It's the holiday season and a time that everyone gathers with the family and sits around stuffing their faces, opening presents and watching Christmas movies. Now believe me I KNOW there are many great Christmas movies that are not on my list here but movies like "Miracle on 34th Street" and "It's A Wonderful Life" aren't the type of flicks I like, so spare me those cheesy lame ass black and white movies this list below are the ones I'm gonna make my family watch whether they like it or NOT!! Happy Holidays and please feel free to leave comments about your favorites that maybe I missed
10. Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer - Okay so i said no cheesy movies but this stop motion animation reminds me of when I was little and when Christmas was the greatest holiday ever! It's a small sentimental moment from me I promise it won't happen again on this list
9. Santa Clause: The Movie - This one is from 1985 and stars Dudley Moore as an elf named Patch and John Lithgow as a toy maker named B.Z. who wants to knock Santa out of the Christmas business so he can rule Christmas himself. They have magic lollipops that make kids fly and eventually make candy canes that do the same but are dangerous when they are exposed to too much heat and will EXPLODE! Oh drama at it's best
8. Home Alone - My little brother used to look like this kid when he was young which made this an instant household classic! It put Macaulay Culkin on the map to stardom and eventually drugs and family issues but damn was it worth it. The actualy stars in this are Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern as the "Wet Bandits" doing there best to rob the McCallister's home and surviving the onslaught of defense mechanisms little Kevin has put up around the house.
7. The Santa Clause - Tim Allen in his prime as Scott Calvin who catches the real Santa on his roof and when he falls Calvin becomes the new Santa Claus due to the Santa CLAUSE and starts taking on the traits of Santa like the the bowl full of jelly stomach and white hair and beard. It's a fun one for the whole family
6. Die Hard - So it's not exactly the most holiday oriented movie but it does take place at a Christmas party and they throw out different Christmas dialogue during the whole movie and has Christmas music in it so it counts damn it! Total guy movie and it's the one that made Bruce Willis a mega star. In fact we can throw in Die Hard 2 on this one as well as it takes place during Christmas time just like the original. Either way two great shoot em up, blow em up movies that capture the manly holiday spirit. YIPEE KI-YAY MOTHER FU**ER
5. Elf - Will Ferrell in all his glory as Buddy. As an infant Buddy was an orphan who climbed into Santa's bag and was taken to the North Pole. It will have you in stitches at points
4. Scrooged - Bill Murray stars in this updated version of the classic "A Christmas Carol". He plays Frank Cross who is the youngest TV executive in the business but is a total dick to everyone including his family. To change his fortunes he is visited by 3 ghosts... the ghost of Christmas Past, Present and Future. Murray is awesome in this role but I like Bobcat Goldthwait as Elliot Loudermilk as my favorite character in the movie.
3. A Christmas Story - An absolute classic about Ralphie Parker and his desire for his very own Red Ryder carbine action 200 shot range model air rifle! Now I've stated that this movie isn't really all that great if you didn't grow up watching it. Watching it for the first time as an adult is pretty boring but I was one of the lucky ones who latched on to this one when I was itty bitty. If you are parent with little rugrats running around MAKE SURE you have them watch this, it will stick with them forever!
2. Gremlins - How can you not dig this one??? Gizmo is a mogwai that is purchased by Mr. Peltzer as a gift for his son Billy. Gizmo is cute and cuddly but needs special attention so you must follow 3 rules... Don't let him near bright light especially sunlight cause that will kill him. Do not let him near water and finally NEVER feed him after midnight. And obviously when Billy gets his mogwai he succeeds in breaking every single one of these rules in about a 48 hour period and all hell breaks loose! Gremlins everywhere tearing crap up and destroying the entire town! They even pick on the poor radio DJ doing his show... that's just uncalled for! Favorite scene is when the Gremlins break Mrs. Deagle's electronic chair that goes up the stairs for her and she is thrown out the window! HILARIOUS
1. National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation - The Griswalds are back and side splitting hilarity insues through the entire movie! Clark just wants his old fashioned Christams to go smoothly and get his Christmas bonus from work so he can cover the check he wrote for a new swimming pool he's putting in at his home. Needless to say nothing goes the way it was planned... favorite part has to be Clark ripping on his boss after he gets his "bonus". It goes as follows:
"Hey. If any of you are looking for any last-minute gift ideas for me, I have one. I'd like Frank Shirley, my boss, right here tonight. I want him brought from his happy holiday slumber over there on Melody Lane with all the other rich people and I want him brought right here, with a big ribbon on his head, and I want to look him straight in the eye and I want to tell him what a cheap, lying, no-good, rotten, fore-fleshing, low-life, snake-licking, dirt-eating, inbred, overstuffed, ignorant, blood-sucking, dog-kissing, brainless, dickless, hopeless, heartless, fat-ass, bug-eyed, stiff-legged, spotty-lipped, worm-headed sack of monkey shit he is. Hallelujah. Holy shit. Where's the Tylenol?"
By far my favorite Christmas movie! So there you have it MY top 10, so if the family gets a little too much to take the next couple of days just pop in one or all of these films and enjoy! And remember who recommended them to ya! HAPPY HOLIDAYS EVERYBODY
JD