Christmas Film traditions

[Liam]

Fuck it, @Quom started the Christmas topics, so might as well throw this up there.

Basically, what Christmas films get an airing for you every year? I'm mainly looking for some additions to my little list >_>

Me and the wife will watch:

Elf

Bad Santa

The Miracle on 34th Street (newer)

The Holiday (...don't judge us)

It's a Wonderful Life

 

...I think that is it. I want to make a push for Gremlins to become part of that, but meh, we'll see.

[Quom]

Home Alone always.

National Lampoons Christmas thingo-whatsit is always on here around Christmas and has become something of a tradition.

I have never seen Elf so am pushing for that. 

[King Ellis]

For a few years now I've always watched the Patrick Stewart version of A Christmas Carol on Christmas Eve. Some others that have got some repeated play are Die Hard 1 & 2, Home Alone 1 & 2, It's a Wonderful Life, Gremlins, Miracle on 34th Street (1947 version), A Christmas Story...

I've only ever really got bored of that last one and I didn't watch it last year. Might give it another chance this year though. I actually picked up the 1994 Miracle... on BR as well so I'll be giving that a looksie. RIP Attenborough.

I suppose to a lesser extent there's also things like Jingle All The Way and Nightmare Before Christmas that I'll often watch as well.

[Maxx]

I have a lot of TV shows rather than films.  The Twilight Zone episode Night of the Meek is a big one, and now the X-Men episode Have Yourself a Morlock Little X-Mas.

[Your Mom]

Elf is the only one we always watch. I really like the old Peanuts holiday episodes too

[VerbalPuke]

Definitely A Christmas Story, Christmas Vacation, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, and the Charlie Brown Christmas.

 

[Gorka]

It's always Muppet Christmas Carol in my house.

[RPS]

Love Actually for my family. 

[Roster Depth Sicko No. 2]

Elf and Love Actually with my girlfriend. My family don't particularly care, but on usually ends up on anyway  

[ChrisSteeleAteMyHamster]

It's not a Christmas film at all really, but ever since we were living in Japan, my wife and I try to watch Gosford Park every Christmas time.

[I Don't Mind]

I love Christmas films but I have to watch them on my own because they all bring up bad x-mas memories for the Mrs.

So as tradition, every December as the holiday gets close we watch Hocus Pocus.

[Baddar]

Bad Santa! I will never stop finding Billy Bob Thornton funny.

[db07]

Pretty much the same:

Love Actually, Elf, National Lampoons, Miracle on 34th Street

[Szumi]

Eloise at Christmas Time is big for the Mrs. We watch it more than once every holiday season. I'm big on The Santa Clause, Home Alone, and Just Friends. I love me some Ryan Reynolds.

[FLiam]

I always have to watch Jingle All the Way on Christmas Eve whilst wrapping presents. That's one of my only traditions.

Other than that, I'll watch Die Hard, Home Alone 1&2, Planes, Trains and Automobiles, Nightmare Before Christmas, Batman Returns and maybe some others.

[Draevyn]

Definitely Home Alone and Die Hard. I try to watch Ernest Saves Christmas and National Lampoons Christmas Vacation but there has been a couple of christmas's that they have not made the cut unfortunately.

[Chris2K]

Muppets Christmas Carol is not only the sole Christmas film I watch, but the duration of the film is the only time I celebrate Christmas at all.

[CobraKaiEnTai]

Home Alone 1 & 2, The Santa Clause, Jingle All the Way, Christmas Vacation, A Christmas Story, Gremlins 1 & 2, will probably be adding Muppet Christmas Carol (and any other Muppet Christmas movies) this year.

[Benjamin]

I call it the Christmas Week Rundown, where I watch a film a year 7 days before Christmas until Christmas Eve. They are:

Arthur Christmas, It's a Wonderful Life, Die Hard, Nightmare Before Christmas, Stalag 17, Holiday Inn and Miracle on 34th Street.

Last year, I upped the ante a bit and just tried to watch as much Christmas as possible. I watched 9 more films, which were:

A Christmas Carol, the Muppets Christmas Carol, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Love Actually, the Santa Clause, Love Actually, Jingle All the Way, Mickey's Once Upon a Christmas, Scrooged and Home Alone. 

I also watched a bunch of Peanut and Winnie the Pooh Christmas episodes. And the Toy Story short.

[Tigerstyle]

I watch a Christmas film every day in December leading up to Christmas, I'm a huge fan... I'll watch :

A Christmas Story, Four Christmases, Nightmare Before Christmas, Jingle All The Way, Elf, Deck The Halls, Scrooged, Miracle on 34th Street, Bad Santa, Fred Clause, Nativity, Nativity 2, The Grinch, Santa Clause The Movie, Love Actually, Home Alone, Home Alone 2... The rest I will change up, this is my fourth year of doing this, gets me jazzed for xmas