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Post by seahawksraawk00 on Dec 2, 2017 4:00:33 GMT
Doesn't have to be a mainstream one either like Elf or Die Hard or Home Alone. One I remember growing up with and watching a lot was Prancer (1989). Still one of my favorites and one of my first movie dates with a girl. Wanted to watch a Christmas movie but I decided to show her something else other than the obvious ones like Elf which to me, is becoming a bit overrated these days, and I showed her Prancer, and she loved it. Got Sam Elliott in it as well. An underrated Christmas classic
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Post by movielover on Dec 2, 2017 4:21:04 GMT
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town, and How the Grinch Stole Christmas are the ones I grew up with as a child (this was in the mid-70s).
I've loved A Christmas Story from my teen years to present.
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Post by rateater on Dec 2, 2017 4:31:02 GMT
christmas story
santa claus the movie
were favorites growing up
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Post by FridayOnElmStreet on Dec 2, 2017 4:33:21 GMT
Home Alone 1-2
Christmas Vacation
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Post by Deleted on Dec 2, 2017 4:37:24 GMT
I discovered A Christmas Story in my preteen years. Before that it was the Home Alone movies and Jingle All The Way.
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Post by hi224 on Dec 2, 2017 4:42:16 GMT
White Christmas
It's a Wonderful Life(unless you are Potter).
I like Miracle but have grown tired of the plot.
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Post by twothousandonemark on Dec 2, 2017 6:02:38 GMT
A Christmas Story
That thing was a gem to stumble over. I remember when it basically was aired at least a dozen times in Dec, usually on TBS or something, even during the day. It just seemed so approachable. We'd also been watching The Wonder Years with its narration, so it fit that zone.
I think once it became a Christmas Day marathon, it 'won'.
Rudolph was like the toy you grew up on only to quickly age right out of it pre-teens. I would gravitate my childhood viewing around that no matter what. I don't think I've watched it since the mid 90's & that was probably because I was sick & would watch cartoons if I had to.
I will say that Burl Ives' music from Rudolph remains exceptional. I've nearly every song on my iTunes Christmas playlist... including many others from film soundtracks.
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Post by JHA Durant on Dec 2, 2017 11:31:02 GMT
Santa with Muscles. Yes, that was my favourite Christmas movie when I was a kid that wasn't Home Alone.
Also, I'll Be Home for Christmas. Looking back at it now, that movie has one terrible message, and I don't know if I'd want to watch it anymore after all these years.
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Post by Marv on Dec 2, 2017 14:23:26 GMT
Prob Christmas Vacation now...as a kid either Christmas Story or Home Alone.
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Post by HirundoRustica on Dec 2, 2017 15:25:15 GMT
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Post by anthonyrocks on Dec 2, 2017 15:28:23 GMT
Home Alone
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Post by Terrapin Station on Dec 2, 2017 15:35:06 GMT
Well, if we're talking "that I grew up with" as a kid, teen, that would have to be a combo of the Rankin-Bass Christmas specials and How the Grinch Stole Christmas. I was a kid and teen in the 60s and 70s.
It were just talking about stuff that we've been familiar with for a long time and watched multiple times, some favorites from the 80s/early 90s are National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, Trading Places, Scrooged, the Nightmare Before Christmas, and the Home Alone films.
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Post by sdrew13163 on Dec 2, 2017 17:58:45 GMT
1. The Year Without a Santa Claus
I always loved this movie as a kid because of the Heat Miser and Snow Miser.
2. Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
Great claymation and funny characters.
3. A Christmas Story
This is the obvious choice. A legendary movie all on its own, but a great Christmas movie as well.
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Post by claudius on Dec 2, 2017 19:28:16 GMT
In the single-digits, my constant Christmas viewings were:
RUDOLPH'S SHINY NEW YEAR
FROSTY THE SNOWMAN
THE LIFE ADVENTURES OF SANTA CLAUS
MICKEY'S CHRISTMAS CAROL, and Disney shorts like HOW TO SKI, PLUTO'S CHRISTMAS TREE, and DONALD'S SNOWFIGHT
SANTA CLAUS THE MOVIE (saw it in theaters)
MISTER MAGOO'S CHRISTMAS CAROL
THE RACCOON'S CHRISTMAS
YOGI BEAR'S ALL-STAR CHRISTMAS CAPER
A CHRISTMAS STORY
A CHARLIE BROWN CHRISTMAS
THE GRINCH WHO STOLE CHRISTMAS
SCROOGE (1935)
A MUPPET'S FAMILY CHRISTMAS
I have dim memories of YOGI'S FIRST CHRISTMAS, A SNOW WHITE CHRISTMAS, SCROOGE (1970), A CHRISTMAS CAROL (1984)
My teens:
CHRISTMAS IN TATTERTOWN
A CHRISTMAS CAROL (1951)
KING OF KINGS (1961)
BEN-HUR: A TALE OF THE CHRIST (1925)
NESTOR THE CHRISTMAS DONKEY
BEN-HUR (1959)
MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS (1944)
A wealth of MGM animated shorts like Tom and Jerry's THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS, PEACE ON EARTH, etc.
Disney shorts like SANTA'S WORKSHOP, THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS, and the ONCE UPON A WINTERTIME segment from MELODY TIME.
SCROOGED (1988)
NUTCRACKER: THE MOTION PICTURE (1986)
THE NUTCRACKER (Baryshnikov version)
A TALE OF TWO CITIES (1935)
MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER 3000: SANTA CLAUS CONQUERS THE MARTIANS
THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS
I got re-acquainted and loyal to:
RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED REINDEER
SANTA CLAUS IS COMIN' TO TOWN
SCROOGE (1970)
A CHRISTMAS CAROL (1984)
I was rather 'feh...' with HOME ALONE and THE SANTA CLAUSE at the time.
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Post by them1ghtyhumph on Dec 2, 2017 22:34:09 GMT
Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
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Post by louise on Dec 3, 2017 9:20:58 GMT
I remember enjoying White Christmas as a child, though nowadays I find it too sentimental. The first Christmas film I saw that I still enjoy is the Lion in Winter, though I did not see it when it was released but a few years later - films in those days used to go round the cinemas for years after they were released.
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Post by RiP, IMDb on Dec 6, 2017 7:44:49 GMT
It's a Wonderful Life (1946).
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Post by Primemovermithrax Pejorative on Dec 6, 2017 9:29:22 GMT
If we mean movies then Santa Claus Conquers the Martians is probably the only one I paid attention to.
Most of my Christmas viewing was the Charlie Brown, Grinch, Rudolph and Frosty stuff.
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Post by Xcalatë on Dec 6, 2017 9:57:36 GMT
Home Alone.
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