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Favorite Christmas movies

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LRABuck;347180; said:
A close tie between "White Christmas" (Bing Crosby, Rosemary Clooney, etc.) and "A Christmas Story".

Christmas isn't Christmas without Bing, IMHO.
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I can't stand White Christmas- and of course a) it's my wife's favorite and b) it's on all fricking day on AMC. It would be an OK movie w/o the stupid dance numbers; "choreography" and "minstrel show" are the dumbest thing I've ever sat through once.

That being said, I agree about Bing: My "Christmas movie" is "Bells of St. Mary's" (Bing and Bergman = gold). It's only about Christmas for 4 minutes or so, but my family always seemed to watch it around Christmas eve... WGN was pretty reliable.

Can't think about Bing w/o these:

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zMhSjDqvRs"]YouTube - "Little Drummer Boy", David Bowie and Bing Crosby[/ame]

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sfl0uVj6lmU"]YouTube - Lets them know who's boss[/ame]
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AKAK;347234; said:
I think if we count Die hard, we have to count Lethal Weapon... (Remember the dude taking the bullet form the Helicopter through the Egg Nog Carton... good stuff)

Now if you're making me choose between the two... that's tough.
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Watched both of these in the last week to get geared up for the Holiday Season.

"Mr. Takagi, I could talk about industrialization and men's fashion all day, but I'm afraid work must intrude, and my associate, Theo, has some questions for you. Sort of fill in the blanks questions, actually. "
 
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MaliBuckeye;1625730; said:
"choreography" and "minstrel show" are the dumbest thing I've ever sat through once.
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If you're convinced of this, then you must never have seen Holiday Inn.

Their tribute (often "curiously" absent from many non-TCM broadcasts) to Mr. Lincoln's birthday
simultaneously provides a jumbo helping of both dumb and cringe--an unbeatable combination.
 
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AKAK;2062684; said:
Watched both of these in the last week to get geared up for the Holiday Season.

"Mr. Takagi, I could talk about industrialization and men's fashion all day, but I'm afraid work must intrude, and my associate, Theo, has some questions for you. Sort of fill in the blanks questions, actually. "
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Classic Hans Gruber disco move at 0:28 (the a few more times for fun):

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KWF4c_YlqQ"]Disco Die Hard (Snapin' Alive) - YouTube[/ame]
 
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localyokel;2062715; said:
If you're convinced of this, then you must never have seen Holiday Inn.

Their tribute (often "curiously" absent from many non-TCM broadcasts) to Mr. Lincoln's birthday simultaneously provides a jumbo helping of both dumb and cringe--an unbeatable combination.
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Like this?

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIOhat9A5Q0"]Holiday Inn: Abraham[/ame]
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Yeah, exactly like that. I gave up on the clip 'cause it said embedding was disabled. Can't imagine why...??

Maybe they were overwhelmed because of all the downloads from the Klan--gotta be one of their favorite movies.
 
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buckeyefool;2062842; said:
Found this on DVD at Best Buy and now own it
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I had Pneumonia when I was 10 or so and Jugband X-Mas was hitting the HBO rotation pretty hard that year. I must have seen it 25 times.

Christmas Vacation came out while I was in A-School in Pensacola and I remember going to see it multiple times (if anyone was doing anything off base I'd jump in). Once I just stretched out across 4-5 seats (you could raise the seat arms) and went straight to sleep.

I don't have any (un)interesting stories about A Christmas Story.
 
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Wife got me this for our Anniversary...A. Christmas Vacation is the greatest Christmas movie of all time B.I'm a Blackhawks fan

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Have to add a couple now that I have a kid and spend the holidays with family and watching movies instead of drinking at bars...:(

One Magic Christmas. Mary Steenburgon (sp? Ted Danson's wife)) one of my favs as a kid, and it's still good.

I watched Frosty about seventy fucking times this last xmas. We had two copies, unbeknownst to my daughter. So our "only copy" broke until next xmas.

Started a new tradition of me making something awesome for dinner and having my old lady's mom and mine come over for "It's a Wonderful Life".

Forgot about Home Alone. Have to add that one to this year's rotation.

Charlie Brown xmas is awesome, but the best xmas character is the great, bearded, Yukon Cornelius.
 
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