Kevin's Watch

just tossing out a few...
It's a Wonderful Life
Scrooged
A Christmas Story
The Polar Express
The Christmas Box
A Charlie Brown Christmas
Rudolph The Red-nosed Reindeer
Frosty the Snown Man
Jingle All the Way
National Lampoon's: Christmas Vacation
Miracle on 34th Street
A Christmas Carol
How the Grinch Stole Christmas
Bad Santa

Joeux Noel.

The Nightmare before Christmas.

The was another movie like Joyuex Noel that came out about ten years ago called Winter Pass or Passing or something like that...I've looked around for it before it but can't find it...It was WWI and they crossed the trench lines and drank and sang with the Germans for an hour after midnight...very, very moving.

The Family Man was a "It's A Wonderful Life" plot at Christmas time, though to be fair the what if part of the story goes off on a tangent so far that one might forget where it starts and ends.

A couple of old classics:

We're No Angels with Humphrey Bogart

Desk Set with Hepburn and Spencer Tracy

And we cannot forget Santa Claus Conquors the Martians

Elf.

The Santa Clause
The Santa Clause 2
The Santa Clause 3
The Homecoming (pre-The Waltons series Waltons Chr-stmas movie)
The Chr-stmas Shoes

since there's no thread for christmas radio, had to post this here.....


Frederick Forsyth's "The Shepherd", read by the late Alan Maitland.

Around Christmas time every year, CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corp.) Radio’s daily news-feature program “As It Happens” includes a re-broadcast of Frederick Forsyth’s classic novella “The Shepherd”, as read by the late Alan Maitland.

More than a mere nod to the sheer magic of radio, you should really try to catch this one not just this year, but every year.

there can be only one

I loves me some Rudolf,great songs.

danlo wrote:The was another movie like Joyuex Noel that came out about ten years ago called Winter Pass or Passing or something like that...I've looked around for it before it but can't find it...It was WWI and they crossed the trench lines and drank and sang with the Germans for an hour after midnight...very, very moving.

THANKS! One of my passions is WWI. And anything to do with the Christmas of 1914 has my undivided attention.

Loremaster wrote:Joeux Noel.

I gotta see that.

The very best Christmas movie of all time for me will always be A Christmas Story.


"Ohhhhhhhhh FFFFFFF - uuuuuuuuuuddddddddgggggggeeeeeeeee."

Maybe it was Winter Passage...I think it came out the same year as The Jackal.

and who could ever forget the turkey drop episode of WKRP in Cincinnati?

Maybe it was hearing Frosty the Snowman a few hundred times too many growing up ("Oh yeah?! What are the rest of the lines?! Huh? Huh?!!), but by and large the Christmas movies don't do it for me. I make it a point to see Scrooged every year, I might stop to watch a few minutes of It's a Wonderful Life and A Christmas Story, and Bad Santa was damned funny. But other than that... meh.

And what's with Jack Frost? I'm not sure which version is worse. The Keebler Elf or Martin Short.

When I hear Jack Frost I think of Michael Keaton...

Diehard

Or The Last Boy Scout. "Satan Claus is out there, and we need more boy scouts."

A Christmas Story is, indeed, as good as it gets!


And let's not forget Debbie Does the North Pole. (Hey! That's not bad! I just made that up this very second!!!)