Did you come to this page looking for movies like It’s a Wonderful Life and Miracle on 34th St? Well, you’ve made a terrible mistake. This is not going to go the way you envisioned. Instead, prepare yourself for the ten best Christmas movies that are actually fun to watch.
10. A Christmas Story: Some of you may be asking, “Hey you said no movies like It’s a Wonderful Life and Miracle on 34th St, what gives?” Easy, lay off the fist waving. A Christmas Story sneaks into number ten on this list because it’s a timeless classic that will be playing on look every Christmas til the end of time. It’s not one of my favorite movies but I had to throw it in there at least at number ten to appease some of the old timers, you know who you are. So enjoy your time with Ralphie as he almost, but never quite does, shoot his eye out, take your side in the battle of the lamp, and of course whatever else it is you love about this 1983 Christmas classic.
9. The Nightmare Before Christmas: This is a Tim Burton classic. One of the most original ideas I remember seeing ata kid and even then I knew it was pretty awesome. Who doesn’t love the story of Jack Skellington finding out about Christmas and having Halloween take over the Christmas holiday to hilarious, or dire depending on your personal preference, consequences? The answer is no one, no one doesn’t like that. The fun musical numbers were able to hold my attention as a kid. I mean yes, Jack, what is this indeed?
8. Trading Places: The Dan Aykroyd/Eddie Murphy classic tale about Murphy’s less fortunate street-smart conman trading places (HA) with Aykroyd’s snobbish Louis Winthorpe III as part of a $1 bet between two one-percenters. Don’t worry, those guys will get theirs in the end and I have a feeling that Murphy and Aykroyd will come out just fine. Great movie showcasing two greats at their finest.
7. Scrooged: No, this is not the tale of Scrooge McDuck and how he got his money bin. This is a modern take on Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol with the part of the Ebenezer Scrooge character played by the always great Bill Murray. Murray can do no wrong in my book and this is a classic Christmas tale with Bill Murray, what can be better? God bless us everyone.
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6. Bad Santa: Billy Bob Thorton plays a character….ok Billy Bob just plays himself I guess. It seems like this is just what he would be like on a regular basis. Bad Santa is not your classic feel good Christmas story. It’s twisted and kind of depressing a lot of the way through with the hard drinking Bad Santa character being a terrible human being. By the end he sees the light though and he’s at least not terrible.
5. National Lampoons Christmas Vacation: Clark Griswold wants to plan the perfect Christmas with his family and of course it doesn’t go as planned. From “chopping” down a Christmas tree to putting up lights, this is the best of the National Lampoons and Chevy Chase brings it. It sure is nipply in here, Clark, it sure is.
4. Gremlins: Ok, who didn’t want to have their very own Mogwai when they were a kid? I still randomly hum the Gizmo song and who doesn’t remember the rules. Keep him away from light it could kill him, keep him away from water because he will multiply and never, under any circumstances, feed him after midnight. Then there’s a thing about if you feed them at 11 pm but they’re bodies are working under a different time zone then you’re screwed. Ok, I made that last part up. Gremlins was one of those movies that was original and kind of creepy for kids. Check out Phoebe Cates telling her story on how she found out Santa didn’t exist.
3. Elf: Will Ferrell plays a human that was raised by elves and goes off to meet his father played by James Caan. This was Ferrell’s first big starring vehicle. Yes, Ferrell was coming off of Old School where he was the stand out performance but this was his real first marquee movie. After Elf he went on to do Anchorman a year later. Do yourself a favor and watch this again because I did not appreciate this the first time I saw it. Then it just got better on repeated viewings. Plus it has Zooey Deschanel singing in a shower and if that doesn’t do it for you then I don’t know what will. Check out some of the funniest moments above.
2. Home Alone: Hey, how could you not love this movie? A family leaves on vacation and forgets to take eight-year-old Macaulay Culkin with them. So for three days he has to shop for food, shave, and fight off the Wet Bandits, a pair of thieves who, for some reason, HAVE to rob this one house. Seriously, it borders on obsessive. This is a kids movie that has some extreme cartoon level violence that should have killed the Wet Bandits at least a half dozen different times or left them laying in a pool of blood. You keep the change you filthy animal.
1. Die Hard: Was there ever any doubt? Die Hard is THE Christmas Movie of all the times. A movie about terrorists taking over a building with only one man standing in their way. From this movie came an avalanche of clones trying to replicate the success of this classic by doing Die Hard on/in/at (Blank). Steven Segal did Under Siege AKA Die Hard on a Boat, Sean Astin did Toy Soldiers AKA Die Hard in a Boarding School, Jean-Claude Van Damme did Sudden Death AKA Die Hard in a Stadium, and Wesley Snipes launched his career with Passenger 57 AKA Die Hard on a Plane. Everything about this movie holds up today. Bruce Willis IS John McClane and Alan Rickman’s Hans Gruber AKA Bill Clay, was a great adversary. I can’t imagine any red blooded American who doesn’t love this movie and with Carl Winslow around to give McClane a ear to cry on is a treat. Watch it this holiday season and you and the family can yell out, yippee-ki-yay….well you know the rest.