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| TheSoapMaven |
Posted - Nov 29 2006 : 05:51:48 AM
Okay...I have a confession...I have never seen It's a Wonderful Life. Nope...never. Now that that is out of the way, my very favorite Christmas movie OF ALL TIME is Elf. I love Elf, love everything about Elf.
Favorite Lines:
Smiling's my favorite.
It's just nice to find another human with such an affinity for Elf Culture.
We elves try to stick to the four main food groups: candy, candy canes, candy corns and syrup
The best way to spread Christmas Cheer is singning loud for all to hear.
You're not Santa! You smell like beef and cheese. How can you live with yourself? You sit on a throne of lies!!!
Benjamin and I have watched it no less than 30 times since it came out on DVD.
Susan
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| berries |
Posted - Dec 18 2006 : 4:12:14 PM
Prancer!!!! I watch it every year, even if I can't get anyone else to watch it with me. I just love it! Yea....Prancer!
My husband loves The Christmas Story! Me too!
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| Phils Ann |
Posted - Dec 18 2006 : 3:58:30 PM
My current favorites are NOT typically thought of as Christmas movies... that said, last night Phil brought out "Little Women", announced that it was Christmassy, and we had a wonderful time. My other pick is the Wonderworks version of "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe". Lucy, I believe, is told by the beavers that it's always winter, never Christmas.... and won't be until Aslan comes and takes power away from the witch. As the power leaves her, Father Christmas does come.... and finally Aslan takes all her power away. Yeah!
...Peace on Earth, Good will to men.
Ann
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| lilpunkin |
Posted - Dec 17 2006 : 10:09:11 PM
Ok this one hasn't been mentioned but it is funny, National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation. Oh, what a funny movie! Elf still wins for me this year, I haven't changed my mind yet, it's so cute!
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| Celticheart |
Posted - Dec 17 2006 : 2:17:29 PM
Oh I agree! I have to watch A Christmas Story just for the scene in the Chinese restaurant and the Chinese guys singing "Deck the Halls"...it's too funny!
My favorites are any version of A Christmas Carol and White Christmas. I like to watch it on Christmas Eve late at night if I'm up. My newest favorite is Love Actually. I think somebody else mentioned that one too. Ya gotta love Hugh Grant dancing through the house to the Pointer sisters.
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| katiedid |
Posted - Dec 16 2006 : 10:50:09 PM
I love Elf too, and White Christmas...my daughters love to run around singing...."sisters, sisters, there were never such devoted sisers.."
I love the animated one that Disney made a long time ago, before everyone had to be so politically correct and you could have a holiday movie about Jesus...The Small One.
It is about the little boy who sells the donkey to Mary and Joseph on their way to Bethlehem. It is really sweet.
I love It's a Wonderful LIfe, because who doesn't love Jimmy Stewart. And A Christmas Story.. I love the scene where they are in the Chinese resturant and they chop the duck's head off at the table!! And the Chinese carolers!
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| jpbluesky |
Posted - Dec 08 2006 : 11:06:57 AM
The old Miracle on 34th Street. I have seen it twice in the last week, and the scenes of the Macy's Parade are hilarious, not meant to be, but so old-fashioned now. I love that movie. Natalie Wood is just a little girl! And the court room argument for the existence of Santa Claus is great! The first time I saw it, I was a little girl, and I was hooked for life.
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| Bluewrenn |
Posted - Dec 08 2006 : 10:38:20 AM
White Christmas!!!!!
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| Niamh |
Posted - Dec 08 2006 : 07:47:19 AM
Elf, Wonderful Life, those are great.
My favorite is Love Actually. The talent they pulled together for that movie is amazing-Emma Thompson, Alan Rickman, Colin Firth, Hugh Grant, Bill Nighby, Keira Knightley, Claudia Schiffer, Laura Linney...the list goes on-lots of up-and-coming actors also.
And the storylines...and the acting...it's just fantastic and I watch it at least twice a week from Thanksgiving to Christmas, LOL! My DH goes crazy.
If you watch it, be warned, the little girl's version of "All I Want For Christmas" (yes, it's really her singing it-amazing!) and Bill's version of "Christmas is all around" will be stuck in your head for days. |
| KYgurlsrbest |
Posted - Dec 08 2006 : 06:46:39 AM
These aren't necessarily holiday "movies", but can be when you watch them in marathon format...my husband and I are big fans of the West Wing and have all seasons on dvd, so at Thanksgiving and Christmas time, we watch all of the seasonal shows--don't know if there are any other fans out there, but the seasonal episodes are so poignant!
Just before D-Day, we start watching Band of Brothers, too, to time it with the Normandy invasion....It's my husband's idea, he has some issues 
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| Beemoosie |
Posted - Dec 08 2006 : 05:08:32 AM
Oh Yes, I love Bing Crosby too!
The tv stations have been a little slow for me getting these shows on the air! So I am starting a dvd collection myself! So don't feel bad Sunshine-I love NESTER! And I did see the Nun/Shepherd one on the Family Channel a few nights ago. Rankin/Bass shows are awesome. They did such a wonderful job presenting the fun and true meaning of Christmas.
You girls all have mentioned great shows! Too bad we couldn't have a big popcorn, PJ, movie nite!
...she is far more precious than jewels and her value is far above rubies or pearls.
Prov 31:10
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| sewgirlie |
Posted - Dec 07 2006 : 6:40:01 PM
My family loves all of the Christmas movies too!! We love THE CHRISTMAS BOX which is often on the Hallmark channel at this time of year. (Richard Thomas is in it)
I love all the old shows like The Little Drummer Boy, Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol, Emmet Otter's Jugband Christmas (can't believe someone else mentioned it too!!)
BEST MOVIES: It's a Wonderful Life, A Christmas Story, Holiday Inn and The Bells of St. Mary's (I am a Bing-lover too!!) We will watch any movie with a Holiday theme at least once, but these are the best. Prancer is cute too.
Now we know why we have to start watching some of these in October!
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| sunshine |
Posted - Dec 07 2006 : 6:28:10 PM
All the Rankin Bass movies I have collected all of them even the ones most people don't know off like Nestor the long eared donkey, Santa claus adventure, and can't think of the name of the other one it is the one with the nun and the little Shepard that is blinded. and see again as a Christmas present from god while playing a Shepard in the nativity that the church puts on. I like all the normal Rankin bass too oh yeah the Lepicauns Christmas too another by them. Then the usual Miracle on 34th street and its a wonderful life my husband like the Christmas story not too fond of that. One of my other favorites is sort of halloweenish the Nightmare before Christmas. So I have weird tastes they don't all match but I like them all. Charlie Brown too and about five differnt verions of a Christmas carol that I have on video. emmit otter lots of muppet movies on video. Did I happen to mention that I do most things over board. I hate most shows on tv for children so I buy lots of videos and I mean lots and lots of videos. All I mentioned except for the mirical one we have on video plus about 30 other christmas ones not mentioned.
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| FarmGirl~K |
Posted - Dec 07 2006 : 5:43:16 PM
I would have to say my fave is "Elf".
One of my favorite parts is when he goes to the department store & a perfume sample lady asks if he would like to try some passion fruit spray. He takes it & sprays it in his mouth & then moans, hopping up & down, like a little kid does with something nasty in his mouth & can't get it off of his tongue.
A new favorite for me is "The Polar Express" It is just so cute & pretty realistic looking.
The classics will always be favorites. It was always fun to watch Rudolph, Frosty, Drummer Boy, & the others on tv as a kid. We just bought a set that has 6 of those movies. Can't wait to watch them!  |
| Patsy |
Posted - Dec 07 2006 : 07:02:17 AM
My favorite is A Christmas Romance with Olivia Newton John and Gregory Harrison. It is about a lady who is trying to save her farm after her husband dies. She bakes special cakes she sells and Gregory Harrison is the banker who comes to tell her they are foreclosing on her farm. I won't tell you how it ends but it is a happy movie so I am sure you can figure it out.
Blessed are those who love the soil,
Patsy
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| Beemoosie |
Posted - Dec 07 2006 : 04:58:25 AM
Mary Ann, I love the version of a Christmas Carol you mentioned!
Tiffany, I have always loved the Walton's and a year ago my friend told me I had to watch the Homecoming! I watched hers, then she bought it for me. It is definately one of my faves!
I bought my son The Christmas Story last weekend...what he doesn't know is that his dad was buying him a Red Rider BB gun at the same time he was watching the movie!
Did anyone mention Emmitt Otter's Jugband christmas, not a movie but it's so cute.
...she is far more precious than jewels and her value is far above rubies or pearls.
Prov 31:10
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| Horseyrider |
Posted - Dec 07 2006 : 04:52:17 AM
Alistair Sims' "A Christmas Carol." Wow, it's a great one! And to think all those childhood years I thought it was all about Mister Magoo! Does anyone else remember that one?
Then "It's a Wonderful Life," followed by "A Christmas Story." The mom's hair looks so very eighties it's hard to take very seriously, but I still enjoy it. Who hasn't felt some of what Ralphie goes through? In fact, my Christmas card this year is a sepia toned pic of a kid with his tongue stuck to a pole.  |
| tiffany01 |
Posted - Dec 07 2006 : 03:39:30 AM
I love Christmas movies!
Bonnie - I didn't think anyone else knew about The Homecoming! I just watched it yesterday and cried at the end, as always!
My favorite line from Elf - "Buddy the Elf, what's your favorite color?"
Everyone's pretty much covered all my favorites (including Little House on the Prairie, also a rare one) except Scrooged with Bill Murray. Funny and touching all at the same time! |
| lilpunkin |
Posted - Nov 29 2006 : 10:57:19 PM
Susan I love the Elf movie too. I think it is my favorite this year. I really like all Christmas movies. But,I absolutely love Snoopy (he's just an all time faves)
Lilpunkin
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| celebrate2727 |
Posted - Nov 29 2006 : 12:21:29 PM
Kay I'm with you- White Christmas with the kids- family tradition. Goes well with hot cocoa and homemade cookies I might add.
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| junebug |
Posted - Nov 29 2006 : 12:07:01 PM
I must confess too, I haven't seen "It's a wonderful life" either, but I'm making it a point to watch it this year thanks to you all!!! My favorite movie to watch every Christmas is the Waltons first movie, the Christmas one, love it!!
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| sleepless reader |
Posted - Nov 29 2006 : 11:48:17 AM
"It's a Wonderful Life", "White Christmas" (my sister and I used to do the "Sisters" song together, now we do it by phone) and a "Muppet Christmas Carrol". I also love when they run 24hrs of "A Christmas Story"..Fra-ge-lay and the leg lamp I love!!! I have seen a nightlight version of the leg lamp in some catalog. Maybe Santa will bring that!Oh, and I also love watching the Little House on the Prairie Christmas episode where the girls get a candy stick, a tin cup and a penny and are thrilled!!! And how can you not love "Elf"? We just watched it yesterday after schoolwork was done :)
Sharon
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| blueroses |
Posted - Nov 29 2006 : 09:13:53 AM
It's a Wonderful Life (my dh had never seen it until about 3 yrs ago), Christmas Story (I put it on on Christmas Eve and see how many times I can watch it before my dh goes insane), A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (sob, sob -not totally Christmas, but they always show it at Christmas time), The Grinch, Miracle on 34th Street (the old one) and there's one that they show on Lifetime with Ann Jillian and Robert Hay that I always try to watch. She's a small town vet and she & the Dr's dad try to get him to move to the town and be their dr. Yes - the Alistair Sims Christmas Carol!!
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| JenniferJuniper |
Posted - Nov 29 2006 : 08:59:01 AM
For someone with no children, my Christmas DVD collection is extensive:
I love all the old claymation specials - Frosty, Rudolph, and the much-overlooked Little Drummer Boy. My hubby gave the me boxed set for a present a few years ago.
Also I love Muppet Christmas Carol and Emmett Otter's Jugband Christmas - Jim Henson was brilliant.
My mother is Wonderful Life- and Christmas Story- obsessed, I've seen those at least 100 times each. She's dropping not-so-subtle hints for us to get her the infamous leg lamp (www.leg-lamp.com if you're interested).
Untamed Heart and Love Actually are not Christmas-specific but are set in December, good for a certain mood.
Let's not forget Charlie Brown and the Grinch. The Nightmare Before Christmas is good watching for my more snarky moments.
But Alistar Sims' black-and-white Christmas Carol gives me the chills no matter how many times I see it.
Confession: I've never seen Miracle on 34th Street in its entirety, can't keep interest past the first 15 minutes. |
| KYgurlsrbest |
Posted - Nov 29 2006 : 08:19:43 AM
Julie!!! You totally crack me up--I'll fight you over Mr. Crosby!!!
Short story--my dad was 50 when I was born and mom was 22. He was a young rounder in the late 30's and 40's and Bingo was his favorite singer, so he had all these recordings, and we listened to them like it was "modern music"....of course, my mom was listening to Dylan and Marvin Gaye, but I digress. I'll never forget the day I found that he'd passed away, and how old he was! I felt totally duped, but I still love him.
Just think of all of the roads there are...all of the things I haven't seen....yet. |
| therusticcottage |
Posted - Nov 29 2006 : 08:13:03 AM
White Christmas! MIssy & watch it together every year. Have done that since she was small. Then it would have to be Miracle on 34th Street and Going My Way! Susan you MUST see It's A Wonderful Life!
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