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Poll: #89πŸŽ„

  • Scrooged (1988) 281
  • Edward Scissorhands (1990) 176
  • The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) 164
  • Elf (2003) 196
  • Bad Santa (2003) 166
  • Jingle All the Way (1996) 115
  • None of these 52
  • 2024-11-27
  • β€”2024-12-07
  • 1150 votes
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**** VOTE FOR ALL YOU WOULD WATCH A REACTION TO!! ****

I have already decided to watch It's a Wonderful Life & A Christmas Story!Movies not chosen doesn't mean they will never be watched. They are still on my to-watch list so make sure you go upvote them on MOVIE REQUEST SITE

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Comments

Benjy

You haven’t seen Elf? 😭

Brian Leonard

I went with Jingle All The Way. It is the only movie here I would be interested in.

Dean

Christmas classic I literally *finally* watched this year and it blew me away: It’s a Wonderful Life. For anyone who hasn’t seen it, it is SURPRISINGLY good and well worth the categorization of Classic

edgecenter

Just about any of the Christmas Carol movies would be great. Just not the musical. George C Scott was probably the best. Also Miracle on 34th St, The Bing Crosby, Bob Hope movies are great too. One of the best rated is Christmas Vacation. Then there's Grinch and Charle Brown.

edgecenter

You should do a separate poll on the best Lifetime Christmas movies. I watched several last year while my wife was in a skilled nursing facility. They were fun movies.

Katie Jackson

A Christmas Carol with Patrick Stewart is really good. Also recommend Miracle On 34th Street, both the original and the 90's version.

DrJonasVenture

If you’re looking for any Christmas themed movies that are non-traditional, check out Eyes Wide Shut (Kubrick) or Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang (RDJ, Val Kilmer, & directed by Shane Black).

NYG316

Good choices. I am partial to the 1947 version of Miracle on 34th Street starring Maureen O'Hara, John Payne, Natalie Wood, and Edmund Gwenn. Of the three versions of this movie, thats my absolute favorite!

Ken Schneyer

How many versions of A Christmas Carol have you already seen, Jen? Both the Alasdair Sim and the George C. Scott versions are classics.

NYG316

I did over 50 Christmas movies last year between classics, Hallmark, Lifetime, and everything else I could find. I just wanted to see how many I could watch from the day after Thanksgiving to Christmas Day. πŸŽ„πŸŽ¬πŸΏ

William

Scrooge the musical with Albert Finney is my favourite version. The songs are very uplifting to me. Though the Patrick Stewart and George C. Scott versions are great too. Oh and Michael Caine is flawless.

Joe Blankenship

Yeah, when I finally watched it a few years ago, I was kinda mad that I waited so long to watch it.

Jon Johns

Scrooged will likely win, but you would LOVE nightmare before Christmas. It's a Musical!!

Martin Nicholls

Eyes Wide Shut as a non-traditional Christmas movie? I'll say - also Terminator 2? That one feels like it needs an explanation :p

Martin Nicholls

Was going to suggest A Christmas Carol (1999) the other week when she asked, but it felt a bit on the nose - classic story, great performance though.

Adam Romero

I do really like the Hallmark movie November Christmas with Sam Elliott! πŸ‘

Geoff S.

The Christmas Carol with George C. Scott is my favorite.

Long-time Sci-Fi Enthusiast

Hi Jen, my favourite version of (A Christmas Carol) is the 1951 Alistair Sim version. Another Xmas staple is (The Shop Around the Corner) 1940, starring James Stewart, Margaret Sullavan & Frank Morgan. The latter you might know from (The Wizard Of Oz) 1939. I also love (The Bishop`s Wife) 1947 which you have already seen. The other, if you actually have never seen it, would be the Musical/Comedy (White Christmas) 1954. It stars Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney & Vera Ellen with a great supporting cast. I also enjoy some of the more modern films, such as those with Bill Murray & Tim Allen in them.

To Wa

Also recommend Spielberg's 1941, set in between Thanksgiving and Christmas.

Banes

Maybe Black Christmas? Or Maybe not - it might be better to keep Jen’s terror and suffering to a minimum this season… xD

Clay F

Glad to see that Jingle All the Way (1996) is last. That movie is absymal. Edward Scissorhands (1990) and Elf (2003) are my top 2 choices.

Joel P

I love Jingle All the Way. It's stupid but it's fun and has a certain corny charm to it that I like. It's a guilty pleasure.

Clay F

I can see it being that if you like that kind of charm, and it's a gulity pleasure with some nostalgia maybe. Makes sense.

Over50Gamer

Me personally... The Nightmare Before Christmas. I'm more of a darkly jolly boy, if anything. πŸ˜„πŸ€£πŸ’€

Daniel Goldberg

The 1951 Scrooge (sometimes listed as A Christmas Carol) with Alistair Sim has spoiled all other versions for me. I can’t recommend it enough. For many of us it is the definitive version. I don’t include Scrooged with Bill Murray in this as it is not a faithful retelling of the story, but is a very funny movie based on it.

Matt

The Family Man 2000 The Holdovers 2023

Kane

I can't believe Bad Santa doesn't have more votes. Not only is it movie I love but Jen's quasi-horrified raunchy comedy reactions are some of my favorite on the entire channel.

Kane

The Alistar Sim one has always been the one true Christmas Carol in my family as well. If you love the story there was a movie that seemed to have flopped and disappeared a few years ago called "The Man Who Invented Christmas" and it's about Dickens while he's writing the Christmas Carol. I thought it was quite a unique take on it, and I really enjoyed it.

Witchfinder General

It's alright to leave on in the background and glance up at the funny moments, but Schwarzenegger is ever popular on YT reactions

Tim

With the anniversary of Pearl Harbor coming up, 1941 by Speilberg would be good.

Clay F

IMDb average rating by users: 5.7 -- Jingle All the Way (1996) 7.9 -- Edward Scissorhands (1990) 7.9 -- The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)

Clay F

*Metacritic 34%, RT 20% (Audience 41%) -- Jingle All the Way (1996) *Metacritic 74%, RT 90% (Audience 91%) -- Edward Scissorhands (1990) *Metacritic 82%, RT 95% (Audience 92%) -- The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)

Clay F

IMDb 8.1, RT 100% -- The Terminator (1984) IMDb 8.6, RT 91% -- Terminator 2 (1986) IMDb 7.8, RT 80% -- Predator (1987) IMDb 7.5, RT 82% -- Total Recall (1990) IMDb 5.7, RT 20% -- Jingle All the Way (1996)

Daniel Goldberg

I heard that the Man Who Invented Christmas was good back when it came out. I wanted to go see it but somehow didn’t get around to it. Still want to see it if I can find it.

Analytical Guy

I wouldn't "recommend" 1941, as in, a movie I think she would enjoy. Say, compared to Edward Scissorhands. But I would absolutely watch her full reaction to 1941. :-)

Eric Janssen

The 1951 Alastair Sim vs. 1984 George C. Scott debate rages on, and I lean slightly to the side of Sin defenders. Close, though.

scott osborne

Scrooged is the best film on the list

Joseph H Searles

I'm pleased to see that you will be watching It's a Wonderful Life and A Christmas Story. I hope you will also watch two other movies from my must see list Miracle on 34th Street 1947 and A Christmas Carol 1951.

To Wa

I think you're wrong. I think she'd love it. On the other hand, if I'm going to recommend a Tim Burton-Danny Elfman-Johnny Depp collaboration, it's going a different "Ed" film...Ed Wood (1994).

Jason Scade

Your Christmas Muppets reaction with sis is my fave festive reaction of yours by far. πŸ’œπŸ’”πŸΈπŸŽ„

zynjams

8 bit Christmas is a fairly newer christmas movie based in the 80s

Carlos Perez

I really don't care about what the "critics" say on those aggregate sites. If we all liked the same movies, it'll be pretty boring 🀣

Clay F

I tend to agree with the critics consensus and thus find those aggregate sites helpful in deciding what movies among thousands of movies to spend my limited tme watching. You may prefer IMDb which is users, not critics. 118,000 users at IMDb gave Jingle All the Way (1996) an average rating of 5.7

Zapp Rowsdower

@EricJanssen, I agree on that. Even though I like everybody who was in it, I found it to be so cheesy without ever making me laugh. I guess it's one of those that you either love or hate.

Zapp Rowsdower

Yes, that's a great one, but with her Star Trek fandom, I thought she might like to see the one with Patrick Stewart. I think the only non-Trek role she has seen of his was X-Men.

Amarant Coral

Rip Bad Santa. We hardly knew ye.

Analytical Guy

I think Stanley Kubrick said that it was a "great" movie. Not a funny movie. But a great one. It definitely was a great big bunch of noise and franticness! :-)

John Zelinka

Bad Santa manages to be that rare movie that is horrifying but still funny as heck.

Dave K

I'll skip this round. Thanks for all you do!

fire12wife

The Family Stone (2005) is a hysterical Christmas movie! The Christmas Chronicles (2018) and The Christmas Chronicles 2 (2020) on Netflix are fantastic, too!

Georgius Agricola

I'm not being a Scrooge by selecting 'None.' I just save my Yuletide viewing for the Alastair Sim's version of 'A Christmas Carol.' My absolute favorite Christmas movie! :-) (Now if Jen wants to reach out through the ether and smack me upside the head with a 2x4, she can do so because I passed on multiple opportunities to drive from Orange to LA county to attend a one-man show of Patrick Stewart reading 'A Christmas Carol.')

Allen Porter

Most of them are decent pictures, I will agree Scrooged is probably the best followed by Edward Scissorhands.

Allen Porter

Tora Tora Tora is a better movie, I know it got panned at the time but military historians do rate it high for accuracy and it gives a seldom seen Japanese viewpoint of Pearl Harbor along with the American one.

Clay F

I like Bad Santa (and voted for it) but not as much as Elf.

Glenn Galloway

Hard to say, you already watched Die Hard.

Joe M

Where is Die Hard 2 (1990)??