Sound of music, Elf, Christmas Story, Ernest Saves Christmas, Miracle on 34th St., It's a Wonderful Life, just to name a few.

I no longer watch the whole thing through but will pause and watch a few scenes if I come across it on the tv.

It is well down and tells the story of the real Christmas truce of 1914. I'm not religious, but Christmas/Yule traditions used to and still can be about the important things: family, friends, sharing, and joy.

Dan Aykroyd wore a Santa suit, right?

Is a Christmas movie

1. A proper Christmas movie is set during the Christmas season. While there are a few films that are considered Christmas movies but are not set at Christmastime, like The Sound of Music, a Christmas movie is generally set during the season. Die Hard, and at least one of its sequels, is set during Christmastime.

2. The accoutrements of Christmas, like decorations and Christmas parties, should be present. Die Hard is the story of a Christmas movie gone extremely wrong.

3. There should be a family conflict that resolves itself by the end of the movie. In Die Hard, New York City Police officer John McClane's wife had moved to Los Angeles for work, and tensions are high in the McClane family because of it.

4. A character should have some personal demons he or she gets rid of by the end of the movie. Serving as the distant end of John's radio calls is Sergeant Al Powell, who works a desk because he shot a kid during an incident and can't bring himself to pull his gun when necessary.

5. There should be a villain. Die Hard has three: the declared villain Hans Gruber, the TV news guy Dick Thornburgh, and Deputy Chief Dwayne Robinson. Quite frankly, Hans Gruber is the least odious of the three.

6. There needs to be a situation that suspends belief. Die Hard has a few. First is PG&E's need to take out a huge block of the city's power grid to cut the lights in Nakatomi Tower. You mean they can't just go over there and pull the meter head? Second is the FBI's theory that if they cut power to Nakatomi Tower it'll kill the lights inside; any commercial building has emergency lights that are powered by batteries for just such an occasion. Third, the vault? Lemme ask you something: if you were going to break into a Super High Tech Vault like Nakatomi had, would you spend hours trying to defeat the "seven seals" that it has or would you just walk in with a firefighter's breaching saw and cut a hole in the door? Sometimes the most efficient solution is brute force and ignorance.

7. There should be a character placed for comic relief. Argyle the Limo Driver is the man of Condition 7.

Stars John Houseman and Michael Learned.
Try it, you'll like it.

Feel-good movie featuring Bing's voice and Fred's dancing with great humor,
and songs by Irving Berlin incl. The original performance of "White Christmas"

Unless you're military skip the movie "White Christmas" see Holiday Inn instead!

It makes me tear up because it was also my late grandpa's favorite.

I am surprised no one has mentioned this classic!

Lots of opinions on that one lol

But I also like the Thin Man with William Powell and Myrna Loy. It takes place during the Christmas season.

"You'll shoot your eye out kid". I am not the Holiday sentimental type. Bah Humbug!

Darin McGavin and my late father could have been brothers. They shared many physical and personality characteristics.

My father introduced me to Bing Crosby. Bells of St. Mary’s is one of several holiday movies featuring him that we enjoyed together.

The Man Who Came to Dinner is a light hearted comedy starring Monty Woolley, who many do not know, and a cast of well known actors, some in small roles.

with George C. Scott who is the best Scrooge ever. I also love A Christmas Story, Miracle and
Christmas Vacation plus Christmas In Connecticut.

Edit to add: The Grinch.

Alastair Sims is the definitive Scrooge!

I'm not sure how it happened, but we watch it every year.

I like the old one and the new one.

The Holiday (2006)

Whatever its faults, it looks amazing.

Bad Santa

It is terribly funny and some of it makes me cringe, I usually would not choose this, the values are horrible then they end up saving a kid who had never had a chance at all.

Thurman Merman was able to see the good and it made me feel good inside. Also it was packed with good actors who just raised it up. Everyone else I know hates it and thinks it is disgusting and it is but sometimes you have to walk around all that to see and feel the good inside.

Going slowly but I hope better. Should know soon. Until then I will watch this dirty, snarky gross movie with a heart of gold as it ends.

It has Dennis Leary, Judy Davis, and Kevin Spacey.

It's terrible who Spacey turned out to be, but he was a great actor, and he's at his best in this irreverent film.

The Ref.

It’s just uplifting to see the change in Scrooge. Fits the holiday very well.

Hi Deb! Hope you and Rich are having a good holiday season. I’m still around - just posting less and more in the political forums. Used to love to have fun in the Lounge and hope to more.

My parents loved it (so do I, now) but at the time it scared the bejabbers out of me, especially the part when the doorknocker turns into the spectral image of Jacob Marley!
😱👻

Hands down.

Cary Grant, Loretta Young, David Niven

...I will. I'd watch it any time of year and have, but it is a Christmas movie and a family Christmas movie to boot.

Enjoy a good holiday toast too - you deserve it!

Soundtrack last week, right on-season, I guess.

It started with "how do you solve a problem like Maria" but the next thing I knew (OK, after diversion into West Side Story: "almost like praying&quot my hills were alive, and laughing like a brook.

A great musical indeed!

Premiered in Pittsburgh with the Girl Scouts. and have not missed a year.

Best xmas movie of all time.

Burl Ives singing "Silver and Gold" is warming. I also watch A Christmas Carol, several versions, and Miracle on 34th Street. And Die Hard because then I can get my husband and adult son to join me for awhile. 🎅

Not a real big fan of his, but he's really good, and funny in this. Alot of other good acting in it.

There one more vaguely remembered ( not sure at all why Tom Arnold come to mind) , but I think I'll have to look a long list of movies - though maybe from the '90s onward. 🤔

Off I go to look 😄
ETA
It might be T8m Allen's The Santa Clause
Only 6/10, and 73% but I'm liked it.
And I forgot Carey's - How The Grinch Stole Christmas.

Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer
Santa Claus Is Coming To Town
The Year Without A Santa Claus

And the 1/2 hour animated cartoons:
A Charlie Brown Christmas
How The Grinch Stole Christmas
Frosty The Snowman
Twas The Night Before Christmas

Not strictly a Christmas Movie, but the Christmas scene where Judy Garland sings "Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas" is incredible.

Charlie Brown, Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol, the Rankin-Bass cartoons, and the Grinch.

I remember when the Grinch premiered-- December 18, 1966. I was really looking forward to it because I had the book and I loved that book. Earlier in that day, I had to sing in a church Christmas pageant, and I got very sick as a result. So, when I got home I was given some medicine and sent straight to bed. My bedroom was next to the TV room, so I could hear it, but I couldn't see it. I was so disappointed

So it was a looong wait

Christmas in Connecticut with Barbara Stanwyck & The Lemon Drop Kid with Bob Hope.

picture book. It does not have dialog but is set to the most wonderful music. It is delightful and poignant. Another was a made for TV special called “The House Without A Christmas Tree” with Jason Robards and Mildred Natwick. One I discovered a few years ago is “This is Christmas” a British film that is really touching. I loved reading all the posts and was reminded of some I had forgotten about. And Deb, I love me a “Sound of Music” fix anytime! 😊🩷

Barbara Stanwick and Fred MacMurray.

Written by Preston Sturges. A heartwarming story with strong supporting cast like Sterling Holloway.

Cafe/Gift Shop on their Stowe, VT property. She was short, very nice.

It's a made-for-TV Christmas movie that I remember from my childhood. Starring Jason Robards.
Worth watching if you've never seen it, or re-watching if you have.

in one of them, the video is reversed, presumably to avoid a copyright strike.
The one I linked to is the original, non-reversed version.

The story takes place in the 1940s, and is about a girl and her father, who has refused to have a Christmas tree in the house ever since his wife (the girl's mother) died in childbirth around Christmastime. Don't worry, it has a happy ending!

More fun than a one-year subscription to the Jelly-of-the-month club.

"The Man who Came to Dinner" with Bette Davis, Monty Woolley, Ann Sheridan and Jimmy Durante.

"Christmas in Connecticut" with Barbara Stanwyck and Dennis Morgan.