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musicismylife78musicismylife78 Posts: 6,116
edited November 2010 in All Encompassing Trip
What are your favorite christmas and holiday movies to curl up with, hot cocoa in hand. How about books you read every christmas?
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  • FenwayFaithfulFenwayFaithful Posts: 8,626
    Home Alone
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  • thefixer9thefixer9 Posts: 9,376
    The Christmas Story.
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  • EnkiduEnkidu Posts: 2,996
    Do cartoons count? Because Rudolph and Charlie Brown are the ones we always watch. But our absolute favorite Christmas cartoon is Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol. If you haven't seen it, check it out. I bet you can find a cheap DVD on eBay. No kidding - it's great.
  • Yield151Yield151 Posts: 267
    ELF!!!
  • keeponrockinkeeponrockin Posts: 7,446
    Elf, Christmas Vacation, A Muppet Family Christmas.
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    Die Hard
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  • jmurrayjmurray Posts: 3,538
    thefixer9 wrote:
    The Christmas Story.

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    Love Actually
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  • Nothingman54Nothingman54 Posts: 2,251
    It's a wonderful life!!!!!!!!!! I love it. It's my all time favorite movie.
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  • One Song GloryOne Song Glory Posts: 710
    I'll be reading Christopher Moore's "The Stupidest Angel" and NOT anything remotely academic between December 17th and January 3rd. :)
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  • PapPap Posts: 28,819
    edited November 2010
    Eat Pray Love (CD, book and DVD in this order) :) Favourite Christmas movie: Dumbo :P
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  • Nothingman54Nothingman54 Posts: 2,251
    When I was a kid there was a movie called the night we saved Christmas. I haven't seen it in 17 years or so.
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    1st movie I saw at the theater.
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  • guitar59guitar59 Posts: 1,221
    Fave Christmas Books: The Polar Express and How the Grinch Stole Christmas
    Movies: How the Grinch Stole Christmas (the old cartoon version...not the Jim Carey one, although I love Jim Carey!) and Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer
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  • JaneNYJaneNY Posts: 4,438
    We like doing a Lord of the Rings marathon on or around Christmas.
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  • LoulouLoulou Posts: 6,247
    Definately National Lampoons Christmas Vacation. I love it when that old Grandma wraps her cat up as a present! :lol:
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  • he.who.forgetshe.who.forgets Posts: 4,593
    National Lampoons Christmas Vacation, A Christmas Story, & Elf are in heavy rotation at my home during the holidays. And I've been reading A Cajun Night Before Christmas on Christmas Eve for about 15 years now:)
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  • RYEzupSFRYEzupSF Posts: 6,003
    Christmas Vacation, Elf and Bad Santa made their yearly debut over Thanksgiving.

    I also read my nephew The Tomten and the Fox. It is a holiday/winter story from Sweden.
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  • JonnyPistachioJonnyPistachio Posts: 10,217
    JaneNY wrote:
    We like doing a Lord of the Rings marathon on or around Christmas.

    I always love doing the LotR flicks around X-mas, although I dont really know why the hell that is. I thought I would be alone on this one... :geek:

    oh, Gremlins is a good holiday flick too.
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  • BinauralJamBinauralJam Posts: 14,158
    Miracle on 34th street ( the original 1949 i think) remake sucked.

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    Bad Santa
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    Christmas Vacation

    Elf

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  • unlost dogsunlost dogs Posts: 12,553
    JonnyPistachio wrote:
    JaneNY wrote:
    We like doing a Lord of the Rings marathon on or around Christmas.

    I always love doing the LotR flicks around X-mas, although I dont really know why the hell that is. I thought I would be alone on this one... :geek:.

    Ooh! Me! Me! Me! Pick me to come to your LOTR marathon! I did just watch the extended versions... again... um last week but honestly any excuse will do. I'll sit in a corner, and I'll be as unobtrusive as an elf. I promise.

    Also, love the movie version of "The Polar Express" and how eerie and creepy parts of it are.

    For books, I'd have to go with "Little Women." And the movie version with Katharine Hepburn, or the one with Winona Rider.
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    Loulou wrote:
    Definately National Lampoons Christmas Vacation. I love it when that old Grandma wraps her cat up as a present! :lol:


    best movie, bar none.

    the scene at the department store is classic, well, i enjoy it. :lol:
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  • keeponrockinkeeponrockin Posts: 7,446
    BinauralJam wrote:
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  • JonnyPistachioJonnyPistachio Posts: 10,217
    unlost dogs wrote:
    JonnyPistachio wrote:
    JaneNY wrote:
    We like doing a Lord of the Rings marathon on or around Christmas.

    I always love doing the LotR flicks around X-mas, although I dont really know why the hell that is. I thought I would be alone on this one... :geek:.

    Ooh! Me! Me! Me! Pick me to come to your LOTR marathon! I did just watch the extended versions... again... um last week but honestly any excuse will do. I'll sit in a corner, and I'll be as unobtrusive as an elf. I promise.

    Also, love the movie version of "The Polar Express" and how eerie and creepy parts of it are.

    For books, I'd have to go with "Little Women." And the movie version with Katharine Hepburn, or the one with Winona Rider.

    haha, sure anytime! Of course you gotta bring a ton of food because the extended versions marathon can set us back a few days!

    And Polar Express is great too!
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