Cheesy Holiday Movies

Absolute best holiday film of the last 20 years - Love Actually! My daughter and I watch it every Christmas. Has become as much a family tradition as It's A Wonderful LIfe.

Miracle on 34th Street the old version
It's a Wonderful Life with Jimmy Stewart
Meet Me in St Louis with Judy Garland
White Christmas with Bing Crosby (there are 2 versions the other one is Holiday Inn also with Bing Crosby)
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
Actually I love the old holiday movies from the '40's and '50's ---yes they are phony and cheesy but I remember in my younger years trying to copy that cozy feeling into my holidays.

I also love "Love Actually". I even used it as a term paper for an Interpersonal Communications class I took. It was on the list of movies we could use and I had seen it a dozen or so times already, so it made it an easier assignment for me to do at the end of the semester with the upcoming holidays approaching. I always went as far ahead as I could (I did a 2 year degree that took me almost 5 to finish as a PT student...graduated in 2010).

In the end it worked out magically well. I had it done 6 weeks ahead of time all but final tweaking. Then my Mom died on Thanksgiving day (a few weeks before the end of the class and its due date). Was glad a movie we both loved helped make it easier for me to finish the class on top (A grade for the assignment and the class to maintain my 4.0 GPA).

Highly recommended!

I love White Christmas... and of course A Christmas Story, and the newer Elf. My hubs loves the Chevy Chase family vacation Christmas movie (I'm not a fan though).

O' I torture my poor family to watch Christmas movies with me every night from 11/20 on. There is a tv station that has the 25 days of Christmas movies on every night. LOVE THEM! Have you seen "The Christmas Shoes"? That is a great one. Also, "The Christmas Visitor" is a good one.

Cheesy, or awesome? :P I love me some It's a Wonderful Life, for real. I don't care how old it is. And National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation makes me laugh even though I've seen it 20 times. I think the 3D cartoon of A Christmas Carol was neat and had FREAKISHLY good animation, and I still love the old movie version starring George C. Scott.
If it's cheese you want, we do the Wiggles Christmas stuff for the boys (when daddy's not around because he DOES draw the line there), and the ancient Rudolph, Frosty, and Grinch movies. And of course, Charlie Brown's Christmas movie.
I don't remember One True Thing being a Christmas movie, but anything with Meryl Streep or Renee Zelwegger get good points in my book!

I 2nd "Love Actually".....I watch it year round....& so do my sons!

I love every single one of the classics....especially the Claudette Colbert "Since You Went Away"....love, love, love it! Joseph Cotton, Shirley Temple, & Jennifer Jones are also in it. OH, & the original "Christmas in Connecticut"! John Wayne's "The 3 Godfathers".

& thank you Hallmark Channel....for starting Christmas viewing this past wkend! I had the house to myself yesterday....& watched Thanksg/Christmas movies all day while I did paperwk on my Dad's estate. Hallmark saved me!

I love cheesy movies! I agree with Tracy K on ELF! For some reason, that movie always makes me laugh - I love Will Ferrell. My family also loves other cheesy movies (maybe not so "holiday") but we always end up choosing it during gatherings: Journey to the center of the earth (the new one), anything with Steve Martin, Get Smart, Overboard (with Goldie Hawn), Father of the Bride (1&2)... I could go on...

Love Actually is one of my favorites.

Ditto to White Christmas. My all-time favorite holiday movie.

Gotta go with Love Actually.

I am Portuguese, so I really love the scene where Colin Firth proposes in broken Portuguese.

I have to watch A Christmas Carol with Alastair Sim every year. It's in black and white with the spookiest ghosts and the best Scrooge, in my opinion. I'm a sucker for the music too. Too scary for my 4-year old, but I'll initiate him in a couple years.

I love A Christmas Story too - we originally saw that in the theatre when it was a big flop and laughed until we cried. Love that Santa scene!

Christmas isn't Christmas without watching "Christmas in Connecticutt." Romantic silly comedy at it's finest. I still laugh out loud EVERY time!

M.

ummmm.... Does Bad Santa count? :)
Elf
Skiping Christmas
How The Grinch stole Christmas
Scrooged
The Santa Clause

I like Elvis Presley Christmas or any Christmas episode of any tv show and I love Christmas TV specials full of special musical guests standing around in parkas and sweaters and you just know it was filmed in August.
Last year Stephen Colbert had a great Christmas special

I have to agree that Nat'l Lampoons Christmas vacation always makes me smile. And I can't believe I am going to admit this, but The Christmas Story! "you'll shoot your eye out!" It's super cheesy and silly, but what would decorating the house for Christmas be like w/ out all the cheesy movies? LOL! I also like the old cartoon classics, like Rudolph and Frosty! :)

I love love love xmas movies. I have Elf, Christmas Vacation, Christmas cottage, Santa Clause 1, 2, and 3, Christmas story, the Night Before Christmas(my all time favorite), Christmas with the Kranks, Prancer and lots ,more. I like HOme alone 1 +2.
Yes I am a christmas movie junky,

I don't think I've seen any you mentioned!!! Will get on that!

We love A Christmas Story. Maybe because it brings back memories or because it is just so typical. Fra - gi- le. Fra- Ra-Ra-Ra-Ra. Makes me giggle. Great to have on in the background while making cookies or wrapping gifts!

I have to admit, A Christmas Story is one of my favorites. Don't you just absolutely LOVE that mom? Her laugh alone just makes me hysterical. Also It's A Wonderful Life. Jimmy Stewart is just about the best thing that walked the earth, in my opinion.

I'm waiting for the time when my daughter knows the truth about Santa to show her "Prancer". There's too much "there IS no Santa Claus" in that movie to show her yet. But that will come later.

Favorite line from A Christmas Story; "NOT A FINGER!"

Every year the weekend after Thanksgiving amidst the outside light-stringing, tree decorating and turkey gluttony, I pop in "National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation." It never fails to make me laugh and put me in the Christmas spirit -and it is CHEESY and hilarious (especially Cousin Eddy)!

The Preachers Wife with Whitney Houston and Denzel Washington.

Home Alone 1 and 2 the day after Thanksgiving! It's a fun tradition, even as the kids get older.

Love Actually - The star of Walking Dead, was one of my favorite stars in Love actually .. Andrew Lincoln..

White Christmas
Wonderful Life
The Holiday

This last Saturday I was all alone all day and watched way too many Hallmark Christmas movies.. Very Cheesy, but fun to watch.

Christmas Vacation is a classic!

Don't ignore the classics: It's a Wonderful Life, Miracle on 34th Street (any version), Christmas Carol (almost any version). In "Miracle", when Santa speaks Dutch to the little newly adopted girl (old version) and signs to the deaf girl (new version), it's guaranteed to get me sobbing and I've watched that movie close to 1,000 times easily.

I also have to go with Christmas Shoes.