Top 3: Favorite Christmas Movies
I'm trying to get back to blogging here more (thanks mostly to the incessant cajoling of my sibling-laws over Thanksgiving), so I thought I'd try another one of my famous Top 3 lists (the other two are here and here). Forgive me for this list being somewhat mundane. I'm just in the mood.
Top 3 Favorite Christmas Movies
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It's A Wonderful Life. I don't care if it's cliché; it's a damn good movie. Jimmy Stewart, in all his stammering glory, was freaking good. He was just good. And if you don't find yourself at all emotionally affected when Harry raises his glass and toasts, "to my big brother George, the richest man in town," you might be made of plastic. I watched it again with my lovely wife last night, and it's just really, really good.
- Scrooged. Yes, Bill Murray has a mullet. Yes, Bobcat Goldthwait is in it. But it's still funny. Carol Kane as the Ghost of Christmas Present is hi-larious. And I have stolen every bit of sarcastic humor I overuse today directly from Murray in this movie.
- National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation. I think this one was shot just before Chevy Chase officially lost "the funny." And Randy Quaid is so, so funny. But you know that, because you've seen this movie a thousand times. And even though you think Quaid is good in this one, you still probably haven't watched Christmas Vacation 2: Cousin Eddie's Island Adventure. And that's because you'd rather poke out your eyeballs than rent it and have an experience similar to the one you had at the hands of Vegas Vacation, right? Thought so. Me too.
Runners-up: The Muppet Christmas Carol, A Christmas Story, and Christmas Eve on Sesame Street.
