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My Favourite 6 Christmas Movies

December 18, 2015
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Some people will tell you Christmas is all about family, giving and receiving gifts, religion, or eating your own bodyweight in Pringles.

I think it’s all about Christmas Movies. Well, some of it is anyway, a lot of it is about all those other things, of course.

Every year, as well as wearing my vast collection of Christmas themed clothing, there are certain films I have to have seen over the Christmas period or it’s just not Christmas yet. Some people assume that as a Vintage fan I probably spend all my time watching old movies, and while I do love an old movie, there’s actually only one on my Christmas essentials list that really qualifies under that bracket. The rest are just slightly aged!

In our house we have what we rather grandly call a Cinema Room. It’s actually a spare bedroom with a projector screen  that goes over the window as a blind, a sofa bed, a projector and a laptop, but Cinema Room sounds way fancier. When the room isn’t full of washing that I haven’t yet got around to putting away it’s great fun to spend an evening in there with Mulled Wine mince pies and a box of Quality Street watching some of the films on this list.

It’s not a ground breaking list, I doubt very much whether there are any films on here you HAVEN’T seen, but if there are,  I recommend getting hold of it immediately, because you don’t know what you’re missing.

6.Edward Scissorhands

This is only at number 6 because I couldn’t quite decide whether it was a Christmas film or not. I think it is, it finishes with snow and I’m sure it’s Christmas at the end in the film as well. I would re watch it just to check, but ever since I first saw it (at the Cinema back in 1991, you could still smoke in Cinemas in those days and I remember someone behind us chain smoking all the way through) I have been unable to watch Edward Scissorhands without crying. By crying I don’t mean “wiping away an elegant tear” I mean BAWLING MY EYES OUT. I mean blotchy face, snotty nosed, hiccupping breaths and I can’t be seen in public for at least 3 hours crying.

 

5. Scrooged

At number 5, it’s a take on Dickens A Christmas Carol with Bill Murray. This is on Netflix as well, so knock yourself out!

 

 

 

 

 

4. Die Hard

I thought long and hard about the ordering of the next 2 films, and I decided Die Hard belonged at number 4. There’s nothing like Bruce Willis in a vest to make you feel festive. Die Hard 2 is also enjoyable festive, it even has snow. After that they give up on the whole Christmas thing.

 

 

 

 

3. Gremlins

Yep, at number 3 on my favourite Christmas movies list is Gremlins. If you’ve ever worried that you’ve bought someone a Christmas present that isn’t great, at least you can be sure that it hasn’t spawned an army of tiny green killing machines. Probably.

 

 

 

 

2. It’s A Wonderful Life

I know, probably the greatest Christmas movie ever and it only makes number 2 on Retro Chicks list? Well, this is MY list, and it goes in the order of MY favourites. I love It’s a Wonderful Life. Who could fail to finish it with a tiny tear in the corner of their eye (or massive body shaking sobs.)

 

 

 

 

1. Elf

Sorry folk, in the taste free void that is the Retro Chick household at Christmas Elf trumps all those other amazing Christmas Classics. For a celebration of the sheer joy of Christmas it just can’t be beaten, and it also makes me cry at the end. All the best Christmas movies should make you cry, that’s a fact.

 

 

 

What is YOUR favourite Christmas movie?

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  1. Topnewsarena says:
    December 18, 2015 at 2:40 pm

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    December 18, 2015 at 2:56 pm

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  6. Celia Strainge says:
    December 18, 2015 at 5:45 pm

    Yay!!! You’ve got the Netflix fire on too!!! It makes me so happy 😀

    • Retro Chick says:
      December 18, 2015 at 6:46 pm

      That’s not my living room, I wish my living room was that nice! But I know what you mean 😀

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    December 18, 2015 at 7:26 pm

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  8. Fi Phillips says:
    December 18, 2015 at 7:57 pm

    Has to be Scrooged – the fairy with the toaster gets me every time.

  9. Hannah Milford says:
    December 18, 2015 at 8:19 pm

    Apparently Elf the musical is good…

    • Gemma Seager says:
      December 18, 2015 at 8:20 pm

      I haven’t seen that! Is that the cartoon one?

    • Hannah Milford says:
      December 18, 2015 at 8:22 pm

      No it’s on in the west end, Kimberley of Girls Aloud in it…

    • Gemma Seager says:
      December 18, 2015 at 8:50 pm

      Ah! Oh, that sounds cool!

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    December 18, 2015 at 11:41 pm

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  12. Jill says:
    December 19, 2015 at 3:01 am

    Thank you for the suggestions. At our house in Connecticut, Barbara Stanwyk and Sidney Greenstreet in Christmas in Connecticut is a must every year. We also love Fred Astaire’s drunken NYE dance in Holiday Inn and its remake, “White Christmas”; all of It Happened on Fifth Avenue; Judy Garland singing “I’m Dreaming of a White Christmas” in “Meet Me in St. Louis”. In celebration of the 80’s, Christmas Vacation, A Christmas Story, or Trading Places. A Holiday Affair is an interesting romance looking at post war dynamics. The Bishop’s Wife is a different take on the romantic comedy. I have not found a great Christmas movie from the 60’s, though The Apartment is on my list. Happy viewing and Happy Holidays!

  13. Audrey Naylor says:
    December 19, 2015 at 9:03 am

    Imust admit, we watch new movies just about all day.

  14. Tasha Purwin says:
    December 19, 2015 at 9:14 am

    Elf is the bestest Christmas film EVER! Good choices. 🙂 T xx

  15. Jess Barke says:
    December 19, 2015 at 10:36 am

    I properly bawl at the end of Elf whilst singing along. My all-time, isn’t Christmas until I’ve seen it, is a Muppet’s Christmas Carol. 🙂

  16. Faith Al-Egaily says:
    December 19, 2015 at 11:05 am

    Good choices! A Nightmare Before Christmas and Muppet Christmas Carol are my all time faves ?

    • Gemma Seager says:
      December 19, 2015 at 11:13 am

      Oh man! How could I forget nightmare before Christmas!

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  20. Mim McDonald (@crinolinerobot) says:
    December 21, 2015 at 9:24 am

    Wot no Muppets Christmas Carol?! It’s a Wonderful Life, Gremlins and Die Hard are deffo good films – the first of those is my husband’s absolute favourite (and it does indeed make him cry). But it has to be Muppets for me, and the entire Lord of the Rings trilogy between Christmas and New Year.

  21. Indigo says:
    December 21, 2015 at 9:12 pm

    My favorite is, “It’s a Wonderful Life.” I am always left wondering what things would be like if I had not existed…
    Second favorite is, “One Magic Christmas”, and third is,
    “Scrooge” with Alistair Sim.

  22. domesticredhead says:
    December 26, 2015 at 8:24 pm

    I would add ‘Miracle on 34th St’

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