Hi, sorry if its still to early for this, but I wanted to get set up for watching the Christmas/Holiday movies around Thanksgiving and then in December for Christmas. So, what are some of your favorite movies for the holidays????
Well, it's not TECHNICALLY a Christmas/Holiday movie, although it does take place around Christmas.... "Die Hard" :D
National Lampoons Christmas Vacation, It's a Wonderful Life, Meet Me In St Louis, the orginal Miracle on 34th Street
Elf, A Christmas Story, Nightmare Before Christmas.
I like White Christmas and Love Actually.
I will never tire of "White Christmas" or "Home Alone."
I also love "Little Women," which, isn't specifically a Holiday movie, but they have such great family themes and do celebrate Christmas during the movie.
Oldie but goodie--Holiday Inn!
I bought it last year and STILL haven't had 2 hours to watch it! Lol
Pocketful of Miracles with Bette Davis, Glenn Ford, and Hope Lange.
A Christmas Carol (every version, all time favorite Christmas story)
A Christmas Story
Christmas With the Kranks
National Lampoons Christmas Vacation
Polar Express
And my TV is on the Hallmark Channel or ABC Family from Thanksgiving on. Love ALL of those shows! They make me smile. I watched Christmas shows on Hallmark all weekend. :)
Charlie Brown's movies, The Polar Express, and some Walt Disney Classics
we love A christmas in Vienna. there are a bunch more but that one is a favorite
Miracle on 34th Street (the original, uncolorized, of course!)
Holiday Inn
White Christmas
It's a Wonderful Life
Lol, I agree that it's too early for them (especially having had to listen to my DH practice playing holiday music last night).
My daughter was asking about Thanksgiving movies, though, and I couldn't
think of any other than Charlie Brown - so I'll be hoping for some ideas from this thread :-)
ETA: Oooooh, yes! Meet Me in St. Louis!!! Thank you, ReverendRuby!
The Santa Clause movies were also fun, and I'm sure we have Polar Express around here somewhere, just haven't watched it. >.<
A Christmas Carol (in its many incarnations) is classic - my favorite being the musical version "Scrooge!"
My poor husband grits his teeth by December, because the community bands that he plays in have usually been rehearsing the Christmas program starting last month . . . I can relate, having worked in retail for seven years!
I like A Christmas Story, Sound of Music, the Charlie Brown specials, and the Rudolph/Santa/Baby New Year ones that are not cartoons but more like animated puppets or clay figures.
I watch It's a Wonderful Life every Christmas and The Sound of Music at New Years. The kids really like Elf and The Polar Express, and they always watch Rudolf the Red Nosed Reindeer, Christopher the Christmas Tree and The Grinch when they come on TV.
My husband and I watch It's a Wonderful Life while wrapping presents on Christmas Eve!
But I love them ALL!
I can sit through anything but The Christmas Story and Elf. Stupidest stories ever! I have to leave the room whenever either one comes on! Thank goodness we don't have tv anymore.
I do get to watch movies though. I love White Christmas, Its a Wonderful Life, Miracle on 34th Street (have both, original is the best), Holiday Inn, Grandpa for Christmas, Borrowed Hearts, The Santa Clause (all)
My children like The Grinch (both versions) Polar Express, Rudolph (both), Frosty (all of them), Santa Claus is Comming to Town.
Hubby had to buy Year Without a Santa Claus. It was his favorite growing up.
For Thanksgiving found one last year called A Family Thanksgiving. Kinda like Family Man except centered around a career driven woman instead.
Twas the Night Before Christmas
Elf
Christmas Vacation
Christmas Story
Christmas Cottage
The Santa Clause(all of them)
Grinch
I love most christmas movies
Blizzard is my all time favorite Christmas movie. We sit and watch it at least once per week before Christmas.
Whoopi Goldberg plays a reindeer and she befriends a young girl back during late depression type times. This girl loves to skate and learns some of life's hardest lessons from Blizzard.
It is a heart warming movie that makes us all believe just a little bit more in Santa and the good that lasts from lifetime to lifetime.
For Thanksgiving, The Wizard of Oz. it always seemed liked it was on around that time when I was growing up.
For Christmas; I love The Gremlins! It always gets me in the spirit. The mom is baking cookies and its all festive till those ugly critters show up and also Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer.....love that one!
Home Alone, Prancer, Miracle on 34th St (original) and Holiday Inn, A Christmas Carol (the Disney one)
I can't remember the name of an old one from Disney about the donkey that didn't feel special and it ended up being the one that carried Mary into Bethlehem when she was pregnant.
White Christmas is my favorite!!!
Also love
The Family Man
Polar Express
Elf and Polar Express
It's a Wonderful Life
Elf
A Christmas Story
Polar Express
How the Grinch Stole Christmas (the cartoon narrated by Boris Karloff, not the full length movie)
Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer
The Year Without A Santa Claus (with the Heat Miser and Snow Miser)
The Little Drummer Boy
A christmas story & Home Alone
