Christmas Movies

[moonlettuce]

So, I'm doing our department's Christmas quiz again this year. Thing is, quite a few people have the interwebs and it makes it less fun if they can google the answers. In order to combat this, I've come up with a format (and for 'come up with' read 'nicked from a pub quiz one of my team went to last week') that should stop the cheating. I'm going to put in a screenshot from a movie and ask people to name the movie.

Which leads me to you lovely people.

I need the names of Christmas movies I can use.

So, bring me your movies. Bring me the movies about Christmas. Bring me the ones set at Christmas. Bring me the movies with any tenuous Christmas link you can think of ::grin::

Comments

[alyse]

I take it you're looking for less obvious Christmassy movies. Hmmm:

The Nightmare Before Christmas
Gremlins
Trading Places (isn't Dan Ackroyd dressed up as a boozy Santa at one point?)

Obvious Ones:

White Christmas
A Miracle on 34th Street
Santa Claus vs the Martians

[libitina]

Love Actually

... and I saw an ad for those awful Home Alone movies that implied they were Christmas themed.

Also, my plane leaves in a week.

[spikeface.livejournal.com]

Bad Santa, The Family Stone.

[dmarley.livejournal.com]

The fact that Die Hard was the first movie I thought of probably says something about me.

[lonelybrit]

Hmm The Snowman / Father Christmas, It's A Wonderful Life, Hogfather, Hostile Hostages (might also be called The Ref, Kevin Spacey and Denis Leary anyway), Home Alone and, erm, Gremlins (isn't there a Christmas tree at one point?).

[lost-house.livejournal.com]

merry christmas mr lawrence. mmmm, david bowie...
definitely use bad santa :)

my god, wiki really does have a page for everything... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Christmas_films. Cat2 on that page gives you some *really* tenuous ones :)

[unovis-lj.livejournal.com]

Holiday Inn (1942)
White Christmas (1954)
Miracle on 34th Street, of course-- the original 1947 one, not the remake
A Christmas Carol (any of them, including things like Scrooged -- but The Muppets disturbingly come to mind)
A Christmas Story (1983)
Lady and the Tramp
The Polar Express (ick)
Robin and the 7 Hoods (ends with Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin dressed as Santa)
The Coca Cola Kid (the part with the Coca Cola Santas being rebuffed by the regional Australian soda maker townies; Greta Scaatchi stripping out of her Santa outfit on top of Eric Roberts...more)
The Thin Man (1934) !William Powell with a cocktail shaker; Myrna Loy with packages; WP shooting the ornaments off the Christmas tree; The next person who says Merry Christmas to me, I'll kill 'em.

hah...

ETA: Because I keep thinking about this...
Stalag 17
Meet Me in St Louis
*** Futurama: Bender's Big Score (because nothing says Christmas like the evil Robot Santa of doom, the christmas tree bomb, and Tinny Tim)

[pomkeygeekange.livejournal.com]

Rent (me thinks I will be pimping it at people again soon!) has part of the plot set around Christmas. Most obvious link, Angel in a Santa dress...yum. Less obvious link Its a year in the life from dec 24th 9 pm eastern standard time. So you could use any part of it really.

Other films that come to mind, memory seems to be telling me that the MASH movie had a Christmas scene in but I could be getting mixed up with the TV show.

The muppets Christmas carol may be too obvious right along with the Garfield Christmas movie (Gawd can not believe I just admitted knowledge of that) but how about one of the adaptations of a Christmas carol?

Want to be really hard then if you could find an adaptation of loves labored lost-especially if you use an updated one such as oh I don't know the one from 2000-it has a reference to Christmas in the dialogue.

Oh forgot one, the new one called Four Christmases.

[realpestilence.livejournal.com]

Scrooged, starring Bill Murray. :)

[planetkiller.livejournal.com]

Only ones I can think of off the top of my head are Hogfather and The Hebrew Hammer. And the second is actually about Santa's kid trying to et rid of Hannukah and Kwanza.

[planetkiller.livejournal.com]

And the Santa Clause movies since that icon is from the first movie...

[cat-77.livejournal.com]

Totally unrelated, but absolute icon love!

[cat-77.livejournal.com]

Someone already mentioned the first one that popped to mind, which was Gremlins.

We had a "party" day at work where they solicited fave Christmas movies to watch. The winners were National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, A Christmas Story, and Elf. Fellow coworker johnnym77 suggested The Long Kiss Goodnight because there is a Christmas scene as well. My partner's fave is Nightmare Before Christmas, if any of those help.

[spikeface.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I made it meself. :-)

[catwalksalone]

Elf, While You Were Sleeping, The Polar Express, The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe, The Christmas Shoes (FUNNIEST film about a dying woman EVER), The Christmas Visitor (\Dean McDermott/), Prancer Returns (I HAVE HALLMARK OK?), Serendipity (starts and ends at Christmas), Breakfast With Scot (ends at Christmas), Batman Returns (set at Christmas), A Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie

[xandutch.livejournal.com]

Just watched Four Brothers. There are some very few Christmas decorations on the street in the last scene. *g*