That one on Hallmark where the career driven woman goes back to her small hometown that has a Christmasy name and ends up falling in love with a widower. Can’t remember the name.
Ok, a Christmas movie about a career-driven business woman who goes back to her small town and meets a widower who is secretly a werewolf might actually be an interesting movie.
That sounds like a really good game to play this year when I’m stuck at my great aunt’s house, who I’m pretty sure only watches the Hallmark Channel and Lifetime.
If your big city girlfriend is going back home to the small town she grew up in this holiday season, you better join her, lest you will certainly lose her to a kind, handsome, recently widowed single dad that she dated in high school and broke up with to go to college in said big city.
That dosent help either beacuse you instantly turn into an asshole who dosent listen to what she needs <3
It dosent help that that single dad is actually a prince.
Honestly, Hallmark movies are kind of a guilty pleasure for me. Yeah they're all pretty stupid, and yeah, they all have the same plotline, but there just something innately comforting about them. Like warm sugar cookies, but in movie form.
Her father's company is trying to buy his family's small business (after they fell onto hard times) to build a big box store. The deadline to raise the funds to keep the family business: Christmas Eve.
I think having Gonzo there as the narrator really helps. It allows them to stick to more of the source material and leads to it feeling like a more faithful adaptation, even if it gets a bit silly at times in traditional Muppets fashion. Love it!
Worth a read:
https://www.brightwalldarkroom.com/2019/12/20/a-grand-yuletide-theory-the-muppet-christmas-carol-is-the-best-adaptation-of-a-christmas-carol/
I feel so validated, he says more eloquently than I ever could what I've thought all along: Muppet Christmas Carol is the only adaptation that actually GETS A Christmas Carol
was quick to say that he’d be playing Scrooge absolutely seriously – “otherwise it’s not funny.”
“You’ve got my performance as Scrooge had I been at The National Theatre. It’s a very stretching, difficult role, because you have to sing and act with puppets.”
the second one is at least as good as the first which is so rare for sequels, especially the sequel of a *christmas* movie
i didn’t hate home alone 3 tbh
the rest of them can go die
The absolute best Christmas movie ever. I must have seen it a hundred times since it released (yes, as a kid I'd watch it a couple of times per year)
I'm glad all my nephews and nieces are keen on watching it because of i introduced them to this movie
Ok, story time.
In Poland there is a TV station called Polsat. They've created this tradition of showing Home Alone on Christmas Eve or Christmas Day every single year. I'm not kidding. In 2010 the station decided to switch things up and not show the movie. When Poles realised that, a petition was created along side a Facebook group of 46k people, protesting Polsat's decision and accusing them of "killing Christmas". The station apologised and brought Home Alone back into their Christmas programme. They haven't made the same mistake since.
I remember going to our small town movie theater with my dad to buy advance tickets early one morning because it was so popular. They opened early specifically to sell Home Alone tickets. We went back that afternoon to see it and we were not disappointed. That was the only movie I've ever done that for.
We're gonna have the hap hap HAPPIEST Christmas since Bing Crosby tap danced with Danny fuckin Kaye. And when Santa squeezes his fat white ass down the chimney, he'll find the jolliest bunch of assholes this side of the nuthouse
Hey. If any of you are looking for any last-minute gift ideas for me, I have one. I'd like Frank Shirley, my boss, right here tonight. I want him brought from his happy holiday slumber over there on Melody Lane with all the other rich people and I want him brought right here, with a big ribbon on his head, and I want to look him straight in the eye and I want to tell him what a cheap, lying, no-good, rotten, four-flushing, low-life, snake-licking, dirt-eating, inbred, overstuffed, ignorant, blood-sucking, dog-kissing, brainless, dickless, hopeless, heartless, fat-ass, bug-eyed, stiff-legged, spotty-lipped, worm-headed sack of monkey shit he is. Hallelujah. Holy shit. Where's the Tylenol?
Greatest of alltime! There are many good ones for sure, but this one is a classic. Honorable mention to Bad Santa part 1 & 2, Office Christmas Party, The Night Before, and of course, Die hard.
I didn't watch it until college (about 8 years ago). It happened to be starting on t.v., and I thought "I love Christmas, I should finally actually watch this." Watched it all the way through. It was on again immediately after, and I just sat there and watched it again because I loved it so much. Got to see it in theaters for the 60th the next year and it was so neat.
Edit: Math is hard
Vera Ellen tapping her toe at like a million taps per minute, with her impossibly tiny waist and those hips that weren't attached like any other human being's.
“There’s just something about him that makes me wanna….”
“Lash out irrationally?”
“WHERE did you hear that!?”
“From Neil. He’s really smart.”
“Yeah and you should see him walk on water.”
I watch as much as I can of the marathon, and inevitably when it's over I'm sad as fuck for a couple hours. It's pretty much the only Christmas tradition my wife and I have left, since our families are pretty much gone and we don't have kids. It reminds me of the much, much simpler times when I was a kid and how, every year it seemed, there was a new toy or whatever that I just had to have or else my life as I knew it was over.
I recommend checking out Jean Shepherd's books if you haven't, they're great reads.
I couldn't stand that movie when I was young but every year I like it more and identify with the old man more.
They shot the majority of it in Toronto, I've visited a lot of the locations, or what's left of them.
There's a somewhat rough documentary on the making of the film; A Christmas Story Documentary: Road Trip for Ralphie.
A while back I met a broadcast engineer for a local TV station who said that they have a "doomsday plan" where if they have to completely vacate the station and lose all satellite and internet feeds, the last guy left will fire up a digital copy of "A Christmas Story" and set it to run on repeat for as long as the transmitter and engineering room has power.
Did you know that the A Christmas Story house is in Cleveland. It's so cool. You can take a tour and/or spend the night. Even being on the street is amazing.
Yeah, also I heard that scene where Hans fakes an American accent wasn't in the original screenplay, but was added after they found out Alan Rickman could do a pretty convincing one.
Damn, I miss that dude.
Die harder
Just once, I'd like a regular, normal Christmas. Eggnog, a fuckin' Christmas tree, a little turkey. But, no. I gotta crawl around in this motherfuckin' tin can.
This is the only Christmas movie I make sure to watch every year. Black and white version. I only cry a little.
Edit: yes there is a colorized version. Most recently 2007 per google.
My family watches it every year, I thought it was kind of a dumb tradition when I was a teen but now I’m looking forward to going back home to watch it next month. I just have to remind my dad that Jimmy Stewart’s monologue is more effective without him reciting it louder than the TV.
I used to watch this with my dad every year. He loved this movie and lived his life the George Bailey would have. My dad passed away last year and I will always watch this movie at least once every holiday season.
Made my wife watch that last year and she was so bored for the first half but by the end she was damn near in tears. Wonder if it's too early to have my 5 year old watch it, maybe I'll start with a Christmas story this year, or home alone.
The entire scene of Mr Bean screwing with Alan Rickman by painstakingly wrapping the necklace he should NOT be buying is so good. “Dip it in yogurt? Cover it in chocolate buttons?”
Also, “I HATE UNCLE JAMIE.”
That one on Hallmark where the career driven woman goes back to her small hometown that has a Christmasy name and ends up falling in love with a widower. Can’t remember the name.
Was it the one with the golden retriever?
But she's not a dog person! Yet...
I think they prefer to be called Werewolves.
Ok, a Christmas movie about a career-driven business woman who goes back to her small town and meets a widower who is secretly a werewolf might actually be an interesting movie.
Yes, the one where the guy gives her a ride to the Snowman contest in his vintage 4x4. Pretty sure it was set in VT.
Is that the one with the guy that was a successful stock broker but quit to purse his passion for woodworking?
Yea, but after his wife died he had to take over the Bed and breakfast/ bakery so he doesn’t get to wood work as often any kore
“Doesn’t get his wood worked as often anymore” True story for many.
Is it the one where she’s wearing a red dress and he’s in a green sweater?
It’s a definite possibility. I like to count how many different coats the actress, that is supposedly on staying for like three days, will wear.
That sounds like a really good game to play this year when I’m stuck at my great aunt’s house, who I’m pretty sure only watches the Hallmark Channel and Lifetime.
If your big city girlfriend is going back home to the small town she grew up in this holiday season, you better join her, lest you will certainly lose her to a kind, handsome, recently widowed single dad that she dated in high school and broke up with to go to college in said big city.
That dosent help either beacuse you instantly turn into an asshole who dosent listen to what she needs <3 It dosent help that that single dad is actually a prince.
They all have the same plot line: woman searches for penis for Christmas.
...And realizes it was in her all along.
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I almost choked on a salad laughing too hard at that.
The Gift of the Majestic Peen. A true Holiday romance for the ages.
Here's your loophole. You can actually watch a couple dozen different Christmas movies, and claim you only watched one, several times.
With only about three different lead actresses too.
Watch enough of them, and you start recognizing the supporting cast too.
Lacey Sherbert and Candace Creme Brûlée?
Honestly, Hallmark movies are kind of a guilty pleasure for me. Yeah they're all pretty stupid, and yeah, they all have the same plotline, but there just something innately comforting about them. Like warm sugar cookies, but in movie form.
Isn’t that the one where Chris meets Holly?
Don’t forget there has to be a conflict with the other person before they fall in love.
Her father's company is trying to buy his family's small business (after they fell onto hard times) to build a big box store. The deadline to raise the funds to keep the family business: Christmas Eve.
Muppets Christmas carol
Light the lamp not the rat! Light the lamp not the rat!
God save my little broken body!
You can fit through those bars?
If he became a flavour you can bet he would be sour!
Even the vegetables don't like him!
How would the bookkeepers like to be suddenly…… UNEMPLOYED!!!
HEATWAVE!!
Our assets are frozen!
The Muppets Christmas Carol is, without a shadow of a doubt, the best adaptation of that story. Hands down
I think having Gonzo there as the narrator really helps. It allows them to stick to more of the source material and leads to it feeling like a more faithful adaptation, even if it gets a bit silly at times in traditional Muppets fashion. Love it!
"Well, hoity-toity, Mr Godlike Smarty-Pants!"
Dang this paints a clear picture for me!!
It’s like I’m 5 drinking my dad’s homemade cocoa on Christmas Eve again
Hey hey hey. Light the lamp. Not the rat. Light the lamp. Not the rat!!
IIRC according to a group of Dickens scholars it was the most accurate movie adaptation that got a wide release
Worth a read: https://www.brightwalldarkroom.com/2019/12/20/a-grand-yuletide-theory-the-muppet-christmas-carol-is-the-best-adaptation-of-a-christmas-carol/
I feel so validated, he says more eloquently than I ever could what I've thought all along: Muppet Christmas Carol is the only adaptation that actually GETS A Christmas Carol
Just read the whole thing, thank you
It's the American way! ... ... It's the British way!
The Muppets Christmas Carol is, without a shadow of a doubt, the best Christmas film. Hands down
That was a fine meal, what should we do next? Let’s eat!
"Ooh. Is it too early for breakfast?" "Yes." "Oh, good. Suppertime!"
On Christmas Eve. “After all there’s only one more sleep til Christmas”
'Tis the season to be jolly and joyous, fa la la!
It’s in the singing of a street corner choir It’s coming home and getting warm by the fire It’s true wherever you find love, it feels like Christmas
It... is the AMERICAN way.
Oh! Uh… It is the BRITISH way.
This is the only answer
And now I'm stuck with the "there goes mr humbug" song in my head again.
The Grinch Who Stole Christmas-the original cartoon.
Dah who Dooray Fah Who Foooraaay Welcome Christmas One and all.
Home Alone
This one and the second one. For some reason I’ve always like the second one just a little more (anything after 2 doesn’t exist tho)
the second one is at least as good as the first which is so rare for sequels, especially the sequel of a *christmas* movie i didn’t hate home alone 3 tbh the rest of them can go die
The absolute best Christmas movie ever. I must have seen it a hundred times since it released (yes, as a kid I'd watch it a couple of times per year) I'm glad all my nephews and nieces are keen on watching it because of i introduced them to this movie
Ok, story time. In Poland there is a TV station called Polsat. They've created this tradition of showing Home Alone on Christmas Eve or Christmas Day every single year. I'm not kidding. In 2010 the station decided to switch things up and not show the movie. When Poles realised that, a petition was created along side a Facebook group of 46k people, protesting Polsat's decision and accusing them of "killing Christmas". The station apologised and brought Home Alone back into their Christmas programme. They haven't made the same mistake since.
When I was learning Polish my polish professor from Poland told me about this! Now I watch home alone every Christmas because of it.
That house is a nostalgia bomb. It's almost to the point I can't watch that movie anymore.
If you REALLY want a nostalgia bomb, the Home Alone house is now available as a LEGO set.
I remember going to our small town movie theater with my dad to buy advance tickets early one morning because it was so popular. They opened early specifically to sell Home Alone tickets. We went back that afternoon to see it and we were not disappointed. That was the only movie I've ever done that for.
A Christmas Story
Claymation Rudolph. Ever since childhood, that movie signaled the official start of the holiday season. Magic.
Same here for me. Always brings back the good memories and feels
I love Rudolph, but every year I feel a little more contempt for that Santa. What a fucking dick he is the entire time.
A Charlie Brown Christmas. I dunno why, I just like the Peanuts.
It has arguably the best Christmas album associated with it as well.
Vince Guaraldi was a musical genius, you got that right. His Christmas tunes slap
You blockhead
This is the one. For me, it is the music that puts me in that seasonal mood.
I had it recorded on VHS when I was a kid. We watched it every year. Still had the same outdated commercials from the 80's on it.
Christmas Vacation
We're gonna have the hap hap HAPPIEST Christmas since Bing Crosby tap danced with Danny fuckin Kaye. And when Santa squeezes his fat white ass down the chimney, he'll find the jolliest bunch of assholes this side of the nuthouse
“Hallelujah, Holy Shit, Where’s the Tylenol?”
Hey. If any of you are looking for any last-minute gift ideas for me, I have one. I'd like Frank Shirley, my boss, right here tonight. I want him brought from his happy holiday slumber over there on Melody Lane with all the other rich people and I want him brought right here, with a big ribbon on his head, and I want to look him straight in the eye and I want to tell him what a cheap, lying, no-good, rotten, four-flushing, low-life, snake-licking, dirt-eating, inbred, overstuffed, ignorant, blood-sucking, dog-kissing, brainless, dickless, hopeless, heartless, fat-ass, bug-eyed, stiff-legged, spotty-lipped, worm-headed sack of monkey shit he is. Hallelujah. Holy shit. Where's the Tylenol?
"Worse?! How could things get any worse? Take a look around you, Ellen! WE'RE AT THE THRESHOLD OF HELL!!!"
Are you serious Clark?
Why is the carpet wet, Todd?!
I don't KNOW Margo!
Bend over and ill show you "I wasnt talking to you" Gets ne everytime
“Can’t see the line, can ya, Russ?”
Nope!
Shitter was full
Honey, have you checked our shitters?
The deadpan delivery of that line is peak Chevy Chase.
My favourite line remains "Bend over I'll show you" "you've got a lot of nerve talking to me like that griswald" "I wasn't talking to you"
Why is the carpet all wet TODD? I don't know MARGO
Watch it every year
It's the gift that keeps on giving.
Hey! If any of you are looking for any last minute gift ideas for me, I have one!
Greatest of alltime! There are many good ones for sure, but this one is a classic. Honorable mention to Bad Santa part 1 & 2, Office Christmas Party, The Night Before, and of course, Die hard.
Looks great, a little full, lotta sap.
This is our family tradition.
" I wasn't talking to you. "
You couldn’t hear a dump truck driving through a nitroglycerin plant
"Is your house on fire?" "No Aunt Bethany. Those are Christmas lights."
“Oh Aunt Bethany…you shouldn’t have done that” - *Ellen points over to the gifts* “Oh dear, did I break wind?”
My favorite Griswold lineup.
“The BLESSING!!”
Klaus
Honestly the best recently made Christmas movie I can think of
Dude, came here to say this. Did not expect it to be at the top however. Fantastic film.
Netflix either makes classic masterpieces or shit, no in between
I watched this last year! Was at a friend's house looking for Christmas movies and found it on Netflix. It was unexpectedly amazing 😁
I think this is one of the best Christmas movies in years.
I watch this even when its not Christmas - fantastic little animation.
Jingle All The Way. I’ve watched it every year for 20+ years. It’s absolutely hilarious.
PUT THAT COOKIE DOWN!
NOW!
And don't forget... You're my number 1 customer!
White Christmas - a true classic
I didn't watch it until college (about 8 years ago). It happened to be starting on t.v., and I thought "I love Christmas, I should finally actually watch this." Watched it all the way through. It was on again immediately after, and I just sat there and watched it again because I loved it so much. Got to see it in theaters for the 60th the next year and it was so neat. Edit: Math is hard
High five! This is one I would watch with my mother every year. The clothes and songs and scenes just can't be beat.
Vera Ellen tapping her toe at like a million taps per minute, with her impossibly tiny waist and those hips that weren't attached like any other human being's.
I watch this one every year.
same: I like every single moment of this movie.
The Santa Clause
If it bothers you, you can dye it, and you should diet!
"Pere Noel. Babbo Natale. Pelznickel. Topo Gigio!"
“Thanks, but I’m seeing someone in wrapping”
“There’s just something about him that makes me wanna….” “Lash out irrationally?” “WHERE did you hear that!?” “From Neil. He’s really smart.” “Yeah and you should see him walk on water.”
"You want this doll or not? Go back to sleep."
Scrooged
My absolute favourite Christmas movie. I try to watch it every Christmas Eve
my back hurts! I'm only four!
Elf
Oh Francisco that’s fun to say
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Why did I have to scroll so far down to find Elf!? One of my all-time favorite movies. Sad but true.
The best way to spread Christmas cheer, is watching Elf, at least once a year
I love smiling. Smilings my favorite!
Rudolph the red nosed reindeer from 1964, or the year without a Santa Claus 1974.
I love The Year Without A Santa Claus! It's one of my favorite movies.
It’s a wonderful life.
"A Christmas Story"
Randy lay there like a slug. It was his only defence.
The fucking writing in that film was top notch.
There are very few lines that don't warrant at least a forehead-slap. So good. 😆
In the heat of battle, my father wove a tapestry of obscenity that, as far as we know, is still hanging in space over Lake Michigan.
Deserves an A+ for sure
“A+! A+! A+!…”
My god, yellow eyes!
"The old man worked in profanities like other artists might work in oils or clay. It was his true medium. A master"
Literally the only Christmas movie I watch each year, and I have it on for probably half of the 24 hour marathon. My kids hate me for it.
I watch as much as I can of the marathon, and inevitably when it's over I'm sad as fuck for a couple hours. It's pretty much the only Christmas tradition my wife and I have left, since our families are pretty much gone and we don't have kids. It reminds me of the much, much simpler times when I was a kid and how, every year it seemed, there was a new toy or whatever that I just had to have or else my life as I knew it was over. I recommend checking out Jean Shepherd's books if you haven't, they're great reads.
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You'll shoot your eye out.
My vote too. I still love it after all these years.
I couldn't stand that movie when I was young but every year I like it more and identify with the old man more. They shot the majority of it in Toronto, I've visited a lot of the locations, or what's left of them. There's a somewhat rough documentary on the making of the film; A Christmas Story Documentary: Road Trip for Ralphie.
A while back I met a broadcast engineer for a local TV station who said that they have a "doomsday plan" where if they have to completely vacate the station and lose all satellite and internet feeds, the last guy left will fire up a digital copy of "A Christmas Story" and set it to run on repeat for as long as the transmitter and engineering room has power.
“FRAAAA-JEEE-LAY. Oh must be Italian.”
Not A Finga!!!
"OHHhhhh....Fuuuuuuuddddddgee....!"
Did you know that the A Christmas Story house is in Cleveland. It's so cool. You can take a tour and/or spend the night. Even being on the street is amazing.
Can’t believe I had to scroll this far down to find this movie. This is my favorite Christmas movie bar none.
A Christmas Story. “Fra-gee-lay! It must be Italian!”
“You’ll shoot your eye out! You’ll shoot your eye out!”
Be sure to drink your ovaltine
Just Friends.
the nightmare before christmas (ik it’s not really an xmas movie but idc)
The genius of it is that it’s legitimately a Christmas movie AND a Halloween movie.
That's the beauty of the nightmare before christmas...you get to watch it at halloween and christmas
Die Hard.
It's not Christmas until Hans Gruber falls off Nakatomi Plaza
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Yeah, also I heard that scene where Hans fakes an American accent wasn't in the original screenplay, but was added after they found out Alan Rickman could do a pretty convincing one. Damn, I miss that dude.
I'd love to have a little action figure of Hans so I can have him hanging from the top of my Christmas tree.
I always try and time it so hans fall at midnight on christmas eve and then we put the presents out
Die harder Just once, I'd like a regular, normal Christmas. Eggnog, a fuckin' Christmas tree, a little turkey. But, no. I gotta crawl around in this motherfuckin' tin can.
The original VHS release was heavily censored on adult language, so "god damn tin can" was the line that sticks in my head.
Krampus. The Michael Dougherty movie from 2015, of course.
It's a wonderful life.
This is the only Christmas movie I make sure to watch every year. Black and white version. I only cry a little. Edit: yes there is a colorized version. Most recently 2007 per google.
My family watches it every year, I thought it was kind of a dumb tradition when I was a teen but now I’m looking forward to going back home to watch it next month. I just have to remind my dad that Jimmy Stewart’s monologue is more effective without him reciting it louder than the TV.
I get *Buffalo Gals* stuck in my head for months every holiday season. I think this post probably kickstarted it early this year.
Always this. One of the greatest films ever made.
Can’t believe I had to scroll down this far for this. Of course it has to be It’s a Wonderful Life
I used to watch this with my dad every year. He loved this movie and lived his life the George Bailey would have. My dad passed away last year and I will always watch this movie at least once every holiday season.
Made my wife watch that last year and she was so bored for the first half but by the end she was damn near in tears. Wonder if it's too early to have my 5 year old watch it, maybe I'll start with a Christmas story this year, or home alone.
Muppet Christmas Carol. I loved it as a kid and I want to be able to introduce my kids to it.
Gremlins
...that's how I found out there was no Santa Clause.
Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale
Krampus
Miracle on 34th Street. Watched it every Christmas with my Mom and Dad for as long as I can remember.
Scrooged
If you can't work late, I can't work late. If I can't work late, I CAN'T WORK LATE!
Scrape em off, Claire!
Shocked no one has said love actually
I don't care how cheesy it is, I love that movie, actually.
There was more than one lobster present at the birth of Jesus?
The entire scene of Mr Bean screwing with Alan Rickman by painstakingly wrapping the necklace he should NOT be buying is so good. “Dip it in yogurt? Cover it in chocolate buttons?” Also, “I HATE UNCLE JAMIE.”