Okay…I admit it. I’m a total sap for stupid holiday movies. My husband and I have some “must watch” movies each year regardless of how totally stupid they are, how many times we’ve watcted them, etc. I’ve spent way too much time with tivo’d movies this weekend… but here’s our all time favorite list. Share yours.
We always save one of these for Christmas eve after everyone else has gone to bed:
White Christmas (my brother who is 15 years older thought we were nuts watching this one last year!)
It’s a Wonderful Life
Highly underrated but sappy movies (not necessarily in order):
An American Christmas Carol (with Henry Winkler)
National Lampoons Christmas Vacation
Miracle on 34th Street
Silver Bells (Hallmark TV show)
The Christmas Story
Charlie Brown Christmas
Santa Claus
Okay…your turn to share.
Never head of “Rudolph’s Shiny New Year”, is it claymation?
“Elf” - hilarious, and I love Will Ferrell
“The Grinch Who Stole Christmas” - I love the singing, especially the very bass-y voice for the Grinch song (which I can mimic near perfectly)
“Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer” - CLAY MATION! YES!!! Hilarious, love the Island of Misfit Toys and that the lead elf wants to be a dentist
“National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation” - Family tradition, must be watched, hilarious
“A Charlie Brown Christmas” - Very sweet.
The stop motion TV specials were good. They used to have a whole series of them. There were the Burl Ives Christmas ones, and there was an Easter one with Danny Kaye I think, and a couple others.
For stricly Christmas movies, there’s these in no particular order:
The Muppet Christmas Carol
Bad Santa
Die Hard (Yes, it’s a Christmas movie)
The Nightmare Before Christmas
National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation
Home Alone
White Christmas
A Christmas Carol (any of the versions, but I usually watch the George C Scott version)
Charlie Brown Christmas
How the Grinch Stole Christmas
Trading Places (Dan Akroyd in the Santa Suit)
A Christmas Story (I’ve got a “leg lamp”! The Christmas tree and the leg lamp go up the same day.)
National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation. (For some reason, the scene with Chevy/Clark in the attic watching the old movies kind of gets to me.)
Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer (The Burl Ives soundtrack is great and I can still remember the fear I felt at age 5 when I first saw “The Bumble”)
The Grinch (Not Jim Carrey’s version. The original. Boris Karloff narrating. Awesome.)
“The Grinch Who Stole Christmas” - I love the singing, especially the very bass-y voice for the Grinch song (which I can mimic near perfectly)
Thurl Ravenscroft. Use *that *to win bets!!!