Your Favorite: Christmas Motion Picture

[Big C 73]

Christmas time is here, so now is the time to sit down and gather with family near the glowing Christmas tree while you sip upon some hot chocolate and view a Christmas movie. So, which is your favorite Christmas movie to view during the holidays?

Merry Christmas to one and all!-Big C 73

 

[PUSH]

I can't make my decision until I've seen Sharknado Goes Christmas.

 

[StarWarsGirl]

I don't celebrate Christmas, but I love Home Alone. And the SNL christmas specials. Especially that one with Steve Martin where he makes his wishes. I can't post it here, but it's hysterical!

 

[brifraz]

It's a Wonderful Life will always be my favorite, but for the past week I've been singing One More Sleep 'Til Christmas and Marley and Marley (both from Muppet Christmas Carol).

By the way, I'll be sipping a Christmas Porter, not hot chocolate.

 

[Clamman73]

Die Hard.

 

[JenniferS]

Watching Elf right now.

I love this one especially, because we took the kids to see it at the AMC at Downtown Disney on their very first trip to WDW.

Hubby loves It's a Wonderful Life and The Family Man (which is very similar in a "what could have been" kind of way).

 

[Zweiland]

I have two. Elf for the laughs, and Home Alone for the music.

For TV specials, I would say Rudolph.

 

[luv]

I like almost all of them. Even the ridiculously predictable ones on Hallmark or Lifetime.

My very favorite, left over from childhood, but still makes me cry every year, is "The Year Without a Santa Claus."

Other beloved ones:
It's a Wonderful Life
A Christmas Carol (Allistair Sim one)
A Christmas Story

And, of course, Die Hard.

Also really like the Disney Very Merry Christmas Sing Along Songs, especially their "Joy To The World"...but all of it, really.

 

[acishere]

Die Hard and It's A Wonderful Life are not only my favorite Christmas films, but also in the top 10 of my favorite films of all time.

For Christmas specials my favorite has to be Rudolph, followed closely by A Charlie Brown Christmas.

 

[NemoRocks78]

 

[sweetpee_1993]

Christmas Story. Undisputed. I've seen it at least a dozen times each holiday season for so so many years. Never ever gets old.

 

[Megalodumb]

Another vote for A Christmas Story.

You know Christmas has finally arrived when TBS starts playing the 24-hr marathon on TV.

 

[G00fyDad]

Scrooged.

Cross /k’ros/: “A thing they nail people to.”

 

[lazyboy97o]

Another vote for A Christmas Story. I think I may hunt down some Nehi soda, whose logo inspired the major award, to drink while watching on Christmas Eve.

 

[MinnieM123]

Happy holiday greetings to everyone and Merry Christmas. My favorite, classic, black and white Christmas film is the 1938 version of A Christmas Carol with Reginald Owen as Ebenezer Scrooge. It's also fun to see June Lockhart as a teenaged girl in the film, playing the daughter of her (real parents) Gene and Kathleen Lockhart in the same film! Honorable mention goes to the 1951 version of A Christmas Carol with Alastair Sim.

 

[Megalodumb]

I can't make my decision until I've seen Sharknado Goes Christmas.

Consider your wish granted. Here's a first look at the holiday classic set to jump head & shoulders (and fins) above all others. I give you: A Very Sharknado Christmas.

 

[MOXOMUMD]

The Polar Express

"Hot Chocolate" is my favorite scene.

 

[trr1]

the original Miracle on 34th street, A Claymation Christmas Celebration,charlie brown ,rudolph,national lampoons christmas vacation
just to name a few

 

[Nemo14]

The Muppets Family Christmas ("watch out for the icy patch"), Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol, Emmett Otter's Jug Band Christmas, A Charlie Brown Christmas and Rudolph for TV specials

Movies has to be A Christmas Story and the original Miracle on 34th Street, with Prancer getting an honorary mention anyway.

 

[prberk]

The original Miracle on 34th Street, which I believe NBC should always show on Thanksgiving Day, in the evening after the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, since it centers around Macy's and the parade.

I also like It's a Wonderful Life, which I first discovered during my teenage years, when it was on our local PBS station before it became popular again. Many people do not realize that it had fallen into obscurity and the copyright was lost, which actually helped it to become popular again. TV stations could show it for free, and so many did. That lead to widespread repeats... and people rediscovered it. Then, of course, its original copyright owners (Republic Pictures) used a complicated argument about other rights it owned to the story and music, to regain effective copyright of the picture, which it subsequently licensed exclusively to NBC. I do think that NBC is a good place for it (with a storied history and popular Christmas tree, etc.). Just wish they would show it more often.

As for TV, I like A Chorlie Brown Christmas. Nothing can top it, especially in its pure, simple message about the real meaning of Christmas.

I miss the old variety-show style Christmas specials put on each year by people like Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, and others. I would love to see Drew Carey or others do one again.