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12-24-2008, 10:58 AM
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Death Herald
Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Le stelle la notte sono grandi e luminose nel cuore profondo del Texas
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Mount Rushmore of Christmas movies
You know the drill. List the four movies set in the Christmas season that you think are the pinnacles of the field. Here's mine:
1. A Christmas Story 2. It's a Wonderful Life 3. Miracle on 34th Street 4. Trading Places
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12-24-2008, 11:00 AM
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Coordinator
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Keene, NH
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Die Hard
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12-24-2008, 11:02 AM
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General Manager
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: Kansas City, MO
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1. A Christmas Story
2. Christmas Vacation 3. It's a Wonderful Life 4. Miracle on 34th Street |
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12-24-2008, 11:02 AM
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Grey Dog Software
Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Phoenix, AZ by way of Belleville, IL
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George C Scott Christmas Carol. Still a staple of every Christmas eve for me.
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12-24-2008, 11:07 AM
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Death Herald
Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Le stelle la notte sono grandi e luminose nel cuore profondo del Texas
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Mount Rushmore means 4 choices people! I know it is Christmas Eve, but we need to keep focus!!!
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12-24-2008, 11:13 AM
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Hockey Boy
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Royal Oak, MI
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1. It's a Wonderful Life
2. A Christmas Story 3. Scrooged 4. Die Hard
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12-24-2008, 11:32 AM
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Pro Starter
Join Date: Feb 2006
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1. It's a Wonderful Life
2. Scrooge -- 1970, Albert Finney and Alec Guiness, few know it even exists but for our family it is the standout Christmas Movie. 3. A Christmas Story 4. Tough call for the 4th spot between Miracle on 34th Street and Lampoon's...I'll go with Lampoon's. Over the next 20 years, I could see Elf moving into that same class. |
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12-24-2008, 11:40 AM
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High School Varsity
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Colorado
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1. The Santa Clause
2. Home Alone 3. Love Actually 4. Lethal Weapon 5. Trading Places
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12-24-2008, 11:40 AM
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Head Coach
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Green Bay, WI
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1. A Christmas Story
2. Scrooged 3. Die Hard 4. Home Alone 1 |
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12-24-2008, 11:47 AM
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Grizzled Veteran
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Edinburg,TX
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I own It's A Wonderful Life on DVD, my wife hates it though. I have no idea how I married her.
1. It's A Wonderful Life 2. Christmas Story 3. Christmas Vacation 4. Gremlins
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You Stole Fizzy Lifting drinks! You bumped into the ceiling which now has to be washed and steralized, so you get NOTHING! You lose! |
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12-24-2008, 11:49 AM
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Unregistered
Join Date: May 2004
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4 dammit 4!!   |
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12-24-2008, 12:27 PM
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High School Varsity
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Colorado
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5 is the new 4. 
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12-24-2008, 12:40 PM
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General Manager
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: The Satellite of Love
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The Nightmare Before Christmas
Bad Santa The Muppet Christmas Carol Ernest Saves Christmas |
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12-24-2008, 12:42 PM
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Favored Bitch #1
Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: homeless in NJ
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A Christmas Story
A Christmas Carrol- George C. Scott version Emmit Otters Jugband Christmas White Christmas |
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12-24-2008, 12:44 PM
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Hall Of Famer
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Massachusetts
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Here Cumz Santa
The Tits That Saved XXX-mas Big Titty Christmas Seymore Butts - A Christmas Orgy |
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12-24-2008, 12:45 PM
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Grizzled Veteran
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Wisconsin
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1. Christmas Story
2. It's a Wonderful Life 3. Scrooged 4. Christmas Vacation
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You, you will regret what you have done this day. I will make you regret ever being born. Your going to wish you never left your mothers womb, where it was warm and safe... and wet. i am going to show you pain you never knew existed, you are going to see a whole new spectrum of pain, like a Rainboooow. But! This rainbow is not just like any other rainbow, its... |
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12-24-2008, 12:49 PM
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Coordinator
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Keene, NH
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I haven't seen most of these movies (Christmas Story, It's a Wonderful Life, etc) and the few I have seen (Christmas Vacation) aren't going on any Mount Rushmores.
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12-24-2008, 01:04 PM
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Pro Starter
Join Date: Feb 2006
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The older I get, the more I've come to realize that women just don't like It's a Wonderful Life the way men do. |
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12-24-2008, 01:21 PM
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Pro Starter
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Pittsburgh
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  I have nothing else to add. All other movies pale in comparison to Emmett
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12-24-2008, 01:44 PM
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Head Coach
Join Date: Sep 2004
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Nestor the Long-Eared Christmas Donkey
Surviving Christmas Jack Frost (Rankin/Bass) National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation As you can tell, I'm a -huge- fan of the Rankin/Bass Christmas specials. To me, they'll always define the holiday season. Edit: Put in Christmas Vacation as it really does belong there.
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12-24-2008, 01:56 PM
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Unregistered
Join Date: May 2004
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Having these movies back to back on your list made me lol. Go from a raunchy movie to a sweet heart-warming kids movie.. haha. |
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12-24-2008, 02:37 PM
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Pro Rookie
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Tennessee
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1.Scrooged
2.Christmas Vacation 3.The Wizard of Oz (I always see it around Christmas holiday, to me it is a Christmas movie. 4. Bad Santa |
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12-24-2008, 03:26 PM
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Grizzled Veteran
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Syracuse, NY
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How the hell have you never seen A Christmas Story? |
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12-24-2008, 03:44 PM
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College Benchwarmer
Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: Philly
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I have never seen A Christmas Story or It's a Wonderful life either.
My top 4 are Christmas Carol (Alastair Sim version 1951) Scrooged Christmas Vacation Home ALone |
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12-24-2008, 03:45 PM
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College Starter
Join Date: Dec 2000
Location: Roseville, CA
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1. It's A Wonderful Life
2. Scrooged 3. A Christmas Carol (don't know which version, but it was b&w) 4. Tie between Trading Places, Die Hard, and Elf |
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12-24-2008, 05:41 PM
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Head Coach
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Green Bay, WI
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I have no idea how I forgot Gremlins. |
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12-24-2008, 05:47 PM
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Mascot
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Ohio
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1- Christmas Vacation
2- Elf 3- Christmas Story 4- Bad Santa |
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12-24-2008, 07:56 PM
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Coordinator
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Puyallup, WA
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So I take my 6 year old to the mall last night to see Santa and when we get there it looks like were staring at a 2 hour wait in line so I decide to kill some time in the mall and see if the line dies down a bit (it didn't). Anyways, I stop in movie store right next to the Santa line and sitting on one of the racks is 1 copy of Emmett Otter's Jugband Christmas on DVD. I get excited, my son has no idea what I'm excited about, I text my wife (who is at home wrapping presents) and the conversation goes sort of like this. Me: OMFG THEY HAVE EMMETT OTTER'S JUGBAND CHRISTMAS HERE ON DVD!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Wife: huh? Me: Nevermind, I guess I'm just old..... Wife: Yup I then bought the damn movie and went home happy despite standing in line for 2 hours so my son could be limited to telling Santa 3 things he wants for Christmas. |
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12-24-2008, 08:14 PM
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Head Coach
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Colorado
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I have never understood the fascination with Christmas Story but that doesn't matter.
I have never thought of some of the ones listed as "Christmas" movies. Some would even consider The Godfather as a christmas movie. So I'll just stick with movies about the Christmas season, not just happen to have some of occur during the holidays (Trading Places is one of my very favorite movies but I wouldn't include it here). Muppets Christmas Carol Polar Express Miracle on 34th Street Christmas Vacation |
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12-25-2008, 02:32 AM
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Coordinator
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: The Great Northwest
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x2 here. |
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12-25-2008, 05:57 AM
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Pro Starter
Join Date: Feb 2006
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My brother is famous in our family for having started his tradition (running on almost 15 years now) of watching Navy Seals on Christmas Eve. |
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12-25-2008, 11:48 PM
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Hall Of Famer
Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: Catonsville, MD
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Quote:
x3
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12-26-2008, 12:32 AM
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Hall Of Famer
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Massachusetts
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I still maintain that my list was best, and am upset that it didn't get any mention by all you squares.
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12-26-2008, 12:43 AM
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Hall Of Famer
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: Back in Houston!
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What he said. Tho, I'll disagree a little- Die Hard is, in my mind, very much a Christmas movie, tho not in the Christmas spirit, of course. They play Christmas music prominently and the Christmas party is a major part of the setting. SI
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12-26-2008, 12:51 AM
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Death Herald
Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Le stelle la notte sono grandi e luminose nel cuore profondo del Texas
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If you didn't have 'Ebenezer Screw', then your list was crap.
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Thinkin' of a master plan 'Cuz ain't nuthin' but sweat inside my hand So I dig into my pocket, all my money is spent So I dig deeper but still comin' up with lint |
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12-26-2008, 01:38 AM
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Hall Of Famer
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Where Hip Hop lives
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No list, but just want to say that, to this day, I have unresolved issues regarding A Christmas Story, because when I was a kid--and right about the time this move came out--I looked pretty much exactly like Ralphie. It's just wrong on so many levels for me.
My niece is 2. Tonight, at the encouragement of my brother and sister-in-law, who are pure evil, she turns to a picture on my Mom's wall from that time and said "Ralphie". You suck, A Christmas Story!
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12-26-2008, 02:05 AM
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Head Coach
Join Date: Sep 2004
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After further review and reflection, I'm removing The Year Without Santa Claus and replacing it with National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation.
I'd forgotten how much a classic that movie is until I remembered the pool scene again (with interesting parallels to a certain Miss Phoebe Cates scene and fits in with the Christmas fantasy scenes like in Season 1 of The Wonder Years).
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12-26-2008, 03:40 AM
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Hall Of Famer
Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: Catonsville, MD
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Now I Have a Machine Gun Ho Ho Ho
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12-26-2008, 05:02 AM
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Pro Starter
Join Date: Feb 2006
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I was called Ralphie all the way through college because of my resemblence. |
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12-26-2008, 10:57 AM
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Mascot
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Ohio
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great story! |
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