Best Christmas movies?

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24 Dec 2018, 4:40 am

Which Christmas movies should I watch with my girlfriend? She's Chinese and has little notion of what Christmas is. I was thinking of National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation or one of the many adaptations of A Christmas Carol, but which is the best one?

Christmas themed TV episodes will also be considered. So what are your favourite Christmassy movies, TV specials or episodes? And also which is the best adaptation of A Christmas Carol?

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24 Dec 2018, 1:42 pm

Lampoons is good. It shows the illusion that is the "perfect family christmas"

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24 Dec 2018, 1:52 pm

Stay away from Christmas With the Kranks and Fred Clause.

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24 Dec 2018, 5:42 pm

I shouldn't have bothered. In my naivety I forgot that my girlfriend has a bizarre habit of waiting until the movie is 15 minutes from the end credits and then saying that she's tired and needs to go to sleep. Even though it was only 10 o'clock and she normally stays up late. She said she was sleepy and she needed to go to sleep. So we both went to bed and she spent the next two hours watching Youtube on her phone. I don't think she was really tired.

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24 Dec 2018, 6:11 pm

I tend to fall asleep during movies myself....

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24 Dec 2018, 8:24 pm

Bad Santa and Home Alone 1 and 2.

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24 Dec 2018, 9:45 pm

You can't go wrong with Groundhog Day. Basically a modern version of Dickens' A Christmas Carol with Bill Murray as the lead.

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26 Dec 2018, 12:00 am

A Christmas Story and Scrooged are the best.

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27 Dec 2018, 4:42 am

Bad Santa
Christmas On Mars.
The Junkys Christmas.

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27 Dec 2018, 5:06 am

Die Hard.

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27 Dec 2018, 9:14 am

A Christmas Story
Nightmare Before Christmas
It's a Wonderful Life

Merry Christmas, Charlie Brown is only a half-hour long, but I've looked forward to it every year since it first came out.

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02 Jan 2019, 12:23 am

My Favourite Christmas Movies.

The Grinch:
National lampoons Christmas Vacation:

TV shows.

Merry Christmas Mr Bean: he was so funny.
Bewitched (When they had some Christmas themed episodes.

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02 Jan 2019, 3:13 am

Dare I mention the Star Wars Christmas Special?...If you want to really spelunk the depths of WTF.

Also don't forget the Muppets take on A Christmas Carol.

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02 Jan 2019, 8:46 pm

Fnord wrote:

Merry Christmas, Charlie Brown is only a half-hour long, but I've looked forward to it every year since it first came out.

I was going to suggest that

but I'll also suggest the Shrek Christmas special(I forget what it's called exactly). He never celebrated Christmas before & he's trying to put together the perfect one but things are not going by the book.

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09 Jan 2019, 2:00 am

Wolfram87 wrote:

Dare I mention the Star Wars Christmas Special?...If you want to really spelunk the depths of WTF.

No! Not that one!

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