OK, maybe I should rephrase the question. What are your top five Christmas-themed movies of all time? (As opposed to movies that you just watch on or around Christmastime.)
The only ones I will watch every year are: Santa Claus Conquers the Martians MST version or not. Santa Claus MST version or not Star Wars Holiday Special A Christmas Story
The Lion in Winter: Not traditionally thought of as a Christmas movie, I’m sure, but it does take place during the Christmas holidays and there’s a scene where Katharine Hepburn decorates a Christmas tree and puts the finishing touches on gifts. It’s like the ultimate dyfunctional family during Christmas movie!
Rabid Child, I thought I was the only one that thought of ]The Lion in Winter as a Christmas movie! I watch it every year before I head down to see the family over the holidays. My family is not dysfunctional (more or less), so watching this reminds me how lucky I am.
Traditional Christmas: Miracle of 34th Street (the original), and A Christmas Story
A bit strange at Christmas: Jungle Book, the animated Disney version–it’s a tradition to go to or watch an old animated movie on Christmas (Disney used to time a re-release to the holidays, before the era of VCRs and DVDs) and Jungle Book is my favorite.
Ernest? Oh, that’s a good one I haven’t heard in a long time!
Umm, the problem is that of all six movies you mentioned as being your favorite “Christmas” movies, not one of them have anything to do with Christmas. See what I mean?
I believe most of the movie takes place on December 24th and 25th. Either way, Eleanor, Richard, and Geoffery are summoned to be with Henry II and John for the Christmas holidays.
I would love it if those movie stations that have Christmas marathons would put this movie in their lineup.
kmg365: You seem to be a bit inconsistent here. First you post a list of movies that either happen to occur around Christmas time, or in a couple of cases have only a scene or two that occur around Christmas time. This I understood to mean that any movie with even the slightest link to Christmas could be considered a “Christmas movie”, in other words the point of the exercise was to find movies that weren’t really Christmas-themed movies, but which had some minor or obscure link to Christmas which could then be used to justify their inclusion on a list of Christmas movies.
Then you criticize someone else because their list included movies that were not “Christmas-themed”. None of your movies are “Christmas-themed”. The first three happen at or near Christmas, but this fact plays little to no role in the events; transplant the same plot to some other time of the year, and it would work just as well with only minor changes to some background elements and incidental scenes. The final four on your list have individual scenes or sequences that occur at Christmas, but have neither an overall plot nor a theme centered on it.