Hello All,
It's not very often we see a just for fun question. Thought I would ask one.
What is your favorite Christmas/holiday movie?
:-)
Thanks for all of the responses! I hope it put everybody in a good mood! We LOVE Christmas so we have a ton of favorites. My all time faves though are The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, Mickey's Once Upon a Christmas (the first not the second), NL Christmas Vacation.
I highly highly highly recommend the Mickey one for everybody but especially younger kids that are just now starting to understand the meaning of Christmas. It's absolutely wonderful and heartwarming and our 2yo loves it. She has even started picking up things around the house saying "here Mommy. It's for Christmas". Awww!
NL Christmas Vacation is just down right hilarious no matter how many times we've seen it. "I don't care who ya are. That's just funny right thar". LOL. Oh my I love these JFF (just for fun) questions!!!
Happy Holidays everybody!
It's a Wonderful Life, definitely! But Christmas Vacation and Christmas Story are up there too! :) How the Grinch Stole Christmas and Polar Express are great. I like the classics like Holiday Inn, too. Wait...I think I love them all! :)
What a great idea to have a light, fun question! For me, it's a tie between A Christmas Story, White Christmas, and It's a Wonderful Life.
Right now I'm loving Polar Express...I think because I fear my oldest (7.5) is not going to believe for many more years and it gives hope to those who seem to get too old to believe. I still believe in Santa, even though I know I buy all of the gifts!! lol...but I know Christmas mornings will be different when there is no Santa anymore. Luckily my youngest is 3, so hopefully he will still believe for a lot longer!!
It's a Wonderful Life! I never get tired of watching it :-)
A Christmas Story. It plays in the background all day on Christmas Day. It's a tradition... :)
The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus (clay animation - 1985)
Santa Claus (1985)
Holiday Inn or Whilte Christmas, such classice! But I do have to say National Lampoon christmas Vacation is epic!!
National Lampoons Christmas Vacation! Puts me in a great mood every year!
It would be too hard to pick just one! I've amassed rather a collection of Christmas movies over the years, and I start pulling them out about now.
There's "White Christmas" of course (I remember seeing it when it FIRST came out - I'm revealing my age here - in the middle of the summer)! "Going My Way," "Christmas in Connecticut" (the original with Barbara Stanwyck) and "Miracle on 34th Street" (the original with Edmund Gwenn) all debuted before I was born and I met them first on Turner Classic Movies.
I have several versions of "A Christmas Carol" because it's told differently with each retelling; my favorites at the moment are the 1984 one with George C. Scott and the Muppet version. We have "The Polar Express" and the old "The Snowman" - if you haven't seen that, look around for it because the art is wonderful.
And I have favorite Christmas dvds hardly anybody else has even heard of, like "A Child's Christmas in Wales" (1987, first shown on PBS, I think) and "The Christmas Wife" (1988, Jason Robards and Julie Harris).
Are you snoring yet?
Elf and Christmas Vacation!
A christmas story :)
White Christmas!!!
i like a lot of chirstmas movies , but hands down White Christmas is my favorite.
National Lampoons Christmas Vacation!! oh and its not a Christmas movie but we have a tradition of watching The Wizard of Oz.
- Muppet Christmas Carol
- The Grinch (80's cartoon)
- Frosty the Snowman (80's cartoon)
- Polar Express
I have to say Christmas With the Kranks (Cranks?) with Jamie Lee Curtis. It's so silly but alot of fun. For a more traditional movie, definitely It's a Wonderful Life - we watch it every year. And also the Grinch Who Stole Christmas (not the one w/ Jim Carey, the original!).
My favorite Christmas movie..... well I have two, A Charlie Brown Christmas and Miracle on 34th St. The one with Dillon McDermott. Elf is right up there too! Who can pick just one?
A Christmas Carol (with Allister Sim - old black and white movie)
The Grinch Who Stole Christmas (animated)
It's a Wonderful Life
A Christmas Story
Elf
and let's not forget
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (Bumbles bounce!)
The Year Without a Santa Claus (love Cold Miser!)
Santa Claus is Coming to Town (silly old Burgermeister Meister Burger!)
A Christmas Story, hands down....watch it every year and have since I was a kid!
White Christmas ! Miracle on 34th St (original)! Muppet's Christmas Carol ! Charlie Brown ! Grinch (cartoon) ! Christmas Vacation! A Christmas Story ! ( I am the Only 1 in my family who enjoys that movie - so I have to sneak watch it when no ones around- that way i dont have to listen to them complain how Stupid it is! LOL ) I think its hysterical! now I'm Really looking forward to the Holidays :-) Theres a local radio station here that is Already playing Christmas music !! We were driving around yesterday singing X-mas songs while my son was in the back looking at us like we were Nuts! LOL Tis the Season !!!!!! Fantastic ?
Every year, I look forward to watching A Charlie Brown Christmas. I loved watching that as a family when I was younger, and I have since turned it into a tradition with my 3 kids (7, 3, 5mos).
This is such a good question, makes me so happy. I love the Polar Express, we watch it Christmas Eve every year since it came out.
I loved "Yes, Virginia There is a Santa Clause". I think that was the name, which was based on the famous newspaper article. I wish I could find it on video or dvd. I'd love to watch it with my girls.
Also love the classic "It's a Wonderful Life".
For cartoon type movies, "Frosty".
More recent movies "The Santa Clause" and "Christmas With the Kranks".
Its a Wonderful Life
Miracle on 34th Street (1946 version)
A Christmas Carol (1951 version with Alastair Sims)
Favorite Christmas Cartoon: "Small One"
Thanks for asking. Merry Christmas to you and yours.
The grinch who stole christmas and Elf
