Question of the Week: Your Favorite Christmas-Related Movie

Posted on Saturday, December 20th, 2008 by David Chen

The /Film Question of the Week is a weekly question to the community that emerges from the /Filmcast: After Dark. Feel free to post your responses in the comments below. The best answers are read on the air during the show. This week during the show, we talked about some of our favorite movies that somehow feature Christmas, either explicitly (e.g. A Christmas Story) or that have Christmas in the background somehow  (e.g. Go, or Die Hard)

This week’s question of the week is: What is your favorite Christmas-related movie? (Please write a few sentences to either explain why, or to tell a story that relates to it)

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  • sean coates
    home alone 1 and home alone 2 !! ...oh the memory's
  • Rom
    I would have to go with the 80's version of A Christmas Carol. George C. Scott's performance was so powerful, and emotional that it still gets me every time I watch it during the holidays.
  • Rom
    I would have to go with the version of A Christmas Carol that was made in the 80s. George C. Scott's performance was so powerful, and emotional that it still gets me every time I watch it during the holidays.
  • Eric T. Voigt
    Merry Christmas, you old Building and Loan!
  • I think Trading Places is arguably the best movie with Christmas in the background it has everything Dan Aykroyd, Eddie Murphy, and Jamie Lee Curtis's epic breast shot which really makes for a Merry Christmas.
  • Dr. Lizardo
    For me, it's a tie between Joyeux Noel, AKA "Merry Christmas", and Die Hard.

    Joyeux Noel is an awesome WWI movie that demonstrates the power of Christmas. True story or not, it's got some great stuff in it, and is somewhat reminiscent of Terrence Malick's The Thin Red Line. Highly recommend it.

    And Die Hard... is Die Hard. Excellent in all respects, a true classic action film.
  • Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Home Alone, Christmas Vacation
  • Leela
    National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation is my favorite Christmas movie, no matter how much I watch it I still enjoy it year after year. That movie has so many good scenes (most of them involving unintentionaly bothering the snooty neighbors).
  • one of whom is played by julia louis-dreyfus!
  • Definitely "Santa's slay", I caught it on tv a while back and at first glance it looked horrible, but within the first five minutes I was hooked. It's refreshing to see a new movie get slasher film right. Also, it has perhaps the weirdest Santa mythos ever written.
  • Scrooged!

    Funniest christmas movie ever created. I laugh everytime i see it. It's about a modern time scrooge who is played by Bill Murray who is the biggest asshole in the movie it's hilarious. I want to watch it right now.
  • pete
    I second.
  • Agreed
    I just watched it from NetFlix last week.
  • WoRm
    Yup! Good ol Bill Murray all the way!
  • Burt
    That or Bad Santa. But Scrooged is a family tradition.
  • I still love "Bad Santa.". I guess mostly because it's an R rated comedy based around a Santa /Christmas theme. Billy Bob Thornton fits the character Willie so perfectly-- he has a totally foul mouth, etc. The vulgarity of this movie is just done to the extreme, and I love every minute of it. My favorite joke is the reoccurring one about the little kid making sandwiches. Also, without spoiling the ending, it's great how the child sort of makes Willie a better person. A friend of mine made me watch this one year and it will always be hilarious to me.
  • Burt
    Biily Bob's character arc is both incredibly believable and incredibly subtle. By the end he's only 95% shithead. One of the ebst.
  • Grandma Ding Dong.
    Believe it or not but the Arnold Schwarzenegger Holiday movie, Jingle All the Way holds a special place in my heart as it was shot where I live. My mom and I actually saw it in the same mall where most of it was filmed.
  • I'm not a pervert! I just want a Turboman!
  • bryan
    Die Hard.
  • John
    Definately A Christmas Story. A reminder that Christmas is all about family memories.
  • An often forgotten movie centered around Christmas is The Long Kiss Goodnight with Sam Jackson and a very kick ass Geena Davis. I haven't seen it in years but remember liking it.
  • Dr. Seuss's How the Grinch Stole Christmas (1966)

    Seriously, this brings back all of those kid like memories. And who here can not sing at least part of the music from this movie.

    Boris Karlof is there anything better?
  • Drake Whalterson
    Anything better? Heck yes! CHRISTMAS EVIL (aka YOU BETTER WATCH OUT!) How can anyone NOT think of this movie when they think of Christmas?
  • Frankie
    Go.
  • I always have a soft spot for Die Hard, because it's a perennial favorite at the Mooney household, but I still have to pick National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation because it's so close to home. It is, despite some embellishment, exactly the proceedings at Christmastime.
  • Well, there goes my choice of Die Hard.

    'Kiss Kiss Bang Bang' will always leave a warm and fuzzy feeling in my gut (which hopefully has nothing to do with the bunny I just devoured for a bet) and one can't argue with Michelle Monaghan in a sexy Santa outfit. I suppose my man crush on Robert Downey Jr would affect this choice, but give me a movie that shows us Val Kilmer can be intentionally funny (instead of unintentionally funny, thank you 'Batman Forever') and we're on to a winner here.

    'Talking monkey, yeah, yeah. Came here from the future, ugly sucker, only says “ficus”.'
  • cabob
    The Muppets Christmas Carol
  • Patrick Finnie
    One of my favorite recent Christmas movies is Elf. When I saw the trailers for it I thought it looked pretty awful. I just wrote it off. But my sister insisted that it was actually an okay movie, and she was right. It's incredibly cheesy and simple, but for some reason I truly love the story.

    Also, I agree that Jingle all the Way is a terrible, terrible film, but Sinbad is freaking hilarious in it, as he is in every movie he's been a part of.
  • I second Elf! I challenge anyone to watch that movie and not love it.
  • Harry F
    I'd have to say Bad Santa. It's extremely underrated and the kid in the movie couldn't be funnier.
  • Muppet Christmas Carol and Love Actually.
  • etmoose
    I was just listing my favorites to someone earlier today, and these came in at numbers 1 and 2.
  • IRON GIANT...or...JINGLE ALL THE WAY!!! I know they weren't the best movies, but I loved them as a kid...
  • Xmas movie fest - The Exorcist, Gremlins, Black Christmas(74), Ghostbusters and Die Hard 2
  • Nick
    Finally, I thought I was the only one. Gremlins: seconded.
  • Home Alone 2 without a doubt. Although I also always watch Home Alone 1 and 2 and The Santa Clause.
    I haven't seen Jingle All the Way in a long time but that is a very underrated Christmas film. Young Anakin and Terminator, how could that go wrong?
  • Bad Santa because it is just so damn funny.

    But in a non-depressing sense, definitly Home Alone 1, Muppets Christmas, or Disney's Christmas Carol, oh and How the Grinch Stole Christmas
  • Hell yes! Bad Santa is probably the best Christmas dark comedy (besides maybe Kiss Kiss Bang Bang) ever made!
  • I really like when they have Christmas Story Marathon on Christmas Eve. I also like the animated version of How the Grinch Stole Christmas. I wrote theses two because they're obviously the best ones.
  • 790
    Its bizarre but for the longest time Star Wars always seemed to be on tv during Christmas.

    This year I'm finally going to pop in that Unrated copy of Bad Santa, I hear its good!
  • Mr M
    Love Actually . A-M-A-Z-I-N-G. Really there is no other X-Mas movie as far as im concerned.
  • Die Hard, baby! Bruce Willis trying to save the Christmas party and gets to drop Alan Rickman off the building, all the while surrounded by Christmas carols and tinsel. Classic.
  • REAL6
    Why the fuck are you deleting my posts??!?!?!?!?!
  • Xavier
    Favorites:
    The Apartment (Jack Lemmon's best, in my opinion), A Christmas Story, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Brazil, Futurama: Bender's Big Score, Babe, Look Who's Talking Now (the baby version), Just Friends (Anna Faris AND Ryan Reynolds? Yes, please), The Shining (hey, it was snowy haha), Mean Girls, and of course Die Hard. Oh! And Danny Boyle's Millions!!

    Least favorite:
    Jack Frost (Michael Keaton version), Miracle on 34th Street remake, Look Who's Talking Now (the dog version), Eyes Wide Shut (I love Kubrick, but this was not that great), and Eight Crazy Nights.
  • Jack Frost the 1996 version about the killer snowman. My brothers and i had all started going to university. We could no longer do our old traditions of an annual Christmas play as we weren't arround long enough. So we started a new tradition... bad christmas movie.. Jack Frost was the first one we watched... it was funny, it was bad and it was great. Any movie where a kid makes cookies with antifreeze in it is epic!
  • Bryan
    White Christmas! My absolute favourite Christmas movie. It has an inherently classic, nostalgic feel. Everything about it, from the music to the story to the look to the actors, is just so wonderful. Even some of the non-Christmas-specific elements are fantastic, with songs like "Dancing," "A Minstrel Show," and "Love, You Didn't Do Right By Me." It's hard not to feel a swell of Christmas spirit at the end when the film lives up to its title.
  • Stefan
    Bad Santa

    Funniest movie ever.
  • Anthony V
    Not a "movie" BUT HBO SHOWED IT EVERY SEASON WHEN i WAS A KID:

    "Emmet Otter's Jug Band Christmas"
  • Gajonka Fan
    Well, the best christmas film is CHRISTMAS VACATION. Nothinf EVEN close. Gremlins is good. Ridgemont high is an xmas film, but they give too much props to brian backer the ugly asistant to the assistant mgr, at the movie theatre.



    PS: GAJONKA RULES! Rumor is Mitchell is working on the Mitchell Montage series. look out!!!
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