What Is Your Favorite Christmas Movie?

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White Christmas (the last scene really gets to my heart)

Next favs:

Muppet Christmas Carol
A Christmas Carol starring Patrick Stewart
Scrooge (the musical)
It’s a Wonderful Life
A Charlie Brown Christmas
The Bishop’s Wife starring Cary Grant (great last scene)
Home Alone
Little Women starring Wyonna Rider (only Christmas in the first scene, but a good break from a total Christmas movie)
Meet Me in St. Louis (again, not a total Christmas movie)
While You Were Sleeping
Miracle on 34th Street
Polar Express (although I don’t care for most of the North Pole scene, elfs give me creeps)
Meet John Doe starring Gary Cooper/Barbara Stanwick

I love the story of A Christmas Carol and also read the book each year and see at least one production of it each year. It’s a good story of the way a man who seems hopeless can change and better himself through giving and honoring Christmas (Christ).
 
No doubt my favorite is… Its A Wonderful life.

The Grinch Who Stole Christmas.
Or is it The Grinch Whoooo Stole Christmas in Whoville lol.😃

Oh Yeah and the one with the Toy Soldiers Marching everywhere but I don’t know the name. Maybe Little Drummer Boy Hummm I guess I am getting old too. (but not as old as dirt)…yet.
 
FickleFreckled said:
Scooge the Musical! I love the scene from the future when all those people are dancing around Scrooge’s coffin singing,

Thank you very much! Thank you very much!
That’s the nicest thing that anyone’s ever done for me!
It’s sounds a bit bizarre, but things the way they are…
It feels as if a new life 'as begun for me!
And if I 'ad a banner I would wave it!
(da da da da da da da da da da - words?)
But since I left me banner at 'ome…
I’ll simply 'ave to say…
THANK YOU VERY VERY VERY MUCH…
THANK YOU VERY VERY VERY MUCH!
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I think it’s “To add a sort of celebration touch.”

I’m a sucker for the words of one of the songs in A Muppet Christmas Carol, Bless Us All. I choke up everytime. Imagine choking up watching muppets!

I looked them up to share here.

"Life is full of sweet surpises.
Everyday’s a gift.
The sun comes up and I can feel it lift my spirit.
Fills me up with laughter, fills me up with song.
I look into the eyes of love and know that I belong.

Bless us all, who gather here,
The loving family I hold dear.
No place on earth compares with home,
And every path will bring me back from where I roam.
Bless us all, that as we live
We always comfort and forgive.
We have so much that we can share
With those in need we see around us everywhere.

Let us always love each other.
Lead us to the light.
Let us hear the voice of reason, singing in the night.
Let us run from anger, and catch us when we fall.
Teach us in our dreams and please, yes please,
Bless us one and all.

Bless us all with playful years.
With noisy games and joyful tears.
We reach for you and we stand tall,
And in our prayers and dreams
We ask you bless us all.

We reach for you and we stand tall,
And in our prayers and dreams we ask you
Bless us all."
 
Without a doubt it is a film called “The Juggler of Notre Dame”. Close second…“A Christmas Carol” with Alistair Sim.
Happy Holidays!
 
Carolofthebells,
love your handle and those lyrics! I’ve only seen the Muppet Christmas movie once for some reason but love the Muppets. John Denver & the Muppets Christmas album is also very sweet and goofy and there are a couple of songs that make me tear up.
Merry Christmas, little Zachary…merry Christmas everyone…yeah, goosebump city.
 
The Bells of St. Mary’s for sure & I never miss It’s A Wonderful Life. I love Christmas! It’s my favorite time of year. I always envision holding Baby Jesus in my arms & singing Silent Night! 🙂
 
maria_rose said:
With the christmas season upon us I start looking forward to my annual favorites which are:
“IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE”
“MIRACLE ON 34TH STREET”

WHICH are your annual favorites to enjoy?
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  • “Changing Places”
  • Any version of “A Christmas Carol”
  • “Scream”
  • Anything Dracula-related
 
Paulus said:
Somewhere in time (about 45-50 years ago), I used to have a copy of The Littlest Angel.

BTW, if you’re ancient (40+) then I’m near dirt’s age… 😊

Paulus
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I’m right up there with dirt’s age. In fact I am almost old enough to have been the cook at the Last Supper lol.
 
definitely It’s a Wonderful Life and the George C. Scott version of A Christmas Carol. The Polar Express was really good I thought too.
 
The Man Who Came to Dinner with Bette Davis and Jimmy Durante. A bit dated but a classic.

*Christmas Vacation *

The Scott and Muppet versions of A Christmas Carol
 
Comfort and Joy with Nancy McKeon
Muppet Christmas Carol
A Christmas Carol the Patrick Stewart version
Miracle on 34th St. the Maureen O’Hara version – we traditionally watch it on Thanksgiving to start the season
 
DPloch said:
The Bells of St. Mary’s for sure & I never miss It’s A Wonderful Life. I love Christmas! It’s my favorite time of year. I always envision holding Baby Jesus in my arms & singing Silent Night! 🙂
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For a long time Christmas was my LEAST favorite time of year. In l989 my father passed away just a few days before Christmas. Also my wife and I were married on Dec 21 and our wedding anniversary always seems to be eclipsed by Christmas. This year I’ll have to celebrate Christmas jobless as I was laid off from a company I had worked for over 30 years in July. As for It’s A Wonderful Life I’d rather watch it any time of the year other than Christmas. I watched it a few days after I lost my job and I found it theraputic. Matter of fact it was one of the things that kept me from jumping into the Rock River and ending it all. Losing that job hurt me more than anything I’d ever experienced. Fortunately the time since has seemed to ease the pain somewhat.
 
*** The Preacher’s Wife** (the original and the remake)
*** A Christmas Carol (only the one with Alistar Sim as Scrooge – all the rest are just tacky remakes :eek: All right, so I’m opinionated 😃 )
*** A Christmas Story (“but the bell rang” :rotfl: )
*** The Bells of St. Mary’s** (not actually a Christmas movie, but I laugh myself silly over the first grader’s Christmas play in the middle of the movie – “that’s all you have to know really” – it just busts me up!)
*** Jesus of Nazareth** (except for Mary’s labor pains, I think they just did such a lovely job of this)
 
Gertabelle said:
*** The Preacher’s Wife** (the original and the remake)
*** A Christmas Carol (only the one with Alistar Sim as Scrooge – all the rest are just tacky remakes :eek: All right, so I’m opinionated 😃 )
*** A Christmas Story (“but the bell rang” :rotfl: )
*** The Bells of St. Mary’s** (not actually a Christmas movie, but I laugh myself silly over the first grader’s Christmas play in the middle of the movie – “that’s all you have to know really” – it just busts me up!)
*** Jesus of Nazareth** (except for Mary’s labor pains, I think they just did such a lovely job of this)
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Gotta disagree a wee bit about A Christmas Carol. That version and some others do not have dialogue that is faithful to the book. Only Patrick Stewart’s version is extremely faithful in dialogue and story continuity. Take for example, the section in Patrick Stewart’s version where the spirit of Christmas Present leads him over the ocean to see men singing a Christmas song on a boat, and then over miners in Wales coming out of mines singing Christmas carols - all in the book, but in no other movie version that I can think of. This is a very meaningful part of the book, too, which signifies the univeral celebration of Christmas. Besides seeing his made for TV movie, I saw Patrick Stewart perform his one man show version on stage and all I can say is, “Wow!”.
 
Gertabelle said:
*** Jesus of Nazareth** (except for Mary’s labor pains, I think they just did such a lovely job of this)
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There’s nothing wrong with portraying Mary as having labour pains. It’s one of those points on which Church teaching isn’t settled.

With our formulation of the Assumption we are free to believe that she died (imitating Christ and taking on herself additional suffering) or that she did not die (as she was entitled by virtue of being sinless to be translated to heaven without suffering the death which is the wages of sin).

So with the birth of Christ - Mary maybe strictly didn’t have to suffer it if you view labour pains as rightly a consequence of sin (if so, why is it OK to have an epidural and eliminate that suffering then?) but she might have chosen to. I think personally, being as close as she was to Christ, she wouldn’t have shrunk or wanted to shrink from suffering for our sakes.
 
my favorite christmas movie is White Christmas with Bing Crosby and Rosemary Clooney. i also like Christmas in Connecticut, a Holiday Affair and Miracle on 34th St. and i couldn’t miss watching A Christmas Story about the little boy who wants a BB gun for Christmas and his mother warns him that he will shoot his eye out.
 
CAROLOFTHEBELLS said:
Gotta disagree a wee bit about A Christmas Carol. That version and some others do not have dialogue that is faithful to the book. Only Patrick Stewart’s version is extremely faithful in dialogue and story continuity. Take for example, the section in Patrick Stewart’s version where the spirit of Christmas Present leads him over the ocean to see men singing a Christmas song on a boat, and then over miners in Wales coming out of mines singing Christmas carols - all in the book, but in no other movie version that I can think of. This is a very meaningful part of the book, too, which signifies the univeral celebration of Christmas. Besides seeing his made for TV movie, I saw Patrick Stewart perform his one man show version on stage and all I can say is, “Wow!”.
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Actually, the Sims version does include “They are miners, who labor in the bowels of the earth, but they know me.” But even if Stewart’s version is a wee bit more faithful to the book, NO ONE can compare to Sims’ Scrooge. He is positively ugly before his conversion – and his Christmas morning scene makes me laugh until I cry for the sheer joy at being convinced of his conversion. And after his conversion, I just wanna give him a great big hug, he’s such a believable teddy bear of a man. Oh, I love when he tells Bob Cratchet that he’s going to double his salary – and when Bob leaves he says, “I don’t deserve to be so happy” but then he starts giggling and throws his pen over his shoulder. Sorry, but no other actor captured the before and after contrast without looking like they were acting. It’s the little details Sims brings to his portrayal that make him the perfect Scrooge.

No other Scrooge has that, in my own well-reasoned and insightful opinion :rolleyes:

Goodness, I have to get up in a few hours and get that turkey in the oven!

Gert
 
tomarin said:
I don’t really have a favorite Christmas movie. The closest thing I can think of is “A Child’s Christmas in Wales” recited by the poem’s author, Dylan Thomas – this was often broadcast in some form or another on public television when I was growing up, although obviously it’s first and foremost a poem or story and not a movie. .
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I have seen a made for TV dramatization of this, anybody else?

The Bishop’s Wife is a Christmas standard, in fact it is on the satellite programguide now
 
LegoGE1947 said:
For a long time Christmas was my LEAST favorite time of year. In l989 my father passed away just a few days before Christmas. Also my wife and I were married on Dec 21 and our wedding anniversary always seems to be eclipsed by Christmas. This year I’ll have to celebrate Christmas jobless as I was laid off from a company I had worked for over 30 years in July. As for It’s A Wonderful Life I’d rather watch it any time of the year other than Christmas. I watched it a few days after I lost my job and I found it theraputic. Matter of fact it was one of the things that kept me from jumping into the Rock River and ending it all. Losing that job hurt me more than anything I’d ever experienced. Fortunately the time since has seemed to ease the pain somewhat.
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I remember losing a job I only had for a short time. I remember how that felt – I can only barely imagine how you must have felt.

I know everyone here will join me in a prayer for you and your family, for employment, peace of mind, a joyous Christmas and a prosperous New Year: through Christ our Lord, from Whom all good things come. Amen.
 
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