Muppets Christmas Carol is #1 around here! We’ve watched it three times already this year.
We watch A Christmas Story (start to finish) every Christmas Eve.
We also enjoy: old school stop motion Rudolph, Prep & Landing (both of them), Die Hard, Nightmare Before Christmas, Charlie Brown Christmas, Elf, Home Alone, Klaus, original Grinch, It’s A Wonderful Life, and Christmas Vacation.
Well... I'm going to have to say it. I have seen "It's a Wonderful Life" start to finish -- once. I do not like it. It really bothers me that the poor guy can't even leave town by commiting suicide, without being obliged to stop what he's doing to help out someone else. (Surely angels can fly?) All the man ever wanted to do was take a trip out of Bedford Falls, damn it.
BUT -- the scene that bugged my friend Judy and me was the what-if scene where the wife ends up as a librarian (with the goddamn glasses of course -- it's mandatory if you want to underline the fact that the poor woman is hysterical & a sexual zero). I think Clarence bleats something like "Oh you won't like it, George! She became an ... OLD MAID!!!) Judy and I (both single) booed at that one.
Well, I admit it has a lovely ending and George doesn't go bankrupt, but he's still in fricken Bedford Falls... the day after Christmas, does he just go back to giving up his hopes and dreams and return to being everyone's doormat?
Other movies that I DO like on Christmas: The Thin Man, While You Were Sleeping (excellent screwball comedy), and above all -- The Rocky Horror Picture Show.
I need to see the Muppet Christmas Carol.
You might have guessed that I don't enjoy Christmas very much... but I wish I did.
Edmund Gwenn was Kris Kringle in The Miracle on 34th Street. (Which I do like.) With a very young Natalie Wood.
Since you love the Muppets Christmas Carol, you might be a fan of Emmet Otter's Jug Band Christmas, another Jim Henson production. It's narrated by Kermit. I love it so much I had to hunt for the DVD in thrift shops so I'd never be without it. 😂 It's streaming free if you have Prime.
I was always a big fan of all the animated movies as a kid. Rudolf, that one with Heat and Cold Meister, that origins of Santa Clause movie, Frosty, etc. I could never get my kids into them, though. Disappointing. Currently I just watch, "It's a Wonderful Life" each year. That and the Die Hard movies.
I love the Alistair Sim version because even when he's being a bastard, you can see the hurt child underneath the cold exterior. And he's so slap-happy the morning after -- it makes me laugh so hard. Every time.
By the way, Frankenmuth, MI has it as kind of a thing.
I am with you on Christmas all year.
Love
For me, it is the original How the Grinch Stole Christmas" for this perfect line.
"Maybe Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store. Maybe Christmas, perhaps, means a little bit more."
It wreck me every time, decades later. And I love it for it.
Gimme all the holiday movies!!
Muppets Christmas Carol is #1 around here! We’ve watched it three times already this year.
We watch A Christmas Story (start to finish) every Christmas Eve.
We also enjoy: old school stop motion Rudolph, Prep & Landing (both of them), Die Hard, Nightmare Before Christmas, Charlie Brown Christmas, Elf, Home Alone, Klaus, original Grinch, It’s A Wonderful Life, and Christmas Vacation.
Controversial opinion. Christmas Vacation is vastly overrated
You're allowed to be wrong!
I know I’m in the minority. Not a Chevy fan. I don’t get the Fletch hype either.
Miracle on 34th Street and White Christmas are my all time favorite Xmas movies!
Well... I'm going to have to say it. I have seen "It's a Wonderful Life" start to finish -- once. I do not like it. It really bothers me that the poor guy can't even leave town by commiting suicide, without being obliged to stop what he's doing to help out someone else. (Surely angels can fly?) All the man ever wanted to do was take a trip out of Bedford Falls, damn it.
BUT -- the scene that bugged my friend Judy and me was the what-if scene where the wife ends up as a librarian (with the goddamn glasses of course -- it's mandatory if you want to underline the fact that the poor woman is hysterical & a sexual zero). I think Clarence bleats something like "Oh you won't like it, George! She became an ... OLD MAID!!!) Judy and I (both single) booed at that one.
Well, I admit it has a lovely ending and George doesn't go bankrupt, but he's still in fricken Bedford Falls... the day after Christmas, does he just go back to giving up his hopes and dreams and return to being everyone's doormat?
Other movies that I DO like on Christmas: The Thin Man, While You Were Sleeping (excellent screwball comedy), and above all -- The Rocky Horror Picture Show.
I need to see the Muppet Christmas Carol.
You might have guessed that I don't enjoy Christmas very much... but I wish I did.
Edmund Gwenn was Kris Kringle in The Miracle on 34th Street. (Which I do like.) With a very young Natalie Wood.
Since you love the Muppets Christmas Carol, you might be a fan of Emmet Otter's Jug Band Christmas, another Jim Henson production. It's narrated by Kermit. I love it so much I had to hunt for the DVD in thrift shops so I'd never be without it. 😂 It's streaming free if you have Prime.
https://www.amazon.com/Emmet-Otters-Jug-Band-Christmas-Nelson/dp/B075ZFMNZ4/ref=tmm_aiv_title_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1703280080&sr=8-2
I was always a big fan of all the animated movies as a kid. Rudolf, that one with Heat and Cold Meister, that origins of Santa Clause movie, Frosty, etc. I could never get my kids into them, though. Disappointing. Currently I just watch, "It's a Wonderful Life" each year. That and the Die Hard movies.
I loved those Rankin/Bass Christmas movies! I even had the Viewmaster reels.
The Alastair Sim Christmas Carol (1951) is my absolute favorite version. A Christmas Story is also perfect on Christmas Eve.
I love the Alistair Sim version because even when he's being a bastard, you can see the hurt child underneath the cold exterior. And he's so slap-happy the morning after -- it makes me laugh so hard. Every time.
It's a good one!