December Blog Challenge: Day Three
Ok, it’s 10:46pm and I haven’t posted today. Hmmm, what to post? I know! My favorite movie this Christmas season is Elf. One of my favorite scenes features a duet with Will Ferrell and Zooey Deschanel singing, Baby, It’s Cold Outside. The scene lives on in YouTubeLand. Watch it! I command it! For a YouTubeLand-inspired walk down memory lane, check out Shelley’s TalkWeb post for today featuring this song (including a version by Bo Bice and Joan Osborne???) and much more…
I have figured out that Christmas movies are my favorite kind of movie. In fact, if I were to make a list of my favorite movies, they would mostly be Christmas movies. Here’s a list:
Scrooge - the version with Albert Finney. This was most likely my very first favorite movie. It has remained my favorite version to this day. Sometimes, it bugs me that it is overlooked as a good movie version of the story. Other times, I like it that it is an undiscovered treasure that only a few smart people know about, including me.
It’s a Wonderful Life I know, I know…everyone likes this movie. Too bad. I do, too.
The Santa Clause - The North Pole scenes combined with the music are simply magical. I would, if I could, live in that world.
While You Were Sleeping - Not a Christmas movie per se, but still a great Christmas story.
A Christmas Story- Well, it was my favorite until it started being THE Christmas movie. Let’s face it, we all should put the movie in storage for about five years, so we can rediscover it again then.
Planes, Trains and Automobiles- Ok, not technically a Christmas movie, but it is a movie about Thanksgiving…and we all know that Thanksgiving is the start of the secular Christmas season.
You’ve Got Mail - great Christmas scenes
Sleepless in Seattle - good tie-in to Christmas and I love the houseboat all lit up for Christmas
Trading Places - great Christmas theme and I like Eddie Murphy
Christmas Vacation - It’s my husband’s favorite movie and what makes him happy also makes me happy.
TK!
This is a great post idea.
I also like “The Elf” (as I call it). But Zooey sounds more like an adjective than a name. As in, don’t stand too close, she’s rather zooey today.
When people talk about “A Christmas Carol”, I know not what that is. Say “Scrooge” and I’m right with you. But I am an Alastair Sim man myself. Which also sounds more like an adjective than a name.
Have never seen “It’s A Wonderful Life” from start to finish. But I have seen parts, enough to know it’s the most boring and over-hyped movie I’ve had the misfortune of viewing partially. Which means I won’t be sitting through the whole thing, barring unforseen circumstance, in this lifetime.
The Santa Clause is good. But as far as worlds go, I’d like to live in world of “The Elf”.
“While You Were Sleeping” is a chick movie, but about the best one I’ve ever sat through. In fact, it’s one of the few I’d sit through more than the obligatory one time. Thumbs up.
“A Christmas Story” is now a Christmas Eve afternoon tradition at our house. But I know what you mean. You appreciate it less the more you see it.
“PT&A” makes me wonder what happened to that “wild and crazy guy” guy. And makes me miss John Candy.
“You’ve Got Mail/Sleepless In Seattle” is not for me. And is actually the same movie, right?
“Trading Places” has never passed before my eyes. Something for the family?
“Christmas Vacation” is my favorite on this whole list, although it can be a little..how you say…not suitable for the whole family. But Eddie is one of the single greatest characters in the history of comedy movies.
Eddie: “Yeah, I got the daughter in the clinic, getting cured off the Wild Turkey. And, the older boy, bless his soul, is preparing for his career.”
Clark: “College?”
Eddie: “Carnival.”
Clark: “You got to be proud.”
Eddie: “Oh, yeah. Yeah, last season he was a pixie-dust spreader on the Tilt-O-Whirl. He thinks that maybe next year, He’ll be guessing people’s weight or barking for the Yak woman. You ever see her?”
Clark: “No.”
Eddie: “She’s got these big horns growing right out above her ears. Yeah, she’s ugly as sin, but a sweet gal. And, a hell of a good cook.”