I watch "Love Actually" at this time each year. It is funny,loving and somewhat sad but hits home re relationships and family. And OH Hugh Grant !
Also like, as do the youngsters, "If You Believe" a really sweet story which may hit home.
And my personal favorite is "Olive the Other Reindeer" which cracks me up every time I see it. It is great for kids but has lots of double entendres for the adults . It is animated with Drew Barrymore as Olive,who is a dog who thinks she is supposed to save Xmas.
Miracle on 34th Street! (did I get the street # right? LOL) The original one, of course.
Barb, I'm with you. It just isn't Christmas without "The Christmas Story." It makes me laugh every time I watch it.
we always watch "The Christmas Story"..I love those old musicals "Holiday Inn","White Christmas"
Just for fun I read Skipping Christmas
We always read the Bible about the birth of Jesus.
I too feel that The Christmas Story is what we watch the most. Also Home alone too.
This isn't a book or a movie, but............. :x Our family has this thing of, I guess, mocking, a Christmas carol that gets played a lot, I can't think of the name, but let's see if I can type it in a way that you'll recognize... rotflmao... la lalala la lalala (go up in pitch) la lalala la lalala merry merry merry Christmas! merry merry merry Christmas.. (and then it keeps on....) Anyway.... around Christmas time, whenever we call each other, or if we're around each other, we'll just spontaneously break into that carol. Simple folk, I know, LOL!
It's a Wonderful Life with Jimmy Stewart is our movie of choice for Christmas...
posted by carci
over 2 years ago
Oh, A Christmas Story for sure! The kids always want to get me the DVD but there's just something about having it on TV all day long..
As for books, I always re-read Fannie Flagg's Redbird Christmas and Dave Berry's The Shepherd, The Angel & Walter (I got that title all screwed up I know...)
Barb, there used to be - about 100 yrs. ago - a comic strip called "Pogo". Took place in a swamp. Anyway, they did a take off on "Deck the Halls". It was "Deck the halls with Boston Charlie". My brother & I sing that to each other.....also simple folk...
Wow, bopeep, that's either scary or awesome or both that we have that song parody thing in common. :x
The Grinch Who Stole Christmas, anything with Bing Crosby or Bob Hope...Bo, Pogo is a hero of mine, remember the quote.."We have met the enemy and it is us!"..Pogo Possum
posted by slopok
over 2 years ago
