Favorite Christmas Tv Special or Movie

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What's your favorite Christmas story?

1. A Christmas Story
3
27%
2. A Charlie Brown Christmas
3
27%
3. It's a Wonderful Life
1
9%
4. A Christmas Carol
1
9%
5. The Nativity Story
0
No votes
6. Other
3
27%
 
Total votes: 11

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Re: Favorite Christmas Tv Special or Movie

Post by Alan Wake » Wed Dec 02, 2009 6:20 pm

Die Hard

Lethal Weapon

Gremlins.

Yes, they are all movies themed at Christmas. :D
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Re: Favorite Christmas Tv Special or Movie

Post by Andybev01 » Wed Dec 02, 2009 6:25 pm

Die Hard is one of the best Christmas movies ever!

The only part in Gremlins I liked was the microwave extermination.
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Re: Favorite Christmas Tv Special or Movie

Post by adrian » Wed Dec 02, 2009 8:29 pm

i loved grimlins lol i forgot about that movie


another couple of movie favs of mine are the first and second home alone movies
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Re: Favorite Christmas Tv Special or Movie

Post by Belladonna » Wed Dec 02, 2009 8:34 pm

Yep you echoed me on the Home Alone. :D
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Re: Favorite Christmas Tv Special or Movie

Post by MacPhantom » Wed Dec 02, 2009 8:40 pm

Scrooged, without a doubt.

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Re: Favorite Christmas Tv Special or Movie

Post by Belladonna » Wed Dec 02, 2009 8:43 pm

Totally forgot that one! Thanks. :)
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Re: Favorite Christmas Tv Special or Movie

Post by adrian » Wed Dec 02, 2009 8:49 pm

i liked christmas with the kranks too :)
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Re: Favorite Christmas Tv Special or Movie

Post by witchy » Wed Dec 02, 2009 10:28 pm

Scrooged, is a classic!!! I love Bill Murray, he is too funny!!
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Re: Favorite Christmas Tv Special or Movie

Post by Andybev01 » Thu Dec 03, 2009 11:40 pm

Don't get me started on 'Kranks'.
Excellent book, train wreck of a movie.

Anyone seen Bell, Book & Candle? Kim Novak and Jimmy Stewart. I'm positive that it is where the TV folks came up with the idea for Bewitched.

Witchy would love it. :D
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Re: Favorite Christmas Tv Special or Movie

Post by witchy » Thu Dec 03, 2009 11:54 pm

Andybev01 wrote:Don't get me started on 'Kranks'.
Excellent book, train wreck of a movie.

Anyone seen Bell, Book & Candle? Kim Novak and Jimmy Stewart. I'm positive that it is where the TV folks came up with the idea for Bewitched.

Witchy would love it. :D
Oooh I haven't seen it, I'll rent it next week, Thanks!!! I liked Bewitched alot when I when I was a little witch!! Tabitha is still one of my favorite names, I almost named my oldest daughter that.
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Re: Favorite Christmas Tv Special or Movie

Post by adrian » Fri Dec 04, 2009 8:57 am

i never read the book but i loved the movie :) then again i don't have the book to compare it to... so eh.. i liked it :)
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I pared, and thrice above my crown
Whirled the long skin; they watched in keen;
I flung it far; they laughed and cried me shame
Dearest, there lay the letter of your name!

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Re: Favorite Christmas Tv Special or Movie

Post by Belladonna » Fri Dec 04, 2009 9:36 am

Bell Book and Candle was excellent! Thanks for reminding me about that one! :)

My roomie has alot of the old Bewitched shows on DVD. We sit around and watch those a lot.
I just love Endora! She had style!
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Re: Favorite Christmas Tv Special or Movie

Post by adrian » Fri Dec 04, 2009 9:52 am

Bewitched was a great show!! i used to watch it when my grandmother babysitted me and my little brother.
Last night 'twas witching Hallowe'en
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I pared, and thrice above my crown
Whirled the long skin; they watched in keen;
I flung it far; they laughed and cried me shame
Dearest, there lay the letter of your name!

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Re: Favorite Christmas Tv Special or Movie

Post by Andybev01 » Fri Dec 04, 2009 2:43 pm

witchy wrote:
Andybev01 wrote:Don't get me started on 'Kranks'.
Excellent book, train wreck of a movie.

Anyone seen Bell, Book & Candle? Kim Novak and Jimmy Stewart. I'm positive that it is where the TV folks came up with the idea for Bewitched.

Witchy would love it. :D
Oooh I haven't seen it, I'll rent it next week, Thanks!!! I liked Bewitched alot when I when I was a little witch!! Tabitha is still one of my favorite names, I almost named my oldest daughter that.
If you don't buy a copy after renting it I would fall over dead. It's one of both Novak and Stewart's best. The supporting cast includes Jack Lemmon, Ernie Kovacs, Elsa Lanchester, and a lot more.
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Re: Favorite Christmas Tv Special or Movie

Post by Murfreesboro » Sat Dec 05, 2009 8:11 am

I've heard of Bell, Book and Candle, but I've never seen it. I should rent it, too. Wasn't it a stage play before it was a movie?

I didn't know it had a theme similar to Bewitched, but I wouldn't be a bit surprised if such a play/movie hadn't given someone the idea for a TV show like that. Bewitched was a great favorite of mine when I was a child. I am old enough to have seen it first-run when I was in grade school. The trading-Darrins part of it was strange, not least because, in those days, audiences weren't informed why stuff like that happened. Today, the tabloid press and infotainment shows would be all over something like that. But back in the '60s, TV was still relatively new, and it was definitely considered a second-class medium, after movies. The supermarket tabloids in those days were all about movie people--about Liz Taylor's scandalous affair with Richard Burton, etc. No one back then thought anybody cared about TV stars. I was in my 30s before I learned that the original Darrin had left the show due to serious health problems, and that it was his own decision--no one forced him out.

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