Favourite Christmas Movies

No, not an elimination game, just a festive thread to share your favourite Christmas films and argue about whether Die Hard counts.

What films are your traditional rewatches?

Every year my family rewatches most of these:


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(although we shun the GODAWFUL Home Alone 4, Home Alone 5 occasionally gets an outing and the terrible terrible reboot with Aisling Bea doesn’t even get uttered).

Possibly my favourite of all time is:

And 2 usually gets an outing along with rocks but NEVER #3 Dude Where’s My Donkey.

Obviously we also watch this:

And for years when our kids were younger we watched this and we still crave watching it.
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Muppets Christmas Carol is the best adaptation of that story by a mile!

Other than that, I don’t tend to watch many Christmas movies. I might watch Home Alone if it’s on TV.

This year I’m going to rewatch all of Wallace and Gromit in anticipation of the new one!

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My wife and I watched Twas the Text Before Christmas. It was not my favorite but it was a Christmas movie…

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Why do you rewatch Home Alone 3. It is just bad!

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I think I might be looking forward to the new Wallace and Gromit more than I am Doctor Who! The return of Feathers McGraw and it’s an hour long!!

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The kids still like that one. It’s not as awful as 4 or the recent Disney+ reboot.

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Well, I like Home Alone, but my wife loathes it, so I rarely watch it. The Disney+ reboot is utter garbage.

Die Hard is another great. And it’s definitely a Christmas movie!

The Swedish comedy In Bed With Santa is another favourite, and we have watched it this year already.

It’s A Wonderful Life is very lovely as well.

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OMG that title! Looks like a complete cheesefest.

I saw this, was fun watching with a couple friends but I would not call it a good movie.

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I mostly remember that it had a cool remote-controlled car and that it was bad. I have not seen any after 3. But I did see this yesterday:

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What is that?

I sent this to my wife yesterday:

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Tomten är far till alla barnen :wink:

Oh, and Love Actually is one my wife and I often watch. It’s cheesy but lovely.

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I love the obvious one, Muppet Christmas Carol.

This is great.

& if you like Die Hard, Under Siege etc then this is a must watch.

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Oh yes I’ve never actually seen this and I have it on my to-watch list this Christmas!

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That is a better name for it

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My family often watches National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation.

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not a christmas dog, but i do engage enough to have seasonal watches of the wallace & gromit films and muppets christmas carol.

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I haven’t had time to watch these yet this year, but we always watch der kleine Lord (Little Lord Fauntleroy)


and drei Haselnüsse für Aschenbrödel, sort of a Cinderella adaptation, around Christmas

I really hope I can still fit them in this year

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I tend to answer Die Hard because it’s funny and that film is near perfect.

But the best Christmas movie is It’s a Wonderful Life, utterly beautiful film.

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I’ve never watched It’s a Wonderful Life.

I have, however, seen It’s a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie which is basically the same story - and not brilliant.

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Muppet Christmas Carol.

It’s class.

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