The Muppet Christmas Carol is now out on Blu-ray in the US. Best Christmas family film ever. Sadly it's still the butchered cut without "When Love is Gone". The 4.5GB rip I've just seen doesn't look half as good as the film did on CH4 HD last year. Very disappointed with Disney.
National Lampoons Christmas Vacation is the best Christmas movie ever..we even have Christmas decorations on our tree with the Griswolds on and another that says Sh##'ers Full!!!!!
This is closely followed by Nativity...I love that film it makes me feel so happy...Sparkle and Shine...hope the follow up lives up to the first.
Miracle on 34th Street - Both versions but the original is still the best.
The Santa Clause - Like the sequels but the first is still the best.
White Christmas - Classic
A Muppet Christmas Carol - Great film for all the family
Scrooge - An underated musical
It would be good to have another new family Christmas film but I think they are really hard to do. If you get it right it's great, but get it wrong and it's too sickly, schmaltzy and generally nauseating.
Define "Christmas film" and we'll let you know. It's as much as a Christmas film as Home Alone, IMHO.
I define a Christmas film as one in which Christmas is a theme rather than an incidental backdrop or setting. I can't remember how integral to Gremlins Christmas is, but it seems to be more than incidental in Home Alone. Alvin and the Chipmunks springs to mind as a film set at Christmas which I don't class as a Christmas film as the Christmas element is just on the wrong side of the sliding scale of importance to the film. Or cos it's shit.
Miracle on 34th Street - Both versions but the original is still the best.
The Santa Clause - Like the sequels but the first is still the best.
White Christmas - Classic
A Muppet Christmas Carol - Great film for all the family
Scrooge - An underated musical
It would be good to have another new family Christmas film but I think they are really hard to do. If you get it right it's great, but get it wrong and it's too sickly, schmaltzy and generally nauseating.
Funnily enough none of those feature in our Christmas movie list. I don't think I've even seen Miracle on 34th Street or White Christmas.
Ours is
Elf
Home Alone 1 & 2
Deck the Halls
Nativity!
Shrek the Halls
Ice Age Mammoth Christmas
It's a Wonderful Life
Arthur Christmas may well be added to that list now.
I can't remember how integral to Gremlins Christmas is, but it seems to be more than incidental in Home Alone .
Home Alone is set at Christmas and has Christmas songs. That's pretty much it really. It would take about an hour for a decent writer to shove it into Easter, for example.
Gremlins ticks the same boxes.
I watch both in December - along with the first two Die Hards. Both of them are often claimed to not be Christmas movies, but they're as Christmassy as Gremlins and Home Alone.
Only stuff about Santa, the navitity (!) or Christmas Carol adaptations are really *about* Christmas, most films just use it as a backdrop for the story. Not that there's anything wrong with that.
Home Alone is set at Christmas and has Christmas songs. That's pretty much it really. It would take about an hour for a decent writer to shove it into Easter, for example.
Gremlins ticks the same boxes.
I watch both in December - along with the first two Die Hards. Both of them are often claimed to not be Christmas movies, but they're as Christmassy as Gremlins and Home Alone.
Only stuff about Santa, the navitity (!) or Christmas Carol adaptations are really *about* Christmas, most films just use it as a backdrop for the story. Not that there's anything wrong with that.
Yeah you're probably right actually now I think about it. (And that wouldn't even take an hour! )
Still, it's been on my Christmas films list for as long as I can remember and long may it continue.
Home alone 1 and 2, Miracle on 34th street and The Muppet Crimas Carol are must watch Christmas movies for me, but The Polar Express and Nativity are the best recent Chrismas movies both are awesome and well worth watching - and I do over and over!
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This is closely followed by Nativity...I love that film it makes me feel so happy...Sparkle and Shine...hope the follow up lives up to the first.
Amen.
You've actually ruined my evening!
Miracle on 34th Street - Both versions but the original is still the best.
The Santa Clause - Like the sequels but the first is still the best.
White Christmas - Classic
A Muppet Christmas Carol - Great film for all the family
Scrooge - An underated musical
It would be good to have another new family Christmas film but I think they are really hard to do. If you get it right it's great, but get it wrong and it's too sickly, schmaltzy and generally nauseating.
Ours is
Elf
Home Alone 1 & 2
Deck the Halls
Nativity!
Shrek the Halls
Ice Age Mammoth Christmas
It's a Wonderful Life
Arthur Christmas may well be added to that list now.
Home Alone is set at Christmas and has Christmas songs. That's pretty much it really. It would take about an hour for a decent writer to shove it into Easter, for example.
Gremlins ticks the same boxes.
I watch both in December - along with the first two Die Hards. Both of them are often claimed to not be Christmas movies, but they're as Christmassy as Gremlins and Home Alone.
Only stuff about Santa, the navitity (!) or Christmas Carol adaptations are really *about* Christmas, most films just use it as a backdrop for the story. Not that there's anything wrong with that.
Still, it's been on my Christmas films list for as long as I can remember and long may it continue.
The Family Stone
The Polar Express
Christmas With The Kranks
It's A Wonderful Life
Die Hard
1. Scrooged
2. Elf
3. Home Alone 2 (just for the big Xmas tree in New York!)
4. The Holiday
5. Love Actually
6. Bad Santa