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Well, first of all, Michael Caine is best Scrooge.
(Muppet Christmas Carol)
And of course Die Hard is a Christmas movie.
The usual family classics like the Charlie Brown & Garfield Christmas specials, all the Rankin/Bass specials, the first two Home Alones (shame they never made any more), newer classics like The Santa Clause and Elf…
But also a few that are a bit esoteric.
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Santa’s Magic Toy Bag - From the creators of Alf, a cute and short morality tale about an elf that can’t find his place in Santa’s workshop.
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The Snowman - A sad and wonderful story about a boy who builds a snowman that comes to (an all too short) life.
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The Christmas Toy - A Jim Henson production, two toys risk being seen moving on their own to stop new Christmas toys from replacing them. Sounds a bit like Toy Story, right?
Others that I still remember fondly but haven’t seen in a long time are The Berenstain Bears Christmas Tree, A Muppet Family Christmas, Ziggy’s Christmas Wish, and The Chipmunk’s Christmas.
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Klaus for me. Great animation, and cool story and characters
Bad Santa
Office Christmas Party
The Night Before
“Bad Santa” was hilarious. And even today it’s just as funny
Die Hard, obviously.
My December viewing of Buckaroo Banzai.
The classic A Christmas Carol with Alstare Sim
What’s the one with Arnold and Sinbad?
Emmett Otter’s Jug-Band Christmas has been a favourite of mine since it came out. Another Jim Henson classic.
We stumbled upon this, more or less by accident, maybe a decade ago. It immediately entered the annual holiday movie cycle. I think it’s one of Henson’s best works. 10/10!
Nightmare Before Christmas. I just have a soft spot for Jack Skellington, possibly my first ever crush.
No, no, that’s a Thanksgiving movie. Watching it for Halloween is too soon, watching it for Christmas is too late. So watching it in November is perfect.
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang.
It’s an extremely convoluted murder mystery that just happens to take place during Christmas.
Despite the insanely incomprehensible writing, it has some of the best dialogue ever written, and Robert Downey JR nails his role as a small time criminal who accidentally gets a movie role as a detective, but gets dragged into a real life murder case.
Christmas Vacation is on repeat in my house this time of year.
Die hard and home alone are my top two
Finally we can talk about Christmas without forcing Santa to execute an elf.
This is probably not as unpopular opinion as I think it is, but I can’t stand Christmas movies. I do enjoy and celebrate Christmas, but the commercial aspect of it is too shoved down our throats like some kind of Foie Gras nightmare.
Anyway, instead I watch through James Bond movies substituting misogyny and violence for hokey sentimental commercialism.
I feel like this could be said of any movie or any form of entertainment. We’re selling stories, ideas, and norms. The Christmas flavor definitely isn’t my favorite though.
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