100 Greatest Holiday Movies

[Samuraiflip05]

Hey one and all.  Merry Christmas, Happy Hannukah, Happy Kwanzaa, and any other holiday traditions.  This thread is to come up with a list of the 100 greatest holiday movies according to DM for the Hornsounder.  List 10 of your favorite holiday movies in no particular order.  The movies will then be tallied for the final count around Dec 30th. 

 

NOTE*-* The movies do not have to be holiday themed, they can be movies that take place during the holidays. Also they can be TV movies too.

Examples - Santa Claus is Coming to Town-TV Christmas theme

         - Home Alone-Movie Christmas season

 

Have fun everyone.---Be sure to lisst which org you are from along with your movies fo ractivity references. 

 

Sam's 10 picks (Seanchan, Band of the Red Hand, Aiel, Ogier, Kin, Illuminators, Black Tower)

1. Frosty the Snowman-TV Theme

2. Miracle on 34th Street-Movie Theme

3. The Santa Clause-Movie Theme

4. A Christmas Story-Movie Theme

5. Nightmare Before Christmas-Movie Theme

6. Planes Trains and Automobiles-Movie Season

7. Bad Santa-Movie Season

8. How the Grinch Stole Christmas-TV Theme

9. The Grinch-Movie Theme

10. Die Hard-Movie Season

[Guest Far Dareis Mai]

FDM's Pick (Shayol Ghul/Illuminator's/White Tower/Aiel/Seanchan)

1. A Christmas Story- Movie Theme

2. Fraggle Rock Christmas - TV Theme

3. Planes, Trains, and Automobiles - Movie Season

4. Charlie Brown Christmas - TV Theme

5. Garfield Christmas - TV Theme

6. A Claymation Christmas - TV Theme

7. Home Alone - Movie Theme

8. Smurf's Christmas - TV Theme

9. Miracle on 34th Street - Movie Theme

10. Mickey's Christmas Carol - Movie Theme?

[SinisterDeath]

1. Die Hard.

[Majsju]

What qualifies as a holiday movie, that part of the movie has something to do with christmas, or the entire movie?

I'm going with part of the movie.

 

1. Fanny & Alexander

2. In Bed With Santa

3. A Nightmare Before Christmas

4. ...got nothing

 

Oh, missed that part...Seanchan/WT

[Guest Stefania Sedai]

Lady Stefania (BotRH/Seanchan)

 

1. Miracle on 34th Street (original!)

2. The Santa Clause

3. The Grinch

4. White Christmas

5. Home Alone

6. Christmas Vacation

7. A Christmas Story

8. Rudolph the Rednosed Reindeer (TV movie)

9. The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus (TV movie)

10. The Santa Clause 2

[Cadsuane]

There aren't that many Christmas movies I care about. I like these five, in no particular order:

 

 

Seanchan/CoL

 

White Christmas (Bing Crosby)

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (TV movie)

A Charlie Brown Christmas

How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (original animated)

Mickey's Christmas Carol

[Silver]

Yeah, not many I really like.

 

Silver (Seanchan, Wolfkin, WT, Kin)

 

1. Miracle on 34th Street

2. The Grinch

3. A Nightmare Before Christmas

[Loreina]

1. Holiday Inn

2. White Christmas

3. Muppet Christmas Carol

4. Rudolf the Red-nosed Reindeer

5. Charlie Brown's Christmas

6. How the Grinch Stole Christmas (original animated)

7. Little Drummer Boy

8. Miracle on 34th Street

9. The Santa Clause

10. The Toy That Saved Christmas (VeggieTales)

 

:-[ Forgot the orgs:  Ogier/White Tower/CoL

[Dunbar]

1. The nightmare before christmas

2. Muppet christmas carol

 

don't really know too many others

 

: p

[Haxorsist]

Demi, you forgot some. S'allright, I'll just add 'em to my list. :P

 

Seanchan/CoL

 

1. Reisen til julestjernen

2. A Nightmare Before Christmas

3. Tri orísky pro Popelku

4. Home Alone

5. Home Alone 2

 

*nods*

[Emperor]

A Christmas Story... How can you not like "You are going to shoot your eye out" and that leg lamp!  Classic...

 

A nightmare before xmas

 

It's a Wonderful Life

 

Scrooged!!!!  By far one of my favorites. 

 

Miracle on 34th Street

 

 

[Mystica]

BoTRH, White Tower.

 

1. My top Holiday movie is LoTR the extended edition. :D

It's become a tradition of mine during the holidays.

 

Next I like.... um....

 

2. Scrooged (and all those offshoots of it)

3. Miracle on 34th

4. Bridget Jone's Diary

5. Bridget Jone's Diary 2

 

need to think about the rest....  :-\

[ironcross]

a christmas carroll ( the one with georg c scott)

a wonderfull life

white cristmass

LOTR  (hey they came out at christmass that makes them cristmass movies)

ben hur (they always play it at christmass even though its more of a easter movie)

"Merry Christmas" (a.k.a. Joyeux Noël) (a true story about the volentary ceace fire for 

    cristmass day 1914 where german french and brittish troops laid down thier arms and

    sang carrols together insted

 

other then that i cant relly think of anything

[Taymist]

Taymist (BotRH/WT/Wolfkin/Kin/Ogier/Aiel)

 

1. Die Hard

2. It's A Wonderful Life

3. Scrooged

4. ALL of the Wallace & Gromit films  ;D

5. White Christmas

 

 

[Doselan]

Lets just say Die Hard... *nod nod nod*  ;D

[SinisterDeath]

What better way to celebrate X-Mas then to shoot some german terrorists who are holding your wife hostage?

[KingKastchei]

KingKastchei - BotRH

 

While I'm not a huge fan of most holiday movies (I find most of them to be so ridiculously sappy that they make me gag) there are a few that I truly enjoy.

 

1. White Christmas

2. Scrooged (Carol Kane is hilarious!!!!!)

3. A Muppet Christmas Carol (I love Michael Caine as scrooge)

4. The Santa Clause

5. The Ref (I think that takes place during Christmas...)

5. The Nightmare Before Christmas

[Arrandion]

1. Groundhog Day

2. Die Hard

[twinflower]

The Kin, Ogier, WT, Band..

 

I LOVE Holiday Movies..only ten?  LOL!

 

1. White Christmas

2. Holiday Inn

3. Going My Way

4. It's A Wonderful Life

5. A Charlie Brown Christmas (TV Cartoon)

6. How the Grinch Stole Christmas (TV Cartoon with Boris Karloff)

7. Santa Claus is Coming to Town (TV cartoon)

8. Rudolf the Red Nosed Reindeer (TV cartoon)

9. The Santa Claus

10. Bells of St. Mary's

[Talya]

1. a LotR is in the order of things for me this Christmas.

2. Amuppets Christmas Carol, Just love this film :-[

3. Scrooged

4. Die Hard

[Segurant]

Seanchan, White Tower (Warder's), Black Tower (whenever I am active there)

 

1.  Scrooged (Bill Murray enough said)

2.  Nightmare before Christmas

3.  Gremlins

4.  A Christmas Story

5.  The Ref

 

[Samuraiflip05]

HERE is an interesting article about overlooked Non-Themed Christmas movies.  Should fit in well with our voting...lol.

 

 

And....If you need help remembering the title of a "Christmas" movie look HERE.

[Dragon21]

Has nobody said National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation? =)

 

 

1. Rudolf the Red Nosed Reindeer

2. Home Alone

3. Mickey's a Christmas Carol

4. The Polar Express

5. Frosty the Snowman

6. The Nativity Story

7. The Grinch (orig)

8. National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation

9. Home Alone 2

10. Alvin and the Chipmunks Christmas (cartoon)

11. Scrooged

 

[Sorandha]

1. How the Grinch Stole Christmas (animated version)

2. How the Grinch Stole Christmas (live action version)

3. Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer

4. Muppet Christmas Carol

5. Deck the Halls

6. The Santa Claus

7. Jingle All The Way

8. Nightmare before Christmas

9. A Charlie Brown Christmas

10. Scrooged

 

Orgs: Illuminators, Wolfkin, Aiel, BT, WT, Seanchan, Kin

[Samuraiflip05]

Okay folks the voting is over.  I will be tallying the votes and organizing the data.  The completed list will appear in the Hornsounder.  Thank you again Empy for hosting this.