What makes a good Christmas movie to you?

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This may or may not be prep for something I've got cooking for later today or later this week so I wanted to test the temperature of the film room by determining what makes a good christmas movie in your eyes? Is it something subversive like the Bad Santa or Kiss Kiss Bang Bang or something heartwearming like A Christmas Story or It's a Wonderful Life (which is a dark movie when you think about it)?

I firmly believe there are several ways to look at a Christmas movie and they all don't have to involve people unwrapping presents, but just something based around the holiday. So what do you normally watch around this time since it's December 1st and we're 24 days away? Are you the more sentimental type, the cynical type, or the anti-establishment anti-commercial type? Or do you prefer more religious flavor?

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If it's a backdrop to a story that could happen anytime of the year and Christmas is that extra present under the tree I most often like it.
Like Die Hard and Home Alone
 

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You don't think Home Alone has Christmas in the forefront breh?

Parents leave their child homa alone and are trying to get back.
Could work anytime of the year but works extra well in Christmas time.
 

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Parents leave their child homa alone and are trying to get back.
Could work anytime of the year but works extra well in Christmas time.

That's fair. But I think everything about that movie is Christmas and it just permeates it too much to be in the background: The christmas family vacation, the shopping, the decorations, the fact that all he wants for christmas is his family back, especially his mom, the fact that the wet bandits look to rob houses during christmas since they know that's when people are on vacation, the way he and the old man bond over the christmas play. Even John Candy's band is traveling for christmas.
 

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That's fair. But I think everything about that movie is Christmas and it just permeates it too much to be in the background: The christmas family vacation, the shopping, the decorations, the fact that all he wants for christmas is his family back, especially his mom, the fact that the wet bandits look to rob houses during christmas since they know that's when people are on vacation, the way he and the old man bond over the christmas play. Even John Candy's band is traveling for christmas.

I'm just talking the basic premise. I hate when movie like Love Actually which are #1 about Christmas and #2 something else.
 

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when i watch christmas movies I like movies that are more about the christmas spirit

eg A Christmas Story (watched every year for over 20 years straight)
Elf
Bad Santa
it's a wonderful life etc

etc rather than something like die hard
 

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Well that's always the right answer and best answer but why lol
that movie just hilarious to me
so much fukkery
from the bee bee gun
to homeys lil buddy gettin his tounge stuck to the pole
the leg lamp
i be wanting all christmas movies to be like that
the holiday vibe with like a cartoony feel to it lol
 

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when i watch christmas movies I like movies that are more about the christmas spirit

eg A Christmas Story (watched every year for over 20 years straight)
Elf
Bad Santa
it's a wonderful life etc

etc rather than something like die hard

Die Hard could be about the christmas spirit also breh..at its core, it's about a man trying to put his family back together and atone for the sins he's made. Isn't that what Christmas is about? Family and forgiveness?

that movie just hilarious to me
so much fukkery
from the bee bee gun
to homeys lil buddy gettin his tounge stuck to the pole
the leg lamp
i be wanting all christmas movies to be like that
the holiday vibe with like a cartoony feel to it lol

It's probably the movie I've seen the most in my life. I watch the marathon every year and the movie just makes me happy
 

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Die Hard could be about the christmas spirit also breh..at its core, it's about a man trying to put his family back together and atone for the sins he's made. Isn't that what Christmas is about? Family and forgiveness?



It's probably the movie I've seen the most in my life. I watch the marathon every year and the movie just makes me happy
yeah
that movie definitely aged well too
cant ever get tired of a Christmas Story
 
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