Best Christmas Movie - Boardsies Decide

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Declan A Walsh

Round 1, Match 11

Scrooged because it is funny and Bill Murray is great in it. While I have heard of the latter film, I don't believe I have ever seen it - same old story!

Scrooged great film love it.

banie01

Scrooged!

Bill Murray being bill Murray, the cab driver, the ghosts it's the best adaptation of a Christmas Carol ever!

ArnoldJRimmer

Scrooged, Bill Murray is fantastic in it, but so many others, such as Bobcat Goldthwaite as the man who was fired, ghost of Christmas past, and whoever played the slimy Brice Cummings

xalot

Scrooged

quickbeam

And Scrooged makes short work there and is in to the next round.

Loughc

Scrooged, vintage Bill Murray being Bill Murray, apparently he hated filing the movie but it never really showed.

quickbeam

Round 1, Match 12

Home Alone (1990)



https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099785/

An eight-year-old troublemaker must protect his house from a pair of burglars when he is accidentally left home alone by his family during Christmas vacation.

Stars: Macaulay Culkin, Joe Pesci, Daniel Stern



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The Family Stone (2005)



https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0356680/

An uptight, conservative businesswoman accompanies her boyfriend to his eccentric and outgoing family's annual Christmas celebration and finds that she's a fish out of water in their free-spirited way of life.

Stars: Dermot Mulroney, Sarah Jessica Parker, Claire Danes

Toto Wolfcastle

Home Alone. A proper Christmas classic.

Also Starring LeVar Burton

Home Alone because it's amazing and was also clearly the inspiration for the Saw franchise.

Yester

Home Alone because it doesn't have Sarah Jessica Parker in it.

home alone

because it's a real christmas movie!

dominatinMC

Home Alone, not even competitive!

Yester

Yester wrote: »

Home Alone because it doesn't have Sarah Jessica Parker in it.

:D:D

banie01

Home alone, because it's brilliant slapstick and Joe Pesci!

Necro

Home Alone, proper christmas movie imo. That being said, I'd have voted Family Stone over any of the previous few matches.

Declan A Walsh

Round 1, Match 12
It has to be Home Alone as it is a very amusing storyline with Joe Pesci and company being great idiots! I think I might have seen The Family Stone once, but I can't remember it very well unfortunately!

Green&Red

Home alone is the greatest christmas film of all time

Close her up

irishejit

Looks like a Home Alone whitewash ya filthy animals

quickbeam

Home Alone stomps in to Round 2.

quickbeam

Round 1, Match 13

The Great Escape (1963)



https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057115/

Allied prisoners of war plan for several hundred of their number to escape from a German camp during World War II.

Stars: Steve McQueen, James Garner, Richard Attenborough



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Santa Claus: The Movie (1985)



https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089961/

The legend of Santa Claus is put in jeopardy when an unscrupulous toy manufacturer attempts to take over Christmas.

Stars: Dudley Moore, John Lithgow, David Huddleston

dominatinMC

Tough one...but it's The Great Escape for me

Also Starring LeVar Burton

The Great Escape because it's epic and has one of the most iconic and easy to whistle along to theme tunes of all-time.

banie01

Santa Claus the Movie...

It had an actual elf in it! And John Lithgow being Uber dickish before he was dick!

I also convinced my sister that a pile of moss was actually magic and she ate a bowl of it before our mother clattered me

Necro

Santa Claus the movie cos its actually a Christmas movie

Tell me how

The great escape.

Heavily swayed by iconic tune.

whatawaster

The Great Escape is fantastic, but it's never been a Christmas move for me. I've never sat down and watched it at Christmas.

Santa Clause for me

Santa Claus the Movie

because it has Santa in it??!!

Green&Red

Santa Claus the movie. Again an actual Christmas film, at this rate I’m expecting to see platoon or The Godfather here

Also the first film I ever saw in the cinema

Loughc

Santa Claus the Movie, great memories of seeing this as a child growing up, instant Christmas classic.

tusk

Green&Red wrote: »

Santa Claus the movie. Again an actual Christmas film, at this rate I’m expecting to see platoon or The Godfather here

Also the first film I ever saw in the cinema

You forgot LOTR

ArnoldJRimmer

The Great Escape as like a lot of the movies so far, its shown over Christmas, and can be associated with Christmas, so can therefore be called a Christmas film. And the other one is complete sh!te

Yester

The Great Escape. Great to watch at Christmas and it has Steve McQueen and whistling.

Toto Wolfcastle

The Great Escape. I watched Santa Claus: The Movie for the first time a couple of years ago and let me tell you, if you like it but haven't seen it since you were a kid, do not watch it again. It's shockingly bad. The Great Escape might be far far too long, but at least it's not Santa Claus: The Movie.

quickbeam

Santa Claus: The Movie in to the next round.

Speaking of LotR, is it just me, or does Santa Clause look a lot like Theoden in the picture above? I've never seen the movie, and when I was searching for pictures it was all I could think of.

Declan A Walsh

This is a bit like calling a song a Christmas Song solely because it was in the charts at Christmas time. I didn't vote this time as I did not see either film, although I did hear of them!

mloc123

The great escape - having just watched Guy Martin recreate the motorbike jump last night

whatawaster

If Muppet's Christmas Carol doesn't show up in this I'm going to be extremely upset

quickbeam

Round 1, Match 14

Fred Claus (2007)



https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0486583/

Fred Claus, Santa's bitter older brother, is forced to move to the North Pole to help Santa and the elves prepare for Christmas in exchange for cash.

Stars: Vince Vaughn, Paul Giamatti, Elizabeth Banks



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Trading Places (1983)



https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086465/

A snobbish investor and a wily street con artist find their positions reversed as part of a bet by two callous millionaires.

Stars: Eddie Murphy, Dan Aykroyd, Ralph Bellamy

Declan A Walsh

mloc123 wrote: »

The great escape - having just watched Guy Martin recreate the motorbike jump last night

You're too late!

Round 1, Match 14:
Trading Places is a very entertaining film with some great performances. Fred Claus was just tolerable.

banie01

whatawaster wrote: »

If Muppet's Christmas Carol doesn't show up in this I'm going to be extremely upset

Dammit I completely forgot about that!
That and Scrooged are the best Christmas Carol adaptations.

It should be settled by a fight to death between Caine and Murray!

quickbeam

Declan A Walsh wrote: »

This is a bit like calling a song a Christmas Song solely because it was in the charts at Christmas time. I didn't vote this time as I did not see either film, although I did hear of them!

Stay Another Day?
Mad Word?

Yester

Trading Places for drunk Santa!

banie01

Trading Places...

So many iconic lines and JLC's boobs! They are fantastic baubles and a lovely pair

Necro

Trading Places on the basis that Fred Claus is an abomination even by Christmas movie standards

tusk

Fred claus is great. But trading places is a classic. Plus JLCs bubs

ArnoldJRimmer

Trading Places, Dan Ackroyd as drunk Santa is excellent

ArnoldJRimmer

whatawaster wrote: »

If Muppet's Christmas Carol doesn't show up in this I'm going to be extremely upset

I've got you covered on that one

Tell me how

Trading places.

Fred is as good as his namesake playing at Utd. Not very. (Thankfully)