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Rules:
Here's mine.
In no real order at all.
We watch many of yours, and also Trading Places.
Eating salmon through a filthy Santa beard. Delicious!
C'mon
Rankin-Bass Rudolph or the list is bogus.
Same with National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation.
Original Grinch is best Grinch, but I'll accept them as a duo.
Die Hard is as Christmas as it gets, so yipee kai ay motherfucker!
A Charlie Brown Christmas is a must.
Emmet Otter's Jug Band is almost at that level of necessity, though maybe only for us gen-x kids.
Anything else is open for negotiations on my end, I ain't mad at anyone else's list beyond joking.
However, Frosty the Snowman, also a Rankin-Bass production is awesome, and any of their Christmas specials deserve at least an honorable mention.
If I got Heat Miser and Cold Miser I'm good.
Have you seen the LEGO Star Wars Holiday Special? Very fun.
My true Christmas watch list has Rudolph, Frosty the Snowman, and Santa Claus is Coming to Town from Rankin-Bass. It just seemed like flooding to put them all in there, so I just put my favorite.
Haven't caught it yet. One of those things where it's on a long list of stuff to watch, but there's usually something more interesting for one of us.
Tbh, I can spend days during the Christmas holidays with Rankin-Bass. There's not really a stinker among them for me, though the older ones are the really great ones.
Rare Exports. Hogfather.
Scrooged
Mean Girls? Interesting.
It has a Christmas song & dance and at least a couple of other Christmas scenes
Krampus
Ernest Saves Christmas
The best Christmas trilogy:
Also, make sure you watch the "full-length" Muppets, where the critical sad love ballad hasn't been cut.
Agree about #1 movie choice. Hard disagree about the importance of the terrible ballad. :)
No love for muppet Christmas Carol?!
Oh and I forgot! I always watch the black and white Miracle on 34th Street while cooking on Thanksgiving after the parade.
A Blackadder Christmas Carol.
Oooo, good one.
Also, I forgot Mr. Bean S01E07 "Merry Christmas Mr. Bean"
Oh man, the turkey on the head thing.
LOTR in my household.
They're the perfect Thanksgiving movies for some reason.
How does violent night 2 compare?
Edit: whoops, I thought it was already out but it looks like it might start filming next year.
Well that's great news!
It's a Wonderful Life
Die Hard
Nightmare Before Christmas
Elf
The Night Before
Grinch (Carrey)
Klaus
Christmas Chronicles
Jingle All the Way
The Polar Express
Scrooged
Adds by my wife:
The Santa Clause 1, 2, and 3
White Christmas
Harry Potter (all of them)
Edit: Home Alone
Krampus Elf Klaus Single all the Way for romantic schlock The Grinch Violent Night Terrifier 3 Whatever dumb new Xmas movie Netflix has
My in laws love A Christmas Story. One of my least favorites but I entertain
I like romantic schlock. I'll check that out.
I loath Christmas Story and Charlie Brown. They are so damn depressing.
About 40% to 60% of Little Lord Fauntleroy, passively consumed because my dad turned on the TV for background ambiance while we're both doing stuff on our laptops in his living room.
Weihnachten bei Hoppenstedts.
Nice. Tradition. That's "The Snowman" for us. The soundtrack of our Christmas. And Handel's Messiah.
It's November 30th. Go home Lemmy, you're drunk.
I'm excited!
Edit:formatting
Santa's Slay. It's a B movie, and it knows it. But it's good as long as you're drinking spiked eggnog.
I do like it a lot myself.
Hogfather 2006 miniseries
Christmas Chronicles.
Kluas
Home Alone
Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
eyes wide shut (aka Kubrick's Christmas)
the Netflix Santa movies with Kurt Russel
Le conte de Noël is a good one to add in to the mix.
From "Minivers?"
I have recently added Tokyo Godfathers into my holiday mix. My wife cries every time despite "hating animated movies".
A Christmas Story
Jingle All The Way
Jingle All The Way is an underrated classic.
The "must have" toy mania that it captures was newish then, but is normalized behavior now.
Just that a lot of it takes place over the internet, and there are even more speculators, and the manufacturers deliberately create artificial scarcity to drive profits.
Gremlins A Christmas Story Elf Polar Express Rudolph
A quick warning about gremlins, its all fun and games until a scene involves a harsh talk betraying some of the Christmas mythology.
A Christmas Story is my go to and watched at least fully once. Ehh as fully as I can, I'm required to leave the room when he opens the bb gun from the old man. It makes husband emotional about his father and he prefers to do that alone so I go do something else until the scene is done.
All of the Christmas Princess movies from Netflix 🤩
Klaus is an excellent movie
Gremlins
Black Christmas (original, don't like either of the remakes for wildly different reasons)
Rare Exports
Black Adder's Christmas Carol
For something a bit different, try Snow Queen from 2002 (live action, not the cartoon). It starts out like a generic Hallmark movie and goes entirely off the rails. It's worth watching at least once.