My Favorite Movies (Christmas Edition)...

Looking for a movie with a Christmas theme to watch this weekend? Here are my favorites:

	The only reason Elf is at number 10 is that it is still relatively new, and I have only seen it once. Will Farrell is hysterical, especially when he finds out that Santa is coming to the department store and like a little kid exclaims “SANTA! OH MY GOD! SANTA'S COMING! I KNOW HIM! I KNOW HIM!” Then upon learning that it’s not who he thought, Buddy tells the mall Santa “You're not Santa. You smell like beef and cheese! You don't smell like Santa.”
	Although this is not really a Christmas movie, Better Off Dead has a great scene where Lane’s mom makes his father dress up as a reindeer. What makes this scene especially amusing is the fact that his dad is played by David Ogden Stiers, otherwise known as Maj. Charles Emerson Winchester, III from the TV show M*A*S*H.
	Once again, not really know as a Christmas movie, Lethal Weapon is simply a fun (and one of the first) buddy cop movies that started the Glover/Gibson franchise. The scene that introduces Gibson’s character does take place in a Christmas tree lot where he does a very funny Curley imitation.
	This is a very good action/suspense movie that pairs Gene Hackman with Will Smith who both end up in the wrong place at the wrong time. Enemy of the State centers on the taped assassination of a US Senator that ends up in a bag of Christmas gifts. Be sure to look for a very funny, uncredited, role by Seth Green.
	As The Window Manager points out, Die Hard is a “Christmassy” movie. The hostages that Willis’ character saves are attending a company Christmas party, and throughout the movie he complains that it is a terrible way to spend Christmas Eve.
	Trading Places takes place primarily during Christmas and New Years, and there is perhaps nothing funnier that Dan Aykroyd pulling smoked salmon out of his Santa suit on the subway and then snarling at the young woman across from him.
	Between the two Santa Clause movies and now Christmas with the Kranks, Tim Allen might become best known for his Christmas movies. This is not necessarily a bad thing, as the Santa Clause movies are good and from what I hear, Christmas with the Kranks is a very funny movie. The highlight to this movie is watching Allen (in sweats because his clothes don’t fit) order every dessert on the menu during a board meeting.
	One of only two funny movies Chevy Chase ever made, Christmas Vacation is even funny on network TV. This movie has one of the finest rants of all time, when Clark Griswold finds out that his Christmas bonus is a membership in the “Jam of the Month” Club: 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, four-flushing, 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?
	A Christmas Story is the tale of a little boy and his quest to get a Red Rider BB Gun for Christmas, while all the adult figures in his life tell him “You’re gonna shoot your eye out kid!” I double-dog dare you to not enjoy this movie.
	Here is what I wrote about It’s a Wonderful Life in August of 2003: Every year around Christmas I have to watch this movie, and every year when Jimmy Stewart finds Zuzu's petals I start to tear up. Capra did not intend this to be a Christmas movie, but as far as I am concerned it is not the holidays without It's a Wonderful Life. Mrs. Miller’s Time and I were flipping channels the other night and happened to catch the last 20 minutes of this classic, and even without seeing the everything else I once again got misty eyed at the end.

Comments

[Toni]

Heh. Better Off Dead is such an AWESOMELY funny movie. The scene in which the mom makes that revolting green jello stuff for dinner- that MOVES- had me in stitches.