What is your favorite holiday movie?

[RandySF]

Mine: Bad Santa

[NNadir]

1. The Ref: Kevin Spacey warming up for "American Beauty."

[missingthebigdog]

16. "Excuse me, Excuse me, excuse me, excuse me

If you don't mind, the corpse still has the floor."

We love The Ref as well!

[Va Lefty]

20. Very funny!

Connie Chasseur: Who would catch a criminal, and then let him go free?
Mary Chasseur: Republicans?

[NNadir]

31. One of many great lines in the movie. We watched it again recently.

[MuseRider]

2. Bad Santa as well.

Have not seen the new one yet. Have you?

[RandySF]

3. Not yet.

Is it good?

[MuseRider]

6. No idea

but I need my Thurman Merman fix.

[stopbush]

26. Reviews were generally not good.

I'm wary about seeing it as doing so could adversely effect my enjoyment of the original.

[MuseRider]

35. Me too

but I think I may have to try if I actually find the time. Twos are generally a let down for me, most I think, anyway....Thurman Murman. Gotta see this.

[Wounded Bear]

4. Mixed Nuts...nt

[CaliforniaPeggy]

5. Love Actually and Lion in Winter

Both are great holiday films!

[TexasBushwhacker]

7. I'm a Love Actually fan too.

I've watched it several times, but Hugh Grant's dance solo always makes me laugh. Seeing Alan Rickman will be bittersweet though.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

8. It was a truly lovely movie...I agree about the bittersweet too.

If you've never seen Lion In Winter.........see it! It's a great British production and absolutely amazing. Great acting, great dialogue, scenery and etc. Katherine Hepburn is one of the big stars.

Here's the link to the IMDB article: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063227/?ref_=nv_sr_1

[Upthevibe]

9. I have several favorites but "A Christmas Story" with Ralphey and his BB gun has

Become a favorite.

[zippythepinhead]

37. Mine too

It reminded me of my childhood.

[jmowreader]

10. Die Hard

[Still Blue in PDX]

15. For me, it's all about Alan Rickman. nt

[Iggo]

18. Totally my favorite character in that movie.

Brilliant performance by Rickman.

He totally gets across to the audience what an inconvenience anyone is who fucks with his plan.

[femmocrat]

11. Miracle on 34h Street (original version)

With a very young Natalie Wood, 1947.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

27. Was the original in color or black and white?

Yeah, I know I can look that up.

[femmocrat]

29. 1947--- it was B & W.

I found this: http://articles.latimes.com/1985-11-23/entertainment/ca-1344_1_color-systems It was colorized with new technology in 1985.

There is a later version, possibly made for TV. I like the old film, but I haven't seen it in a long time.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

30. I finally broke down and got a color TV.

Okay, in 1982, but when I grew up, every movie on TV was in black and white.

I thought that MO34S had been colorized somewhere along the way.

I still watch TV OTA (over the air). There are a few channels that run nothing but old movies. You can watch old B&W westerns all day long, or film noir all day long, or whatever. Needless to say, I gravitate toward those channels.

Thanks.

[rurallib]

34. Still mine also after all these years.

[Iggo]

12. Santa Claus Is Coming To Town.

I like all the Sid and Marty ones, but that one's my fave.

Kris Kringle: "...and you better not pout."
Little kid: "Why?"
Kris Kringle: "I'M TELLIN' YOU WHY!"

That's gold right there.

[mnhtnbb]

13. White Christmas

Our local theater had it--along with some other classic holiday films--earlier in the month. Went with a girlfriend. I'd never seen it on
the big screen and it was marvelous. The timing and repartee between Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye was wonderful. Fun dance numbers.
Schmaltzy boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy gets girl back again plot. And some great costumes by Edith Head.

[SticksnStones]

22. Just watched that last night...

I love watching just their feet when they dance. Mesmerizing! And wow, Vera-Ellen's legs ~ the muscle tone is inspiring.

Love, love that classic.

[Ron Obvious]

14. Bad Santa too

Funny; I saw your subject line, thought "Bad Santa", but I wasn't going to mention it so as to not lower the tone in what I was sure was going to be a long list of sentimental favourites.

[yallerdawg]

17. 'Krampus' is my new favorite!

If I had small children, this movie could do for Christmas what 'Killer Klowns from Outer Space' did for, "Daddy, can we go to the circus?"

[Phentex]

19. A Muppet Christmas Carol

I love little kermies and piggys

[panader0]

21. The last one.

[FSogol]

23. I'm a big fan of "It's a Wonderful Life" (More inside)

Great liberal messages in that film. I suggest watching it without and commercial interruptions. Frank Capra creates an emotional narrative that is ruined by interruptions.

Runners up:

Truman Capote's: A Christmas Memory (the Geraldine Page version, narrated by Capote)
A Christmas Story
Rifftrax's Santa Claus

[mahatmakanejeeves]

28. Truman Capote's: A Christmas Memory

I need to read that again. Thanks.

[dry99]

24. No contest...

Scrooged. Bill Murray

[sharp_stick]

25. Rare Exports

for when you've had just a little too much of the feel goods. This Finnish film was a lot of fun but not for the little ones.

[Paladin]

32. "Scrooge" (1951)

It's just not Christmas for me until I see Alastair Simm's depiction of Scrooge. Nobody's ever done it better, before or since.

[pressbox69]

33. Don't know why

they never turned this into a stage play.

[Grassy Knoll]

36. This....

[IrishEyes]

38. The Shop Around the Corner

Jimmy Stewart is great in that film. I also like the Apartment. They both take place at Christmas time.

[progressoid]

39. They just played that on TCM.

I've seen it a few times and never noticed that it takes place in Budapest.