• aeronmelon@lemmy.worldEnglish
    13·
    22 days 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·
      22 days ago

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

  • Krauerking@lemy.lolEnglish
    6·
    22 days 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·
      20 days 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·
        20 days 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·
    22 days 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·
      22 days 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·
      20 days 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
    3·
    22 days ago

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

    • Zachariah@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      22 days 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.

  • Big_Bob [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
    3·
    22 days ago

    Kiss Kiss Bang Bang.

    It’s an extremely convoluted murder mystery that just happens to take place during Christmas.

    Despite the insanely incomprehensible writing, it has some of the best dialogue ever written, and Robert Downey JR nails his role as a small time criminal who accidentally gets a movie role as a detective, but gets dragged into a real life murder case.