Anyone Watching Christmas Movies?

[Bryan Lisowski]

I’m not a big Christmas fan, so usually don’t watch Christmas movies. But as it gets closer I will watch Christmas Vacation and Die Hard.

[Bill McNiel]

We are big time Christmas film viewers. We have a fairly comprehensive list of films with our personal ratings and start watching Xmas movies the day after Thanksgiving partaking of one each night through Christmas Day. We believe that Christmas is a time for "Peace on Earth and Goodwill to All", movies like Die Hard do not meet this standard IMHO, there is more enough violence and stories of evil in the daily news.

Traditional Classics:
Miracle on 34th Street
Holiday Inn
The Shop Around the Corner
White Christmas
A Christmas Carol
A Christmas Story
Its a Wonderful Life (viewed on Christmas Eve)

Newer Classics
Love Actually
The Holliday
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
Scrooged
Christmas Chronicles

Notables
Mixed Nuts
Deck the Halls
The Man who Invented Christmas
A Charlie Brown Christmas
The Family Stone
A Boy Named Christmas
Love the Coopers
The Santa Clause
Love the Coopers
The Grinch
Elf

and, of course, Hallmark Channel, etc. have their expansive libraries of "soft" stories for daytime background noise

[Rod Sheridan]

Muppet Christmas Carol, an American Christmas Carol with Henry Winkler, and the original, A Christmas Carol with Alastair Sim.

oh and of course A Muppet Family Christmas

[Erik Loza]

BAD SANTA (The original, not #2)

Erik

[Jim Koepke]

BAD SANTA (The original, not #2)

Erik

Oh yea, have to find our copy. Not sure Candy likes that one.

jtk

[Ken Fitzgerald]

My wife is addicted to the Hallmark channels and yes, we are watching Christmas movies. I never realized how many there are.

[Roger Feeley]

Christmas Vacation here.
im also fond of The Man Who Invented Christmas

[Perry Hilbert Jr]

Its a Wonderful life was played on TV ad nauseum for a special reason. The studio forgot to renew the copyright and the stations were getting away with showing it and paying no royalties. Then as luck would have it, the Script copyright was apparently renewed in a timely fashion, so all the TV stations got nailed for copyright infringement. It seems in retaliation, that most movie channels and tv stations now refuse to show it because of a grudge match against the copyright holder of the script.

Watching White Christmas is sort of a personal holiday tradition for me. I think it is supposed to be on AMC this week at some odd time like 3:45 am. Many good ones have already been listed. Another one I look for is Donovan's Reef. Christmas In Connecticut. When my children were young, we would make a party out of watching Shirley Temple as Heidi.

[Scott Kilroy]

Don't forget 'Die Hard' and 'Lethal Weapon'...

Die Hard on Christmas day is a tradition in my family.

[Frank Pratt]

I started watching The Man Who Invented Christmas the other night, but lost interest after a half hour or so. It seemed quite predictable. Is it worth picking it back up?

I love a good Christmas movie, but the genre is so littered with truly awful stuff. It's hard to find good new material to watch.

[Jim Koepke]

I love a good Christmas movie, but the genre is so littered with truly awful stuff. It's hard to find good new material to watch.

Some of the cable channels have made their own Christmas rom-coms. They may have different locations but they all seem to be sharing a few fo the the same plots… Family crisis, things get desperate, a Christmas miracle, crisis resolved and a Merry Christmas. Two seemingly people living incompatible lives some how find they are drawn to each other, something comes between them, another Christmas miracle, they realize they belong together and live happily ever after.

Sadly these sappy, syrupy, low budget movies have knocked some regular programing off the air until after the holidays.

jtk

[George Yetka]

Daughter and wife liked "a boy called christmas" on netflix. Im more for Die Hard. Christmas vacation I can recite in my head start to finish, so ill skip this year I think