Best Christmas movies nomination thread
 

It’s Christmas movie season so let’s see which is the best. Nominate Christmas movies here and we will have a head to head tournament to determine which movie can achieve the honor of best Christmas movie according to CP.

I’ll seed them based on domestic box office and adjust for inflation. Go!

I’ll start with what I assume will be one of the favorites to win.

Christmas Vacation.

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Miracle on 34th Street. My personal favorite closely followed by the original A Christmas Carol with Alastair Sim.

Die Hard

It's a wonderful life

Love Actually

Tough to beat "A Christmas Carol" with Scrooge.

The comparisons for what defines a good movie in the first place. If you are looking for a the Christmas "Spirit" it is not Home Alone, Die Hard, nor Christmas Vacation. All are great movies and fun to watch but little in the "Spirit".

Lethal Weapon

Elf is our go to these days.

Best Christmas movies nomination thread
 

Which year release for Miracle?

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Best Christmas movies nomination thread
 

Which Christmas Carol release? I know of at least two with that title.

Yup. Another vote for Elf

Die Hard is absolutely a Christmas movie.

Also, Home Alone.

Home Alone.

You know that cilantro gene that makes people think it tastes like soap? That's me with Christmas Vacation. Just a dreadfully unfunny movie that everyone else seems to love.

Not a big Will Ferrell fan, but put me down for Elf. Such a good movie.

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How the Grinch Stole Christmas with Jim Carrey.

Are you all secretly my wife? If so I need to GTFO the pictures forum.

Not a Christmas movie guy, myself.

Office Christmas Party. Not for kids, but a nice change from the usual Christmas stuff. Dumb but funny.

The hell it is. Just because some dipshit, however ****ing many years ago, said it IS a Christmas movie and now a bunch of other dipshits think it's a Christmas movie too, doesn't make it a Christmas movie.

I will die on this hill.

No bad santa yet? For shame.

Yeah, nothing original in our house. The kids usually watch Home Alone 3-4 times every holiday season and we watch Christmas Vacation a couple times as well. And then I always tend to squeeze in Bad Santa as well. I'm also a fan of The Family Stone, even though it makes me feel like a girl saying that.

Same here, although there are some parts that really get to me.

Family - A Christmas Story

Comedy - Christmas Vacation

Adults - Bad Santa

here's a fringe (but hilarious) christmas movie: Best Friends (with ryan reynolds)

No one has to tell me Home Alone is a Christmas movie. The whole movie is about Christmas, the Christmas season, family, etc. That meets the very selective standard that some people have regarding "true" Christmas movies needing to have the "Christmas spirit" to qualify. My bar has always been, does it make me think of Christmas? If yes, it's a Christmas movie. I'll entertain the anti Die Hard argument, but I don't understand the Home Alone hate, unless you just don't like the movie.

Trading Places

I'll take the Alastair Sim option.

I like Christmas Story, but does it have to be on for 24 hours straight?

A Tim Allen movie shouldn't be anywhere near this list.

Die Hard is an action movie with Christmas elements sprinkled in.

Merry Xmas.

1. A Christmas Story

2. Home Alone

3. It’s A Wonderful Life

The classic 1951 with Alastair Sim in black and white. Especially even as a kid it intrigued me. The Christmas message is powerful. The presence of the super natural enhanced the theme. The ending was the bow around the package.

I think Christmas/New Year is a special time for family, friends and reflection.

All of the above are great entertaining movies: action and comedy in the setting around Christmas time...not a true "Christmas" movie. It's a Wonderful life comes close, but quite long (I about fell asleep).

JMO

Die Hard

You know what's overrated as **** and doesn't need to be on as much as it is?

A Christmas Story.

Give me something new, not worn & comfortable

I watch more classic SNL Christmas specials and old Office Christmas episodes over the movies anymore. Home Alone 3 was discussed on the weekend update on one of the ones I watched recently. Norm was a legend.

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“Twentieth Century Fox has announced that Macaulay Culkin will NOT be hired to star in Home Alone 3. A studio spokesman said that it was nothing personal, but with Culkin now sixteen years of age, the only way to keep him in the film would be to make the character reeruned.”

Elf
Home Alone

I really enjoyed the 8-bit Christmas as far as new ones go.

It was the dukes it was the dukes

Get ****ed

1. Christmas Vacation
2. Christmas Story
3. The Santa Claus
4. Home Alone
5. Elf

Some dark horses & lesser known flicks that are hilarious are Four Christmases with Vince Vaughn and Christmas With The Kranks with Tim Allen. Hilarious movies.

The comments are amusing. As all opinions are suppose to be different. That is what is great in that we are all different.

Everyone thinks about Christmas a little different yet the same.

In the end, all mentioned are good movies.

Did I mention the word different at all?

Just to be different than the traditional ones that I agree with that are the best....

I'll Be Home for Christmas (Anything with a young Jessica Biel has to be good)

The Santa Clause

What makes it so great?

A Christmas Story is a boomer movie that is overplayed. It's annoying that it's on all day on X mas bc my boomer parents made me watch the shit out of it that day every year.

Christmas vacation is good but it's not as funny as people make it out to be.

I feel like Home Alone and Elf (20 years old this year) have both aged incredibly well and will continue to age well as the years go on.

Also **** yeah to Trading Places! I love that movie

Home Alone is the best Christmas movie of all-time.

Polar Express, on Christmas Eve.

Klaus (2019)

Love Actually needs to be confined to the depths of hell.

Die Hard is a Christmas movie, doesn't matter what Bruce says.

Trading Places is a New Years' Eve movie.

We go every year to the KC Rep Theater to see their production of A Christmas Carol and every year it's excellent.

Even though it's goofy, I always liked Jingle All The Way.

It's a Wonderful Life
Die Hard
Christmas Vacation


A Christmas Story was better when I was a kid. The film has a Forrest Gump type replay value for me these days.

Bad Santa

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
Rankin/Bass

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Here Cumz Santa

That’s my favorite for sure.

I’ve always enjoyed how you can pick out so many of your own family members in that movie.

Good film. They showed it much more frequently in the 1990's and 2000's. It's rated "R" and has racial motives so it doesn't get played as often. Real shame.

Is that the one where Santa completely empties his sack for one deserving family?

For new movies Spirited on Amazon is pretty good. You have to like Ryan Reynolds and Will Ferrel though. If you like them you will probably like the movie, if not you probably won’t like it.

A second nomination for, It’s a Wonderful Life.

Also love, Elf.

Isn’t Gremlins a Christmas time story?

The original starring: Maureen O'Hara, John Payne, Edmund Gwenn, Gene Lockhart, Natalie Wood, Porter Hall. Anything after is just wrong. (Sorry it took so long to reply)

Nightmare Before Christmas

Violent Night. Finally saw this on Amazon. Wasn't expecting anything out of it but it has made my list going forward. Definitely not a family movie but seeing Santa basically be John McClane was kind of awesome.

I watch Gremlins every December, but I clearly have a very liberal policy on this subject.

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See, I was going to say Santa Claus Is Coming To Town (another clay-mation), but I don't consider them movies. They're TV specials.

Grimlins

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How the Grinch Stole Christmas (1966)

I watch this every Christmas. :thumb:

(Also A Christmas Horror Story)

Correct. Same.

He’s entitled to his opinion, however wrong it may be.

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Die Hard in the 1 spot for me. Home Alone and Christmas Vacation battle back and forth between the two and three spots.

And then there is a whole host of others jumbled up after that, from Bad Santa, to Fred Clause, Elf, the original Miracle on 34th Street, White Christmas, It’s A Wonderful Life and several of the Christmas Carol renditions. Of those the George C. Scott, Muppets, and Bill Murray in Scrooged are probably my favorites.

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Yes!!!

also forgot - four christmases with Vince vaughn is hilarious

The night this played with Frosty on CBS I think? was a big night when I was a kid

Die Hard is 100% a Christmas movie, if Home Alone is a Christmas movie so is Die Hard

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Home Alone holds up for me, but the underlying premise is tough to identify with in 2023. The existence of cell phones and security systems would instantly solve the underlying premise (cutting the phone line, difficulty reaching someone, not being able to tell someone was home, etc.).

Still one of my all time CP threads -

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Santa Claus The Movie (1985)

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With John Lithgow and Dudley Moore

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I paid that a revisit last year after many, many years of of having not seen it. Not surprisingly, it didn't exactly live up to my childhood memories of it. Still, I probably wont turn it off if I come across it.