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Post by FridayOnElmStreet on Nov 30, 2017 10:41:27 GMT
Well the Christmas season is upon us yet again. So what are your top 10 best and worst Christmas/Holiday films. I will leave what is a Christmas film up to you. You can put a general Christmas film or one that just takes place over the holidays.
Mine:
Top 10 Favorite:
1. Batman Returns
2. On Her Majesty's Secret Service
3. Lethal Weapon
4. It's a Wonderful Life
5. Die Hard
6. National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
7. Trapped in Paradise
8. Home Alone 2: Lost in New York
9. Home Alone
10. A Christmas Story
Top 10 Worst:
1. Saving Chritmas (One of the worst movies I have ever seen.)
2. Home Alone 4
3. Santa Claus (1959)
4. Santa Claus Conquers the Martians
5. Fred Claus
6. All I want for Christmas
7. Christmas with the Kranks
8. Santa with Muscles
9. The Star Wars Holiday Spiecial
10. Initiation: Silent Night, Deadly Night 4
I have heard that Christmas With a Capital C, Last Ounce of Courage, Jingle All the Way 2, Santa and the Ice Cream Bunny and A Christmas Story 2 are all awful Christmas films but I have not seen them.
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Post by deembastille on Nov 30, 2017 11:52:55 GMT
Santa Clause
A Christmas story
Home alone
(Because it's iconic but I don't like it) it's a wonderful Life.
Worst
A town without Christmas
Home alone 2 for the brick throwing off a NYC townhouse. Let's not give the hoodlums ideas!
All the movies on Hallmark channel now. 24 hours a day. Starting well before Thanksgiving. Fvk u.
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Post by louise on Nov 30, 2017 13:05:49 GMT
My favourites:
Trading Places
Comfort and Joy
bad santa
The Lion in Winter
The Muppet Christmas Carol
Christmas in Connecticut
the Shop Around the Corner
The man who Came to Dinner
If Tv films count, A child's Christmas In Wales
Worst:
Elf
it's as wonderful Life
Home Alone (the boy is okay, but can't stand his annoying family)
home Alone 2 (same reason)
there are others I have not seen but would probably dislike if I did, I mostly tend to avoid films about Santa Claus for instance as I hate him.
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Post by anthonyrocks on Nov 30, 2017 14:29:54 GMT
My Number 1 Favorite Christmas Movie is "A CHRISTMAS STORY".
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Post by ghostintheshell on Nov 30, 2017 14:45:39 GMT
(in no order)
Best
How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000)
Home Alone (1990)
The Polar Express (2004)
Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992)
It's a Wonderful Life (1946) -- easily the bestest holiday film ever made
The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992)
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (1989)
Bad Santa (2003)
Arthur Christmas (2011)
Worst
The Nutcracker in 3D (2010) -- a bit disappointing but entertaining nonetheless
The Holiday (2006)
Love, Actually (2003)
Jingle All the Way (1996)
The Santa Clause (1994)
Four Christmases (2008)
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Post by Salzmank on Nov 30, 2017 16:00:06 GMT
OK, Nick, an interesting concept... I don't know if I've watched enough truly dreadful Christmas films to warrant a 10-worst list, but I can probably do the "best."
Best (in no hard and fast order)
It's a Wonderful Life ('46)
Christmas in Connecticut ('45)
The Bishop's Wife ('47)
A Christmas Carol ('84, the George C. Scott version)
The Shop Around the Corner ('40)
Home Alone ('90)
A Christmas Story ('83)
A Charlie Brown Christmas ('65)
Meet Me in St. Louis ('44--does this count? I think so, at least if Holiday Inn does)
Meet John Doe ('41)
(Planes, Trains, and Automobiles and Babes in Toyland '34 are more Thanksgiving than Christmas pictures, or they'd be on here too as honorable mentions.)
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Worst
Home Alone 3
The Santa Clause 3
Deck the Halls
Christmas with the Kranks
Gremlins
How the Grinch Stole Christmas 2000
I may think of some more...
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Post by Spike Del Rey on Nov 30, 2017 16:47:37 GMT
There's no way I could sit thru 20 Christmas movies, so I'll list the ones I've seen and my thoughts:
LOVE:
Die Hard
Scrooged
Bad Santa
Christmas Vacation
Decent:
Love Actually
A Bad Moms Christmas
Liked them originally, but worn out:
It's a Wonderful Life
A Christmas Story
LOATHED from the first viewing:
Home Alone
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Post by salomonj on Nov 30, 2017 16:49:37 GMT
I don't know if I could name 10 from each but 'Die Hard' and 'It's a Wonderful Life' are the two best in my eyes.
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Post by Dramatic Look Gopher on Nov 30, 2017 17:16:18 GMT
Can't really do the Top 10 lists for this topic, so I'll just say that my favorite Christmas movie is...
(drum roll, please)
Black Christmas (1974)
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Post by politicidal on Nov 30, 2017 17:46:10 GMT
10 BEST CHRISTMAS FILMS
1) Die Hard
2) A Christmas Story
3) Elf
4) The Lion in Winter
5) The Nightmare Before Christmas
6) Home Alone 2: Lost in New York
7) The Santa Clause
8) Rise of the Guardians
9) Gremlins
10) The Polar Express
10 WORST CHRISTMAS FILMS
1) Christmas With the Kranks
2) Deck the Halls
3) Home Alone 4
4) It's a Wonderful Life
5) Home Alone 3
6) Jingle all the Way
7) The Santa Clause 3
8) The Nuttiest Nutcracker
9) Holiday in Handcuffs
10) Ghosts of Girlfriends Past |
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Post by twothousandonemark on Nov 30, 2017 17:46:26 GMT
Best:
1. A Christmas Carol '51
2. Die Hard
3. It's a Wonderful Life
4. A Christmas Story
5. A Christmas Carol '09
6. Trailer Park Boys Christmas Special
7. The Polar Express
8. Mickey's Christmas Carol
9. Home Alone
10.Christmas Vacation
Worst:
1. The Santa Clause 3
2. The Santa Clause 2
3. The Santa Clause
4. Home Alone 2
5. How the Grinch Stole Christmas '00
6. Jingle all the Way
7. Jack Frost
8. Four Christmases
9. Christmas with the Cranks
10.The Night Before
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Post by kingkoopa on Nov 30, 2017 18:05:54 GMT
One that fits both categories is the so-bad-it's-hilarious slasher version of "Jack Frost." The puns are non-stop. Makes Arnold's in "Batman and Robin" sound like Shakespeare. It's impossible to take seriously, but I was laughing almost the whole time.
I worked in a book/video store for a bit and at least one parent would rent the horror "Jack Frost" thinking it was the family movie with Michael Keaton. There were some livid parents!
Nice to see "Gremlins," "Diehard," and "Batman Returns" pop up on some lists. Christmas isn't the focus, but adds a lot to the setting.
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Post by UnknownVIllain on Nov 30, 2017 18:15:38 GMT
BEST
Edward Scissorhands
Elf
Bad Santa
Jingle all the way
Home Alone
Christmas Vacation
Lethal Weapon
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Post by twothousandonemark on Nov 30, 2017 18:31:31 GMT
Nice to see "Gremlins," "Diehard," and "Batman Returns" pop up on some lists. Christmas isn't the focus, but adds a lot to the setting. For context, I grew up with local Toronto tv playing Die Hard annually in December. It became a Christmas staple for me & many others around here. |
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Post by FridayOnElmStreet on Nov 30, 2017 18:32:43 GMT
Best: 1. A Christmas Carol '51 Easily the best version of A Christmas Carol. |
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Post by twothousandonemark on Nov 30, 2017 18:34:24 GMT
Best: 1. A Christmas Carol '51 Easily the best version of A Christmas Carol. My #41 all time. When I was compiling my top 50 a few years back, I made sure to keep in mind any/all genres on the table. |
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Post by vegalyra on Nov 30, 2017 19:10:04 GMT
No one mentioned White Christmas, Holiday Inn, or Christmas in Connecticut. So I did...  I agree the '51 Christmas Carol is the best. I do have a soft spot for the 1938 version though. Reginald Owen was great. Most Christmas films made since the '90s are typically bad. Home Alone 3 comes to mind. I know there are a lot of Will Ferrell haters out there but I actually liked Elf a lot. That's an exception to my rule. |
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Post by mikef6 on Nov 30, 2017 20:17:26 GMT
Most traditional Christmas movies I just don't care about. It is not that they are bad, I'm just not interested in their message. If a movie, Christmas or otherwise, is very bad, I probably haven't watched it. Here are a few good films set in the Christmas season that aren't normally shown on TV but are worth watching for other good reasons.
Cash on Demand (1961) / Quentin Lawrence
A Christmas Story (1983) / Bob Clark
Die Hard (1988) / John McTiernan
Rare Exports (2010) / Jalmari Helander
A Christmas Carol (2010) / "Doctor Who" Christmas Special
Last Christmas (2014) / "Doctor Who" Christmas Special
Speaking of the smash action movie in my list (i.e. Die Hard), even though I usually don't see or recommend wall-to-wall shoot-'em-up action, "Die Hard" is early, influential, and creative. Most other modern movies of that genre (e.g. White House Down, London Has Fallen) depend heavily on "Die Hard" and more than likely wouldn't exist without the earlier film. Happy Holidays and Happy Movie Watching.
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Post by Primemovermithrax Pejorative on Nov 30, 2017 21:25:35 GMT
Cash on Demand is really good.
Another obscure one, a crime film, Blast of Silence 1961.
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Post by Salzmank on Nov 30, 2017 21:29:54 GMT
Hey, vegalyra, I mentioned Christmas in Connecticut, one of my all-time favorites. (I also did mention Holiday Inn, albeit in passing; it and White Christmas would be right under those listed for favorites.) While my own favorite Christmas Carol adaptation is the ’84 one (Alastair Sim, from the ’51 version, is one of my favorite actors, but somehow I’ve never warmed up to the movie), I too have a soft spot for the ’38 version, polished and typically MGM-y though it is. I would have preferred Lionel Barrymore as Scrooge, though, if only the arthritis hadn’t already crippled him by that point. What a Scrooge he would have made (and did on the radio)! Let me also join mikef6 and Primemovermithrax Pejorative in praising Cash on Demand. One of Cushing’s best performances, too. |
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