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Best Christmas Movie?
Die Hard
Not Die Hard
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ProfessorMarvel
Jan 6, 2021

Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.
"It's me, Vern! I'm Vern, Vern!"*stumbles down to the girl sleeping on his couch*

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Oscar Wild
Apr 11, 2006

It's good to be a G
Merry Fistmas: All Holes Fisted

BrigadierSensible
Feb 16, 2012

I've got a pocket full of cheese🧀, and a garden full of trees🌴.

Gremlins.

Because of Phoebe Cates's speech, if nothing else.

YeahTubaMike
Mar 24, 2005

*hic* Gotta finish thish . . .
Doctor Rope

Presto posted:

It's not Die Hard. Because I have never seen Die Hard.

I saw it for the first time on Thanksgiving '21. I wasn't expecting it to be as good as it was, tbh.

Dave47
Oct 3, 2012

Shut up and take my money!

Rev. Melchisedech Howler posted:

It's the Muppet Christmas Carol of course friendo
No, it's Muppet Family Christmas.

Yes, technically it's a TV special, and not a move. It doesn't matter. It's still the best Christmas move.

Captain Splendid
Jan 7, 2009

Qu'en pense Caffarelli?
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang

BrigadierSensible
Feb 16, 2012

I've got a pocket full of cheese🧀, and a garden full of trees🌴.

Whilst I will maintain that Gremlins is the best Christmas movie.

This is the best song from a Christmas movie:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJ3cWWNXBHg

THE BAR
Oct 20, 2011

You know what might look better on your nose?

The intro movie to James Pond 2: Codename: RoboCod.

CaptainSarcastic
Jul 6, 2013



Beastmaster and Beastmaster 2.

"A Very Beastmaster Christmas" happened like two years in a row on either TBS or TNT and it was amazing.

Edit: Looks like it was TBS:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMBFOPvRjrk

CaptainSarcastic fucked around with this message at 10:05 on Dec 22, 2022

dr_rat
Jun 4, 2001
a 48hr play list of santa on elf porn. Doesn't matter which titles, they're all good.

git apologist
Jun 4, 2003

It’s Bad Santa op

Rondette
Nov 4, 2009

Your friendly neighbourhood Postie.



Grimey Drawer
Genuinely, A Christmas Story is the one our family has a tradition of watching. A sequel of sorts was made this year with some of the OG cast. I'm not yet sure if I want to watch it.

TK8325
Sep 22, 2014



Rondette posted:

Genuinely, A Christmas Story is the one our family has a tradition of watching. A sequel of sorts was made this year with some of the OG cast. I'm not yet sure if I want to watch it.

it's surprisingly good. just tongue in cheek and self aware enough

Rondette
Nov 4, 2009

Your friendly neighbourhood Postie.



Grimey Drawer

Asterite34 posted:

It's a basic bitch choice because cable has oversaturated it around the holidays, but I kinda wanna still give it to A Christmas Story. It has a nice combination of cynical deadpan humor and genuine childhood sincerity. Plus from what I've gathered it bears a pretty good resemblance to my own dad's childhood growing up in the Midwest in the 50s, so it has a bit of a sentimental connection there.

I'm UK based so it is fairly obscure over here. Heck, we only 'discovered' it because my Nanna saw a VHS copy in a bargain bin and got it, and my 12 year old self was bored enough at her house one February in 1992 to watch it.

Funnily enough, I found my old diary yesterday, and I'd bothered to write my opinion on it. And also laugh at my nan's discomfort at going down the Fast Water slide at Sedgemoor Splash.

Rondette fucked around with this message at 10:48 on Dec 22, 2022

SRQ
Nov 9, 2009

Rev. Melchisedech Howler posted:

It's the Muppet Christmas Carol of course friendo

Empty quote, got it in one

~Coxy
Dec 9, 2003

R.I.P. Inter-OS Sass - b.2000AD d.2003AD

THE BAR posted:

The intro movie to James Pond 2: Codename: RoboCod.

And Bayonetta 2.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mj5aqXUSH6Y&t=341s

Robobot
Aug 21, 2018
Does anyone remember the movie The Christmas Toy? I used to watch it all the time as a kid. Meteora is still a great name for a space toy.

Hollismason
Jun 30, 2007
FEEL FREE TO DISREGARD THIS POST

It is guaranteed to be lazy, ignorant, and/or uninformed.
It's Christmas Evil

precision
May 7, 2006

by VideoGames
Life of Brian

BigBadSteve
Apr 29, 2009

So, Die Hard is a Christmas movie?

the holy poopacy
May 16, 2009

hey! check this out
Fun Shoe

precision posted:

Life of Brian

Come back in 3 months for the Easter Movies thread.

Extra Large Marge
Jan 21, 2004

Fun Shoe

the holy poopacy posted:

Come back in 3 months for the Easter Movies thread.

ROBOCOP

William Henry Hairytaint
Oct 29, 2011



BigBadSteve posted:

So, Die Hard is a Christmas movie?

Yes absolutely

Dr. Gojo Shioji
Apr 22, 2004

Elentor posted:

Home Alone is a fun horror movie I guess.

Last year, I discovered a French movie released about a year prior to Home Alone with a shockingly similar plot but a much more serious tone. I enjoyed it a lot, and I'm gonna make some friends watch it this year.

precision
May 7, 2006

by VideoGames

Dr. Gojo Shioji posted:

Last year, I discovered a French movie released about a year prior to Home Alone with a shockingly similar plot but a much more serious tone. I enjoyed it a lot, and I'm gonna make some friends watch it this year.

When u think about it, Panic Room is just grimdark Home Alone

Mad Hamish
Jun 15, 2008

WILL AMOUNT TO NOTHING IN LIFE.



I can't believe no-one has said John Waters' less-known film Female Trouble which is an actual for-real Christmas movie.

I better get those CHA-CHA HEELS!

A farting mink
Nov 6, 2022

by Pragmatica
For several years as a prank when we visited my brother a couple of days after Christmas eve I would always put on his VHS copy of Road House on the TV down in the basement. That's now become their family Christmas movie.

No, I will never explain it to them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZyJCV_dyug

numberoneposter
Feb 19, 2014

How much do I cum? The answer might surprise you!

drat road house is so good

Dixville
Nov 4, 2008

I don't think!
Ham Wrangler

A farting mink posted:

For several years as a prank when we visited my brother a couple of days after Christmas eve I would always put on his VHS copy of Road House on the TV down in the basement. That's now become their family Christmas movie.

No, I will never explain it to them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZyJCV_dyug

This is fantastic

Chrs
Sep 21, 2015

Rambo: Last Blood is my favourite Home Alone movie

BigBadSteve
Apr 29, 2009


So what exactly is it about Die Hard that makes it a Christmas movie?

BAGS FLY AT NOON
Apr 6, 2011

A Soft Nylon Bag

BigBadSteve posted:

So what exactly is it about Die Hard that makes it a Christmas movie?

It takes place during a Christmas party op

Dixville
Nov 4, 2008

I don't think!
Ham Wrangler
Someone on my fb said life of Brian is a good one to watch. I'm inclined to agree though it's really just the opening scenes

Space Kablooey
May 6, 2009


Dixville posted:

Someone on my fb said life of Brian is a good one to watch. I'm inclined to agree though it's really just the opening scenes

Dunno. I think it's quite good overall except for the chase scenes

A Strange Aeon
Mar 26, 2010

You are now a slimy little toad
The Great Twist
The Addams Family movie is also a stealth Christmas movie in the same way Die Hard is

Cyril Sneer
Aug 8, 2004

Life would be simple in the forest except for Cyril Sneer. And his life would be simple except for The Raccoons.
A Child's Christmas in Wales

Except nobody ever knows what this is :(

goatface
Dec 5, 2007

I had a video of that when I was about 6.

I remember it being shit.


Grimey Drawer
The John Cale song from Paris 1919? That's p good.

F_Shit_Fitzgerald
Feb 2, 2017



precision posted:

I'll say it. Christmas Vacation sucks. It's a pale rehash of the original Vacation with half as much cynicism and a shockingly pro-Capitalist rhetoric that is completely at odds with the entire weltschmertz of the first movie

Furthermore

I don't think it sucks, but I tend to agree. Rather than subverting the hypercapitalist's paradise Christmas has become, it just reinforces it because Clark finds meaning in things rather than people.
/mattchristman

Muppet Christmas Carol is, I think, one of the best adaptations of Dickens' original story. Home Alone is also a good one. Before all the stuff came out about Spacey, I used to really like The Ref. Haven't seen it in ages.

You Are A Werewolf
Apr 26, 2010

Black Gold!

Jacob’s Ladder is a warm and fuzzy holiday classic that can be shared with the whole family at Christmastime.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plaNyzbGYd4

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Dixville
Nov 4, 2008

I don't think!
Ham Wrangler
Remembered my cousin showed me Auntie Mame around this time one year. It's got some christmassy scenes and it's pretty hilarious. I don't know about the best Christmas movie but it's a fun one to watch.

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