Best Christmas movie

[mark st1]

Home Alone - of course!

+1 "keep the change ya filthy animal"

 

[Beebo]

Christmas Carol is a festive favourite of mine.
The best comedy is National Lampoon Christmas Vacation. Chevy Chase on top form.

 

[Elswick Cotterpin]

Christmas Carol, Alastair Sim version... and The Muppets version!

 

[LCpl Boiled Egg]

Home Alone - of course!

Home Alone 2 for me. It has better screams from Marv.

 

[stephec]

Santa Claus The Movie.

 

[NorthernDave]

Die Hard is good, but it has to be It's A Wonderful Life as the one to watch at Christmas.
We've got it on DVD and when it gets put on I know Christmas is here.

 

[Beebo]

I recorded It's a Wonderful Life the other day and I'm keeping it tucked away and I'm going to pull every guilt trip string I still have at my command to make my family sit down with me and watch it this Christmas. They'll bitch & moan because it's in black and white, but they'll quieten down because it's a masterpiece, and without any question whatsoever not only the best Christmas movie but one of the best movies ever made.

I expect everyone will be a blubbering wreck by the end. I still cry even though i must have watched it 10 times.

 

[winjim]

Obviously Die Hard. Christmassiest film ever.

 

[biggs682]

Miracle on 34th street, really captures the magic of Christmas and the grand kids love it.

must admit we watched the original last night ,,, sorry the other watched whilst i snoozed

 

[bancrobba]

Showing my age but its always been Jason and the Argonauts (1963) for me.
Was on every Christmas!
Showed it to my kids and they were all terrified of the skeleton army!

 

[SpokeyDokey]

So something popped up in my FB news feed that a friend (with teenage kids) has watched Elf, then Love Actually, and was planning to watch Elf again.

Of course I responded that they should not do that, but watch Die Hard, which is obviously a better movie than either of those. But I want to follow up with the inarguably best Christmas Movie. Only looking for one, not a list. So what's your best Christmas movie?

(I'll let you know which, if any, I suggest they watch. It won't be necessarily the best X-mas movie ever, just my favourite, inspired by posts here)

Well, if someone can watch Elf more than once and you like Die Hard then any film will do.

Just stick a virtual pin at random in here:

https://www.themoviedb.org/

 

[steve50]

Which one?

1994 version

 

[DaveReading]

OK, so not strictly a movie, but required viewing in our house every Christmas:

 

[winjim]

Showing my age but its always been Jason and the Argonauts (1963) for me.
Was on every Christmas!
Showed it to my kids and they were all terrified of the skeleton army!

Ray Harryhausen documentary on BBC2 right now!

 

[bancrobba]

Ray Harryhausen documentary on BBC2 right now!

It's got to include Hoosiers song!