Just curious. I love holiday movies and specials way more than I probably should, seeing as I don't even consider myself to be Christian. But I digress. My favourites are: A Christmas Carol ~ Among the various versions, I love the Alastair Sim one, the Muppets version, and Disney one with Scrooge McDuck (lol, I told you I love these too much), and the Jim Carrey one was fantastic. Not to mention I read the book around Christmas; it's actually one of my favourite stories, Christmas-related or not (being the optimist that I am, I love stories about people becoming optimists :lolface: ). Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer ~ Even though Bumble used to scare the willies out of me when I was little, I loved it nonetheless, and still do. A Muppet Family Christmas ~ I LOVE THE MUPPETS SO BITE ME. My family and I watch it each year on Christmas day. c: Spoiler Watch out for that icey pa-WOAHH! Wakko's Wish ~ I'm still not entirely sure if this is even a Christmas/holiday movie, but it usually airs in December and it's set in the winter, so thar. I have a strange attraction to Animaniacs humour. I really can't help it. This movie never gets old to me. How the Grinch Stole Christmas ~ The hand-drawn one, and the Jim Carrey one. Although I do prefer the hand-drawn one more. Santa Clause Is Coming to Town ~ At least that's what I think it's called. It's one of the old stop-motion animation ones, the one with Burger-Miester-Miester-Burger, if that in any way clears it up. Joyeux Noël ("Merry Christmas" is the English title) ~ It's set in World War I in the trenches on Christmas. The fighting stops, and the English, French, and German soldiers call an informal, unauthorized truce and peacefully meet in No Man's Land. I cried. ;_; Your favourites? c:
A Christmas Story is just classic, as is Scrooged. As soon as those come on, we all watch them. I haven't seen the Muppet Christmas Carol in a long time, but I loved that one too. And I thought I was the only one who remembered Wakko's Wish...
Nightmare Before Christmas - Yeah, I consider this a Christmas movie as well. It's a well thought out movie with great acting and a lot of musical numbers that you will remember. The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya - I also strangely consider this a Christmas story. I've only read the novel, but I can highly expect that the movie's just like it. It plays on some of the themes of Christmas (like caring and such stuff) while incorperating things like time travel. It's also one of the more recent specials I've seen that incorperates the ture reason of the season (Christ's Brithday). Mickey's Once Upon/Twice Upon a Christmas - I really enjoy watching these two speicals, espeically with my little brother. It really captures the emotion of the season. My favorite short out of all of them was "The Gift of the Magi", where it really showed how close two people could emotionally be. And I also did like the one where Donald destroys the Macy's (sorry, Mousey's) dispaly. Olive, the Other Reindeer - Haven't seen ths special in a while. I loved this when I was a kid, but now I find it okay. It was able to at least keep my attention for an hour. Annabelle's Wish - Where do I begin with this movie? This has to be the most depressing Christmas movie that I had ever seen. It has a lot of dark tones and half way through, you want to cry at every single scene. Still, it is one of the more enjoyable movies I've seen this time of year.
Really, any of the older stop-motion animated ones, I always enjoy the songs. My favorite of those would probably be "The Year Without a Santa Claus" (the Heat/Snow Miser songs being the best parts). A Christmas Story - And apparently it has a sequel (less holiday related) I started watching halfway through a few weeks back, but I can't really say it lived up to the first one since I didn't see it all. A Christmas Carol - Although it has been adapted countless times, it is still always fresh to me. Some of the adaptations can be a bit out there, but I never really have much criticisms against them. Annabelle's Wish - Totally agree with this one. Unfortunately, we only have it on VHS and so I haven't been able to watch it in its full glory for awhile. Love the music in it too (and I'm usually a sucker for stuff that Randy Travis has a part in xP).
Wait a minute! They didn't even bother giving her a name? She's just "Hello Nurse"?! It's more depressing than Christmas Shoes, which is very surprising because the idea of Christmas shoes is more depressing than Annabelle's Wish, but the damn cow has to take the take. I do find Christmas Shoes pretty sad though, but it is also very hopeful. It followed the song pretty well, which is very surprising for a movie to do.
The Nightmare Before Christmas - This is my fav movie because you can watch it for Halloween and Christmas. Plus I really enjoy Jack Skellington. <3 Charlie Brown Christmas- this is basically my childhood christmas show. Aww charlie brown, and I will always sing with everyone at the end of that show. lol
I think I've only watched "Christmas Shoes" once, it is very sad. But I have the song and it takes everything not to cry my eyes out everytime I listen to it.
THISSSSS. Also I think the one with all the Miesers in it is called 'A Year without a Santa Claus'. Elf- Its a great movie that parodies the complete absurdity of other Christmas movies and pretty much states how commercialized Christmas got. It is just a great movie. Bad Santa- This is more of a guilty pleasure, I cannot stop laughing when I watch this. Star Wars Christmas Special- So beautifully well made. I loved it, 5 stars. HOLY CRAP. I TOTALLY REMEMBER THIS MOVIE. ;A;
Elfen Lied, for the way it delicately incorporates the traditional Christmas colours of red, white and green. Well, a third of them, anyway. Seriously though, I don't really associate Christmas with movies, and I haven't seen many Christmas movies. I've seen The Santa Clause, but that was years ago.
A Christmas Story - I actually used to get freaked out by this movie. The scene with Santa just really gets to me and stuff, lol. :c But I've grown to love this movie, and it really isn't Christmas for me unless we're watching the 24-hour marathon. The Christmas List - This movie is so adorable. It reminds me of the time when ABC Family actually played Christmas movies, and not Harry Potter or Mary Poppins. There's this other movie that I really like, but I don't remember the name of it at all. I also don't remember the last time I saw it.
