Die Hard, obviously.
It's December, what are your favorite Christmas movies?
Submitted 5 months ago by Blaze@reddthat.com to movies@lemm.ee
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wfh@lemm.ee 5 months ago
zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev 5 months ago
There’s on improv puppet troupe that does Die Hard as a musical and combines it with A Christmas Carol. It’s great.
TotallyNotSpezUpload@startrek.website 5 months ago
Does the Lord Of The Ring extended trilogy count?
illi@lemm.ee 5 months ago
We usualy do marathon around Christmas as well, so I’d personally count it.
SpruceBringsteen@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Sure, they were winter releases if I remember right?
ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I don’t think it was winter they were just on top of a mountain.
Krauerking@lemy.lol 5 months ago
You know what’s almost guaranteed to be a bad movie? Any movies specifically written to be a Christmas movie.
Seriously it’s like wading through waist high sewage till something good drifts along.
So in likelihood of me to watch them:
- Muppet Christmas movies (Christmas carol and Muppet Family Christmas are lots fo fun)
- Tokyo Godfathers
- Edward scissor hands
- Klaus
- Gremlins
shalafi@lemmy.world 5 months ago
You cannot comment on this without bring up the Star Wars Christmas Special. Die hard fan since '77 and I can’t even start it.
Krauerking@lemy.lol 5 months ago
Yup. But like every tie in Christmas special hasn’t been much better.
I think the only one tied to a pre-existing IP that was good was Pee-wee and that is easy cause he mocks everything the whole time.
It’s tradition to skip Christmas specials when rewatching pretty much any IP.
Blaze@reddthat.com 5 months ago
Klaus for me. Great animation, and cool story and characters
Slovene@feddit.nl 5 months ago
A christmas carol with Patrick Stewart as Scrooge. And, of course, Die hard.
RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 5 months ago
My December viewing of Buckaroo Banzai.
zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev 5 months ago
I hadn’t seen them before, so for a few Christmases, my partner and I watched The Lord of the Rings movies because any movie with an elf counts as a Christmas movie.
antlion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
Better Off Dead
superduperpirate@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Bad Santa
Office Christmas Party
The Night Before
Mickey7@lemmy.world 5 months ago
“Bad Santa” was hilarious. And even today it’s just as funny
SurfinBird@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
What’s the one with Arnold and Sinbad?
zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev 5 months ago
Jungle all the way?
SurfinBird@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
Yes that’s the one. Somehow they get Arnold yelling about bombs and choppers into a xmas movie. Classic.
fprawn@lemmy.world 5 months ago
This is probably not as unpopular opinion as I think it is, but I can’t stand Christmas movies. I do enjoy and celebrate Christmas, but the commercial aspect of it is too shoved down our throats like some kind of Foie Gras nightmare.
Anyway, instead I watch through James Bond movies substituting misogyny and violence for hokey sentimental commercialism.
Krauerking@lemy.lol 5 months ago
I think it just makes for an easy sell to say that it’s full of good will and a kind story because it’s about Christmas but then you watch any of those Hallmark movies and it’s about calling men dumb and women who work terrible women who should be mothers…
Like as if the good fun of the holiday will even put whatever else they want to do or say in making a terrible piece of media to a more palatable state.
It’s like smothering a bad meal in gravy and saying well at least all you can taste is salt but here it’s Santa Claus. Definitely mostly not worth consumption.
Pilferjinx@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I feel like this could be said of any movie or any form of entertainment. We’re selling stories, ideas, and norms. The Christmas flavor definitely isn’t my favorite though.
cheeseburger@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
Emmett Otter’s Jug-Band Christmas has been a favourite of mine since it came out. Another Jim Henson classic.
CaptSneeze@lemmy.world 5 months ago
We stumbled upon this, more or less by accident, maybe a decade ago. It immediately entered the annual holiday movie cycle. I think it’s one of Henson’s best works. 10/10!
Big_Bob@hexbear.net 5 months ago
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang.
It’s an extremely convoluted murder mystery that just happens to take place during Christmas.
Despite the insanely incomprehensible writing, it has some of the best dialogue ever written, and Robert Downey JR nails his role as a small time criminal who accidentally gets a movie role as a detective, but gets dragged into a real life murder case.
thisisdee@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Nightmare Before Christmas. I just have a soft spot for Jack Skellington, possibly my first ever crush.
Zachariah@lemmy.world 5 months ago
No, no, that’s a Thanksgiving movie. Watching it for Halloween is too soon, watching it for Christmas is too late. So watching it in November is perfect.
Mickey7@lemmy.world 5 months ago
realcaseyrollins@thelemmy.club 5 months ago
If I’m depressed, A Charlie Brown Christmas. If not, the 1966 special How the Grinch Stole Christmas!. Mr. Robot S04 is a favorite as well.
I haven’t seen many classic Christmas films though so I plan on broadening my horizons. My mom plans on showing my Diehard this year, I plan on watching FX/BBC’s rendition of A Christmas Carol, and I likely will see the 2000 Grinch movie with a friend.
JoeKrogan@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Die hard and home alone are my top two
Omgboom@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
It’s a wonderful life
Allonzee@lemmy.world 5 months ago
It’s gotten increasingly sad for me to watch.
I conflate it with all the lessons modern society chose to forget with the promise of moar.
Potter won, and all the George Baileys are long dead.
Kovukono@pawb.social 5 months ago
It’s definitely Klaus or Arthur Christmas. Klaus is just beautiful and amazing, and Arthur Christmas is hilarious. I always laugh at the “worry me” scene.
TotallyNotSpezUpload@startrek.website 5 months ago
Not a movie, but I’d like to throw the Zanta Claws episodes from Eddsworld into the ring.
muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Finally we can talk about Christmas without forcing Santa to execute an elf.
Hugin@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Rare Exports
hactar42@lemmy.ml 5 months ago
Christmas Vacation is on repeat in my house this time of year.
BurningRiver@beehaw.org 5 months ago
- Scrooged
- Bad Santa
- A Christmas Story
- Elf
Mickey7@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Classic Line from the Alstair Sim version, “Are there no prisons…are there no work houses?”
aeronmelon@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Well, first of all, Michael Caine is best Scrooge.
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(Muppet Christmas Carol)
And of course Die Hard is a Christmas movie.
The usual family classics like the Charlie Brown & Garfield Christmas specials, all the Rankin/Bass specials, the first two Home Alones (shame they never made any more), newer classics like The Santa Clause and Elf…
But also a few that are a bit esoteric.
Santa’s Magic Toy Bag - From the creators of Alf, a cute and short morality tale about an elf that can’t find his place in Santa’s workshop.
The Snowman - A sad and wonderful story about a boy who builds a snowman that comes to (an all too short) life.
The Christmas Toy - A Jim Henson production, two toys risk being seen moving on their own to stop new Christmas toys from replacing them. Sounds a bit like Toy Story, right?
Others that I still remember fondly but haven’t seen in a long time are The Berenstain Bears Christmas Tree, A Muppet Family Christmas, Ziggy’s Christmas Wish, and The Chipmunk’s Christmas.