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

I think you have to be of a certain vintage growing up in the 50s and 60s to relate to A Christmas Story.

And grim , are you asking how its possible to get your tongue stuck to cold steel?  Man, thats one of the most unpleasant sensations ever.

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

National Lampoons Christmas Vacation
A Christmas Story
Elf
It's A Wonderful Life
Home Alone
Rudolf the Red Nosed Reindeer, the stop-motion animated one, for nostalgia's sake.

Our post office runs Rudolph on continuous loop during the holidays and I don't care if I never see it again. I can't imagine working the desk and having to listen to it all day. Cruel and unusual punishment!

Our post office runs Rudolph on continuous loop during the holidays and I don't care if I never see it again. I can't imagine working the desk and having to listen to it all day. Cruel and unusual punishment!

That's mildly horrific!

Wheres Die Hard?

Our post office runs Rudolph on continuous loop during the holidays and I don't care if I never see it again. I can't imagine working the desk and having to listen to it all day. Cruel and unusual punishment!

That's mildly horrific!

I had a part time job in a department store for the Christmas rush back in 1979. They played a continuous loop of Christmas music but the one that won't leave my head and I despise to this day is Elvis' Blue Christmas. I think its the backup singers that pushed me over the edge.

Wow, Phil! It took you that long to watch that classic movie?!

Mine favourites are 'A Christmas Story', 'It's a Wonderful Life', and 'Miracle on 34th Street'.

• A Christmas Story
  
• Scrooge (the 1951 Alastair Sim version)
  
• It's A Wonderful Life
  
• National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
  

Two of my favorites are the original Miracle on 34th Street and It's a Wonderful Life, with an honorable mention to The Bishop's Wife with Loretta Young, Cary Grant, and David Niven.

However, my all-time favorite holiday movie is easily Auntie Mame with the always wonderful Rosalind Russell.  While not a holiday movie in the traditional sense, though there is a part that takes place during Christmas, it can still make me laugh even though I have seen it many many times.  My parents took my sister and me to see it at Radio City Music Hall in New York City when it first came out.  It was the 1958 holiday movie there.

As for A Christmas Story, I have never seen it and, for some reason I cannot explain, have no desire to.

If you're looking for a great, non-traditional Christmas movie, I love We're No Angels with Humphrey Bogart and Peter Ustinov. Very funny.

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