[watch] Great Christmas Flicks
Some family traditions include a day of board games or venturing out to catch one of the flicks that premiere on Christmas Day. Not mine though. As much as I want to see Sherlock Holmes, it’ll have to wait, because I am a homebody who lives for the one day of the year when I can watch holiday movies and feel normal. When I watch them in June, I feel wrongly judged, but hey, I think Christmas spirit should be sprinkled throughout the year.
Here are the five movies I watch on Christmas in order of cinematic awesomeness:
5. Babes in Toyland (the 1986 version) – A young Drew Barrymore and a 22-year-old Keanu Reeves made for my most overplayed Christmas movie growing up. Sometimes my family forces me to forego this one because they don’t think it belongs on this list. Or on any list. Or on the planet at all. I may be the verb [ICT] youngin’, but I know I’m not the only one who finds getting magically transported to a world of living toys to be totally life changing.
4. Home Alone - Hell yeah, what kid doesn’t want to live vicariously through Macaulay Culkin when he’s left king of the house by mistake when his family leaves for Christmas vacation without him? I never did understand how you could go to France and forget a kid though.
3. It’s A Wonderful Life - I love light-hearted family fun as much as the next person, but you always need that token “what Christmas is really about” film and It’s a Wonderful Life is that for me. It embodies all the good things in life that are exemplified in the holiday season: friends, family, and life’s little joys. Also George and Mary are one of my favorite love stories.
2. A Christmas Story – I fully expect some hate comments for not putting this at the top of the list, but it’s not my number one! I only kind of love it. I’m not OHMYGODTHISISTHEONE involved with this classic movie. I think it’s because I really do have a fear of getting my eye shot out with a Red Ryder BB gun.
1. Elf - I’m pretty sure this movie gets funnier every year. I spend the fall months devising how many Buddy the Elf quotes I can incorporate into conversation during December. My day job as a receptionist gives way too many opportunities to greet callers with “Buddy the Elf – what’s your favorite color?” Of course, I don’t do that because I’m 100% sure they’d fire me. And whenever I see a mall Santa, I have to fight back the urge to yell “you sit on a throne of LIES!!!”
Sure, hate me because A Christmas Story got robbed, but tell me: what’s your family’s “must-see” every year?
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I’m going to pretend you didn’t leave Love Actually off your list :)
Seriously though, that is the only movie I watch every year without fail.
I agree with Carly. I almost suggested we all watch it as a family this year, but then I remembered the two porn stand-ins…
Love Actually, Christmas Vacation, Ernest Saves Christmas, and my mom’s favorite, Miracle on 34th Street. I am one of the crazy people who doesn’t like the Christmas Carol/Scrooge stories. I’m just not that into it.
A Christmas Story is at the top of my list though. Then Love Actually, then, ah hell, it doesn’t matter after those two.
I second, Christmas Vacation. Love those Griswold’s!
I watch Meet Me In St. Louis with Judy Garland at Midnight every Christmas Eve. When she sings A Merry Little Christmas, I cry everytime!!! I love old movies…..
My personal list:
1. Elf
2. Christmas Vacation
3. Love Actually
4. Gremlins
5. Nightmare Before Christmas
Smiling’s my favorite!
Also I just remembered The Family Stone. I love that one so much!
Here’s my list:
1. Bad Santa
2. National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation
3. Die Hard
4. Lethal Weapon
5. Scrooged
Bad Santa! That was so incredibly, hilariously, horribly, terrifically inappropriate! Loved it.
I shamelessly add “The Holiday” to the list. It’s the only time I’ve ever found Jude Law attractive and Cameron Diaz endearing.
Every year with out fail I watch:
1. Christmas Vacation
2. Love Actually
3. Elf
4. The Family Stone
They will be playing during present opening and dinner
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