Holiday films. 🎄

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A notable thing about Holiday Affair is that they don’t make Wendell Corey’s character the bad guy. Often times with love triangles with these stories they turn one guy into the jerk to make the other option look that much better. He fought for Janet Leigh’s character but he played fair and let her decide, and really she fit better with Robert Mitchum’s character. Still it’s not to sympathize with him and hope he found some happiness after that.
 
I’ll be honest, I thought she should have married Wendell Corey. I wasn’t convinced that Robert Mitchum’s character was going to be able to support the family. But hey, it’s only a movie.
 
And let’s not forget all those movies that aren’t Christmas movies per se, but have really memorable scenes or plot points that revolve around Christmas.

Such as:
Auntie Mame (both versions)
Let No Man Write My Epitaph (whole first part is Christmas)
The Eddy Duchin Story (his wife dies on Christmas, although this is totally fictionalized for the movie and she actually died in August)
 
You;re right. It’s only a movie! 😃
It seemed like she cared deeply for Wendell Corey, but maybe she was mistaking that for love. I think if they married she would have been comforted but not content, if that makes any sense.

Yeah, Robert Mitchum’s character didn’t seem the most economically stable of mates. I’m a little surprised given the time the movie was made that they didn’t shoehorn a super-duper happy ending where the store manager gives him his job back with a big promotion.
 
lets seeeee to name a “few”:
Home alone
Christmas Vacation
All of the Rankin Bass Christmas specials (both 2d animations and the 3d stop motions)
Polar Express
White Christmas
And every Christmas day, after dinner we always, ALWAYS, watch “It’s a Wonderful life.” That movie always makes me tear up at the end, has a really good moral message too that hits me every time.
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They’re many more I watch, but these are personal favorites.
 
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Me too. It’s just a great film apart from the Christmas theme. Then there is one version of “A Christmas Carol” which I particularly like, one of the older ones, but for years I just have not been able to find it again. The Scrooge is tall and thin, and I think the dramatization of the Christmases past, present, and future is the best of all the many versions.
 
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I likely mentioned it last year when this basic top came up, but I want to give some additional praise to It’s a Wonderful Life. George Bailey is a very relatable hero. He does the right thing, but he can also be envious and grouchy and thick-headed. He’s a good man with real faults.

As far as the various A Christmas Carol adaptations I’d go 1. Alistair Sim’s Scrooge, 2. Mr. Magoo’s Christmas Carol, 3. An American Christmas Carol. Most people don’t know the last one. It was a TV movie that starred Henry Winkler and it was a retelling of the story during the depression. It was set in America during the depression, and my mom LOVED it.
 
The new one “Last Christmas” will now be on my Christmas holiday annual viewing list. We all love National Lampoons “Christmas Vacation”. There is a movie called “Babettes Feast” , a Nordic language film that if you are a foodie, is a wonderful Christmas tradition movie.
 
The scariest one I’ve seen has to be the 3D animation one with Jim carry as scrooge. Now, it’s not the best of movies, but out of all the versions I’ve seen, that one had some dark images that kinda scared me when I was a little younger. From Marley’s jaw unhinging to when the ghost of Christmas Present turning into a skeleton as he departs from Scrooge to make way for Future’s entrance.
 
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I have seen several before…not one to see them over and over…ugh!

I’ll rather listen to music!
 
Last year someone mentioned Gremlins and Die Hard as favorite Christmas movies. I was hoping to see them listed here again this year so I could roll my eyes and tell the poster how wrong they are. Ho Ho Ho :santa:t2:
 
I guess you haven’t actually read this thread then have you?
 
OH YEAH! I Forgot “Gremlins” were one, actually like that one and “Nightmare before Christmas!”
 
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Did I miss them up thread? I did read through and I hate to think I delayed my smug self satisfaction. If I did it’s because I was just so excited to denounce those movies as un-Christmassy. It’s part of my holiday tradition😁
 
You did miss it. And any movie that has a Christmas scene is a Christmas movie. 😉

While You were Sleeping
Forgot to mention that earlier.
 
Speaking of movies that are set during Christmas but aren’t really Christmas movies, The Monuments Men wasn’t that great of a movie. (I’d recommend the much better The Train). But there is one scene where these men (including Bill Murray’s character) are in Europe during WWII at an army camp during Christmas. In the mail, Bill Murray;s daughter sent a record of her and her kids wishing him a Merry Christmas. They play the record over the loudspeaker and there’s the most beautiful acapella version of “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” I’ve ever heard. The movie isn’t great, but that scene kills me.
 
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