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Post by travisfickle on Dec 12, 2006 15:08:05 GMT -1
I'm lining up a favourite Christmas movie for every weeknight next week to get me in the mood.
My schedule will be comprising of....
The Muppets Christmas Carol - Love The Muppets, and this has to be one of the best, if most unconventional re-tellings of the Dickens tale. It's narrated by a rat called Rizzo, and Michael Caine plays Scrooge. What is there not to like??
Bad Santa - A darkly humorous film that manages to be anti-Christmas on the surface, but still manages reassuringly to possess a streak of sentimentality. Great alternative viewing.
Gremlins - One of my all-time childhood favourites, blackly comical and brilliantly inventive. The gremlins singing 'Hi-Ho' in the cinema, at a showing of Snow White cracks me up every time. Set during the Christmas holidays; that's all the excuse I need!
It's A Wonderful Life - Undoubtedly for many THE classic Christmas movie. If you're not filling up at the end, then you haven't got a heart.
Scrooged - My personal favourite! Bill Murray is a comedy genius, and for me this is still his best role. Inventive, darkly comical and yet sentimental, the film provides a terrific contemporary slant on the story, as a ferociously ambitious TV exec is taught the meaning of Christmas. And when little Calvin finally speaks at the end, you just can't help but shed a tear or ten.......
Has anybody got any personal faves??
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Post by Tony Yeboah's Lunchbox on Dec 12, 2006 15:29:51 GMT -1
Every year they put on Santa Clause: The Movie with Dudley Moore but i have actually never been arsed to watch it from start to finish....this year will be no different.....
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Post by travisfickle on Dec 12, 2006 15:32:01 GMT -1
Bah Humbug! Mind you, I've seen it. It sucks! Every year they put on Santa Clause: The Movie with Dudley Moore but i have actually never been arsed to watch it from start to finish....this year will be no different.....
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Post by Tony Yeboah's Lunchbox on Dec 12, 2006 15:42:35 GMT -1
On a slightly more uplifting mood, Home Alone never fails to raise a smile....
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Post by ITFC Dudette6 on Dec 12, 2006 15:44:05 GMT -1
The Muppets Christmas Carol - Love The Muppets, and this has to be one of the best, if most unconventional re-tellings of the Dickens tale. It's narrated by a rat called Rizzo, and Michael Caine plays Scrooge. What is there not to like?? Gremlins - One of my all-time childhood favourites, blackly comical and brilliantly inventive. The gremlins singing 'Hi-Ho' in the cinema, at a showing of Snow White cracks me up every time. Set during the Christmas holidays; that's all the excuse I need! Has anybody got any personal faves?? The two you've written there, I love them!
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Post by Super Danny Webber on Dec 12, 2006 15:47:15 GMT -1
Home Alone 2 was good too wasn't a big fan of 3 & 4 Probably because of Macaulay Culkin
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Post by gt on Dec 12, 2006 15:47:19 GMT -1
Scrooged is my favourite too, absolute class and makes me fill up a bit
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Post by travisfickle on Dec 12, 2006 16:05:33 GMT -1
"God bless us, everyone" at the end and "Niagara Falls, Frankie" when Frank and the Ghost of Christmas Past watch his mother on the stairs. They're the two moments for me GT. Scrooged is my favourite too, absolute class and makes me fill up a bit
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Post by travisfickle on Dec 12, 2006 16:07:23 GMT -1
I actually went to the cinema to watch the Muppets Christmas Carol........despite the fact that I was 19 at the time. The Muppets Christmas Carol - Love The Muppets, and this has to be one of the best, if most unconventional re-tellings of the Dickens tale. It's narrated by a rat called Rizzo, and Michael Caine plays Scrooge. What is there not to like?? Gremlins - One of my all-time childhood favourites, blackly comical and brilliantly inventive. The gremlins singing 'Hi-Ho' in the cinema, at a showing of Snow White cracks me up every time. Set during the Christmas holidays; that's all the excuse I need! Has anybody got any personal faves?? The two you've written there, I love them!
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Post by gt on Dec 12, 2006 16:20:05 GMT -1
Yeah those two bits, but the one that gets me is when his old girlfriend is watching the TV in the homeless shelter and he says 'it's not too late is it?' and she mouths 'no' "God bless us, everyone" at the end and "Niagara Falls, Frankie" when Frank and the Ghost of Christmas Past watch his mother on the stairs. They're the two moments for me GT. Scrooged is my favourite too, absolute class and makes me fill up a bit
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Post by JJ on Dec 12, 2006 16:22:16 GMT -1
THE HOME ALONE SERIES IS BLOODY AWFUL
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Post by CHOPPER READ on Dec 12, 2006 16:23:24 GMT -1
Once saw one where this fit bird was waiting up to see if santa really existed and when he came to deliver her presents he was a hunky bloke with a big dick who then pounded the living shit out of her. Very christmassy and all that.
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Post by JJ on Dec 12, 2006 16:38:57 GMT -1
Is it the one where he emptied his sack all over her?
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Post by The Lucky C on Dec 12, 2006 16:55:19 GMT -1
It's A Wonderful Life and Scrooged were the two I was thinking of when I saw the thread title. Classic films.
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Post by travisfickle on Dec 12, 2006 19:07:24 GMT -1
I've been thinking Hannah. Do you think Gremlins were the forerunners to chavs??? The Muppets Christmas Carol - Love The Muppets, and this has to be one of the best, if most unconventional re-tellings of the Dickens tale. It's narrated by a rat called Rizzo, and Michael Caine plays Scrooge. What is there not to like?? Gremlins - One of my all-time childhood favourites, blackly comical and brilliantly inventive. The gremlins singing 'Hi-Ho' in the cinema, at a showing of Snow White cracks me up every time. Set during the Christmas holidays; that's all the excuse I need! Has anybody got any personal faves?? The two you've written there, I love them!
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Post by travisfickle on Dec 12, 2006 19:07:59 GMT -1
Spot on there too, GT! Yeah those two bits, but the one that gets me is when his old girlfriend is watching the TV in the homeless shelter and he says 'it's not too late is it?' and she mouths 'no' "God bless us, everyone" at the end and "Niagara Falls, Frankie" when Frank and the Ghost of Christmas Past watch his mother on the stairs. They're the two moments for me GT.
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Post by Teesside White on Dec 13, 2006 19:34:41 GMT -1
the 1st 2 Home Alone's
Muppets Xmas Carol
both Gremlins films
all true greats
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Post by spurrsgirl on Dec 14, 2006 9:44:51 GMT -1
I like A Christmas Carol with George C Scott in it, although the Alister Sim version is good too. For a bit of sugary Christmassy viewing I like Miracle on 34th Street.
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Post by Remember Jesus on Dec 14, 2006 9:46:55 GMT -1
Holiday Inn
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Post by Giar on Dec 14, 2006 9:48:21 GMT -1
ahh its gremlins time of year again i see
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