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For me, it's jingle all the way. It's got everything. A drunk reindeer. A terrorist mailman. Arnold punching a deer. Arnold punching Sinbad. Arnold punching Santa. Arnold in general.

Edit: sure are a lot of die hard fans of Die Hard.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

For some reason this made for TV movie called The Night They Saved Christmas with Jaclyn Smith and Art Carney.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Night_They_Saved_Christmas

idk why. It’s got one of the most annoying kids in it, and it’s the first thing I think of watching every time around.

edit: I just read the plot summary and it sounds fairly insane.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Ever notice how Arnold is always punching random animals, from deer to the camels in Conan the barbarian's tribe to I think a horse in one of the other movies? Wondering if that's a thing he asks for, like in every movie he asks "can I punch an animal in a part of the movie".

But anyways, I know Die Hard sounds cliché and like a dead meme at this point to choose, but aside from Elf, all the Christmas movies are so gimmicky in none of the good ways. In Die Hard, it's not trying too hard, which is exactly why I choose it even though it also makes it exempt from Christmas movie status to a lot of people.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

I actually really like The Night Before. That ~~Joe~~ Seth Rogan movie. It's the only one I've been rewatching over the last few years.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I remember this being really fun.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Just friends

Also Klaus is good

[–] glockenspiel 3 points 1 year ago

Has to be Krampus, and Anna and the Apocalypse.

Krampus really scratches that nostalgic itch every year and I don't know why. The broken family dynamics, the environment, the sound and set designs are amazing. And it has a lesson like every good Christmas movie should.

And Anna and the Apocalypse is similar. It is funny, musical, and ultimately an allegory about growing up and leaving everyone behind to forge your own path. A good reminder that you never know when it will be your last Christmas with someone. Or maybe I'm looking into it too much and I just like zombie musicals.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Happiest Season felt surprisingly new as a family, love tragedy christmas movie and I really like it. It isn't an older movie but since it came out, it is a must watch every christmas season.

Before this, it definitely was The Long Kiss Goodnight (and funny thing, the german title translates to "deadly christmas")

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I love Happiest Season! It's got such a dumb, quirky humor to it that always cracks me up.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus (1985 film) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Life_and_Adventures_of_Santa_Claus_(1985_film)

  • Classic Rankin/Bass's stop motion like Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
  • Santa
  • Elves
  • Toys
  • Flying reindeer

also

  • Immortals
  • Wood Nymph's
  • Evil invisible creatures called the Awgwas
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It’s the “Christmas in the Car” episode of Bob’s Burgers. Yeah, sure it’s not a movie but it’s the most Christmassy feeling thing I’ve watched since I left home and it inspired my new favorite Christmas morning dish (a Dutch Baby) and I just love the scene when they’re cowering in their car in the forest and the car’s off and it starts to snow because it really captures how it feels to be out in the dark that’s not really dark because there’s snow everywhere.

If you haven’t made a dutch baby, it’s incredibly easy and extremely delicious and a good reason to buy a cast iron skillet if you haven’t already.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

The bleakening is my favorite Bob's Burger Christmas episode. Twinkly Lights has become one of my favorite Christmas songs.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

White Christmas. Nothing special about it, but it’s the movie my family watched every year when I was growing up. I can probably quote more of it than is healthy.

“When what’s left of you gets around to getting what’s left to be gotten, what’s left to be gotten won’t be worth getting, whatever it is you’ve got left.”

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Violent Night

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Home for the Holidays.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

We swap between two movies each year.

Even years it is A LION IN WINTER, an amazing film with insanely quotable dialogue. (EDIT: Why? On "star power" alone, this movie is outrageously cast.)

Odd years it is A CHRISTMAS STORY, which is equally quotable (perhaps more so). (EDIT: Why? Because so many things in this film ring true to my own childhood - having to have last-minute dinner at a Chinese restaurant because of a disaster, for example, or begging for a b-b-gun...)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

The Mistle-Tones. It's so bad, and I love it so much! It's a family tradition now to get high and watch it every year, and it's my favorite tradition.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Noelle (2019)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Black Christmas is one of my favorites I haven't seen mentioned yet. I am a big fan of horror movies and it's a bit of a classic a surprising amount of people haven't seen.

[–] lars 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

There's a ton of movies called that. What year?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

The 1974 original! Directed by Bob Clark, who would also give us Porky's and A Christmas Story.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I said it was considered a classic, I was referring to the original from 1974.

[–] lars 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There was also a movie called Black Christmas released in 1977, 2006, and 2009

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I guess it's my bad then.

I assumed people would think it's the original. Kind of like saying Texas Chainsaw Massacre is a classic and believing they'd think of the 1974 film instead of the 2022 film of the same name.

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