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What’s the best Christmas movie ever?
What’s the best Christmas movie ever?
TANYA HARRISON, New Carlisle: ” ‘Christmas Vacation.’ It’s a holiday tradition to watch it on Christmas Eve while I’m wrapping gifts and drinking eggnog.”
BURNICE PRIEST, Blanchester: ” ‘Annabelle’s Wish.’ It’s about a boy who can’t talk who gets a calf for Christmas, and they grow up together. His wish is to make Annabelle turn into a reindeer and Annabelle’s wish is for him to talk. A very touching story.”
SHENEASE HOWELL, Trotwood: ” ‘A Christmas Story.’ The one where the boy puts his tongue on the pole.”
MEGHAN HARRISON, New Carlisle: ” ‘How the Grinch Stole Christmas’ — the Jim Carrey version. When I was younger, my grandma won me a 3-foot-tall Jim Carrey Grinch in a drawing.”
RALF MOHR, New Lebanon: ” ‘A Christmas Story,’ because my name is Ralf, so I could relate. One of my bosses calls me Ralfie.”
LARRY PRIEST, Blanchester: ” ‘White Christmas’ with Bing Crosby.”
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By Kerri
December 16, 2010 8:05 AM | Link to this
“Love, Actually” gets my vote. While it’s not technically a “Christmas” movie, it is set during the Christmas season. I love watching it every year when the snow flies, because it definitely warms the heart.
By gizmo
December 16, 2010 8:09 AM | Link to this
Gremlins. No question about it.
By gizmo
December 16, 2010 8:10 AM | Link to this
Gremlins. No question about it.
By Common Sense
December 16, 2010 8:45 AM | Link to this
It’s a toss up between Christmas Vacation and Bad Santa.
By null
December 16, 2010 9:02 AM | Link to this
It’s a Wonderful Life, Miracle on 34th St., the Greatest Story Ever Told
By Michael Moore, director
December 16, 2010 9:17 AM | Link to this
“Behind the Green Door”, “Porky’s”, (especially the “Lassy” scene), and “Zardoz” with Sean Connery.
By chris
December 16, 2010 9:19 AM | Link to this
Anything that does not star Tim Allen.
By Kyle Butler
December 16, 2010 9:33 AM | Link to this
Christmas Vacation Jingle all the way Christmas Story Bad Santa Elf
By Pharrell
December 16, 2010 9:51 AM | Link to this
Zardoz is a good choice. Nothing says Christmas quite like Sean Connery in a leather harness.
By Michael Moore, director
December 16, 2010 10:24 AM | Link to this
Yea, Pharrell…he’s sort of “elfish” in that leather harness, don’t you think?
By Stargazer
December 16, 2010 10:33 AM | Link to this
It’s A Wonderful Life” and “Polar Express” and MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!! (in lieu of Happy Holidays)
By Retired Sgt
December 16, 2010 10:35 AM | Link to this
I would say my favorite is “A Christmas Carol” (1951) with Alastair Sim. But I alsways love to watch: Home alone, and Home alone 2, Christmas Story, Christmas Vacation, Rudolph, and the year without a Santa claus…The Mizer Bros kill me. Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, Hanukkah (Although already past), Kwanza, and all other celebrated holidays during this time. May you all have a festive, safe, a good time!
By Kathy
December 16, 2010 10:43 AM | Link to this
The Nativity which is the real story of Christ-mas. But I also enjoy The Santa Clause (only the first one - the sequels were stupid.)
By BT
December 16, 2010 11:34 AM | Link to this
I like the Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
By NCF
December 16, 2010 11:37 AM | Link to this
How about “Emmet Otter’s Jug-Band Christmas”? Also yet to be mentioned, although not actually a movie, is “A Charlie Brown Christmas.”
By jake
December 16, 2010 12:23 PM | Link to this
Die Hard
By NCF
December 16, 2010 12:31 PM | Link to this
Yippee-ki-yay, jake. Nice. Now I need to see if that’s streaming on Netflix.
By keith
December 17, 2010 4:59 AM | Link to this
let’s go with anything with Burl Ives…incredible voice!!! thanks keith
By Scrooge
December 17, 2010 5:50 AM | Link to this
Year Without a Santa Clause & Scrooged!!!!
By mandy
December 17, 2010 8:56 AM | Link to this
Charlie Brown Christmas, I know it is not technically a movie but it is my FAVORITE!!!!
By Kathy Draper
December 17, 2010 9:44 AM | Link to this
By far my favorite has got to be Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer….and, now it is my granddaughter’s favorite (so far) :)
By Nancy
December 17, 2010 10:04 AM | Link to this
I love to watch Rudolph and Christmas in Conneticut. They don’t make good Christmas shows anymore. Not like the old ones. Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas and again, MERRY CHRISTMAS!!
By Tony
December 17, 2010 2:15 PM | Link to this
For the classics: Miracle on 34th St (original). For the cartoons: Frosty (although there are a lot of good Xmas carttons for kids but like the older ones that I grew up with the best). For the out of the ordinary: Bad Santa.
By Richard
December 17, 2010 4:07 PM | Link to this
Enough with the clowns! “A Christmas Carol,” either the (1938) movie with Reginald Owen, Gene Lockhart, Kathleen Lockhart, June Lockhart, Leo G. Carroll, and Terry Kilburn or (1951) starring Alastair Sim, Meryvn Johns, Michael Hordern and Glyn Dearman. Then again, I have had Christmas Days when watching The Texas Chainsaw Massacre would have been a relief.
By karon
December 18, 2010 1:35 AM | Link to this
OHenrys, Gift of the Magi!
By Kathy
December 18, 2010 7:04 AM | Link to this
I Loved the Little drummer boy.I love mircle on 34th street. and prancer I have both, and frosty.
By Larry Flint
December 18, 2010 7:19 AM | Link to this
I really enjoyed “Debbie Does Santa’s Dallas Dwarfs”, but that’s just me, ya’know.
By Denise
December 18, 2010 7:22 AM | Link to this
My favorites are the classics: Christmas carol with Reginald Owen and the one with George C. Scott, The Bishop’s Wife, It’s a Wonderful Wife, Charlie Brown Christmas, Christmas Vacation, Christmas Story, Miracle on 34th Street and White Christmas!
By himself
December 18, 2010 10:51 AM | Link to this
The Man in the Santa Claus Suit
By amom
December 18, 2010 11:40 AM | Link to this
my favorite all time christmas movie is “christmas story ” my family and i watched this movie when i was a kid and it has become a ritual every year when we get together we sit down and watch it and still laugh at it , it makes for a good bonding time for all of us in my opinion
By Larry Ratliff
December 18, 2010 5:31 PM | Link to this
“the long kiss goodnight” with miss davis and mr jackson it screams chrismas !