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Let's all list our must-watch Christmas Movies


I'll start:

Jingle All The Way (I know, it's horribly cheesy, but I love it!)
Elf (When the taxi hits Buddy, it slays me every time!)
Scrooged
Christmas Story
Fred Christmas
Charlie Brown Christmas (technically not a film, but...)
Arthur Christmas (Just started this year with this one.)
Christmas Vacation (By far the best of them all!)

Happy Holidays, everybody!!!

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I'll probably end up forgetting some, but I'll give it a go:

Jingle all the Way - like you said, cheesy as hell, but good :)
Scrooged
National Lampoons Christmas Vacation - awesome movie any time of year
Santa Claus the Movie - always been a firm favourite of mine
Muppets Christmas Carol
Mickeys Christmas Carol
A Christmas Carol - the one with Patrick Stewart as Scrooge
Miracle on 34th Street - the remake

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1. Christmas Vacation
2. Ernest Saves Christmas
3. Miracle on 34th Street (1994 remake)
4. The Santa Clause (only the first one in the series)
5. Gremlins
6. Home Alone
7. Home Alone 2
8. A Christmas Carol (with George C. Scott)

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Christmas Vacation
Elf
Holiday Inn
White Christmas
A Charlie Brown Christmas
Bad Santa
Muppet Family Christmas
Home Alone



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Die Hard 1 and 2 - not family christmas movies but a ritual every year in my family.
Home Alone 1 and 2
Christmas Vacation
Gremlins
Christmas Story

and the animated classics like Rudolph, Frosty, Charlie Brown, and The Grinch of coarse.

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Christmas Vacation
A Christmas Story
Scrooged
All I Want for Christmas
One Magic Christmas
Home Alone 1&2- usually fast forward to the break-ins
Charlie Brown Christmas
Santa Claus: The Movie
The Santa Clause 1 & 2
Miracle on 34th Street (the original)
Little House on the Prairie: Christmas at Plum Creek and a Christmas They Never Forgot

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A Christmas Story
Elf
It’s A Wonderful Life
Miracle on 34th Street (the original, NOT colorized)
National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation
Scrooge (starring Albert Finney)
The Bishop’s Wife
The Homecoming
The Santa Clause 1
White Christmas

Children's programs: A Charlie Brown Christmas; How the Grinch Stole Christmas (the original); Santa Claus is Coming to Town; Silent Mouse

Bonus for Thanksgiving: Planes Trains and Automobiles

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I haven't seen Santa Clause in years! I couldn't judge it properly as a film, but I remember loving that growing up. That was actually Santa Clause to me. He was the coolest guy on Earth when I saw that movie, I wanted to be Joe, and had a crush on the little girl. That movie is magic to a kid.

I love Gremlins. I seriously need to buy that movie. It somehow managed to scare the crap out of me as a kid, entertain me, but also work as a Christmas movie.

I also love Christmas Vacation. Plus Beverly D'Angelo was hot.

Gotta mention A Christmas Story. A classic. I also like Home Alone and Elf.

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Really? Holy sh!t, it's a classic. Just tune into TBS, they show it every year.

I remember thinking Santa Claus was everything I ever thought about Christmas come true. The guy playing Santa Claus was Santa Claus to me. You genuinely cared about him as a kid. At the opposite end of the spectrum, I wanted to punch the sh!t out of John Lithgow's character. I was one of those kids who just loved the good guy, watching the bad guy get taken down, and man did I want that MFer to get nailed. Joe was the coolest kid alive to me too, ha!

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Christmas Vacation
The Grinch
Love Actually
Bad Santa
A Christmas Carol (Alistair Sim)

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