Sngersmom07–we still watch the VHS version of Muppets Christmas Carol precisely because it contains The Love is Gone–DVD/Blu-ray, as you mention, does not. Editors figured that the song slowed down the story, and that kids would get fidgety, so the song was cut. It is the perfect ending to the story of Scrooge’s past.
Bad Santa
Another vote for muppet Christmas carol - I love the ending! I was watching a story on “CBS Sunday Morning” about Dickens where Mo Rocca asked the curator which version of “A Christmas Carol” she thought Dickens would like.
Her immediate response was “A Muppet Christmas Carol” because it embodies the meaning and emotions of Dickens’ novel.
One of my favorite Christmas movie is A Christmas Wish with Debby Reynolds and Neil Patrick Harris. I think it was one of those Hallmark Hall of Fame, made for TV movies. I get teary-eyed whenever I watch it. Back in the day, we would rent it from Blockbuster. I bought a copy at Blockbuster’s going out of business sale.
For as long as A Christmas Story has been around, I watched it for the first time 4 or 5 years ago.
The original Miracle on 34th Street
We always watch Elf, A Christmas Story marathon…
The Family Stone, The Holiday, Love Actually .
The men folk go along with it, but don’t share the love as my daughters and I do.
My husband and I went to see " Love the Coopers " this season, and I suspect that we will be watching this one next year when we are all together ( IF we are all together )
I think White Christmas is so bad a movie that it’s enjoyable – and is made all the more so by Tom and Lorenzo’s classic post about it, which they repeat every year: http://tomandlorenzo.com/2015/12/t-los-white-christmas/
Really old movie:
Meet Me in St. Louis
Love Judy Garland’s rendition of Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas - I tear up everytime.
More Contemporary:
Prancer
The little girl who just lost her mother and tries desperately to hold on to her memories thru her love of Christmas really tugs at my heart. And when her Dad (Sam Elliot) reads “Yes Virginia, there is a Santa Claus” to her I have trouble holding back the tears.
Call me sentimental, I love a good Holiday movie!
Miracle on 34th Street - original Best Christmas movie ever.
Love Actually
It’s a Wonderful Life
“How the Grinch Stole Christmas” - the animated.
Classic: Christmas in Connecticut, It’s A Wonderful Life
Action: Die Hard, RED
Classic Animated: How the Grinch Stole Christmas, A Year Without A Santa Claus
More modern animated: The Snowman, Arthur’s Perfect Christmas
Wildcards: Moonstruck, Sound of Music
@saintfan:
Oh, god, the snowman, you had to bring that up, by the end of that my wife and I were crying and our S couldn’t understand why we were so sad…