We're having a Christmas Movie Marathon today through to Christmas Day - what are your favorites?
So far we've watched:
A Christmas Story
The Grinch That Stole Christmas (animation)
Home Alone
Charlie Brown Christmas & It's Christmas Time Again, Charlie Brown
Next up is going to be, I think, Home Alone 2.
Last edited by Tonichelle; 12-22-2012 at 08:26 PM.
Ooh, what a fun thread, Toni.
Hmmm. I love the old Cary Grant movie The Bishop's Wife, with David Niven and Loretta Young.
That movie they made out of the book Polar Express is very interesting and well made, though far more elaborate than the brief story from the original book.
If I can ever find filmed productions of The Nutcracker, I'm happy.
And I am rather partial to the first Santa Clause. My favorite quote: "We're your worst nightmare: elves with attitude."
Special mention goes to The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, the recent Disney/Walden one. I am a huge Narnia fan and always will be.
I wasn't as fond of Polar Express as I thought I would be. The technology was cool, though.
Home Alone 2 is playing now...
Next I think will be A Christmas Carol - the one Jim Carrey did with Disney a few years back...
After that hopefully Christmas Vacation (my fav Cmas movie).
For more "recent" ones....
I loved Elf and Four Christmases was also quite enjoyable for its different take on Christmas. I've never watched New Year's Eve but I did enjoy its Valentine's Day counterpoints on a pure entertainment level (with no consideration to plot) and so I think I would love New Year's Eve as well if not just to watch the cast interact with each other.
I also tend to like Christmas episodes of my favourite TV shows...if that counts
Christmas Vacation is playing - last movie of the night.
Tomorrow is church, I have an "office" Christmas party, parents have a Christmas Eve Eve service... so the marathon's on hold until Monday lol
Do you have the Hallmark channel? It plays almost non stop Christmas shows all season. Last year I watched many of them.
This year, I am finding they repeat them, though, which is lame of me since I am quite happy to watch the original Miracle on 34th Street, A Christmas Story, Charlie Brown Christmas, and the Grinch as many times as they play them.
So did I!!! I loved the story, and Will Ferrell was so convincing! You genuinely did feel sorry for him when he found out the truth!Originally Posted by starryxskies
Speaking of Will Ferrell, for those that can receive BBC1, “Blades Of Glory” is being shown at midnight GMT tonight.
Not exactly a Christmas movie (as far as I know!), but it’s being shown today, so hopefully that will qualify it for this thread rather than starting a new one!
So, bearing in mind that, generally speaking, I like Will Ferrell films, I was wondering: should I tape it? Or is it the sort of film that a fan of the sport should avoid like the plague?!
Any advice (without giving away the whole story!) would be appreciated
CaroLiza_fan
It's just plain funny! This probably too late -- since it aired in Midnight your time. But I hope you do get to watch it -- it is hilarious and it include a bunch of skater cameos! (Sasha Cohen, Scott Hamilton, Brian Botaino, Peggy Flemming, Dorthy Hammil).
Yeah mom can barely work the blue ray pplayer so the parentals dont have a dvr. Lol it took us over a year to convince mom you dont have to rewind dvds before you put them back in their case!
Your mom sounds like a woman after my own heart. It took my buddies years to persuade me that a DVD player would be a good thing to have. DVR is not within my skill set yet, either.
This morning the Turner movie channel screened the Katharine Hepburn Little Women, which reminds me that any of the three main Little Women productions can be thought of as Christmas movies, and not just because the films all start with a Christmas sequence. I like all three versions for different reasons. Hepburn shines as Jo, of course, in the earliest one, and the other three sisters are well done, and the inimitable Edna May Oliver is Aunt March. (She played many other meaty dowager roles, including Miss Betsy Trotwood in the golden-age David Copperfield, and Miss Pross in A Tale of Two Cities.) The Laurie is a bit unmemorable for me. The later MGM one, with June Allyson, has been eclipsed by the first one, because who could compete with Katharine Hepburn? But it's surprisingly good, and it does an inspired switcheroo by making Amy older than Beth so they can take advantage of one of the greatest child actresses ever, Margaret O'Brien, as the doomed Beth and have Elizabeth Taylor as Amy. Then the most modern one, with Winona Ryder, is probably the lushest in terms of setting and music score (Thomas Newman), and it has hands-down the best Professor Bhaer...Gabriel Byrne. You can absolutely believe why he becomes so important in the life of the Marches. This film was made with great affection for a very low budget (that was used with tremendous efficiency to create lovely settings), and it was cast with almost uncanny prescience for spotting significant talent: Claire Danes and Kirsten Dunst played two of the girls, and Christian Bale played Laurie. Susan Sarandon is convincingly young enough to have kids that young and strong enough to be virtually a single parent while Rev. March is away. A great Christmas movie that I think people of any age can enjoy.
I like the one with Liz Taylor and Margaret O'Brien most of the Little Women films...
It's a lovely one. I came to it late--in fact I think first I saw it all the way through just within the last year or two. I was charmed and moved by it. I think I read somewhere that June Allyson was so undone by the filming of Margaret O'Brien's death scene that as she was driving home afterward, she had to pull the car over so she could cry. O'Brien was thirteen or fourteen at the time.
One interesting choice that the Winona Ryder version made was to cast two actresses as Amy. That way, she was played by a real twelve-year-old or so at the beginning and then a young woman later on. The other versions couldn't show Amy aging appreciably because she was played by an adult actress throughout. The MGM (Allyson) version, by flipping the ages of Amy and Beth, solved the problem by having the youngest one be the sister who died, so that she didn't have to be shown as an adult. It was a really perfect choice, I think. I wonder whether any bookworm purists complained at the time.
O'Brien's was the first one I saw, can't watch the other two with as much enjoyment. which is weird because I adore Hepburn.
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