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Old 12-12-09, 10:38 AM
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Re: Your top five Christmas Movies list?

1. Christmas Vacation
2. Scrooged
3. A Christmas Story
4. Bad Santa
5. Lethal Weapon
Old 12-12-09, 11:01 AM
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Re: Your top five Christmas Movies list?

1. A Christmas Story
2. Yogi's First Christmas
3. Christmas Vacation
4. Home Alone
5. Black Christmas
Old 12-12-09, 11:12 AM
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Re: Your top five Christmas Movies list?

The Polar Express
Christmas Vacation
Home Alone

Not really Christmas movies, but they are set during the season.

Die Hard
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
Old 12-12-09, 12:52 PM
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Re: Your top five Christmas Movies list?

1. The Muppet Christmas Carol
2. It's a Wonderful Life
3. A Christmas Story
4. Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol
5. The Nightmare Before Christmas
Old 12-12-09, 12:56 PM
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Re: Your top five Christmas Movies list?

Originally Posted by TheAllPurposeNothing
4. Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol
Watching this one as we 'speak'.
Old 12-12-09, 01:36 PM
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Re: Your top five Christmas Movies list?

Here's a pretty interesting article arguing why Die Hard IS a Christmas movie (using literary references like "Christ Figure").

http://blogcritics.org/video/article...ristmas-movie/
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Re: Your top five Christmas Movies list?

Blogs are blocked here at work, but I think my response would have been; Bah! Humbug!
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Re: Your top five Christmas Movies list?

It's a Wonderful Life
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
Gremlins
Black Christmas
Die Hard
Old 12-12-09, 02:02 PM
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Re: Your top five Christmas Movies list?

Natuonal Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
Home Alone
Die Hard

I don't think I like any other "Christmas movies".
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Re: Your top five Christmas Movies list?

Originally Posted by Ash Ketchum
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
March of the Wooden Soldiers (aka Babes in Toyland, 1934, Laurel & Hardy)
Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
"Christmas Comes but Once a Year" (1936, Max Fleischer cartoon featuring "Gramps")
Tokyo Godfathers (2003)
Fixed.

How could I forget this wonderful animated film about a trio of homeless people finding an abandoned baby on Christmas Eve and trying to return it to its mother? Well, because, it's relatively new and not really part of a Christmas tradition yet. The others I just automatically associate with the season, whereas I don't normally associate anime with Christmas yet.

In any event, TOKYO GODFATHERS is highly recommended.
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Re: Your top five Christmas Movies list?

no love for Batman Returns?
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Re: Your top five Christmas Movies list?

Oh, I completely forgot,

Terry Gilliam's "Brazil"
Old 12-13-09, 10:11 AM
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Re: Your top five Christmas Movies list?

1. Blast of Silence
2. Gremlins
3. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
4. All Mine To Give
5. Scrooged
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Re: Your top five Christmas Movies list?

By some of these movies I would have to add Stalingrad.
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Re: Your top five Christmas Movies list?

1. Die Hard
2. Gremlins
3. Home Alone
4. Bad Santa
5. Lethal Weapon
Old 12-13-09, 12:26 PM
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Re: Your top five Christmas Movies list?

Christmas Vacation
Home Alone
A Christmas Story
Scrooged
Emmet Otter's Jugband Christmas
Old 12-13-09, 03:20 PM
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Re: Your top five Christmas Movies list?

So I'm going to go with straight up Christmas films (so as much as I love Die Hard since it is one of my favorite movies ever I don't count it as a Xmas film)

In no order, and these are the only 5 I make sure I watch every year no matter what

Scrooged
Bad Santa
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
Home Alone
Jingle All the Way (yea I know, it's a guilty pleasure of mine)
Old 12-13-09, 05:05 PM
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Re: Your top five Christmas Movies list?

National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation

I don't really care for the rest.
Old 12-13-09, 06:20 PM
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Re: Your top five Christmas Movies list?

1. Catch Me If You Can (Christmas Eve tradition in the Smearkase household)
2. Elf
3. A Christmas Story
4. National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
5. Die Hard
Old 12-13-09, 06:39 PM
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Re: Your top five Christmas Movies list?

No particular order.

1. White Christmas
2. Scrooged
3. A Christmas Story
4. Christmas Vacation
5. It's a Wonderful Life
Old 12-13-09, 06:57 PM
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Re: Your top five Christmas Movies list?

Die Hard
Lethal Weapon
Elf
Jingle All the Way
Gremlins
Old 12-13-09, 07:52 PM
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Re: Your top five Christmas Movies list?

Die Hard isn't a Christmas movie. A Christmas movie, to me, has to explicitly deal with the holiday as a plot element. You could substitute Die Hard's Christmas setting with, say, Rosh Hashana and it wouldn't change the plot one whit (terrorists take over Nakawhatever Plaza to steal bearer bonds). "Now I have a machine gun. Shana Tova Tikotavu and Tikotanu and Gamar Tov."

My list:

1. A Christmas Story
2. A Christmas Carol (the British 1933 version)
3. Scrooged
4. White Christmas
5. Miracle on 34th Street (original)

I've NEVER seen It's A Wonderful Life. I plan on rectumizing that this year.
Old 12-13-09, 09:43 PM
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Re: Your top five Christmas Movies list?

1. Christmas in the Clouds
2. The Ref
3. Home Alone
4. Home Alone 2
5. National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation.
Old 12-14-09, 01:03 AM
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Re: Your top five Christmas Movies list?

1) Die Hard
2) It's a Wonderful Life
3) Home Alone
4) A Christmas Story
5) The Night They Saved Christmas - The little kid makes me want to stick a pencil through my ears but I really like the movie aside from him.
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Re: Your top five Christmas Movies list?

1. Christmas Vaction
2. Christmas Story
3. Elf
4. Home Alone
5. Its a wonderful Life

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