Essential Christmas Movies

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Merry Christmas everyone! I hope everyone is having a wonderful holiday. My family does most of our celebrating on Christmas Eve, so it's bumming around and watching movies for me today. Here's a quick list of my favorite holiday films.
Nightmare Before Christmas
This film works for Christmas and Halloween. I never get tired of watching it. 


Gremlins
This film screams nostalgia for me. I remember having the story on a little record, and I liked listening and comparing it to the movie.



A Christmas Story
HOOOO HOOOO HOOOOOOOOOOOOOO



Bad Santa

I worked at a movie theater when this was showing. Our theater was in the mall, and the mall Santa went to the late show in his Santa costume. He loved it. I'll never forget that. 

A Christmas Carol
This story has been done so many times, but my favorite will always be the Disney version. I watched it again with my son a few days ago, it still holds up.

Comments

  1. s.December 25, 2014 at 10:47 AM

    That's a cool Bad Santa story! My favorite Xmas movies are Love Actually and first Bridget Jones' movie which is set around Christmas at some points of the film. Hope you are having a very merry Christmas!

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    1. Brittani BurnhamDecember 25, 2014 at 7:38 PM

      I hope you have a very merry Christmas as well. (I got a Stannis shirt lol)

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  2. thevoid99December 25, 2014 at 2:33 PM

    I totally agree with that list. Not a bad one in the bunch.

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  3. LukeDecember 25, 2014 at 10:04 PM

    Bad Santa is so enjoyable. Nice list!

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  4. RuthDecember 25, 2014 at 11:35 PM

    Ahah, that's a hilarious story about the mall santa seeing Bad Santa. Great post here, Merry Christmas Brittani!

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    1. Brittani BurnhamDecember 26, 2014 at 6:40 AM

      I picture all the mall Santa's loving this film. lol

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  5. Big Screen Small WordsDecember 25, 2014 at 11:44 PM

    Great list! Bad Santa was a great holiday movie!

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    1. Brittani BurnhamDecember 26, 2014 at 6:39 AM

      It is. That's going to be a classic Christmas film later on. Probably the raunchiest one.

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  6. KatyDecember 26, 2014 at 10:28 AM

    One of our family traditions is to watch the 24 hour A Christmas Story marathon. I'm always surprised by how fast that goes by. Great picks and hope you had a wonderful Christmas. Love that Bad Santa story!

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  7. Kevin PowersDecember 26, 2014 at 11:33 AM

    I watched A Christmas Story four times yesterday.

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    1. Brittani BurnhamDecember 27, 2014 at 6:56 AM

      Yes, Edward Scissorhands, I forgot about that one. That's a great one too.

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  9. Candice FrederickDecember 26, 2014 at 8:28 PM

    YES! tho, i can't get thru a christmas story

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  10. JoshDecember 30, 2014 at 10:43 PM

    Ooh, nice choices. I actually haven't seen any of these (in entirety) in years. Lol.

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    1. Brittani BurnhamDecember 31, 2014 at 6:42 AM

      The Mickey Christmas Carol I hadn't seen in the longest time either. That one is never on TV.

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