Ok here's my list of all time favorite Christmas movies.
1. It's a Wonderful Life You have to love this movie with Jimmy Stewart & Donna Reed . It just wouldn't be Christmas without getting your annual Christmas
sob fest with this movie. I can't watch it without buckets of tears streaming down my
face. Maybe modern audiences like a movie that goes a hundred miles an hour before crashing at the end, but this one is worth every second of build up to the end. You have to love the scene at the end where they are all singing Christmas carols. I mean who doesn't feel all Christmasy when Clarence says,
" You see George you really had a Wonderful Life".
Did you know James Stewart cited George Bailey as being his favorite
character. The part was originally developed at another studio with Cary Grant
earmarked for the role. When Frank Capra inherited the project, he rewrote it to
suit Stewart.
Did you ever get the chills watching the scene where George Bailey jumps into
the water to save Clarence. Well don't. I,t was 90 degrees Fahrenheit that day
that they filmed the scene. That's Hollywood magic for you making it appear to be below zero when it's close to 100 degrees.
My favorite quotes from It's a Wonderful Life:
George Bailey: Just remember this, Mr. Potter: that this rabble you're
talking about, they do most of the working and paying and living and dying in
this community. Well, is it too much to have them work and pay and live and die
in a couple of decent rooms and a bath?
Clarence: Strange, isn't it? Each man's life touches so many other
lives. When he isn't around he leaves an awful hole, doesn't he?
2. Elf
- I know it's a little new to be on a favorite Christmas list, but this one is
one of the funniest Christmas movies ever made. It's total fun for the whole
family. This movie will probably go down as the best of Will
Ferrell's career. Personally, I thought Jim Carrey should have got the part
he played in Bewitched, but I don't think even Carrey could have pulled off the
Elf character Ferrell portrayed for this movie.
3. Christmas with the Kranks - Another new funny family movie. If Tim
Allen keeps this up he's going to be known as the Toolman of Christmas movies.
4. Ernest Saves Christmas - Ernest P. Worrel helps Santa Claus save Christmas. Yeah, I
know it's not Shakespeare and it probably would take a Christmas miracle to get
a good review from a Hollywood critic, but it has a lot of fans. It's good
family fun know what I mean. Jim
Varney, sad to say, is no longer with us. He died of lung cancer back in
2000. Apparently, he was a heavy smoker. He was born in Kentucky and died in Tennessee. Besides playing his most famous character Ernest, he also played Jed
Clampett on the Beverly Hillbillies movie. Another interesting fact, it's been
said Varney's IQ was at a near genius level.
5. Scrooged
- Bill Murray's best movie since Ghostbusters. It was actually filmed not long
after. It's the old Scrooge and ghosts of Christmas story told in a modern
setting. It even has a cameo by the Six Million Dollar Man Lee Majors.
6. Jack Frost
- Great special effects although it was little depressing. I still liked it
though. It stars Batman's Michael
Keaton as the snow man.
7. The Grinch - Jim Carrey as the old mean green grinch. Great magical fun. You
have to love the scene where the Grinch gives scissors to a kid and tells him to
go run and play. Only Carrey could get away with that and make it sound funny.
8. A Christmas Story - Classic story of the kid who was destined to shoot his eye
out with the Red Ryder BiBi gun.
9. White Christmas - Got to have Bing Crosby in Christmas list. It wouldn't be
American.
10. Santa Clause - Tim Allen proves he can deliver toys without permanently wrecking
the sleigh with all those reindeer.
