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The Best Christmas Movie Ever

Posted by Cindy

Dec. 24, 2009 11:45 a.m. • 24 comments

For our family, Christmas isn’t complete until we sit down and watch “A Christmas Story.” We’re not the only ones. Here are Top Ten Reasons why A Christmas Story is the Best Christmas Movie Ever.

Reasons include The Scut Farcus Affair, The Bunny Outfit, and I Triple Dog Dare Ya.

What’s your favorite holiday movie?

24 comments on this post so far. Add yours!

Liz on December 24 at 11:47 a.m.
Bad Santa
Phaedrus on December 24 at 11:50 a.m.
Watched Holiday Inn on Tuesday, White Christmas, last night, will watch A Christmas Story tonight and It’s a Wonderful Life on Christmas Day. We’ve been following that routine for almost 20 years.
88keys on December 24 at 11:56 a.m.
White Christmas on Christmas Eve and Glenn Miller Story on New Years Eve. I love Glenn Miller Story.
JeanC on December 24 at 12:05 p.m.
Scrooge with Alistair Sim (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0044008/), followed by A Christmas Story.
Sisyphus on December 24 at 12:18 p.m.
I never woulda pegged Liz for Bad Santa. There’s those three words the heroine repeats that still makes me LOL just thinking about it. Hope your wounds are healing Liz.

One sleeper that I really enjoy is Home for the Holidays. I mentioned it to my buddy the other day and he burned me a copy just in time for tonight.
JIMMYMAC on December 24 at 12:25 p.m.
A Christmas Story followed by Christmas Vacation.
jazzyvandal on December 24 at 12:28 p.m.
White Christmas and A Christmas Story
Phaedrus on December 24 at 12:32 p.m.
Scrooged, with Bill Murray. Just bought myself a copy this year!
factchecker on December 24 at 12:37 p.m.
The House Without A Christmas Tree.
OrangeTV on December 24 at 12:41 p.m.
“Elf” is a fairly recent one that’s become a yearly fave. Also, anything starring Kermit and the gang like “A Muppets Christmas Carol” or “Emmet Otter’s Jug Band Christmas”, which was my absolute favorite when I was 8, and which I recently rediscovered. Not quite as fab as I remember it being, but still fun.
Cindy_H on December 24 at 12:41 p.m.
Charlie Brown Christmas ranks high on my list.
Sisyphus on December 24 at 12:43 p.m.
Another sleeper I saw recently was Joyeux Noel about the true accounts at the start of WWI and how the armies independently called a break in the action to celebrate Christmas with each other in the no man’s land between the lines.
spokelooneh on December 24 at 12:49 p.m.
“We Need a Little Christmas Now (Movies that is)”

Nice compilation of scenes from various Christmas movies.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxUJPLxmTUM
factchecker on December 24 at 1:13 p.m.
Sis- I recently watched that movie too, almost passed it by because of partial sub titles. So glad I didn’t, have not been able to get that movie out of mind. Great story.
hmoffsuite on December 24 at 1:21 p.m.
Phaedrus. >> ” and It’s a Wonderful Life on Christmas Day.”

A little local trivia regarding ‘Wonderful Life’. The father of a friend of mine in Cda is the bartender in the movie. His name is Sheldon Leonard. He was the ‘Aaron Spelling’ of the 50’s and 60’s in addition to being an actor. He produced the Danny Thomas show, I Spy, Cosby show, Dick Vandyke and Mary Tyler Moore and others. His first ‘Emmy’ is on her mantel in Bennett Bay.
spokelooneh on December 24 at 1:32 p.m.
The story of the WWI Christmas truce is one that instills my faith in humanity and in God, in the face of so much that is wrong in this world.

Joyeux Noel:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkOOdEfLGmk
Bent on December 24 at 3:02 p.m.
This is hilarious…it is by far the best Christmas movie on the thread… stay tuned I have more:

http://sendables.jibjab.com/view/LedsEtc22SGc0sGU

Lol…
empyrius on December 24 at 3:05 p.m.
Sorry, but uh . . .:

“It’s a Wonderful Life” is the best Christmas movie ever, followed by, as JeanC states, the Alistair Sim Scrooge!

And, “I’m Mr. Heatmeister, I’m Mr. 101 …” is the best cartoon!

Mr. Heatmeister is empyrius’s Earthly embodiment of the mythological celestial fire that circumscribes the universe entire, or is it a myth, hmmmmm, only Ein Soph would know . . .

O yeah
Bent on December 24 at 3:07 p.m.
I love this one..Loll..

http://sendables.jibjab.com/view/9VCowkE0u5NUBgUt

I wish more of you had head shaped avatars!!!
Bent on December 24 at 3:14 p.m.
You’ll shoot your eye out kid…

http://sendables.jibjab.com/view/QpsUMoDKRYU7KNb9

These are fantastic
Bent on December 24 at 3:17 p.m.
Merry Christmas… I better get some stuff done now…

http://sendables.jibjab.com/view/TGaveBUJpaIHpGE2
Arch_Druid on December 25 at 9:43 a.m.
I like Alistair Sim’s version of the Christmas Carol plus that of Patrick Stewart’s. Then there is Rudolph the Movie, Whoopi Goldberg’s “Call me Claus” just got that DVD yesterday. A Christmas Story isn’t exactly my cup of tea. The Little Drummer Boy is a good one. I like The Polar Express too. And The Christmas Angel.
Arpie on December 25 at 10:12 a.m.
Here’s some great reading about the guy who wrote A Christmas Story, heroes, and life, by Steeley Dan’s Donald Fagan:
http://www.slate.com/id/2239185/
inlandempiregirl on December 27 at 8:22 p.m.
1. White Christmas
2. Muppets Christmas Carol
2. Charlie Brown’s Christmas

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