Holiday Movies

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you mean out of the new ones that are out now, OP, so many are terrible.

Jingle Bell Heist was cute. I don't feel like I wasted my life like some of the others.

The Guardian agreed
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/nov/26/jingle-bell-heist-review-netflix-comedy

[Anonymous]

My favorite Christmas movie s muppets Christmas carol. It is so good.

I have a love hate relationship with its a wonderful life. I love Donna reed in it. But I feel like it’s actually got kind of a pro suicide message. George Bailey is an obvious hero. If you relay his life without him in it, of course everyone is worse off. But that’s not true for most of us. I’m a pretty decent person that tries to do the right thing. But if you replayed my life without me on it….everyone would be just fine. There’s not a single significant good thing I’ve done that some one else wouldn’t have stepped in to do. I’m just not that special. And that’s true for most of us. So I feel like using the Clarence lens to measure the worth of our lives is a really tough one, and one that most of us can’t meet.

Now compare that to a chirstmas carol. No matter how crappy a person you’ve been, you can turn a page and be less crappy tomorrow. And that’s worth something.

[Anonymous]

Thanks to those who recommended Jingle Bell Heist! It's a great movie!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My favorite Christmas movie s muppets Christmas carol. It is so good.

I have a love hate relationship with its a wonderful life. I love Donna reed in it. But I feel like it’s actually got kind of a pro suicide message. George Bailey is an obvious hero. If you relay his life without him in it, of course everyone is worse off. But that’s not true for most of us. I’m a pretty decent person that tries to do the right thing. But if you replayed my life without me on it….everyone would be just fine. There’s not a single significant good thing I’ve done that some one else wouldn’t have stepped in to do. I’m just not that special. And that’s true for most of us. So I feel like using the Clarence lens to measure the worth of our lives is a really tough one, and one that most of us can’t meet.

Now compare that to a chirstmas carol. No matter how crappy a person you’ve been, you can turn a page and be less crappy tomorrow. And that’s worth something.

Good points. I also love the Muppets Christmas Carol.

For newer movies of the last decade or so, I liked:

Noelle with Anna Kendrick on Disney
Klaus
A Boy Called Christmas
The Wallace and grommet Christmas movie

[Anonymous]

White Christmas. My teens actually like this one and sing the songs.

A Smokey Mountain Christmas. It’s with Dolly Parton and amazing- it’s so charming and very 80s nostalgia


For young kids:
Mickey’s Christmas Carol (the 80s one)
Small One (shorter, ties in to the story of Bethlehem, but otherwise not religious)
Muppet’s Christmas

[Anonymous]

Prancer was a favorite when I was a child

[Anonymous]

Trading Places is my fave holiday movie - 40 years after it was made. So funny and rings truer than ever right now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Family Man
The Holiday
Christmas in Connecticut

I love Christmas in Connecticut! I feel like more people are finding it lately.

[Anonymous]

All time list (don’t agree with the order but it’s very helpful list)
https://www.goodhousekeeping.com/holidays/christmas-ideas/g1315/best-christmas-movies/

2025 list

https://www.goodhousekeeping.com/holidays/christmas-ideas/g69158956/best-new-christmas-movies-2025/

[Anonymous]

The man who invented Christmas - hallmark or life time telling of Charles Dicken’s inspiration for a Christmas Carol. Surprisingly good.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My favorite Christmas movie s muppets Christmas carol. It is so good.

I have a love hate relationship with its a wonderful life. I love Donna reed in it. But I feel like it’s actually got kind of a pro suicide message. George Bailey is an obvious hero. If you relay his life without him in it, of course everyone is worse off. But that’s not true for most of us. I’m a pretty decent person that tries to do the right thing. But if you replayed my life without me on it….everyone would be just fine. There’s not a single significant good thing I’ve done that some one else wouldn’t have stepped in to do. I’m just not that special. And that’s true for most of us. So I feel like using the Clarence lens to measure the worth of our lives is a really tough one, and one that most of us can’t meet.

Now compare that to a chirstmas carol. No matter how crappy a person you’ve been, you can turn a page and be less crappy tomorrow. And that’s worth something.

Here you go muppet lovers!

[Anonymous]

The new ones are not great.

The last good one was Man Who Invented Christmas.

My must watches are:

White Christmas
The Nativity Story (2006) Beautiful, beautiful retelling of the Gospel and birth of Christ.
Miracle on 34th Street (black and white only)
A Christmas Story (classic Americana)
Home Alone (the original)
It's a Wonderful Life (original cut only)
Christmas Vacation
All of the old Rankin Bass Christmas specials
Meet Me In St. Louis
Little Women (with Winona Rider)

[Anonymous]

Silent Night is a Christmas movie where I completely did not expect where it was going. It's not horror but much more like that 'Leave the World Behind' movie with Julia Roberts and Mahershala Ali. (I wanted to call it 'Say Goodbye to the World' lol)

Also over on Reddit in the VintageTV sub there's a link to watch the original movie "The Homecoming" which was so popular in 1971 that The Waltons TV series was spun off of it. The mom and grandpa are different but all the kids in the movie were cast in the show. (I may have missed seeing Jim Bob and I didn't see who plays the Dad. Grandma's the same.)

And every year I think about the "The House without a Christmas Tree" TV movie (1972) that Molly Shannon used for her monologue in her movie "Superstar", both of those together feel like they could be some fun as a double feature.

[Anonymous]

White Christmas.
A Christmas Carol (with George C. Scott)
It's a Wonderful Life
A Christmas Story.
A Christmas Story Story.
Elf
Family Man
The Family Stone
Almost Christmas
Best Man's Holiday

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The man who invented Christmas - hallmark or life time telling of Charles Dicken’s inspiration for a Christmas Carol. Surprisingly good.

Agree, it is good and underrated.