Advent Day 8: Films: a poll

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

I'm curious what people watch around the holidays. I know I'm forgetting some (these are very American-centric) so let me know your faves in the comments!

Poll #30302 Favorite Holiday Films poll

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 13

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What are your favorite holiday films/shows? Check all that apply

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Charlie brown's Christmas special
2 (15.4%)

Love Actually
1 (7.7%)

A Muppet Christmas Carol
9 (69.2%)

Die Hard
4 (30.8%)

Home Alone
2 (15.4%)

National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
0 (0.0%)

It's a Wonderful Life
2 (15.4%)

Elf
1 (7.7%)

The Grinch Who Stole Christmas (TV or film)
2 (15.4%)

Rudolph the Red nosed Reindeer (TV)
3 (23.1%)

Something else I will expound upon in the comments
6 (46.2%)

Hallmark movie (please let me know your favorites in the comments)
0 (0.0%)

Comments

[conuly]

So you're coming down on "Nightmare Before Christmas" is a Halloween movie, or did you forget it?

Though for the record, the best Christmas movie is the original Miracle on 34th Street.

[smallhobbit]

Alastair Sim 'A Christmas Carol'!

[garonne]

Another popular fave is The Snowman.

[dylan_mx]

Here the tv always shows Trading Places (1983) so for me that is the quintessential Christmas movie! I watched every year as a kid, but now my family doesn't really have something we rewatch for Christmas.
We always watch Four Rooms (1995) for New Year's tho ahaha!

[house_wren]

In addition to Elf we watch:

Mixed Nuts, 1994
This is a Christmas movie but it is an acquired taste. It was a total flop and it had a great cast.

Holiday, 1938
With Katherine Hepburn and Cary Grant.

The Wizard of Oz, 1939
This became a Christmas movie because tv stations played it at Christmas. You know, back when there were only 3 stations and you needed an antenna on the roof.

[house_wren]

Flying monkeys always scared me, too.

Holiday is an absolute classic oldie, full of 'witty repartee.'

I think Mixed Nuts confuses people and that's why it was not well received. Is it a rom-com? A Christmas movie? A scary movie? It might be hard to find, but perhaps it's on youtube. The cast, though...so good: Steve Martin, Liev Schreiber, Madeline Kahn, Anthony LaPaglia, Juliet Lewis & many more. I think I like it because it's really about being alone and lonely during the holidays, and that sense of not belonging anywhere or with anyone is something that I feel.

[malinaldarose]

I also watch the Doctor Who Christmas specials and the Christmas episodes of The Librarians. Additional movies include The Holiday (Kate Winslett, Cameron Diaz, Jack Black, and Jude Law), Lethal Weapon, Die Hard 2, and the Santa Clause films. Last night I watched Single All The Way. Sometimes, Bell, Book, and Candle, too, but the ending of that one annoys me. I'm sure there are more that I'm blanking on.

[debriswoman]

Muppet Christmas carol is fun, older version of a Christmas carol with Alistair Sim, the Nightmare before Christmas…and what is a hallmark movie? We have hallmark cards but not movies. Will add in some Xmas shows from days of yore…Morecambe and Wise Xmas specials come to mind, and the carol service from Kings