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The Holiday Lineup; 2014
Topic Started: Dec 19 2014, 03:58 PM (159 Views)
panzer the great & terrible
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This year's ho-ho-hos:

GREMLINS
CHRISTMAS HOLIDAY
MURDER AT THE VANITIES (don't ask)
THREE GODFATHERS
LOVE, ACTUALLY
PIANO PLAYERS RARELY PLAY TOGETHER (it's a holiday but we can still have fun)
A CHRISTMAS CAROL (the Alistair Sim one of course)
DOCTOR MABUSE, THE GAMBLER (a sugar-remover for Xmas day)
...and I may sneak a Les Blank movie in somewhere. One of the greatest boxes ever.
What are yours?
Edited by panzer the great & terrible, Dec 19 2014, 04:03 PM.
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Every year, I watch IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE and A CHRISTMAS CAROL (aka...SCROOGE, the Sim one, of course).

Besides that, I rotate other holiday favourites, such as:

How the Grinch Stole Christmas
A Charlie Brown Christmas
Scrooged
Die Hard

And I've recently (last year) watched some (new to me) holiday classics that will be added to the rotation:

Christmas in Connecticut
The Shop Around the Corner
It Happened on 5th Avenue
Beyond Tomorrow

I'm sure there are others that escape me right now.



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Well, since I woke up VERY early this morning, I now have 2 of my 3 must see Holiday movies under my belt:
1. LADY ON A TRAIN
2. HOLIDAY INN

Can't seem to find THE MAN WHO CAME TO DINNER. Hmmmm, musta left it at my son's house.
"Nov Shmoz Ka Pop."
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We did THE MAN WHO CAME TO DINNER last week. I loved Jimmy Durante more than ever, and for once Bette Davis was well-cast and fairly restrained. Monte Wooley was excellent too. I wonder why he didn't make more movies: he could have been a splendid villain.
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Last night was our FNF Christmas party. The schedule, in order:

1. Batman, ch. 11: A Nipponese Trap. ("Ah, so, Melly Chlismas, number five. Now we shall turn Professor Warren into a zombie!" - Daka)
2. Mice Meeting You, with Katnip disguising himself as Santa to eat Herman.
3. Howdy Doody's Christmas; Howdy, Buffalo Bob and Clarabelle rescue Santa from a nut.
4. Special Delivery, the Canadian cartoon about the mailman who breaks his neck when he slips on the ice.
5. Christmas Comes But Once a Year, which we see every Christmas. Max Fleischer, Grampy, orphan waifs. You know.
6. The Santa Claus appearance from I Love Lucy, with Vernon Dent as Santa(!); the cast sings Jingle Bells.
7. A selection of Holiday-themed sketches from the long history of Saturday Night Live.
8. Bad Santa, the unrated cut.


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I don't have anything I watch every year, but I do try to read A Christmas Carol every year (it's a short story, ya know).

The wife and I will treat the entire family to a movie at the theater every year, but we only spring for the tickets, no munchies.
It's like Rodney King used to say, "Can't we all get a bong."
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I used to take my sons to the movies every Christmas, too. :-)

I would say A Christmas Carol is more a novella than a short story, but I read it every year as well. Well, most years.
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Personal media traditions, which I try to inflict on friends and relatives with varying degrees of success:
-- "Mister Magoo's Christmas Carol"
-- Some version of the Sherlock story "The Blue Carbunkle" (Original, BBC radio, or Jeremy Brett TV)
-- Mystery Science Theater ("Santa Claus" or "Santa Claus Conquers the Martians")
-- Rifftrax (several holiday discs, but "Santa and the Ice Cream Bunny" tends to win)
-- "One Hour in Wonderland" (1950 Disney TV special, a bonus feature on animated "Alice in Wonderland")
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