Christmas is two months from today, you know. (Cue the panic for the busiest two months of the year!)
I know that yesterday I just did a checkup on my fall bucket list, but then last night I found a list of must-watch Christmas movies, and I was curious to see how many of them I'd seen. (I also wanted to see how many of them are on my watch-every-year list.) It's true that anymore, I watch Hallmark movies almost all the time. Sure, they're predictable, but they're also clean, and I like that.
The list I found had different categories, and the first one was Christmas Movies for the Family.
* Elf. This is one of Ryan's all-time favorite movies and is probably his favorite Christmas movie, so we do watch it every year. While I admit being a bit grossed out by the scene where maple syrup goes on everything including spaghetti, I have to say that I feel like Buddy and I are on the same wavelength with Christmas cheer!
* The Santa Clause. I haven't watched this one for years, but it's a cute movie. I don't think I ever saw either of the sequels, but I did think this one was cute.
* The Polar Express. Would you believe me if I told you I've never seen this? I've never read the book either. Clearly I'm not a mom.
* A Charlie Brown Christmas. I do have fond childhood memories of watching the animated Christmas specials on TV. The basement (where our TV lived) was always toasty warm from the stove, and I'd take a bath early and put on my footie pajamas before watching that little tree with its security blanket. Adorable classic.
* Home Alone. I've seen it many times! I have also seen the second one, but never the third one. I guarantee you I would not have survived home alone while my entire family went to Paris. I would have called 911 immediately.
* National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation. Another of Ryan's all-time favorites, so we watch it every year. I aspire to one day have as many Christmas lights as Clark Griswold. I feel I'm on my way.
* The Grinch. I've never seen this one either (the Jim Carrey version). I can't bring myself to watch it, because in my mind, the Grinch should always be a cartoon.
* A Christmas Story. I should NOT admit this in print, but I will: I don't like this movie. I've seen it (more than once) and just don't see what all the fuss is about. I know it's like THE Christmas movie, but I would rather use that two hours to watch more Hallmark. Please still be my friend.
The next category was Christmas Movie Classics.
* It's a Wonderful Life. I have seen this one (several times) and like it, but it's not one I have to see every single year. (I have also seen families recreate the movie poster for a Christmas card, and THAT is pretty cool.)
* How the Grinch Stole Christmas. Another fond childhood memory! I've never seen the Jim Carrey version of this, but I do love the animated version very much!
* Frosty the Snowman. Same as above! Fond childhood memory!
* White Christmas. I don't know that I see this one every year, but I surely could. It is probably my favorite Christmas classic. Love the music, love the storyline. Just love it.
* Miracle on 34th Street. Would you believe me if I told you I've never seen this one? I have no idea why, but I haven't!
* Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer. Another great memory from childhood! I loved all those televised specials equally!
Then there was the category of Newer Christmas Movies.
* While You Were Sleeping. This is actually probably one of my top ten favorite movies period, Christmas aside. I think I used to see a lot of myself in Lucy. Alone at Christmas, mama to a cat, misunderstood in a major moment...
* The Holiday. I've seen it (a handful of times) and I think my favorite thing about it is that adorable little cottage. I just love looking at THAT!
* Four Christmases. Sometimes we feel like this IS our Christmas each year! Not so much because of the storyline, but because of trying to run around making it to all the family celebrations!
There were more movies on the list, but I didn't think all of them were worth talking about here. Did it miss a major winner, though? Do you have a favorite from this list?
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8 comments:
I AM a mom and I've never seen/read The Polar Express either. I think it's about a red train... Maybe :)
We do watch A Charlie Brown Christmas every year but other than that we're not big into watching movies at all, even at Christmas time.
I always have to watch, Home Alone, The Family Stone, Santa Clause, Love Actually (like 20 times), and Meet Me in St. Louis. I'm a good Jew (:
Natasha - I feel better about the Polar Express now! Do they have a bunch of Polar Express train rides where you live? It's all the rage here around Christmas.
Tamar - I have never seen Meet Me in St. Louis! I feel like I've seen the Family Stone and Love Actually - but now I can't remember!!!!! Maybe I should try again!
We are on the same page! We like the same ones and we haven't seen the same ones. And, A Christmas Story...I just don't get all the fuss about that movie, so I am with you. Do you have a must-see list of Hallmark movies? I like many of them, but there are approximately four of them that I seek out every holiday because I can't miss them.
Unknown - That is SO FUNNY that you ask me that because after I wrote the post, I wondered if such a list of Hallmark movies existed! What are the four you must see?
I'm not one to watch movies more than once, but I could watch Christmas with the Kranks over and over. And the Hallmark one where Candace Cameron Bure is a doctor in Alaska.
My four I look for are: The Most Wonderful Time of the Year with Henry Winkler, The Nine Lives of Christmas, A Royal Christmas, and A Bride for Christmas. I'm normally searching new ones each year for Lacey Chabert and Andrew Walker because they are my favorites.
I'm late to the game--catching up after not being able to read for a few months thanks to a move and a new job.
I've seen A Christmas Story at least half a dozen times. My band director for six years loved it. State education laws required every class give a written final. So every year in band, we'd watch A Christmas Story, and then our final was questions based on the movie. Still not a fan of it.
Hallmark has an app where you can track their Christmas movies--which ones are coming out, which you've seen, which you want to see, etc.
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