If you answer Die Hard, then you better actually watch Die Hard on Christmas
I can only think of two Christmas movies I have actually watched on Christmas and enjoyed:
The Santa Clause
It’s A Wonderful Life
Collected Suggestions From Below:
Bad Santa
Violent Night
Scrooged
Die Hard
Gremlins
National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation
Home Alone
White Christmas
Nightmare Before Christmas
A Christmas Story
Planes, Trains and Automobiles
Jingle All The Way
The Great Escape ?
Rare Exports
Christmas Chronicles 1 & 2
The Wizard of Oz
Deck the Halls
How the Grinch Stole Christmas
Hard to disagree with your choices. I must confess I also really like SCROOGED. I know, I know; it’s a comedy but it also has some really meaningful parts.
I don’t think I like most serious Christmas movies…
My sister and I like Die Hard and Gremlins, which both take place during Christmas.
National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation is relatively funny, but it probably isn’t worth watching over and over again like Die Hard or Gremlins.
One movie that my whole family hates (with a passion) is A Christmas Story, though we do like the part where the kid’s tongue gets stuck to the metal pole.
As bushmaster just mentioned, Scrooged is good (and funny), but I don’t know if it’s worth multiple viewings.
EDIT:
It’s a comedy, but the original Home Alone is a really good Christmas movie.
Home Alone 2 is also good, but the third movie isn’t all that great.
The “serious” in the title was just to hopefully prevent the thread from devolving into an argument over what constitutes a Christmas movie. For the record, I do think Die Hard is a perfectly fine choice.
I forgot about Gremlins or I would have added that to my list!
I just looked at an online list of the “best” 50 Christmas movies, and I can recommend Trading Places.
That movie is really intelligent, and funny, but I don’t think it’s actually about Christmas that much, if I remember correctly.
By the way, I saw Black Christmas, which is a slasher from 1974.
You would think that I would like that one because I like horror movies so much, but that one isn’t all that great (if I remember correctly), even though it was kinda groundbreaking for the slasher/horror genre.
I think I saw someone on the net joking that it was a “red flag” if anyone listed “Black Christmas” as their favorite Christmas movie (I don’t even know what it is about so I can’t comment)
Yeah, that film is more of a punchline than a movie that’s worth watching.
It’s a typical slasher, but with a lot of phone calls featuring profanity (spoiler alert. )
Do I have to pick just one? Die hard (watched at Christmas!) was always my top choice but Violent Night’s giving it a run for its money.
Honourable mentions to Gremlins and the first Home Alone. Can I include Planes, Trains and Automobiles? They’re trying to get home for Christmas and it has John Candy in it.
(I don’t even know what it is about so I can’t comment)
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