Bring It On, Xmas!
It’s finally feeling like the holiday season and I couldn’t be happier. I’m a little nutty when it comes to Christmas. I absolutely insist on buying a tree the day after Thanksgiving, so I have an entire month to enjoy it. I could live inside the boxes and boxes of Christmas ornaments, candles, wrapping paper, garland and tissue paper stuffed inside our shed. I put lights up everywhere - in the bathroom, even. I play Elvis. I bust out my Chipmunks Christmas album and sit by the turntable staring at its jacket. And I watch Christmas-themed movies. Lots and lots of them. Here are my favorites:
Home Alone - It’s number one on my list for a reason. ‘Nuff said.
A Christmas Story - Christmas just isn’t the same without remembering what the inner turmoil of being a child sounds like.
The Muppet Christmas Carol - You don’t have to have kids to want to watch this over and over. And over.
Scrooged - How could a movie so funny give you the warm and fuzzies?
The Santa Clause - I’m not even ashamed to love it.
NL’s Christmas Vacation - Pretty much a holiday must.
Planes, Trains and Automobiles - Thanksgiving isn’t complete without John Candy.
The Ice Harvest - All the makings of a perfect Christmas Eve - snowfall, presents, strippers and murder.
I know what you’re thinking: where’s It’s a Wonderful Life and Miracle on 34th Street? Well, all I can say is, to each his own!
November 3rd, 2006 13:50
all those movies mean nothing without “Charlie Brown Christmas”
November 3rd, 2006 15:15
um, hello! “die hard,” anyone?? that is the best holiday movie of all time. “now i have a machine gun. ho, ho, ho.”
November 3rd, 2006 17:12
You’ll put your eye out! Love the marathon on TNT….
Some radio station here started playing xmas music on halloween! Ah….I too love xmas!
November 3rd, 2006 22:34
I work a retail job…that really should be one of those ‘enough said’ kind of things!
We’ve had Christmas stuff out since the end of September…sigh…I’m trying to stay positive!
November 4th, 2006 01:51
Don’t forget “The Homecoming” and “The House Without a Christmas Tree” …need some tissues for those!
November 4th, 2006 20:39
Oh, I love the Christmas season too, and all the movies. I am more of the It’s a Wonderful Life, I have to admit. But, I still love the Frosty, Rudolph ones as well. Can’t wait until my daughter is old enough to appreciate them too!
November 4th, 2006 21:06
Ford - and Frosty the Snowman!
Marsha - you’re right, how could I forget DH? So many classic lines in that movie. I love when Bruce Willis is crawling up the heater vent or whatever and he’s talking to himself. “Just once, I’d like a regular Christmas - a Christmas tree, some eggnog. But, no. I gotta crawl around in this motherfuckin’ tin can!”
Nanette - I heart marathons!
Foradifferentkindofgirl - I worked retail for years…I feel your pain.
Coffee Slut - I’ll rent those, thanks!
November 5th, 2006 01:25
Add “Nobody’s Fool” with Newman, Willis, and that blonde (What’s her name?) to your list.
November 5th, 2006 01:49
The blonde? Not too respectfully, Melanie Griffith, and more than respectfully, I forgot the late, great, Jessica Tandy!
November 6th, 2006 06:31
Rudolph gets my vote!
November 7th, 2006 10:22
I’m completely with you on this one! I even subject my family to my Neil Diamond Christmas CD! I loves me some NEIL! Just for the record, they do not share my affection for said singer!