wlj

My two favs:

Christmas Vacation

Polar Express

Ash Ketchum

The Japanese pop music show, "Hello! Morning," had a Christmas Special on Dec. 25, 2005 that's required holiday viewing every Christmas in my household:

Solid Snake

I'm going to let my sarcastic comment slide cuz I like images 5 and 6.

nando820

Wow that looks like something......else, we might need to check it out more closely

PopcornTreeCt

Also, A Christmas Tale from Criterion is really good.

nando820

^Just bought that one recently, but I read mixed reviews about it.

Chrisedge

Elf
Scrooged
Wonderful Life
Die Hard
Charlie Brown Christmas
Year Without A Santa Claus
Frosty The Snowman
Christmas Story
Love Actually
Miracle on 34th Street
Nightmare Before Christmas (more Halloween but we usually watch it twice, once at Halloween and once before Xmas)

Need to get Bad Santa.

skynet3

Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang
The Long Kiss Good Night
Die Hard 2

RoboDad

Pretty much the same list I was going to post (but of course there are a lot more ).

But, I'm going to add one to the list that I bet most have never even heard of, but it has been required viewing in my house for as long as I can remember (we usually put in the DVD on Thanksgiving day, to "kick off" the Christmas movie season). In fact, even now that my kids are grown and moved away, when we talk on Thanksgiving the first question they always ask is "Dad, have you watched The Lemon Drop Kid yet?"

tronmaster

These are my favorites:

Scrooge (Musical with Albert Finney)
Charlie Brown Christmas
Garfield's Christmas
A Christmas Carol (with George C. Scott)
It's A Wonderful Life
The Shop Around the Corner (with James Stewart)
Disney's Christmas Carol
One of my favorite short animation films has Disney's Chip & Dale in a Christmas setting
Of course the Rankin/Bass films
Miracle on 34th Street

John Galt

Aside from all the classics already mentioned,

Trapped in Paradise is one that people usually haven't seen but gets a lot of laughs

Millennium: Midnight of the Century gives me chills as well. Great episode for followers of the show.

PopcornTreeCt

I really enjoyed it. It's pretty honest.

nando820

That's coool! Bob Hope sounds interesting. I will be in the lookout for it

nando820

btw I have this little short I posted on Youtbe from the Fleischer Bros which many people have told me was one their Christmas cartoon classics.

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dom56

A Christmas Carol - George C. Scott
Charlie Brown Christmas
The Miracle on 34th Street -1947
Narnia - The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe
O' Henry Full House - The Gift of the Magi

Pizza the Hutt

Star Wars Holiday Special.

Michael Corvin

I watched the Hallmark movie, The Three Gifts with the family last night. It was pretty good, for what it was.

Ky-Fi

For me, it's:

A Christmas Carol (1951)
It's a Wonderful Life
The Nativity Story (great, understated recent film)
Narnia: Lion, Witch Wardrobe

..and for me it's not Christmas without an airing of Blackadder's Christmas Carol

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TGM

??? then shouldn't you also like Home Alone 1?

Alan Smithee

Silent Night, Deadly Night
Die Hard
Christmas Evil
Black Christmas
P2
Gremlins

SkullOrchard

The Homecoming: A Christmas Story (1971)
It's A Wonderful Life
A Christmas Story
All of those 60's & 70's Rankin/Bass Christmas specials
Christmas Vacation
A Charlie Brown Christmas
House Without A Christmas Tree

RoboDad

Here's a bit of interesting trivia. The classic Christmas song "Silver Bells" was written for the movie, and performed by Bob Hope and Marilyn Maxwell. But, between the time the movie was filmed and its release, Bing Crosby recorded another version of the song, which became a hit. This caused the producers to re-shoot the song for the movie to give it a more prominent set piece.

So we have Hope and Crosby to thank for "Silver Bells".

J. Farley

Black Christmas
Bad Santa
Christmas Vacation
Glim-Glim from the TV series, Monsters

Jon2

I'm in for all those Rankin Bass stop motion specials (they can keep their 2D animated specials - bleh) and pretty much the classic B&W movies like the '51 Christmas Carol and It's a Wonderful Life.

There is one other Christmas special I would love to get a copy of, but I haven't seen since its original TV debut in 1970. The Great Santa Claus Switch was a Muppets special with Art Carney playing duel roles of Santa and his evil twin. It was quite some time ago, but I recall it being hysterically funny. I'm a big Muppets fan, but for some reason none of the other Muppet Christmas specials appeal to me.

Ash Ketchum

So why aren't you all participating in the 7th Annual Holiday Challenge over on the DVD Talk forum? If you each see two of your choices, you've already got a list.