Holiday movie time again...

[BlueInRedHell]

My husband and I always re-watch:

A Christmas Story
The Ref
and
Elf

Your favorites?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. A Christmas Story and Scrooged are funny, but

I can't stand most of the rest of them - too sappy and sentimental. Bah, humbug.

[BlueInRedHell]

3. Try 'The Ref'. It's snarky and not sappy in the least!

[Coventina]

2. Santa Claus Conquers the Martians!

Best Christmas movie, period!!

[vercetti2021]

4. List of em

A Christmas Story, Elf, National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, Scooged, Jingle All The Way, The Santa Clause, It's A Wonderful Life, Home Alone, Miracle On 34th Street (the old version) A Christmas Carol (Patrick Stewart version) and the best if not least...

Die Hard

[NBachers]

5. "The Bishop's Wife," the original version, with Loretta Young, Cary Grant, and David Niven.

[bdtrppr6]

6. Krampus

with Adam Scott and that Koechner guy. great, fun, dark AF but speaks to the need to retain the core basics of Xmas season.

[BlueInRedHell]

7. Just bought soap by that name r/o

https://www.alchemicmuse.com/products/krampus-soap

[irisblue]

8. Muppet Christmas Carol. Always

[betsuni]

9. "It's a Wonderful Life" was on TV last night while I decorated my cheap plastic Christmas tree.

I once had a roommate who watched "Wonderful Life" every day the entire month of December (an OCD thing). Strangely enough, I didn't mind a bit and still enjoy it. Kind of a miracle.

Christmas in Connecticut
The Shop Around the Corner
Miracle on 34th Street
It Happened on 5th Avenue
The Bishop's Wife
Scrooge ('51)
The Apartment
Trading Places
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
In the Bleak Midwinter
Metropolitan
While You Were Sleeping
Scrooged
Mixed Nuts
The Family Man
The Ref

I also find old Martha Stewart Christmas episodes soothing, although I can't help smirking when I remember SNL's Martha Stewart Topless Christmas Special.

[orleans]

10. i watched the family stone the other night. n/t

[BlueInRedHell]

12. I had totally forgotten that one. It's been a few years since I've watched it. I'll check r/o

for it. Thanks!

[mnhtnbb]

11. White Christmas and Holiday Inn

[yellowdogintexas]

13. One of our favorites is "Christmas In the Clouds"

I think we discovered it as a rental, and later found it on DVD from (of course) Amazon. We watch it every year. It was featured at a Sundance Movie Festival and shot at Sundance Resort.

Really nice story and characters but my favorite is Graham Greene as a vegetarian chef who is continuously trying to convince the diners to order his vegetarian dishes.

There are crossed up communications, Bingo fanatics, romance, mistaken identities, lots of funny lines and of course gorgeous scenery.

If you can find it give it a try! https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0221074/plotsummary?ref_=tt_ov_pl Not much on imdb I may have to get in there and dress this listing up a bit. I searched around on my streaming channels; if you have Hallmark Movies Now you can see it there. I guess if you have cable with Hallmark channel it is available.

Of course we love the Old Standbys too. Another less well known one is the original Laurel and Hardy version of "Babes in Toyland" now known as "March of the Wooden Soldiers" According to this https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0024852/ it is streaming on Prime!

Hokey as hell, silly as all get out, and great fun. One of our local TV stations back in the 60s must have owned a copy of it because it would just show up unannounced when there was time to fill (remember that?) It has become a family favorite - I called one of my sisters one day and she told me we only had 15 minutes because it was coming on in 15 minutes! That was before I found it on DVD and ordered a copy for each of us and my daughter.

[BlueInRedHell]

14. Thanks for the heads up; I love Graham Greene.

[lilactime]

15. The Holly and The Ivy (British movie); The Bishop's Wife (orig.), the

1938 version of A Christmas Carol, and it's not a movie but Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol.

[Little Star]

16. Home Alone

[bif]

17. "A Child's Christmas in Wales" with Denholm Elliott

and "Serendipity" I hate most other Christmas movies.