Charlie Brown's Christmas

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Viewing Charlie Brown’s Christmas every year is a habit of mine and I suspect that I am not the only one who does this.
I did watch the Bells of St. Mary’s last night and thoroughly enjoyed it. What about old Christmas movies? (non-Hallmark) What are your favorites?
 
I picked up the music cd some years back and love to listen to it as well.
 
For starters, I pretty much hate any new Christmas movie made in the last couple of decades. I tried to watch “The Christmas Bunny” a couple years ago and the entire family of the little girl were all so awful, shortsighted, insensitive and sometimes downright mean, that I wished the old lady played by Flo Henderson had just adopted the kid.

I do like the old TCM-era ones, but I find it a little hard to watch them anymore because they tend to make me wistful and sad. I enjoy the happy ending of “It’s a Wonderful Life”, but watching George Bailey suffer through multiple disappointments in life to get to that point is not fun. The kids’ movies are even worse. I also always loved Rudolph, but the “Isle of Misfit Toys” scenes made me sad as a kid and makes me just burst into tears as an old person. “The Little Drummer Boy” is another one that is just a plain old cry-fest from the opening scene straight on through to the Baby Jesus curing the little lamb.

I tend to enjoy digging up some of the more obscure old Christmas movies out there, like “Holiday Affair” with Janet Leigh and Robert Mitchum, and “The Crowded Day” that has John Gregson and lots of British actors I mostly don’t know except for a very young Prunella Scales, later of Fawlty Towers fame. This year I might try watching “White Christmas” and “Holiday Inn” because I always get those two mixed up. My husband liked “White Christmas” the film.
 
A Time to Remember, which I first saw on EWTN.
A low budget movie with a really good cast.
I watch it every year. And cry. 😐
 
I watch it because the grandmother looked like my grandmother, the relationship between her and Angelo was like my son and my mother, and the father reminds me of my uncles on my mother’s side of the family. Pure nostalgia, and I love both Donald O’Connor and Tommy Makeum.
 
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A Christmas Carol. But it has to be the one with George C. Scott as Scrooge or it doesn’t count.
 
For my husband, it has to be Alistair Sim as Scrooge.
George C. Scott is very good too. And Patrick Stewart had his moments too.
 
Bah, Humbug! I should clarify that I still watch my VHS tape from 1983 that my mom recorded off the t.v. Seeing the old commercials is so nostalgic and a little sad. If only my parents had invested in that little ad about a computer made by Apple…
 
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Yippee Ki, No. That’s like saying “Gremlins” is a Christmas movie. Just because the action takes place during the Christmas season, it doesn’t make it a Christmas movie.(This is said in jest and only the opinion of the giver.)
 
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Also Gremlins is totally a Christmas movie.
 
My favorite Christmas movies are Its a Wonderful Life, Muppet Christmas Carol, and How the Grinch Stole Christmas.
 
I agree. Gremlins is more of a Christmas movie than Die Hard if you ask me.
 
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