Open Thread: What Are Your Favorite Holiday Movies?

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Completely satisfied quick workweek (to most of our readers, not less than)! We thought we’d begin off Thanksgiving week with a chat about some films you’re, effectively, grateful for. Let’s discuss vacation films — and be at liberty to transcend winter celebrations into any vacation themes!

On the lookout for non-holiday films to observe throughout your day off this week, possibly even throughout Thanksgiving household get-togethers (to keep away from political discuss, maybe?)? We’ve mentioned office movies (together with 9 to 5 and Working Girl), underrated movies, and fashion movies previously…

After I consider my vacation faves, what instantly pops into my head is Love Really, which someway got here out 20 YEARS AGO. I’ve misplaced rely of what number of occasions I’ve seen that factor. (For some time, my husband and I watched it yearly at Christmastime, however we fell out of the behavior just a few years in the past.) Sure, a variety of the film is unquestionably, er, problematic (even “for that point”), as Lindy West explained in 2013 when she ripped it to shreds in Jezebel.

My emotions about Love Really are completely represented by certainly one of my favourite Onion articles, “Woman Takes Short Half-Hour Break From Being Feminist To Enjoy TV Show.” As a result of it has Emma Thompson! Alan Rickman! Colin Firth! Laura Linney! Invoice Nighy! THAT Mariah Carey Christmas tune, which I unabashedly love! (Movie trivia: Olivia Rose Olson, the younger actress who sung it within the film, carried out so effectively that Richard Curtis advised her to tone it down in order that she’d sound extra plausible as a 10-year-old.) Love Really will in all probability all the time be certainly one of my consolation films.

As for Kat’s picks, her votes for vacation household films are Elf and Residence Alone, and although she says she usually can’t stand Hallmark films, she provides Vanessa Hudgens’ Netflix vacation films a ranking of “OK” — Films to Wrap Presents To, because it had been. (I’ve watched a few the Princess Change films myself after I needed some mind sweet, and I’d say they’re holiday-serviceable.) As The Cut declared a few years in the past, “Nothing Says Completely satisfied Holidays Like One other Vanessa Hudgens Film on Netflix.”

So, do inform, readers: What are your favourite vacation films? Does your loved ones all the time watch It’s a Fantastic Life (talking of The Onion, here’s their NSFW “review”), Miracle on thirty fourth Road, or one other basic? Would you die on the hill that Die Onerous is a Christmas film? Are Hallmark Christmas films your responsible pleasure? Should you don’t have fun Christmas, or Christmas films simply aren’t your factor, what are your favourite films about different holidays?

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