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Location: NC | I have two that come to mind.........
1-The Christmas Story with Ralphie and the Red Ryder...........!
2-A Christmas Carol.............a timeless Dickens that will be shown 100 years from now I am sure!
Well........probably my last post until after Christmas unless I find a PC to write from.......on the road tomorrow after delivering Christmas presents to less fortunate kids in our community.
MERRY CHRISTMAS ALL! :D |
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Location: NJ | it's a wonderful life
cute movie but it ain't
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Location: Midland, MI | It's a Wonderful Life is my favorite holiday movie of all time.
Al- Cynical isn't bad. People tend to tell me that I come across as sarcastic, jaded and/or cynical. My standard reply is, 'You're wrong, I'm just more experienced than you. Give yourself some time.' YMMV. |
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Location: Pacific Northwest Inland Empire | Any of the many reworkings on the theme of "The Gift Of The Magi". Decisions, and selfless sacrifices. That rekindles any embers of altruism I need to carry on this work. |
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Location: Tennessee | Miracle on 34th Street. |
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Location: SoCal | I like all of the above. How about Holiday Inn? |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | The ones that I made of my kids....years ago before they went and grew up on me....and moved away to start their own lives.
Still have great relations with them but it is not the same as when you can swing them through the air, give piggy-back rides, go to the zoo, etc., etc.
I am sure that most of you know what I am talking about! |
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Location: south east Michigan | The Christmas Story.
Ralphie rocks. |
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Location: Vernon, CT | National Lampoon's "Family Christmas"!!!! But the top favorite video rental according to Blockbuster is "The Santa Claus 2." Comedy is king with me but there is something to be said for the old classics too. Play On!
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Location: the BIG Metropolis of TR | "A Christmas Story" is my favorite because it reminds me so much of when I was growing up (same time period - same memories) I've loved that movie since the 1st time I saw it.....long before it became a "classic" and stations like TBS started showing it for 24 hours straight!!
I also like the old "Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer" My favorite line in the show is near the end when Yukon Cornelious is asked how he and the Abominable snowbeast survied the fall over the cliff he says......'Bumbles Bounce!!!'
cracks me up every time :D
Two other that are fast becoming my "favorites" are "Scrooged" w/Bill Murray and "How the Grinch stole Christmas" w/Jim Carey
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Location: SoCal | I gotta admit, I fell asleep during Jim Carey's "The Gringh".
But I loved "The Santa Clause". |
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Location: Upper Left USA | What was the title of he animated story where the Snowman comes alive from the magic scarf and takes the boy to the North Pole. Haunting musical score and great animation. |
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Location: the BIG Metropolis of TR | Frosty the Snowman........"Happy Birthday!!!!"
(I think also that it was the hat that made his come to life....?) |
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Location: Freeport, IL | Hey,
Favorite Christmas movie: Bad Santa and Billy Bob Thorton - brilliant.
Regards,
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Location: south east Michigan | The Nightmare Before Christmas has an awesome soundtrack by Danny Elfman. |
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Location: NJ | m woody
that was called "the snowman" I played that for the kids I taught in school for many years. It is an absolute brillant animated work and no matter how big and bad the kid was there was not a dry eye in the class when it was over.
can I change my vote? |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | "Santabear's First Christmas". It's not really what you would call "animated". It's just still photos from the childrens book of the same name. The photos fade in/out. The narration, reading of the story, is done by actress Kelly McGinnis who has a wonderful tone for this kind of reading. And the musical soundtrack is solo acoustic guitar by the late Michael Hedges. This is really a great one. It's about a 20 minute DVD. If you buy the soundtrack (Windham Hill), that's even better. Of course it does not have the photos from the book. But it conists of two tracks. The first is the whole story told by Kelly and music by Hedges. The second track is the same thing with out the narration. Dave |
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Location: NJ | Wow! . . you guys've already hit on a lot of my faves . . .
"The Snowman" WAS a good one! (I hope my daughter still has that one somewhere . . .) I seem to remember there was another one done by the same artist/animator that had to do with a tree.
Yeah Dave, the Hedges/McGillis "SantaBear" was great! I used to have that one on LP when it first came out (story on one side - music on the other). Windham Hill also did a nice version of the "Velveteen Rabbitt" (which did touch on Christmas) with Meryl Streep and George Winston.
I've always seemded to have an affinity for the various versions of Dickens' "Christmas Carol", from the old Mr. Magoo version to the Bill Murray adaptation in "Scrooged". They did a made-for-TV version some years ago with George C. Scott that was quite good. My fave though has to be the old, original b&w version (I forget the actor's name). I particularly like the part where Scrooge wakes up in the morning acting like a madman and freaks out the biddy old housekeeper . . .
"Mixed Nuts" (Steve Martin) is a good one as well. |
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Location: NJ | Mr magoo as scrooge is fantastic |
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Location: Central Florida | Hands down, the favorite around here is "A Christmas Story."
For me, that one has it all; comedy, nostalga, love of family and the pains of growing up. I especially love how the old man, who appears detached and somewhat a buffoon throughout (frageelay!), really comes through and is the hero in the end. That part gets me everytime.
"You'll shoot your eye out, kid..."
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Location: Central Florida | Hands down, the favorite around here is "A Christmas Story."
For me, that one has it all; comedy, nostalga, love of family and the pains of growing up. I especially love how the old man, who appears detached and somewhat a buffoon throughout (frageelay!), really comes through and is the hero in the end. That part gets me everytime.
"You'll shoot your eye out, kid..."
Jeff |
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Location: NJ | . . the mom was kinda' hot, too . . . |
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Location: NJ | Anything's possible . . .
. . . how much ya' willing t'pay??
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Location: Central Florida | "It's a major award!"
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Location: Upper Left USA | Thanks Al!
The Snowman it is. It hit me the same way!
For all of you changing strings "be careful, don't poke your eye out!". |
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Location: Pacific Northwest Inland Empire | Cliff, the b&w "Christmas Carol" actor: Alistar Sims.
Froeliche Weinachten und Eine Gluckishe Neu Jahr! |
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Location: RI. That small State out East | The Homecomming...
This was a made fot TV with Ed Asner as the dad.
He looks and sounds a lot like my dad... I look for it every year... I havent seen it for 3 or 4 years now.
I'd stay up late for this one...
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Location: NJ | Woz;
Wasn't "The Homecoming" the pilot for "The Waltons"?
Or was the actor who played "JohnBoy"in it?
(For some reason, that title makes some kind of "Waltons" connection in my mind . . |
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Location: RI. That small State out East | No...
This was an Old man who just found out he didn't have much time left and he had been a ass for years... He finds his x wife and they call all the kids to show up...
Modern day 1975 /1980...
It doesn't fit everyone... It just reminds me of my Dad. Ed Asner plays a good roll. It is kind of sappy |
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Location: Queens, NY | Scrooge - The 1970 musical with Albert Finney.
Some of my animated favorites:
-A Charlie Brown Christmas
-The Grinch That Stole Christmas
-The Selfish Giant |
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Location: NJ | Screw Jim Carrey!! . . Karloff IS The Grinch!!
Y'can't beat "A Charlie Brown Christmas" . .
Simplistic "Graphic Blandishment" (a term taken from the end credits), funny/sappy storyline, phenomenal soundtrack!! |
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Location: Yucaipa, California | ...so Cliff, CB Christmas is better than "A Very Brady Christmas"??? :confused: :eek: |
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Location: NJ | Gregg Brady's a FAG!!!
LINUS could kick his ass! |
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Location: sc | Its a wonderfull life would be mine then CB Christmas-some of the little house christmas shows. |
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Location: Fayetteville, NC | It was indeed the Pilot used for The Waltons and also narrated by Earl Hammner. |
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Location: NJ | Woz;
I believe you're thinking of "The Gathering" . . |
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Location: Converse, Texas | Charlie Brown Christmas |
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Hmmmmmm? |
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Location: Fayetteville, NC | GOOD GRIEF HIZZ!!! :D |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | In no particular order
Apocolypse Now
Full Metal Jacket
Platoon |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | Just kidding!
Let's see probably that old chestnut
It's a wonderful life
followed by a christmas story. |
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Hmmmmmm? ;) |
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Now yer talk'in! |
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Favorite Christmas Movie.....