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arteeartee Posts: 757 ✭✭✭
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Not like there are any rules, but flicks like Die Hard and Bad Santa definitely qualify.

Ive had The Long Kiss Goodnight on the annual Christmas time rotation

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  • dallasactuarydallasactuary Posts: 4,333 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I'll add Home Alone, Christmas Vacation, and Trading Places (it counts if Die Hard counts)

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  • TabeTabe Posts: 6,062 ✭✭✭✭✭

    A Christmas Story
    Elf

  • doubledragondoubledragon Posts: 23,269 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Without a doubt, Christmas Vacation.

  • BillJonesBillJones Posts: 33,984 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited December 22, 2019 4:31AM

    Miracle on 34th Street, the original 1948 version.

    Followed by Christmas Vacation and Christmas Story. Bad Santa is a hoot.

    Home Alone 3 is under appreciated. My wife and I were howling through the third Home Alone yesterday afternoon after I got disgusted with start of the Tampa game.

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  • perkdogperkdog Posts: 30,647 ✭✭✭✭✭

    It’s a wonderful life, Christmas vacation and Office Party

  • doubledragondoubledragon Posts: 23,269 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Oh, yes. Shame on me for forgetting Home Alone. I love watching the bad guys walk into the booby traps.

  • sayheywyosayheywyo Posts: 499 ✭✭✭✭

    Elf
    The Santa Claus.... all 3 Tim Allen's are good

  • craig44craig44 Posts: 11,251 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Christmas vacation
    A Christmas story

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  • BillJonesBillJones Posts: 33,984 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited December 22, 2019 7:16AM

    I left our some ...

    A Christmas Carol the 1950
    The Polar Expres;s

    A Christmas Story display ...

    I'll post more later if you like.

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  • BrickBrick Posts: 4,981 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Miracle on 34th St.
    It's a Wonderful Life

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  • BillJonesBillJones Posts: 33,984 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited December 22, 2019 7:17AM

    Polar Express in 3-D. The "bells rings": for those who like this film, ot for critics like Leonard Maltin, they wonder why they went to all the trouble.

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  • HallcoHallco Posts: 3,645 ✭✭✭✭✭

    The original cartoon How the Grinch stole Christmas from 1966. For me nothing else comes close, although I like all of the ones that will probably be mentioned and listed in this thread.

  • arteeartee Posts: 757 ✭✭✭

    @Hallco said:
    The original cartoon How the Grinch stole Christmas from 1966. For me nothing else comes close, although I like all of the ones that will probably be mentioned and listed in this thread.

    Definitely stand behind that one!

  • DIMEMANDIMEMAN Posts: 22,403 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @dallasactuary said:
    I'll add Home Alone, Christmas Vacation, and Trading Places (it counts if Die Hard counts)

    Well, we do agree on something! B)

  • DIMEMANDIMEMAN Posts: 22,403 ✭✭✭✭✭

    It's a Wonderful Life and It Happened on 5th Avenue are 2 great Christmas movies.

  • JRR300JRR300 Posts: 1,368 ✭✭✭✭

    Did I not see a single mention of White Christmas, or am I showing my age here. A christmas story is right up there for me.

  • DBesse27DBesse27 Posts: 3,078 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Hallco said:
    The original cartoon How the Grinch stole Christmas from 1966. For me nothing else comes close, although I like all of the ones that will probably be mentioned and listed in this thread.

    This! Also an unheralded favorite:

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  • perkdogperkdog Posts: 30,647 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Hallco said:
    The original cartoon How the Grinch stole Christmas from 1966. For me nothing else comes close, although I like all of the ones that will probably be mentioned and listed in this thread.

    Awesome movie! 👍👍

  • doubledragondoubledragon Posts: 23,269 ✭✭✭✭✭

    As a kid, I feared this elf, with all of his talk of dentists, and images of pulled teeth. I still hate the bastard.

  • DBesse27DBesse27 Posts: 3,078 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @doubledragon said:
    As a kid, I feared this elf, with all of his talk of dentists, and images of pulled teeth. I still hate the bastard.

    My ex wife was legit scared of the “bumble” even as an adult.

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  • BillJonesBillJones Posts: 33,984 ✭✭✭✭✭

    This was a new edition for this year.

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  • bronco2078bronco2078 Posts: 10,225 ✭✭✭✭✭

    MR Magoo's christmas carol

  • arteeartee Posts: 757 ✭✭✭

    Loved this one!

  • arteeartee Posts: 757 ✭✭✭

    Home Alone 4?

  • CoinstartledCoinstartled Posts: 10,135 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @dallasactuary said:
    I'll add Home Alone, Christmas Vacation, and Trading Places (it counts if Die Hard counts)

    Catch Me If You Can counts, if Trading Places counts.

    Wonderful, fast paced movie.

  • arteeartee Posts: 757 ✭✭✭

    Agreed!

    And not joking here, Frank lives 2 streets over from me.

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  • 1951WheatiesPremium1951WheatiesPremium Posts: 6,363 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Scrooged starring Bill Murray. For the uninitiated, it’s the classic Dickensian Christmas Carol but the protagonist is a high powered 80s executive.

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  • SanctionIISanctionII Posts: 12,119 ✭✭✭✭✭

    White Christmas,

    it's A Wonderful Life,

    Christmas Vacation,

    Die Hard,

    A Charlie Brown Christmas,

    Apollo 8 (not a movie, instead it was real and was broadcast live around the globe),

    The Santa Claus,

    Miracle On 34th Street,

    And many more.

  • arteeartee Posts: 757 ✭✭✭

    @1951WheatiesPremium said:
    Scrooged starring Bill Murray. For the uninitiated, it’s the classic Dickensian Christmas Carol but the protagonist is a high powered 80s executive.

    One of the best there is...

    100%

  • CoinstartledCoinstartled Posts: 10,135 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @SanctionII said:
    White Christmas,

    it's A Wonderful Life,

    Christmas Vacation,

    Die Hard,

    A Charlie Brown Christmas,

    Apollo 8 (not a movie, instead it was real and was broadcast live around the globe),

    The Santa Claus,

    Miracle On 34th Street,

    And many more.

    Plus 1 on the Apollo 8 mission.

  • thisistheshowthisistheshow Posts: 9,386 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Any movie I would list has already been mentioned.

    SO I just want to add, this is the first year I ever watched It's a Wonderful Life. I don't know how or why I always missed it before. Of course I always knew about it. One night my wife and kids were around the house doing other things and I decided to sit down and watch TV. It was about to start and I figure it was my time to watch it. Great movie!

  • JoeBanzaiJoeBanzai Posts: 11,794 ✭✭✭✭✭

    If "Die Hard" counts so does "Lethal Weapon"! Opening song is "Jingle Bell Rock".

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