For me, it’s jingle all the way. It’s got everything. A drunk reindeer. A terrorist mailman. Arnold punching a deer. Arnold punching Sinbad. Arnold punching Santa. Arnold in general.
Edit: sure are a lot of die hard fans of Die Hard.
It’s the “Christmas in the Car” episode of Bob’s Burgers. Yeah, sure it’s not a movie but it’s the most Christmassy feeling thing I’ve watched since I left home and it inspired my new favorite Christmas morning dish (a Dutch Baby) and I just love the scene when they’re cowering in their car in the forest and the car’s off and it starts to snow because it really captures how it feels to be out in the dark that’s not really dark because there’s snow everywhere.
If you haven’t made a dutch baby, it’s incredibly easy and extremely delicious and a good reason to buy a cast iron skillet if you haven’t already.
The bleakening is my favorite Bob’s Burger Christmas episode. Twinkly Lights has become one of my favorite Christmas songs.
We swap between two movies each year.
Even years it is A LION IN WINTER, an amazing film with insanely quotable dialogue. (EDIT: Why? On “star power” alone, this movie is outrageously cast.)
Odd years it is A CHRISTMAS STORY, which is equally quotable (perhaps more so). (EDIT: Why? Because so many things in this film ring true to my own childhood - having to have last-minute dinner at a Chinese restaurant because of a disaster, for example, or begging for a b-b-gun…)
Classic: A Christmas Carol, the 1951 version with Alastair Sim. Sim’s giddy portrayal of Scrooge on Christmas morning is one of my favorite performances of any actor.
Modern: A Christmas Story, and Elf.
an old favorite for me is Prancer from 1989 with Sam Elliott. We taped it off the TV, so the old commercials and tracking lines and distorted audio all play into it. Man I miss that tape.
The Grinch (2000). Jim Carrey’s tortured performance slays me.
Followed by White Christmas (1954) because I love Danny Kaye and Vera-Ellen.
The makeup tortured him so much they had to hire CIA operatives to teach him how to resist torture.
Yes. We know. It comes up every time it’s mentioned.
And Bing Crosby was a POS who beat his kids.
“Shitter was full!”
have you checked our shitters honey?
Happiest Season felt surprisingly new as a family, love tragedy christmas movie and I really like it. It isn’t an older movie but since it came out, it is a must watch every christmas season.
Before this, it definitely was The Long Kiss Goodnight (and funny thing, the german title translates to “deadly christmas”)
I love Happiest Season! It’s got such a dumb, quirky humor to it that always cracks me up.
I don’t think there’s any topping It’s A Wonderful Life, but it almost feels like cheating.
Black Christmas is one of my favorites I haven’t seen mentioned yet. I am a big fan of horror movies and it’s a bit of a classic a surprising amount of people haven’t seen.
There’s a ton of movies called that. What year?
I said it was considered a classic, I was referring to the original from 1974.
There was also a movie called Black Christmas released in 1977, 2006, and 2009
I guess it’s my bad then.
I assumed people would think it’s the original. Kind of like saying Texas Chainsaw Massacre is a classic and believing they’d think of the 1974 film instead of the 2022 film of the same name.
The 1974 original! Directed by Bob Clark, who would also give us Porky’s and A Christmas Story.
Arthur Christmas (no, not THAT Arthur)
It’s a computer animated film from Aardman Animations, the studio that makes Wallace & Gromit, Chicken Run, etc. I watch it at least once a year, and every time I do I laugh hysterically, I cry, and I get wrapped up in the action. And, the story has four main characters with four really good arcs.
Late 90s Macedonian flick “Goodbye, 20th Century”.
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Die hard. It’s the the only one that comes to mind.
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I’m surprised no one has mentioned Home Alone.
That’s my favorite. Also Home Alone 2, mostly for the scene where Marv becomes a skeleton.
My 4 years old watched these movies for the first time 2 weeks ago and he still talks about Marv being electrocuted and turning into a skeleton.
A Muppet Family Christmas
It has everything, muppets, sesame street, fraggle rock, songs, jokes, swedish chef. It was my favorite as a kid and still makes me laugh every year.Watch out for the icy patch!
I don’t even recall seeing it as a kid in the 80s, but I found it once I had kids and it’s absolutely our favorite to watch as a family. In fact, now that the kids are teenagers, this is probably the only one that will draw them out of their rooms to watch together still.
