Terminator 2. Perfect for those Christmas blues.

Albert Finney's "Scrooge" gets a lot of play around the holidays.

It's a Wonderful Life is awesome...as is a Christmas Story.

National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation.

You guys already nailed all the ones that matter.

Any of the Silent Night, Deadly Night movies, especially the one with Mickey Rooney

or Jack Frost, about the serial killer who, via freak accident, turns into a snowman and terrorizes a town around Christmas. There's a scene where he rapes a girl with his carrot nose in a bathtub that makes it really fitting for me to sit home alone, watch said movie, get drunk and say to no one in particular, "I don' give a fuck about Christmas."

But how about the Christmas Carol with Henry Winkler as Scrooge?

The MayorofRockNRoll wrote:
or Jack Frost, about the serial killer who, via freak accident, turns into a snowman and terrorizes a town around Christmas. There's a scene where he rapes a girl with his carrot nose in a bathtub that makes it really fitting for me to sit home alone, watch said movie, get drunk and say to no one in particular, "I don' give a fuck about Christmas."

I worked at a video store while in High School and I was always delighted to give people the horror version of Jack Frost when they asked for the Michael Keaton steaming pile Jack Frost. One guy I swapped it out for actually thanked me later when he watched the latter after the former.

As for A Christmas Story, I hate that fucking movie. A couple years ago we went to my Great-Grandma's House for a holiday visit and had to watch the movie three times consecutive on account of her being deathly afraid to change the channel on her cable box because the last time she did it, in 1999, her cable went out and the cable guy didn't come for a week. I think that day was the first and only time in my life I was happy to hear a story about Gall Stones being removed.

jupiter wrote:Seriously, Scrooged gets me every time. It is probably no. 1

I'm with this. But the George C. Scott / David Warner version of A Christmas Carol also gets my vote, as does A Christmas Story. That's the trinity of Christmas film for me.

ironyengine wrote:But the George C. Scott / David Warner version of A Christmas Carol also gets my vote, as does A Christmas Story. That's the trinity of Christmas film for me.

Who does David Warner play?

I need to see this.

Chromodynamic wrote:

bugsmeany wrote:"Bad Santa."

Much better than a Christmas Story, when they have that idiotic 24 hour marathon of it I try to engage in a 24 hour marathon of Bad Santa.. but I usually get wicked drunk and pass out.

I really, really dislike "A Christmas Story"; don't know why, probably some bullshit childhood trauma related to it.

I was surprised it took until the 2nd page for this movie to be mentioned.

It was the first movie I thought of.

Star Wars Holiday Special

burun wrote:

ironyengine wrote:But the George C. Scott / David Warner version of A Christmas Carol also gets my vote, as does A Christmas Story. That's the trinity of Christmas film for me.

Who does David Warner play?

I need to see this.

He plays Bob Cratchit. He plays a good guy. A freaking good guy! Edward Woodward is great as the Ghost of Christmas Present, too.

This had been a family staple since my parents taped it off TV in 1984. Then I met my wife, whose family watched it every year on Thanksgiving.

I can't go without watching Scrooged.

Tree wrote:

burun wrote:

ironyengine wrote:But the George C. Scott / David Warner version of A Christmas Carol also gets my vote, as does A Christmas Story. That's the trinity of Christmas film for me.

Who does David Warner play?

I need to see this.

He plays Bob Cratchit. He plays a good guy. A freaking good guy! Edward Woodward is great as the Ghost of Christmas Present, too.

This had been a family staple since my parents taped it off TV in 1984. Then I met my wife, whose family watched it every year on Thanksgiving.

I can't go without watching Scrooged.

Scrooge with Albert Finney is the one I grew up watching, though I haven't seen it in over 20 years.