Hey Pandas, What Is Your Favorite Christmas Movie And Why? (Closed)

Christmas Carole/Scrooge: Redemption. Same reason for Grinch.

Grinch and Christmas Carole/Scrooge: Redemption.

The Nightmare Before Christmas. I love Jack Skellington's spooky take on the holiday!

Nightmare before Christmas

Bad Santa, I just love the swearing.

jingle all the way. it was me and my siblings favorite movie and even now it still makes us almost die from laughter.

BRAZIL (Terry Gilliam) and MIXED NUTS (Steve Martin). BRAZIL about dysfunctional future life, xmas, greed and love. The connecting fantasy sequences in-between modern life will scare you. MIXED NUTS from Steve Martin is incredibly overlooked by even Steve M fans. Venice Beach, sight gags, incredible cast, life and death, strange ending. Treat yourself to these off-beat delights!

It's a tie between Klaus and Grinch (Jim Carrey version...not that Benadryl Crumpleback version with white teeth and his biggest problem is making groceries lol).

Grandma got run over by a reindeer. It's original, funny and cute. What more could you ask for?

In no particular order...

1. A Christmas Carol (the 1951 version with Alastair Sim).

2. A Christmas Story.

3. Miracle On 34th Street (with Edmund Gwenn).

4. Not a movie, but .. How The Grinch Stole Christmas (the real one, not the Jim Carrey farce).

5. Last, but not least .. A Charlie Brown Christmas.

I haven't seen this one mentioned: Holiday Inn. Another classic with Bing Crosby, with the bonus of Fred Astaire. It was made roughly 10 years before White Christmas, and I believe the first movie where he sang the song. They used the same set in both movies. The dancing and singing is fabulous, and they cover every holiday. Some parts didn't age well (black face used), but most did.

The Family Stone. It has some A-lister celebrities but it's very underrated. One of the funniest movies I've ever watched, and a great, sad but quite touching Christmas movie.

The Ref. I just adore Denis Leary.

Amal and the night visitors.

Fatman. If you consider Die Hard a Christmas movie, you’ll love Fatman. Mel Gibson as a gritty, whisky drinking, cigar smoking Santa fighting the government and a hit man hired to kill him by a kid who made the naughty list. It’s glorious.

Sleepless in Seattle. The famous premise sounds weird, and I avoided seeing it until during a brief visit to Seattle accidentally going to a place with a “Tom Hanks sat here” chair. Sufficiently starstruck by the said chair (and enchanted by the city in general), I watched the film upon return, and it has become one of my favorites ever since. The film is SO sweet, and I absolutely adore Tom Hanks’ character’s wise cracking kid. Those who enjoy “Love Actually” and “The Awful Truth” (1937, no Christmas connection), will enjoy this one, too.

Three Wishes for Cinderella - a legendary Czech movie from the 70d that has become a Christmas classic in numerous European countries. Cinderella is really cool in this one, emancipated, smart and omg-so-beautiful and the prince is really hot!

Two that haven't made the list yet:

1. We're No Angels---classic with Humphrey Bogart, Peter Ustinov, Aldo Rey, and Basil Rathbone. Not like anything else and still funny every year. So many great lines. Seriously, go check it out.

2. The Lion in Winter. Another classic with Katharine Hepburn, Peter O'Toole, Anthony Hopkins, Timothy Dalton, and Nigel Terry. Henry II, Eleanor of Aquitaine, and their horrible, conniving children. Absolutely brilliant dialogue.

Merry Christmas, Mr. Bean.

Not my #1 (which is a tie between the afore mentioned Christmas Vacation and A Christmas Story) but I watch this every year on YouTube. Very cute and silly.

Terry Pratchett's "The Hogfather". A seasonal delight that investigates myths, childhood, and human evolution with humor and intrigue. Deep, but sweet. Cameo by Sir Pterry as the toy shoppe owner. GNU