Posted on 12/07/2012 4:42:03 PM PST by MNDude
What is your favorite Christmas movie and which do you hate the most?
My favorite is: “A Christmas Story”.
There have been several Bad Santa type movies which are all just awful.
Best - A Christmas Story
Runner-Up - National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation
Worst?
Bad Santa
Favorite = “O. Henry’s Full House” Hate = “A Christmas Story” Honorable mention for hate = “National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation”
By the way, has that been BANNED on commercial TV too? Channel 5 used to show that all day long on Christmas Eve or Day!
Most disliked: It’s A Wonderful Life
Favorite: A Christmas Carol (with George C. Scott)
It’s hard to say.
The Best?
The Original version of The Bishops Wife.
The worst?
You name it, there are tons of them.
I don’t think it has been banned. They showed it all day last Christmas.
I don’t think it has been banned. They showed it all day last Christmas.
The Claymations are the best:
Rudolf the Red nosed Reindeer
the Story of Santa Claus
and
Frosty the Snowman.
Great memories watching those and they still hold up well.
I also love Christmas in Conneticut.
The Nativity
I find with each passing year, I become more and more like "The Old Man."
My dislike: the Christmas Stoy...the one with the leg lamp and the gun.
Just dont like it. Sorry please don’t run me off the board.
Does “Die Hard” count?
White Christmas with Bing and Danny and the sisters, sisters!
What are you, some kind of Communist? ;)
Most loved: Alistair Sim Christmas Carol
Least: Any Puppetoon production
Weirdest: MST3K Mexican Santa Claus movie
Don't really have a least favorite I can think of right now.
LOL!
GMTA
What are you, some kind of Communist? ;)
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Favorite: “A Christmas Carol” with Alastair Sim
Worst: “It’s A Wonderful Life”
Favorite runner-up: “The Great Rupert” with Jimmy Durante
Worst Runner up: “It’s A Wonderful Life” (I really dislike this movie!!)
There are so many bad ones in the past several years its hard to list them all...
Here is one from 2011....
“A Very Harold and Kumar Christmas” - probably one of the worst movies, let alone Christmas movies, of ALL TIME.
Do you really think drugging up children with speed or meth or whatever is funny? Of course not. There was nothing funny about this movie.
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Worst: Anything from Lifetime
Why do you dislike Its a Wonderful Life so much?
Maybe you would have liked it better if it ended like this.
It’s A Wonderful Life - The Lost Ending
http://www.hulu.com/watch/4267
White Christmas—always loved it, even as a kid. For a kid’s show, Rudolph the Rednose Reindeer.
I had the old Cristmas Carol movies.
one of the best: Penny Serenade with Cary Grant and Irene Dunn...
i believe TBS is the station that shows it for 24 hours...
Mine is the the 1934 classic, “The Thin Man”, with William Powell & Myrna Loy. A murder mystery during Christmas. What a Great Pic!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Elf is the worst.
Miracle on 34th Street (the original) is my favorite.
Favorite- Nightmare Before Christmas
Least Favorite- Those stop-motion animations like Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer from the 70s and 80s. (at least that is when I saw them, I think they are much older). I remember they creeped me out when I was a kid.
Any movie with Chevy Chase
I also like Home Alone—only the first one.
Does for me.
Best Tie “A Christmas Story “ with “Bad Santa”
Worst “Scrooged” with Bill Murray
I like the 1938 version with Gene Lockhart & Reginald Owen.
Worst: The Grinch (with Jim Carey)
Totally against the spirit of the book....good thing Dr Seuss wasn’t alive to see that dreck.
Miracle on 34th Street (the original)
Otherwise the old B/W versions of A Christmas Carol, Christmas Vacation and Scrooged.
(don't think I've ever seen A Christmas Story from beginning to end)
Worst?...most(not all)remakes of classics.
Favorite is Miracle on 34th Street, the original. Tied with Die Hard.
Worst has to be Bad Santa
Worst: "Santa Claus Conquers the Martians"
(No. 84 on IMBDs list of 100 worst movies.)
Santa Clause Conquers the Martians
(Free download at Archive.org - public domain.)
To me, the “worst” was also very enjoyable, but it was bad, wacky, fifties B-movie sci-fi bad, special effects that made the original Buck Rogers look cutting edge.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zZhLH-5fws
So, worst, best, it really depends, lol. If you love bad sci-fi this is a great one.
A Christmas Carol starring Alastair Sim should’ve been the last one made. Masterpiece.
And I’ll say it if no one else will:
I love ‘Jingle All The Way’ starring the idiot from CA.
One of my favorites as well, just liked the acting style of Mr. Scott that’s why I picked that rendition. ;-)
My favorite, too, and I watch it every year. I also love the Christmas Carol version with George C. Scott.
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