Favorite Christmas Special or Movie?

What's your absolute favorite Christmas TV special or movie?

Mine's probably Little Drummer Boy, followed by Rudolph.

Here's a good site for being reminded of some good (and sometimes obscure) ones.   And of course you can buy them if you want - http://www.tvparty.com/dvdxmas.html

I love Home Alone 1 and 2! Aaaand The Nightmare Before Christmas!

Absolute Favorite

"A Charlie Brown Christmas"

It's also my absolute favorite Christmas music.

I have the Vince Guaraldi Trio - A Charlie Brown Christmas on my ipod

Looo loo loo loo loooo loo loo loooo

 

 

Who could not fall in love with that Charlie Brown tree? :P

;)

Home Alone 1 and 2 are absolute calssics. :)

Scrooged - Bill Murray

Santa Clause - Tim Allen

 

The Grinch, Rudolph and Frosty the Snowman.

I like Elf too.

White Christmas is my fave Christams movie, and the really old Scrooge, where you see the camera guy in the mirror, that one.

Christmas song, um, Carol of the Bells, or White Christmas by Bing Crosby.

1. a christmas story
2. grinch who stole christmas
3. charlie brown christmas
4. rudolph the red-nosed reindeer
5. that one w/ the misfit toys and the cold miser...wait, same as #4. then that one w/ santa's origin story. all the 60s/70s holiday claymation specials, really. especially if they're musicals!

"We watch 'A Christmas Story' all day on TBS on christmas. It just stays on and loops. It's pretty funny. No one changes it."

me too! and i love love love a nightmare before christmas (i sing along to every song), but it doesn't count as a christmas movie for me, since all the holidays are represented. it's more halloween to me. i know, it's halloweentown!

Christmas Vacation

It's A Wonderful Life (Jimmy Stewart Version)

There are a lot of classic Christmas movies that I've never seen but every Christmas that we're at home (as opposed to travelling on holidays) my brother, sister, and I get up, open our stockings, and watch Home Alone and The Santa Clause (I <3 Bernard).

Carnosaur 2

1. ELF
2. Rudolph (the original)
   
3. Frosty the Snowman (the original)
   
4. Home Alone (1 and 2)
   
5. Santa Clause (yes, all 3)
   
6. Christmas with the Krank's
7. The Holiday
8. Love Actually
9. The Grinch (Jim Carey version)
   
10. Miracle on 34th Street (both old and new versions)

I love all of the old Christmas movies - I watch them every year

Ok, there was one that they used to play a lot when I was a kid and I loved it, but I haven't seen it for years.  I don't remember what it was called, but it was claymation.  The California Raisins were in it.  There were also some camels that sang "We Three Kings" and a bunch of geese that could never quite get "The Wassail Song" right...

In general I love the movies they put on at Christmas :)  Especially the older ones.

Am I the only one who likes A Christmas Carol with George C. Scott?

.. I had never heard of Prancer but I caught the tail end of it last night and ooo wee!  Sam Elliott's in it!  He's so sexy!

Original Post by lilsammi23:

Ok, there was one that they used to play a lot when I was a kid and I loved it, but I haven't seen it for years.  I don't remember what it was called, but it was claymation.  The California Raisins were in it.  There were also some camels that sang "We Three Kings" and a bunch of geese that could never quite get "The Wassail Song" right...

In general I love the movies they put on at Christmas :)  Especially the older ones.

 I belive that would be:       "Claymation Christmas Celebration"

Herb and Rex, the Jurassic odd couple, introduce segments featuring the Three Wise Men, singing camels, ice-skating penguins, and the hilarious Paris Bellharmonic Orchestra. There's even a Motown rendition of "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer." The entire cast joins a rousing chorus finale of "Here We Come A-Wassailing," which is certain to put everyone in the Christmas mood. (1987, 24 minutes.)

Original Post by thmheh:

Original Post by lilsammi23:

Ok, there was one that they used to play a lot when I was a kid and I loved it, but I haven't seen it for years.  I don't remember what it was called, but it was claymation.  The California Raisins were in it.  There were also some camels that sang "We Three Kings" and a bunch of geese that could never quite get "The Wassail Song" right...

In general I love the movies they put on at Christmas :)  Especially the older ones.

 I belive that would be:       "Claymation Christmas Celebration"

Herb and Rex, the Jurassic odd couple, introduce segments featuring the Three Wise Men, singing camels, ice-skating penguins, and the hilarious Paris Bellharmonic Orchestra. There's even a Motown rendition of "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer." The entire cast joins a rousing chorus finale of "Here We Come A-Wassailing," which is certain to put everyone in the Christmas mood. (1987, 24 minutes.)

 That's the one!! :)

I remember either Saturday Night Live or Mad TV had a parody of the claymation Rudolph special where the reindeer were all mobsters and Rudolph was seeking revenge on one of them...at one point he and the elf character are happily singing "Let's...get even!" waving guns around the North Pole.

Trust me it was funnier than it sounds.

All of the claymation Christmas specials give me the creeps....

Original Post by jblarghp:

All of the claymation Christmas specials give met the creeps....

 all claymation scares the **** outta me.

i love the first three home alones (before they changed the kid)...nightmare before christmas...

edit: and charlie brown's christmas.  LOVE it.

A good Christmas movie I haven't seen listed yet is "Jack Frost" with Michael Keaton.

with the exception of nightmare before christmas (and home alone 1 [maybe 2]), no xmas movie made after the 1980s is worth viewing. what's with all this santa clause and jack frost and blah blah blah? that's all crap! you need old school cheer on the holidays. i can't get with you whippersnappers on those newfangled movie films.