Bailey and goes and kicks the shit out of the wheelchair-bound Potter?

Also, Home Alone does NOT belong on that list!!!

[dipsydoodle]

33. You

and millions and millions of other people.:fistbump:

[Malikshah]

24. The Lion in Winter

Aghast that this is not on the list.

This family put the fun in the dysfunctional...during Christmas no less :)

[Crowman1979]

26. I grew up with the movie "Christmas Story!"

I saw it when it was first on Cinemax back in 84 or 85.

[shadowknows69]

28. I've probably watched it every year since 83 when it came out

[Number9Dream]

29. Very tough to choose

Voted for the timeless "Scrooge" - Alastair Sim. The story rings just as true today with high unemployment, the rich getting richer, and so on. Sim was terrific as Scrooge.

I like Edward Woodward (ghost of present) and Frank Finlay (Marley's ghost), in the George C. Scott version.

Love "A Christmas Story" - A trip back in time. Darren McGavin should have won an Oscar as the old man.

"Miracle On 34th Street" (1949) was great too. It was brilliant how the lawyer proved Kringle was Santa Claus. Natalie Wood sparkled as the girl, Gwen the definitive Kris Kringle.

[stopbush]

30. Re: the lawyer proving Kris was Santa Claus.

Actually, he doesn't.

Lawyer Fred Gailey reads from a book that says that it's a crime for the USPS to "knowingly" deliver mail to the wrong person, yet that's exactly what the USPS does when it delivers all of the Santa letters to Kris at the courthouse. The law-bending action is initiated at the USPS sorting station by the unnamed post office sorter next to "Lou" - said sorter is played by none other than Jack Albertson of "Chico & The Man" fame (Albertson was uncredited in the 1947 film, as were all of the bit players).

Of course, we all willingly suspend disbelief at this point and cheer on Gailey, who has maneuvered DA Mara in establishing the USPS as an "authority" in the case of determining the identity of Kris as the "one and only Santa Claus."

:)

[Iggo]

34. A Christmas Story.

Used to be It's A Wonderful Life. In my estimation, Ralphie has overtaken George.

[Cash_thatswhatiwant]

35. other: Jingle All the Way (1996)

:p

[eowyn_of_rohan]

36. A Child's Christmas in Wales

Just want to add this to the mix - it's a beautiful rendition of the Dylan Thomas story

[sakabatou]

37. Anyone like the "Muppet's Christmas Carol?"

[mackerel]

38. You're missing Metropolitan and The Dead.

[Drunken Girlfriend]

39. Favorite Christmas movie

My favorite Christmas movie is National Lampoons Christmas Vacation.

Everyone can relate to this movie.

It's funny,touching,and you can watch it over and over,
and never get sick of watching it.

Chevy Chase truly cracks me up.