"You'll Shoot Your Eye Out" (Favorite Christmas Movies)

Oh no. OP said I never saw until yesterday. Since that movie must run over and over again every Christmas time, I can't see how anyone never saw it.

Yeah, I know. Dont touch anything below freezing and wet

I guess I wasn't clear in my first post. I had seen bits and pieces of the movie over the last 30 years. It seemed silly to me. I made a conscious choice NOT to watch it. I had no desire to see it.

Recently my kid sent me a photoshopped picture. Ralphie was holding an AR-15 instead of the Red Ryder BB gun. Cracked me up. I thought maybe I would give the entire movie a chance. Didn't do anything for me. It will not be added to my Christmas movie classics list.

And my  kid and I watched DieHard last night.  We are on opposite sides of the "Is it a Christmas Movie" spectrum( I don't consider it a Christmas movie in any way, shape or form) but we both like the movie.

Yeah, I don't get Die Hard as being a Christmas movie either. Certainly not as I think of a Christmas movie anyway. But I'm an old fart and I think Oliver and Hardy are just the thing. It might as well be "Our Gang Comedy" . (google it for those who don't know, it should turn something up)

Phil, does your wife have her light yet? Or is that slated for Christmas? I'm extremely interested in knowing what she thinks of it. A PM will work so as not to hijack your thread. I'm dyin' here not knowing. :-)

I no particular order:

A Christmas Story
Barnard and the Genie - odd British movie but it is funny
How the Grinch Stole Christmas! The cartoon only with Boris Karloff
A Christmas Carol - the 1938 Reginald Owen version
A Charlie Brown Christmas

And the Rankin/Bass classics -
Rudolf the Red-Nosed Reindeer
The Year Without Santa Claus
Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town

No matter how old I get - I still enjoy these at Christmas shows.

The Classic Movie Channel introduced me to some faves:
The Man Who Came to Dinner, with Monty Woolley, Bette Davis, Ann Sheridan, and Jimmy Durante. And Billie Burke!
Remember the Night, with Fred McMurray and Barbara Stanwyck, made before the more famous Christmas in Connecticut
It Happened on Fifth Avenue. Second viewing this year and my wife and I liked it even more. Post-war story about some folks squatting in a rich man's vacant house during Christmas time

And of course the classic Rankin/Bass shows Cincinnatus mentioned. And just about any Christmas Carol, but my faves are the Reginald Owen and the Patrick Stewart ones.

- It's a Wonderful Life (special meaning and started my enjoyment of holiday movies)
- Christmas Vacation
- Elf
- Miracle on 34th Street (original best, new is good)
- Finding John Christmas
- Dog saves Christmas (or most dog Christmas movies)

Honorable mention to many Hallmark or other channel holiday movies. Very good, watchable, just not a classic