Anne-Marie Gagne

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Oh boy, I love like 90% of the newer Christmas classics (notable exceptions are Elf, which I hate, and National Lampoon, which I just don’t care for the movies in that series). A Christmas Story, Home Alone 1-3, and The Santa Clause 1-3 are basically on repeat all of December (with breaks for the old classics to be played). My mom’s favorite Christmas movie is Home Alone. Nightmare Before Christmas is also played quite a bit. I, personally, make room to watch some other really good newer classics like The Polar Express and the 2000 Grinch movie (both I saw in theaters and fell in love instantly). My dad has a (bad, according to my mom) habit to turn on new movies and watch them despite how good or bad they are when my mom says she wants to watch Home Alone. His reasoning being that he wants “to see what new stuff they have out” and also because “you’ve seen Home Alone enough”. (Which, this is coming from the man who will turn on any of the Tolkien movies no matter how long they’ve been playing on the channel they’re on haha.) One of those new movies he turned on that turned out to be really, really good was The Christmas Chronicles on Netflix. I highly recommend that movie and its sequel!

I love, love, love claymation movies. These three movies are actually what got me into my love for claymation movies. My family watches them every year on Christmas Eve and/or Christmas Day. Like the Grinch, these movies are some that I can watch any time of the year and I always feel so giddy and childlike when I watch them. They’re real life magic in my eyes. Claymation takes so long to do and you can see the love the animators put into the movies. Yes, the movement is stiff but that just adds to their charm and definitely helped pave the way for more modern claymation movies. The first claymation movie I ever remember watching was actually one not on this list. It was The Little Drummer Boy, it was on the TV just before Rudolph came on, and I remember looking at my dad and asking how they made the movies because it wasn’t drawn or a live action movie. I wish I was alive when they were first aired on TV but alas, I was born in ‘93, an almost 30 year delay haha. We had all of them on VHS though until the VCR ate the tapes. A tragic day until we got them on DVD.

I’ve never heard of Emmet Otter Jug Band Christmas but the others I have watched! I’ve only seen the Muppet Christmas Carol a few times in my life but the original Dr. Seuss Grinch and A Charlie Brown Christmas I’ve watched a lot. How the Grinch Stole Christmas I watch throughout the year (one of the few Christmas movies that are basically year round movies to me) and I really love it. I always love Chuck Jones’ work and the Grinch is no different. The voice cast was picked perfectly and the music is so good. I love listening to “You’re a Mean One, Mr. Grinch”. While I’m not the largest Peanuts fan, I do really enjoy A Charlie Brown Christmas and my parents also really love it. They watch it at least once a year (with or without their kids with them). I think my favorite part of the movie is when Charlie Brown gets the tree and it droops when he puts one single ornament on it.

I’ve actually never seen either It’s A Wonderful Life or Miracle on 34th Street. Any versions of them. I always say each year that it’ll be the year that I watch them and then I just never do. There are other Christmas movies I can watch at any point in the year but those two just feel like they need to be watched (at least for the first time) during December before Christmas. I have other Christmas movies that I make sure to watch during December but those two I just haven’t made the time to do so. Reading this post is how I actually learned what the plots of the movies are. I only knew that one of them has a little girl that talks about angels and wings near the end of the movie and I could also just be mixing that up with another classic that plays on TCM and I see commercials for when I’m watching The Man Who Came to Dinner with my mom every year.