December 24, 2008 | by Vic Holtreman 

What Are Your Favorite Christmas Movies?

Christmas

In our latest open discussion post regular Screen Rant reader Metallicat79 asked what folks’ favorite Christmas movie are, so I thought that a worthy topic of its own post. :-)

If ever there was a time of year for traditions, this is it – and many people have movies they watch with friends and/or family that are part of that (yours truly included).

So in the comments below, please share your top/favorite Holiday films!

I’ll start of with my favorites:

10. Scrooged (haven’t seen this one in ages but I remember liking it a lot)

9. Home Alone (I balk every time my wife wants to watch it but I always end up liking it)

8. White Christmas (Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye, c’mon!)

7. Die Hard (“It’s Christmas Leo – a time of miracles.”)

6. A Christmas Carol (the George C. Scott version)

5. The Santa Clause (so sue me – I think it’s funny and touching)

4. Elf (the only movie in which I’ve really enjoyed Will Ferrell)

3. A Christmas Story (big time nostalgia for me)

2. Miracle on 34th Street (the original, of course)

1. It’s a Wonderful Life (Best. Christmas. Movie. EVER. We save this one for Christmas day.)

OK, now it’s YOUR turn. :-)

And Merry Christmas from your friends at Screen Rant!

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  • No Gremlins?!
  • Nope, that one just never really did it for me - odd combination of starting out cute and cuddly then turning into pretty much a horror movie. :-P

    What's on your list, Scott?

    Vic
  • Home Alone is the one that jumps straight to mind for me. And Die Hard, of course - "Now I have a machine gun - HO Ho Ho!"
  • Metallicat79
    Sadly, I enjoyed Home Alone 2 better than the original, nothing against the orginal though,I love the orginal.
  • You know, I don't even remember anything about Home Alone 2... should probably rent it sometime.

    Post your faves here Mettalicat! :-)

    Vic
  • ppnkof
    I like the Grinch (the animated one, naturally) and Mad TV's season 1 ultra-violent spoof of the claymation Rudolph The Red Nose Reindeer.

    Classics.
  • Metallicat79
    Well since Vic one upped me and did 10, I will add 5 more to my orginal offering and hopefully I don;t put Vic in his Grave.:)
    10. Jingle All the Way- The Opitomy of what Christmas has become.
    9.Home Alone- The sudden relization on what Kevin Mother left behind is classic.
    8.The Grinch- I enjoy both the Jim Carrey and the classic cartoon versions.
    7.Home Alone 2- Tim Curry, need i say more.
    6.Polar Express- Is there anything Tom Hanks Can't do?
    5.The Santa Clause- Say waht you will, but this one was really enjoyable.
    4. The Nightmare Before Christmas- Love Tim Burton, Love Halloween, Love Christmas, this is everything all rolled into one.
    3.Muppet Christmas Carol- I love the Muppets take on the classic, Plus Michael Caine as Scrooge, made it that much better.
    2. A Christmas story- Sadly I had not seen this movie until my adult years, but once I finshed watching it, i immediatly became hooked, found myself able to realte to Ralphie in so many ways.
    1. Christmas Vacation- Still makes me laugh every year.Especially the Chistmas Eve Out burst from Chevy Chase.
    So there you have it. I am not much for the classics, they really dont do it for me sadly.
  • Its not a Christmas movie at all, but I watch John Carpenter's The Thing every Christmas Eve. Something about all that snow and Kurt Russell's bushy beard I guess.

    Scrooged, the aforementioned Gremlins and any Disney Christmas stuff always puts me in the festive mood.

    Merry Christmas everyone!!
  • It A Wonderful Life-There is No equal
    Home Alone 1 and 2
    Gremlins
    Edward Schissorhands
    Die Hard
    Batman Returns
    Family Man


    Chuck
  • @Metallicat79

    LOL, made you dig deep, did I? :-P

    Have you ever seen "It's a Wonderful Life?" If not, you MUST check it out!

    Vic
  • @zombie_elvis

    Oh, man... LOVE "The Thing." If it's not under my tree tomorrow I think I may have to use a Best Buy gift card and pick up the Blu-Ray.

    Only problem is I have to watch it by myself because my wife HATES scary movies and my daughter's only 12. :-P

    Vic
  • @Vic,

    I just got back not 3 hours ago from seeing It's A Wonderful Life for the first time. I think I was about one of 14 people on the planet who hadn't seen that film:P And I got to see it for the FIRST TIME on the big-screen:):) And it was A-MA-ZING. Can't wait to join the club and watch it 1000 times more! It's one of thsoe "classics" that really does warrant that description. I think it's a new favourite of mine.
  • I second that, Vic. I LOVE LOVE LOVE Carpenter's The Thing. I actually didn't see it until about a year ago but it instantly became a firm favourite.

    Also good call whoever said Batman Returns. And I just remembered a movie I watch religiously every year (probably the only one) - Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.
  • Tiny
    10.One Magic Christmas.(Mary Steenburgen,Harry Dean Stanton)
    9.The Santa Clause.
    8.Charlie Brown Christmas.
    7.It A Wonderful Life.
    6.Christmas Vacation.
    5.How the Grinch Stole Christmas.
    4.Planes,Trains,and Automobiles(More about thanksgiving but hey there is plenty of snow in the movie, and its a classic).
    3.Elf.
    2.Nightmare Before Christmas.
    1.A Christmas Carol(George C. Scott)

    These are the ten I always fit in to my holiday schedule.
  • Jessica
    My family watches "Night Shift" and "The Ref" every Christmas. Strange, but true!
  • Jon
    A christmas story, Nightmare before Christmas, Charlie Brown Christmas. Those are all great Christmas films.

    What about Bad Santa? Am I the only one who likes that movie. I watch it every year
  • greenknight333
    My favs are:

    1. A Christmas Carol/Scrooge with Alastair Sim, although I enjoy the George C Scott version from 1984 and the Reginald Owen Version from 1938, I actually enjoy every version of this movie I have and we have over 10 different versions.

    2. It's A Wonderful Life Jimmy STewart is awesome in everything he has done..

    3. Christmas Vaction- When Cousin Eddy is explaining to Clark about why he had to have the metal plate in his head changed to a piece of government plastic (everytime his wife revved up the microwave he would PI$$ his pants and forget who he was for a half an hour or so)...Hilarious!!

    4. Mickey's Christmas Carol

    5. Miracle on 34th Street- The Original not the remake from a few years back.

    6. Home ALone - Kinda reminds me of a live action Looney Tunes with Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern doing the part of the Wil E. Coyote.

    7. The Polar Express

    8. Scrooged - The scenes with the Ghost of CHristmas Present are some of the funniest in any movie I have ever seen..

    9. Jack Frost with Michael Keaton

    Merry CHristmas Everybody...I hope you and yours have a great holiday and Happy New Year.

    Cheers
  • KJ
    1. National Lampoons Christmas Vacation!
    2. Scrooged
    3. Home Alone
    4. Rudolph,Santa,Baby New Year cartoons
    5. Grinch
    6. Die Hard
    7. A Christmas Carol
    8. Mickey's Christmas Carol
    9. Bad Santa
    10. Lethal Weapon
  • Here it's always one of these:

    The Nightmare Before Christmas
    Home Alone 1 or 2
    Gremlins
    or Mr Bean (not the movie, but some episodes always do the trick)
  • kimmay!
    1. Polar Express... My 4 year old has watched this movie so many times i've had to buy it three times!

    2. Christmas Vacation... Still freakin funny.

    3. Rudolph
    4. The Santa Clause
    5. Christmas Story
    6. How the Grinch Stole Christmas... both versions
    7. Home Alone
    8. A Christmas Carol
    9. Nightmare Before Christmas
    10. What's that one with the mouse and the clock? I cant remember the name for the life of me but its a great story.
  • Jess H.
    1)How the Grinch Stole Christmas-I watch the cartoon one religiously every year but the other version is good too
    2) Polar Express
    3)Fred Clause-New favorite
    4)Santa Clause-all of them except the 3rd
    5)Nightmare Before Christmas
    6)Home Alone
    7)A Christmas Story
    8)Charlie Brown's Christmas

    Some of my personal favorites :)
  • steven the git
    Glad to see a lot of love for Scrooged. One of Murray's best.

    Also Nightmare before Christmas I watch at Halloween and then again before Christmas each year
    Muppets Christmas Carol I watched tonight and love it. I'm a sucker for the Muppets, but they do a proper telling and even recommend you read the book at the end. Not many movies do that!

    Could never decide a top ten, but my movies would be Nightmare, Scrooged, Muppets, Gremlins, Ps Ts and Automobiles (John Candy is brilliant in that) and oh! how about Trading Places? Always remember Ackroyd as drunk Santa with a gun. :D
    Wonderful Life is great too, and the Thing is fantastic at any time of year.
  • S.Matt
    I really don't have a favorite. I love Die Hard, Nightmare Before Christmas, and A Charlie Brown Christmas.

    Honestly, I absolutely hate A Christmas Story, mostly due to being called Ralphie for a resemblence that apparently only my aunt and sister can see. 10 years of being told I'll shoot my eye out kind of ruined it for me.
  • jcathey
    Left out Lethal Weapon.
  • Andy W
    Now trust me when I say this is hard thought out because I have a thing for Christmas movies. The ultimate top ten is as follows(for a kid born in the eighties).
    1. Home Alone... Keep the change you filthy animal
    2. Home Alone 2...Get outta here you nosey little pervet, or I'm gonna slap you silly!
    3. Christmas Vacation... Every time Catherine would turn on the microwave, I'd piss my pants and forget who I was for about half an hour.
    4. Jingle All the Way... I'll know if you move 'cause I have the ears of a snake!
    5. Elf...Santa, I know Him
    6. Bad Santa...Good night, Santa. Good night, Mrs. Santa's sister.
    7. A christmas Story...Fa ra ra ra ra ra ra ra ra ra ra.
    8. The Grinch(cartoon)
    9. Die Hard... Yippee-ki-yay, motherf-er.
    10. All the ones in black and white that don't creep me out
  • Ken
    Cannot believe that nobody mentioned:
    "Going My Way" with Bing Crosby and Barry Fitzgerald, My Christmas Favorite!
  • blipvert
    I can't put these in any kind of order but these are my must sees for every Christmas.

    National Lampoons Christmas Vacation
    Scrooged
    Elf
    A Christmas Story
    Polar Express
    Die Hard
    The Grinch That Stole Christmas
    It's a Wonderful Life
    Classic Disney Christmas Stuff (Mickeys Christmas Carol, Plutos Christmas Tree)
    Muppets Christmas Stuff (Muppets Christmas Carol, Muppet Family Christmas)

    Merry Christmas to All!
  • High Kalibur
    Die Hard
    Home Alone
    Batman Returns
    Nightmare Before Christmas
    Charlie Brown
    National Lampoons Christmas Vacation
    Edward Scissor Hands

    Wow... uh good job Tim Burton, never realized you made the majority of my favorite X-mas films.
  • Random Herm
    Hello.
    Merry Christmas. : )

    I like Walt Disney/Jim Henson's "The Muppet Christmas Carol" (with music by Paul Williams).

    Greets.
  • Wow, a lot of good choices. I want to like Polar Express, but I actually think Hanks ruins it for me. It seems so indulgent of him to fill all those roles. I would've liked a wider range of actors and their body motion capture rather than just Hanks and some kid (or did Hanks do the kid, too?)
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