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

I dunno, Bruce Wayne spending the back half of the film dressed in a modified Santa suit and fighting the Penguin with an oversized candy cane felt pretty Christmas-y to me but ymmv.

dang, that is something I totally forgot about - time for a rewatch!

another great movie I don't recall the Christmas/holidays component of at all

xpost Please do not sue me when you discover upon rewatching that I have fudged the truth a lil.

lol

This was not the Todd Haynes movie I voted for.

that's probably my fave batman movie
Penguin robots!

xpost Oh right, totally forgot that Superstar was made using Elf on the Shelf dolls!

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25. THE ICE STORM
Ang Lee, USA, 1997
(205.5 points, 4 votes)

I legit get a little misty at the end of batman returns when the penguins give The Penguin a little penguin funeral

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25. THE HUDSUCKER PROXY
Joel Coen, USA, 1994
(215 points, 4 votes)

Ice Harvest > Ice Storm

I feel gratified by the critical reevaluation that The Huduscker Proxy has received in recent years, but I didn’t even consider it for this poll.

Only thing to show up so far today that I voted for is Christmas Vacation. I can think of few comedies—and certainly none since 1989–with so many classic supporting performances (to a fault, at times, I admit; does Diane Ladd even have any lines?).

She has a martini.

Or is that the biddy from ELR?

The latter iirc

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23. THE MUPPET CHRISTMAS CAROL
Brian Henson, USA, 1992
(230 points, 4 votes)

Sorry, that should be...

23. THE MUPPET CHRISTMAS CAROL
Brian Henson, USA, 1992
(230 points, 4 votes)

couldn't not give this lil guy a vote, surprised it's not higher

made my top 10

mine too.

I should see this sometime. I am a HUGE fan of the Henson era but my engagement with the Muppets material since then has been spotty and not particularly rewarding. But I've heard enough people say good things about this that I probably need to give it a fair shake.

(At least a couple of the Henson-era xmas entertainments (Emmet Otter and Christmas Eve on Sesame Street) aren't just at the top of my holiday viewing lists but are also among my all-time favorite cultural objects. So those are some big shoes.)

Christmas Carol is probably the only post-henson muppet thing that I really rate

I rate Muppets Most Wanted pretty highly tbh, probably even higher than Christmas Carol.

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22. LA GRANDE ILLUSION
Jean Renoir, France, 1937
(234 points, 4 votes)

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21. THE THIN MAN
W.S. Van Dyke, USA, 1934
(260.5 points, 5 votes, 1 first-place vote)

i like to watch at least one thin man movie every january during TCM's yearly blitz

as i've said, pictured scene is ideal Christmas morning

I've not seen this, but I love the novel!

i got a thin man box set and watched a bunch of them out of order, and theyre so similar that i completely lost track of which ones i have and havent seen, so to make sure i havent missed any ive got no recourse but to just watch through them all in order... not a bad problem to have

Only 21? ILX I am disappoint. (I cast that first-place vote.) The movie is toned down from the book, but I think it hits the sweet spot between hard-boiled crime drama (facing down increasingly more effective efforts to enforce the Hays Code) and the incoming screwball comedy genre.

As for La Grande Illusion, I'm pleased that people beside me remembered the Christmas element.

much of La Grande Illusion took place in winter, but it had only one actual Christmas scene! Still, it’s a great film, and was on my list

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20. MON ONCLE ANTOINE
Claude Jutra, Canada, 1971
(261 points, 5 votes)

QUEBEC REPRESENT

Great film, delighted it showed up here.

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19. CAROL
Todd Haynes, USA, 2015
(263 points, 5 votes)

who wants to share creamed spinach, poached eggs, and a couple martinis with me?

Mon Oncle Antoine pretty much a perfect film imho

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18. BRAZIL
Todd Haynes, UK-USA, 1985
(263.5 points, 5 votes)

damn Todd Haynes the MVP of this poll

Always wondered why Brazil seemed so Sirk-inspired. Shoulda read the credits!

Yeah yeah yeah...

We tease because we love.

Of the films from these results that I'm fairly familiar with, I have no memory whatsoever of the holiday elements in at least like half of them.

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17. BLACK CHRISTMAS
Bob Clark, Canada, 1974
(295 points, 5 votes, 1 first-place vote)

so haynes, burton, and (i'm assuming) bob clark are going to get two appearances... anybody else likely?

woulda said Black but Kiss Kiss should be highest

watched black christmas for the first time for this poll and didnt love it, but i think i'm just over enjoying 'procedural horror' slasher movies like this - the most interesting parts for me were the scenes showing what it actually looks like (used to anyway) tracing a call, the guy physically running up and down the rows of exchanges in some phone company machine room. Dont think i'd ever seen that depicted in a movie before, pretty neat

Black Christmas is an odd movie, but I find its quirks to be endearing & it ranked high on my list. It's arguably the prototypical slasher film, though the tropes of that subgenre were very much cast by Halloween (which Carpenter modeled heavily on BC, structurally at least), so it seems strangely anachronistic within the context of its own cultural significance.

i remarked on the noms thread, it was pretty fun seeing the Big Twist at the end and realizing that must have been the first time that now-cliche idea was used

Black Christmas is absolutely ice-cold and I love it.

Black Christmas is everything I want in a horror pic: funny, creepy, genuinely haunting and yet fun in a way that keeps it from being too grim or depressing. Also, a cast that includes Margot Kidder, Andrea Martin and Doug McGrath from Goin’ Down the Road—a trifecta of 70s Canadian awesomeness!