Holiday films. 🎄

  • Thread starter Thread starter F_Marturana
  • Start date Start date
Status
Not open for further replies.
OH! I kinda do recommend the movie “Joyeux Noel”, It’s about the Christmas truce of 1914 during WWI. I warn there is a lot of subtile readings since some of the actors will speak in the native language of the soldiers they’re portraying. And there is one off scene love scene with a couple (you can skip that part easily if stuff like that is a bother). Besides that, it was a interesting movie. I find the historical event to be amazing in general, it’s bittersweet.
 
Last edited:
The Bishop’s Wife, The Man Who Came to Dinner, A Christmas Carol (1953), Holiday Inn to name a few.

Oh, and Santa Claus Conquers the Martians, just for fun. 😁
 
I do think he was a nice guy. He was very decent, cared about Janet Leigh’s character and her little boy. He talked about him being their son.

He just didn’t cause a spark in Janet Leigh. She only wanted to feel that for her late husband.

I do think choosing Robert Mitchum was a bit too quick in their relationship.

What if he ended up like his character in Night of the Hunter? :crazy_face:
 
Last edited:
My cousin is a few years older, she liked the film. I remember it making me feel just so sad. I didn’t understand why he was against the tree. But he recently lost his wife, so now I get it. I think I remember it being shown after Rudolph or Frosty.
 
debgab said:
The Grinch w/Jim Carrey
Click to expand...
“4:00, wallow in self-pity;
4:30, stare into the abyss;
5:00, solve world hunger…tell no one; 5:30, jazzercize;
6:30, dinner with me—I can’t cancel that again;
7:00, wrestle with my self-loathing… I’m booked.”
 
I can answer this is reverse: a few weeks ago I rented ‘Scrooged,’ Bill Murray’s take on A Christmas Carol that somehow I never managed to see (I was never a huge Murray fan during the early and middle stages of his career but lately have been watching and rewatching some of those movies, since I was impressed with Groundhog Day). It was painfully bad, and about as much fun as root canal. Really had the opposite effect of what those movies are intended to do.
 
Last edited:
F_Marturana said:
He just didn’t cause a spark in Janet Leigh. She only wanted to feel that for her late husband.
Click to expand...
I’m not big on “sparks” and got rid of two Catholic guys who talked about stuff like that.
Maybe I’m the perfect match for Wendell Corey. Send him over my house :crazy_face:
 
When you say got rid of them, I hope you don’t mean they’re swimming with the fishes.
 
The Holiday -Cameron Diaz and Kate Winslet

Polar Express

A Charlie Brown Christmas

Any Harry Potter movie

Emmet Otter’s Jug Band Christmas

Meet me in St. Louis
 
Last edited:
Harry Potter as a Christmas movie(s)? May I ask the connection? Or are you just a big fan?

Also, I forgot to list Three Godfathers, although I haven’t seen it in years.
 
I like to see the Christmas scenes in Harry Potter.

Meet Me in St. Louis is not a holiday themed movie but I like the Christmas scenes too.
 
Last edited:
While I do love “Santa Clause is Coming to Town” as how the man in the red suit came to be, I saw the recently new “Klaus” movie and I thought it was a cute film with an interesting take on a Santa origin story, plus the animation is really really GOOD.
If anyone here has little kids, this would be something I think they would enjoy as a family feature.
(Please Note: This uploaded content is no longer available.)
 
Last edited:
Absolutely the best part! And “ am I eating this because I am hungry?..”
 
The Family Stone. It’s bittersweet but has a hilarious chase scene between siblings with the Russian Dance from the Nutcracker as accompaniment.
 
F_Marturana said:
What films do you like around this time of year?
Click to expand...
A Christmas Story
Better off Dead
(you can see that I have a somewhat warped sense of humor)

A Christmas Carol with Patrick Stewart.
Elf
The Wizard of Oz (it always played around Xmas when I was a kid)

We’re extras in a new Lifetime channel movie (A Christmas Winter Song), so that’ll probably get added to the list if I can figure out how to burn it to a disk.

I’m sure there are others I can’t think of right now.
 
neophyte said:
Better off Dead
(you can see that I have a somewhat warped sense of humor)
Click to expand...
That one is good 365 days of the year. I’m glad I was young in an era when a movie like that could play theaters without everybody worrying that kids would run home and commit suicide.

TWO DOLLARS
 
Status
Not open for further replies.
Back
Top