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(Vanity) Favorite Christmas Movies
Various FReepers | December 16, 2005 | Vanity, thy name is Owl_Eagle

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"

-Hillary Clinton
(Yes, she really said that
Peggy Noonan
The Case Against Hillary Clinton, pg 55)


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To: Owl_Eagle

I like:

1. It's A Wonderful Life

2. White Christmas (great music with Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney)

3. A Christmas Carol (1938 version with Reginald Owen)


81 posted on 12/16/2005 12:51:43 PM PST by khnyny (Merry Christmas)
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To: najida

Gotcha beat, the only parts of "It's a Wonderful Life" I've seen are the occassional clips that wind up in random movies like "The Ref". So I've never really watched even part of the movie itself without some sort of extra layer of protection. Never understood what anybody sees in the movie, looks annoyingly soppy.


82 posted on 12/16/2005 12:51:45 PM PST by discostu (a time when families gather together, don't talk, and watch football... good times)
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To: najida

No you are not the only person who has never watched 'Its a Wonderful Life', all the way through...I tried once to watch it from the beginning, and just could not get interested in it...my family watched it though, and enjoyed it...they told me the bulk of the story, and then I sat down and watched the last 1/2 hour of the movie...now, the last 1/2 hour I enjoy and will watch that when the movie comes on...but I have never seen the movie from beginning to end...I just cannot get interested in it, for some reason...


83 posted on 12/16/2005 12:52:01 PM PST by andysandmikesmom
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To: Rebelbase

OMG!!! I TOTALLY forgot that was a christmas movie!! OK yeah I have to say Trading Places. Man I love Dan Aykroyd!!


84 posted on 12/16/2005 12:52:17 PM PST by lawgirl (and i opened my eyes and walked out the door... and the clouds came tumbling down...)
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To: SeamusVA

Yep, you nailed it. They remind me of Christmas when I was a kid. I really wish I could find VHS or DVD's of those two shows.


85 posted on 12/16/2005 12:52:23 PM PST by activationproducts
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To: Owl_Eagle

Debbie does Santa...


86 posted on 12/16/2005 12:52:34 PM PST by devane617 (An Alley-Cat mind is a terrible thing to waste)
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To: Obadiah
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (You can't beat having Uncle Eddie coming over and emptying his holding tanks and then kidnapping your boss.)

Every time I see this movie, Uncle Eddie and his wife, remind me of Bill and Hill Clinton. It's just like a bad taste...like opening a spoiled container of tuna...like a full cat box...like a dog fart after he ate the salsa off the coffee table..like...well you know what I mean.

87 posted on 12/16/2005 12:52:34 PM PST by fedupjohn (Kennedy Lied when MaryJo Kopechne died)
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To: Owl_Eagle
The top three on my list, in no special order:

**** 1951 British version of Charles Dicken's A Christmas Carol, called "Scrooge" with Alastair Sim

**** 1947`s "The Bishops Wife" with Cary Grant, David Niven and Loretta Young.

**** And of course, "It's A Wonderful Life".

88 posted on 12/16/2005 12:52:46 PM PST by Reagan Man (Secure our borders;punish employers who hire illegals;stop all welfare to illegals)
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To: pissant

Well Scrooged is the one with Bill Murray.


89 posted on 12/16/2005 12:53:41 PM PST by aft_lizard (What does G-d look like then if we evolved from nothing?See Genisis Ch 1:26-27)
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To: Jersey Republican Biker Chick

~~ with Vaughn Monroe singing "Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow."


90 posted on 12/16/2005 12:53:50 PM PST by blackie (Be Well~Be Armed~Be Safe~Molon Labe!)
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To: Owl_Eagle

Santa Claus vs the Martians, with commentary by the MST 3K guys. Pia Zadora's first film, by the way, she was a 5-yo kid at the time.


91 posted on 12/16/2005 12:53:56 PM PST by scottinoc
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To: Owl_Eagle

bump for later


92 posted on 12/16/2005 12:54:09 PM PST by goodnesswins (Merry Christmas......and if you don't like that, you don't get a day off....got it?)
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To: Owl_Eagle
A Christmas Story and this one:

I love this dude.


93 posted on 12/16/2005 12:55:00 PM PST by ShadowDancer (I think I may have the Asian Bird Fru. I mean Flu. (Damn, it's starting already))
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To: andysandmikesmom

Gee, I thought I was the only one that has never watch it all the way through! I do like the ending, though.


94 posted on 12/16/2005 12:55:32 PM PST by RichRepublican (Some days you're the windshield--some days you're the bug.)
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To: lawgirl

Dan Ackroyd as the drunk Santa is perpetually funny every time I see it.


95 posted on 12/16/2005 12:56:21 PM PST by Rebelbase (Green bean casserole is a culinary curse upon mankind.)
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To: Owl_Eagle

"It's a Wonderful Life" with out a doubt. There was an original Twilight Zone episode, "Night of the Meek" that had Art Carney in it as a department store Santa Claus. It was one of the better TZ's. Had a very good message. It's worth a viewing.


96 posted on 12/16/2005 12:56:58 PM PST by NCC-1701 (RADICAL ISLAM IS A CULT. IT MUST BE ERADICATED ASAP)
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To: Youngblood
Bad Santa

"I don't give a $#!t what you want... Blowin' snot all over me."

And Thurman Merman.

97 posted on 12/16/2005 12:57:09 PM PST by Tim Long (I spit in the face of people who don't want to be cool.)
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To: andysandmikesmom

Someone else said it was too dark, and I think that is why I've never enjoyed what I've seen of it (yes, I know it has a happy ending)....but I just don't like the story.


98 posted on 12/16/2005 12:57:28 PM PST by najida (I yam wadda yam.)
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To: Owl_Eagle

Santa's Slay


99 posted on 12/16/2005 12:57:41 PM PST by TXBSAFH ("I would rather be a free man in my grave then living as a puppet or a slave." - Jimmy Cliff)
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To: P.O.E.

"Come out of the closet, Hermey."

100 posted on 12/16/2005 12:58:29 PM PST by dfwgator
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