Here’s mine.
- Home Alone
- Die Hard
- Elf
- The Snowman (1982)
- How the Grinch Stole Christmas (both)
- The Star (2017)
- A Charlie Brown Christmas
- The Year Without a Santa Clause
- Violent Night
- LEGO Star Wars Holiday Special
- Mr. Bean S01E07 “Merry Christmas Mr. Bean”
In no real order at all.
A Christmas Story is my go to and watched at least fully once. Ehh as fully as I can, I’m required to leave the room when he opens the bb gun from the old man. It makes husband emotional about his father and he prefers to do that alone so I go do something else until the scene is done.
A Christmas Story
Jingle All The Way
Jingle All The Way is an underrated classic.
The “must have” toy mania that it captures was newish then, but is normalized behavior now.
Just that a lot of it takes place over the internet, and there are even more speculators, and the manufacturers deliberately create artificial scarcity to drive profits.
LOTR in my household.
They’re the perfect Thanksgiving movies for some reason.
About 40% to 60% of Little Lord Fauntleroy, passively consumed because my dad turned on the TV for background ambiance while we’re both doing stuff on our laptops in his living room.
Weihnachten bei Hoppenstedts.
A Blackadder Christmas Carol.
Oooo, good one.
Also, I forgot Mr. Bean S01E07 “Merry Christmas Mr. Bean”
Oh man, the turkey on the head thing.
Krampus Elf Klaus Single all the Way for romantic schlock The Grinch Violent Night Terrifier 3 Whatever dumb new Xmas movie Netflix has
My in laws love A Christmas Story. One of my least favorites but I entertain
I like romantic schlock. I’ll check that out.
I loath Christmas Story and Charlie Brown. They are so damn depressing.
Krampus
We watch many of yours, and also Trading Places.
Eating salmon through a filthy Santa beard. Delicious!
Santa’s Slay. It’s a B movie, and it knows it. But it’s good as long as you’re drinking spiked eggnog.
- Muppet Christmas Carol
- The Preacher’s Wife
- Home Alone
- Love Acutally
- The Santa Clause
- How the Grinch Stole Christmas (OG and Jim Carrey)
- It’s a Wonderful Life
- Mame
- The Year Without a Santa Claus
- Santa Claus is Comin’ to Town
- Every few years, I watch the Xmas Beauty and the Beast sequel for nostalgia and a little bit of Tim Curry
- Meet Me in St. Louis
- Christmas with the Kranks
- Usually a couple Hallmark Xmas movies
Edit:formatting
I have recently added Tokyo Godfathers into my holiday mix. My wife cries every time despite “hating animated movies”.
Hogfather 2006 miniseries
Christmas Chronicles.
Kluas
It’s November 30th. Go home Lemmy, you’re drunk.
I’m excited!
Ernest Saves Christmas
C’mon
Rankin-Bass Rudolph or the list is bogus.
Same with National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation.
Original Grinch is best Grinch, but I’ll accept them as a duo.
Die Hard is as Christmas as it gets, so yipee kai ay motherfucker!
A Charlie Brown Christmas is a must.
Emmet Otter’s Jug Band is almost at that level of necessity, though maybe only for us gen-x kids.
Anything else is open for negotiations on my end, I ain’t mad at anyone else’s list beyond joking.
However, Frosty the Snowman, also a Rankin-Bass production is awesome, and any of their Christmas specials deserve at least an honorable mention.
If I got Heat Miser and Cold Miser I’m good.
Have you seen the LEGO Star Wars Holiday Special? Very fun.
My true Christmas watch list has Rudolph, Frosty the Snowman, and Santa Claus is Coming to Town from Rankin-Bass. It just seemed like flooding to put them all in there, so I just put my favorite.
