Best and Worst of Christmas Movies

[Locomotive Breath]

Me and my wife love watching Christmas movies especially the older ones like Shop around the Corner, It's a Wonderful Life, Miracle on 34th Street, the 1951 A Christmas Carol, Holiday Inn, The Bishop's Wife, Christmas in Connecticut, The Gathering and The House Without a Christmas Tree. For newer movies I really love Christmas Vacation, A Christmas Story and Elf.
For the worst try to see Santa and the Ice Cream Bunny there is a great review on the agony booth web site that is really funny.
link http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&aq=0&oq=santa+claus+and+the+ice&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4GGLF_enUS231US231&q=santa+claus+and+the+ice+cream+bunny

[Amonkey]

Home Alone is just a classic.  I love the National Vacation Christmas movie, when they go out and get a tree or when the cousin arrives.  Great movie.  I thought Elf was pretty good.  The Grinch movie with Carey is alright, but too long.

Then there are some that I can watch once and they'll entertaining.  The likes of Deck the Hall (with Danny DeVito) and I think there's one with Steve Martin where he's trying to go on a vacation.  I just try to stay away from the Hallmark Channel or Lifetime movies as they seem to be extremely cheesy and poor quality.

[Redz]

One of my favorites (of any genre) is The Ref.

Silent Night, Deadly Night gets some points for having the psycho killer Santa whose catch phrase is "Merry Bleepin' Christmas".

I like me some old fashioned, black and white Scrooge too.

[fairweatherfan]

I don't really like Christmas movies, but some of my favorites:

Nightmare before Christmas
Elf
Gremlins (not really an XMas movie but the season is a major part)

[RebusRankin]

Miracle on 34th street
Christmas Carol (1951)
Its a wonderful life
Elf

Refuse to watch the Girch with Jim Carry (akthough have seen clips) because I love the cartoon.

[KCattheStripe]

It's a Wonderful Life.

Everything else can just go home.

[feckless]

Likes

1.  It's A Wonderful Life
2.  Miracle on 34th Street
3.  A Christmas Story
4.  The original Grinch
5.  A Long Kiss Goodnight?

Dislikes

Remakes of any of the above.

[Roy Hobbs]

It's a Wonderful Life takes the cake for me.  In terms of worst, I'd say the remake of the Grinch.  Terrible.

[Bahku]

I love Christmas movies of almost any kind, but my absolute favorites are:

It's A Wonderful Life
The Polar Express
A Christmas Story
The Family Man
White Christmas
A Christmas Carol (George C. Scott; Alastair Sim)
Miracle On 34th Street (All versions)
Christmas Vacation
One Magic Christmas
Trapped In Paradise

[2short]

Its a wonderful life is really heads above all others.
But imo some recent movies:
bad santa-hilarious
nightmare before christmas-one of the most original movies I've ever seen
and brain lock the kid with the red ryder bb gun ??

[KCattheStripe]

The Family Stone is a good one.

[Eja117]

i find Christmas movies to be sorta cliche.

Home Alone was kind of fun.

Even though it's not exactly a movie I'm going for Charlie Brown Christmas special

[MattG12]

I will always watch the same movies at Christmas time every year...

1. It's A Wonderful Life
2. A Christmas Story
3. The Nightmare Before Christmas
4. Miracle on 34th Street
5. Elf
6. Scrooge (Christmas Carol 1951)
7. Home Alone
8. Funny Farm

That's it... that's all I like, unless some random movie comes out of nowhere and is amazing these will continue to be the only Christmas movies I'll watch.

[Bahku]

Can't believe I almost forgot this one: "Scrooged" with Bill Murray and Karen Allen ... Love that one, too.

[Greenbean]

Its a wonderful life is really heads above all others.
But imo some recent movies:
bad santa-hilarious
nightmare before christmas-one of the most original movies I've ever seen
and brain lock the kid with the red ryder bb gun ??

Thats A Christmas Story! Which is my favorite but it may only be because I have the movie memorized due to millions of viewings. I cant remember the first time I saw it.