Christmas Movies 2018 Edition!

Lifetime's new Christmas Harmony is great, particularly for music fans. It's about a songwriter that gets dumped by her famous musician boyfriend and returns home.

 

One Magic Christmas is sort of a takeoff on It's a Wonderful Life. I enjoyed it.

 

great movie I own it on DVD...no BD.

 

Two of my favourite Christmas films never seem to get shown on TV here in the UK - The Shop Around the Corner and the Cheaters. Both unavailable on DVD apart from unofficial discs sold cheap on Ebay
I might buy one if it doesn’t get shown this Christmas.

 

I love TSATC...have it on DVD. Not sure about Cheaters...have to look that one up. : )

 

it ain't Christmas without both HA movies! love the NYC adventure. : )

 

Check out the Christmas Candle...very well done.

 

OP,

I watched Spirit of Christmas based on your recommendation and enjoyed it. Thanks.

 

cool...glad you enjoyed it!

 

Thanks Michael. Of your recommendations, we have now watched:
Spirit of Christmas. Enjoyed it. Seems like Kurt was revisiting his Elvis impersonation during the jam!)
Man who Saved Christmas - we own this one. Funny to see him in a role not as a sleazy slimy George Kastanza.

We'll get to those others you recommended soon.

 

I never appreciated the original movie until I saw it last year at a theater (I never saw it when it was new, only in bits on pieces on TV). Completely different experience watching it from beginning to end with no distractions. It's a really well done movie.

 

saw them both at the movies...yes they were so well done...great, great cast! Pesci & Stern were absolutely hysterical. John candy was a treat as well....

 

yes, I was surprised at George's serious role....Gilbert was an amazing man!
also, I can't say enough about The Man Who Invented Christmas...you guys should love it! my wife and I really do...

 

Not to mention that I had a Gilbert Erector set, a Gilbert microscope and a Gilbert Chemistry set as a kid!

 

me too! they were ALL great quality! especially the Erector sets!

 

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A Christmas episode of Dr. Who "Twice Upon a Time" ( w/ Peter Capaldi & David Bradley)

 

Desperately Seeking Santa...

 

My favorite is "Last Christmas," with Nick Frost as Santa and a bit of Slade.

 

I'm gonna watch Scrooged.

 

I kept flipping back to a station doing Lifetime movies (not Lifetime) a few nights ago and I would sketch the plot out after seeing the movie for 5 minutes.
Funny how easy it was to pick out the beautiful yet cold inside girl from the schlubby girl who looked fabulous in an expensive dress and heels.
The wife said that there were so many of these films based on chance meetings/kisses/attractions in an elevator she wondered if this was some sort of Hollywood male fantasy.

 

Tonight I decided to include a SHORT* prior to watching 1947 "Miracle On 34th Street" (B&W print)

*Pixar's "Knick Knack"

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that looks cute!

 

Christmas movies are a Holiday escape where ppl are happy which these days is a rarity...I like happy endings yet so far removed from real life due to many crazy nuts that go after the normal things we've grown up with...destroying Christmas.... where a scumbag substitute teacher tells 5&6 year old children in her class THERE'S NO SANTA! WTF....where's the outrage? it's sickening...give me a sugary Christmas movie any day...

 

Half the fun of those Hallmark/Lifetime movies is calling out the cliches. My wife and I make it a game (as do many others, I'm sure).

Reference to deceased family members? Check. Christmas tree lot? Check. Some kind of winter festival/parade? Check. Conspicuous Balsam Hill product placement? Check. Public domain Christmas carols? Check. Protagonist who is a writer/journalist? Check. Snowstorm? Check. Interrupted kiss? All but guaranteed.