Heading To The North POLL ... It's the ILX Holiday Movies Poll Nominations Thread (Voting Starts: Nov. 21)

Aw, I was looking forward to seeing just how high that landed on clemenza's ballot.

nobody should nominate anything that they don't endorse let alone haven't seen. all noms should be accompanied by at least 100 words making their case

― now let's play big lunch take little lunch (sic), Thursday, November 7, 2019 10:57 AM (fifty-two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

well, I've seen Grumpy Cat's Worst Christmas Ever

as long as all the questions left from Grumpy Cat’s Best Christmas Ever were resolved

Look, I know it isn't feature length but because it was a direct-to-video release it technically isn't a TV special, either, so I think it's only fair that this be included among the nominees for any poll of filmed holiday entertainment.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6grWQ55VAI

Basically, I'm predisposed to foist this upon people at any and every opportunity because your life isn't complete until you've seen it (although you're likely to wish that your life was complete after you have seen it).

Prometheus

3 Godfathers

Aw, I was looking forward to seeing just how high that landed on clemenza's ballot.

That's the biggest reason I didn't nominate it--if I had, I wasn't going to vote for it anyway.

I think there's a stronger, albeit still iffy, argument for nominating Goodfellas. The post-heist bar scene is among the film's best, and there are three classic Christmas songs on the soundtrack (Ronettes, Darlene Love, Drifters). But I'll leave nomination up to someone else--I'd probably pass on voting for that too.

another christmas scene in a non-christmas movie (that i'm not nominating)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnuqDV8usBM

https://www.cinemablend.com/news/1749530/why-lethal-weapon-is-a-better-christmas-movie-than-die-hard

https://img.cinemablend.com/filter:scale/quill/f/f/2/7/9/0/ff27909c410bf9ab60baaae28a06704040d1fe7e.jpg

Tales From the Crypt (1972) or just the Joan Collins segment "And All Through the House" if you prefer.

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I really loved Hans Brinker and the Silver Skates, a Hallmark movie from 1958, I saw it on TV as a child and I think it formed me in some ways, but I haven't seen it since

if that's eligible I nominate it

Big Business (1929)
La petite marchande d'allumettes (1928)
King of Kings (1927 and 1961)
The Unholy Three (1925 and 1930)

3 Godfathers

― wasdnuos (abanana), Thursday, November 7, 2019 4:23 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

See also Hell's Heroes (1930).

29th Street

I hereby nominate all of these

I refuse to believe that these are all different movies pic.twitter.com/OBU5EscJkj

— Henry (@realHenryB) November 12, 2019

(not really nominating them, pollrunners)

W H A T !!! pic.twitter.com/WowBSUkNm6

— trevb (@trrvvb) November 11, 2019

Amazing.

First, Hallmark Channel deprives the gays of Golden Girls for four months of the year, and then they force a poor Canadian studio to reshoot an entire movie to remove the gay couple in it. (Kidding, no idea if this was Hallmark-related, but it felt right.)

The Thin Man has the best Christmas morning scene

And that would be correct. But I thought you weren't participating in this poll?

i am commenting

I have already secured image making services so I expect more than commentary

I watched It Happened On Fifth Avenue (1947). Rich and poor people switch roles in a New York mansion at Christmastime. Has its moments but could be better -- I'm not nominating it. Best part is Victor Moore as a homeless drunk who likes to cosplay as a rich man. For people who like innuendo in code-era Hollywood films, there's a scene where a woman is describing where she met her boyfriend that is taken to mean where her baby was conceived -- "and (Victor Moore) was there too!". Made into two Bollywood movies; the 70s one is on youtube and looks wild.

Compliments of the Season (1930)
The Christmas Party (1931)
A Bill of Divorcement (1932)
The Shanty Where Santy Claus Lives (1933)
Little Women (1933, and other versions I can't be bothered to look up)
The Night Before Christmas (1933)
Babes in Toyland (1934)
Jack Frost (1934)
La Grande Illusion (1937)
Bridget Jones's Diary (2001)
Serendipity (2001)
Unaccompanied Minors (2006)
Far From Heaven (2002)
Christmas Holiday (1944)
The Reckless Moment (1949)
Making Christmas Crackers (1910)

The '30s arguably had Christmas on lockdown more than any other decade.

Meanwhile, I can't stop laughing.

16-year-old Lindsay Dearborn (Brooke Nevin) is "Too Cool for Christmas," and wants no part of the family celebration being planned by her two male homosexual parents (Adam Harrington and Barclay Hope) and her kid sister Alexa (Jodelle Ferland. Nope, Lindsay is gonna spend the holidays skiing with her best buds, and that's the way it is. Her disdain for the Yuletide season comes to surface at the mall, where she disses a department store Santa Claus (played by George Hamilton) for his tacky beard and out-of-date clothing. Surprisingly, Santa agrees with Lindsay and asks her to help him undergo a complete "fashion makeover" so that he can win back the affections of Mrs. Claus (played by Donna Mills) Out of sympathy for the old guy, Lindsay does what he asks, then is informed that he's the genuine, bonafide, not-a-phony Santa Claus--and further, that he needs her help to deliver all his presents on Christmas Eve. Agreeing on the condition that she'll be back in town in time to go skiing, Lindsay embarks upon the thrill ride of her life--and in the course of the long winter's night, she learns a few lessons about the true meaning of Christmas. An alternate version of the film, which exchanges the homosexual couple for a straight one, was named A Very Cool Christmas and appeared on the Lifetime channel in December 2004.

thanksgiving:
House of Yes
The Daytrippers
*(dis)honorable mention to Eli Roth’s ‘Thanksgiving’ short from Grindhouse

xmas:
The Holly and the Ivy
White Reindeer
Christmas Evil
Grumpy Old Men

hannukah:
The Hebrew Hammer
For Your Consideration

nye
Snowpiercer
The Poseidon Adventure (1972)
Ocean’s 11 (1962)

perhaps too incidental? I dunno, what do you think?
Inside aka À l'intérieur (2007) – takes place on Christmas Eve
LA Confidential – the whole “Bloody Christmas” affair
Go (1999) – takes place during Christmastime
Nobody’s Fool (1994) – plot hinges on a Thanksgiving get-together
An American Tail – begins w/ a Hannukah context

The Christmas Chronicles (surprised to like this so much)

not necessarily because i like them

The Muppet Christmas Carol
Klaus (2019)
Santa Claus: The Movie (1985)
White Christmas (Curtiz, 1954)
Babes in Toyland (1961)
Arthur Christmas
Christmas on Mars
Saving Christmas
Dekalog 3 but maybe this is more of a tv episode? idk

As I completely spaced out my Thursday-centric due dates, I am extending nomination period for at least another 12 to 24 hours.

(Gonna save the Dekalog ep for next year's poll.)

Also, I do believe it's Kirk Cameron's Saving Christmas, which slots alphabetically right after King of Kings

8 Women

currently watching the recently resurfaced 1978 Canadian noir Silent Partner w/ Elliott Gould and Christopher Plummer, and fuck yes this qualifies

OK, nominations are closed, with 175 entries. Firing up the campaigning/voting thread imminently.

exclude everything where ppl said "I am not recommending this"

Did anyone say that explicitly?

(I probably did exclude in any case.)

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id have unironically nominated carreys grinch

we're no angels

https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2021/12/christmas-movies-hallmark-romantic-comedy/621045/