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  • Spawn67
    Career Member
    • Aug 14, 2009
    • 816

    What Christmas specials and movies do you watch every year?

    What Christmas movies and specials do you watch every year for the holiday season?
  • EMCE Hammer
    Moderation Engineer
    • Aug 14, 2003
    • 25679

    #2
    Charlie Brown Christmas
    Christmas Story
    Jingle all the Way
    Trapped in Paradise
    How the Grinch Stole Christmas
    Home Alone or 2
    The Santa Clause or 2 or 3
    Rotate the Rankin-Bass ones

    We're halfway done. We start on Thanksgiving night and run through New Year's.

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    • enyawd72
      Maker of Monsters!
      • Oct 1, 2009
      • 7904

      #3
      My top five must watch are:

      Rudolph
      Frosty
      Twas the Night Before Christmas
      How the Grinch Stole Christmas
      A Christmas Carol (George C. Scott)

      And if I happen to catch them:

      Year Without a Santa Claus
      Santa Claus Is Coming To town
      A Christmas Story
      A Charlie Brown Christmas

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      • William Vafai
        Museum Super Collector
        • Oct 14, 2017
        • 185

        #4
        How the Grinch stole Christmas
        Frosty the Snowman
        Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
        A Charlie Brown Christmas
        Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and Island of Misfit Toys

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        • Brown Bear
          Still Old School
          • Feb 14, 2008
          • 7057

          #5
          Every year I drag all of my various Christmas DVDs upstairs and leave them on the TV stand. As we watch them I bring them back downstairs.
          Since Dec 1st I'd guess we've easily watched about twenty ranging from movies to classic cartoon etc.
          I save Scrooge for the 25th as tradition.
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          • Hedji
            Citizen of Gotham
            • Nov 17, 2012
            • 7246

            #6
            As many as I can. I have so many, it's hard, and I like to rotate so that even old favorites don't feel welcome. But I'd say I have to view Rudolph, Frosty, The Grinch, Santa Claus is Comin' To Town, Charlie Brown, A Christmas Story, Home Alone, Christmas Vacation, and at least one adaptation of a Christmas Carol.

            I also watch a lot of Christmas horror. (don't judge me)

            I also watch a lot of Hallmark Christmas movies (don't judge me). Seriously, those things are like warm egg nog. My family just got into them. They are all the same, and completely predictable, but during a busy and stressful time of year, they tend to accomplish just what they set out to do, and meet every light entertainment need you might have.

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            • Mikey
              Verbose Member
              • Aug 9, 2001
              • 47242

              #7
              Mr Magoo

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              • HardyGirl
                Mego Museum's Poster Girl
                • Apr 3, 2007
                • 13933

                #8
                Rankin-Bass specials
                A Charlie Brown Christmas
                A Christmas Story
                and Hallmark Christmas movies!
                "Do you believe, you believe in magic?
                'Cos I believe, I believe that I do,
                Yes, I can see I believe that it's magic
                If your mission is magic your love will shine true."

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                • Bruce Banner
                  HULK SMASH!
                  • Apr 3, 2010
                  • 4327

                  #9
                  A Cosmic Christmas
                  Gremlins
                  PUNY HUMANS!

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                  • enyawd72
                    Maker of Monsters!
                    • Oct 1, 2009
                    • 7904

                    #10
                    Originally posted by Hedji
                    As many as I can. I have so many, it's hard, and I like to rotate so that even old favorites don't feel welcome. But I'd say I have to view Rudolph, Frosty, The Grinch, Santa Claus is Comin' To Town, Charlie Brown, A Christmas Story, Home Alone, Christmas Vacation, and at least one adaptation of a Christmas Carol.

                    I also watch a lot of Christmas horror. (don't judge me)

                    I also watch a lot of Hallmark Christmas movies (don't judge me). Seriously, those things are like warm egg nog. My family just got into them. They are all the same, and completely predictable, but during a busy and stressful time of year, they tend to accomplish just what they set out to do, and meet every light entertainment need you might have.
                    I can't watch that Hallmark stuff. Is just so sickeningly sweet it's almost nauseating. Does that make me a bad person? LOL

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                    • knight errant00
                      8 Inch Action Figure
                      • Nov 15, 2005
                      • 1766

                      #11
                      There are some I'm ambivalent about (Polar Express, for example, I can watch or skip if the rest of the family want to put it on). But my must-sees:

                      A Charlie Brown Christmas
                      The Bishop's Wife
                      A Christmas Carol
                      (1984 version with George C. Scott)
                      Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
                      Santa Claus in Comin' to Town
                      A Christmas Story
                      Jingle all the Way
                      How the Grinch Stole Christmas
                      Santa Claus
                      (Mexican one from the '60s)

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                      • Earth 2 Chris
                        Verbose Member
                        • Mar 7, 2004
                        • 32498

                        #12
                        A Christmas Story
                        Christmas Vacation
                        Scrooge (Alastair Sim, 1951)
                        Scrooge (musical, Albert Finney, 1970)
                        Elf
                        The Santa Clause trilogy (my kids LOVE these movies)
                        White Christmas
                        It's a Wonderful Life
                        Miracle on 34th Street
                        Santa Claus is Comin' To Town (my favorite Rankin/Bass)
                        Rudolph
                        Year without a Santa Claus
                        Frosty
                        Frosty's Winter Wonderland
                        Jack Frost (Rankin/Bass, not creepy CGI Michael Keaton Snowman)
                        How the Grinch Stole Christmas (animated)
                        Grinch movie
                        Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol
                        Charlie Brown
                        Garfield
                        BTAS: Christmas with the Joker and Holiday Knights
                        Justice League: Comfort and Joy

                        Chris
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                        • enyawd72
                          Maker of Monsters!
                          • Oct 1, 2009
                          • 7904

                          #13
                          ^Oh yeah, I totally forgot about Elf!

                          I love that movie...I think it's Will Ferrell's best one.

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                          • Earth 2 Chris
                            Verbose Member
                            • Mar 7, 2004
                            • 32498

                            #14
                            I love that movie...I think it's Will Ferrell's best one.
                            Agreed! It's irreverently funny and sweet at the same time. Not small feat.

                            Chris
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                            • Hedji
                              Citizen of Gotham
                              • Nov 17, 2012
                              • 7246

                              #15
                              Originally posted by enyawd72
                              I can't watch that Hallmark stuff. Is just so sickeningly sweet it's almost nauseating. Does that make me a bad person? LOL
                              Of course that doesn't make you a bad person. And of course they're saccharine. That's their whole reason for being. Just think of their sickening sweetness like... fruitcake.

                              Quite honestly, I'd scoffed at them before, but that was before sitting down with the family with my daughter who's the right age for it, and having a movie predictably yet satisfyingly accomplish precisely what it sets out to do.

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