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Which Christmas Movies do you watch every year?

DesyDesy She/HerYeenRegistered User regular
edited December 2024 in Last Christmas
Making a holiday movies thread because I wanna.

Which movies are part of the holiday traditions for you and yours?

I’ll start:
Klaus
Muppet Christmas Carol

The first two are non-negotiable but this year I’m adding two to the docket:
Die Hard
Red One

Die Hard is a fun movie and I want to see if it’ll be part of the tradition with my gf. Red One (yes the very silly looking thing with Dwane Johnson is just for fun and I wanna see how bad it is. Also, annoy my gf :D)

Tradition Movies to watch on other holidays are also allowed. Halloween or Thanksgiving or Arbor Day, to name a few. (list non-exhaustive)

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  • silence1186silence1186 Character shields down! As a wingmanRegistered User regular
    Original Grinch (which is on Youtube)
    Muppets Christmas Carol (full, unedited version with all songs.)

    And discovered this was on Youtube in its entirety this year:
    https://youtu.be/ya4DasxL47g?si=auyJHdpHH6wyYACJ

    The Lincoln Center Ballet performance of The Nutcracker. Absolutely breathtaking.

  • AldoAldo Hippo Hooray Registered User regular
    We adopted The Snowman as our Christmas movie because our son's kindergarten teacher put it on every year and it just fucking slaps

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZE9KpobX9J8

  • Raijin QuickfootRaijin Quickfoot I'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    Violent Night is my new tradition

  • ShadowfireShadowfire Vermont, in the middle of nowhereRegistered User regular
    Klaus
    Muppet Christmas Carol
    Die Hard
    Scrooged

    I keep meaning to add more to the list, but time to watch movies is sparse since my wife doesn't really like movies.

  • PerrsunPerrsun Registered User regular
    The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus. It’s one of the Rankin Bass specials, but it’s the best one because the Great Woodsman, Ak, leader of the Immortals, has to convince a council of fellow gods why Santa deserves to live beyond mortals.

    And then they have to fight demons.

  • ZonugalZonugal (He/Him) The Holiday Armadillo I'm Santa's representative for all the southern states. And Mexico!Registered User, Transition Team regular
    edited December 2024
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    In this fact-based film, happy-go-lucky Frank Pesce Jr. (Anthony LaPaglia) is lucky from the day of his birth, when his mother (Lainie Kazan) gives birth to him in a different hospital than planned -- only to have the first facility burn down. Growing up in an Italian neighborhood in Queens, Frank's irresponsible ways and good fortune irritate his hard-working but luckless father, Frank Pesce Sr. (Danny Aiello). When Frank Jr. is the New York State Lottery's first winner, he angers his dad.

    Every year my family watches this Christmas classic, a movie that is more accurate to Italian-Americans than anything else I have ever seen.

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  • VixxVixx Valkyrie: prepared! Registered User regular
    Die Hard every Christmas Eve for us. Then a Shane Black joint of choice each year.

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  • initiatefailureinitiatefailure Registered User regular
    Muppet Christmas Carol is mine
    A year without santa claus is my partner's

    She also really wants to watch peewee's christmas adventure this year. I should figure out if there's anything else to add to my list

  • TayaTaya Registered User regular
    I'll watch whatever's on tv at my mom's house during Christmas. I like Elf, Muppet's Christmas Carol, the original Grinch, Charlie Brown Christmas, and Home Alone but I don't really have a tradition where I have to watch a particular movie each year.

  • RMS OceanicRMS Oceanic Registered User regular
    Airplane! is a "because I say so" Christmas movie

  • XaquinXaquin Right behind you!Registered User regular
    OG Grinch and Scrooged here

  • iTunesIsEviliTunesIsEvil Cornfield? Cornfield.Registered User regular
    I'm a sucker for the holiday season. We watch a ton of Christmas stuff every year.

    Muppet Christmas Carol
    Scrooge (1970 starring Albert Finney; if you've never seen this version and you like A Christmas Carol, you really should check it out; "Thank Ya Very Much" is a second-to-none telling of the Ghost of Christmas Future's visit)
    Mickey's Christmas Carol
    Home Alone 1 & 2 (I know that stupid fucker is in 2, but so is Tim Curry)
    Die Hard
    White Christmas

    Also, if the Christmas TV specials count: How the Grinch Stole Christmas, A Charlie Brown Christmas, the Garfield Christmas special, Rudolph the Rednosed Reindeer, Santa Claus is Comin' to Town, The Year Without a Santa Claus, Frosty the Snowman, T'was the Night Before Christmas.

    Double also, the Christmas-themed episodes of Bob's Burgers are pretty great.

  • RMS OceanicRMS Oceanic Registered User regular
    Wallace and Gromit are Seasonal TV regardless of their seasonal content as well

    Speaking of, new one imminent

  • KoopahTroopahKoopahTroopah The koopas, the troopas. Philadelphia, PARegistered User regular
    DOOMED SCROOGE! DOOMED FOR ALL TIME!

    And Home Alone I think.

  • DirtyDirty Registered User regular
    It's not a full-length movie, but I watch It's a Spongebob Christmas every year. I watched the new special, Sandy's Country Christmas, and I do not recommend it.

    My wife insists on A Christmas Story every year. Then there's the stuff that's in semi-regular-but-not-every-year rotation like:
    • Christmas at Pee Wee's Playhouse
    • Home Alone (which we swapped out for HA2 this year, which was a mistake)
    • The Holiday
    • The Muppet Christmas Carol
    • The old Rudolph special
    • The Wizard of Oz (not a holiday movie, but I associate it with the holidays, so I usually watch it then)

  • AbsoluteZeroAbsoluteZero The new film by Quentin Koopantino Registered User regular
    Scrooged, even though the ending really seems like they just said fuck it, let Bill ad-lib the whole thing.

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  • ManOHokutoManOHokuto Knight of the Bloody Fist Registered User regular
    Watched the Jim Carrey Grinch for the first time in decades and that movie kind of rules, even if it’s too (studio mandated) horny for its demographic

  • RatherDashingRatherDashing Registered User regular
    Muppet Christmas Carol definitely.

    Muppet Family Christmas is a good one too.

    As kids we marathonned all the Rankin Bass ones, but the ones that stick out to me are the painfully average Night Before Christmas (which my family always just called The Mouse One) and the delightfully awful The First Christmas, wherein a blind boy who is adopted by nuns wishes for snow despite being somewhere it doesn't snow (it might be Israel but I can't remember) and the first magical snowflake of Christmas cures his blindness.

    Garfield Christmas is better than it deserves to be.

    The classic Grinch is actually the only one of the old half hour specials that is worth watching without at least some irony.

    Klaus is a new classic and blows almost every other Christmas movie out of the water with how good it is.

    Rise of the Guardians is not as good as Klaus but still purty gewd.

  • MadicanMadican No face Registered User regular
    Christmas Vacation is played every year at my parents place

  • Dex DynamoDex Dynamo Registered User regular
    edited December 2024
    My sole job around the house is to arrange the Christmas watchlist, and this year I built a custom film festival from 12/13 to 12/26, with every night being themed around a specific movie, with a bunch of complementary TV show episodes to fit the theme
    • 12/13: Friday the 13th: Spooky Christmas entertainment (Movie: The Nightmare Before Christmas)
    • 12/14: Supernatural Christmas (Movie: Rare Exports)
    • 12/15: Vanessa Hudgens Day (Movies: The Princess Switch Trilogy + Knight Before Christmas)
    • 12/16: Christmas Action Day (Movie: Violent Night)
    • 12/17: Christmas Musicals (Movie: Anna and the Apocalypse)
    • 12/18: (the only night this year without a set theme because we did a Christmas bar crawl instead)
    • 12/19: Santa! He's Real! (Movie: Miracle on 34th Street)
    • 12/20: Christmas Romcoms (Movie: Love Hard)
    • 12/21: Visiting Family (because we saw my wife's family) (Movie: National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation)
    • 12/22: Christmas is Kinda Stressful, Huh? (Movie: A Christmas Story)
    • 12/23: The Christmas Carols (Movie: The Muppet Christmas Carol)
    • 12/24: Christmas Magic (Movie: Klaus)
    • 12/25: The Main Event (Special: A Muppet Family Christmas)
    • 12/26: Christmas Cartoons (Movie: Tokyo Godfathers (on the big screen!))

    We also have Trading Places lined up for New Year's Eve (because it takes place in Philly on New Year's Eve!)

    And of course, how else can you spend New Year's Day in Philly, but by starting with the Mummers Parade, followed up with the biggest event in boxing history, as The World Champion takes on The Italian Stallion on New Year's Day

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  • Havelock3.0Havelock3.0 What are you? Some kind of half-assed astronaut?Registered User regular
    Ongoing: Muppet Christmas Carol

    Christmases Past: The entire LotR special extended edition trilogy in one day

    Not by choice: White Christmas

    You go in the cage, cage goes in the water, you go in the water. Shark's in the water, our shark.
  • DesyDesy She/Her YeenRegistered User regular
    Dex Dynamo wrote: »
    My sole job around the house is to arrange the Christmas watchlist, and this year I built a custom film festival from 12/13 to 12/26, with every night being themed around a specific movie, with a bunch of complementary TV show episodes to fit the theme
    • 12/13: Friday the 13th: Spooky Christmas entertainment (Movie: The Nightmare Before Christmas)
    • 12/14: Supernatural Christmas (Movie: Rare Exports)
    • 12/15: Vanessa Hudgens Day (Movies: The Princess Switch Trilogy + Knight Before Christmas)
    • 12/16: Christmas Action Day (Movie: Violent Night)
    • 12/17: Christmas Musicals (Movie: Anna and the Apocalypse)
    • 12/18: (the only night this year without a set theme because we did a Christmas bar crawl instead)
    • 12/19: Santa! He's Real! (Movie: Miracle on 34th Street)
    • 12/20: Christmas Romcoms (Movie: Love Hard)
    • 12/21: Visiting Family (because we saw my wife's family) (Movie: National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation)
    • 12/22: Christmas is Kinda Stressful, Huh? (Movie: A Christmas Story)
    • 12/23: The Christmas Carols (Movie: The Muppet Christmas Carol)
    • 12/24: Christmas Magic (Movie: Klaus)
    • 12/25: The Main Event (Special: A Muppet Family Christmas)
    • 12/26: Christmas Cartoons (Movie: Tokyo Godfathers (on the big screen!))

    We also have Trading Places lined up for New Year's Eve (because it takes place in Philly on New Year's Eve!)

    And of course, how else can you spend New Year's Day in Philly, but by starting with the Mummers Parade, followed up with the biggest event in boxing history, as The World Champion takes on The Italian Stallion on New Year's Day

    Oh god Love Hard was such a good romcom.

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  • FencingsaxFencingsax It is difficult to get a man to understand, when his salary depends upon his not understanding GNU Terry PratchettRegistered User regular
    Along with Muppet, my family watches Magoo Christmas Carol

  • The Lovely KringleThe Lovely Kringle Registered User regular
    batman returns in black and white has been a staple for years, but this has been my tradition since it was released:

    https://youtu.be/60N-WM_DR4c?si=4td84FFyR4vNjYzp

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  • AtomikaAtomika Live fast and get fucked or whatever Registered User regular
    Family staple growing up was the Disney Babes in Toyland from the 1960s with Annette Funicello and Ed Wynn

    I think my own is Gremlins

  • GiantGeek2020GiantGeek2020 Registered User regular
    Atomika wrote: »
    Family staple growing up was the Disney Babes in Toyland from the 1960s with Annette Funicello and Ed Wynn

    I think my own is Gremlins

    What about Gremlins 2? There was a lot of white Powder involved in that movie's production.

  • AtomikaAtomika Live fast and get fucked or whatever Registered User regular
    Atomika wrote: »
    Family staple growing up was the Disney Babes in Toyland from the 1960s with Annette Funicello and Ed Wynn

    I think my own is Gremlins

    What about Gremlins 2? There was a lot of white Powder involved in that movie's production.

    I know it’s a controversial take, but I deeply dislike Gremlins 2, though the Gizmo puppet is better there

  • GiantGeek2020GiantGeek2020 Registered User regular
    Atomika wrote: »
    Atomika wrote: »
    Family staple growing up was the Disney Babes in Toyland from the 1960s with Annette Funicello and Ed Wynn

    I think my own is Gremlins

    What about Gremlins 2? There was a lot of white Powder involved in that movie's production.

    I know it’s a controversial take, but I deeply dislike Gremlins 2, though the Gizmo puppet is better there

    I mostly love Gremlins 2 for this scene

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JITC1fo2HA

  • LostNinjaLostNinja Registered User regular
    edited December 2024
    The Santa Clause (even Tim Allen’s general shittiness these days can’t ruin it for me)

    Muppet Christmas Carol

    Flintstones Christmas Carol

    Jim Carrey Grinch

    Hallmark Christmas movies (really any of them, they are all similar enough, but I still love them)[/list]




    Charlie Brown Christmas use to be on the list but I really hate that it’s only available on Apple TV now and I can’t even purchase a digital copy of it.

    Desy wrote: »
    The first two are non-negotiable but this year I’m adding two to the docket:
    Die Hard
    Red One

    I enjoyed Red One way more than expected to

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  • astrobstrdastrobstrd So full of mercy... Registered User regular
    Dial Code: Santa Claus AKA Deadly Games AKA Hide and Freak AKA Game Over AKA 3615 Code Pere Noel AKA The Ghost Faced Killaaaaaaaaa

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=h9TUUgwbQ5U&pp=ygUcYm9ubmllIHR5bGVyIG1lcnJ5IGNocmlzdG1hcw%3D%3D

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  • localhjaylocalhjay Registered User regular
    Jingle All The Way
    Nightmare Before Christmas
    Muppet Christmas Carol
    Charlie Brown Christmas
    Home Alone
    P much all the Rankin Bass stuff
    Gremlins
    Edward Scissorhands

  • TNTrooperTNTrooper Registered User regular
    We did National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation and once the kiddos go to bed Die Hard. Tomorrow will be the Muppets and whatever else is on TV at some point I will probably switch it over to A Christmas Story to get the kiddos to bug their parents for a BB gun next year.

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  • ProtoBirbProtoBirb Registered User regular
    I watched it’s a wonderful life last night. It has a cute Raven in in who also starred in wizard of oz.

  • furlionfurlion Riskbreaker Lea MondeRegistered User regular
    Since my son was born 14 years ago, Die Hard on Christmas eve while wrapping presents. Last night we also watched Alien.

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  • VyolynceVyolynce Registered User regular
    edited December 2024
    As usual, Muppet Christmas Carol is at the top of the list, followed closely by Hogfather. I usually also make room for Emmet Otter's Jug Band Christmas and Muppet Family Christmas, assuming I can find a clean version of the latter on YT (whatever version I've last bookmarked tends to disappear every few years). After that, things get sort of optional: Scrooged, Mickey's Christmas Carol, the Chuck Jones Grinch, etc.. We don't usually bother with the Rankin-Bass but the kiddo is 6 now so those will probably increase in rotation for a bit.

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  • LasbrookLasbrook It takes a lot to make a stew When it comes to me and youRegistered User regular
    I will usually rotate through Krampus and Santa’s Slay but the mainstay every year is the ultimate movie about unwanted presents on a snowy winter’s day.

    That’s right, John Carpenter’s The Thing.
    This year is one of the rare years where I skipped both those other movies and am watching the Star Wars Holiday Special instead.

    Also, I just learned that according to extended material Goku arrives on Namek on Christmas Eve so I might have to start adding Goku vs. Frieza to the rotation.

  • ZonugalZonugal (He/Him) The Holiday Armadillo I'm Santa's representative for all the southern states. And Mexico!Registered User, Transition Team regular
    Lasbrook wrote: »
    I will usually rotate through Krampus and Santa’s Slay but the mainstay every year is the ultimate movie about unwanted presents on a snowy winter’s day.

    That’s right, John Carpenter’s The Thing.
    This year is one of the rare years where I skipped both those other movies and am watching the Star Wars Holiday Special instead.

    Also, I just learned that according to extended material Goku arrives on Namek on Christmas Eve so I might have to start adding Goku vs. Frieza to the rotation.

    Oh, but that's quick, that fight lasts, what, an hour? 90 minutes, tops?

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  • initiatefailureinitiatefailure Registered User regular
    Vyolynce wrote: »
    As usual, Muppet Christmas Carol is at the top of the list, followed closely by Hogfather. I usually also make room for Emmet Otter's Jug Band Christmas and Muppet Family Christmas, assuming I can find a clean version of the latter on YT (whatever version I've last bookmarked tends to disappear every few years). After that, things get sort of optional: Scrooged, Mickey's Christmas Carol, the Chuck Jones Grinch, etc.. We don't usually bother with the Rankin-Bass but the kiddo is 6 now so those will probably increase in rotation for a bit.

    Someone uploaded Muppet Family Christmas in 4k like 3 days ago and merry Christmas to them.

  • VyolynceVyolynce Registered User regular
    Vyolynce wrote: »
    As usual, Muppet Christmas Carol is at the top of the list, followed closely by Hogfather. I usually also make room for Emmet Otter's Jug Band Christmas and Muppet Family Christmas, assuming I can find a clean version of the latter on YT (whatever version I've last bookmarked tends to disappear every few years). After that, things get sort of optional: Scrooged, Mickey's Christmas Carol, the Chuck Jones Grinch, etc.. We don't usually bother with the Rankin-Bass but the kiddo is 6 now so those will probably increase in rotation for a bit.

    Someone uploaded Muppet Family Christmas in 4k like 3 days ago and merry Christmas to them.

    In the description to that video they link to the DVD on Amazon. Time to correct an oversight in my library.

  • TonkkaTonkka Some one in the club tonight Has stolen my ideas.Registered User regular
    edited December 2024
    I've been trying to get the family to watch Violent Night (which is also on the list), but no dice so far.

    My usual go-to Xmas movies:

    -Muppet Christmas Carol
    -Batman Returns
    -National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
    -Home Alone
    -A Garfield Christmas
    -Snowglobe
    -Jingle All The Way
    -Gremlins
    -Ernest Saves Christmas

    The Ref used to be on there but I can't look at either of the male leads anymore.

    EDIT: Also Red One because it's just fun.

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