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TOP TEN LIST
CHRISTMAS MOVIES
These are my Top Ten Favorite Christmas Movies. To qualify, they have to meet the following very stringent criteria:
- They must have a Christmas theme in some way.
- I have to think of them, right now.
- I have to like them a lot.
There is no real sense of order here. Happy Christmas!
10. Die Hard
Because nothing says "Our Savior is Born!" like a rogue cop whacking terrorists/bank robbers in a half-completed building in LA. 39 F-bombs, 19 dudes with mustaches, and 22 bad guys taken down with extreme prejudice. Yippee-ki-yay...
9. Lethal Weapon
Yep. Set at Christmas time. What is it with criminals in LA? Have they not learned the rogue cops all bust loose at Christmas?
8. Bad Santa
Billy Bob Thornton as the most grotesque mall Santa ever.
7. Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
Edmund Gwenn as the best department store Santa ever. Oh, and it has Maureen O'Hara in it, too.
6. Gremlins
Because it teaches you to follow the rules. Always follow the rules.
5. Trading Places
One of Eddie Murphy's funniest movies. Dan Aykroyd is is brilliant in it as well. "Is there a problem officers?" "Who's been putting their Kools out on my floors?" "Looking good, Lewis. / Feeling good, Billy Ray!"
4. Scrooged
A modern re-telling of Dickens's classic Christmas tale, starring Bill Murray. I remember taking a date to it, one of the first movie dates I ever did without chaperonage. We made out a lot in the back of the theater. Saw it again later, and enjoyed it.
3. A Charlie Brown Christmas
Charlie Brown, you're hopeless. Depressed by the rampant commercialism of Christmas, Charlie Brown is just trying to find his Christmas spirit. This is a movie I make my sons (now 16 and just shy of 19) watch with me every year. Highlight for me is Linus telling the Christmas story.
2. It's A Wonderful Life
The sappiest movie of all time? Perhaps. But I know I never really feel like its been Christmas until I see it and hear Jimmy Stewart saying "Zuzu's petals!"
1. A Christmas Story
Ralphie. Red Ryder BB Gun. Bunny suit. Leg lamp - "Fragile." I could say more, but I need to go watch it. Again.
1 comment:
Some great choices there, I haven't seen trading places in an age!
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