Favorite Christmas Movies

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<p>What will you guys be watching this year? </p>

<p>I plan on watching the ones I own, which would include…</p>

<p>Elf
Christmas Vacation
Home Alone 1 and 2
Love Actually
Deck The Halls
and Christmas Every Day.</p>

<p>I’m sure there will be some on TV as well… A Christmas Story, A Christmas Carol, etc…</p>

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<p>In our house, Home Alone 1 is a Christmas staple :)</p>

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<p>When I took my mother to NYC, she asked if I could take her to Duncan’s Toy Chest. I was like mother, it’s not really a store… haha. :)</p>

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<p>Miracle on 34th St for me.</p>

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<p>Love Actually, actually.</p>

<p>Thanksgiving: Hannah and her Sisters.</p>

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<p>Muppet Christmas Carol, believe it or not.
We still watch it every Christmas season–it uses quite a bit of the original Dickens, with not too much Muppets mayhem. Pluse, Michael Caine is amazing as Scrooge!</p>

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<p>Jean Shepard’s “A Christmas Story”. Hands down a *It’s Not Christmas Until You Watch *this movie.</p>

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<p>fender…I always got the feeling that Duncan’s was like FAO Schwartz in NYC (don’t know if it’s still there.)</p>

<p>We like both versions of Miracle on 34th St, Home Alone I and II, The Santa Clause, and a bunch of corny ones on the Hallmark Channel.</p>

<p>And…what is your favorite Christmas song???</p>

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<p>m2ck, mine is:</p>

<p>[Stop</a> The Cavalry](<a href=“http://www.silverplatters.com/rel/v2_viewupc.php?storenr=215&upc=71265711772]Stop”>http://www.silverplatters.com/rel/v2_viewupc.php?storenr=215&upc=71265711772)
If you never heard it, google The Corey Band Stop the Cavalry on YouTube.</p>

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<p>Favorite Christmas movies: Christmas Vacation and Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.</p>

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<p>“The Ref”. Best holiday movie. ;)</p>

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<p>“The Bishop’s Wife”!</p>

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<p>Christmas Vacation–no matter who complains they know they have to watch if they care about me.</p>

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<p>Another vote for Christmas Vacation. In addition to it’s classically hilarious antics, and the hysterical family dynamics, and the amazing one-liners…</p>

<p>…my dad’s name is Clark. No joke.</p>

<p>You can imagine how fun it is that his walkie-talkie name/any other time he needs a funny pseudonym is Griswold.</p>

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<p>Miracle on 34th street without a doubt. Surprised many people my age have not seen it.</p>

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<h1>16…and no one said “It’s a Wonderful Life”!! I cry every year! Long and old, I know, but so true and awesome.</h1>

<p>Of course, “Christmas Vacation” and “Jingle All the Way” with Arnold…always stop my surfing to watch that.</p>

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<p>We love “Christmas in Connecticut” with Barbara Stanwyck and Sydney Greenstreet. It’s a hugely funny 40’s comedy with Stanwyck playing a Martha-Stewart type homemaking maven who actually can’t boil water.</p>

<p>Just released on DVD last year: “Remember the Night,” also with Barbara Stanwyck, paired with Fred MacMurray this time. She plays a shoplifter in jail on Christmas Eve with nowhere to go when she’s let out, so the DA (MacMurray) takes her home with him to his midwestern family. Sweet and funny, Stanwyck is an amazing actress, and it’s nice to have a Christmas movie we can’t recite by heart already.</p>

<p>We also love “Scrooged” with Bill Murray - our favorite take on an updated “Christmas Carol.” And we like movies that aren’t specifically about Christmas but are set during the holiday - “Trading Places” with Dan Ackroyd and Eddie Murphy is a good one!</p>

<p>If you get the Hallmark channel, they’ve been doing made-for-TV movies 24/7 for a few weeks (most of which are dreadful, but still).</p>

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<p>“A Christmas Story”…except my boys called it “the BB Gun Movie” when they were little so we still call it that.</p>

<p>One that no one has mentioned yet is “Holiday Inn” with Bing Crosby singing White Christmas…love it…we have it on an old VHS tape (still have an old vcr upstairs)…need to find it on dvd this yr. </p>

<p>Usually watch “It’s a Wonderful Life” too.</p>

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<p>“A Chritmas Story” is my husband’s favorite.</p>

<p>On thanksgiving night, when we get home from my brothers, we have a tradition of watching “The Santa Clause” together as a family.</p>

<p>It’s probably not even sane that I actually make hot chocolate for everyone after all that food, but there you have it. Now that the girls are 19 and 16, it just makes me happy that they actually go and find the movie before we leave to “have it ready.”</p>

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<p>Elf
the four components of the food pyramid!</p>