The Thin ManTrading PlacesScroogedBig Business (1929)Compliments of the Season (1930)The Shanty Where Santy Claus Lives (1933)Jack Frost (1934)The Reckless Moment (1949)La Grande Illusion (1937)Bad Santa (2003)La Petite Marchande d'Allumettes (1928)Hell's Heroes (1930)The Night Before Christmas (1933)Holiday (1930)Babes in Toyland (1934)The Curse of the Cat PeopleCarolFar From Heaven (2002)Two Men in ManhattanThe Unholy Three (1925)The Unholy Three (1930)Little Women (1933)Poisoned Ivory (1934)Santa Claus Conquers the MartiansDie Hard
― Anne Hedonia (j.lu), Wednesday, 25 December 2019 00:15 (four years ago) link
thx, j.lu, for the Edgar Kennedy
also shame on the rest of you:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWdKYiewpVY
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 25 December 2019 00:57 (four years ago) link
^I think the best Xmas movie Leo McCarey worked on, but you fuckers didn't vote for The Bells of St Mary's either
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 25 December 2019 01:01 (four years ago) link
I did!
― Maria Edgelord (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 25 December 2019 01:54 (four years ago) link
u r absolved
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 25 December 2019 02:01 (four years ago) link
It is Christmas Eve, so I have just rewatched The Thin Man. I stand by my first-place vote.
https://media.giphy.com/media/26gYYWkWBy2USzQXu/giphy.gif
― Anne Hedonia (j.lu), Wednesday, 25 December 2019 03:02 (four years ago) link
If only there was a way for movies dr morbius likes to get voted for... if only....
― warn me about a lurking rake (One Eye Open), Wednesday, 25 December 2019 04:19 (four years ago) link
I don't know when you last saw Comfort and Joy, aimless, but if it's been a while, I think you should look at it again. I think it's more profound than the work of some other much more famous directors whose profundity escapes me. (I have two in particular in mind, and no, I won't name them.)
― clemenza, Wednesday, 25 December 2019 04:45 (four years ago) link
Aimless I feel you re:Scrooged, that’s one that never clicked with me, despite a couple tries over the years
― warn me about a lurking rake (One Eye Open), Wednesday, 25 December 2019 05:02 (four years ago) link
I tried to see Comfort and Joy for this poll, but it wasn’t available via any of my streaming services or libraries.
I liked Scrooged better as a Christmas horror film than as a Christmas comedy. Voted for it mainly on the strength of some indelible images and a strong cast.
― Maria Edgelord (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 25 December 2019 05:08 (four years ago) link
Yeah, I think it's hard to get hold of--all I can see is Region 2 stuff from Amazon. Did find this appreciation:
http://www.theguardian.com/film/2009/dec/06/jonathan-coe-comfort-joy-forsyth
― clemenza, Wednesday, 25 December 2019 05:13 (four years ago) link
HOME ALONE: Two-thirds of this is a modest, sweet, surprisingly affecting Christmas movie. One of third it is Tom & Jerry's Straw Dogs, and it is really impossible to express how fucking weird that is.— The Zack of Christmas Yet To Come (@zhandlen) December 8, 2019
― Baby yoda laid an egg (wins), Wednesday, 25 December 2019 11:14 (four years ago) link
Yeah I watched it last night and was roaring at the pay-off then I missed Tom and Jerry
― Bojo Rabid (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 25 December 2019 11:47 (four years ago) link
yeah catherine ohara really is phenomenal in HA1, low-key one of her best performances imo
― warn me about a lurking rake (One Eye Open), Thursday, 26 December 2019 17:11 (four years ago) link
tried to see Comfort and Joy for this poll, but it wasn’t available via any of my streaming services or libraries.Watching it on Hoopla rn (apparently from a pan & scan NTSC-converted VHS transfer)
― don't care didn't ask still clappin (sic), Friday, 27 December 2019 00:45 (four years ago) link
thank you Eric! I enjoyed seeing the results
― Dan S, Friday, 27 December 2019 01:23 (four years ago) link
and Pillbox!
― Dan S, Friday, 27 December 2019 01:38 (four years ago) link
Watched Elf again on Christmas eve with my family. There are a lot of good lines, and I always like “Santa Claus Is Coming to Town" at the end
― Dan S, Friday, 27 December 2019 02:15 (four years ago) link
I had a "no Elf, no Home Alone" rule this year. I like Elf but not enough for it to be an annual tradition.
― wasdnuos (abanana), Friday, 27 December 2019 02:21 (four years ago) link
the narwhal's sad-voiced "bye buddy, hope you find your dad" is my new favorite line from Elf
― Dan S, Friday, 27 December 2019 02:25 (four years ago) link
didn't remember until seeing it again that "Baby It's Cold Outside" features in a scene
― Dan S, Friday, 27 December 2019 02:35 (four years ago) link
My Night at Maud’sCarolLa Grande illusionFanny and AlexanderTangerine
2046The ApartmentEyes Wide ShutThe Shop Around the CornerFar From Heaven
Call Me By Your NameBoogie NightsThe Ice StormA Tale of WinterHannah and Her Sisters
It’s a Wonderful LifeMetropolitanPhantom ThreadHoliday (1938)Mon Oncle Antoine
LA ConfidentialJoyeux NoëlA Christmas TaleThe Nightmare Before ChristmasElf
― Dan S, Friday, 27 December 2019 02:47 (four years ago) link
Dan S: Does Boogie Nights have anything Christmas-related? There's the big New Year's Eve sequence ("Goodbye '70s, Hello '80s"), but I've seen it a bunch of times and I'm not remembering anything having to do with Christmas.
― clemenza, Friday, 27 December 2019 07:17 (four years ago) link
agree it's not really a holiday film. what I remember besides the New Year's Eve party scene is the donut shop shoot-out scene where Don Cheadle gets an unexpected Christmas gift
― Dan S, Friday, 27 December 2019 08:10 (four years ago) link
Forgot about that, you're right.
― clemenza, Friday, 27 December 2019 14:12 (four years ago) link
Those who didn't vibe with Scrooged: try again. I wasn't that into it for the longest time but now I don't go a holiday season without rewatching it.
Just finished watching Wonderful Life in its entirety for the first time in many years. I might agree with its placing here. It seems to have become more affecting in my dotage.
― Drive Like a Demon From Steakhouse to Steakhouse (Old Lunch), Saturday, 28 December 2019 23:17 (four years ago) link
Forgot to share the full results spreadsheet:
https://bit.ly/37myWBZ
If it had been a top 50...
41. Remember the Night42. Female Trouble43. Blast of Silence44. 204645. Krampus (2015)46. A Junky's Christmas 47. Home for the Holidays48. A Very Harold & Kumar 3-D Christmas49. Call Me by Your Name50. Inside (2007)
― temporarily embarrassed thousandaire (Eric H.), Saturday, 28 December 2019 23:20 (four years ago) link
Goddamnit...how did I forget that Cobra is a Christmas movie?
― Ask yoreself: are you're standards too high? (Old Lunch), Saturday, 15 August 2020 01:29 (three years ago) link