# Recommend me some Holiday Movies **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 16, 2007, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-some-holiday-movies/422963 "2007-10-16T22:28:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2007, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-some-holiday-movies/422963/21 "2007-10-17T16:23:46Z")
“Born On The Fourth Of July”? 😃 Another vote for “The Ref”. ---
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2007, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-some-holiday-movies/422963/22 "2007-10-17T16:27:47Z")
[QUOTE=smithsb] Santa Claus Conquers the Marians. I seem to remember it as Santa Claus versus the Martians but whatever. BAD, Bad, bad kind of claymation effort. So bad it was difficult to look away. Movie is in many a top five of worst ever mad. Comedic in that sense. [/QUOTE] I’ve been trying to get my family to accept watching the MST3K version of this movie as a Christmas tradition. No luck so far. ---
**Author:** ![Skammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skammer/32/143_2.png) [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2007, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-some-holiday-movies/422963/23 "2007-10-17T18:49:36Z")
My favorite Christmas movies in no particular order: _It’s a Wonderful Life Elf Miracle on 34th St_ - the original _A Charlie Brown Christmas A Christmas Story Holiday Inn_ ---
**Author:** ![phungi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/phungi/32/395_2.png) [@phungi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phungi)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2007, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-some-holiday-movies/422963/24 "2007-10-17T22:56:45Z")
let’s not forget the Xmas pick-me-up [Bad Santa](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad_Santa)… ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2007, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-some-holiday-movies/422963/25 "2007-10-17T23:23:02Z")
[QUOTE=Zebra] Gremlins [/QUOTE] Seconding this one. Because, after all, it IS a Christmas movie, albeit a slightly dark one. ---
**Author:** ![freckafree](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/freckafree/32/3050_2.png) [@freckafree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/freckafree)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2007, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-some-holiday-movies/422963/26 "2007-10-18T01:35:53Z")
Not a movie, but still a great Christmas piece: Night of the Meek from Twilight Zone, with Art Carney as a down-on-his-luck department store Santa. ---
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2007, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-some-holiday-movies/422963/27 "2007-10-18T02:07:56Z")
You won’t be able to find it (it’s not on DVD) but one of my favorite films set around the Christmas holiday is Bill Forsyth’s delightful [Comfort and Joy](http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0087072/), about a Scottish DJ (Alan “Dickie Bird” Bird) whose flaky but glamorous girlfriend just left him and how he tries to get over it by getting involved in a turf war between two rival ice cream truck companies. It’s very silly, but very funny in that suble, surreal way the Scottish, and Bill Forsyth in particular, have. “Hello folks!” ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2007, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-some-holiday-movies/422963/28 "2007-10-18T02:13:16Z")
[QUOTE=Equipoise] “Hello folks!” [/QUOTE] Shouldn’t that be “Cheerio folks!”? ---
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2007, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-some-holiday-movies/422963/29 "2007-10-18T02:17:20Z")
[QUOTE=Lute Skywatcher] Shouldn’t that be “Cheerio folks!”? [/QUOTE] Nope. It’s what the recorded voice coming out of one of the ice cream trucks says between the music. Jinglemusic jinglemusic jinglemusic “Hello folks!” jinglemusic jinglemusic jinglemusic “Hello folks!” and on and on, down the street until it fades away. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2007, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-some-holiday-movies/422963/30 "2007-10-18T02:19:29Z")
_The Polar Express_ _The Sound of Music_ _The Lion in Winter_ _The Bishop’s Wife_ ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2007, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-some-holiday-movies/422963/31 "2007-10-18T02:21:21Z")
[QUOTE=Equipoise] Nope. It’s what the recorded voice coming out of one of the ice cream trucks says between the music. Jinglemusic jinglemusic jinglemusic “Hello folks!” jinglemusic jinglemusic jinglemusic “Hello folks!” and on and on, down the street until it fades away. [/QUOTE] Hmm…I thought sure it said “Cheerio folks!” 'Course, I haven’t seen the movie in about a decade. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2007, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-some-holiday-movies/422963/32 "2007-10-18T02:33:52Z")
It’s possible one of the trucks used “Cheerio folks!” but the main one (the one that got attacked) said “Hello folks!.” My husband and I have been saying that to each other in that high-pitched voice ever since we first saw the movie in the theater in 1984. It’s one of those annoying comfy couple insider jokes that people hate. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2007, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-some-holiday-movies/422963/33 "2007-10-18T03:17:03Z")
I haven’t seen it personally, but [_Pieces of April_](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0311648/) is one of the few Thanskgiving-based holiday movies. ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2007, 6:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-some-holiday-movies/422963/34 "2007-10-18T06:38:13Z")
[QUOTE=Bosstone] I’ve been trying to get my family to accept watching the MST3K version of this movie as a Christmas tradition. No luck so far. [/QUOTE] Has the MST3K version of the Mexican movie simply titled SANTA CLAUSE been put on DVD yet? With Santa fighting the Devil? “Look! Sandy Duncan!” When I was a kid, the local theatre had a free Christmas movie for the kids while the parents went shopping- for many years THAT was the movie. Then they started interspersing it with SC CONQUERS THE MARTIANS. ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2007, 7:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-some-holiday-movies/422963/35 "2007-10-18T07:39:57Z")
[QUOTE=FriarTed] Has the MST3K version of the Mexican movie simply titled SANTA CLAUSE been put on DVD yet? With Santa fighting the Devil? “Look! Sandy Duncan!” When I was a kid, the local theatre had a free Christmas movie for the kids while the parents went shopping- for many years THAT was the movie. Then they started interspersing it with SC CONQUERS THE MARTIANS. [/QUOTE] Here’s a “tribute” page for SANTA CLAUS- [http://www.kgordonmurray.com/f01.html](http://www.kgordonmurray.com/f01.html) AND it is on DVD from Amazon, which is offering it with SC VS MARTIANS! The American distributor K. Gordon Murray also brought us the great Mexican horror films THE BRAINIAC and NOSTRADAMUS THE VAMPIRE- a staple of late-night horror shows after they ran through their lines of Universal, Hammer & AIP movies. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2007, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-some-holiday-movies/422963/36 "2007-10-18T16:04:14Z")
_It’s a Wonderful Life_, of course, and the George C. Scott version of _A Christmas Carol_. And another enthusiastic vote for _Groundhog Day_. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-some-holiday-movies/422963.md?page=1)