We got a special Christmas Nerd Talk this week, were we will be talking about our favorite Christmas movies. What’s your favorite Christmas movie? Let us know in the comments below or on the FB page HERE. If you got a question to ask for a future Nerd Talk you can email us at Snarfkris@somewhatnerdy.com. Thanks for reading and Merry Christmas!
Critter
My favorite Christmas movie isn’t really your traditional Christmas movie. In a lot of ways it’s better and in other ways, way better. My favorite Christmas movie is Die Hard.
Now you may be thinking “that’s not a Christmas movie at all!” but you would be wrong. It’s just as much a Christmas movie as it is just a really ridiculously awesome movie. Let me explain why this is one of the greatest Holiday movies of all time.
First of all it takes place during a Christmas party, where an estranged husband wants to get his wife and kids back into his life, so there is your family dynamic. But, during his visit to his wife’s office party,terrorists attack the party with nefarious plans. Led by a German Krampus, or the German Boogeyman, who terrifies kids during Christmas time (for those of you who don’t know what the Krampus is) played by Alan Rickman. And let’s face it, if he were to show up at your house being all Alan Rickman-like, you would be pants wettingly terrified. There’s your antagonist.
Welcome to what nightmares are made of: A furry fetish Alan Rickman licking your face.
So they take everyone hostage and It’s up to Detective John McClane to save the day, your underdog hero who saves the holiday. Against all odds, he battles them all the while putting some Christmas cheer in the mix. In one particular scene, he kills a bad guy and sends his body down in an elevator with the statement “Now I have a machine gun! HO HO HO!” written in blood. If that, in addition to his gleeful yell of “Yippie Ki-Ya,” doesn’t scream Christmas, I don’t know what does.
“Dang it John! You obviously don’t know how to play Dirty Santa. You just take the gift, you don’t have to throw him down the stairs and break his neck”
-Vigo the Carpathian (Oh yeah, he is in this movie too)
And the most important reason is, it’s the movie my entire family enjoys watching together every Christmas, and spending time with family over the Holiday season is what it’s all about.
It has become such a staple in my family’s holiday routine, I’m thinking I may just start referring to Die Hard as How John McClane Saved Christmas. I’m sure it will catch on.
“The Feel Good Movie of the Season! As long as you’re not trying to steal a bunch of bearer bonds, then you’re screwed.” -Rodger Ebert (probably)
Billiam
I can tell when it’s Christmas time not because I see decorated houses, trees for sale, or Santa at the mall. I can’t even tell when I hear carols on the radio and see holiday store displays. Christmas really arrives in my eyes when A Charlie Brown Christmas leaps off my shelf, into the player, and I see Charlie Brown buying a tiny tree.
There are a lot of great seasonal movies out there, but nothing will scream Christmas nostalgia as much as A Charlie Brown Christmas. I remember being a kid and watching it when it would still be played on network television between showings of Rudolf the Red-Nosed Reindeer and Frosty the Snow Man. It would play a plethora of times before Christmas. I would watch it at my Grandparent’s house, my house, friends houses. It came out in 1965, but it was a staple of kids in the 80’s.
A Charlie Brown Christmas is the epitome of cute and wholesome family fun. It gets religious but never preachy. It’s the perfect reminder that Christmas is about spending time with loved ones and being kind to others. It’s a movie that reminds me that it’s okay to say Merry Christmas!
Oh yeah. It has Snoopy too. He’s pretty bad ass. You know he shot down the Red Baron and is a successful author? He does two jobs and my lazy cat won’t even help clean up around the house!
Raz
When I first thought about my favourite Christmas story there where so many choices that ran through my mind, there are so many great films such as “Die Hard” (IT IS A CHRISTMAS MOVIE!) “Bad Santa”, “Elf” “Home Alone”, “Christmas Vacation”, “Scrooged” and many, MANY more! But ultimately the Horror fan inside me just kept going back to the amazing 1974 classic “Black Christmas”, I watch it every year around the festive season, sometimes even more than once and I never ever bore of it. If you’ve never seen it yourself then treat yourself and make sure you do,’tis the season after all.
Derf
My favorite Christmas movie of all time is A Christmas Story. I assume this may be high on the list for a lot of us at SomewhatNerdy for many different reasons. I, myself, associated with Ralph and his struggles for the ultimate Christmas present. That is not the only thing Ralph and I have in common. We both have that temper that when it blows, well, that’s it! LoL. This movie reminds me of my family as I was growing up on so many levels it is hard for me to explain. It was the similarities in my childhood and life that makes this movie my ultimate Christmas movie. I wish I could explain it in more detail but I can’t. No matter who says this movie is number one, I can guarantee you it will always be for a different reason.
Snarfkris
Really this could have went to a few movies … Nightmare before Christmas (I liked the movie before the emo kids stole it,) A Christmas Story, Die Hard, Christmas Vacation, and could go on and on. But in the end Scrooged is my Christmas movie and has been for as long as I can remember. Watch it every Christmas … most of the time quiet a few times. Think it really has more to do with my feelings thru out the holidays which are very much the same in the movie (and every other Christmas Carol movie) … around Thanksgiving I’m very, very bah humbug about Christmas coming up but as December rolls on I slowly get into the holiday spirit until Christmas Day when I running down the street like a madman telling random strangers Merry Christmas … I mean not really but you get the idea. Plus it has Bill F-ing Murray in it!
