Holiday Movies (and more?) POLL, Preliminary Question -- What To Include?

voted!

I voted holiday themed movies plus tv specials

what is the difference between "holiday-themed movies" and "movies set during holidays"?

ooh this means i could vote for home for the holidays i love that movie

Whether Die Hard should count, basically

Some people might want to vote for it’s a wonderful life

I'm all for holiday-themed movies, movies set during the holidays (within reason) and holiday TV specials. Nothing that doesn't stand on its own (so episodes of TV shows are out).

Basically, most of the things listed here are eligible: https://letterboxd.com/juliec/list/neverending-christmas-movie-list/

I guess with "holiday-themed movie," I meant a movie where Christmas plays a strong if not key role in the story. Die Hard and It's a Wonderful Life would both count in that regard.

ooh this means i could vote for home for the holidays i love that movie

Agreed. The Thanksgiving movies (all 3 of them) would count too.

hm, shall I vote for Summer Holiday or Holiday on the Buses?

In deference to Mary Tyler Moore, I voted for the second-last option (thus circumventing the possibility of any paintings placing).

I thought it was too open to include Christmas-themed TV specials, let alone Christmas-set regular episodes of TV shows. To broaden it further to have anything to do with any kind of holiday is bonkers mission creep. If ppl want to exclude Die Hard, that’s an argument. But to start from a position that mixes in Eurotrip and National Lampoon’s Vacation and Long Weekend and Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot and the final episode of The Young Ones makes for incomprehensible unfocused ballots.

Voted "Holiday-themed movies + movies set during holidays" because a poll like this without the collected works of Shane Black is meaningless.

Incomprehensible unfocused ballots are fine I think - my position with polls tends to be that these things come out in the wash and the worst that can happen is that the final countdown has one or two surprising things in it

sic, I think this is some kind of American understanding of the word "Holiday" and was making an unnecessarily confusing joke about this.

I was just going off the thread title and all the poll options and Eric's post

"ooh this means i could vote for home for the holidays i love that movie"

Agreed. The Thanksgiving movies (all 3 of them) would count too.

although I had missed Eric's previous post,

I guess with "holiday-themed movie," I meant a movie where Christmas plays a strong if not key role in the story. Die Hard and It's a Wonderful Life would both count in that regard.

which in context does not add clarity

In America, Thanksgiving more or less kicks off the Christmas season, and families generally do the same thing at both. Eat big meals, get drunk and yell at each other. The Christmas gifts more or less make up for what you shouted at your great uncle a month prior.

Also, we are currently engaged in a decades-long war on Christmas.

:)

you can go on a holiday any time of the year

The war on Christmas was won in 2014, doncha know?

https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w600_and_h900_bestv2/6MLSD1OYGDWkCk05m7vA1xCrfKr.jpg

No fair giving away #1 right off the bat.

Gotta count Goodfellas--very festive.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVvvkDSXj_I

i'm in favour of whichever option excludes "Die Hard" ahahahaha so clever

yeah, kiss kiss bang bang or gtfo

Some people might want to vote for it’s a wonderful life

Not much of this film is set during the holidays

black christmas is a holiday horror movie, sole survivor is a horror movie that happens to be set in los angeles during christmas

keep the idiot box out of it imo

that's no way to talk about POPULAR ILX POSTER REDACTED

"you can go on a holiday any time of the year"

in the US 'holidays' means Thanksgiving through New Year's.

I'm still waiting for a ruling on holidays in fantasy cultures that are clearly analogous to Christmas. (Hogswatch in HOGFATHER? Life Day in THE STAR WARS HOLIDAY SPECIAL?)

FP’d anthony & Eric for racism

I voted "Holiday-themed movies + holiday TV specials" but I'm fine with any choice. If Die Hard ends up in the top list, I can ignore it.

Die Hard sucks btw

I’m only voting for Passover movies

1 the Prince of Egypt
2. The Rugrats Passover episode

Sic's ballot will not be counted.

Die Hard sucks btw
― Οὖτις, Sunday, October 20, 2019 8:30 PM (yesterday)

It needed to be said.

voted Holiday-themed movies + movies set during holidays + holiday TV specials

Personally I'm for including holiday TV specials but against including holiday episodes of TV shows. Things like Emmet Otter's Jugband and the Muppet Family Christmas are holiday staples in our home & make sense to include imo because they are longer than 45 minutes and outside the normal format of whatever TV shows theyre related to, but including stuff like the Cheers Christmas ep or Festivus wld be savagery.

Also Die Hard is good, remember when he writes ‘ho ho ho’ on that dead guy in his own blood

seriously, including TV specials, especially Thanksgiving ones (!!!) turns this poll into something specifically for Americans, rather than a survey of things that everyone has had a chance to see

wait i thought everyone can see everything ever made in our digital Paradise

Could be talked into parallel rundowns for Britishes and for filthy American pigs

Of course, it could ALSO be a rundown of holiday movies (however people define that) with sidebar polls for Christmas specials. Even though if combined I could see, say, Charlie Brown Christmas besting most if not all films.

I am trying to think of a British Christmas film but have so far drawn a blank. Oh yeah, Love, Actually, that's set at Christmas. But still can't think of one that isn't a fucking abomination, so point stands.

The Snowman!

Not that I'm a fan

Oh yes. the snowman is good and I like it.

Alastair Sim version of Christmas Carol I think, terrible fucking Nativity movies

annual polls: Christmas movies one year, Christmas specials another, Christmas episodes of TV a third.

― now let's play big lunch take little lunch (sic), Saturday, October 5, 2019 2:50 PM (two weeks ago)

British Christmas films: Aardman flick Arthur Christmas is p great, and you could probably fit On Her Majesty's Secret Service, Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence, and the Muppet Christmas Carol in as technicalities of different kinds

(for TV specials, Bernard & The Genie is the only good Richard Curtis Christmas joint)

Oh movies would be no-borders for sure.

While I'm curious to see what wins, I guess I'm leaning toward movies-only now and then, next year, TV specials/shows. I was just stalling for time, really.

I am trying to think of a British Christmas film but have so far drawn a blank. Oh yeah, Love, Actually, that's set at Christmas. But still can't think of one that isn't a fucking abomination, so point stands.

― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, October 21, 2019 2:09 PM (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink

The Holly and the Ivy (1952) is reported to be good. Not that I've actually watched it.

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Holiday-themed movies + movies set during holidays

And so it shall be done.

that seems like the right choice

Hooray

and so I shall not vote

the Die Hard landslide may commence

~flounce~

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