Christmas movies

[1961_vintage]

It has chararcters akin to one year christmas drinkers who you would happily let choke on their own vomit after overdoing it on jägerbombs.

Blimey I thought it was only me who thought like this.

 

[Deleted member 77198]

The Man Who Invented Christmas
Home Alone 2
Klaus
The Polar Express
Disney’s A Christmas Carol
… are all good Christmas films (good for pre-Christmas)

Collateral Beauty
Green Book
Everybody’s Fine
Catch Me If You Can
Carol
… are all good films that have Christmas in them but aren’t really about Christmas (good for between Christmas and New Year).

 

[Mr Kobayashi]

Suggests to me you dont know a lot

Thorin have you tried the trip to America to bag a girl yet?

 

[CALCIO POTATO]

The Life Of Brian - Much more humorous than the follow up book - i think its called the Bible

 

[Mr Kobayashi]

Worst: Bad Santa 2

And any of the instantly forgettable but suffocatingly sentimental low budget American shite that airs on channel 5.

Saw one a few weeks ago where Rachel Shenton (Staffordshire raised) and once of Hollyoaks was playing an American in Yorkshire.

Crap American accent and pointless because all I could think of was that all the British cultural things that were alien to character just weren't.

I assume this shite was made for the American Market but surely even those idiots can spot a shite fake accent.

Would have made much more sense to pluck one of their own struggling actresses out Los Angeles and save them from a career in hardcore pornography.

 

[bluemc1]

Planes Trains and automobiles

 

[FogBlueInSanFran]

Planes Trains and automobiles

It’s not about Christmas. It’s also not very funny.

 

[roman totale]

It’s not very Xmas-y to say god fucking dammit but god fucking dammit — at LAST.

Every year I have this conversation with Brits and every year I have to repeat the same thing while they suggest some John Hughes films is “the best” Xmas film. FFS.

Will you please listen up this year? There is one — and only one — greatest Xmas film ever made, and it’s A Christmas Story. This isn’t my opinion. It’s a fact. It is the one true gift North America ever provided the world.

If you were ever an eight-year old boy, you’ll agree. If you weren’t — like my wife — you’ll still agree.

It’s A Wonderful Life — great. Elf — fine. Miracle on 34th Street — classic. Trading Places is one of my favo(u)rite films, but it’s not about Xmas.

There’s no horseshit magical creatures, no children hitting intruders with cans of paint. Perhaps that will come as a disappointment. Trust me it won’t.

If you haven’t seen A Christmas Story, you shouldn’t be in this thread.

A few years ago, my girlfriend was horrified that I’d never seen most all of the ‘classic’ American Xmas movies, so one day we had a marathon and watched a bunch. Home Alone, National Lampoon, Elf, The Santa Claus, they all veered between boring and shite.
A Christmas Story stood out head and shoulders above them all. It is absolutely brilliant.
Since moving over here 20 years ago, I’d heard of it and it’s mainstream failure>cult movie>national treasure journey. That really got amped up when I moved to Cleveland, where a lot of it is filmed and where it’s become part of the local cultural milieu.
I watched it a couple of days ago and I will watch it again, at least a couple of times, before the holiday is over.

 

[FogBlueInSanFran]

It’s not very Xmas-y to say god fucking dammit but god fucking dammit — at LAST.

Every year I have this conversation with Brits and every year I have to repeat the same thing while they suggest some John Hughes films is “the best” Xmas film. FFS.

Will you please listen up this year? There is one — and only one — greatest Xmas film ever made, and it’s A Christmas Story. This isn’t my opinion. It’s a fact. It is the one true gift North America ever provided the world.

If you were ever an eight-year old boy, you’ll agree. If you weren’t — like my wife — you’ll still agree.

It’s A Wonderful Life — great. Elf — fine. Miracle on 34th Street — classic. Trading Places is one of my favo(u)rite films, but it’s not about Xmas.

There’s no horseshit magical creatures, no children hitting intruders with cans of paint. Perhaps that will come as a disappointment. Trust me it won’t.

If you haven’t seen A Christmas Story, you shouldn’t be in this thread.

I’m just going to copy and paste this every fucking year at Xmas until the rest of you figure it out.

This isn’t an opinion.

 

[chesterbells]

A few random films I associate with watching at Chrimbo in the past:

Heroes of Telemark (on this week)
Spartacus/ Ben Hur
The Sherlock Holmes films of Basil Rathbone
The Poseidon Adventure
The Great Escape