Comments on: My Top Ten Holiday Movies http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/12/25/my-top-ten-holiday-movies/ Fri, 06 Nov 2009 06:17:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: Mort http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/12/25/my-top-ten-holiday-movies/#comment-1106897 Mort Mon, 05 Jan 2009 17:32:39 +0000 http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/?p=9304#comment-1106897 Bachelor Mother, with Ginger Rogers Holiday Inn, with Fred Astaire, and Bing Crosby. The Bishop's Wife, with Cary Grant. And I've become a fan of David Niven, this year. Bachelor Mother, with Ginger Rogers

Holiday Inn, with Fred Astaire, and Bing Crosby.

The Bishop’s Wife, with Cary Grant.

And I’ve become a fan of David Niven, this year.

]]> By: chineseman http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/12/25/my-top-ten-holiday-movies/#comment-1106877 chineseman Mon, 05 Jan 2009 16:49:18 +0000 http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/?p=9304#comment-1106877 <strong>greatings...</strong> usefull... greatings…

usefull…

]]> By: DAB http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/12/25/my-top-ten-holiday-movies/#comment-1100341 DAB Sat, 27 Dec 2008 15:09:27 +0000 http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/?p=9304#comment-1100341 For Christmas Story fans here is a list of 10 favorite lines from the movie (beyond "You'll shoot your eye out, kid" that is) 1. He looks like a deranged Easter Bunny 2. Fra-gee-lay. that must be Italian. 3. Some men are Baptists, others Catholics; my father was an Oldsmobile man. 4. He had yellow eyes! So, Help me, God! Yellow Eyes! 5. My father worked in profanity the way other artsist might work in oils or clay. It was his true medium, a master. 6. You used up all the glue on purpose! 7. Let's face it, most of us are scoffers. But moments before zero hour, it did not pay to take chances. 8. Well I double-DOG-dare ya! 9. Oooh Fuuudge! 10. Naddafinga! There was also an interesting article about it's author, Jean Sheppard, in Slate a few days ago. I'm sure it's still there is you want to check it out. For Christmas Story fans here is a list of 10 favorite lines from the movie (beyond “You’ll shoot your eye out, kid” that is)
1. He looks like a deranged Easter Bunny
2. Fra-gee-lay. that must be Italian.
3. Some men are Baptists, others Catholics; my father was an Oldsmobile man.
4. He had yellow eyes! So, Help me, God! Yellow Eyes!
5. My father worked in profanity the way other artsist might work in oils or clay. It was his true medium, a master.
6. You used up all the glue on purpose!
7. Let’s face it, most of us are scoffers. But moments before zero hour, it did not pay to take chances.
8. Well I double-DOG-dare ya!
9. Oooh Fuuudge!
10. Naddafinga!

There was also an interesting article about it’s author, Jean Sheppard, in Slate a few days ago. I’m sure it’s still there is you want to check it out.

]]> By: DAB http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/12/25/my-top-ten-holiday-movies/#comment-1100308 DAB Sat, 27 Dec 2008 12:43:50 +0000 http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/?p=9304#comment-1100308 Little Women is a terrific Xmas movie -- forgot about that one. Little Women is a terrific Xmas movie — forgot about that one.

]]> By: DAB http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/12/25/my-top-ten-holiday-movies/#comment-1100307 DAB Sat, 27 Dec 2008 12:42:12 +0000 http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/?p=9304#comment-1100307 Loved this movie and was going to mention it at the end by asking if anyone remembered it's name because I couldn't. Thanks for the memory -- wish they made more of this type of flick today! Can't stand the dysfunctional family genre of current Christmas movies -- seldom funny and generally depressing. Loved this movie and was going to mention it at the end by asking if anyone remembered it’s name because I couldn’t. Thanks for the memory — wish they made more of this type of flick today!

Can’t stand the dysfunctional family genre of current Christmas movies — seldom funny and generally depressing.

]]> By: DAB http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/12/25/my-top-ten-holiday-movies/#comment-1100306 DAB Sat, 27 Dec 2008 12:38:42 +0000 http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/?p=9304#comment-1100306 Saw The Polar Express for the first time this year and thought it was very good. We viewed it at an IMAX theater, so it became a truly exciting experience. Unique and recommended viewing. Saw The Polar Express for the first time this year and thought it was very good. We viewed it at an IMAX theater, so it became a truly exciting experience. Unique and recommended viewing.

]]> By: DAB http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/12/25/my-top-ten-holiday-movies/#comment-1100304 DAB Sat, 27 Dec 2008 12:35:27 +0000 http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/?p=9304#comment-1100304 Absolutely LOVE "Child's Christmas in Wales". Also the animated short "The Snowman" is a real charmer. "Christmas Story" is also a favorite although I don't watch any particular movie every year. Absolutely LOVE “Child’s Christmas in Wales”. Also the animated short “The Snowman” is a real charmer.

“Christmas Story” is also a favorite although I don’t watch any particular movie every year.

]]> By: Chicago Joe http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/12/25/my-top-ten-holiday-movies/#comment-1100267 Chicago Joe Sat, 27 Dec 2008 06:36:52 +0000 http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/?p=9304#comment-1100267 Love your list, Larry. Home Alone, It's a Wonderful Life and Love Actually are three of my favorite movies of all time. George Bailey is such a quintessential American character. He deferred his dreams, acquiesced to his brother, dealt with life imperfectly. If you haven't seen it, go to Atlas Shrugs, where she has it posted with subtitles. It is back a few days, maybe a few days before Christmas. Even though I have seen it dozens of times, I got a lot out of the subtitles as there is some dialogue that is hard to pick up. I just love that movie. Home Alone is also great. It doesn't feel like Christmas until we watch that movie. The story is hilarious and Kevin is just an adorable little character. The second one is not as good, but also is enjoyable. Naturally, I prefer the Chicago version. The home where the film was made enjoyed a bit of celebrity back then. It is also fun to see some of the locations as we were able to check them out up in the Wilmette area. Love Actually is one of those sappy movies that is a chick flick, but I know plenty of guys who love it too. Trust, betrayal, faithfulness, longing and fidelity are all entwined in several vignettes. Hugh Grant is quite bewitching in this film, and Keira Knightley is stunningly beautiful. Elf is a newer addition to our list of family favorites. It is Will Ferrell stupid, but the story of the "slow" son makes it universally appealing. The clip you have chosen is one of my favorites in the movie. Tim Allen in The Santa Clause movies is also great. I buy a few copies of every year and give them as gifts to those who haven't experienced them. Great list!! We just finished watching The Christmas Story again tonight. I didn't really care for it the first few times I saw it, but the movie does grow on you after a while. It is wonderful to take some time away from BHO, the economy and work to enjoy some time reflecting and enjoying the messages in these films. God bless us everyone! Love your list, Larry. Home Alone, It’s a Wonderful Life and Love Actually are three of my favorite movies of all time. George Bailey is such a quintessential American character. He deferred his dreams, acquiesced to his brother, dealt with life imperfectly. If you haven’t seen it, go to Atlas Shrugs, where she has it posted with subtitles. It is back a few days, maybe a few days before Christmas. Even though I have seen it dozens of times, I got a lot out of the subtitles as there is some dialogue that is hard to pick up. I just love that movie.

Home Alone is also great. It doesn’t feel like Christmas until we watch that movie. The story is hilarious and Kevin is just an adorable little character. The second one is not as good, but also is enjoyable. Naturally, I prefer the Chicago version. The home where the film was made enjoyed a bit of celebrity back then. It is also fun to see some of the locations as we were able to check them out up in the Wilmette area.

Love Actually is one of those sappy movies that is a chick flick, but I know plenty of guys who love it too. Trust, betrayal, faithfulness, longing and fidelity are all entwined in several vignettes. Hugh Grant is quite bewitching in this film, and Keira Knightley is stunningly beautiful.

Elf is a newer addition to our list of family favorites. It is Will Ferrell stupid, but the story of the “slow” son makes it universally appealing. The clip you have chosen is one of my favorites in the movie. Tim Allen in The Santa Clause movies is also great.

I buy a few copies of every year and give them as gifts to those who haven’t experienced them.

Great list!!

We just finished watching The Christmas Story again tonight. I didn’t really care for it the first few times I saw it, but the movie does grow on you after a while.

It is wonderful to take some time away from BHO, the economy and work to enjoy some time reflecting and enjoying the messages in these films. God bless us everyone!

]]> By: Crippled Burbank Widow http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/12/25/my-top-ten-holiday-movies/#comment-1100069 Crippled Burbank Widow Fri, 26 Dec 2008 23:34:13 +0000 http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/?p=9304#comment-1100069 <i>Let’s give our English cousins their due–they know how to make great Dickens’ movies about Christmas</i> Turns out they know how to write great Dickens' novels as well. Merry Christmas, ya knuckleheads. Let’s give our English cousins their due–they know how to make great Dickens’ movies about Christmas

Turns out they know how to write great Dickens’ novels as well.

Merry Christmas, ya knuckleheads.

]]> By: AnnieCollier http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/12/25/my-top-ten-holiday-movies/#comment-1099912 AnnieCollier Fri, 26 Dec 2008 22:00:26 +0000 http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/?p=9304#comment-1099912 Thanks. How could I have forgotten "A Christmas Memory". They save pennies, nickles and dimes all year to buy the ingredients (including moonshine) and postage to mail the fruitcakes...the most important one going to President Roosevelt. Heartwarming and so authentic a production. Having no money left after the fruitcakes, their surprise gifts to each other, the dotty Aunt he calls "my friend" and Truman, are handmade kites. That last scene with the two lying on their backs on the hill watching their kites soar...wonderful. Thanks. How could I have forgotten “A Christmas Memory”. They save pennies, nickles and dimes all year to buy the ingredients (including moonshine) and postage to mail the fruitcakes…the most important one going to President Roosevelt. Heartwarming and so authentic a production. Having no money left after the fruitcakes, their surprise gifts to each other, the dotty Aunt he calls “my friend” and Truman, are handmade kites. That last scene with the two lying on their backs on the hill watching their kites soar…wonderful.

]]> By: AnnieCollier http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/12/25/my-top-ten-holiday-movies/#comment-1099905 AnnieCollier Fri, 26 Dec 2008 21:50:10 +0000 http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/?p=9304#comment-1099905 Larry, he was considering suicide as the only way to repay the savings and loan and his family with the $15k policy... He was in a state of overwhelm and frantic when he grovelled to Potter and was told his pathetic life insurance policy with only $500 equity but a $15k payoff made him worth more dead than alive. Suicide <em>is</em> selfish but that wasn't his motivating factor. It's my favorite #1 and I always cry like a baby when his hero brother offers up the toast "To my brother George, the richest man in town." I'm getting a little misty eyed just typing it. #2 Love Actually...so funny and I love the mosiac of airport greeters at the end while the Beachboys "God Only Knows" is playing...lovely. #3 Home Alone and Miracle on 34th Street (old version) are favorites too. Larry, he was considering suicide as the only way to repay the savings and loan and his family with the $15k policy…

He was in a state of overwhelm and frantic when he grovelled to Potter and was told his pathetic life insurance policy with only $500 equity but a $15k payoff made him worth more dead than alive. Suicide is selfish but that wasn’t his motivating factor. It’s my favorite #1 and I always cry like a baby when his hero brother offers up the toast “To my brother George, the richest man in town.” I’m getting a little misty eyed just typing it.

#2 Love Actually…so funny and I love the mosiac of airport greeters at the end while the Beachboys “God Only Knows” is playing…lovely.

#3 Home Alone and Miracle on 34th Street (old version) are favorites too.

]]> By: dee4hill http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/12/25/my-top-ten-holiday-movies/#comment-1099834 dee4hill Fri, 26 Dec 2008 20:37:16 +0000 http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/?p=9304#comment-1099834 "It's a Wonderful Life" - hands down. We watch it every Christmas & "Scrooged." “It’s a Wonderful Life” - hands down. We watch it every Christmas & “Scrooged.”

]]> By: snosandy http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/12/25/my-top-ten-holiday-movies/#comment-1099726 snosandy Fri, 26 Dec 2008 17:29:40 +0000 http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/?p=9304#comment-1099726 I saw this a few years ago. Ever since, my sister has been wishing us a "Merry F***ing Christmas." I saw this a few years ago. Ever since, my sister has been wishing us a “Merry F***ing Christmas.”

]]> By: Linda C. http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/12/25/my-top-ten-holiday-movies/#comment-1099631 Linda C. Fri, 26 Dec 2008 14:34:51 +0000 http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/?p=9304#comment-1099631 Does anyone remember A Christmas Carol cartoon with Mr. Magoo? I love Mr. Magoo. A Christmas Story is a favorite here being Mid Westerners. Christmas in Connecticut The Man Who Came to Dinner White Christmas Does anyone remember A Christmas Carol cartoon with Mr. Magoo? I love Mr. Magoo.

A Christmas Story is a favorite here being Mid Westerners.

Christmas in Connecticut
The Man Who Came to Dinner
White Christmas

]]> By: Peg http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/12/25/my-top-ten-holiday-movies/#comment-1099608 Peg Fri, 26 Dec 2008 13:53:36 +0000 http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/?p=9304#comment-1099608 Nonsense. No one would watch it if it was as you describe it. It's about loss, sacrifice and betrayal, as well; and where there are pursuits, the feelings are mutual. Hey, I was raised in Milwaukee! :) Nonsense. No one would watch it if it was as you describe it.

It’s about loss, sacrifice and betrayal, as well; and where there are pursuits, the feelings are mutual.

Hey, I was raised in Milwaukee!

:)

]]> By: elise http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/12/25/my-top-ten-holiday-movies/#comment-1099567 elise Fri, 26 Dec 2008 10:01:22 +0000 http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/?p=9304#comment-1099567 I love all versions of A Christmas Carol and watch as many as I can in December. Happy Holidays and God Bless Us Everyone at noquarter. I love all versions of A Christmas Carol and watch as many as I can in December. Happy Holidays and God Bless Us Everyone at noquarter.

]]> By: Judy L. NC http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/12/25/my-top-ten-holiday-movies/#comment-1099562 Judy L. NC Fri, 26 Dec 2008 09:16:19 +0000 http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/?p=9304#comment-1099562 I rest my case. I forgot some others...."Trading Places" with Dan Aykroyd, Jamie Lee Curtis and Eddie Murphy. And, Wodiej, I like A Christmas Card too. John Newton is from Chapel Hill. I rest my case.

I forgot some others….”Trading Places” with Dan Aykroyd, Jamie Lee Curtis and Eddie Murphy. And, Wodiej, I like A Christmas Card too. John Newton is from Chapel Hill.

]]> By: Mandelay http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/12/25/my-top-ten-holiday-movies/#comment-1099542 Mandelay Fri, 26 Dec 2008 06:23:16 +0000 http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/?p=9304#comment-1099542 Thanks for mentioning Scrooge: A Christmas Carol. I love Alastair Sim and all the other terrific U.K. character actors. It's my fave! Loved all your other picks. My brother agrees with your take on Ralphie and his dumb bb gun ... good laughs over here about that. We were also laughing about how we wanted to see Godzilla (the original with Raymond Burr cut and pasted into a Japanese movie). We don't know why we needed to see it on Christmas Day. Well, that's what happens when you spend your life in NYC and you've been severely affected by watching "Million Dollar Movie." Merry Christmas! Thanks for mentioning Scrooge: A Christmas Carol. I love Alastair Sim and all the other terrific U.K. character actors. It’s my fave! Loved all your other picks. My brother agrees with your take on Ralphie and his dumb bb gun … good laughs over here about that. We were also laughing about how we wanted to see Godzilla (the original with Raymond Burr cut and pasted into a Japanese movie). We don’t know why we needed to see it on Christmas Day. Well, that’s what happens when you spend your life in NYC and you’ve been severely affected by watching “Million Dollar Movie.” Merry Christmas!

]]> By: socalannie http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/12/25/my-top-ten-holiday-movies/#comment-1099523 socalannie Fri, 26 Dec 2008 05:54:35 +0000 http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/?p=9304#comment-1099523 I like all the movies on Larry's list; here's one of our favorites not on the list: The Ref starring Dennis Leary, Judy Davis & Kevin Spacey. Absolutely hilarious. It is rated R for language & inuendo, so not for young ones. Still, one of the funniest movies we've ever seen. Its about a jewel thief (Leary) caught in an upscale Connecticut town during Christmas. I like all the movies on Larry’s list; here’s one of our favorites not on the list:

The Ref

starring Dennis Leary, Judy Davis & Kevin Spacey. Absolutely hilarious. It is rated R for language & inuendo, so not for young ones. Still, one of the funniest movies we’ve ever seen. Its about a jewel thief (Leary) caught in an upscale Connecticut town during Christmas.

]]> By: makeji http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/12/25/my-top-ten-holiday-movies/#comment-1099515 makeji Fri, 26 Dec 2008 05:41:10 +0000 http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/?p=9304#comment-1099515 Inger Stevens was the actress. He also had an affair with Grace Kelly - some say she married the prince on the rebound. I'm with you about der-Bingle - a real jerk. His wife Dixie apparently had mental/drinking problems, but who wouldn't? The first time I saw A Christmas Story when it first came out, I laughed so hard my sides hurt. I was raised in Chicago and it was my childhood revisted. The scene with the little brother in the snowsuit brought back so many memories and my father's language was much like the kid in the movie. A pure treasure. For some reason A Wonderful Life has always left me - excuse the pun - cold. I heard Judy Garland sing "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" on the radio today - so thanks to the person who reminded the rest here of Meet Me in St. Louis. Inger Stevens was the actress. He also had an affair with Grace Kelly - some say she married the prince on the rebound. I’m with you about der-Bingle - a real jerk. His wife Dixie apparently had mental/drinking problems, but who wouldn’t?

The first time I saw A Christmas Story when it first came out, I laughed so hard my sides hurt. I was raised in Chicago and it was my childhood revisted. The scene with the little brother in the snowsuit brought back so many memories and my father’s language was much like the kid in the movie. A pure treasure.

For some reason A Wonderful Life has always left me - excuse the pun - cold.

I heard Judy Garland sing “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” on the radio today - so thanks to the person who reminded the rest here of Meet Me in St. Louis.

]]>