Your Top 5 Christmas Movies

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  1. Wiser 1878

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    I have never seen It's A Wonderful Life or either version of Miracle on 34th Street. Nothing against them. I have just never caught them at a time where the film was beginning or about to begin.

    My list:

    01. A Christmas Carol (1950 version with Alastair Sim- called Scrooge in the UK.)
    02. A Christmas Story
    03. Christmas Vacation
    04. A Christmas Carol (1980's version with George C. Scott)
    05. Bad Santa
     
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    1. Die Hard
    2. A Christmas Story
    3. Elf
    4. Bad Santa
    5. Home Alone

    Honorable mentions: Gremlins, Christmas Vacation, A Charlie Brown Christmas.

    And maybe in the next few days I get to finally watch It's a Wonderful Life...
     
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    1. Scrooge (1970) The Albert Finney musical is the best of all the A Christmas Carol films with the Bill Murray version being the worst. I love the songs, the dances, the sets, everything about this film is great!
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    2. Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (1964) The Rankin-Bass stop-motion is a Christmas must watch tradition. This was the first film that gave me as a child a true sense of wonder about Santa Claus who up until then was an unknown creepy character in my young mind. Love it!
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    3. The Santa Clause (1994) Tim Allen's best film ever and one of the funniest Christmas movies ever made. It became an instant classic (too bad the 2 sequels were way inferior!).
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    4. The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) Tim Burton mixed everybody's favorite holidays, Halloween & Christmas, and the result is a hybrid that surprisingly worked! Thank you, thank you!
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    5. Home Alone (1990) Where's Kevin?! Christmas is as a big character in this film as Macauly Culkin and the film delivers in the fun department even in the dialogue.
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    Hmm...3 out 5 movies in my list are films from the 90s...and I always thought the 90s sucked! Maybe I was wrong.
     
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    Panchy, have you seen the 1950 version of A Christmas Carol? The screenplay writer and director took some liberties with Dickens' story and added to it with a few minor changes. A lot of critics consider it the best of the many versions of that story.
     
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    Yes, I watched it, but I found it merely okay.
     
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