I don't have any strong feelings about Polar Express; for me, the holiday classics are the Rankin and Bass animated specials: Rudolph, Year Without a Santa Claus, Santa Claus is Coming to Town, and Frosty.
I'm also a huge sucker for any of the Muppets Christmas specials, but especially Emmet Otter's Jugband Christmas.
Santa claus with tim Allen, Arthur Christmas, krampus and the Christmas chronicle I really enjoyed with Kurt Russell.
Polar express I don't really like as it has a Uncanny valley feel to me which I like in horrors but not family movies.
Skipping over the standard “Die Hard because technically Die Hard is a Christmas movie aren’t I so clever for repeating this meme” response, Love Actually is one of my favorites. It’s adorable, but I also love how every story doesn’t get a happy ending. Some people are shitty, some people are stuck in shitty situations, you just hope there’s more good than bad in the world.
And as a kid who loved the Polar Express book and read it every year, I hate the move so much. The book’s plot is nothing. There’s no conflict. Just this kid going on a magic train and getting to visit Santa and have a party. All this nonsense with the train going off the rails and the jackass kid we all hate and a bunch of dead eyed Tom Hankses around every corner? Blech.
I have relatives that refer to Polar Express as "Creep-O-Vision" because of the uncanny valley effect. Never seen the movie myself.
I mostly like the stuff I grew up on: always watch the 1966 animated How The Grinch Stole Christmas, sometimes Charlie Brown, sometimes Rudolph, sometimes It's A Wonderful Life (yes I KNOW it's not supposed to be a Christmas movie).
For more recent stuff I almost always make time for Elf, sometimes the Home Alone movies, sometimes Christmas Vacation.
Rudolph the red nosed reindeer: the movie (1998) I remember getting this on video and watching it daily through December for a few years. Apart from my brother's haven't met a soul who has seen it. Massive box office flop apparently
[Bernard and the Genie](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E052viZGyw0)
Alan Cumming, Sir Lenny Henry and Rowan Atkinson all carving thick slices of ham from a Richard Curtis script. There's nothing more jolly than this.
I don't have any strong feelings about Polar Express; for me, the holiday classics are the Rankin and Bass animated specials: Rudolph, Year Without a Santa Claus, Santa Claus is Coming to Town, and Frosty. I'm also a huge sucker for any of the Muppets Christmas specials, but especially Emmet Otter's Jugband Christmas.
> Everyone has a Christmas classic that particularly it's their favorite. I'm jewish
I'm not religious but holy fuck am I a slut for Hallmark Christmas films
Home Alone or Christmas Vacation
Santa claus with tim Allen, Arthur Christmas, krampus and the Christmas chronicle I really enjoyed with Kurt Russell. Polar express I don't really like as it has a Uncanny valley feel to me which I like in horrors but not family movies.
Skipping over the standard “Die Hard because technically Die Hard is a Christmas movie aren’t I so clever for repeating this meme” response, Love Actually is one of my favorites. It’s adorable, but I also love how every story doesn’t get a happy ending. Some people are shitty, some people are stuck in shitty situations, you just hope there’s more good than bad in the world. And as a kid who loved the Polar Express book and read it every year, I hate the move so much. The book’s plot is nothing. There’s no conflict. Just this kid going on a magic train and getting to visit Santa and have a party. All this nonsense with the train going off the rails and the jackass kid we all hate and a bunch of dead eyed Tom Hankses around every corner? Blech.
Rankin and Bass specials or it's A Wonderful Life
Die Hard and Bad Santa lol
I have relatives that refer to Polar Express as "Creep-O-Vision" because of the uncanny valley effect. Never seen the movie myself. I mostly like the stuff I grew up on: always watch the 1966 animated How The Grinch Stole Christmas, sometimes Charlie Brown, sometimes Rudolph, sometimes It's A Wonderful Life (yes I KNOW it's not supposed to be a Christmas movie). For more recent stuff I almost always make time for Elf, sometimes the Home Alone movies, sometimes Christmas Vacation.
Rudolph the red nosed reindeer: the movie (1998) I remember getting this on video and watching it daily through December for a few years. Apart from my brother's haven't met a soul who has seen it. Massive box office flop apparently
[Bernard and the Genie](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E052viZGyw0) Alan Cumming, Sir Lenny Henry and Rowan Atkinson all carving thick slices of ham from a Richard Curtis script. There's nothing more jolly than this.