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One of my favorite things to do during the holiday season is to sit on the couch, grab a big bowl of popcorn, and watch a holiday movie. Sure, I might even start a fire in the fireplace (provided, of course, that I’m not having a weather temp in the 70s). And when I do turn to these holiday films, there are certain ones that I just have to watch:
National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation
Here are a few of my favorite lines:
Bethany: “Is your house on fire, Clark?”
Clark: “No, Aunt Bethany, those are the Christmas lights.”
Oh, Aunt Bethany, I do love you.
Clark: “Can I refill your eggnog for you? Get you something to eat? Drive you out to the middle of nowhere and leave you for dead?”
Come on—haven’t we all wanted to take that drive to nowhere with a family member at one point?
Another flick I love…
Scrooged (Bill Murray makes me laugh every year.)
Favorite lines from Frank Cross: “I get it. You’re here to show me my past, and I’m supposed to get all dully-eyed and mushy. Well, forget it, pal, you got the wrong guy!”
And, of course, how could I make a list without It’s a Wonderful Life? And the bit from that movie that always stayed with me?
Clarence: “Strange, isn’t it? Each man’s life touches so many other lives. When he isn’t around, he leaves an awful hole, doesn’t he?”
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What are you favorite holiday movies? Or lines? I’ve got a lot of prizes to give on this one—a promised ARC of my next Fallen book (AVENGING ANGEL—due out in May of 2013), and five digital/or print copies of my first Harlequin Intrigue, ALPHA ONE. (ALPHA ONE will introduce readers to my dangerous Shadow Agents.) ALPHA ONE will release the first week of January, but I will order your copies now. That’s six winners—so be sure to comment!
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one of my favorites How the Grinch stole Christmas
grinch- save you … I didnt save you I merely noticed you were improperly packaged
My favorite has to be A Charlie Brown Christmas. Its not a movie but i love watching it bcuz it reminds me of all the happy times during the holidays while i was just a kid.
I love Elf, A Christmas Story and Bad Santa.
The saying is from “Christmas Vacation”. One of my favorites is The Christmas Story – “you shoot your eye eat” and “daddy’s gonna kill ralphie”
Hi Cynthia! Alpha One looks AMAZING!(Maybe it’s the hot guy on the cover?) I have LOADS of favorite Christmas movies. But top on the list are Elf, Christmas with the Cranks, and Last Holiday. And then there are the Hallmark (and Hallmark-esque) ones: The Christmas Card, Season of Giving (with the delightful Reba McIntyre), A Boyfriend for Christmas, and pretty much anything with Jason Gedrick. 😀
Hiya Cynthia! 🙂
OMG! I love those films <3 My favourite holiday films have to be:
-Home Alone 1, 2, 3 & 4
-Little Women
-Mary Poppins
-Santa Clause ( the one with Tim Allen in it )
-The Grinch
-Scrooged
-Any of the Muppets Christmas movies
I just LOVE Christmas! 😀
Kind Regards,
Michelle Louise Pratley
Scotland
michellelouisepratley@yahoo.co.uk
I usually watch a Christmas Carol though my favorite one is the one with George C. Scott.
I love National Lapoon’s Christmas Vacation too. And while it is bad the one scene that for some strange reason is the kitty and the Christmas tree lights. And also the dog and the squirel.
I can’t have Christmas without watching A Christmas Story. “You’ll shoot your eye out.” And get a case of the warm fuzzies every time I was How the Grinch Stole Christmas.
A Christmas Story is my favorite.
“You’ll shoot your eye out” –poor Ralphie
or at the end
“No,no,no,no..its Fa-la-la-la-la, not fa-ra-ra-ra-ra” And they sing it wrong again.There are so many great lines in that movie. This year they made a new one with Ralphie as a teenager.I still need to watch it.
Another is A Christmas Carol with Alistair Sims..its like from the 30’s or 40’s.I watch it every Christmas eve.
My favorite holiday movies are Love Actually and A Charlie Brown Christmas (who doesn’t love Snoopy?).
*fingers crossed for Avenging Angel*
Love Christmas Vacation. My dad loves Chevy Chase movies so it reminds me of him:)
We have a tradition of watching National Lampoons Christmas Vacation every yr. Still cracks me up every time. Have you seen the latest Old Navy Commercial with Clark and Ellen and Audrey? Hilarious.
Lisa B
I like the Santa Clause movies, The Polar Express and Elf.
For me it isn’t Christmas unless I’ve seen “Miracle on 34th Street.” Am I age dating myself…LOL. I also love Scrooge – Scrooged – George C. Scott and Bill Murray respectively.
My favorite Christmas movie is It’s a wonderful Life, closely followed by How the Grinch Stole Christmas and Rudolph.
My favorite holiday movies are White Christmas with Bing Crosby, Meet Me In St. Louis with Judy Garland and A Christmas Story and one of my favorite lines is “Over the years I got to be quite a connoisseur of soap. My personal preference was for Lux, but I found Palmolive had a nice, piquant after-dinner flavor – heady, but with just a touch of mellow smoothness. Life Buoy, on the other hand… YECCHH!”….lol…that movie always makes me laugh. Thanks for the great giveaway
Love Actually and Fred Claus are two of my favorites.
Oh my the list could be long but I will give you my top 5!! Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer, Frosty the Snowman, Miracle on 34th Street, Scrooged and last but not least Home Alone!! Thank you for sharing yours and congrats on your release day!
My favorite is national lampoons christmas http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097958/quotes?qt=qt0394804
HAHAHA ….THE BLESSING!!!!
Actually I am waiting to see Christmas for Holly. I think that is the name of it. It is based on Lisa Kleypas’s Christmas Eve at Friday Harbor. And if the movie is anything like the book.. it would be completely magical!!!
Hubby has Rudolf (use to be a favorite as a child) the two Frosty’s, Kris Kringle. Then he has a black and white of A christmas story. He loves the animated Gringe and the movie with Jim Carrey.
My favorites are It’s a Wonderful Life and White Christmas. My daughters and I watch them every year. My husband always finds a reason not to…or falls asleep. At least my girls love them too!
My favorite Christmas movie is A Christmas Story!
I love films at christmas.
Mary Poppins is always on tv.
A Christmas Carol and Scrooged .
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang with Dick Van Dyke’s atrocious cockney accent 🙂
Hope the book giveaways are International.
Irene
ELF! Will Ferrell cracks me up! National Lampoons Christmas Vacation is another family favorite! Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer, the animated Grinch, Frosty the Snowman, A Year Without a Santa Clause, The Little Drummer Boy, The Santa Clause, It’s A Wonderful Life, A Christmas Story (reminds me of my dad – we used to watch it together every Christmas), and my favorite – A Charlie Brown Christmas! My family just LOVES watching Christmas movies. We start on Thanksgiving day and go from there. This year I cheated, because I watch National Lampoon’s Christmas about 2 weeks ago. There are other movies that we watch around this time and that’s always the Home Alone movies and the very first Harry Potter 🙂
Happy Holidays!
Julie K
kornhsl@yahoo.com
National Lampoons Christmas Vacation..my favorite is Elf!
Buddy the Elf! What’s your favorite color?
My favorite holiday movies are Miracle on 34th Street, Nightmare Before Christmas, White Christmas, Scrooged, Elf and Die Hard. 😀
I love Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer, Frosty the Snowman and all of the Mickey Christmas specials. Makes for great family time during the holidays. 🙂
It’s A Wonderful Life, White Christmas and How the Grinch Stole Christmas
Favorite holiday movie is Scrooged with Bill Murray. I love that movie!!!
ehaney578 at aol dot com
I tend to watch a lot of kids Christmas movies. I can’t wait until my kids are old enough to watch National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation and some others. I don’t know that I have a favorite, but I do like the sappy TV Christmas movies on Lifetime. I am beginning to like to read Christmas books too – I had not done that much in the past. Thanks, Cynthia!
OMG!!! Those quotes are from 3 of my favorite Christmas movies. The other movies I have to watch are White Christmas, Holiday Inn and any version of Scrooge.
I love Holiday movies and shows. I love Rudolph, Frosty, and all the other kiddie shows. I probably have all of them memorized. I also love “a Christmas Carol”.
I read Alpha One through Netgalley and LOVED it!!!
Now for my favorite Christmas movie it would have to be Eloisa at Christmas time.
My favorite line is from The Christmas Story 🙂
“You’ll shoot your eye out”
Poor Ralphe lol
I still love and watch every Christmas White Christmas with Bing Crosby!!!
Christmas Vacation is a must watch at my house. I also watch the Grinch with my son.
We have watched National Lampoons Christmas Vacation every year since it came out and the best part is so many of us can repeat the lines before or as they’re saying them. I swear it gets funnier every year!
I love the old standard, White Christmas, and both the animated and movie versions of How the Grinch Stole Christmas. But I’ve got a memory like a sieve and can’t remember a line from either one. I do like the song Faith Hill sings from the movie Grinch, “Where Are You, Christmas?”
It’s not Christmas until I see The Bishop’s Wife with Cary Grant. I also love A Holiday Affair with Robert Mitchum and Desk Set with Tracy & Hepburn. AND, I confess to watching every sappy Hallmark Holiday movie ever made.
I LOVE “The Holiday” with Jude Law… he’s so dreamy! *swoooon*
“Love Actually” is one of my all-time favorites. It’s such a feel-good Christmas movie that gets me so happy and sentimental for the season 🙂
A Christmas Carol
George C Scott version
also White Christmas
I love all the classic animated classics from when I was growing up. The Heat Meiser is on of my all time favorite characters!!
Favorite holiday movies?!! I could go on & on. Like you, I love National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation. Some of our family’s other favorites are White Christmas (love Bing & Danny Kaye), A Christmas Story & The Polar Express. We always watch these 4 movies! I’m really looking forward to watching NLCV this year, because my kids are getting old enough to understand all of the humor!
It used to be DIE HARD that was my favorite holiday movie but ELF has taken over. That movie makes me laugh harder than any other Buddy Elf is too much.
My favorite lines are: You’re not Santa. Yes, I am! No you’re not! I know Santa and you are not Santa!
Thank you so much Cynthia.
My all time favorite Christmas Movie is A Christmas Story & I have the leg lamp to prove it. But my second favorite is A Muppet Family Christmas. I love when all of the muppets fall on the ice. That movie is hard to come by now & I have to watch it on a VHS tape. Now my third favorite movie will have to be The Night They Saved Christmas with Jacoueline Smith. I could go on and on. I love all of the christmas movies,but my favorite quote is when Elf says SON OF A NUTCRACKER!! from the movie Elf. —Rachel
National lampoon’s vacation is our #1favorite!!! Our favorite line from the movie is :
How did the floor wet Todd, I don’t know Margo!
Love it!!!
Great party Cynthia 😉
My favorites have ALWAYS been “The Year Without a Santa Claus” and “Santa Claus is Coming to Town”.
I’m mister White Christmas
I’m Mister Snow…
I’m Mister Heat Miser….
Kids these days don’t appreciate the animated films they have. All we had was the “Wonderful World of Disney” on Sunday nights, after Wild Kingdom, of course. No Disney or cartoon channels back in the day!
My favorite is A Christmas Carol with George C Scott and the one by Disney. I love the small speech in the book about Christmas that Scrooge’s nephew gives. Thanks for asking and for the contest.
I love christmas movies. I love chrismas story, home alone 1& 2, elf, grinch who stole christmas
My favorite holiday movie is A Christmas Story and I cant even count how many times I have seen it. There are so many quotes from the movie that I say all the time.
National Lampoons my favorite too, I can’t think of a favorite line but my favorite part is the house lights.