What's your favourite Christmas movie?

[andrewducker]

[Poll #1799447]

Comments

[andrewducker]

I can think of a few people who are going to have problems choosing between A Muppet Christmas Carol and The Nightmare Before Christmas.

[bart-calendar.livejournal.com]

I consider the Nightmare Before Christmas to be a Halloween film and not a Christmas film.

If I had to pick a Tim Burton Christmas movie, I'd go with Edward Scissorhands.

[pigwotflies.livejournal.com]

I've never seen either of them. Must remedy this.

[andrewducker]

Good Lord. Were you not allowed to watch TV as a child?

[pigwotflies.livejournal.com]

Well, we didn't have a TV til I was 6, but I don't think that's why. I haven't seen The NIghtmare Before Christmas because I've never been a big fan of Halloween (not big on scary things), so wouldn't have wanted to see it when it came out. Since then I've seen enough Tim Burton to think I'd probably like it, but just haven't got round to it.
I have no idea why I've never seen the Muppet Christmas Carol. I've certainly seen enough clips to feel like I've seen it and I think I've been around when other people have been watching it, but I'm pretty sure I've never actually sat down and watched it all the way through.

[andrewducker]

I think that as live action it would be pretty unpleasant, but as animation it manages to just funnily unpleasant rather than actually shocking. Worth seeing at some point, certainly.

(I'm not actually sure I've seen the Muppet Christmas Carol. I _think_ I have, but I might just have seen a lot snippets too...)

[pisica.livejournal.com]

Oh, do see it. In fact if you want to have a viewing party I am happy to bring the DVD round.

As a Victorianist I just love how much they stuck to the original text. I mean, they do make plenty of changes - starting with, yanno, EVERYONE BUT SCROOGE IS A MUPPET which is not quite what Dickens wrote - but the part where they sell the bedcurtains? Not what I expect from what is ostensibly a children's movie.

[alitheapipkin.livejournal.com]

I'm with bart_calendar on the Nightmare Before Christmas being a Halloween film.

[andrewducker]

It starts the day after Halloween, and the rest of the movie is about the discovery of Christmas, and then its takeover, climaxing on Christmas day. Makes it Christmassy enough for me.

[fearmeforiampink]

For me the difficulty was choosing between the Muppets and John McClane. Eventually I decided that the former was a great Christmas movie, the latter a great movie that takes place at Christmas — yes Christmas is part of the plot, but it could've been worked around to something else.

[bart-calendar.livejournal.com]

Silent Night. Deadly Night.

[tysolna]

SEWIWEIC: The 1973 Czech movie Tři oříšky pro Popelku (which is a movie adaptation of a literary version of Cinderella). I have grown up with this movie, not least because it is a mainstay of German Christmas TV since the late 1970s.
Of course my generation knows it by heart, and the soundtrack was in the Top 10 a few years ago. It's not Christmas without it.

[zz]

die hard 2 is more xmassy than die hard.

[innerbrat]

But Die Hard is a better movie.

[artkouros.livejournal.com]

I like Groundhog Day. It has snow.

[innerbrat]

But that's a Groundhog Day movie. The day only has one movie, don't steal it!

[http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/]

None of the above. My vote goes to Ji Dong Ji Xia (The Iceman Cometh), (Hong King 1989), which is a wonderful time-travel action romance with a Christmas background.

[pghbekka.livejournal.com]

SEWIWEIC: A Christmas Story. "Ralphie just lay there like a slug. It was his only defense."

Also missing from your poll: Jingle All the Way. Sinbad ain't been right since the zip + 4 thing.

[nmg.livejournal.com]

+1.

"fa-ra-ra-ra-rah, ra-ra-ra-rah"

"You'll put your eye out!"

Or, as I found myself saying to my son today "fra-gee-lay - that's Italian".

[holyoutlaw.livejournal.com]

Another +1

[momentsmusicaux.livejournal.com]

BAH HUMBUG.

[andrewducker]

If you're not careful you'll be visited by the ghosts of John McClane, George Bailey and Kevin McCallister...

[the-gardener.livejournal.com]

Where is the "None of Them" option?

[andrewducker]

Depends. If you mean "None of those options, I choose Something Else Which I Will Explain In Comments" then it's SEWIWEIC, and leaving a comment with your alternate choice.

If you mean "I reject the very idea of a best Christmas Movie, they are all equal in their vileness." then that would also be SEWIWEIC and a comment explaining why you loathe Saturnalia so.

[holyoutlaw.livejournal.com]

My SEWIWEIC is "A Christmas Story," which has already received a couple votes in the comment thread.

The Long Kiss Goodnight is also a warm, family feel-good Xmas movie:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116908/

[d-c-m.livejournal.com]

How the Grinch Stole Christmas
Hogfather
Die Hard. :)

[ami-bender.livejournal.com]

St trininians as they have been the staple movies for boxing day for a loooonnnngggg time

[octopoid-horror.livejournal.com]

American Psycho.

Or maybe Rabid.

[andrewducker]

And a Holly Jolly Christmas to you too!

[octopoid-horror.livejournal.com]

andrewducker has mistaken me for this dickhead Marcus Halberstram. It seems logical because Marcus also works at P&P and in fact does the same exact thing I do and he also has a penchant for Valentino suits and Oliver Peoples glasses. Marcus and I even go to the same barber, although I have a slightly better haircut.

[ekatarina.livejournal.com]

I've always like "The Best Christmas Pageant Ever" as well as "The Ref".

Ekatarina

[soon_lee]

Hey, I was not the only one who voted "Bad Santa"!

[andrewducker]

You are in the illustrious company of my fiancee :->

[simont]

So, no comment this time pointing out that one of those names turns out to be shared by a porn film? :-)

(Cue a lively debate over which one would make the most plausible name for a porn film, which will require brain-bleach after reading it...)

[andrewducker]

Bad Santa should be easily made into porn. I'm surprised that a quick google doesn't find anything...

[nybiara.livejournal.com]

SEWIWEIC: a heart-warming short film called The Bloody Olive.

[andrewducker]

Thank you, that was fantastic!