fave xmas films….

Some classics mentioned there! :) .. And I certainly agree with most of them! In particular It’s A Wonderful Life, Scrooged, The Wizard Of Oz and Die Hard :)

Another few that come to mind would be the legendary Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory :P with Gene Wilder’s splendid histrionics and some great music! The recent “remake” by Tim Burton was a noble effort with Johnny Depp in marvellous “Jacko-esque” fiendish form – but the early 70s version still does it for me!
Shamefully.. I was also a huge fan of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang :oops: .. a film that always got an airing at Xmas over here (though not so much in recent years) and still sports THE most scary creature EVER to appear on celluloid – ie that awful “Childcatcher” creature with the horrible pointy nose urggggh :?
Others I recall enjoying as a child would be the wonderful Marx Brothers collections shown late at night (mostly on BBC2 methinks) and the classic Some Like It Hot

On a more erm.. umm… Adult front, the superb Trading Places always raises a guffaw!.. And I recall a bold and brave move by CH4 some years back in attempting to air the Python Boys’ masterpiece The Life Of Brian one Christmas evening :shock:… can’t remember if they actually got away with it.. methinks I was already in drunken coma by then!

I recently saw Bad Santa on dvd… and I must admit it was great fun :) … not for the easily offended, and definitely not family viewing, it is nonetheless a hilarious romp, with Billy Bob Thornton in sparkling form as a washed up, alcoholic, nihilistic Santa-come-burglar. Irreverent and cynical and as foul mouthed as can be.. it is worth a look!

National Lampoons Christmas Vacation is a classic. Miracle on 34th street, Rudolh the Red Nosed Reindeer, and Charlie Browns Christmas are in my hall of fame. Elf will be a classic. Those are my Christmas favs, but The Wizard of Oz is probably my all time favorite movie. Just watched in last week on my new big screen TV. Oz was so far ahead of its time, incredible.

fav xmas film has to be miracle on 34th street awwwwww or cremlins 1 lol loe it where they all sing hohoho :)

Seems like a dejavu thread for me must be a Christmas angel looking down on me :wink:

My Christmas wouldn’t be the same with out watching “Its a wonderful Life”
I was introduce to this movie many years ago when i was kid by my Nan, she use to watch it every Christmas with out fail and in her later years seem to watch it every time i went to visit. I asked her once why she watched it so often didn’t she get bored with the same story. She told me it was the first movie her and my granddad went to see.

who’s said romance was dead