Holiday Movies

[allyndra]

You may have noticed (if you've gone anywhere near a retail location lately) that it's the holiday season. We're halfway through Hanukkah, and Christmas is right around the corner. So I was thinking about holiday movies. Now, I love traditional ones like "Miracle on 34th Street," but one of my favorite Christmas movies ever is "Die Hard." And my husband has long considered "Gremlins" a holiday classic. What are your favorite holiday movies, traditional or otherwise? I would love to build a viewing list for the month.

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Re: ahhh... the old days...

[rasah.livejournal.com]

the one with the whales! that's what we always call it in my family ;D
my most abiding memory of childhood is battlestar galactica. we watched it on tv and mum recorded it on vhs - the video was a top loader - and had no remote. we watched them over and over again until they were unwatchable.
last year i bought the dvd box set when it came out - i hadn't seen anything but the 'films' for AT LEAST 15 years but when i watched them? remembered pretty much every line. especially Murder on The Rising Star and The Man With Nine Lives - cause those were our favourites... "only my father would fire a laser in a launch tube..." see - haven't seen that for nearly a year and i didn't have to look that up.

and V. we LOVED V. it was a family ritual watching that. "i care about this lizard." ahhh... Ham Tyler - best sci-fi character ever. made me giggle every time sam tyler's name was mentioned in Life on Mars ;D

Beastmaster.
Willow. ("shut up or i'll break your nose." *g*)
The Day The Earth Stood Still.
Seven Brides For Seven Brothers.
Ferris Bueller's Day Off.
Flight of The Pheonix.
Ice Cold in Alex.

Films that will FOREVER make me think of family afternoons spent devouring films from the local video store.

ahhh... i feel old and yet strangely young all of a sudden :o)

Re: ahhh... the old days...

[allyndra.livejournal.com]

V! I got my dad V on DVD for Christmas last year. It totally freaked me out as a child. And Willow is one of my favorite movies ever. When I was at Walt Disney World, they had these Star Wars Weekends at Disney MGM Studios (they still have them; I just no longer get to attend them), and actors from Star Wars movies would come and sign autographs. The day that Warwick Davis was there, everyone had Ewok stuff for him to sign, but I had my copy of Willow. So cool!

Movies that make me think of my family:
Blues Brothers
Spies Like Us
Robin Hood (the Disney cartoon version)
Superman I - III
The Last Starfighter