Poll: What Movie Makes It Christmas To You

[3MTA3]

What movie makes your Christmas Season? Please vote for up to three and let us know the best one that got missed.

Honorable mentions due to max poll length are It's a Wonderful Life, White Christmas, Christmas with the Krank's, Ernest Saves Christmas and Scrooged.

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[Andy54Hawken]

The original 1966 How the Grinch Stole Christmas.
Love this one by Chuck Jones...casting Boris Karloff as the Grinch was genius.
Not at all impressed by the Jim Carrey version.
Andy

 

[Bajablast]

Scrooged with Bill Murray

The Ref with Dennis Leary

Muppet Christmas Carol with Michael Caine

A Christmas Carol with Patrick Sterart

Elf with Will Ferrell

 

[albin25]

Can't believe you forgot DIE HARD

 

[gryghin]

Can't believe you forgot DIE HARD

2nd vote for Die Hard

 

[Nutty4Guns]

Here we go again with the Die Hard BS. Not a Christmas movie!

Edit: Reading the first post again. I see that it wasn't asking which "Christmas movie" makes it Christmas, just what movie. So, never mind. Carry on.

 

[gryghin]

From a quick google search...

Here are nine Christmas motifs I detected (there are no doubt more):

1. The basic narrative situation of Die Hard is a man returning to his family for Christmas.
2. His wife is called Holly.
3. It takes place on Christmas Eve. Not Thanksgiving or the Fourth of July. It could have been set any week of the year, but wasn't.
4. The chief villain Hans Gruber (Alan Rickman) explicitly invokes the Christmas spirit: "It's Christmas, Theo, it's a time for miracles."
5. Gruber is a classic bad capitalist villain: he's there to steal money. Just as Old Man Potter does in It's a Wonderful Life.
6. The soundtrack features Christmas tunes new and old: Run DMC's Christmas in Hollis and Frank Sinatra's rendition of Let it Snow.
7. Santa Claus makes an appearance (in the form of a dead terrorist).
8. The film ends with the of character of limo driver Argyle (De'voreaux White) looking forward to New Year's Eve.

And point nine, the clinching argument, perhaps, is that Christmas is a socially invented tradition, and like all invented traditions it continues to adapt and evolve. Films don't need to include religious references or a man in a red suit, Christmas changes every year and as such what constitutes as a Christmas flick has expanded hugely.

 

[Nutty4Guns]

From a quick google search...

Here are nine Christmas motifs I detected (there are no doubt more):

1. The basic narrative situation of Die Hard is a man returning to his family for Christmas.
2. His wife is called Holly.
3. It takes place on Christmas Eve. Not Thanksgiving or the Fourth of July. It could have been set any week of the year, but wasn't.
4. The chief villain Hans Gruber (Alan Rickman) explicitly invokes the Christmas spirit: "It's Christmas, Theo, it's a time for miracles."
5. Gruber is a classic bad capitalist villain: he's there to steal money. Just as Old Man Potter does in It's a Wonderful Life.
6. The soundtrack features Christmas tunes new and old: Run DMC's Christmas in Hollis and Frank Sinatra's rendition of Let it Snow.
7. Santa Claus makes an appearance (in the form of a dead terrorist).
8. The film ends with the of character of limo driver Argyle (De'voreaux White) looking forward to New Year's Eve.

And point nine, the clinching argument, perhaps, is that Christmas is a socially invented tradition, and like all invented traditions it continues to adapt and evolve. Films don't need to include religious references or a man in a red suit, Christmas changes every year and as such what constitutes as a Christmas flick has expanded hugely.

Meh, hasn't changed my mind. You do you though.

 

[Flopsweat]

Can't believe you forgot DIE HARD

2nd vote for Die Hard

I'm not sure I can properly express my disappointment at having to write in the greatest Christmas movie of all time. What is this world coming to?

Please record my Other vote as Die Hard.

Thank you.

 

[kmk1012]

For us it's National Lampoons Christmas Vacation and then Daddy's Home 2.

 

[pdxjimbo]

Bruce Willis' Daughters Settle 'Die Hard' Christmas Movie Debate

 

[ilostmypswrd]

Its not Christmas in my house, until,How the Grinch Stole Christmas( the made for tv early 60`s), and The waitresses are banging away with the song Christmas Wrapping..ho ho ho

 

[Cavedweller]

"It's a Wonderful Life" probably should have been on the list. Not my favorite, but it's a classic.

 

[3MTA3]

"It's a Wonderful Life" probably should have been on the list. Not my favorite, but it's a classic.

It was supposed to be the first one, but somehow got missed cutting and pasting. After I saved the poll I was unable to add it.

 

[3MTA3]

A movie I'd really like to point out from the poll is "The Family Man". Most of you have never heard of it and that's a shame. It stars Nicholas Cage and Te'a Leoni. It's really quite outstanding in it's message and somewhat of a modern "A Christmas Carol". Even if you don't like Cage you will like him in this. You also get to see God in his coolest incarnation ever.

 

[ilikegunspdx]

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I like the one with burgermeister meisterburger and the one with the heat mizer.

 

[Ruger Rich]

BAD SANTA

 

[gryghin]

Oh... I'm looking forward to Violent Night!

 

[nammac]

- National Lanpoons Christmas Vacation
- Home Alone
- How the Grinch Stole Christmas (1966)
- Charlie Brown Christmas
- And the Rankin Bass stop motion animations, Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer and Santa Claus is Coming to Town

 

[Yarome]

Okay. Let's settle this once and for all. I've seen fewer movies than I can count on 2 hands but even "I" know Die Hard is absolutely a Christmas movie!

....Right down to the Christmas tape holding the beretta to his back right before he planted a freedom seed in ol Hans's headboard knocker. From what I remember... that thing kept giving and giving. How much more of a holiday feel good movie do you need... Nancy??



(To be fair, I haven't heard of any of those others before except Miracle on 34th Street (not 42nd though) and It's a Wonderful Life... but haven't actually seen them.)