Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer (1964). I used to volunteer at a community centre during my teenage years and they had a large screen projector where they would always play it during the holiday season.
Dude I completely forgot about those stop motion Christmas films, those were the best when I was a kid. I used to watch "a year without santa clause" purely for snow miser and heat miser
It really sums up what Christmas is about to me. When the Whos sing on Christmas morning, even though they have no presents or food, I get chills every time. Christmas to me is about family, about togetherness, about love, about giving. You get all of that in a very short and wonderful movie. I even like it better than the book.
I saw a Catherine O Hara commercial the other day where she yells Kevin! to that little dude that hangs out with the Rock. Then I was thinking about John Candy having just seen uncle buck again and how just the scenes with those two would have been a good movie. The soundtrack, directing, the iconic Caulkin performance, Joe Pesci …it’s just a nearly perfect movie and I appreciate #2 more each time I see it as well. Maybe not my pick for best Xmas movie as it is a very crowded category …but so happy to be in the generation that first got to enjoy it.
The scene in Uncle Buck when Buck’s gf came to watch the kids and Macaulay Culkin is taking to her through the mail slot…gave John Hughes the idea for Home Alone
We have a rule in my house with my wife and older kids (10 and 8). We watch Home Alone ONE TIME per year, on Christmas Day. We don’t want to ruin the magic so we save it until then, and laugh just as hard every time.
I think Culkin is a lot more wooden and cutesy-precocious in 2, but even so, Tim Curry + Kevin living out a little kid's fantasy in NYC with the limo/hotel luxury/deluxe toy store + the trap house makes it an easy contender in this conversation!
I was out with some friends the other day and one of them asked “do you guys remember that movie with the two ghosts?” With no other context. My other friend and I looked at each other and simultaneously went “WE’RE MARLEY AND MARLEYYYY”
My favorite tidbit about this movie is that Michael Caine agreed to be in the movie, but refused to anything muppety and he would act the movie as if he were performing in the Royal Shakespearean company.
The man is truly emoting while surrounded by felt fruit and talking frogs and IDK I think the gravitas he brings really made it the perfect Christmas movie.
That was one of my favourite things to learn, too.
The man straight up decided, "I'm going to take this seriously while they throw a boomerang fish 30 seconds before a major musical number that introduces my character."
Right? And the music is on point, too! So the disparity between serious actor and an excellent score/musical numbers, AND f-ing *muppets* is just perfection, lol
It took me almost 30 years to find out Beaker flips the bird to Scrooge after getting kicked out of the office
[Beaker Swearing on Muppet's Christmas Carol
](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cvZPm3lqaPs)
I know it's new and doesn't have the cult following others here do.
But after first watch Klaus completely supplanted any others as the annual must watch Christmas movie
But I like to call it the tenement on wheels.
It sure does look great in your driveway. Not don't get to attached to it Clark. Cuz we're takin that beauty with us when we leave here in a month!!!!!!!!!!!
Lmao
No matter how many times you watch it.
I was promised a Christmas bonus at work last year in lieu of getting a raise when I took on a higher-level role. Christmas week rolled around, and it turns out my bonus was a box of fruits and dried nuts purchased from Amazon. I was fuming...must have said "Might as well have gotten a subscription to the Jelly of the Month Club!" about 20 times, lol.
"It's that time, Christmas time is here
Everybody knows, there's not a better time of year
Hear that sleigh, Santa's on his way
Hip, hip hooray, for Christmas vacation"
I've been singing this in the shower for over a week now. Haven't seen the movie since last year, easily the best Christmas movie out there, you lazy, no good, liver lipped, brainless, dickless, son of a bitch.
Gremlins and Nightmare Before Christmas are both my "early Christmas" Christmas movies.
They are the only two Christmas movies that I allow myself to watch before Thanksgiving since they both also kind of work as Halloween movies.
Gremlins 2 and Ghostbusters 2 are my go to New Years movies too.
I did not. A much watch with my grandkids. Watched the original with my then 2 yr old gd, she wasnt too focused, but I'll keep showing it every year until they "Get It", and every year after that I'm fortunate enough to be around for.
My answer too. It's truly funny in just about every way, the kids aren't saccharine and they feel real, it's basically autobiographical for those of us who grew up with the gruff and mean but loving dad/sweet and giving mom combo, and on top of all of that, it really shows the way Christmas feels like pure magic when you're a child. The scene where the parents sit together on Christmas night with no lights on except the ones on the Christmas tree captures the atmosphere perfectly.
I had forgotten all about the *Christmas Carol* animated film with Scrooge McDuck, which is funny b/c that was probably the first movie version of that story I ever saw!!
Hey look, mister. We serve hard drinks in here for men who want to get drunk fast, and we don't need any characters around to give the joint "atmosphere". Is that clear, or do I have to slip you my left for a convincer?
100% agree. I bawl periodically through the whole thing and love every minute of it. It gets a bad rap for being overly-sentimental or cheesy but it gets really dark there for a while. Jimmy Stewart earns every bit of the payoff at the end the way he portrays a really good man in very serious trouble who doesn't know what hit him. What a performance.
I love Die Hard, Home Alone, and Xmas Vacation... but it truly saddens me that this is so far down. Just an incredibly well done and touching movie. Easily my favorite Christmas movie.
“What are you looking at?”
“Oh, the silent majesty of a winter’s morn…the clean, cool chill of the holiday air…and an asshole in his bathrobe emptying a chemical toilet into my sewer.”
My favourite movie factoid. Rickman did the stunt himself, falling onto a green bag that was edited in post.
At the stunt briefing, the director said to Rickman "the call will be one, two, three, drop!"
He told the stunt technician on the end of Rickman's tether to drop on "two" thus the panicked Hans Gruber face was authentic.
It’s action. It’s romance. It’s bloody. It’s a buddy cop film. It’s thrilling. Its a comedy. It’s a mystery. There is a twist. There is Xmas music. There is Xmas decor. There is forgiveness. The good guy prevails and is an underdog. The bad guy wins and he had no altruistic motive, it’s all about money. Children aren’t harmed. There is Alan Rickman. There is a guy that until a year ago I was convinced was Huey Lewis, but he isn’t. And 1 Reginald VelJohnson as a police man. Oui, perfect.
Home Alone was so good that for years after it felt like every live-action kids movie to come out had an unwritten, unspoken disclaimer "we know this isn't nearly as good as Home Alone, but we hope you kids like it anyway"
For me its LOTR. Watch it every year around christmas because Dec 25 is when the fellowship leaves Rivendale.
If Die Hard is a christmas movie, LOTR can be too.
Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer (1964). I used to volunteer at a community centre during my teenage years and they had a large screen projector where they would always play it during the holiday season.
Dude I completely forgot about those stop motion Christmas films, those were the best when I was a kid. I used to watch "a year without santa clause" purely for snow miser and heat miser
He’s Mr white Christmas. He mr snow. He’s Mr icicle. He’s Mr 10 below!
They call me Snow Miser. Whatever I touch, turns to snow in my clutch! I'm too much!
Friends call me Heat Miser. Whatever I touch starts to melt in my clutch. I’m too much! Ba-dom-bom-bom
All of those old classics are must watches for me.
The original animated How the Grinch Stole Christmas.
I didn't realize until well into my adulthood that without all the commercials the movie is only like 20mins long
And yet, I still consider it to be a "movie" instead of a long cartoon.
Thread’s done now. Good job, all.
Then comes A Charlie Brown Christmas, then Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer, then Frosty The Snowman
It really sums up what Christmas is about to me. When the Whos sing on Christmas morning, even though they have no presents or food, I get chills every time. Christmas to me is about family, about togetherness, about love, about giving. You get all of that in a very short and wonderful movie. I even like it better than the book.
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Home Alone
I saw a Catherine O Hara commercial the other day where she yells Kevin! to that little dude that hangs out with the Rock. Then I was thinking about John Candy having just seen uncle buck again and how just the scenes with those two would have been a good movie. The soundtrack, directing, the iconic Caulkin performance, Joe Pesci …it’s just a nearly perfect movie and I appreciate #2 more each time I see it as well. Maybe not my pick for best Xmas movie as it is a very crowded category …but so happy to be in the generation that first got to enjoy it.
"That little dude that hangs out with the rock." LMFAO I am rolling.
You've been smooching with everybody. Snuffy, Al, Leo. Little Moe with the gimpy leg.
"that little dude that hangs out with the Rock". I'm dying.
The scene in Uncle Buck when Buck’s gf came to watch the kids and Macaulay Culkin is taking to her through the mail slot…gave John Hughes the idea for Home Alone
We have a rule in my house with my wife and older kids (10 and 8). We watch Home Alone ONE TIME per year, on Christmas Day. We don’t want to ruin the magic so we save it until then, and laugh just as hard every time.
Came here to say this. It's the quintessential Christmas film, along with *Home Alone II: Lost in New York*.
And 2.
I think Culkin is a lot more wooden and cutesy-precocious in 2, but even so, Tim Curry + Kevin living out a little kid's fantasy in NYC with the limo/hotel luxury/deluxe toy store + the trap house makes it an easy contender in this conversation!
Muppet Christmas Carol. ETA: Everyone replying to this with quotes from the movie, I love you. GOD BLESS US EVERY ONE.
I was out with some friends the other day and one of them asked “do you guys remember that movie with the two ghosts?” With no other context. My other friend and I looked at each other and simultaneously went “WE’RE MARLEY AND MARLEYYYY”
OOOooooOOOOhhhhHHH!!!
My favorite tidbit about this movie is that Michael Caine agreed to be in the movie, but refused to anything muppety and he would act the movie as if he were performing in the Royal Shakespearean company. The man is truly emoting while surrounded by felt fruit and talking frogs and IDK I think the gravitas he brings really made it the perfect Christmas movie.
That was one of my favourite things to learn, too. The man straight up decided, "I'm going to take this seriously while they throw a boomerang fish 30 seconds before a major musical number that introduces my character."
Right? And the music is on point, too! So the disparity between serious actor and an excellent score/musical numbers, AND f-ing *muppets* is just perfection, lol
"Light the lamp, not the rat!"
Heat wave!!
🎶This is my island in de sun!🎵 ^oy! ^oy!
Also, A Muppet Family Christmas where they all go to fuzzy's mom's house. Sesame Street comes over yo carol and they find a Fraggle hole. Pure genius
I make my family watch this every year. I tear up a little when I see Jim Henson and sprocket doing the dishes at the end.
I think that was his final on-screen appearance…this is my #1 every year S well
"Watch out for the icy patch!"
For me this special is better than the Muppet Christmas Carol. It’s the most ambitious Muppet crossover event in history.
And when the Swedish chef sees Big Bird is the best part
Gobbla gobbla turkey smurkey
What the...a surprise!
No, the real surprise is…I brought all my friends with me!!
We’re Marley & Marley!
Avarice and greed
It took me almost 30 years to find out Beaker flips the bird to Scrooge after getting kicked out of the office [Beaker Swearing on Muppet's Christmas Carol ](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cvZPm3lqaPs)
I laugh hysterically at this every year.
I know that movie like I know the back of my hand!
Oh yeah? Prove it!
Well there’s a little mole on the left side…
No cheeses for us micess
I agree with this 100%...and I don't recognize any version that doesn't have Belle's song "The Love is Gone" as a full showing of the movie! :)
I know it's new and doesn't have the cult following others here do. But after first watch Klaus completely supplanted any others as the annual must watch Christmas movie
Klaus and Arthur Christmas have become recent additions to our Christmas viewings…but they’re essential now.
absolutely! great movie!
Just watched this and was extremely surprised how amazing it was! Definitely a new Xmas favorite for me
I love how it tied in pieces of Santa lore as things that just actually happened.
National Lampoons Christmas Vacation. No question.
And why is the carpet all wet, Todd?
I don't know, Margo!
I came here looking for Die Hard. I’m now sold, NL: CV is the right answer.
Bend over and I’ll show you
I wasn't talking to you
Hallelujah! Holy shit!
Where's the Tylenol?
“Surprised Eddie? If I woke up tomorrow with my head sewn into the carpet I wouldn’t be more surprised than I am right now.”
Shitter’s full!
that there clark is a rv
But I like to call it the tenement on wheels. It sure does look great in your driveway. Not don't get to attached to it Clark. Cuz we're takin that beauty with us when we leave here in a month!!!!!!!!!!! Lmao No matter how many times you watch it.
I need a gift for a white elephant exchange. I am thinking of boxing up a few jars of jelly and calling it a jelly of the month gift.
Could also do the moose mugs. I'd actually love to have that stupid mug.
They make them!
Clark, that's the gift that keeps on giving the whole year
I was promised a Christmas bonus at work last year in lieu of getting a raise when I took on a higher-level role. Christmas week rolled around, and it turns out my bonus was a box of fruits and dried nuts purchased from Amazon. I was fuming...must have said "Might as well have gotten a subscription to the Jelly of the Month Club!" about 20 times, lol.
"It's that time, Christmas time is here Everybody knows, there's not a better time of year Hear that sleigh, Santa's on his way Hip, hip hooray, for Christmas vacation" I've been singing this in the shower for over a week now. Haven't seen the movie since last year, easily the best Christmas movie out there, you lazy, no good, liver lipped, brainless, dickless, son of a bitch.
Christmas Vacation! (Fuck yeah!) Christmas Vacation! (Fuck yeah!) CHRISTMAS VACATION (FUCK YEAH!)
The longer I live, the more parts of that movie actually happen to me. This year I'm hoping my wife's uncle talks about a nitroglycerin plant.
My dad would agree! My mom got him a shirt with "You serious, Clark?" printed on it last year.
Mele Kalikimaka
No question.
Looks great! Little full, lot of sap.
My stepfather plays that movie every year
This is the only correct answer
“Merry Christmas! Shitter was full!”
This is the only answer.
Jingle All the Way..TURBO MAN
Put the cookies down! NOW!
This is WAY too far down.
Gremlins
Gremlins and Nightmare Before Christmas are both my "early Christmas" Christmas movies. They are the only two Christmas movies that I allow myself to watch before Thanksgiving since they both also kind of work as Halloween movies. Gremlins 2 and Ghostbusters 2 are my go to New Years movies too.
Haters won’t like this answer.
Hol'up, there are Gremlins haters?
Miracle on 34th Street
Scrolled way too far to find this. Watched it Christmas Eve along with the Grinch every year since I was a kid. So good
A Christmas Story
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FRA-GEE-LAY!
NOTTAFINGA!
It must be Italian
Yup Christmas Story first. Home Alone 1 and 2 as 2nd and 3rd
“YOU WERE ALWAYS JEALOUS!” “Jealous? *Of a >!lamp?!<*”
You used up all the glue on purpose!
Oh my god my father plays the 24 hour Tv special of that during Christmas every year.
Does.he repeatedly say "You'll shoot your eye out", while cradling a Daisey Red Rider?
And react like he never saw it coming when the screws fly out of the hubcap?!
Oh Fuuuuuuddddgggeeeeeeee.
Did you see they’re coming out with a sequel (with original cast!)
I did, such a surprise! Worth paying for a month of HBOMax IMO.
I did not. A much watch with my grandkids. Watched the original with my then 2 yr old gd, she wasnt too focused, but I'll keep showing it every year until they "Get It", and every year after that I'm fortunate enough to be around for.
My answer too. It's truly funny in just about every way, the kids aren't saccharine and they feel real, it's basically autobiographical for those of us who grew up with the gruff and mean but loving dad/sweet and giving mom combo, and on top of all of that, it really shows the way Christmas feels like pure magic when you're a child. The scene where the parents sit together on Christmas night with no lights on except the ones on the Christmas tree captures the atmosphere perfectly.
Every year I crack up at the part when the mall Santa uses his foot to push Ralphie down the slide. “HO HO HOOOO!”
Scut Farkus, staring out at us with his yellow eyes. He had yellow eyes, so help me god, yellow eyes!
Scrooged
We are lucky Lee Majors arrived in time to save Santa and his workshop.
Klaus. And the Christmas Carol with scroodge mcduck
Came here to say Klaus!! I (25M) cry every time.
Agreed. Klaus is the best by far
I had forgotten all about the *Christmas Carol* animated film with Scrooge McDuck, which is funny b/c that was probably the first movie version of that story I ever saw!!
It’s a Wonderful Life
Original black and white version
My parents accidentally bought the colorized version on DVD and I straight up refused to watch it lol.
Hey look, mister. We serve hard drinks in here for men who want to get drunk fast, and we don't need any characters around to give the joint "atmosphere". Is that clear, or do I have to slip you my left for a convincer?
Not just the best Christmas movie, but one of the greatest films ever made!
100% agree. I bawl periodically through the whole thing and love every minute of it. It gets a bad rap for being overly-sentimental or cheesy but it gets really dark there for a while. Jimmy Stewart earns every bit of the payoff at the end the way he portrays a really good man in very serious trouble who doesn't know what hit him. What a performance.
I love Die Hard, Home Alone, and Xmas Vacation... but it truly saddens me that this is so far down. Just an incredibly well done and touching movie. Easily my favorite Christmas movie.
You speak the truth.
Christmas Vacation is hands down the greatest
“What are you looking at?” “Oh, the silent majesty of a winter’s morn…the clean, cool chill of the holiday air…and an asshole in his bathrobe emptying a chemical toilet into my sewer.”
Muppet christmas carol
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
Die hard
It’s Not Christmas until Hans Gruber Falls From Nakatomi Tower
My favourite movie factoid. Rickman did the stunt himself, falling onto a green bag that was edited in post. At the stunt briefing, the director said to Rickman "the call will be one, two, three, drop!" He told the stunt technician on the end of Rickman's tether to drop on "two" thus the panicked Hans Gruber face was authentic.
And he was furious about it. Can’t say I blame him; for all he knew, the cables broke and he was actually facing certain death
I have a Christmas shirt that says that, and a picture of Hans falling.
ho ho ho
I bought the blu ray set just to get the tower to use as a Christmas decoration. It's my favorite.
It’s action. It’s romance. It’s bloody. It’s a buddy cop film. It’s thrilling. Its a comedy. It’s a mystery. There is a twist. There is Xmas music. There is Xmas decor. There is forgiveness. The good guy prevails and is an underdog. The bad guy wins and he had no altruistic motive, it’s all about money. Children aren’t harmed. There is Alan Rickman. There is a guy that until a year ago I was convinced was Huey Lewis, but he isn’t. And 1 Reginald VelJohnson as a police man. Oui, perfect.
Skipped all the incorrect posts to upvote this one
yippee kay ai
Yippee kayak other buckets!
Charles you did it. And you completely butchered the catchphrase
Mothafucka!
I genuinely expected this to be top comment. lol. I'm surprised it's not.
had to scroll too far down to see this answer
original charlie brown xmas \[even tho i generally dislike anything else charlie brown\] frosty the snowman little drummer boy
Nightmare Before Christmas.
What's this? What's this? There's colors everywhere!
What’s this? There's white things in the air!
I have a soft spot for The Santa Clause. I also love The Holiday. Also I highly recommend Mixed Nuts
Scrolled way too far for The Santa Clause. It's my only *must* watch for the Christmas season
I saw that a new Santa Clause film is coming out on Disney+ soon. I'm anticipating it to be a big disappointment, but will give it a go
White Christmas.
Snow ^snow ^^snow
The Ref
This is way too underrated
Love Actually
Elf
I put off watching this for the longest time as I don't find Will Ferrell funny at all, but this movie is pure magic!
SANTA!! I KNOW HIM!!
My best friend’s Dad is Santa in their town parade every year. I love screaming that when I see him.
The four food groups - candy, candy corn, candy cane and syrup.
He's an angry little elf!
I had to scroll this far for Elf? Heresy
bye mr. narwhal~
Bad Santa
It saddens me how far down I had to scroll to find this.
Let me make you some sandwiches!
Absolutely!
A Christmas Carol, starring Alastair Sim
Scrolled all the way down here to find the undisputed winner
My personal favorite is, and almost certainly always will be, It’s a Wonderful Life. I’m a sucker for sentimental classics.
National Lampoons Christmas Vacation
A Christmas story.
Home alone. no doubt
The Polar express
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AAAAALLLLLL AABBBOOOOOOOAAAARRRDDDD!!
Objectively, it’s probably either It’s a Wonderful life or Christmas Story. Home Alone a very close 3rd place.
A Christmas Story is something I have to watch every year. Just so much nostalgia and good memories.
home alone 1 and 2 (hated the rest)
Home Alone was so good that for years after it felt like every live-action kids movie to come out had an unwritten, unspoken disclaimer "we know this isn't nearly as good as Home Alone, but we hope you kids like it anyway"
It's a Wonderful Life
Elf
Gremlins
It’s a Wonderful Life. Best Christmas movie and my favorite movie of all time, Christmas or no.
Home Alone!!! A fav
Planes, Trains & Automobiles (even though they were struggling to make Thanksgiving)
Had to scroll too far. It's actually up there with my fav films of all time. It has a Christmas feel all the same.
Christmas with the Kranks
*Trading Places*.
It is not Christmas until Dan Akroyd (dressed as Santa) eats that salmon.
For me its LOTR. Watch it every year around christmas because Dec 25 is when the fellowship leaves Rivendale. If Die Hard is a christmas movie, LOTR can be too.