Ranked: 30 Movies You Can Claim Are Christmas Movies Instead of Developing a Personality

I watch Lord Of The Rings at Christmas.

it has elves
the fellowship set out from Rivendell on the 25th of December
Gandalf has a santa-like beard

I rest my case

Don't forget they all came out in December! That's the only thing that matters.
- Aww never knew they were LGBT 🥰
All of them were originally released around the holidays back in the early 00s as well, so there's baked in Christmas association with those movies.
In a parallel universe multiplex somewhere, Christopher Lee smashed it as Krampus.
- I'm pretty sure that Krampus is actually based on his activities during the second world war.

People say Die Hard is Christmas movie because people are so fucking tired of the same rehashed Christmas movies that get played in repeat every year. I like Elf but I've seen it enough.

Same with Christmas music. I'm tired of this boomer era shit starting in October.

Jingle All the Way is a better Christmas action movie that's actually about Christmas.
- So my husband also loves this movie. I try every year to like it, but I simply cannot. I wonder if it's one of those that you find and love as a kid or else it's hard to get into, haha.
- My girlfriend said the same thing. Not a masterpiece but a fun lil movie to break the monotony of regular holiday movies.
- Just got that movie recently 🏴‍☠️ and you reminded me of it. Thanks stranger!
A tradition is anything that happened to a boomer twice.
Muppet Christmas Carole never gets old.
- Ooooor when I was a kid I'd always put it on during christmas time because it was both A) Not claymation Rudolph again for the third time this month, and B) it DOES take place at a cristmas party so I could count it. Also Gremlins and Nightmare Before Christmas both got halloween time plays and christmas time plays, sue me.
Fuck christmas I do my best to ignore it until some annoying person comes along and invites you to some Christmas markets or whatever.
- You sound miserable. I hope you find some happiness, somewhere.
  May the gloom and funk you are currently experiencing fade away!
- Thanks for weighing on a list of Christmas movies, jackass.

“If you it means you have no personality” is played out

If you enjoy “if you _____ it means you have no personality” articles it means you have no personality.
Agreed. Saying everything isn't a personality isn't a personality either.
- I don't think people who call others out are making it their personality.
If you like Christmas and typical Christmas things you are an NPC without a soul.
- Only if you make it your entire personality.
Unfortunately it's not. People are so desperate to engage with others about pop culture and not have to face the horrible truth about the world we live in, that they really lean into stupid irrelevant debates about whether or not a movie is a Christmas movie.
It's great that as Lemmy users, we're above such trivial nonsense and would never waste multiple minutes debating with strangers about any of this piff.
- as lemmy users
  🤮

american psycho should be one if them, the main character even says "have a holly jolly christmas"

I like when he ODs the two elves on MDMA then walks around with the elf head on his dick.
Such metaphor.
There are more nonchalant Christmas references in American Psycho than in a Shane Black movie.

I saw some clickbait article the other day “movies you didn’t realize were Christmas movies” and it was full of obvious Christmas movies. #1 was Its a Wonderful Life………

Okay but why aren’t some of these Christmas season movies? I think narnia really isn’t that big of a stretch

Snow ≠ Christmas
It was only wintery because of the witch. If anything, it's Easter themed, since it's literally a crucifixion allegory.
Edit: I'm a big dumb wrong person.
- Santa is literally in the book. He arms the children.
- What’s your case for Home Alone then?
  That’s a Christmas movie to the core.

It really depends on whether you can stomach watching Kevin Spacey or not, but The Ref is one of the greatest Christmas movies imo

EXCUSE ME EXCUSE ME EXCUSE ME. The corpse still has the floor!
Dennis Leary at his zenith.

'The Ref' is a glaring omission. Burn the website down.

Die hard should have been on one and not lethal weapon. Other than that I think those are excellent choices.

Lethal Weapon was written by Shane Black, so by default it's a Christmas movie.

🤷‍♀️ I don't enjoy traditional Christmas movies that much and I think it's fun to do something different.

There are 8 billion of us, it's pretty tough to say something original all the time.

Sorry, Onion, some of these literally have Christmas in their titles. That's a stretch, even for you. XD

The post is from hardtimes.net
- All my satire is onion and all my consoles are nintendo
- Yeah, but the community here is theonion. The comment applies the same for any of the satire sites.

"get a personality" and "that's your whole personality" is just lazy writing. it's a generic insult deployed against anyone who likes a thing that says nothing about the person or the thing. it's the satire equivalent to "vegan bad". why should I read an article written by someone who makes parroting bland criticisms from the internet their whole personality?

Not the Onion's best work, if I'm honest. Feels like C-grade Cracked.com material.

Probably because it's from The Hard Times, not The Onion.

"No, the only Christmas movies are movies I SAY are Christmas movies!" ~ Dan Rice / Chat GPT

Imagine caring what other people consider a holiday movie? Dan sounds like a miserable person who will go through your movie collection and call them all horse shit and demand you and your group watch a 4 hour movie about a woman brushing a horse and proclaiming It to be true art.

I stopped reading at his banal prologue. Don't invite Dan over for movie night, for he is armed with a Chat Bot and a thesaurus.

There really is only a small handful of pre-approved opinions on the internet that you're allowed to have. Some people need to virtue signal so damn hard every year that they're a REAL die hard fan, and it's like, okay bud, it's a mega blockbuster hit that hundreds of millions of people have watched for 35 years. Chill.