Why, don’t they have Christmas in France? Chriiiiiiiist-maaaas!
My favorite is The Ref, which I’m sure has the most incidences of the word “fuck” of any Christmas movie. Nevertheless, it is a classic. This year my sweetie got it for me on DVD, and we watched it while wrapping presents.
Seriously, check it out. It’s got Kevin Spacey, Judy Davis, Christine Baranski, and Denis Leary. It’s all about a bickering family on Christmas Eve, and what happens when they get taken hostage by a burglar. I laugh my butt off every time I watch it.
Superman I and/or II. I’m not sure why, but we’ve always done it. It’s ingrained into me enough that when they came out on DVD, I headed for the “holiday movie” section of the store to look for them. Then I felt really stupid.
And I always watch Braveheart, because I am cooking and I can see the television from the kitchen at my brother’s house. My favorite movie of all time. Especially in 5.1 Dolby Surrond… manly grunts
Christmas Vacation - now that I’m so far from home, the part where Clark (Chevy) is sitting up in the attic, with that get-up on to keep warm, watching old films, and Ellen comes upstairs and… well, you know what happens. That part slays my mother. She laughs until she turns pink and has tears in her eyes. She starts giggling just thinking about it. During the movie, her giggling begins as he’s going through the trunk. Now that I’m so far away from my dear mother at Christmas, I watch my copy of Christmas Vacation… and start giggling when he puts that turban on. I’m thinking of my mother, really, which to me, was always the funniest part.
**A Wish For Wings That Work ** - “An ALBATROSS! SUCK UP AN ALBATROSS!”
Merry Christmas, Mr. Bean - worth it just for the beginning sequence with the manger scene. And the sending cards to himself, the carolers, “BOOM.” All good.
Rocko’s Modern Christmas - “Bring the children to fruitcake man. Go ahead. Take what you want. I feel nothing.” and, “Christmas?! What do you want?”
Other classics like the Grinch (animated, Jim Carrey one is okay), Elf is okay if I inch past my loathing of Will Farrell (worth it for Zooey Deschanel, though), A Christmas Story (which I caught this year, thanks to the SDMB, during its 24 hour marathon on TBS), various incarnations of A Christmas Carol (Muppets being the best ever), It’s A Wonderful Life, Miracle on 34th Street, etc etc etc.
Hah, as usual I defy classification. I listed earlier Miracle & Die Hard.
I am a hawk, so that may cover the really conservative but I am also an Environmentalist so that should cover Liberal.
