Christmas movies tournament ELITE 8: Grinch region

[mr. tegu]

We are on to the Elite 8! Things will really start getting tough now. Round 2 in this region had the closest matches, with It's a Wonderful Life advancing by just one single vote over Trading Places. The Grinch got a pretty decent fight from Jingle All the Way but ultimately prevailed. Two very different movies in this matchup.

I don't have a bracket or anything but it will be like this:

Home Alone region Grinch region
Polar Express region Gremlins region

Here is the final movie list in order:

Spoiler!

1 seeds
Home Alone
How the Grinch Stole Christmas (Jim Carrey)
Gremlins
The Polar Express

2 seeds
The Santa Claus (1994 Tim Allen)
Elf
Trading Places
Miracle on 34th Street (1947)

3 seeds
Die Hard
It’s a Wonderful Life
Nightmare Before Christmas
Christmas Vacation

4 seeds
Lethal Weapon
Four Christmases
Uncle Buck
Scrooged

5 seeds
Christmas with the Kranks
Jingle All the Way
Fred Clause
Love Actually

6 seeds
Bad Santa
The Family Stone
Office Christmas Party
Santa Clause the Movie (1985)

7 seeds
A Christmas Story
A Christmas Carol (1951)
The Muppets Christmas Carol
Better Off Dead

8 seeds
I’ll Be Home for Christmas
Spirited
Holiday Affair
Krampus

[Pepe Silvia]

Originally Posted by AdolfOliverBush

I don't even consider "It's a Wonderful Life" to be a Christmas movie, but it still beats the hell out of "How the Grinch Stole Christmas".

I’ve never been a Grinch fan.

[Graystoke]

Originally Posted by Rain Man

Whoa. The guy who sang, "You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch" was also the voice of Tony the Tiger.

It's obvious after I read it, but I never made that connection.

That's a crazy good find Rain Man. Looking further into his career he also had a voice cameo in Nightmare Before Christmas.