Favorite Xmas Movie/Show Past or Present?
Dec 7th 2006, 3:51 pm
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Re: Favorite Xmas Movie/Show Past or Present?
Miracle on 34th street the original with Maureen o'Hara.
Dec 8th 2006, 12:31 am
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Re: Favorite Xmas Movie/Show Past or Present?
[QUOTE=Bob]yeah, that's a pretty good one...shame that David Lyndan Hall carped it, he was that singer bloke.
Bill Nigh? (I've probably spelt that wrong)
Bill Nigh? (I've probably spelt that wrong)
Dec 8th 2006, 12:38 am
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Re: Favorite Xmas Movie/Show Past or Present?
Meet me in St. Louis, all around good holiday show.
Has Judy Garland singing the all time greatest Christmas song.
"Have yourself a merry little Christmas"
Cheers
Has Judy Garland singing the all time greatest Christmas song.
"Have yourself a merry little Christmas"
Cheers
Dec 8th 2006, 12:39 am
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Re: Favorite Xmas Movie/Show Past or Present?
Originally Posted by Seahorse3
Meet me in St. Louis, all around good holiday show.
Has Judy Garland singing the all time greatest Christmas song.
"Have yourself a merry little Christmas"
Cheers
Has Judy Garland singing the all time greatest Christmas song.
"Have yourself a merry little Christmas"
Cheers
Dec 8th 2006, 12:42 am
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Re: Favorite Xmas Movie/Show Past or Present?
[QUOTE=blaze]
no, the real singer bloke, the black guy that sang at the wedding, at the start of the movie.
Originally Posted by Bob
yeah, that's a pretty good one...shame that David Lyndan Hall carped it, he was that singer bloke.
Bill Nigh? (I've probably spelt that wrong)
Bill Nigh? (I've probably spelt that wrong)
Dec 8th 2006, 12:45 am
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Re: Favorite Xmas Movie/Show Past or Present?
[QUOTE=Bob]
Ahh, that bloke!
Originally Posted by blaze
no, the real singer bloke, the black guy that sang at the wedding, at the start of the movie.
Ahh, that bloke!
Dec 8th 2006, 12:51 am
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Re: Favorite Xmas Movie/Show Past or Present?
The Grinch
Polar Express
Love Actually
Men Behaving Badly Jingle Balls edition
all put us in the christmas spirit! Although having watched Polar Express every day now with the kids since Dec 1st its getting irritating - but not for them!!
Polar Express
Love Actually
Men Behaving Badly Jingle Balls edition
all put us in the christmas spirit! Although having watched Polar Express every day now with the kids since Dec 1st its getting irritating - but not for them!!
Dec 8th 2006, 1:04 am
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Re: Favorite Xmas Movie/Show Past or Present?
Originally Posted by islandmom
all put us in the christmas spirit! Although having watched Polar Express every day now with the kids since Dec 1st its getting irritating - but not for them!!
Dec 8th 2006, 1:16 am
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Re: Favorite Xmas Movie/Show Past or Present?
Originally Posted by Bob
first time around was enough for me, I thought it was cobblers...shame really as the book is rather pretty.
my boys absoloutely love it - the whole train / santa / snow thing keeps them mesmerised. If only they didnt insist I had to sit inbetween them and watch it too .... oh well gets me out of cooking supper!
Dec 8th 2006, 1:42 am
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Re: Favorite Xmas Movie/Show Past or Present?
Originally Posted by Jerseygirl
Love Actually for starters.
Dec 8th 2006, 1:47 am
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Re: Favorite Xmas Movie/Show Past or Present?
Originally Posted by AmerLisa
Awww, I like that one as well.
doesnt the bit at then end when they show all those families meeting at the aiport make you wanna sob! only time I've ever really felt grotty about being an expat - those scenes really got to me!
Dec 8th 2006, 1:52 am
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Re: Favorite Xmas Movie/Show Past or Present?
Scrooged
Muppet Xmas Carol
The Grinch (cartoon)
Vicar of Dibley Xmas special
Straw Dogs (optional)
Muppet Xmas Carol
The Grinch (cartoon)
Vicar of Dibley Xmas special
Straw Dogs (optional)
Dec 8th 2006, 1:54 am
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Re: Favorite Xmas Movie/Show Past or Present?
Originally Posted by Bob
yeah, that's a pretty good one...shame that David Lyndan Hall carped it, he was that singer bloke.
Dec 8th 2006, 1:58 am
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Re: Favorite Xmas Movie/Show Past or Present?
Originally Posted by islandmom
doesnt the bit at then end when they show all those families meeting at the aiport make you wanna sob! only time I've ever really felt grotty about being an expat - those scenes really got to me!
wheres the f**king tissues.
Dec 8th 2006, 2:43 am
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Re: Favorite Xmas Movie/Show Past or Present?
Originally Posted by Englishmum
"The Snowman" by Raymond Briggs; the very English cartoon where the see the sheer joy on a small boy as he wakes up in the morning to see that snow has fallen and he builds a snowman. The snowman comes to life, takes the little boy to a party....and the little boy is heartbroken when the snowman melts. It has the famous song "Walking in the Air" by the (then choirboy) Aled Jones.
I first saw it in the mid-80s when my daughter was tiny and we watched it together. We cried then and when we watch the DVD we both still cry to this day!
http://www.amazon.com/Snowman-Father...?ie=UTF8&s=dvd
I first saw it in the mid-80s when my daughter was tiny and we watched it together. We cried then and when we watch the DVD we both still cry to this day!
http://www.amazon.com/Snowman-Father...?ie=UTF8&s=dvd
I have a music c.d and it has that song sung by another kid and it sounds awful....I want the Aled Jones version
ones the kids like are The Santa Clause and of course Elf
