• aeronmelon@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    2 months ago

    Well, first of all, Michael Caine is best Scrooge.

    (Muppet Christmas Carol)

    And of course Die Hard is a Christmas movie.

    The usual family classics like the Charlie Brown & Garfield Christmas specials, all the Rankin/Bass specials, the first two Home Alones (shame they never made any more), newer classics like The Santa Clause and Elf…

    But also a few that are a bit esoteric.

    • Santa’s Magic Toy Bag - From the creators of Alf, a cute and short morality tale about an elf that can’t find his place in Santa’s workshop.

    • The Snowman - A sad and wonderful story about a boy who builds a snowman that comes to (an all too short) life.

    • The Christmas Toy - A Jim Henson production, two toys risk being seen moving on their own to stop new Christmas toys from replacing them. Sounds a bit like Toy Story, right?

    Others that I still remember fondly but haven’t seen in a long time are The Berenstain Bears Christmas Tree, A Muppet Family Christmas, Ziggy’s Christmas Wish, and The Chipmunk’s Christmas.

    • Slovene@feddit.nlEnglish
      7·
      2 months ago

      A christmas carol with Patrick Stewart as Scrooge. And, of course, Die hard. Edit: I forgot - Home alone.

  • Krauerking@lemy.lolEnglish
    5·
    2 months ago

    You know what’s almost guaranteed to be a bad movie? Any movies specifically written to be a Christmas movie.

    Seriously it’s like wading through waist high sewage till something good drifts along.

    So in likelihood of me to watch them:

    1. Muppet Christmas movies (Christmas carol and Muppet Family Christmas are lots fo fun)
    2. Tokyo Godfathers
    3. Edward scissor hands
    4. Klaus
    5. Gremlins
    • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      2 months ago

      You cannot comment on this without bringing up the Star Wars Christmas Special. Die hard fan since '77 and I can’t even start it.

      • Krauerking@lemy.lolEnglish
        1·
        2 months ago

        Yup. But like every tie in Christmas special hasn’t been much better.

        I think the only one tied to a pre-existing IP that was good was Pee-wee and that is easy cause he mocks everything the whole time.

        It’s tradition to skip Christmas specials when rewatching pretty much any IP.

  • Rhaedas@fedia.io
    4·
    2 months ago

    Die Hard and A Christmas Story as always, but I’ve also added another one (not a movie), the Hawkeye series.

    • aeronmelon@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      2 months ago

      Hawkeye is unironically a new Christmas classic.

      Also the What If…? Episode that riffs on Die Hard counts as a Christmas special.

    • CaptSneeze@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      2 months ago

      We stumbled upon this, more or less by accident, maybe a decade ago. It immediately entered the annual holiday movie cycle. I think it’s one of Henson’s best works. 10/10!

  • thisisdee@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    2 months ago

    Nightmare Before Christmas. I just have a soft spot for Jack Skellington, possibly my first ever crush.

    • Zachariah@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      2 months ago

      No, no, that’s a Thanksgiving movie. Watching it for Halloween is too soon, watching it for Christmas is too late. So watching it in November is perfect.

  • realcaseyrollins@thelemmy.clubEnglish
    2·
    2 months ago

    If I’m depressed, A Charlie Brown Christmas. If not, the 1966 special How the Grinch Stole Christmas!. Mr. Robot S04 is a favorite as well.

    I haven’t seen many classic Christmas films though so I plan on broadening my horizons. My mom plans on showing my Diehard this year, I plan on watching FX/BBC’s rendition of A Christmas Carol, and I likely will see the 2000 Grinch movie with a friend.