BlogCarnival: Holiday Movies & Specials

[bunnykissd]

The holiday season will soon be here - what's your favorite holiday movie or special? Why?

I used to love cuddling on the sofa with a lap cat watching holiday movies and TV specials. Today it's not the same. I used to get so excited when this would come on the TV:

But now, you can DVR it, buy the DVD (have some), search it up on YouTube (hee, I think I did that...), get it shipped from NetFlix (do this every year)... and watch those things any old time.

But I *still* have favorites! Of course I can't limit it to just one, I love too many! So here's my top ten...

10. The Little Drummer Boy - My favorite song as a child made into a TV special... awesome!
9. Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer - Who doesn't love this?
8. Frosty the Snowman - I still say *Messy, messy, messy* in that voice... XD
7. A Charlie Brown Christmas - The ending still makes me tear up...
6. Miracle on 34th Street - Not just tearing up with this one, bawling...
5. Will Vinton's Clay-mation Christmas - Full of awesome holiday music!
4. How the Grinch Stole Christmas - This was a favorite of both my mom and me, we can even recite lines! Hee!
3. The Little Princess - Not really a Christmas movie per se, but one that always gives me the Christmas spirit...
2. The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus - This is actually a book I read every year, and I haven't seen the special since it aired in the 80s, but it's still a favorite.

And my number one, lovelovelove this special, is John Denver and the Muppets: A Christmas Together. The songs are *my* Christmas Carols and without them it's just not Christmas. I wish they'd put out a DVD, so I could buy it already!

I can't wait to read about everyone else's favorites! How about you?

Comments

[littleloveflame.livejournal.com]

All yours are also mine, though I never saw The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, or The Little Princess, and I'd have to add a movie in there - The Polar Express.

And a Trans Siberian Orchestra DVD I have that I play every Christmas and love :-)

[bunnykissd.livejournal.com]

You should definitely check out The Little Princess - I like the colorized version best, it makes it seem even more magical to me. And I *think* you can watch the whole special of the Life & Adventures of Santa Claus there on YouTube. Not the same as the real thing, on the TV, but it works for me for now...

I have seen The Polar Express! I liked it, but it's not as special to me as all those shows that aired every year when I was a kid... LOL!

I love the Trans Siberian Orchestra's Christmas music!

[littleloveflame.livejournal.com]

I have a CD of the John Denver and the Muppets Christmas :-) no DVD but a CD :-)

[bunnykissd.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I have a tape and the *record* - can you believe it?! LOL! Love it to death and play it incessantly during the holidays...

[ladymandrake.livejournal.com]

Emmit Otter's Jug Band Christmas
John Denver and the Muppets
The Isle of Misfit toys
How the Grinch stole christmas *NOT the movie, the original cartoon*
Charlie Brown Christmas

and the ultimate

A Christmas Story *because you'll shoot your eye out*...I LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE this movie...seriously...Scott dispises it and actually bought me a copy of it on DVD a few years ago because he knows how much I love it

[bunnykissd.livejournal.com]

OMG! How could I forget Emmit Otter's Jug Band Christmas! Also a fave. ^-^

And can you believe I never have really seen all the way through A Christmas Story? I always get distracted midway and miss parts... :\

[ladymandrake.livejournal.com]

http://www.amazon.com/John-Denver-Christmas-Together-Muppets/dp/B002RYLB9G/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&s=home-garden&qid=1258813252&sr=8-4

[bunnykissd.livejournal.com]

Oh wow! I wonder if that's legal though (or a good quality recording for that matter)... They've never officially released it to video or DVD! D: