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On 12/13/2024 at 3:58 PM, Bevo&Pevo said:

It's Wonderful Life for the win.

One of my personal favorite parts is when they are drying off after being in the river.  Clarence tells 'em something to the fact of "we don't have money in heaven".  George replies with "Oh yeah, well it comes in pretty handy down here Bub".  LOL.

Yep. Just finished watching it with the family, as we do every year near Christmas. I've seen it at least 40 times and it still hits me right in the feels & has me on the edge of my seat every single time. There are several great Christmas movies, but ''It's a Wonderful Life is easily #1 for me.

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That list is pretty bare, and leaves out some good ones. I agree with the Die Hard and Gremlins arguments, both top tier Christmas films. Trading Places also happens around Christmas time. Eyes Wide Shut is technically a Christmas movie by the same standard, and it has its own way of being appealing. 

My wife's family really likes White Christmas with Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye. Holiday Inn too, which includes Fred Astaire. They are corny classics, but deserve a mention.

The old 1950s Rudolph and Frosty movies were always classic to me. 

Miracle on 34th Street is still a classic. 

Muppets Christmas Carol is awesome.

Charlie Brown Christmas sucks, just like everything else Charlie Brown related. Those kids were straight up assholes to each other in every show. 

As a kid, I really liked the Ernest P Worrell movies, and I think I was the only one in my house who liked Ernest Saves Christmas. Haven't watched it in about 30 years and I'm sure it's awful, but I don't want to burst that bubble. 

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4 hours ago, Dutchrudder said:

My wife's family really likes White Christmas with Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye. Holiday Inn too, which includes Fred Astaire. They are corny classics, but deserve a mention.

The blackface portions really hit hard though. That's been the barrier to watching them with our kids because I don't know if they can push past that. Kids today miss certain things like nuance and "this is how things were back then". We find this some with 80s films that say "faggot" a lot. 

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14 minutes ago, SubliminalHorn said:

It’s so goddamned overrated 

It's magical, and you have no soul.  Shit, I was never into bee-bee guns and I loved the movie as a kid.  Jean Shepherd's narration is wonderful.

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15 minutes ago, South Austin said:

It's magical, and you have no soul.  Shit, I was never into bee-bee guns and I loved the movie as a kid.  Jean Shepherd's narration is wonderful.

It’s so playyyed out

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12 hours ago, wild_turkey said:


I also consider that a Christmas movie because Don Corleone was Christmas shopping when he got shot.

It's almost the whole first half of the movie before Sicily... Michael and Kay in the city, Hagen getting picked up by Sollozzo while Christmas shopping, the hospital scene, even the restaurant scene where Michael goes to the bathroom there are Christmas lights in the restaurant. 

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Lots that I will watch, if I happen to catch them on tv or can be bothered to drag out a dvd, but only 2 I have to see every year, a Christmas Story and Stalag 17.  Not Christmas without Seftin, Animal, and Equipoise.  But not security, fuck him.

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On 12/13/2024 at 2:13 PM, Vic Mackey said:

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I think the bracket has a recency bias problem. No Christmas in Connecticut or the original Miracle on 34th Steet is curious. No White Christmas is criminal.

I don’t really consider The Apartment or Meet Me in St Louis Christmas movies. Most of St Louis is set in the summer. 
 

Way under the radar Christmas classic: The Desk Set. Spencer Tracy, Katherine Hepburn, and 1950’s office Christmas party shenanigans. 

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On 12/16/2024 at 3:58 PM, lateshow said:

Two pages and not one mention of Emmet Otter's Jug-band Christmas? God damn classic. Buncha heathens up in here. 

Never watched that with my kids, but young South Austin loved it when it came on HBO during the Christmas season in the early 80s.

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Batman Returns is a straight up Christmas movie. I watched today, so Level 1.

What was life like in November in 1990 when Home Alone came out? I’m too young to remember. Seems pretty glorious. A suburb dad can afford to take his family of 15 to France. Carson is still on the air. John Candy is still alive. Air travel seems pleasant. 

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14 hours ago, Davis Lane said:

No Die Hard.

No Emmit Otter's Jug Band Christmas.

Fuck that list.

Exactly... 

Kiss Saves Santa? 

Santa Claus Conquers the Martians? 

Santa vs. The Devil? 

Travesty 

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1 hour ago, 4th&Five said:

In Bruges is definitely a Christmas movie and would e on my top 5. 

If I’d grown up on a farm and was retarded, Bruges might impress me. But I didn’t, so it doesn’t. 

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Not trying to derail the thread but in Home Alone does anyone know what Buzz’s name is? Not the actor but the character. Buzzington? Or just Buzz? It’s been nearly 35 years and I’ve never thought about this once until now. 

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49 minutes ago, MrBig said:

Not trying to derail the thread but in Home Alone does anyone know what Buzz’s name is? Not the actor but the character. Buzzington? Or just Buzz? It’s been nearly 35 years and I’ve never thought about this once until now. 

Vicky

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On 12/20/2024 at 11:35 PM, billfromlaketravis said:

A suburb dad can afford to take his family of 15 to France.

Peter McCallister was management level in the Chicago Outfit.

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On 12/21/2024 at 1:56 PM, MrBig said:

Not trying to derail the thread but in Home Alone does anyone know what Buzz’s name is? Not the actor but the character. Buzzington? Or just Buzz? It’s been nearly 35 years and I’ve never thought about this once until now. 

Lol. Asked the same question today. 

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1 hour ago, Vic Mackey said:
7 hours ago, ztejas said:
Elf.
It's always elf. 

My fiancee has us watch this every year during December lol

She likes the noodles with syrup scene, doesn't she?

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