Apologies dear readers for the delay in getting today’s Monday Musings out to you, but I feel our reasoning was justified, for, just for you and at great personal cost, we have been spending our day watching Christmas movies. It’s been a hard toil let me tell you but, after some hefty research (accompanied by the absolutely obligatory Mulled Wine – honestly, we had to, not our choice honest!) we have compiled our list of Christmas movies that over the next couple of days you simply have to watch to get you fully into the Christmas spirit. For those still clinging to the hope that I may relate this post back to weddings as that is technically the subject of this blog you can even have these playing in the background of your wedding reception! Excellent, tenuous link achieved.
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The Muppet Christmas Carol
So here we go with (in no particular order) the best of the best when it comes to Christmas films:
Miracle on 34th Street – The original and best. The new one’s great but the ending is even more tenuous than my attempt to link this post back to weddings. If you’re looking for a genuine bone fide miracle taking place on 34th street you can’t beat the original 1947 release.
Miracle on 34th Street – The newer 1994 (jesus, that’s actually worryingly old!) version which is also pretty magical, just try to ignore the fact that the legal precedent this film sets means I can pretty much legitimately call myself the Easter Bunny and be proven right in court without any evidence whatsoever… still, brilliant movie nonetheless.
Santa Clause the Movie – I have watched this film pretty much every Christmas eve since it came out on VHS and will be doing the same this year. In fact I’m pretty sure Santa only delivers to your house if you watch his movie and there can be no greater example of genius overacting than John Lithgow delivering the line “We’ll call it Christmas…TWO!!!” Genius, utter genius.
The Muppet Christmas Carol – Genuinely can’t have Christmas without it. If you don’t know how to sing the words “When a cold wind blows it chills you, chills you to the bone” then you’ve actually never experienced Christmas. Apparently Dickens actually based the character of Bob Cratchit on Kermit the Frog. Oh, and you also need to buy the CD as it turns out that my favourite song from the whole thing never actually made it into the movie! Crazy? Exactly Beaker!
Jingle All The Way – Surpassed Terminator as Arnie’s greatest ever movie. This is always our first watch of the year, if only for the sight of Arnold Schwarzenegger fighting a Reindeer. Incredibly never won an Oscar, go figure!
Elf – The second best way to spread Christmas cheer after singing loud for all to hear. FACT!
Arthur Christmas – We only discovered this one last year but it’s Wallace and Gromit good and I can give no higher praise than that.
Home Alone (1&2) – Macaulay Culkin, the greatest child actor of all time, in a film that made every single one of us as kids start working out ways to defend our house by spreading our toys all over the place and attaching blow torches to door handles. (Sorry dad).
The Santa Clause (The Whole Trilogy) – Ok so the first film is definitely far and away the best (and a quite brilliant concept) but they’re all good innocent family fun and if you get bored you can always just count the number of Toy Story references Tim Allen slips in there… oh, and I totally want those Reindeer… and a snow globe.
Fred Clause – To be fair I can see Santa being a fairly irritating younger brother and this one was voted in by nephew who is coincidentally named Fred but he’s definitely not biased in any way, this is a great fun film.
White Christmas – Bing Crosby at his best. For those who think that films pre-1980 aren’t worth watching just WATCH THIS FILM! Brings a tear to the eye, I tell thee.
So that should be enough to get you started, go get watching and have yourselves a merry little Christmas won’t you!
