Best Christmas Movies

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Best Christmas Movies
1. It’s a Wonderful Life
2. Scrooge (A Christmas Carol) -Alistair Sim version 
3. Holiday Inn
​​​​​​​4. The Santa Clause
5. Love Actually
6. Home Alone
7. White Christmas
8. Elf
9. Christmas in Connecticut
10. Miracle on 34th Street (1947 version)
 
It’s a wonderful life then there aren’t any close to that for me. Xmas specials Charlie Brown then Rudolph then a year without a Santa Claus . 
 
Need to add

1)Christmas Vacation 

2)And my out of left field pick...Rocky IV

1985....Fight took place on Christmas, i saw this movie a day or two before Christmas and then i got one of my favorite Christmas gifts....the famous Rocky Adidas sweatshirt and sweatpants....loved them as a kid thinking I was Rocky.  




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I make a motion to move “Miracle on 34th Street” to the category “My Favorite Thanksgiving Movie” because there are few other entries.
Plus the image of Maureen O’Hara getting in the face of a drunken Santa at the Macy’s parade is an all time great.
 
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Polar express isn't way up on my list but in the top 10 for me.

You can't find some on free tv this year.   Many are only rentable.

It's a wonderful life has grown on me.  I like Elf, and the 2 Home Alones.  Miracle on 34th is nostalgic.

I never liked Grinch.

Liked Frosty and Rudolph.
 
Come on guys, there is like a thousand new christmas movies on the hallmark channel. I hear them in the background in my house.  STAY AWAY!!!  Lol. 
 
A first for me...I watched It's a Wonderful Life last night on Amazon.  NBC ran it with annoying commercials.  I never saw it before.  It's a strong number one or number two.  Love Actually is right there...even with Mariah Carey's Christmas song in it.  A Christmas Carol  (Reginald Owen and Alistair Sim versions) was binge material.  All the rest is just okay.
 
Not a movie, but heading to see the Elf production at the Argyle Theatre in Babylon.  I’ve been there before,  Very good shows in a theatre where I can sit comfortably without my knees in my chest.  Then dinner at one of the many restaurants within a short walk.
 
I love your list, may move them around a bit but they are all awesome and make the season better for me. I would add

The shop arounf the corner  Jimmy Stewart's 1st great christmas movie
Santa Clause 2 (I am a sucker for the lve story and who can resiste comet farting)
March of the wooden soldiers (abbot and costello) A classic growing up.  
 
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Not a movie, but heading to see the Elf production at the Argyle Theatre in Babylon.  I’ve been there before,  Very good shows in a theatre where I can sit comfortably without my knees in my chest.  Then dinner at one of the many restaurants within a short walk.
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I love Broadway, but there is so much acting/dancing/musical talent out there that regional productions around NYC are usually top-notch.
 
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I love your list, may move them around a bit but they are all awesome and make the season better for me. I would add

The shop arounf the corner  Jimmy Stewart's 1st great christmas movie
Santa Clause 2 (I am a sucker for the lve story and who can resiste comet farting)
March of the wooden soldiers (abbot and costello) A classic growing up.  
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Was there a Laurel and Hardy (Babes in Toyland) equivalent?
 
Bad Santa with Billy Bob Thornton, Bernie Mac, John Ritter and others, has some great scenes. Actually alugh out loud first time you see it.

Four Christmases with Vince Vaughn, Reese Witherspoon, Jon Favreau and others, also some great scenes. Robert Duvall and Mary Steenbergen scenes especially.

Christmas Vacation. Randy Quaid almost steals the whole movie.
 
Jingle All The Way

And I always associate March of the Wooden Soldiers with Thanksgiving (9:00 am on WPIX, every year, without fail).  Yes it’s also on on Christmas and Santa makes an appearance (“I thought it you wanted 100 soldiers at 6 feet high”) so good on this list as well.
 
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