Happy POLLidays! (Happy POLLidays!) It's the ILX Holiday Movies Poll Results Thread

Bad Santa is overrated tbh

mad respect to Bob Clark, the true winner of this poll

Well...

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07. PLANES, TRAINS AND AUTOMOBILES
John Hughes, USA, 1987
(396 points, 7 votes, 1 first-place vote)

Flirted with giving Eyes Wide Shut my #1 vote for awhile. Still not convinced I shouldn't have.

Candy reading that book is such a great gag, I love it

This is the only Hughes I still like

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06. MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS
Vincente Minnelli, USA, 1944
(414 points, 7 votes)

Another movie where most of it has nothing to do with Christmas, but when it does, blows everything else out of the water.

Taking a break before running down the top 5 this evening.

Adore PT&A but didn't vote for it for the simple reason that, as a Canadian, Thanksgiving has nothing to do with Christmas for me.

Had never seen MMiSL until last year, but its already one of those I can imagine watching every year.

am a considerable fan of Martin and Candy but have never seen PT&A cuz Hughes irritates me

PT&A is pretty much the best Hughes movie, as definitive as his teen movies are, they all have a significant flaw (with 16 Candles, the racism; with Ferris Bueller, refusing to make him the villain; with Breakfast Club, the makeover; with Pretty in Pink, pairing the protagonist with the asshole), whereas this one is all gold.

The Apartment too low

my #1!

Morbs I can’t really hang with a lot of Hughes either but you might enjoy pt&a, a lot of the humor is pretty pitch black & it’s a pretty great showcase for Candy, he has a lot of perfect little performance moments in it.

those snowmen in st. louis are so hollywood.

Despite seeing it several times I remember almost nothing about Meet Me in St. Louis, except that I thought it was surreal and wonderful.

it's a Halloween movie too!

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05. SCROOGED
Richard Donner, USA, 1988
(430 points, 8 votes)

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04. GREMLINS
Richard Donner, USA, 1988
(495.5 points, 9 votes, 1 first-place vote)

i love scrooged so much. Karen Allen is a joy and a wonder.

gremlins is good but i have never rly embraced it as a christmas movie

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damn, Richard Donner the MVP of this poll

Wow double-Donnered!

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03. THE SHOP AROUND THE CORNER
John Carpenter, Taiwan, 1915
(530 points, 9 votes, 3 first-place votes)

Michael O'Donoghue curses you Scrooged fans (and Bill Murray) from biker heaven

Lubitsch's position and his cigar look kind of obscene there

so good

gonna watch it again tomorrow morning over copious French press coffee cups

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as former ilxor ghost rider once pointed out, Mr Matuschek's store seems overstaffed

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i love that oh chichonia song (sp?)

My #1. A perfect movie.

There are no words to describe what Margaret Sullavan wrings out of that husk in her voice.

lol Eric :)

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02. FANNY & ALEXANDER
Ingmar Bergman, Sweden-France-West Germany, 1982
(575 points, 10 votes)

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01. IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE
Frank Capra, USA, 1946
(702 points, 12 votes, 1 first-place vote)

Endured a colorized version yesterday, almost as easy to tune out as the Fanny parts of the Bergman film.

I like that all the signage is Hungarian. xxp

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Just finished watching Shop and it really is near perfect. Felix Bressartt gets all the best laugh lines imo.

Was considering putting Bergman at #1, decided on Wonderful Life instead... cant believe I was the only one!

HoW Do yOU sPeLL FrANkiNsCenSE?

Thanks for throwing the party, Eric.

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Yes thanks Eric & Pillbox for a great poll & rollout! Got me to watch some good xmas stuff I hadn’t seen before

lovely poll and rollout even if many of my faves were robbed (Silent Night Deadly Night!!!)

sorry can we run this again after I've had a chance to see this

Johnny Mak's Long Arm of the Law (1984) is, yes, a Christmas movie, and the only one I know that features a shot-up body plunging multiple stories to land and carom around in a mall ice skating rink, leaving a trail of gore in its wake. pic.twitter.com/TTzFnxhwPc

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The first part of the Tv version of Fanny and Alexander is the most sumptuously 'Christmassy' thing i've ever seen. Weirdly Eyes Wide Shut almost matches it. I wonder if some of that 'fairy lights in every shot' thing Kubes was going for, was in any way indebted to Bergman.

When I voted for F&A, I was really voting for the opening chapter of the TV version.

That very first glimpse of Clarence is perfect; one of the all-time great character intro shots

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Thanks for putting this together.

1. Comfort and Joy (Bill Forsyth)
2. A Christmas Carol (1951)
3. It’s a Wonderful Life
4. Going My Way
5. The Shop Around the Corner
6. The Apartment
7. The Ice Storm
8. Fanny and Alexander
9. Hannah and Her Sisters
10. Mon Oncle Antoine
11. Gremlins

Same as other genre polls--I tried to balance how much I liked a film with how Christmassy it felt to me. I should have nominated and voted for Meet John Doe.

bold did not place

1. "Peace on Earth" (1939)
Meet Me in St. Louis #6
It's a Wonderful Life #1
The Lemon Drop Kid (1951)
Bad Santa (2003) #11

A Christmas Story #8
The Shop Around the Corner (1940) #3
A Christmas Carol (1951) a.k.a. Scrooge #14
Elf #29
The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) #14

29th Street
A Very Harold & Kumar 3-D Christmas
Krampus (2015)
The Grinch
Ernest Saves Christmas

Edward Scissorhands #40
Fanny and Alexander #2
Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence #39
Remember the Night
Mon oncle Antoine #20

Scrooged #5
"Pluto's Christmas Tree"
"Toy Tinkers"
3 Godfathers
25. 8 Women

yeah, Remember the Night, for godssake

i also see a Bob Hope film i haven't watched

1. The Shop Around the Corner
2. Fanny & Alexander
3. It’s a Wonderful Life
4. Gremlins
5. Meet Me in St. Louis
6. Mon Oncle Antoine
7. Black Christmas
8. A Christmas Story
9. National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation
10. Gift Wrapped
11. Die Hard
12. Miracle on 34th Street (1945)
13. Remember the Night
14. Scrooged
15. The Bells of St. Mary’s

Thanks, Eric!