Do you have a favorite Christmas movie?

Lachlann · December 09, 2009, 10:02:52 PM

Muppet Christmas Carol
Babes In Toyland

That's all I can think of. There's not that many good Christmas movies imo, which is a shame because I love the season.

Silver · December 10, 2009, 12:40:03 AM

Quote from: Arch on December 09, 2009, 04:24:06 AM
I've heard so many people say that they love A Christmas Story! I must be missing something. Can you tell me what you like about it? Should I have given it more time to grow on me? It's sure to pop up on TV in the next couple of weeks...

A Christmas story. Well, it's funny and that's about it.

LordKAT · December 10, 2009, 03:13:29 AM

When it comes to A christmas story, I'm with Arch. To me, its not funny, just stupid. Stupid can be funny but that show don't got it.

tekla · December 10, 2009, 10:31:53 AM

I was forced to watch A Christmas Story last year after the people I was with had found out I had never seen it. It's not horrible, but its not a classic either.

heatherrose · December 10, 2009, 06:36:32 PM

A friend of mine insisted that I watch "A Christmas Story".
He built it up as the funniest thing since....whatever.
I sat there as he convulsed with fits of laughter, waiting for the funny,
which for me never came. A few days later I watched it again, by myself
thinking that I surely must have missed something but I still didn't get it.

Post Merge: December 10, 2009, 05:53:45 PM

I have always wanted to see the movie "Scrooged", staring Bill Murry.
The excepts that I have seen look funny. I have never had the opportunity
to watch it. Has anyone seen it? Was it worth searching out.

Arch · December 10, 2009, 06:56:23 PM

Quote from: heatherrose on December 10, 2009, 06:36:32 PM
I have always wanted to see the movie "Scrooged", staring Bill Murry.
The excepts that I have seen look funny. I have never had the opportunity
to watch it. Has anyone seen it? Was it worth searching out.

I haven't seen it, but now I'm curious. When Bill Murray gets a good part, he's terrific.

By the way, I like your new avatar pic, heatherrose.

Cindy · December 11, 2009, 01:34:08 AM

I really liked Scrooged. If you are a "Christmas Carol" fan it's a goody.

Yes cute pic Heather rose.

Cindy

Miniar · December 11, 2009, 06:24:41 AM

Yeah.. I like Die Hard, both the ones that happen 'round the holidays...

I'm heathen.. I usually end up rolling my eyes at the religious aspects of holiday movies.. especially when the movies suggest that the origin of holiday traditions are perfectly christian in origin...

heatherrose · December 11, 2009, 06:49:22 AM

...but Min, there was a Christmas Tree beside the manger.
It's where the Three Easter Bunnies laid their gifts of peeps.

Arch · December 11, 2009, 01:29:39 PM

Quote from: heatherrose on December 11, 2009, 06:49:22 AM
...but Min, there was a Christmas Tree beside the manger.
It's where the Three Easter Bunnies laid their gifts of peeps.

Don't forget that in the first place, Mary and Joseph went back to Bethlehem for the chocolate Santas.

MaggieB · December 11, 2009, 02:45:59 PM

I would like to recommend a little known movie from 2005 called Joyeux Noël. It is about the Christmas Truce in World War I when both sides put down their weapons, came out of their trenches, buried their dead and played football with each other. It almost ended the war.

Maggie

Arch · December 11, 2009, 02:51:43 PM

Quote from: Maggie Kay on December 11, 2009, 02:45:59 PM
I would like to recommend a little known movie from 2005 called Joyeux Noël. It is about the Christmas Truce in World War I when both sides put down their weapons, came out of their trenches, buried their dead and played football with each other. It almost ended the war.

I've wanted to see this ever since I first heard about it. Thanks for reminding me, Maggie!

heatherrose · December 11, 2009, 09:10:43 PM

Quote from: Maggie Kay on December 11, 2009, 02:45:59 PMwhen both sides put down their weapons,
came out of their trenches, buried their dead and played
football with each other. It almost ended the war.

A very powerful story.
The Generals were furious.
What if they threw a war and nobody came?
It is possible.

Quote from: Arch on December 11, 2009, 01:29:39 PMMary and Joseph went back to Bethlehem for the chocolate Santas.

...a preggers teenager, riding ninety plus miles through mountain passes on the back of
a donkey, in the dead of winter for a chocolate jones? A little unbelievable doncha think?

Jeannette · December 11, 2009, 10:20:49 PM

Nightmare before Christmas.

tekla · December 11, 2009, 10:25:20 PM

A little unbelievable doncha think?

Not at all, people were a lot tougher then. Try reading the story of Sacajawea sometime. She led Lewis and Clark west while pregnant, gave birth and brought them back with a babe in arms. Hell, had there been chocolate involved I'm sure she would have walked them all the way to DC.

heatherrose · December 11, 2009, 10:42:25 PM

Quote from: tekla on December 11, 2009, 10:25:20 PMTry reading the story of Sacajawea sometime.

Wasn't she the bare foot pregnant bitch that runned off with my next trailer neighbor's man?

tekla · December 11, 2009, 10:46:18 PM

All right, try the books on tape version then, none of that book larnin' in them tape cassettes.

heatherrose · December 11, 2009, 11:16:37 PM

I would rather read Seaman's autobiography.

tekla · December 11, 2009, 11:25:01 PM

It's all moot anyway, I'm going to put on a real Christmas Classic, Black Christmas with Olivia Hussey, Margot Kidder and a pile of others. It's awesome, the original slasher movie made years before Halloween, which pretty much copies it.

heatherrose · December 11, 2009, 11:36:37 PM

Perhaps "Reindeer Slaughter House"?

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Do you have a favorite Christmas movie?

MaggieB

Jeannette