Favorite Christmas movies anyone?
 

Mine are:



Home Alone.

Home Alone 2

National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation

Just Friends

Ernest Saves Christmas.

Scrooged.

Nightmare Before Christmas.

A Christmas Story

Black Christmas (1974)

Silent Night, Deadly Night.

Rare Exports.

Gremlins

Die Hard

Die Hard 2

Lethal Weapon

Jingle All The Way

Bad Santa.

Batman Returns

Elf.

Rocky IV.

The Long Kiss Goodnight

Invasion USA.

Santa Claus the movie.

Miracle on 34th Street 1947 and 1994.

A Christmas Carol 1984.

Muppets Christmas Carol.

Trading Places

Christmas Evil.

Brazil

City of Lost Children

Christmas Horror Story.

So many good ones, but favorites off the top of my head that I'd gladly watch multiple times (esp given the traditional tv marathon of one of them) would be "A Christmas story," "The Polar Express," and the good old classic "Mickey's Christmas Carol." (And miss some of the old ones from the 80s you can't really find on anymore.)

Honorable mention to Rudolph and the other old Christmas specials, but they're not movies.



Did anyone else when they were young used to fall asleep with "A Christmas Story" on Christmas Eve, during its marathon, and later wake up again at the point you left off? My sister and I both used to do that sometimes. lol

Jingle All The Way (watching it tonight actually)
The Santa Clause
The Nightmare Before Xmas
Elf
Batman Returns
Home Alone 1 and 2

Gremlins
We Wish You A Turtles Christmas

Ernest Saves Christmas
A Claymation Christmas
A Christmas Story
Charlie Brown Christmas

Home alone
Home alone 2
Jingle all the way
Jurassic world

A Very Brady Christmas
Surviving Christmas
Christmas with the Kranks
Grinch - Live Action (still need to see the 2018 movie)

Didn’t want to list the usual ones.

007 OHMSS turns 50 this xmas :o

One of the best Bonds despite Laz being a rookie :D

We’re No Angels (1955)
Batman Returns
Mean Girls

Very good Christmas movies to watch even if you’re not in a Christmassy mood.

Home Alone and Lost in New York

Is this where all the cool kids talk about "Die Hard"?

I am showing that in class right now.:) All races, creeds, and students looking to get out of work enjoy it.

How old are the students?

Sophomores, 15 year olds. Its exam review day and most don't have to take it so most people are showing movies. Its a safe choice that will catch the majority's attention.

That's great. I don't think that many children or teenagers 30 years ago would have been fascinated with something from the 1950's and 60's (except maybe early James Bond or something).

Home Alone 1 and 2.
Though I do not watch them every New Year (since in Russia New Year is the main winter holiday and X-Max is just for religious people), but they are so full of holiday spirit!

Which is the one where one of Santa Claus' Christmas elves end up in Chicago or New York City (or something)?

I consider old movies 1969 on back to be Classic Hollywood, but I am more willing to check out older films than newer ones. However, if its predates 1939 I don't care to watch it. Silly I know.

My students think anything from pre-2000 is old by contrast and Home Alone is a rare exception to their limitations. Considering the Alexa commercial showing that Home Alone ( are you listening Disney Plus) would be so different with technology less than a generation later its surprising, but there is the basic message that resonates and I believe they subconsciously understand.

I apologize for detracting the thread. Its the one day of the semester I can read Ninja Turtles with students in the room.

Just the first two Home Alone movies, which I watched yesterday.

Home Alone is my favorite. A Christmas Story is great.

I love hopping between Christmas-themed episodes of shows that I love. Sometimes I'm willing to watch an old nostalgic show, I wouldn't otherwise give the time too, because it has that sort of added bonus of being holiday-themed as well as nostalgic.

The Simpsons comes to mind.

You mean this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JONGt32mfRY

Yes, that is it! Its one of two that ran last year. Its the perfect answer as to why Disney Plus does not need to reboot it and why it does not need anything after Lost In New York.

Talkboy
 

Here is the Talkboy portable audiocassette player commercial

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anjyiO754hU

What year is the commercial from? I suspect it ran for awhile because I remember it.

A Christmas Carol 1951 with screen legend Alastair Sim himself. Nothing before, and nothing since(IMO) has top that performance since.

Over the last decade, my all-time favorite Christmas movie has become Scrooge with Albert Finney. My other favorite films and TV special include Home Alone, A Charlie Brown Christmas, The Little Troll Prince, The Muppet Christmas Carol, Frosty the Snowman, Elf, The Little Drummer Boy, and Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer.

The christmas toy, if you haven't watched, go do so.

Home Alone & Home Alone 2.

Alvin & the Chipmunks (2007)

Nightmare before Christmas.

A Christmas Carol (Jim Carrey).

The beautiful classic White Christmas for me, as well as Scrooged (Bill Murrey's comedic masterpiece), Home Alone, and Hremlins.

On a realated note, no, I do not consider Die Hard a "Chistmas" movie. I consider it simply an action movie that HAPPENS to take place at Christmastime, but which otherwise has NOTHING to do with the holidays! (Come at me, I dare you, lol!)

Die Hard is a Christmas movie and one of the best action films ever made. Anyone debating it not being a Christmas movie to me is the ultimate eye roll.

The film takes place around the holidays, is centered around a Christmas party at the plaza, John is only coming to L.A. for Christmas to see his family, there are loads of quotes and sight gags all centered around Christmas, the film even opens with a Christmas rap and ends with Let It Snow.

If you want to argue that Die Hard 2 isn't a Christmas movie despite taking place around the same time? I could see that as being valid. Or a film like Invasion USA, Rocky IV, Batman Returns, Lethal Weapon or any of Shane Black's scripts that happen to take place around the Holidays. But not Die Hard. So many parts of the film, as well as the theming and even music, is Christmas related.

Stop with this inane debate. It's a Christmas movie with 2 and so is those other movies i mentioned even Rocky IV, Lethal Weapon, Terry Gilliam's Brazil, Batman Returns. Just because you don't like it or it doesn't fit into your wholesome idea of what a Christmas movie is? That doesn't make it not a Christmas movie. This is like people complaining about any of the Christmas themed horror movies not being Christmas movies. It's just as inane and mind boggling.

Pretty much everyone agrees that it's a Christmas movie except for people who want to be contrary. When there's more evidence for Is than Isn't... yeah, just being contrary.

Batman Returns and Rocky IV (and even Rocky I and V) are also plainly Christmas movies. If Christmas is a plot point, it's a Christmas Movie, period. It doesn't have to be the WHOLE focus of the movie. The fact that Rocky I and IV have been a staple of Christmas Season airings on TV for as long as I've been alive kind of reinforces that further; TNT used to do an entire Rocky Marathon of 1-5 on Christmas Day just to be completionist, but yeah, I, IV and V go out of their way to establish that it's Christmas, even though the movie is "about" other stuff. F*ck it. Tree's are lit up, people are giving gifts and singing carols and people are dressed up like Santa. CHRISTMAS MOVIE. Especially if it's become tradition for it to be broadcast on or around Christmas Day. Don't over-complicate things with your bullsh*t semantics, people.

Also, Scrooged is the best of all time.

1992
 

I don't know, but the Talkboy is from 1992, of course

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talkboy

I'm surprised it was still a hit during the 1993–1994 Christmas and Holiday Season

https://archive.seattletimes.com/arc...6&slug=1737234

Yeah, I got mine around Christmas 1993. Although I think it was actually for my Birthday in September. I literally wore that damn thing out. :lol:

My friends and I used to make little skit comedies and radio shows. Poor TalkBoy couldn't handle the challenge.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...%29_poster.jpg

Also, How The Grinch Stole Christmas.

Also, also.. The He-Man & She-Ra Christmas Special.

Yeah, I gotta try and watch the He-Man/She-Ra one tomorrow.

And Batman Returns. :lol: I barely even like that one anymore, but you know how it is.

I'd argue it has a lot more to do with Christmas than it even does with Batman. IF we're being totally objective about it. :trazz:

While I wouldn't choose to go back to that age, I miss those days.

The year I started high school (1993) they had installed interconnected tvs in all of the classrooms that summer. Our last day before winter/Christmas break they'd show movies all day. When the bell rang, they'd pause it and you'd go to your next class and resume watching it. We just did that the whole day. Some of the teachers brought in snacks. Awesome times. And pretty sure Home Alone was among them at least once.


edit: Watched Mickey's Christmas Carol online this evening. What I wouldn't give for a decent Turtles version of that with them and other characters taking up the roles. :D The boys are definitely Jacob Marley and the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present (def Mikey) and Future.

Question is, is Scrooge played by a wayward Spinter or are we reforming Saki? (Though they're playing Scrooge so either works...)

more edits: God that would make some cool TMNT Christmas themed art, can already see it... just wish I was good at it. lol (I guess Raph could do a good Christmas Future ghost? Maybe Leo as Past and Donnie as Jacob Marley?)

Mikey should be Tiny Tim. Call him Mini Mike. And he leans on Donnie bo. Also, if Raph is Christmas future, he shouldn't show anybody anything. He should just hand out silent ass beatings.

Burne Thompson
 

Thea ideal TMNT Christmas Carol for me would be Ebenezer Scrooge replaced with Burne Thompson, yelling at April and Irma for being in "league with those green terrorists", even during the Christmas and holiday season. And the Christmas ghosts being holograms projected by Donatello (hiding with his hologram projector on a nearby Manhattan rooftop) to make Burne Thompso change his mind.

Inane? Well, maybe arguing that it's a Christmas movie just because it HAPPENS to take place over the holiday is inane. You could literally replace Christmas with ANY other holiday/event/special occasion, and it wouldn't change anything about the movie plot-wise. Still the same bad guys, story, series of events, just without any cheery trappings, but nothing changes. It's an ACTION movie, first and foremost, the Christmas stuff is really all just incidental to the plot. He could still do all the same things if it was Easter, or his kid's birthday, or his anniversay. Or even just Tuesday. The only reason people call it a Christmas movie at all, is because "Hey, explosions- Oooh, pretty lights!"

Christmas music at Christmastime? Huh, imagine that. You can't go anywhere this time of year without ears bleeding from hearing constant loops of everything from Bing to The Nutcracker. Background noise music in a mall or anywhere else as you're watching guys chasing around trying to kill each other and/or stop an evil plot by some terrorist is just white noise, to the guys doing the chasing. Might be festive, but it is still just a random part of the environment they are in. Even the soundtrack is just the sound editing crew being "cute" with the choice of tunes for the soundtrack. Does playing Black Sabbath, Slayer, and Iron Maiden in a movie where kids are camping and partying in the woods make them a bunch of Satanists doing dark rituals? No. Pretty much the same thing. Could just as easily choose some fast, "actiony" music in Die Hard, and again, nothing about the movie itself would change.

He's not on a mission to find the perfect gift, host the ideal Christmas family gathering, reunite his estranged relatives, or play Santa, or anything else one would associate with an actual holiday film. He's not at the company party drinking eggnog and rocking around the christmas tree while trying to mend fences with an angry coworker, or play matchmaker for his boss, or basically doing anything that relates specifically to the holiday. Being away and wanting to see family is basically the ONLY part that makes it a little bit relevant, and the party in the plaza might as well be any other big event.

Who cares it the plot is based around Christmas? You can watch a film that takes place around Christmas to get into the holiday spirit.