Anyone have any favorite holiday-related movies? “Christmas Vacation” is my favorite. A New Jersey family recreated some of the movie at their home and it benefits Toys for Tots.
https://weirdnj.com/weird-news/christmas-vacation-with-the-griswolds-of-new-jersey/
On my last day of work I give in to the Christmas spirit and listen to “driving home for Christmas”
And we always have to watch Elf 
My parents are so amazing to throw an awesome Christmas for my 8 sibling and I. My favorite part is waking up unreasonably early and checking the clock until 6:00am when I am allowed up with my brother(s) to open our stockings.
My brother and sister and I were allowed to get our stockings as soon as we woke up (when it was still dark out!” Those days are long, long past but I carry them in my heart.
My eldest brother killed that very quickly with his new electric toothbrush at 2am.
Same here. We could open our stockings at whatever ungodly hour we woke up, but, had to wait until 6am to wake our parents.
Those were the days. I think I’m the biggest kid I’m my house now, my wife always needs to remind me not to wake our kids up at an ungodly hour…
We didn’t have a lot growing up, but, Dad would always take overtime shifts and mom would work extra so that Christmas morning was pure magic for my brothers and I.
We are still working on the routines, 7 yrs in, but enjoy it no matter how it rolls out.
My favorite X’mas movie to cue up after wrapping the gifts is Die Hard.
“Now I have a machine gun / Ho ho ho”
Yes, I’ve found “my people”. It isn’t Christmas until Hans Gruber falls from the Nakatomi Tower.
I’ve heard debates about whether Die Hard is an actual Christmas movie. Haha. If you make it a Christmas movie, then it’s a Christmas movie!
Growing up my favorite was…
One night I was going to sleep over a friends house and when I was there I realized Rudolph was on and up to that point I watched it with my mom every year. It was the first tear-filled panic attack of my life. My grandmother was there because she was friends with my friends mother. My grandmother took me home and I missed Rudolph but at least I was home.
Rudolph was my favorite too!!! We watched it the day after Thanksgiving. It was my 6 year old daughters first time and she loved it!
Wife and I just finished up Die Hard last night to kick off our Christmas movie run. I’m excited for Elf and A Christmas Story out of what is left - everything else on tap is kinda whatever for me. Rudolph and Frosty are daytime shows for the kid, although we enjoy them as well.
Btw, watching some of those classics as an adult are fascinating experiences. I view Rudolph especially so differently now. “Wait, the solution is to tear out all of the Bumble’s teeth?!” That’s pretty messed up. Stuff of nightmares. And during pretty much that whole movie Santa is just an insufferable (male anatomy). Still fun to watch my kid get super into it though.
I had to go to yt to check on what you said about the Bumble because I could not remember. Yikes.
On a lighter note, wouldn’t David Spade make a great Hermey?
Ha! I could see that. Especially a younger David Spade.
I nor my family /friends are that religious. Its still like halloween for us. We’re going to get Chinese food and watch horror movies.
My sister’s family goes out for Chinese food every Christmas day because of their love for the movie, A Christmas Story.
One of my favorite Christmas movies is Fred Claus. Anyone else seen it? I don’t usually hear about it much at all.
I saw it a few years ago. Pretty funny.
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