I watched a ton of Christmas movies this week and found my eyes clouded with tears mote than once

[world wide wally]

I know it seems like an old softie thing. But as angry as I get hearing the small mindedness surrounding us sometimes, there is one over lying thing that is constant through all the emotion.. and that is love.
I wish you all the two most important things in the world… not only for Christmas…… but always…

Peace and Love (to quote and old hippy)

[flor-de-jasmim]

1. Of the newer ones, do you have favorites? Eom

[Egnever]

6. Arthur Christmas gets me at the end every time.

[world wide wally]

2. Really, the old ones..

A Christmas Carol with Allister Sims, 1951, It's a Wonderful Life, of course, even some stupid thing with Lewis Black about kids stuck in an airport on Christmas Eve. But even that comes down to a lesson in love.
Maybe I'm getting old.

[flor-de-jasmim]

3. I' like the old version of Miracle on 34th Street...

And the Cary Grant and Loretta Young (with David Niven) movie, ''The Bishop's Wife, or maybe that is the title of the remake with Whitney Houston.

[world wide wally]

4. I would also have to include "The Sound of Music" even though it's not really a Christmas movie, but

it does hit a little too close to home these days. We have an out and out Fascist running who too many people love.
Scary times

[flor-de-jasmim]

5. I had the opportunity to stay at the palace in Salzburg

... Where they filmed the movie. It was beautiful. They told us the film production made an exact replica of the ballroom, making it four times as large so the cameras could work their magic. Oh, and the gazebo where Lise and Karl (?) meet was added temporarily for the movie!

http://www.salzburg.info/en/sights/fortress_palaces/leopoldskron_palace

[BlueMTexpat]

8. Sign me up for the old version

of Miracle too! The very young Natalie Wood ....

[erpowers]

18. "The Preacher's Wife"

The Whitney Houston remake is The Preacher's Wife. I am pretty certain the original version is The Bishop's Wife.

[BlueMTexpat]

7. Two of my own favorites

that actually make me laugh and bring back a lot of personal memories ...

A Christmas Story - I grew up in the 40s and 50s and there are so many elements of this movie that I experienced from those times. I also loved Darren McGavin in this.

National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation - absolutely zany story with SNL alum Chevy Chase at his finest, albeit with some heartwarming moments

My children - and theirs - still love the Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer special with Burl Ives, although my youngest grandson's favorite character is the "Bumble."

This year I am most thankful that I am not waking up in the hospital after Xmas Eve surgery (breast cancer), which was the case in 2014.

Peace and love to you!

[Contrary1]

9. The Bells of St. Mary's always gets to me...

Seems to be shown often around Christmas. Maybe because of the other Bing Crosby movies...White Christmas and Holiday Inn.

[Sanity Claws]

12. The Bells of St Mary's has a Christmas scene

The school is having a Christmas pageant and the children sing Happy Birthday to the baby Jesus.
i think one Christmas scene is usually enough to qualify the movie as something to screen at Christmas time.

[TexasProgresive]

10. We watch several every year

Noel with Susan Sarandon, Penélope Cruz, Paul Walker and Robin Williams (uncredited)
White Christmas
A Christmas Story
Blizzard
Miracle on 34th Street with Maureen O'Hara and Natalie Wood
A Christmas Carol with Patrick Stewart
The Preacher's Wife with Denzel Washington and Whitney Houston

These 2 not strictly Christmas Movies but we watch as well:
Holiday Inn
Home for the Holidays Holly Hunter and a whole bunch of great actors

Our copy of Trapped in Paradise with Nicolas Cage has gone missing.

The underlying theme of all of these is love, family, forgiveness and hope.

Edit: I can't believe it, left our - It's a Wonderful Life

[Staph]

19. I love Holiday Inn!

Fred Astaire! And the original version of the song White Christmas! Wonderful!!


(Sorry -- I get a little enthusiastic this time of year!!!)

[B Calm]

11. Mote?

[Cirque du So-What]

13. You can always attribute the tears

to a mote in your eye.

[Wilms]

16. Agreed.

The older I get, the mote it happens to me, too.

Merry Christmas!

[Katashi_itto]

14. I get choked up over Die Hard

[dembotoz]

15. damn cat allergies stirred up by central heating

[jwirr]

17. K&R