Christmas films

[Will]

It's Christmas! Top 10 Christmas films? Well, okay.

1. The Muppet Christmas Carol - For my money the best movie version. Remarkably faithful to the story despite being filled with frogs, pigs, talking fruit etc. Great songs, great Michael Caine. Love it. ****1/2

2. It's a Wonderful Life - Technically this is a finer film than Muppets... but I do love me Muppets, so it's the number 2 slot for this wonderful, heartwarming classic. James Stewart, man. So great. ****1/2

3. The Polar Express - Bob. Ah, Bob. You've done it again. ****1/2

4. Miracle on 34th Street - The original's not bad but the remake kicks its ass. It's a sweetheart. Features Joss 'Snowfall' Ackland in a supporting role. ****

5. The Santa Clause 2 - Hated the original, loved this. ****

6. Bad Santa - Saw this last night, and I pissed my pants laughing. Not exactly Christmassy, but bloody funny. ****

7. Big Business - Classic Laurel and Hardy short in which the boys try to sell Christmas trees. Very very funny. ****

8. The Nightmare Before Christmas - Stunning animation, but a few too many songs. Still, it's wildly inventive. ***1/2

9. The Family Man - Yet another riff on Wonderful Life/Christmas Carol but so are most Christmas movies, so bollocks to it. ***1/2

10. Richie Rich's Christmas Wish - Honest! Shite original, cracking sequel, even if it is just a rip off of It's A Wonderful Life, but so are most, etc. ***

And the bottom of the barrel...

Home Alone/National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation/some other shite Duds likes **
Jack Frost **
Home For Christmas *1/2
Christmas With The Kranks *1/2
Casper's Haunted Christmas *1/2
Jingle All The Way *1/2
All I Want For Christmas *1/2
The Santa Clause *1/2
A Christmas Carol (2004) *
The Grinch *

[catherine]

Casper's haunted christmas? WTF? I haven't even heard of that!

Home Alone!!! Has to be a good christmas film. I loved it. Hate The Snowman though. That's shite! Good bit of Macauley Culkin and some burglars for me!

;D

Catherine x

[catherine]

Errr.... how come by karma is -1?

Boo hoo.



Catherine x

[•°o.O emily O.o°•]

Dont forget Love Actually! not the best film ever (so saccharine it gives you toothache...) but definitely festive. If you watch it, thats the only rom-com you need for the year!

I saw this amazing old thing when i was kid, which was stop motion i think. Had all these dwarf things that "hatched" from a tree, and there were these woolly mammoths baking pretzel things...then all the dwarves rolled around in the snow to make cocoons and went back into the tree til next year. What a great film/programme?! No idea what its called.

Anyway. . .

[Will]

Crap! Yep, should have had Love Actually in my list. Loved that movie. It goes on for about 20 minutes past its natural conclusion but otherwise it's cracking. I always miss stuff out when I put these lists together.

Cat - Casper's Haunted Christmas is an all CG movie, not live action like the others. It's really, really bad.

[Paul Dudbridge]

Home Alone/National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation/some other shite Duds likes ** - LOL

Good idea for a list man...Okay...

In no particular order...

1.It's a Wonderful Life.****
2. Muppets ****
3. The Polar Express **** 1/2
4. Christmas comes to Willow Creek (old tv movie from '87, cheesy as hell but that's why I love it) ***
5..Scrooged ****
6.Ahem, National Lampoons Christmas Vacation. *** (yes Will, not as funny as it first was but for Christmas it's great, as a film...well)
7. The Snowman. **** (was never a big fan as a kid but now...it's so good. I think cause it sends me back to being 7 years old.( Cat...get.out!)
8. Home Alone ***
9. Santa Clause/Santa Clause 2.***/****
10...er The Christmas Eve Snowfall? ************

I never really cared for Miracle on 34th...yeah, Joss is in it, but that was when he was trying to make ends meet before he really hit the big time last year...

[cbaproductions]

Die Hard 1 & 2.

;D

[catherine]

Die Hard is not a christmas film!!

And to go with Love Actually... Bridget Jones! YAY.

Cat xx

[cbaproductions]

Well, there's a brief christmas party in it so......

"Now I have a machine gun, Ho-Ho-Ho!"