Posted on 12/16/2005 12:31:40 PM PST by End Times Sentinel
Since there clearly haven't been enough vanities around here today, I figured I weigh in with one:
What are your three favorite Christmas Movies of all time?
Me, I'm going with:
3. A Christmas Carol (staring Patrick Stewart, 1999)
2. A Very Brady Christmas (yes I'm serious)
1. It's A Wonderful Life (one of the finest films of all time)
Alright FReepers, time to opine...
Owl_Eagle
"You know, I'm going to start thanking
the woman who cleans the restroom in
the building I work in. I'm going to start
thinking of her as a human being"
1. Scrooge with Alastair Sims... I concur with everyone that it's the best version. Alastair Sims had so much fun with that role.
2. The Bishop's Wife with Cary Grant.
3. Miracle on 34th Street... Edmund Gwenn was great as Kris Kringle, and the ending was priceless.
4. Charlie Brown Christmas/ The Grinch that Stole Christmas (the cartoon of course).
I know this is heresy, but I'm not that big a fan of It's a Wonderful Life (although I do love Clarence). It was played over and over on TV when I was younger.
A person after my own heart :-)
Tonight: "The Godfather: Part 2" at 8pm (New York) on channel 11/ A Very Brady Christmas (channel 9)
White Christmas.
Bad Santa.
Home alone.
That's a good list! I keep forgetting the original "Home Alone."
I know you're forgetful.. you forgot to come back earlier - kidding.
LOL. You're always there to remind me, eh?
I guess.
:-P
Nit picking time. Planes, Trains, and Automobiles was about Thanksgiving and Groundhog Day was about, well, Groundhog Day. Both great movies, though.
The favorites in my house are:
1. National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
2. Scrooged
3. A Muppet Christmas Carol
Honorable mention goes to Home Alone (I love the scream when the tarantula comes into play) and A Christmas Story.
'Bunch has reached the 'so bad , it's good' stage of campy comedy. Gilligan's Island was always great, I thought. Could be wrong, but didn't both shwos share the same producer?
My favorite Christmas movie is "A Christmas Story"
Definitely one of mine, too.
Santa: "I can't get that for ya, kid. You'll put yer eye out!"
Bump! For great justice!!!
Yes both were produced by Sherwood Schwartz (sp?). Now that I think about it, both had a Christmas special with the skipper playing Santa but it turned out it wasn't him.
I know Yarddog. I suspect the real reason he watched Gilligan's Island was Mary Ann's shorts.
During the the Democratic Primaries in '04, it was Howard Dean "Heat Mizer" vs. John Kerry "Freeze Mizer." A FReeper even made a little picture of them at one one point...
"But I don't want to be a Christmas Elf. I want to be a... a... DENTIST!!!
It's a very Monty Python-esque line if you think about it. It wasn't many years afterward that Eric Idle uttered the famous words:
"I never wanted to be this in the first place. I always wanted to be a... a... LUMBERJACK!!!
BTW, I never thought Florence Henderson was particularly attractive until I saw a short clip of her when she was 18. She was a real babe.
I didn't think "Groundhog Day" was a Christmas movie. Maybe a winter movie.
once again.... "groundhog day" isn't a christmas movie.
yes we do count movies that take place during christmas time, like 'gremlins'.... unlike 'groundhog day'....
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