[Film] Films you love to watch at Christmas?

[Surf's Up]

Cinema Paradiso
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Meet The Fockers

 

[Badger]

Die Hard
Die Hard 2
Die Hard 3 (not a Christmas film, but it feels wrong to not complete the trilogy of good Die Hard films)
Scrooged
Home Alone
Love Actually
It's a Wonderful Life
Muppet Christmas Carol
The Family Man
Gremlins
Bernard and the Genie

 

[Easy 10]

I watched Planes Trains and Automobiles for about the 50th time tonight. Yes, I KNOW its not a Christmas film, set around Thanksgiving, but its so damn good that its become a Christmas staple in my household. Anyway, I noticed 2 things this time I'd never seen before that really tickled me.

1. When Del steals Neal's cab in NYC, it pulls away leaving Neal staring down at a puddle. There's a shower curtain ring floating in it.
2. The wall over the bed at the Braidwood Inn in Wichita has two quite prominant, obviously-placed handprints set either side of the generic portrait picture hanging over the bed.

I can't believe I've missed these two little details in all the times I've watched this film. And while I'm on, this was a heavily edited film which carried a monologue from Del that was cut from the film. This is when Neal went back to the train station and found him sat in the waiting room.

"I didn't have much family. A brother in Montana, some cousins. Marie's folks died back-to-back the year after we married. They were pretty old. She was a late child. We didn't get the chance to have kids. She wanted three. Two boys and a girl. I number about 300 motels as my home. I sort of attach myself to people from time to time. Like with you. Especially around the holidays. I can take it in March, July, October. I don't mind it. But it gets hard about this time of year. I've never had much of a chance to be a family man but it gets really hard. And you know what it is? I don't get to give any of myself to anybody. It's not the getting I miss, it's the giving. I sat on that plane with you and I thought about you heading home to be with your people. And Tuesday night when you were in the shower and I looked at the pictures of your kids, man, I thought you gotta be the luckiest man on Earth to go home and put those little guys on your knee and hug 'em and kiss 'em. I'm thirty nine years old and I never had that and I never will. I'm just sorry about this. I just kinda lost control this time. Every year since Marie's been gone, I've gotten closer and closer to losing it. Usually I head for a church. I can feel like I'm part of something when I'm in a church. This time...I guess I didn't get to the church fast enough. I just couldn't let go."

If the end didn't have me blubbing enough, I think this would've finished me off were it not cut.

Its bordering on perfect for me.

 

[Live by the sea]

Duck soup

 

[Taybha]

Ice Station Zebra


A heartwarming tale of death and destruction that for some unknown reason became a must see over Christmas in our household,I suppose it did have a fair bit of fake snow.

 

[METALMICKY]

Nightmare before Christmas

Good call. Just deliberating whether my 8 year olds can handle the wonderfully dark Tim Burton style?

 

[Fignon's Ponytail]

Cant beat a classic War film either over the Xmas break....

Ice Cold in Alex
The Cruel Sea
A Bridge Too Far
Ill Met by Moonlight

 

[Iggle Piggle]

The Deer Hunter
Taxi Driver
Platoon

Merry Christmas

 

[Comrade Sam]

Elf - number 1 choice for the family
Bad Santa - will watch alone until my kids are 21.
Planes, Trains and Automobiles
Deck the Halls
(warning, whilst Bad Santa is awesome, Bad Santa 2 is the worst film ever made)

 

[Weststander]

Black Adder, A Christmas Carol, with Robbie Coltrane is essential viewing.

Is amazing.

Love it when Blackadder sends Tweedee & Dumb away (charity collectors).

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Not a film, but six 30-minute episodes:

The box of delights

 

[banjo]

The Snowman.

 

[Ooh it’s a corner]

Not sure if I‘ve seen it posted yet so I’ll throw in Holiday Inn - the original, black and white one which predated the musical technicolour White Christmas

 

[SK1NT]

The Snowman
The Snowman and the SNowdog (could have screwed up this sequel after so many years but it is perfect)
The Father Christmas
Muppets Christmas Carol
Polar Express
Home Alone
Gremlins
Planes Trains and Automobiles
The Santa Clause

oh and a new one of recent years... Stickman

How could i forget The Nightmare Before Christmas (even have the Disney xmas jumper) although i do watch at Halloween too.

 

[SK1NT]

I watched Planes Trains and Automobiles for about the 50th time tonight. Yes, I KNOW its not a Christmas film, set around Thanksgiving, but its so damn good that its become a Christmas staple in my household. Anyway, I noticed 2 things this time I'd never seen before that really tickled me.

1. When Del steals Neal's cab in NYC, it pulls away leaving Neal staring down at a puddle. There's a shower curtain ring floating in it.
2. The wall over the bed at the Braidwood Inn in Wichita has two quite prominant, obviously-placed handprints set either side of the generic portrait picture hanging over the bed.

I can't believe I've missed these two little details in all the times I've watched this film. And while I'm on, this was a heavily edited film which carried a monologue from Del that was cut from the film. This is when Neal went back to the train station and found him sat in the waiting room.

"I didn't have much family. A brother in Montana, some cousins. Marie's folks died back-to-back the year after we married. They were pretty old. She was a late child. We didn't get the chance to have kids. She wanted three. Two boys and a girl. I number about 300 motels as my home. I sort of attach myself to people from time to time. Like with you. Especially around the holidays. I can take it in March, July, October. I don't mind it. But it gets hard about this time of year. I've never had much of a chance to be a family man but it gets really hard. And you know what it is? I don't get to give any of myself to anybody. It's not the getting I miss, it's the giving. I sat on that plane with you and I thought about you heading home to be with your people. And Tuesday night when you were in the shower and I looked at the pictures of your kids, man, I thought you gotta be the luckiest man on Earth to go home and put those little guys on your knee and hug 'em and kiss 'em. I'm thirty nine years old and I never had that and I never will. I'm just sorry about this. I just kinda lost control this time. Every year since Marie's been gone, I've gotten closer and closer to losing it. Usually I head for a church. I can feel like I'm part of something when I'm in a church. This time...I guess I didn't get to the church fast enough. I just couldn't let go."

If the end didn't have me blubbing enough, I think this would've finished me off were it not cut.

Its bordering on perfect for me.

Probably seen this over 100 times. My Fav comedy and as you say a Thanks Giving film, it does feel xmassy.

I love this film. I loved it from the age of about 9 when it first came out and i watched it.

 

[Popeye]

I watched Planes Trains and Automobiles for about the 50th time tonight. Yes, I KNOW its not a Christmas film, set around Thanksgiving, but its so damn good that its become a Christmas staple in my household. Anyway, I noticed 2 things this time I'd never seen before that really tickled me.

1. When Del steals Neal's cab in NYC, it pulls away leaving Neal staring down at a puddle. There's a shower curtain ring floating in it.
2. The wall over the bed at the Braidwood Inn in Wichita has two quite prominant, obviously-placed handprints set either side of the generic portrait picture hanging over the bed.

I can't believe I've missed these two little details in all the times I've watched this film. And while I'm on, this was a heavily edited film which carried a monologue from Del that was cut from the film. This is when Neal went back to the train station and found him sat in the waiting room.

"I didn't have much family. A brother in Montana, some cousins. Marie's folks died back-to-back the year after we married. They were pretty old. She was a late child. We didn't get the chance to have kids. She wanted three. Two boys and a girl. I number about 300 motels as my home. I sort of attach myself to people from time to time. Like with you. Especially around the holidays. I can take it in March, July, October. I don't mind it. But it gets hard about this time of year. I've never had much of a chance to be a family man but it gets really hard. And you know what it is? I don't get to give any of myself to anybody. It's not the getting I miss, it's the giving. I sat on that plane with you and I thought about you heading home to be with your people. And Tuesday night when you were in the shower and I looked at the pictures of your kids, man, I thought you gotta be the luckiest man on Earth to go home and put those little guys on your knee and hug 'em and kiss 'em. I'm thirty nine years old and I never had that and I never will. I'm just sorry about this. I just kinda lost control this time. Every year since Marie's been gone, I've gotten closer and closer to losing it. Usually I head for a church. I can feel like I'm part of something when I'm in a church. This time...I guess I didn't get to the church fast enough. I just couldn't let go."

If the end didn't have me blubbing enough, I think this would've finished me off were it not cut.

Its bordering on perfect for me.

Probably seen this over 100 times. My Fav comedy and as you say a Thanks Giving film, it does feel xmassy.

I love this film. I loved it from the age of about 9 when it first came out and i watched it.

Yes one of my favorite movies of all time, simply brilliant. Only part that gets me is how dramatic Neil's wife is. I just bought the 4k edition, it includes a ton of never before seen scenes, can't wait till it gets here!

 

[edna krabappel]

I've just watched Planes, Trains & Automobiles for the first time ever today. I enjoyed that, though it was quite clear from very early on that John Candy's wife was going to be dead.

Other top ones for me:

-The Muppet Christmas Carol
-A Nightmare Before Christmas
-Love Actually (even though it really annoys me in so many ways))
-Elf
-National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
-Miracle On 34th Street

 

[jackanada]

Rare Exports. If you've not seen it do so.

Some James Stewart, but not it's a wonderful life I'll go for a western.

Elf obviously.

Cobra - a total mess of a Sly vehicle that proved surprisingly influential.

Wake in Fright - the greatest of Oz Noir.

 

[Easy 10]

Yes one of my favorite movies of all time, simply brilliant. Only part that gets me is how dramatic Neil's wife is.

Oh tell me about it.

"Where are you ?"
"I'm in Wichita"
"Are you alright ? What happened ?"
"We couldn't land in Chicago"
"I don't understand what Wichita has to do with a snowstorm in Chicago. Whats going on Neal ?"
"Why don't you TAKE A LOOK OUT THE f***ing WINDOW AND CONNECT THE DOTS YOU THICK SLUT"

 

[PILTDOWN MAN]

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

The only one I watch