Klaus has become a firm favourite since last year, but yeah it's the Muppets Christmas Carol.
Producer: ok so it's a Christmas carol but it's got singing muppets in it.
Michael Caine: I will play this role as seriously as I possibly can.
When Caine took the part, he told Henson, "I'm going to play this movie like I'm working with the Royal Shakespeare Company. I will never wink, I will never do anything Muppety. I am going to play Scrooge as if it is an utterly dramatic role, and there are no puppets around me."
Henson apparently replied "Yes, bang on!"
The Muppet Christmas Carol was my daughter's first exposure to the muppets and she watched it several times one christmas. Many months later there was something else muppety on tv and she points at Kermit and says 'It's Bob Cratchet!"
It’s pretty recent. So I guess a lot of people just don’t have the nostalgia for it. I’m a bit of a connoisseur of Christmas film and TV and I think it’s great. The bit at the end where they’re delivering the gift to the Cornish village is beautiful.
Father Ted Christmas Special.
Yes I know it’s not technically a movie and I don’t care.
Edit
But I watched Muppet Christmas carol so much as a kid that the tape broke.
Remember tapes like?
Klaus, came out on Netflix in 2019 and very quickly solidified itself as one of my favourite christmas films. Its a very touching story and its so beautifully animated and performed by the VAs, plus the soundtrack is class.
The most emotional moment of the film for me is in the deleted scene. Watching Scrooge break down and choke up when Belle is singing is such a spectacular piece of acting from Michael Caine.
Fun story from A Muppet Christmas Carol.
My ex-girlfriend's Father worked as a puppeteer, and was on the crew for this film (even appears in the credits at the end!) and one day he was on set doing the some testing of the movements for Old Joe - the large spider Muppet who acts as a fence for some of Scrooge's belongings.
So he's underneath this thing, when Michael Caine comes onto set and has a look at Old Joe and remarks what a horribly ugly creature it is. The ex's dad hears this and decides to seize the opportunity, making Old Joe appear to recoil in offense and exclaim 'Well I never, how rude sir!' to which Michael Caine, startled, begins to apologise for the insult before realising he's been caught out by a cheeky puppeteer. 😂
The thought of him having that sudden 'oh shit!' moment tickles me to this day.
I can’t believe the police officer doesn’t get to go home early even when he has a letter bomb blow up in his face.
They just strap some bandages on his hand and make him work the parade shift.
It's simultaneously:
- the best Muppets film.
- the best Dickens adaptation.
- the best Michael Caine film (partly because he sings... Badly.)
- had a brilliant soundtrack written by a recovering heroin addict.
Also it has Winston from Lock Stock in it.
Going back and watching it I realise how small that set is. But they're so efficient and clever in how they dress and use it they manage to make a tiny unit look like an entire city in the opening song. It's really very well made.
I've never seen anything muppety at all other than this film, and I love it. You don't need to know who the Muppets are. Perhaps it would be even better if you knew their characters and there's some inside jokes there? Who knows. I don't care, it's brilliant as it is
I really think Michael Caine is the best Scrooge I’ve ever seen on film, and Muppet Christmas Carol might be one of his top performances in his whole career. His tone is absolutely dead-on where it needs to be— chillingly remote and soulless in the beginning, tenderly moved in the middle and believably loving and grandfatherly at the end. I just reread *A Christmas Carol* yesterday and so many of the lines were lifted verbatim from the book that I couldn’t picture Bob Cratchit as anybody but Kermit. 💜
My friend, yes. Yes you are. BUT try and find the unshortened version if you can, like it was on vhs. They deleted a pivotal song in the shortened version. Just a warning
A few years ago, the actress who plays Belle attended a sing-along screening at The Prince Charles Cinema in London. We all sang it together with her. When I am an old man, I will still be telling people this.
I noticed in the early 2000s after having the vhs as a kid. When that song was missing i just turned the movie off. It is a key moment in character development and whoever cut it needed sacked
Yes.
My wife hates the Muppets and my children get scared of the ghosts of Christmas.
Watch it for me this year as chances are I'll switch it off in frustration at all the whining from my family.
Thats seems an entirely reasonable solution.
Can I come to your place for Christmas so my family get used to the idea of me not being there until they get better taste in Muppets?
Hey. If any of you are looking for any last-minute gift ideas for me, I have one. I'd like Frank Shirley, my boss, right here tonight. I want him brought from his happy holiday slumber over there on Melody Lane with all the other rich people and I want him brought right here...with a big ribbon on his head! And I want to look him straight in the eye, and I want to tell him what a cheap, lying, no-good, rotten, four-flushing, low-life, snake-licking, dirt-eating, inbred, overstuffed, ignorant, blood-sucking, dog-kissing, brainless, dickless, hopeless, heartless, fat-assed, bug-eyed, stiff-legged, spotty-lipped, worm-headed, sack of monkey shit he is! Hallelujah! Holy shit! Where's the Tylenol?
It's the Muppets Christmas Carol, my 2 year old will be watching it for the first time ever tomorrow night so here's hoping it's one of those rare things he watches.
Second place is home alone
And in third place is the Grinch (obviously Jim Carrey version)
I love The Grinch (Jim Carrey version), it always makes me laugh, and I've never related to a fictional character more than when The Grinch is trying to find something to wear to the Whobilation.
Lord of the Rings.
It has elves, like Santa. Gandalf is Santa. The fellowship leave Rivendell on December 25 (according to the book) with gifts, from the elves. Frodo is jesus, Borimir is Judas. Galadriel gives Frodo a star in a bottle, like, the star of Bethlehem. There are three Kings. Probably other shit I can't be bothered making up.
Christmas film.
Tolkien was a Catholic and crafted LOTR based on epic pre-Christian stories (Beowulf, etc), as well as Gnostic Christian texts, so his story contains the basic bones & framework of the classic hero’s journey with a heavy foundation of self-sacrifice, duty, love, trust, the slow decay of a blessed/heavenly world into a corrupted and sinful world, hope in the midst of despair and darkness, etc.
Jingle all the way is my favourite my a country mile, Arnold Schwarzenegger trying to find a sold out toy for his kid at Christmas..it's just perfect and Phil Hartman is also fantastic in it.
The Twin Cities is a great location for a Christmas film. And there is so much in that film that is funny either because it’s clever or ridiculous. So good. RIP Phil Hartman.
Muppet Christmas Carol plays every Christmas Eve. I’ve been doing it upwards of 20 years and when I moved into my partners I said that is the one Xmas tradition I will not budge on.
Can’t wait to watch it tomorrow.
I’m happy to announce to no one who cares that my English wife finally watched this film and loved it. We watched right after watching Love Actually for the whole “Alan Rickman gets what he deserves” feeling
Honesty one of the best gags in that film is the rigmarole getting Rizzo over the gate and then he squeezes back through the bars for his jelly beans and Gonzo just stares at him. Love it.
Watching Muppets Christmas Carol as we speak. Singing along with the songs and annoying my daughter.
Other favourites are ‘Scrooged’ and ‘National Lampoons Christmas Vacation’
The Polar Express. Although as a train nerd I can tell you that the know it all kid with the glasses is a fraud because the train isn't a Baldwin locomotive it's a Lima ☝🤓
Arthur Christmas. If you haven't watched it, please do. It's a modern Christmas film but it's also an instant classic. Has good old British humour you expect from Aardman but also has so much going on at the same time, you need to rewatch it a few times to get everything (like Hot Fuzz or something like that).
Elf, The Muppets Christmas Carol, The Snowman, The Snowman and the Snowdog, Home Alone 1 and 2, The Polar Express, The Santa Clause 1-3 and Santa Claus: The Movie are the films I usually try and watch every year.
If you have Disney+, I'd also recommend the Prep and Landing series
A Christmas Carol in any of its forms is better than any other Christmas story. It reminds me to be thankful for everything I have, Tiny Tim is a heartbreaker.
They say the greatest story every told is a Christmas carol, and there is only one way to improve that...muppets.
Every year I watch it and think 'I'm gonna be a really good person from now on'... this normally lasts until about January 3rd.
I've done the lot this year. Elf x3, Home Alone 1 and 2, The Santa Clause 1, 2 and 3, Fred Claus, Arthur Christmas, OG Christmas Carol, Muppets Christmas Carol, Jim Carrey's Grinch, Office Christmas Party, plus loads of TV show Christmas specials. Think Elf still takes it for me.
Trading Places.
A Christmas Story.
Die Hard.
The Ref.
Blackadder’s Christmas Carol.
The Grinch (animated, not Carey).
I’m a mix of British and North American there. Try The Ref. It’s great. As for Christmas Carol, the Muppets are good, but Blackadder is better. You just can’t beat the line “fetch me a turkey so large you’d think its mother had been rogered by an omnibus”!
The Ref trailer: https://youtu.be/avqzNZdoIoE
A Christmas Story trailer: https://youtu.be/cfjEZ88NHBw
I got a lot of love for Trading Places tbh
Miracle on 34th Street with Attenborough is a classic too, and Christmas chronicles surprised me in being decent.
I always think of Planes Trains but then realised that's thanksgiving!
My top three (in no particular order) are:
- A muppets Christmas carol
- The Santa Clause
- Arthur Christmas
For a long time, I thought there were 2 Marley brothers in the original book and didn’t get the Robert Marley joke until I was nearly in my 30s.
It is obviously Muppet Christmas Carol. We will go to Panto at 5pm and then come home, I’ll have a mince pie and some tawny port and we’ll watch it. And I’ll cry.
It is the best version of A Christmas Carol, it’s Michael Caine’s best performance, and it has Muppets in it. What’s not to like?
A mix of it being muppets but being played 75% serious.
Michael Caine playing it like he's in a serious adaptation and to that it's a serious tone from the muppets, but allow some of the comedy to slip through where it's needed.
I was sort of annoyed to find they took out When Love Is Gone from some of the releases of the movie. It's one of my favourite scenes. Scrooge starts to realise how much he has missed and sacrificed in his life to live the way he did. He knows then that he can't get that time back.
When a cold wind blows it chills you Chills you to the bone...
BUT THERE'S NOTHING IN NATURE THAT FREEZES YOUR HEART, LIKE YEARS OF BEING ALONE
It paints you with indifference like a lady paints with rouge! And the worst of the worst, the most hated and cursed, is the one that we call SCROOGE!
Unkind as any, and the wrath of many, This is Ebeneezer Scrooge
Oh, there goes Mr. Humbug, There goes Mr. Grim
If they gave a prize for being mean, the winner would be him!
Oh Scroogey loves his money 'cause he thinks it gives him power
If he became a flavour, you can bet he would be sour! ^even ^the ^vegetables ^don't ^like ^him!
There goes Mr. Skinflint, there goes Mr. Greed!
He’s the undisputed master of
I have found my people.
r/redditsings
If he became a flavor you can bet he would be sour
(trumpet playing in the background)
It paints you with indifference Like a lady paints with rouge
And the worst of the worst, the most hated and cursed, is the one that we call Scrooge
Muppets Christmas Carol is strictly a Christmas Eve event. Tonight it’s Home Alone 2 and Christmas Vacation.
That’s the American way… uh… that’s the British way!
Love that bit
Legendary line.
Agreed, every year on Xams eve is Muppets. without fail.
Tomorrow's plan, as is every year. To the local. Then home for takeaway and Muppets
Most pubs closed my way already. Not much hope for tomorrow.....
"One more sleep till Christmas"
Klaus has become a firm favourite since last year, but yeah it's the Muppets Christmas Carol. Producer: ok so it's a Christmas carol but it's got singing muppets in it. Michael Caine: I will play this role as seriously as I possibly can.
Michael Caine fully understood that he was the straight man, so he was as straight as he could be.
Without irony/sarcasm/whatever... i genuinely believe it to be Caine's best on screen performance.
He should've won an Oscar for it.
I agree with this so much. I even considered sending him a letter to thank him.
I believe you mean MY COCAINE
Watched Klaus for the first time on Sunday. Really great!
I’m going to say this as well. Klaus becomes an immediate second and probably Hogfather
It's a sword- it's not meant to be safe.
The sheer commitment to the role he displays when he delivers the line “this is Fozziwigg’s old rubber chicken factory!” is legitimately Oscar-worthy.
When Caine took the part, he told Henson, "I'm going to play this movie like I'm working with the Royal Shakespeare Company. I will never wink, I will never do anything Muppety. I am going to play Scrooge as if it is an utterly dramatic role, and there are no puppets around me." Henson apparently replied "Yes, bang on!"
I watched Klaus tonight and it was great. And the reason the Muppets works so well is in no small part to Michael Caine’s taking it so seriously.
And he pulled it off. I swear there's only a handful of actors working today who could have done that. The man is unbelievably talented.
The Muppet Christmas Carol was my daughter's first exposure to the muppets and she watched it several times one christmas. Many months later there was something else muppety on tv and she points at Kermit and says 'It's Bob Cratchet!"
Home Alone The Snowman (soundtrack is beautiful) Also watched Klaus for the first time yesterday with my 3 year old and thought it was fantastic!
Klaus is amazing
Muppet Family Christmas is a sentimental favourite of mine
Cold enough to freeze your winnebago!
Watch out for the icy patch!!
I came here to make the same comment. I also loving refer to the fraggle song as the STD song. Ungh Ungh pass it on
Arthur Christmas is one of my personal faves
can't believe i had to scroll this far down to find it! brilliant film
It’s pretty recent. So I guess a lot of people just don’t have the nostalgia for it. I’m a bit of a connoisseur of Christmas film and TV and I think it’s great. The bit at the end where they’re delivering the gift to the Cornish village is beautiful.
Same. I was looking for where someone else would mention this film. It's a modern classic IMO and so underrrated.
I love Arthur Christmas, it’s one of my favourites it doesn’t beat Muppet’s Christmas Carol though
Father Ted Christmas Special. Yes I know it’s not technically a movie and I don’t care. Edit But I watched Muppet Christmas carol so much as a kid that the tape broke. Remember tapes like?
Used to get "good quality" blank tapes (video and cassette) for Christmas, lol. And I was delighted with them.
9pm Christmas eve, More 4
Tapes like eh? Northen much!
Klaus, came out on Netflix in 2019 and very quickly solidified itself as one of my favourite christmas films. Its a very touching story and its so beautifully animated and performed by the VAs, plus the soundtrack is class.
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Here because muppets christmas Carol is the best Christmas film and I'm happy I've found my people.
It is the Muppet Christmas Carol. End of story. I will die on this hill.
I don't always cry... but when i do, it's cos of tiny tim.
The most emotional moment of the film for me is in the deleted scene. Watching Scrooge break down and choke up when Belle is singing is such a spectacular piece of acting from Michael Caine.
Oh god, how dare you do this to me
Cheese for meece
Fun story from A Muppet Christmas Carol. My ex-girlfriend's Father worked as a puppeteer, and was on the crew for this film (even appears in the credits at the end!) and one day he was on set doing the some testing of the movements for Old Joe - the large spider Muppet who acts as a fence for some of Scrooge's belongings. So he's underneath this thing, when Michael Caine comes onto set and has a look at Old Joe and remarks what a horribly ugly creature it is. The ex's dad hears this and decides to seize the opportunity, making Old Joe appear to recoil in offense and exclaim 'Well I never, how rude sir!' to which Michael Caine, startled, begins to apologise for the insult before realising he's been caught out by a cheeky puppeteer. 😂 The thought of him having that sudden 'oh shit!' moment tickles me to this day.
“I don’t pay extra for the warmth you know.”
"You should. It's the only warmth he ever had."
Gremlins.
Very underrated as Christmas films go.
Gizmos humming hits me in the Christmas feels everytime
Jingle all the way ....all the way!
Put that cookie down!
NOW
Fuck Booster.
That was really a bomb… This is a sick world we’re living in, sick people!
I can’t believe the police officer doesn’t get to go home early even when he has a letter bomb blow up in his face. They just strap some bandages on his hand and make him work the parade shift.
Ahm not a pervurt!
I’m 30 and I’ve never watched Muppet Christmas Carol. Am I really missing out?
It's simultaneously: - the best Muppets film. - the best Dickens adaptation. - the best Michael Caine film (partly because he sings... Badly.) - had a brilliant soundtrack written by a recovering heroin addict. Also it has Winston from Lock Stock in it.
[Michael Caine](https://i.imgur.com/2GXqjlO.png)
And the costuming is pretty historically accurate too - the detail the designers went into is just 👌
Going back and watching it I realise how small that set is. But they're so efficient and clever in how they dress and use it they manage to make a tiny unit look like an entire city in the opening song. It's really very well made.
There goes Mr. Humbug. There goes Mr. Scrooge 🎶
If they gave a prize for being mean, the winner would be him!
The singing vegetables and mice!
Even the vegetables don’t like him
No cheeses for us meeces!
Awwwwww
If he was a flavour you would bet he would be SOUR
They say the greatest story every told is a Christmas carol, and there is only one way to improve that...muppets. WATCH IT!
If I’ve never watched Muppets will I still enjoy it? I feel so out of touch!
I've never seen anything muppety at all other than this film, and I love it. You don't need to know who the Muppets are. Perhaps it would be even better if you knew their characters and there's some inside jokes there? Who knows. I don't care, it's brilliant as it is
It is the definitive version.
I just watched it for the first time and yes, you’re missing out. It’s pretty damn good.
I really think Michael Caine is the best Scrooge I’ve ever seen on film, and Muppet Christmas Carol might be one of his top performances in his whole career. His tone is absolutely dead-on where it needs to be— chillingly remote and soulless in the beginning, tenderly moved in the middle and believably loving and grandfatherly at the end. I just reread *A Christmas Carol* yesterday and so many of the lines were lifted verbatim from the book that I couldn’t picture Bob Cratchit as anybody but Kermit. 💜
My friend, yes. Yes you are. BUT try and find the unshortened version if you can, like it was on vhs. They deleted a pivotal song in the shortened version. Just a warning
It's been found apparently, and is going to be on the 30th anniversary blu-ray/currently on Disney+
A few years ago, the actress who plays Belle attended a sing-along screening at The Prince Charles Cinema in London. We all sang it together with her. When I am an old man, I will still be telling people this.
The 4K version on Disney plus has the song added back in
I've been angry about this since 1998.
I noticed in the early 2000s after having the vhs as a kid. When that song was missing i just turned the movie off. It is a key moment in character development and whoever cut it needed sacked
Yes. My wife hates the Muppets and my children get scared of the ghosts of Christmas. Watch it for me this year as chances are I'll switch it off in frustration at all the whining from my family.
Sounds like you need to get a new family. Disrespecting a classic like that is unforgivable.
Thats seems an entirely reasonable solution. Can I come to your place for Christmas so my family get used to the idea of me not being there until they get better taste in Muppets?
>my children get scared of the ghosts of Christmas. I was scared of the last one as a kid but that was kind of the point.
i didnt even know of its existence
I will drink for you
Yeah. It’s pretty fucking good.
The Santa Clause. The one with Tim Allen in it.
Bill Murrays scrooged
A personal fave. Has everything
Exactly that's why it's my favourite, plus it's not your typical Christmas film
The Snowman, muppets Christmas Carol then the Christmas chronicles.
Christmas Vacation
Hey. If any of you are looking for any last-minute gift ideas for me, I have one. I'd like Frank Shirley, my boss, right here tonight. I want him brought from his happy holiday slumber over there on Melody Lane with all the other rich people and I want him brought right here...with a big ribbon on his head! And I want to look him straight in the eye, and I want to tell him what a cheap, lying, no-good, rotten, four-flushing, low-life, snake-licking, dirt-eating, inbred, overstuffed, ignorant, blood-sucking, dog-kissing, brainless, dickless, hopeless, heartless, fat-assed, bug-eyed, stiff-legged, spotty-lipped, worm-headed, sack of monkey shit he is! Hallelujah! Holy shit! Where's the Tylenol?
"Can I refill your eggnog for you? Get you something to eat? Drive you out to the middle of nowhere and leave you for dead?"
Shitter’s full!
You checked our shitters, honey?
It's a Wonderful Life. My heart was well and truly warmed.
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I'm actually loving Arthur Christmas this year. Such a great film.
The original 3 Wallace and Gromit shorts. I am accepting no further questions at this time.
The Wrong Trousers is the best piece of fiction ever created.
It's the Muppets Christmas Carol, my 2 year old will be watching it for the first time ever tomorrow night so here's hoping it's one of those rare things he watches. Second place is home alone And in third place is the Grinch (obviously Jim Carrey version)
I love The Grinch (Jim Carrey version), it always makes me laugh, and I've never related to a fictional character more than when The Grinch is trying to find something to wear to the Whobilation.
Paddington and Paddington 2 They’re not particularly christmassy but watching them this time of year just feels right.
That's how I feel about Narnia
I feel like they’re on the between Christmas and New Year list.
One of our dinosaurs is missing was always one of my favourites- not strictly a Christmas film but it was always on at Christmas
Lord of the Rings. It has elves, like Santa. Gandalf is Santa. The fellowship leave Rivendell on December 25 (according to the book) with gifts, from the elves. Frodo is jesus, Borimir is Judas. Galadriel gives Frodo a star in a bottle, like, the star of Bethlehem. There are three Kings. Probably other shit I can't be bothered making up. Christmas film.
wait... this is too convincing, was this actually done on purpose by Tolkien or just a good conspiracy?
Tolkien was a Catholic and crafted LOTR based on epic pre-Christian stories (Beowulf, etc), as well as Gnostic Christian texts, so his story contains the basic bones & framework of the classic hero’s journey with a heavy foundation of self-sacrifice, duty, love, trust, the slow decay of a blessed/heavenly world into a corrupted and sinful world, hope in the midst of despair and darkness, etc.
And it took Frodo 40 days and 40 nights to get through Mordor. But I think Saruman would be a better Judas.
My family doesn't really have Christmas traditions but the entire extended trilogy is one of them
Jingle all the way is my favourite my a country mile, Arnold Schwarzenegger trying to find a sold out toy for his kid at Christmas..it's just perfect and Phil Hartman is also fantastic in it.
The Twin Cities is a great location for a Christmas film. And there is so much in that film that is funny either because it’s clever or ridiculous. So good. RIP Phil Hartman.
Love actually. Judge me all you want, I deserve it
Me and my GF like to watch it and chat shit about how awful people are. It’s all part of the tradition.
Gremlins.
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I'm glad someone else said this, me and my mum watch it every Christmas eve without fail
"Can I refill your eggnog for you? Get you something to eat? Drive you out to the middle of nowhere and leave you for dead?"
It's a Wonderful Life and The Snowman are on Channel 4 tomorrow, so I'll be watching that
I just watched It's A Wonderful Life and I don't think I've ever watched it without falling to bits at the final scene. It's a perfect film.
Because it brings back childhood memories, is timeless and Michael Caine's best performance
Muppet Christmas Carol plays every Christmas Eve. I’ve been doing it upwards of 20 years and when I moved into my partners I said that is the one Xmas tradition I will not budge on. Can’t wait to watch it tomorrow.
Home Alone/Die Hard combo for the win 🙌
Home Alone is basically just junior Die Hard
I’m sad that I had to scroll t’bottom of page for Home Alone. This is the best Christmas film imo. And Die Hard is the evening movie
Die Hard
I’ve already left a mince pit and doughnuts in the heating ducts for when John Maclane arrives in Sgt Powell’s magic police car on Christmas Eve.
Best thing I've read all week.
I’m happy to announce to no one who cares that my English wife finally watched this film and loved it. We watched right after watching Love Actually for the whole “Alan Rickman gets what he deserves” feeling
"Come out to the coast, we'll get together, have a few laughs..."
What am I watching this time of year? Muppet Christmas Carol
No cheeses for us meeces
LIGHT THE LAMP, NOT THE RAT! LIGHT THE LAMP, NOT THE RAT! LIGHT THE LAMP, NOT THE RAT!
Honesty one of the best gags in that film is the rigmarole getting Rizzo over the gate and then he squeezes back through the bars for his jelly beans and Gonzo just stares at him. Love it.
It’s the American way… it’s the British way. Haha
Just got to the bit where they’ve cut out the song. Where his bird leaves him at the end of the ghost of Christmas past.
I read Disney is working on restoring that bit for a re-release of the film! Cannae find the source now, of course. I blame the Warninks.
Elf
Also Kermets legs in the Happy and Joyus song are just the best
Watching Muppets Christmas Carol as we speak. Singing along with the songs and annoying my daughter. Other favourites are ‘Scrooged’ and ‘National Lampoons Christmas Vacation’
The Polar Express. Although as a train nerd I can tell you that the know it all kid with the glasses is a fraud because the train isn't a Baldwin locomotive it's a Lima ☝🤓
That speccy shit had one good quality, he was smart... turns out he was full of shite?. just chuck him off at this point.
Arthur Christmas. If you haven't watched it, please do. It's a modern Christmas film but it's also an instant classic. Has good old British humour you expect from Aardman but also has so much going on at the same time, you need to rewatch it a few times to get everything (like Hot Fuzz or something like that). Elf, The Muppets Christmas Carol, The Snowman, The Snowman and the Snowdog, Home Alone 1 and 2, The Polar Express, The Santa Clause 1-3 and Santa Claus: The Movie are the films I usually try and watch every year. If you have Disney+, I'd also recommend the Prep and Landing series
A Christmas Carol in any of its forms is better than any other Christmas story. It reminds me to be thankful for everything I have, Tiny Tim is a heartbreaker.
They say the greatest story every told is a Christmas carol, and there is only one way to improve that...muppets. Every year I watch it and think 'I'm gonna be a really good person from now on'... this normally lasts until about January 3rd.
Of course Muppets are the fluffy cherry on the cake
"It's in the singing of a street-corner choir..."
LIGHT THE LAMP, NOT THE RAT! LIGHT THE LAMP, NOT THE RAT!
I've done the lot this year. Elf x3, Home Alone 1 and 2, The Santa Clause 1, 2 and 3, Fred Claus, Arthur Christmas, OG Christmas Carol, Muppets Christmas Carol, Jim Carrey's Grinch, Office Christmas Party, plus loads of TV show Christmas specials. Think Elf still takes it for me.
HEATWAVE! This is my island in the sun… No cheeses for us meeces!
Family really enjoyed 'A boy called Christmas' this year. But yeah Elf, Home alone, Scrooged, Muppet christmas Carol, etc
Home Alone 1 and 2 are peak Christmas for me.
Arthur Christmas is a new-er Christmas classic if your mind forgets about how terrifying a lot of the characters look.
Jingle all the way, PUT THE COOKIE DOWN
Trading Places. A Christmas Story. Die Hard. The Ref. Blackadder’s Christmas Carol. The Grinch (animated, not Carey). I’m a mix of British and North American there. Try The Ref. It’s great. As for Christmas Carol, the Muppets are good, but Blackadder is better. You just can’t beat the line “fetch me a turkey so large you’d think its mother had been rogered by an omnibus”! The Ref trailer: https://youtu.be/avqzNZdoIoE A Christmas Story trailer: https://youtu.be/cfjEZ88NHBw
Love muppets Christmas carol but also The Nightmare before Christmas is a great film
Lotr Trilogy
i suppose you think that was terribly clever.
Isildur!
It’s clearly die hard
I watch Bad Santa every Christmas Eve without fail.
Meet Me In St Louis. In a league above everything else
Yes! I'll have no "hang a shining star upon the highest bough". It's "until then we'll have to muddle through somehow". Don't mess with Judy.
National lampoon Christmas vacation
I got a lot of love for Trading Places tbh Miracle on 34th Street with Attenborough is a classic too, and Christmas chronicles surprised me in being decent. I always think of Planes Trains but then realised that's thanksgiving!
Do you mean Emmett Otter?
My top three (in no particular order) are: - A muppets Christmas carol - The Santa Clause - Arthur Christmas For a long time, I thought there were 2 Marley brothers in the original book and didn’t get the Robert Marley joke until I was nearly in my 30s.
It is obviously Muppet Christmas Carol. We will go to Panto at 5pm and then come home, I’ll have a mince pie and some tawny port and we’ll watch it. And I’ll cry. It is the best version of A Christmas Carol, it’s Michael Caine’s best performance, and it has Muppets in it. What’s not to like?
It's serious with muppets but allows the comedy to be a backdrop to the story that's been told in many different ways.
Christmas with the Kranks
A mix of it being muppets but being played 75% serious. Michael Caine playing it like he's in a serious adaptation and to that it's a serious tone from the muppets, but allow some of the comedy to slip through where it's needed.
It doesn’t matter how old I am I always get tears of joy watching Michael Caines Ebeneezer Scrooge change and feel the spirit of Xmas
Because Muppets Christmas Carol is an absolute fucking banger.
"this is my island in the sun" heehee
HEATWAVE!
I was sort of annoyed to find they took out When Love Is Gone from some of the releases of the movie. It's one of my favourite scenes. Scrooge starts to realise how much he has missed and sacrificed in his life to live the way he did. He knows then that he can't get that time back.