Posted on 12/19/2017 5:07:40 PM PST by x1stcav
Christmas movies have become a family tradition for many. During the weeks leading up to Christmas, loved ones snuggle up together, often armed with buttery popcorn and hot cocoa, and repeat their favorite lines along with the characters in the Christmas movie they're watching. In fact, many families have a lineup of favorite Christmas movies that they rotate throughout the holiday season. There are several movies, however, that are universally loved and make it onto most families' viewing schedules. Below are the seven best Christmas movies of all time.
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What???
No Hard Rock and Coco and Joe?
No Suzy Snowflake???
Concur. Die Hard.
(Not that I am an expert on Nazarene movies.)
My favorites are Home Alone and While You Were Sleeping.
Miracle of 34th Street. Old, Natalie Wood Version.
It’s a Wonderful Life at #2
White Christmas is #3
A Christmas Story is $4
All very good choices!
The Passion of Christ.
I like the THREE GODFATHERS movies with John Wayne which happens over the Christmas time. It was also made silent as Hell’s Heroes and an early b&W talkie with Walter Brennan.
Forget the made-for-TV version THE GODCHILD from 1974.
The best way to spread Christmas Cheer, is singing loudly for all to hear!!
The Bishop’s Wife with David Niven, Cary Grant and Loretta Young.
The wife will watch anything with a Christmas theme. Her favorites are WHITE CHRISTMAS and EMIT OTTER’S JUG BAND.
As for me, in my youth combat veterans would go out into the woods and fields to get away from the constant fireworks going off.
After Thanksgiving, I want to do the same till Jan 2.
Hard to pick very best, but definitely there are excellent.
I’d like an overrated/underrated list.
As a great CHRISTMAS movie and a VERY underrated, I have to mention...
THE BISHOP’S WIFE
Haven’t seen it? Do so. But I hope you don’t see the version that’s chopped and channeled and cuts out much of the charm.
MIRACLE ON 34th STREET. Everyone knows this but truly great, with the only real Santa. Being forgotten in the wake of the rise of Wonderful Life, which is a great movie but overrated as a Christmas movie. Only ends at Christmas, it is basically a biography at all times of year.
So if having a portion of a movie is good enough to be a Christmas movie, then a wonderful flik like Meet Me in St. Louis should be included (with the debut of Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas). So too should In the Good Old Summertime, horribly named, because it’s mostly around Christmas and even attempts a seasonal song. (Both Judy Garland)
Fantastic production, albeit TV. Fantastic acting, and not rushed like the other old movies. Scott is wonderfully gruff and odious.
BINGO!!!
1940’s Shop Around the Corner Jimmy Stewart and Margaret Sullivan
And Jolson was just trying to be accurate. I don’t get the big deal about make-up.
THANK YOU!
This movie is still virtually unknown.
Been playing them all.
For lowbrow aficionados:
Bad Santa (somewhat crude, cursing, but funny)
(ducks)
Yep, he fit the image perfectly....
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