Christmas movies
December 1st, 2007 at 12:38 pm
The month of December seems to be devoted to those heartwarming Christmas movies. There are the classics and newer ones, too.
I don’t think I ever saw the original “It’s a Wonderful Life” until I was about 30. I actually saw a similar movie starring Marlo Thomas before I ever saw the Jimmy Stewart version.
Way back when, in a previous lifetime, my divorce was signed, sealed and delivered in December. Sitting alone, in a new apartment, I watched that Marlo Thomas movie. It was cheesy, I’m sure, but I did feel better after watching it. Don’t think I’ve ever seen that version again.
Reader question: What’s your favorite Christmas movie? And what makes it special to you.
Unfortunately, my favorite movies I’ve seen too many times to the point that I don’t watch anymore. I think “Polar Express” will become a film I don’t watch. It is relatively new and good but will be over played.
I like “The Bishop’s Wife” which does not get over played. It was was remade a few years back as “The Preacher’s Wife” with Whitney Houston. I like the Christmas sequences in “Meet Me in St. Louis”, “The Bells of St. Mary’s” and “Holiday Inn.”
I agree. “The Bishop’s Wife” is about my favorite. I like David Niven. His humor is so understated; I think he’s hilarious. I still like “Christmas Story” (you’ll shoot your eye out, kid!) even though it has been overplayed. It reminds me of my favorite Christmas present I got as a kid; a Schwinn bicycle.
“A Christmas Story” Not because it was set in Terre Haute, but I like Jean Shepherd’s narration and Darren McGavin’s role…and all the others. And I do have a Red Ryder BB gun…the 50th Anniversary model. Janice got it for me in 1988. It’s a trophy piece, never been loaded and fired.
Never had a BB gun when I was growing up. Dad told me when I turned 14 I could have a .22 rifle, and that was how it was.
I like the leg-lamp in “A Christmas Story.”
“FRAGILE`!”
Bing Crosby’s White Christmas, Holiday Inn and Going My way. Then there is always the Frosty and Rudolph and Charlie Brown movies.
All of the above and PRANCER! I like it when my favorite actor says to his daughter: “no, we’re not going to starve. We have apple pie, applesauce, apple butter, apple cobbler….” I love the Polar Express, probably because I loved the book. I like Home Alone 1 & 2 and the Santa Clause movie–okay, I like them ALL! (I’m not a movie critic; I’m a movie-lover!) I even like 101 Dalmations, which begins and ends with Christmas!
“A Charlie Brown Christmas,” hands down. A new tradition is to watch “The Nightmare Before Christmas,” always full of holiday cheer, or creepiness, anyway.
I’m thinking really hard about it and I don’t have a single movie to list. I haven’t watched a Christmas movie in years. Maybe since high school… unless you count the Grinch… oh Santa Claus with Tim Allen… all movies I’ve watched with my kids. But I don’t go out of my way to watch Christmas movies. I just like to listen to the music. There’s a song from Mixed Nuts that I will listen to over and over again, but I’m not even sure if I’ve seen the movie all the way through.
Twas The Night Before Christmas “But you don’t have to be an angel to sing harmony. And you don’t have to be a child to love the mystery. And you don’t have to be a wise man on bended knee. The heart of this Christmas is in you and me.”
Yeah, you’re lucky I’m online and you can’t actually hear me singing it.
NO, it wasn’t 101 Dalmations, it was The Lady & the Tramp! (what was I thinking?)