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My favourite Christmas films are a Christmas carol, (George C Scott version) and errr.....? 

 

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(I genuinely can't think of any others off the top of my head).

 

I never understand how something like die hard is A. a great film, and B. a Christmas film but I'm just a simple chap. 

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Just now, Gemmill said:

You forgot Zulu and The Guns of Navarone. 

 

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I especially love the latter as it happens but a Christmas film it ain't. 

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3 minutes ago, Howmanheyman said:

 

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I especially love the latter as it happens but a Christmas film it ain't. 

Definitely one of my favourites too. 👍 

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As I'm now working Monday to Friday I'm having to put the Christmas stuff up today which has me in a slightly irritable mood as well as taking the kids to the hairdressers in North Shields as going somewhere local is just a silly thing to do, (the eldest used to go to South Shields so at least it's getting closer). The youngest one's car is fucked and someone's coming out to fix it at some point in the day as well. Hoping to have everything done in time for the match later on. 

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1 hour ago, Gemmill said:

You forgot Zulu and The Guns of Navarone. 

Where Eagles Dare! 
 

It’s got snow, and mountains, and Swiss chalets, and Nazis, and Ingrid Pitt! 
 

Merry  Christmas! 
 

 

( I never knew Ingrid was a Holocaust survivor, three years in a camp near Danzig!) 

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Howay none of these are really Christmas films. If it's just films that tend to get played at Xmas then you could include all the bond films. 

One of the Christmas Carol iterations or It's a wonderful life are the main real ones. I might stretch to the Home Alones and that mysognystic one Gemmill stars in too. And the Grinch. 

 

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I’m so pleased my kids are older now and I don’t have to sit through The Fucking Nativity! Movies. 
 

Two things I learned from the experience;

1-Clenching and grinding your teeth for over an hour is painful. 
2- I would happily run Marc Wooten over, then reverse back to do it again. 

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4 minutes ago, Monkeys Fist said:

I’m so pleased my kids are older now and I don’t have to sit through The Fucking Nativity! Movies. 
 

Two things I learned from the experience;

1-Clenching and grinding your teeth for over an hour is painful. 
2- I would happily run Marc Wooten over, then reverse back to do it again. 

That post has more laughs than the films put together. 

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2 hours ago, Howmanheyman said:

My favourite Christmas films are a Christmas carol, (George C Scott version) and errr.....? 

 

:lol:

 

(I genuinely can't think of any others off the top of my head).

 

I never understand how something like die hard is A. a great film, and B. a Christmas film but I'm just a simple chap. 

Whether you are a simple chap or not, you are absolutely right about both A and B.

 

I do quite like The Grinch for the first half when he is being an utter cunt. I’m less keen on the second half.

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Right, I’ll go with 5 I’d pretty much have to watch if I stumbled across them of an evening at this time of year:

Die Hard

The Apartment

It’s A Wonderful Life 

A Christmas Carol (Alastair Sim version. The George C Scott one is great, but come on - it’s Alastair Sim)

Miracle on 34th Street (old B&W version) 

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7 minutes ago, PaddockLad said:

I don’t have a favourite Christmas film. They’re all exploitative manipulative vomit inducing vessels of warm shit :cuppa:

Tonight Show Christmas GIF by The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

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19 minutes ago, RobinRobin said:

Tonight Show Christmas GIF by The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon


Not really :D  I think the trouble is eg in this list 

 

20 minutes ago, Alex said:

Right, I’ll go with 5 I’d pretty much have to watch if I stumbled across them of an evening at this time of year:

Die Hard

The Apartment

It’s A Wonderful Life 

A Christmas Carol (Alastair Sim version. The George C Scott one is great, but come on - it’s Alastair Sim)

Miracle on 34th Street (old B&W version) 


I’ve not seen any of them apart from Die Hard, and that’s a film set at Christmas about a terrorist incident 🤓 I’m just not motivated to watch anything festive. I can’t remember the last time I watched Christmas Day tv. There’s too much to do and by the time I sit down I’m pissed and usually fall asleep with a glass of Croft Original in my hand, mostly gibbering on like this :D 


Reaction Drunk GIF by MOODMAN
 

EDIT: I like The Snowman and the Snow dog.  Are they Christmas films?… 🤷🏻‍♂️

 

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45 minutes ago, Renton said:

Howay none of these are really Christmas films. If it's just films that tend to get played at Xmas then you could include all the bond films. 

One of the Christmas Carol iterations or It's a wonderful life are the main real ones. I might stretch to the Home Alones and that mysognystic one Gemmill stars in too. And the Grinch. 

 

You’re right, it’s just ingrained as a Christmas film to me but there’s nothing inherently Christmassy about the wizard of oz.

 

other than the gifts I suppose

 

 

 

and it all not being true

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3 minutes ago, PaddockLad said:


Not really :D  I think the trouble is eg in this list 

 


I’ve not seen any of them apart from Die Hard, and that’s a film set at Christmas about a terrorist incident 🤓 I’m just not motivated to watch anything festive. I can’t remember the last time I watched Christmas Day tv. There’s too much to do and by the time I sit down I’m pissed and usually fall asleep with a glass of Croft Original in my hand, mostly gibbering on like this :D 


Reaction Drunk GIF by MOODMAN

 

I’d recommend The Apartment if you’ve never seen it. Anyway practically all Christmas films are about something else and set at Christmas. It’s not like you get many depicting the birth of Jesus is it? I’d argue even It’s A Wonderful Life and A Christmas Carol aren’t really about Christmas. 

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28 minutes ago, Alex said:

Right, I’ll go with 5 I’d pretty much have to watch if I stumbled across them of an evening at this time of year:

Die Hard

The Apartment

It’s A Wonderful Life 

A Christmas Carol (Alastair Sim version. The George C Scott one is great, but come on - it’s Alastair Sim)

Miracle on 34th Street (old B&W version) 

 

Never seen the Alistair Simpson version so I'm happy to admit I'm probably in a minority in preferring the Scott one,  watched it's a wonderful life once and enjoyed it but it is a bit long and drags a bit early on and is a bit Americany. Never got the hype over die hard, haven't seen the others. 

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1 minute ago, Alex said:

I’d recommend The Apartment if you’ve never seen it. Anyway practically all Christmas films are about something else and set at Christmas. It’s not like you get many depicting the birth of Jesus is it? I’d argue even It’s A Wonderful Life and A Christmas Carol aren’t really about Christmas. 


Having not seen them (we did Great Expectations twice at school, put me off Dickens for life) I can’t really talk with authority but I think the last two issue a heartwarming message for mankind  at the end? That is in essence what, as far I can make out, Christmas is about; the birth of hope. Not that I’m in anyway religious but I can sort of get on board with that,  but when in reality the whole thing for my entire life has been an ever increasing and now completely suffocating exercise in commercial and retail bullshit I can’t really reconcile the two. I don’t really want sermons or selfish consumerism. That sounds like I don’t like Christmas which isn’t really the case , I just want the version I can pretty much get with my family as it is . Which probably isn’t much different to most on here, just without the schmaltzy fuckin films ☺️

 

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51 minutes ago, Howmanheyman said:

 

Never seen the Alistair Simpson version so I'm happy to admit I'm probably in a minority in preferring the Scott one,  watched it's a wonderful life once and enjoyed it but it is a bit long and drags a bit early on and is a bit Americany. Never got the hype over die hard, haven't seen the others. 

Well Sim just hams it up. As he does. I loved him in the st trinnians films which they used to show a lot when I was a kid. 

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