Winter Holiday Movies Thread

'Tis the season to start watching classic/new/cheesy winter holiday movies!

What are your favorites?
What's on your watch list this month?

 

Excuse me, but why isn’t this called the

~*CHRISTmas*~

movie thread?

 

My wife have been putting on a lot of Hallmark/Lifetime Christmas movies to have on in the background while we're cooking, hanging out, etc. We're saving all the classic movies (movies we actually want to watch) for a little later in the month, but it's been fun watching all these cheesy Hallmark movies, haha.

 

While You Were Sleeping

Watch it every year at this time.

 

That one is on my watch list for this month. I don't think I've ever seen it, but I hear it's a great Christmas time movie.

 

It's on Disney+. Watching it right now.

 

Watched the Jim Carrey Grinch and Elf today. Now we’re watching Love Actually.

we watched both Home Alone movies, Die Hard, and the Muppet Christmas Carol over the last few days.

 

Christmas Vacation - the gold standard Christmas film

 

So far this season I've watched:

Happiest Season
Elf
Nightmare Before Christmas
Grinch
Charlie Brown Christmas
The Year Without a Santa Claus
Santa Claus Is Comin' To Town
Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer
Frosty
The Santa Clause
Home Alone
Home Alone 2
Christmas Vacation
Scrooged

I think we'll rewatch Just Friends next, it's been a while. I've also been meaning to finally check out The Night Before. And of course we'll be watching A Christmas Story tomorrow

 

I really liked Last Christmas.

 

Watched Elf for the first time this week with my wife and oldest.... that was fun.

Then tonight we watched Prancer. My oldest and I have never seen that before... that was a cute movie.

 

Have Iron Man 3 on now, had Kiss Kiss Bang Bang on before it.

Last Christmas is a fun one I rewatched recently, too.

 

Home alone 1 and 2, Christmas vacation are musts. The night before is fun and office Christmas party wasn’t bad. Elf is fine but I hate the grinch with Jim Carrey.

 

The Jim Carrey Grinch kills me every time. Maybe it’s mostly nostalgia, but it still cracks me up.

 

My wife and I watched that for the first time a few days ago. At this time last year, we were on our honeymoon in London so we recognized a bunch of spots in the movie, which was fun.

 

This scene was so good.

 

The Jim Carrey Grinch genuinely creeped me out as a kid lol I need to give it another chance as an adult

 

I've never seen Elf

 

Jim Carrey as the grinch just does nothing for me and the movie it 45 minutes too long.

 

Yeah, stretching a beloved 25 minute story into a 2 hour film tends to be a recipe for disaster

 

Every year growing up my parents would throw a Christmas Eve party and all the kids would end up putting on Love Actually and without someone’s parents would always walk in during one of the nude/sex scenes. So it holds a strange place in my heart.

 

And yes, the Jim Carrey grinch is really bad. It feels like they tried to merge a Tim Burton movie with Dr Suess and it’s just creepy and off putting.

 

The live action Cat in the Hat creeped me out too.