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Kraichgauer
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24 Dec 2013, 2:00 pm

This thread regularly comes up every year - until this year. So I thought I'd fire it up again.
I'll start with - -

The Junky's Christmas.
Narrated by the late great William Burroughs from one of his short stories by the same name, it's a stop-motion-action film that tells of Daniel, a Junky just out of jail on Christmas, desperate to get a fix. After various endeavors to find money and drugs (including finding a suitcase containing severed body parts), he rents a flop house room. About to shoot up, he hears terrible moaning from the next room. Investigating, he finds a young man in terrible agony from kidney stones. Out of Christmas charity, he gives the young man his fix to ease his pain. Then Daniel's high comes from the spirit of Christmas. :lol:

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24 Dec 2013, 2:31 pm

Bad Santa ! :D



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24 Dec 2013, 2:44 pm

A Christmas Story
Scrooged
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
Jingle All The Way
Deck The Halls
Christmas With The Kranks
Bad Santa
The Polar Express
The Santa Clause trilogy
Home Alone
Elf
Dr. Seuss's How The Grinch Stole Christmas
Unaccompanied Minors
Fred Claus


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24 Dec 2013, 3:00 pm

Die Hard
Die Hard 2

Both movies take place on Christmas eve.



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24 Dec 2013, 3:04 pm

Elf
Just Friends (saw it again the other day, as it is uploaded free on Youtube)
While You Were Sleeping
Home Alone
A Christmas Story
How the Grinch Stole Christmas
Miracle on 34th Street
The Preacher's Wife (version of an older Christmas classic - with Whitney Houston)


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24 Dec 2013, 3:20 pm

A Charlie Brown Christmas, not so much for the story but for the music.


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24 Dec 2013, 3:33 pm

Click here for the imdb link for a movie that captures the true spirit of Christmas.

Click here to read what I really thought about it.



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24 Dec 2013, 6:21 pm

Ha. There is definitely a theme emerging! I agree with most of these and would also add Gremlins to the list.



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24 Dec 2013, 6:27 pm

I'd also like to add an old favorite of mine, Christmas On Mars, a scifi/Christmas movie made and acted in by the rock band, The Flaming Lips. Very dark story about a dying station on Mars where the crew are wracked with sudden violent insanity, and how an alien's arrival provides the Christmas magic to save them.


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24 Dec 2013, 11:17 pm

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer



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25 Dec 2013, 9:09 am

Raymond Brigg's The Snowman



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25 Dec 2013, 10:08 am

Home Alone
Home Alone 2
The Polar Express
Dr. Seuss's How The Grinch Stole Christmas (Both animated and live action)
Nightmare Before Christmas


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26 Dec 2013, 4:22 am

Whyever, every christmas morning (=24th around here) they are playing "The last unicorn" in television, and it has become my habbit to decorate the tree meanwhile, while watching it. :)



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26 Dec 2013, 6:06 am

Schneekugel wrote:
Whyever, every christmas morning (=24th around here) they are playing "The last unicorn" in television, and it has become my habbit to decorate the tree meanwhile, while watching it. :)


Every evening of Christmas Eve, they show It's a Wonderful Life on Channel Five.


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02 Jan 2014, 8:33 pm

Gremlins or Elf



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02 Jan 2014, 9:20 pm

Love Actually


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