Fluther: What movies do you like watching during the Christmas season?

What movies do you like watching during the Christmas season?

Asked by ClubJenna (346

) December 14th, 2009
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What specific movies are your favorite to watch during the Christmas season, or just around winter time?

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National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation never fails to make me laugh, it’s always on TV at this time of year, as well as The Santa Clause which is pretty damn funny too.

HumourMe (1931

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Charlie Brown Christmas
Christmas Eve on Sesame St (the old one from the 70s)

answerjill (6198

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These or these.

jeffgoldblumsprivatefacilities (20019

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A Christmas Carol
Santa Claus
The Nightmare Before Christmas

delta214 (746

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A Christmas Story
How The Grinch Stole Christmas (the old animated one)

_Jade_ (1373

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this has been asked somewhere before give me a minuite and I’ll try to link

sakura (8267

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http://www.fluther.com/disc/63255/what-is-your-favorite-christmas-movie-or-television-show/

sakura (8267

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i love to watch the old black and white movies y’know the ones with Bing Crosby in etc :)

YCLYHO (834

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The Seven Samurai
The Wild Bunch
The Dirty Dozen

GeneH (158

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Spider-Man 2. No, really. It’s a family tradition! We watch Spider-Man 1 at Thanksgiving.

fireinthepriory (7440

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A Christmas Carol
Home Alone
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.

erichw1504 (26448

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@fireinthepriory Hahah, that’s very interesting actually. When do you guys watch the third one? At New Years?

ClubJenna (346

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@ClubJenna Easter, when we remember. Mmm, chocolate bunnies and symbiotes!! :)

fireinthepriory (7440

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I love the version of “A Christmas Carol” with Scrooge played by The Captain.

I also have the audiobook performance of The Captain reading Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol”. Patrick Stewart is one of the… three people I could stand to hear read an entire novel in one sitting. The other two are J.R.R. Tolkien and Johnny Cash. ^_^

Seek (34805

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@fireinthepriory Oh, I thought New Years would make more sense, since it is closer. Why Spider-Man anyway?

ClubJenna (346

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On Christmas Eve all of the women in my family make margaritas at midnight, so I guess that would be Christmas morning? and watch Practical Magic. Which may sound better suited for Halloween, but we all love the movie. And my family is all women, minus my father and my sisters’ husband and boyfriend. So, watching a movie about sisterhood and womanhood reminds us of how lucky we are to have each other.

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@IBERnineD
That is an awesome tradition! The best traditions are the ones that are personal to YOUR family.

The best personal tradition I have isn’t Christmas related, but it is festive.
Any time we have company over – a cookout, a keg party, whatever, the last remaining people (usually around 11:00 pm or midnight) get to curl up with steaming glasses of hot coffee with Irish Cream and whipped cream on top. Then we either watch movies, or the boys will break out the guitars. I love Irish Coffee time. ^_^

Seek (34805

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The original Miracle on 34th Street.

JLeslie (65411

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I love All I Want for Christmas. It’s not the most well-known, but it makes me smile. Also, Leslie Neilsen and Lauren Bacall are wonderful in it.

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Edward Scissorhands. I know it’s not a Christmas-themed film, but for some inexplicable reason I love watching this every Christmas Eve. Maybe it’s the “Ice Dance” scene. No one else in my family really likes this movie, so I usually watch it alone while sipping hot chocolate and scarfing down the last of the cookies.

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Mixed Nuts
Blackadder’s Christmas Carol
A Midwinter’s Tale (the one by Kenneth Branaugh, not Shakespeare)

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@Gokey I love that movie myself; I always thought it was Christmas-themed actually. I mean, it is taking place around that holiday. I guess it really has nothing to do with Christmas cheer though.

ClubJenna (346

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Dr. Strangelove

UScitizen (4306

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“It Is A Wonderful Life” starring Jimmy Stewart! Bet I’ve seen it 15 times! One of my all-time favorite movies!

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@ClubJenna It would make more sense, but we’re never all together on New Years. And my brother just… decided one year at Thanksgiving that we had to watch Spider-Man. The next year it became a tradition. The extension made sense when the other movies came out. If we’re not all together at Easter we watch 3 over the summer. :)

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G’day ClubJenna,

Thank you for your question.

I don’t watch many movies at Christmas time. They often aren’t relevant on a hot summers day in Australia.

I am more likely to watch sport such as the Boxing Day test match in Melbourne.

Regards

keithold (735

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It’s a wonderful life.

The Christmas story.

Every year without fail. Love em.

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I also vote for Christmas Vacation. I watch it every year, and it’s still funny.

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I like the various Peanuts shows, Any Dr. Suess(especially the Grinch), and all of the different “a Christmas Carol” movies from George C. Scott and older.

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