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Do you know, around about the time that the fat tub of monkey spunk was breaking out the Camembert and Shiraz in May 2020, we were much more productively deciding which was the best Comedy film of all time (it was Life of Brian, pipping Airplane in the final).

Maybe we might like to reprise Bandoff for the Festive period - and in keeping with the Season, I thought we might want to do Christmas movies (and YES - Die Hard IS a Christmas movie - them's the rules).

Suggestions welcome - here are a few from me

It's a Wonderful Life
Muppet Christmas Carol
Miracle on 34th St (1947)
Home Alone
Scrooged.

Trading Places
Bad Santa
Gremlins
Planes, Trains & Automobiles (okay, it's Thanksgiving, but it's all about trying to get home through the snow to be with your family, so translates to Christmas in the UK)

And Die Hard.

Last night I managed to successfully argue that the first Lethal Weapon movie was also a Christmas film, so that's in too.

The Polar Express
Deck the Halls
Elf
Holiday Inn
Arthur Christmas

Santa Claus the movie
Scrooged

The Mindsweep wrote: ↑Tue Dec 21, 2021 1:44 pm
Deck the Halls

For some reason, this reminded me of this...

Pray forgive me for being a grinch, but I am not a lover of Christmas Films as a genre. Seeing a good film at Christmas is different, however.

The Grinch

Prestige Worldwide wrote: ↑Tue Dec 21, 2021 2:25 pm The Grinch

What one?

A Christmas Carol
The Man Who Invented Christmas
The Great Escape (mostly only ever on at Christmas

Well done WS, good to be back in Bandoff mode.

Dr Zhivago

Apple Wumble wrote: ↑Tue Dec 21, 2021 2:25 pm

Prestige Worldwide wrote: ↑Tue Dec 21, 2021 2:25 pm The Grinch

What one?

The Jim Carrey one, the animated one was sh*t.

What about The Snowman.

Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey (pretty new one we watched and enjoyed last year)
A Boy Called Christmas - this year's Sky production -


OK - if needed both can play the San Marino of one of the groups


Also - Where Eagles Dare - really stretching to call it a Christmas movie, but there is a lot of snow in it

Notting Hill
The Holiday
The Great Escape
Carry on Up the Khyber

Jingle all the way

Love Actually
A Christmas Story
Back to the Future

StillSpike wrote: ↑Tue Dec 21, 2021 3:35 pm Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey (pretty new one we watched and enjoyed last year)
A Boy Called Christmas - this year's Sky production -


OK - if needed both can play the San Marino of one of the groups


Also - Where Eagles Dare - really stretching to call it a Christmas movie, but there is a lot of snow in it

Ha!! If that's the criteria Dr Zhivago is a shoo-in.

I am happy to participate in this as a mild diversion from the misery of day to day existence BUT I'm just saying now that any result other than a landslide win for It's A Wonderful Life (one of the best movies ever made in any genre) will be incorrect.

You also need to include both Holiday Inn (the film in which the song White Christmas first appeared - 1942, I think) and the movie White Christmas in which the most famous Xmas song of all time also appears.

National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation

EH16 wrote: ↑Tue Dec 21, 2021 4:36 pm I am happy to participate in this as a mild diversion from the misery of day to day existence BUT I'm just saying now that any result other than a landslide win for It's A Wonderful Life (one of the best movies ever made in any genre) will be incorrect.

One of the other best movies ever made is Dr Zhivago.

Max B Gold wrote: ↑Tue Dec 21, 2021 4:59 pm

EH16 wrote: ↑Tue Dec 21, 2021 4:36 pm I am happy to participate in this as a mild diversion from the misery of day to day existence BUT I'm just saying now that any result other than a landslide win for It's A Wonderful Life (one of the best movies ever made in any genre) will be incorrect.

One of the other best movies ever made is Dr Zhivago.

We shall test them all in the public crucible of Bandoff and that shall decide which is the best Christmas film (even if it's not a Christmas film - fyi I'm considering adding The Battle of the Bulge" now, based on my own loose interpretation of the rules)

Prestige Worldwide wrote: ↑Tue Dec 21, 2021 4:11 pm Jingle all the way

Is that the one where the Terminator is trying to find a store in Kirkcaldy that sells Seabrook's crisps ?

StillSpike wrote: ↑Tue Dec 21, 2021 5:14 pm

Max B Gold wrote: ↑Tue Dec 21, 2021 4:59 pm

EH16 wrote: ↑Tue Dec 21, 2021 4:36 pm I am happy to participate in this as a mild diversion from the misery of day to day existence BUT I'm just saying now that any result other than a landslide win for It's A Wonderful Life (one of the best movies ever made in any genre) will be incorrect.

One of the other best movies ever made is Dr Zhivago.

We shall test them all in the public crucible of Bandoff and that shall decide which is the best Christmas film (even if it's not a Christmas film - fyi I'm considering adding The Battle of the Bulge" now, based on my own loose interpretation of the rules)

I don’t think that is a loose interpretation at all. Surely the Battle of the Bulge is never more relevant than over the Christmas Period, look at Santa - Fat Bast*rd.