[Film] Films you love to watch at Christmas?

[The Clamp]

Simple as it sounds. Don’t have to be Christmas films but films you like to watch at Christmas.

I’ll start us off with;

The Last Crusade
Jurassic Park
John Wick (any of them)

I like to switch off the old brain box and watch a good old whiz banger of an action film at Christmas.

You?




NB. Please don’t Big Mo us with the Die Hard is a Christmas movie fact. We all know.

 

[Psychobilly freakout]

just finished work young Mr Clamp ?

Elf
The Grinch
Die Hard
True Romance
This year I will add Elvis.

 

[wellquickwoody]

Simple as it sounds. Don’t have to be Christmas films but films you like to watch at Christmas.

I’ll start us off with;

The Last Crusade
Jurassic Park
John Wick (any of them)

I like to switch off the old brain box and watch a good old whiz banger of an action film at Christmas.

You?




NB. Please don’t Big Mo us with the Die Hard is a Christmas movie fact. We all know.

Jo Guest in the 1984 remake of White Christmas gets my vote

 

[Tyrone Biggums]

Elf
National Lampoons Christmas Vacation
Gremlins
Planes, Trains and Automobiles

 

[The Clamp]

just finished work young Mr Clamp ?

Elf
The Grinch
Die Hard
True Romance
This year I will add Elvis.

Still on for another 2 hours

I rated the Elvis film. Very moving and very entertaining.

 

[chickens]

Muppets Christmas Carol, possibly Michael Caine’s finest work.

 

[Is it PotG?]

Steptoe & Son Ride Again

Carry On at Your Convenience

 

[Psychobilly freakout]

just finished work young Mr Clamp ?

Elf
The Grinch
Die Hard
True Romance
This year I will add Elvis.

Still on for another 2 hours

I rated the Elvis film. Very moving and very entertaining.

Hmmmm, I’m hesitant to watch, obviously Elvis was a massive idol to me as a kid and his importance to that early rockabilly sound is unsurpassable. However the clips I’ve seen of the film the actor seems far too androgynous, too chiseled jaw line, Elvis always had a slightly although handsome plump face, I am not keen on the way Hollywood makes him look, Tom Hanks however looks like that evil C Parker, what a manipulative tw@t he was, totally screwed Elvis and possibly greatly attributed to Elvis ultimate untimely death, through his bad gambling debts to the mob.

so I’m hesitant, hopefully I will love it like I do walk the line.

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

ET - The Extraterrestrial

 

[Zeberdi]

It’s a Wonderful Life 1946
Die Hard (+2)
Escape To Victory 1981 (German officers organise football match against allied prisoners)
Joyeaux Noel 2005 (war film based on Christmas truce)
Edit - adding (because I forgot!)
Close Encounters
Bing Crosby’s White Christmas - how can you not love this schmaltzy mush at Christmas ?

 

[Fignon's Ponytail]

Non Christmas themed viewing in our house has to include:

Raiders of the Lost Ark
ET
The Empire Strikes Back
St Elmos Fire
The Goonies

& any Carry On....

 

[Weststander]

All Aboard! The Sleigh Ride - a real life film of Sami folk moving across the tundra. Beautifully mesmeric.
Scrooge (1951)
Home Alone 2
The Snowman
Father Christmas
The Bear
The Snowman & The Snowdog

 

[Hotchilidog]

White Christmas on Christmas Day for me

 

[jakarta]

All right it is obvious but I will post it anyway:

The Great Escape

 

[The Clamp]

just finished work young Mr Clamp ?

Elf
The Grinch
Die Hard
True Romance
This year I will add Elvis.

Hmmmm, I’m hesitant to watch, obviously Elvis was a massive idol to me as a kid and his importance to that early rockabilly sound is unsurpassable. However the clips I’ve seen of the film the actor seems far too androgynous, too chiseled jaw line, Elvis always had a slightly although handsome plump face, I am not keen on the way Hollywood makes him look, Tom Hanks however looks like that evil C Parker, what a manipulative tw@t he was, totally screwed Elvis and possibly greatly attributed to Elvis ultimate untimely death, through his bad gambling debts to the mob.

so I’m hesitant, hopefully I will love it like I do walk the line.

Like you, I’ve been an Elvis fan since I was a kid. So I was cautious about this film and the fact it’s directed by Bas Lhurman, someone I’m not keen on.

But yeah, I enjoyed it and it covered the Vegas era well, as you say with The Colonel screwing him over and trapping him in endless vegas shows and hotel rooms.

I’ll be interested to know what you think .

 

[thedonkeycentrehalf]

Home Alone 2 and National Lampoons Christmas Vacation

 

[Jesus Gul]

Muppets Christmas Carol, possibly Michael Caine’s finest work.

Have you not seen Water?

 

[BigBod]

I always remember as a kid "Those Magnificent Men In Their Flying Machines" seemed to be on every Christmas. Need to see it again.

 

[herecomesaregular]

Simple as it sounds. Don’t have to be Christmas films but films you like to watch at Christmas.

I’ll start us off with;

The Last Crusade
Jurassic Park
John Wick (any of them)

I like to switch off the old brain box and watch a good old whiz banger of an action film at Christmas.

You?




NB. Please don’t Big Mo us with the Die Hard is a Christmas movie fact. We all know.

Shocked that trash like John Wick is on your list!

I always like to watch some Harry Harryhausen around Xmas - Clash of the Titans, any of the Sinbads, Jason and the Argonauts etc. It reminds me of being young and I guess that's what Xmas is about.

 

[Couldn't Be Hyypia]

Elf
National Lampoons Christmas Vacation
Gremlins
Planes, Trains and Automobiles

This