What is your favorite christmas moveie?

Gremlins

Has to be Bad Santa

Home Alone ... I just bought it but it is still sealled ,I save it for Christmas evening ! With hot chocolate in a hand and big warm socks !

Easily, whats the one with the guy from 'Home Improvements'...Tim Allen I think his name is.

The Santa Clause?

That's it:

The Santa Clause 2, was the worst ever though. All those who agree say aye.

aye haven't seen it. But I can tell you The Santa Clause 3 is on its way according to imdb.

What about you $0.50 ?

I always watch Edward Scissorhands and Batman (Tim Burton/Keaton) on x-mas......don't know how that tradtition started

Edward Scissorhands, old one called "Santa Clause: The Movie", an old cartoon called "Bluetoes", Home Alone, and Scrooge with Patrick Stweart.

Am I incredibly cliche for loving A Christmas Story?

Ah ha! That's how it's done. That one's a hell of a film and Patrick Stewart is great.

Just Christmas-themed movies, I've always been very partial to The Nightmare Before Christmas and Black Christmas.

Christmas movies themselves, gotta be the '51 Christmas Carol with Alistair Simm.

i love watching toy story on xmas. done it probably past 6 years running.

I like those darker Christmas films like Tim Burton's Nightmare Before Christmas or Gremlins. Those two are definitely my christmas faves. I don't much like the sappy ones like 'Miracle On ??th Street' or the stupid xmas comdies like 'Christmas With The Kranks'. <_<
I prefer films about the giving and togetherness of Christmas and the good things we take for granted that we should cherish... and all that. I'm not a religious person, so that's why I celebrate Xmas for the values I mentioned.
Anyone that knows the story of Saint Nicolaus (not religious significance, but what he inspired) knows what I mean.

Yeah,I know what you mean ! My name is Nicolas and each year my grand ma sends me a postcard with the story of St Nicolas. That is the story of two kids who ask a butcher if they can sleep at his house for the night. The butcher host them ,give them good hamp and stuffs and then while they are sleeping ,he cuts them in pieces and put them in a barrel of salt. 7 Years later st Nicolas come around and asks to the butcher a 7 years old ham ! The butcher freaks out and run away. St Nicolas touch the pieces of flesh and the kids are saved ,alive.

At this point, I was thinking "I'm going to reply and say "Oh, I thought you were gonna say that the butcher killed them, LOLZ!""


At this point, I was like "Oh. ..."

That's pretty good. What I meant is the link to Santa Claus though.
You see, in simplest and shortest terms, he was a Saint, in Turkey, that beeived in giving and looking after those who couldn't (not wouldn't) be as fortunate as others. He gave divine gifts to these people. When he died, his bones were 'buried' in a certain substance, which many simply called Holy Water, and Pilgrims could drink the liquid that had fermented containing his bones - he was still giving a divine gift, at the cost of a tribute to the church of course.
He had become a religious artifact and like all artifacts, he became valuable. In later years, some italian sailors stole the remains of the saint and returned them to Italy, where they were heralded as heroes. A church was built in celebration in Italy and his remains still lie there now.
The story of the saint and his gestures soon spread across europe. Soon nuns and holy groups set about delivering fruit in 'stockings' to the helpless and unfortunate poor on St Nicolaus day December the 6th, the anniversary of his death.
Other festivities in the gestures of giving and supporting soon spread throughout Europe, but by this time the church had banned the trade and worship of religious artifacts and placed a ban on St Nicolaus day in an effort to quell the interest. Many figures were associated with or in some way replaced St Niclolaus for a long while until devoted followers in the church combined Nicloaus Day and it's festivities of giving gifts and coming together, with Christmas Day. In North America, St Nicolaus was renamed 'Santa Claus', 'Santa' being another word for saint and 'Claus' a shortening of Nicolaus.
Hence the season of giving, togetherness and festivities which has indeed eclipsed the 'remembrance of Christ' as the sole purpose of Christmas.

Watched Bad Santa on Christmas day

I saw it on boxing day

I love The Christmas Story & Alistair Sim A Christmas Carol