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

(I was the first-place vote on this.)

Still need to see this one.

me too

I think I just prefer the French take on the "my whole nutty family is in one house for a week and we're either going to kill each other or settle decades' long grudges" holiday staple.

helped that i saw it in a theater filled with kids who were my age when i first saw it, all of whom were waaay into it & it was very adorable hearing their shocked & amazed reactions. best moment was when daniel stern falls down the icy steps, which i think is very early in the sequence so the kids in the audience didnt know what they were in for yet, and when he landed after a long noisy painful fall you couldve heard a pin drop in the theater, except for one lone kid who I just heard very loudly whisper: "WHOOOOOA"

saw Home Alone once as a kid and never had any interest in rescreening but this is :D

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32. HANNAH AND HER SISTERS
Woody Allen, USA, 1986
(159 points, 3 votes)

i like Hannah v much

ranking below Miracle on 34th Street as a holiday film? bananas

Bananas is definitely not a Christmas movie.

OK, actually we'll do 11 tonight, since there's a tie at #30. Again, in chronological order:

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30. MY NIGHT AT MAUD'S
Eric Rohmer, France, 1969
(161 points, 3 votes) [TIE]

didn't vote for Cat People, mostly because it has been long enough since my last viewing that I can't recall its specific Christmas content.

It's set during the holidays; the revenant (?) Irina sings the French carol "Il est né, le divin Enfant" (never mind that she was Serbian in the previous movie).

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30. KISS KISS BANG BANG
Shane Black, USA, 2005
(161 points, 3 votes) [TIE]

That's a wrap on day 1!

Xp yeah I remember seeing it the first time and being surprised that it’s not a horror movie at all, p much a straight up Christmas movie

Thanks, Eric. Drinks for everyone?
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I've never seen Kiss Kiss Bang Bang yet. What is wrong with me etc (because it looks good). But had no idea it was part of some holiday movies canon. so thanks thread!

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Shamefully, I’ve never seen Maud. Didn’t think to vote for KKBB, but I like it.

Maud’s was my #1

(oops, sorry, forgot to designate that #1 vote)

Ive has it in my ‘to watch’ pile for months and haven’t gotten around to it, I had no idea it had a holiday element!

xp - on it, if you can get a mod to swap out the screencap.

That’s ok, it’s not important

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29. ELF
Jon Favreau, USA, 2003
(194 points, 4 votes)

Elf has a good number of very funny Will Ferrell moments but as a movie it is, tbh, kinda dumb and flimsy.

I actually haven't seen it. 2003 was the height of my "Will Ferrell isn't funny, people!" phase. I'll check it out with my future in-laws this weekend.

If that's the point you're starting from, Elf of all Will Ferrell films is probably unlikely to sway you.

Kiss Kiss Bang Bang rules and is considerably more Christsmassy than several other placements. The world would be a better place if RDJ and Shane Black had just done a bunch more of those instead of getting dragged into the MCU.

can't imagine wanting to revisit Elf

Like a few seconds of this particular clip might be all I need from Elf

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One of the movie's biggest problems is that it's just so weirdly/badly cast, pretty much across the board.

The idea that Elf is a classic Christmas film is a millennial conceit for people who didn't grow up with Tom Hanks's 'Big'

^ I like Elf okay, but this is pretty much otm.

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28. NATIONAL LAMPOON'S CHRISTMAS VACATION
Jeremiah S. Chechik, USA, 1989
(200 points, 4 votes)

find the Lampoons too successfully loathsome to revisit tbh

This one has enough goofball scenes to make it mildly amusing. My family and I use Aunt Bethany and Uncle Lewis jokes all the time.

There's a ton of stuff I like and even love about this movie and yet, somehow, I am very much not in its corner.

and Randy Quaid is...kinda terrific? I love his reaction to Brian Doyle-Murray's "And YOU'RE going to jail!"

As with Planes, Trains, and Automobiles, most people are shocked/appalled to learn that I've only seen this holiday classic once all the way through and only relatively recently, at that.

shitter's full!

Also: stopping by to say that A Christmas Tale is my favorite Desplechin.

yeah i kind of want to be too cool for xmas vacation but i have to admit that i find it pretty funny, mostly due to really really good comedic performances rather than the actual scripted jokes.

alfred otm re: aunt bethany & uncle lewis are classic characters & very useful references in family joking situations

I just love riding in cars!

Aunt Bethany is for sure an eleventh-hour save.

A Christmas Tale is great and got my vote.

Let's play ball!

My Night at Maud’s
Carol
La Grande illusion
Fanny and Alexander
Tangerine

2046
The Apartment
Eyes Wide Shut
The Shop Around the Corner
Far From Heaven

Call Me By Your Name
Boogie Nights
The Ice Storm
A Tale of Winter
Hannah and Her Sisters

It’s a Wonderful Life
Metropolitan
Phantom Thread
Holiday (1938)
Mon Oncle Antoine

LA Confidential
Joyeux Noël
A Christmas Tale
The Nightmare Before Christmas
Elf

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.

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

Forgot about that, you're right.

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.

Forgot to share the full results spreadsheet:

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If it had been a top 50...

41. Remember the Night
42. Female Trouble
43. Blast of Silence
44. 2046
45. Krampus (2015)
46. A Junky's Christmas
47. Home for the Holidays
48. A Very Harold & Kumar 3-D Christmas
49. Call Me by Your Name
50. Inside (2007)

Goddamnit...how did I forget that Cobra is a Christmas movie?