tegan
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posted on December 21, 2000 08:45:07 PM new
I'm going to try to rent some Christmas movies for Saturdqay when we do our wrapping.
I am going to try to get White Christmas and my personnal favorite that I think is just called Christmas Story (the one with the red rider BB gun) any suggestions for others if they don't have these.
I love to watch Christmas Movies while I wrap or cook.
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mauimoods
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posted on December 21, 2000 08:48:01 PM new
Hi Tegan
This might seem corney, but my favorite ones to watch is the American Christmas Carol, with Henry Winkler; White Christmas )of course); Scrooged, with Bill Murray.
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mybiddness
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posted on December 21, 2000 08:49:30 PM new
I still love It's a Wonderful Life!
Not paranoid anywhere else but here!
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bunnicula
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posted on December 21, 2000 10:45:04 PM new
Every year, I pull out *every* version of "Christmas Carol" I own & watch it. (Including the Mickey Mouse & Muppets versions) I have eight versions in my collection.
Then I watch:
"Yes Virginia There Is A Santa Claus" (Charles Bronson)
"The Gathering" (Ed Asner/Maureen Stapleton)
"It's a Wonderful Life"
Then, if they play it on TV, I will also watch "The Man in the Santa Claus Suit" (Fred Astaire). Every time I try to tape it something goes wrong, but one day...
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Zazzie
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posted on December 21, 2000 10:54:45 PM new
Bunnicula---I just bought the version with Patrick Stewart as Scrooge---have you seen that one yet??? I haven't cracked the shrink wrap yet. He has done aclaimed one-man performances on Broadway doing all the characters in A Christmas Carol....I have it on cassette and it is amazing. The tapes I have a 1991 copywrite date.
One of my favourites is George C.Scott as Ebenezer.
Have you ever noticed on the version with Alistar Sims--when he wakes up on Christmas morning and is bouncing around the bedroom--he looks into the mirror and you can see somebody standing off-camera in the mirror reflection
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Zazzie
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posted on December 21, 2000 11:02:35 PM new
Some other good Christmas movies
Santa Claus: The Movie starring Dudley Moore as the Head Elf
One Magic Christmas---with Mary Steenbergen
Pocketful of Miracles--Betty Davis, Hope Lange, Peter Falk etc/ not really a Christmas movie but it takes place at Christmas time
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bunnicula
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posted on December 21, 2000 11:17:52 PM new
Zazzie: Yes, I taped the Stewart version the first time it was on--then, when it came out on DVD a month or so ago, I bought that. I was lucky enough to see him in his one man play in L.A. two years ago...wonderful!
For me though, it is a toss-up between the George C. Scott and the Albert Finney versions for "best."
Will look in my Sims version for the glitch you mention!
Also forgot to mention another Xmas favorite of mine: "The Santa Clause" with Tim Allen.
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ubiedaman
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posted on December 21, 2000 11:52:36 PM new
3 requirements for Xmas..all in the sme evening.....
It's a Charlie Brown Christmas (WITH Dolly Madison Zingers commercials)
A Christmas Story...referenced above
and.... the winner is.....dddddrrrrrrrrr
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
Keith
I assume full responsibility for my actions, except
the ones that are someone else's fault.
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Zazzie
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posted on December 22, 2000 12:05:10 AM new
Bunnicula---we are "A Christmas Carol" freaks too. Every year I wrap some version of it for a present--be it book or tape or movie. Last year it was the book that came out with the Albert Finney version---and this year it is the Patrick Stewart version.
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A couple of my favourite Christmas programs are never played on TV anymore---but we taped them years ago and watch them every year. One is "The Christmas Toy" done by Jim Henson --but it doesn't have the regular muppets in it . It is about last year's Christmas toy thinking that he should be under the tree again--it is a really good show. The toys come alive whenever the people leave the room---even the cat's catnip mouse.
The other is also a Henson production but with all the Muppets plus Fraggles---all the Muppets from the Muppet show, and Seasame Street end up at Foozie Bear's mothers farmhouse for Christmas---one of the funniest parts is when the Swedish Chef is measuring Big Bird for the oven.
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BlackCoffeeBlues
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posted on December 22, 2000 12:44:03 AM new
Not technically a "Christmas Movie", but I like to watch "Little Women" (the 94 version with Winona Ryder) around this time of year. Many positive messages, Christmas scenes, and reinforcement of the spirit of family, giving, and hope. Great movie (better book, of COURSE!)... just MHO.
Sheri
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uaru
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posted on December 22, 2000 01:23:10 AM new
My favorite of all the versions of "A Christmas Carol" was the British version from 1951 with the great Alastair Sim as Scrooge. I've not seen a better actor capture the three dimensions of Dicken's Scrooge better.
A Christmas Story by Jean Shepherd is great also. I think we all see ourselves wanting something along the line of a "Red Ryder BB Gun" at some time during our childhood. Jean Shepard was a very funny writer, I used to love his stories when he wrote for Playboy. I've got several recordings of Jean Shepherd telling some of his stories on radio, he did a lot of radio shows and some of his stories are hilarious. Jean Shepherd the writer/narrator of "A Christmas Story" has a cameo in the movie, he is the irate man waiting in the Santa line at the department store.
[ edited by uaru on Dec 22, 2000 01:24 AM ]
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Meya
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posted on December 22, 2000 06:05:37 AM new
National Lapoon Christmas Vacation
The Santa Clause with Tim Allen
White Christmas
It's a Wonderful Life
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spazmodeus
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posted on December 22, 2000 07:25:34 AM new
I loathe "It's A Wonderful Life."
Can't stand Jimmy Stewart, for one thing. But what bugs me most is that they never catch the bad guy in the end. They never find out what happened to the money.
Oh, I know what you're going to say, It doesn't matter because all the people he ever helped came to his rescue in the end and that was the real message of the movie.
Meanwhile criminals go free. Nice.
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corrdogg
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posted on December 22, 2000 07:35:41 AM new
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
:0 Randy Quaid :0
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lswanson
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posted on December 22, 2000 07:49:35 AM new
Spaz, lighten up! It's a movie for Pete's sake. And face it, the majority of real-life cases, the criminal DOES go free!
I agree with Meya,
1. It's a Wonderful Life.
2. Christmas Vacation.
3. White Christmas.
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