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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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Christmas Vacation
Period of Adjustment
Love Actually
The Polar Express
A Christmas Carol (with Alastair Sim)

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Die Hard
Gremlins
A Christmas Story
Christmas Vacation
A Christmas Carol (George C. Scott version)
A Christmas Carol (Robert Zemeckis/Jim Carrey version)
Santa Claus The Movie
The Polar Express

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After Thanksgiving...

Black Christmas
Gremlins
Edward Scissorhands
Less Than Zero
Die Hard
Die Hard 2

December....

National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
Home Alone
Home Alone 2
Elf
Christmas With The Kranks
A Very Brady Christmas

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Aside from the ones listed, While You Were Sleeping is a must.

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The family friendly movies (for the most part); more or less in order of how much I like 'em:

It's A Wonderful Life
Home Alone
Christmas Vacation (edited for TV version if the kiddies are around)
The Santa Clause
A Christmas Story
How The Grinch Stole Christmas
The Muppet Christmas Carol
Jingle All The Way

And if I'm hanging out with my buddies with no little kids around:

Die Hard
Die Hard 2
Gremlins

Going through the other posts I can see there's still a lot of potentially good Christmas movies I need to check out. And I can see that the 2000s really failed at making new films to become part of the movie-watching tradition around the holidays! They don't make 'em like they used too!

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Happy holidays!!! Here goes mine...going to be very thorough because that's just how I like my lists, lol.

Christmas Vacation (naturally)
Jingle All the Way (This movie is AMAZING. I can't imagine how anyone could fail to love it! And SO VERY, VERY quotable!! "PUT THAT COOKIE DOWN----NOW!!!!" "That was really a bomb? This is a SICK world we're livin' in, with SICK people!" "You know what? Nobody likes you, Booster!")
Elf
The Santa Clause 1-3
The Ref
It's a Wonderful Life
The Muppet Christmas Carol
White Christmas
Holiday Inn (on a DVD with Going My Way and The Bells of Saint Mary's)
Miracle on 34th Street
A Charlie Brown Christmas (It technically is a film! A short animated one.)
Meet Me in St. Louis
A Christmas Story
How the Grinch Stole Christmas (Original animated one and the Jim Carrey version)
Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas
Nick and Noel
Love Actually
Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer
Christmas With the Kranks
Annabelle's Wish
Home For the Holidays
Arthur Christmas
Wakko's Wish
The Twelve Dogs of Christmas
Richie Rich's Christmas Wish (I include this abysmal thing in my marathons only because I still happen to own it...*shrug*)
Deck the Halls
Fred Claus
Scrooged

ALL of the Rankin/Bass classics!!!

The Year Without a Santa Claus (Yes, I even watch that 2006 live-action remake!)
Nestor the Long-Eared Christmas Donkey
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
Rudolph & Frosty's Christmas in July
Rudolph's Shiny New Year
Santa Claus is Comin' to Town
Jack Frost
The Little Drummer Boy 1 & 2
The First Christmas: The Story of the First Christmas Snow
The Life & Adventures of Santa Claus
The Leprechaun's Christmas Gold
Pinocchio's Christmas
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer & the Island of Misfit Toys
Frosty the Snowman
Frosty Returns
Frosty's Winter Wonderland
'Twas the Night Before Christmas
The Stingiest Man in Town
Cricket on the Hearth
A Miser Brothers Christmas

Shorter ones:

The Berenstain Bears' Christmas Tree
Mickey's Christmas Carol
An All Dogs Christmas Carol
Doug's Christmas
Casper's First Christmas
Garfield's Christmas
Nine Dog Christmas
My two Disney Christmas Sing-Along Songs videos
There Goes Santa Claus
Winnie the Pooh and Christmas Too (Often the "Wishing Bear" video as well, because it's wintry and close enough to being Christmasy for me.)
Christmas at the House of Mouse
Franklin's Christmas
Barney's "Waiting For Santa" XD (It's actually awesome. I wish I still had my William Wegman "Fay's 12 Days of Christmas" tape.)
"The Best Christmas Ever" (The Busy World of Richard Scarry)
Christmas Eve on Sesame Street
The Christmas episodes of I Love Lucy, The Honeymooners, and various other great TV shows and cartoons
"A Family Guy Merry Freakin' Christmas"
Arthur's Perfect Christmas
Hoops & Yoyo Ruin Christmas
Hallmark cartoons--"Jingle All the Way" and "Jingle & Belle"
Cranberry Christmas
Olive the Other Reindeer

I usually put on The Sound of Music, too...and watch some of ABC Family's 25 Days of Christmas, which includes Eloise at Christmastime, The Grinch Grinches the Cat in the Hat, A Christmas Carol, Prep & Landing, Jack Frost, The Polar Express, Home Alone, Despicable Me, the Harry Potter and certain Pixar movies such as the "Toy Story"s and The Incredibles...not all Christmas movies, but most are still awesome and fun to watch any time of year. Plus, some of the latter at least have Christmas scenes.
The original ABC and Hallmark Christmas movies are sometimes worth a watch.

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"The stingiest man in town"--

we have the original live action version with Basil Rathbone as Scrooge. It's worth checking out.

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Christmas Vacation - this is a classic.
Christmas Story - its a fun comedy although not as festive as some people make it out to be
Scrooged
Miracle on 34th street - original
It´s a wonderful life
Home Alone ( I never actually look at it as a christmas film )
Gremlins ( same as Home Alone)
Black Christmas - underrated classic.

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Love, Absolutely Brilliant,

- Christmas Vacation
- Planes, Trains & Automobiles (I know its not technically a Christmas Movie but im not American so when I was younger I thought it was a Christmas Movie and I thought that way for so long it just stuck, and now I just think of it as a Christmas Movie)
- Home Alone
- Scrooged
- Bad Santa
- Die Hard
- Gremlins


Very Good,

- Jingle All The Way
- Surviving Christmas
- Ernest Saves Christmas
- Miracle On 34th Street (1947)
- Its A Wonderful Life








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It's a wonderful life
Scrooge with Albert finny
Mickeys Christmas carol
The best Christmas pageant ever
Charlie bown Christmas
Rudolph
Mr magoos Christmas carol
Christmas vacation
Elf
The grinch (the cartoon)
Home alone

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