What’s the one with Arnold and Sinbad?
Jingle all the way?
Yes that’s the one. Somehow they get Arnold yelling about bombs and choppers into a xmas movie. Classic.
Die Hard, obviously.
There’s on improv puppet troupe that does Die Hard as a musical and combines it with A Christmas Carol. It’s great.
Emmett Otter’s Jug-Band Christmas has been a favourite of mine since it came out. Another Jim Henson classic.
We stumbled upon this, more or less by accident, maybe a decade ago. It immediately entered the annual holiday movie cycle. I think it’s one of Henson’s best works. 10/10!
This is probably not as unpopular opinion as I think it is, but I can’t stand Christmas movies. I do enjoy and celebrate Christmas, but the commercial aspect of it is too shoved down our throats like some kind of Foie Gras nightmare.
Anyway, instead I watch through James Bond movies substituting misogyny and violence for hokey sentimental commercialism.
I feel like this could be said of any movie or any form of entertainment. We’re selling stories, ideas, and norms. The Christmas flavor definitely isn’t my favorite though.
I think it just makes for an easy sell to say that it’s full of good will and a kind story because it’s about Christmas but then you watch any of those Hallmark movies and it’s about calling men dumb and women who work terrible women who should be mothers…
Like as if the good fun of the holiday will even put whatever else they want to do or say in making a terrible piece of media to a more palatable state.
It’s like smothering a bad meal in gravy and saying well at least all you can taste is salt but here it’s Santa Claus. Definitely mostly not worth consumption.
Finally we can talk about Christmas without forcing Santa to execute an elf.
Die Hard and A Christmas Story as always, but I’ve also added another one (not a movie), the Hawkeye series.
Hawkeye is unironically a new Christmas classic.
Also the What If…? Episode that riffs on Die Hard counts as a Christmas special.
Not a movie, but I’d like to throw the Zanta Claws episodes from Eddsworld into the ring.
Better Off Dead
I hadn’t seen them before, so for a few Christmases, my partner and I watched The Lord of the Rings movies because any movie with an elf counts as a Christmas movie.
Bad Santa
Office Christmas Party
The Night Before
“Bad Santa” was hilarious. And even today it’s just as funny
If I’m depressed, A Charlie Brown Christmas. If not, the 1966 special How the Grinch Stole Christmas!. Mr. Robot S04 is a favorite as well.
I haven’t seen many classic Christmas films though so I plan on broadening my horizons. My mom plans on showing my Diehard this year, I plan on watching FX/BBC’s rendition of A Christmas Carol, and I likely will see the 2000 Grinch movie with a friend.
It’s a wonderful life
It’s gotten increasingly sad for me to watch.
I conflate it with all the lessons modern society chose to forget with the promise of moar.
Potter won, and all the George Baileys are long dead.
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang.
It’s an extremely convoluted murder mystery that just happens to take place during Christmas.
Despite the insanely incomprehensible writing, it has some of the best dialogue ever written, and Robert Downey JR nails his role as a small time criminal who accidentally gets a movie role as a detective, but gets dragged into a real life murder case.
- Scrooged
- Bad Santa
- A Christmas Story
- Elf
Nightmare Before Christmas. I just have a soft spot for Jack Skellington, possibly my first ever crush.
No, no, that’s a Thanksgiving movie. Watching it for Halloween is too soon, watching it for Christmas is too late. So watching it in November is perfect.
