Best Non-Holiday Holiday Movies! GO!!!

JustinAnimal
JustinAnimal Posts: 1,335 Member
edited November 8 in Chit-Chat
Okay, this is branching off from the girly romantic comedy thread. Wifey and I love us some classic holiday movies. However, we also love the off-holiday movies. Our absolute favorite "Christmas" movie: DIE HARD!

What are your favorite whacky, scary, weird, quirky or otherwise OFF holiday movies. I expect something to do with Christmas, Thanksgiving, Kwanzaa, Chanauhaka (Chewbacca?) or some holiday tradition (religious or otherwise).

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  • MaxPower0102
    MaxPower0102 Posts: 2,654 Member
    Not sure they are non-Holiday, but Bad Santa (unrated version) makes me pee my pants every time I see it. Planes, Trains, and Automobiles is a classic. Home Alone and Gremlins are good ones to watch with the little(r) ones.

    But the best of all that fits this category: TRADING PLACES
  • JustinAnimal
    JustinAnimal Posts: 1,335 Member
    Trading Places is one of my wife's new favorites. I think it's making it's way under the tree this year.
  • johnmurphymfp
    johnmurphymfp Posts: 2,590 Member
    Bond, James Bond movies.... seems they always play them around Thanksgiving time. And I love it.
  • salembambi
    salembambi Posts: 5,585 Member
    harry potter
  • kmorgan221
    kmorgan221 Posts: 206 Member
    Lethal Weapon
  • FabulousFantasticFifty
    FabulousFantasticFifty Posts: 195,832 Member
    Cloverfield and The Mist
  • JustinAnimal
    JustinAnimal Posts: 1,335 Member
    Does Lethal Weapon take place around Christmas? I hate to admit, but I've never seen a Lethal Weapon all the way through.
  • jrline
    jrline Posts: 2,353 Member
    The Ref

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  • JustinAnimal
    JustinAnimal Posts: 1,335 Member
    Holy schnikes, the ref! Underrated!
  • FabulousFantasticFifty
    FabulousFantasticFifty Posts: 195,832 Member
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  • sw33tp3a11
    sw33tp3a11 Posts: 4,646 Member
    Boat Trip!
  • DeannaLynnPerkins
    DeannaLynnPerkins Posts: 41 Member
    Harry Potter! I'm a Harry Potter nerd and so is my husband. They always seem to play them during the 25 days of Christmas, I'm pretty sure it's just because they have a Christmas break in their school year. LOL. "Happy Christmas" everyone! :-P
  • La_Malfaisante
    La_Malfaisante Posts: 1,509 Member
    Boondock Saints
  • Rerun201
    Rerun201 Posts: 125 Member
    Animal House.
  • BusyRaeNOTBusty
    BusyRaeNOTBusty Posts: 7,166 Member
    Love Actually or is that too holiday holiday?
  • Rerun201
    Rerun201 Posts: 125 Member
    Mis-read the topic. Going with Trading Places.
  • La_Malfaisante
    La_Malfaisante Posts: 1,509 Member
    Alice in underpants
  • Torontonius
    Torontonius Posts: 245 Member
    Death Wish
  • MyChocolateDiet
    MyChocolateDiet Posts: 22,281 Member
    Well I guess if someone said "play a christmas movie" I might offer Christmas Vacation or A Christmas Story or Jingle All the Way. I guess if they said "play a regular movie" but it were on christmas I'd play Sleepless in Seattle or Star Wars depending on who was in the room, moms and kids or dads and kids.

    Unsure if I got the meaning right of not holiday holiday movie but this seems to be what you were asking.
  • rissadiane
    rissadiane Posts: 355 Member
    Definitely Die Hard! When I tell people it's in my 5 favorite Christmas movies they act like I'm crazy
  • Misshodge64
    Misshodge64 Posts: 8,588 Member
    The Orphan
  • RyanMatthewHarrell
    RyanMatthewHarrell Posts: 267
    Hmmm...OMG Antichrist! It's EFFED up and well...it takes place in winter XD
  • JustinAnimal
    JustinAnimal Posts: 1,335 Member
    Is Antichrist the one with Willem Dafoe and the snipping off of a particularly hard to find female part? Dear lord, I don't think I'm man enough to watch that one (though plenty of people have told me about it).

    When my cousins and I were pretty young, the adults would get together on Christmas Eve and make fondue, drink wine, have adult conversation and do other things that were BORING as a youngin'. We would get a Domino's pizza and watch Predator 2 at the tender ages of 6-12. How's that for a holiday tradition?
  • Spnneil06
    Spnneil06 Posts: 18,745 Member
    edited November 2014
    Ugh off christmas movies. The Friday after Next!
  • FabulousFantasticFifty
    FabulousFantasticFifty Posts: 195,832 Member
    Read the Book first, then saw the Movie on DVD is Very Good!
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  • kangakev
    kangakev Posts: 2,430 Member
    Scrooged....Bill Murray
  • CorlissaEats
    CorlissaEats Posts: 493 Member
    For some reason I always associate the Sound of Music with the Christmas season.
  • lorib642
    lorib642 Posts: 1,942 Member
    Took me awhile to think of one. Brazil
  • ithrowconfetti
    ithrowconfetti Posts: 451 Member
    edited November 2014
    My friends and I often have a LOTR trilogy extended version marathon, so that we can enjoy each other's company that much longer. With the final instalment of The Hobbit coming out this year, we're planning to do a LOTR + The Hobbit extended version (yes, of all 6 movies) marathon next year. Good movies, good friends and good food. :)
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