Oh, I feel like I might get extra credit for this one! I’ve already started making a list of Christmas movies I want to watch. Here’s my current list of movies. Some I’ve not seen yet. Some aren’t *technically* Christmas movies perhaps. I’ve put my favorites in bold. Completely random order. More than a fair share of silly Netflix choices
- Holiday in the Wild
- Polar Express
- Spirited
- Knight Before Christmas
- Santa Claws *This has terrible reviews and is kind of weird but J and I love it. Probably all the kittens*
- Nightmare Before Christmas
- Die Hard
- Christmas Chronicles 1 & 2
- Home Alone
- Home Alone 2: Lost in New York
- Gremlins
- A Christmas Story
- New Christmas Story Sequel on HBO
- Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
- How the Grinch Stole Christmas (animated)
- Charlie Brown Christmas
- Love Actually (note: NOT for the kiddos!!!)
- Christmas Vacation
- Christmas with the Kranks
- Elf
**probably one of my all-time favorites! - Noelle
- Jingle Jangle
- The Princess Switch & The Princess Switch/Switched Again
- The Holiday Calendar**a new favorite from last year
- White Christmas
More Random Movies/TV specials
Clearly, not going to run out of things to watch this holiday season! Here are a few more I forgot though I already hit 25 on my list. Usually try to watch a few of these each Christmas season:
- Nativity 2: Danger in the Manger! *This is a British show and so hard to track down and watch but I love it. I should probably watch the other parts, have never actually seen the 1st or 2nd one*
- It’s A Wonderful Life This was my all-time favorite for so many years. It’s a bit bittersweet for me though as I often watched it during difficult holidays and sometimes those memories bubble to the surface during the viewing of it.
- The Snowmen Dr. Who special
- Krampus
- Pettersson and Findus 2 *not sure if this is still on Netflix
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I’m sure I’ve forgotten a few. Before I run off to get started watching my movies and holiday specials, tell me what’s on your watchlist this year?
My absolute favorites are National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation, and A Christmas Story. I usually watch Christmas Vacation while I decorate the tree. A Christmas Story is a Christmas morning tradition in our house, the marathon on TV playing while we open gifts. I try to watch Rudolph, and the Charlie Brown Christmas each year.
I do enjoy Elf if I come across it on TV but it’s not a must-watch for me. I enjoy the original Grinch too.
Back in 2019 there was a new version of A Christmas Carol that hubby and I watched. It was on FX channel, I think. We loved it! We had it saved on the DVR for the next couple years but must have finally deleted it to make room. I’ll have to search for it this year, see if I can get it recorded. Or maybe I’ll even see if it’s available on DVD.
Christmas Vacation is one of my husband’s favorite movies. Oh, I’m pretty devoted to the Alistair Sim version of A Christmas Carol or the Mickey Mouse one, I’m flexible. Ha! I did watch some movie/documentary type thing about Charles Dickens writing a Christmas Carol last year that was really good. Wish I could remember the name as I’d like to watch it again as well. So many movies, so little time!
FUN list. Many of your list I’ve never seen or haven’t seen in many years. I jotted several down to try and find this year. Many are getting hard to find even on streaming services so when I run across them on Blu Ray I go ahead and buy them. Thanks again for playing along and have a GREAT week.
That’s probably not a bad idea. There are so many streaming services anymore. We have way too many of them in this house and yet it never fails, the movie/show I’ll want to watch will be on one we don’t have.