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'Tis the season to be watching... (Movies you tend to watch/revisit at Christmas.)
Ben Hur more often than not I like to watch at Christmas
Ten Commandments.
Rear Window, Vertigo and North by Northwest.
Die Hard.
Scrooged.
A Wonderful Life is probably the film I have watched the most, I appear to associate Jimmy Stewart with Christmas.
Ten Commandments.
Rear Window, Vertigo and North by Northwest.
Die Hard.
Scrooged.
A Wonderful Life is probably the film I have watched the most, I appear to associate Jimmy Stewart with Christmas.
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On Her Majesty's Secret Service
Muppets Christmas Carol
North By Northwest
To Catch A Thief
Angels and Demons
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No real Christmas theme here. I just love these films and Christmas is a special time, so special films get a watch.
@bondjames When I was a kid there always seemed to be a Hitchcock season on every Christmas so I always like to watch his films this time of year.
Little Lord Fauntleroy, which was shown on Swiss-French TV every 24th of December.
Is not even that bad but once or twice would have been enough ha ha.
The Trouble with Harry is another film I like to watch, recently bought Masterpiece Collection still not watched that yet.
Gladiator
On Her Majesty's Secret Service
It's a Wondeful Life
The Wizard of Oz
Die Hard
Die Hard 2: Die Harder
Die Hard with a Vengeance
Casino Royale
GoldenEye
Miracle on 34th Street
The Third Man
Dirty Harry
The Ten Commandments
A Mupprt Christmas Carol
Saving Private Ryan
Ronin
The Bourne Identity
Independence Day
Cliffhanger
Control
Goldfinger
You Only Live Twice
Odd Man Out
Citizen Kane
Pickup on South Street
The Big Heat
Farewell, My Lovely
Build My Gallows High
Gilda
Deliverance
They Live By Night
Final Destination
Where the Sidewalk Ends
Whirlpool
All the King's Men
The Four Feathers
The Spy in Black
The Yellow Canary
The Red Shoes
A Matter of Life and Death
Lolita
2001: A Space Odyssey
The Godfather
The Godfather: Part II
The Godfather: Part III
Goodfellas
Donnie Darko
Michael Clayton
Minority Report
Spellbound
The Seventh Veil
The Guns fo Navarone
Where Eagles Dare
The Dirty Dozen
The Great Escape
Jaws
Straw Dogs
Not realy that much, moost of time i prefer new episode (or two) of a tv serie.
If count it between 6 December and 6 January, then this i what i watched so far in 2016 and in 2015 and 2014:
Last Saturday 10 December 2016 i watched Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011) On BD.
2nd Christmis/26 December 2015: Troll Hunter (2011) on dvd.
On 03 January 2015 i watched tv premiere of Skyfall. On 29 December 2014 Home Alone 5 to see how bad it actualy be. Smart People on 27 December 2014 on dvd . X-Men: First Class on 6 December 2014.
The 25th Christmas day fall in the weekend this year and possible i wil see or will look on the 24th to resent bought BD of Independence Day for re-watch. I also stil must see Harry Potter 7 and 8, but that wil not happend before re-watched Harry Potter 4 and later. Bourne Legacy mabey or The Dark Knight Rises.
I also have enough other movies i can consider from bigger list of movies i must stil see. The thing is i not watch enough. Example: 31 who end in my collection between 2004 and 2009 i haven't seen, example: Shrek 2 and Shrek 3, Happy Feet, Dogville, Deuce Bigalow 2, The Bourne Identity '88, Kingdom of Heaven, Love in the Time of Cholera, The Golden Compass, Ray, Disturbia, Mousehunt, The Kite Runner, Profumo di donna, The Last Samurai, The Thomas Crown Affair '68, Haven '04.
Scrooge -Albert Finney
It's a Wonderful Life
Strange Confession (Inner Sanctum movie with Lob Chaney has become a recent standard for me)
A Christmas Carol 1938, 1951 or the 1984 version will do.
OHMSS
White Christmas -another recent tradition for me
Die Hard 2 (the first one as well, but the 2nd is actually my favorite)
We're No Angels- Humphrey Bogart Christmas movie
Where Eagles Dare (doesn't have to be Christmas but definitely winter)
An American Christmas Carol- Fonzie as Scrooge!!! AAAYYEEE!!!
Miracle on 34th Street-1947 version
A Christmas Story- another recent tradition
Casablanca- takes place in December
I've gotten thru most of these already this year- some I've popped in twice!
I still need to see that one.
I know some people that didn't care for it but I think it's great. Mitchum is as cool as ever here and Janet Leigh is great. One of my favorites.
Away from that I will watch Die Hard, OHMSS and, as you may have seen in the advent calendar thread, Moonraker. Then there's the other movies I'll watch with my daughter, such as The Santa Clause, It's A Wonderful Life, Elf, Miracle on 34th Street etc.
The Goddather 1 and 2
Eyes Wide Shut
The Lord of the Rings trilogy
OHMSS
For various reasons I consider them all Christmas movies.
Die Hard (not so much recently as I have watched this so many times over the years)
Any Marx Brothers especially Duck Soup and Horse Feathers.
Good shout with The Marx Brothers, I love the early Paramount movies way ahead of the time and still some of the best comedies of ever made.
I'll add that subtitle
;)
Here's a video I made for the holiday season:
If someone asked me what my top five films were, I wouldn't hesitate to include Die Hard. It's such a well crafted, directed, acted and scripted film.
It's also from a time before Bruce Willis became an "action hero" and McClane is more grounded and feels more real because of it. I like the other three films but nothing compares to the scene where John picks shards of glass out of his feet while telling Powell to find his wife when it's all over because he's certain he's going to die.
Other films I love to watch this time of year:
Home Alone 1/2
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
Bad Santa
Planes, Trains, and Automobiles (easily one of my favorite comedies ever)
A Christmas Carol
It's a Wonderful Life
A Christmas Story
Die Hard is a given. On Her Majesty's Secret Service. Maybe 12 Monkeys. Brazil.
The Twilight Zone episodes "Night of the Meek", "What You Need", "Ninety Years Without Slumbering", "Five Characters In Search Of An Exit".
I also replay David Sedaris' recollections of Christmas, The SantaLand Diaries, funny stuff.
Scrooged
Die Hard
On Her Majesty's Christmas Carol
and Home Alone if it's on TV.
And Blackadder, A Christmas Carol, where Blackadder starts out a good man, but seeing how much fun his past selves had, decided to be a very naughty boy.
Christmas Vacation
OHMSS
Christmas with the Kranks
It's also my favorite film.
I will watch it this year again of course but I'll also watch ON HER MAJESTY'S SECRET SERVICE, maybe my second favorite movie of all time.
I saw it for the first time half a year ago with my brothers and after the last scene, five tough para-scout recruits were standing in front of the screen, shocked, gutted, crying.
By the time the end credits rolled I realized that I had witnessed something extraordinary and special.
Would I find it as good if Tracy had not died? I guess I would yes, it would still be the best of all Bond films, but with this ending it gets elevated to legendary status.
Mr. Lazenby easily would be my favorite Bond if there was anything else by him to get a better picture of what a longer tenure might have been like. In OHMSS he's just brilliant from start to finish.
The way he acts when he sees Tracy shot in the car is beyond greatness.