In narrowing the plethora of holiday movies down to five choices, I'm sure I have left someone's favorite out in the cold. If this is the case, please vote "other" and write in your choice in the comments. After all, every time a reader leaves a comment, an angel gets its wings.
It's a Wonderful Life Release Year: 1946
Heartwarming Message: Each man's life touches so many other lives. When he isn't around he leaves an awful hole, doesn't he? Remember, no man is a failure who has friends.
Gift Idea: The moon
Zuzu Bailey: Teacher says, every time a bell rings an angel gets his wings.
A Christmas StoryRelease Year: 1983
Heartwarming Message: Sometimes, at the height of our revelries, when our joy is at it's zenith, when all is most right with the world, the most unthinkable disasters descend upon us.
Gift Idea: An Italian ("fraa-gee-lay") leg lamp
Ralphie: I want an Official Red Ryder Carbine-Action Two-Hundred-Shot Range Model Air Rifle!
Santa Claus: You'll shoot your eye out, kid.
Christmas VacationRelease Year: 1989
Heartwarming Message: Oh, the silent majesty of a winter's morn... the clean, cool chill of the holiday air... a redneck in his bathrobe, emptying a chemical toilet into my sewer...
Gift Idea: A set of glass moose mugs
Clark: Can I refill your eggnog for you? Get you something to eat? Drive you out to the middle of nowhere and leave you for dead?
Eddie: Naw, I'm doin' just fine, Clark.
The Nightmare Before ChristmasRelease Year: 1993
Heartwarming Message: It's simple really, very clear, like music drifting in the air, invisible, but everywhere: just because I cannot see it doesn't mean I can't believe it!
Gift Idea: Nightmare-themed Travel Yahtzee
Mayor: How horrible our Christmas will be!
Jack Skellington: No. How jolly!
Mayor: Oh. How jolly our Christmas will be.
ElfRelease Year: 2003
Heartwarming Message: The best way to spread Christmas Cheer is singing loud for all to hear.
Gift Idea: Singing lessons with Zooey Deschanel
Buddy: Why don't you just say it? I'm the worst toy-maker in the world. I'm a Cotton-Headed Ninnymuggins!
9 comments:
I'll have to go with The Christmas Story. You'll shoot your eye out...
Christmas Vacation all of the way, but you did miss quote Clark on that one Dave, but I will forgive you. "Don't throw me down Clark." "I'll try not to Aunt Bethany."
Very observant, Hali. I did edit the Christmas Vacation quote for content. We try to keep things PG around here.
It was a tough decision for me, but I went with Christmas Vacation. Perhaps it reminds me a little too much of my relatives. :)
I had to pick elf cause it reminds me of christmas in NYC.
How else could you make Christmas better than by combining it with Halloween?
A five way tie, huh? Guess I better break that up. The Nightmare Before Christmas is easily my favorite movie out of all of these, but I am voting for the classic Christmas Story as my favorite "holiday" movie. Yes, there is a difference.
"Flick says he saw some grizzly bears near Pulaski's candy store!"
I'm going with "It's a Wonderful Life"
I think it's one of the finest films ever made with a greatg message.
Maybe I'm a bit of a sap but I have a lot of great friends and family who have helped get me through some rough times. I feel like I am richer for it.
All good choices, even though I think the inclusion of Nightmare is just so you can fit Tim Burton in there somewhere. A Christmas Story is good, but it was never a big family tradition in my house to watch it. Christmas Vacation is also good, but again, I got introduced to it through my college roommates.
So it comes down to It's a Wonderful Life and Elf. While It's a Wonderful Life is great for all the reasons mentioned above, I think for me Elf is one of the first Christmas movies that I feel is for our generation. And it's freaking hilarious. "Francisco! That's fun to say!" "Buddy the Elf, what's your favorite color?" SO many good quotes.
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