12 Days of Christmas, in movies.
We decided we were going to watch every Christmas movie we could this year. Some movies we watched together as a family, others we sent the kids in an other room to watch their own movie while we watched ours.
We kicked it off with Four Christmases and the event culminated with Its A Wonderful Life. Along the way we watched National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation and A Christmas Story (it was my first time seeing both of these and It's a Wonderful Life) Elf, Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer, Santa Clause is Coming to Town, Charlie Brown Christmas, The Grinch Who Stole Christmas, Frosty the Snowman, and a few others that I can't recall.
We all enjoyed watching movies together. It was fun mocking the graphics of older cartoons and the film style of old movies and walking away with some hilarious quotes to keep us chuckling throughout the year. One of my favorites was a line from It's a Wonderful Life, not the famous "every time a bell rings an angel gets his wings" though that is cute, my personal favorite occurred during during George's Christmas Eve outburst "you call this a happy home? Why do we have to have all these kids anyway?" Hilarious. I realize it wasn't intended to be funny but we all had a good laugh.
I think we'll have to make the movie marathon a part of our Christmas tradition for years to come. We still haven't seen Miracle on 34th Street so we'll need to add that one next year, and I'm sure there are a few more that are worthy of making the list.
We kicked it off with Four Christmases and the event culminated with Its A Wonderful Life. Along the way we watched National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation and A Christmas Story (it was my first time seeing both of these and It's a Wonderful Life) Elf, Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer, Santa Clause is Coming to Town, Charlie Brown Christmas, The Grinch Who Stole Christmas, Frosty the Snowman, and a few others that I can't recall.
We all enjoyed watching movies together. It was fun mocking the graphics of older cartoons and the film style of old movies and walking away with some hilarious quotes to keep us chuckling throughout the year. One of my favorites was a line from It's a Wonderful Life, not the famous "every time a bell rings an angel gets his wings" though that is cute, my personal favorite occurred during during George's Christmas Eve outburst "you call this a happy home? Why do we have to have all these kids anyway?" Hilarious. I realize it wasn't intended to be funny but we all had a good laugh.
I think we'll have to make the movie marathon a part of our Christmas tradition for years to come. We still haven't seen Miracle on 34th Street so we'll need to add that one next year, and I'm sure there are a few more that are worthy of making the list.
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