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Best Movie for the Holidays?

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
1
4%
A Christmas Story
5
22%
2 - Doesn’t really care either way
2
9%
3 - They’re pretty cool I guess, but they aren’t an obsession
3
13%
4 - I like werewolves a lot but wouldn’t want to become one
2
9%
Report the incident to your pack’s leaders and let them decide what to do
1
4%
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
3
13%
How the Grinch Stole Christmas
1
4%
Die Hard
2
9%
The Lord of the Rings
3
13%
 
Total votes: 23

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Like the title says: of all the Holiday flicks, traditional and otherwise, which is your favorite for holiday viewing?

BTW, if you feel anything not on the list should have been, or something on the list should not have been, please respond. I took the liberty of removing "A Wonderful Life" from the list simply because it's been done to tears, but other than that, I can only guess that I have the top ten on there. :grinp:
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Post by Ancient »

For a holiday flick I'd have to vote for Home Alone. I guess because I like comedy. And yes I agree with you. "A Wonderful Life" has been done to tears but then again aren't most of the classics. :lol:
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I just went to a costume party last weekend that had this one guy dressed up as the Bumble from Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer :)
Yeah, he was kinda skinny for the proportions and I never really did see him bounce, but he still rocked!
Though I gotta admit, it was a tough choice between RtRNR and How the Grinch Stole Christmas. Were you talking about the original Chuck Jones cartoon or the Jim Carrey thing? The former was narrated and voiced by BORIS KARLOFF, for Ghod's sake! [genuflecting and kowtowing]
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vrikasatma wrote:Were you talking about the original Chuck Jones cartoon or the Jim Carrey thing? The former was narrated and voiced by BORIS KARLOFF, for Ghod's sake! [genuflecting and kowtowing]
The Chuck Jones version, but if you think the Jim Carey version was better, more power to ya.'
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Post by Set »

I can never decide if The Nightmare Before Christmas is more of a Christmas movie or a Halloween movie...

So, this time of year I like the cartoon version of the Grinch. But that's not what I voted for.
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I picked home alone. :D
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"Dark angel" aka "I come in peace" with dolph lundgren is by far the best holday movie ever made.

an intergalactic drug lord comes to earth to make drugs inside human corpses. and there is only one guy who suspects what is going on.
all this during christmas.

i didnt count but i bet there was like 30-40 cars exploding in the movie.
and some gore to for those who likes that ;)
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I should think everyone can guess what is my fav :D

8) Nightmare Before Christmas!!! 8)

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Post by vrikasatma »

I know, the list is an embarrassment of riches! :D
I'd also like to add...
1941. There's just something special about watching a B-52 buzzing Hollywood Boulevard and taking out the garlands over the street and watching a house bedecked with the old-fashioned multi-coloured lights tumble off the cliff and into the Pacific Ocean...
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Post by white »

Freeborn, of course! :D

1941? I haven't heard of that before. Sounds like it might be worth seeing :)
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vrikasatma wrote:I know, the list is an embarrassment of riches! :D
I'd also like to add...
1941. There's just something special about watching a B-52 buzzing Hollywood Boulevard and taking out the garlands over the street and watching a house bedecked with the old-fashioned multi-coloured lights tumble off the cliff and into the Pacific Ocean...
1941 is a really good movie.. but that wasn't a B-52 flying down Hollywood Boulevard... the B-52 is jet powered and came after WWII... I'm fairly certain that it was a DC-3 that gave everyone a scare in that movie...
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Aaaaaaah The "Christmas story" i don't know about you guys but every year my family watches that movie it a tradition i look forward every year
(next to opening preasents and eating christmas cookies) and i got some good memories realating to that movie. good times :D
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Post by Akugarou »

Movie: "A Christmas Story"
With "Scrooged" a close second.

TV Special: "A Charlie Brown Christmas"
However, "Olive, the Other Reindeer" is a new classic!
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My new favourite classic is "The Polar Express." Gotta love rocket-launched edges on Santa's gift bag and old-fashioned candy-striped gift boxes. That movie was just cooler than cool. Tom Hanks is a genius! :)
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"The Charlie Brown Christmas Special" Since it's the only one I can stand after repeated watchings.
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A Muppet Christmas Carol. The End.
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A Muppet Christmas Carol
Scrooged
Olive the Other Reindeer
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
How the Grinch Stole Christmas(animated!)
Frosty the Snowman
Home Alone 1 and 2
...are in my runners-up 8)

A Christmas Story kindof scared me when I was younger. I really need to sit down and watch it the whole way through again.
And I am proud to say, I never watched 'Its a Wonderful Life' the whole way though before 8) :lol:
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I voted for Charlie Brown, but it was a toss-up between that one and the Grinch. I assume you mean the original animation with Boris Karloff, though the recent Jim Carrey movie was quite excellent in its own right.
Taking a Gestalt approach, since it's the "in" thing...
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I was actually thinking about listing both Grinches, but I wanted to keep the list at a maximum of ten so I figured those two could just go together.

Only one vote for Love Actually? What gives -- that and The Lord of the Rings the only movies on that list that I'll watch out of season. :D
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Lord of the Rings was a Christmas movie? :?
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vrikasatma wrote:Lord of the Rings was a Christmas movie? :?
*shrugs* Beats me. For some reason, more than a handful of people I know have made Lord of the Rings a Christmas tradition. :P
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