The formula's fresher here, and the results are significantly less bloated than in the movie's headlining follow-up/remake. Most people cite White Christmas, but this is the original that an entire chain of hotels was named after. As an adult, I'm sort of bummed when it finally does, because it overshadows the movie's underlying point that holidays without family are nothing (especially if your family includes Catherine O'Hara). It was all the previews featured and doesn't really even kick into high gear until the movie's final half hour. (credit: 20th Century Fox)ДЄs a kid watching the movie, I remember my supreme impatience waiting for the Looney Tunes cartoon violence to begin against the 'wet bandits' played by a very game Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern. With those restrictions in mind, here is our cinematic yuletide countdown. We're also leaving out holiday specials, which means no A Charlie Brown Christmas, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, the Rankin-Bass collection, or even stuff as outre as Pee-Wee's Christmas Special, A Claymation Christmas, or the underrated PBS adaptation of Dylan Thomas' A Child's Christmas in Wales. Louis, All That Heaven Allows, Eyes Wide Shut, and the first segment of the 1972 horror anthology Tales from the Crypt.) (Otherwise, we'd be talking about such inclusions as Brazil, Meet Me in St. We're not talking the best movies that have Christmas elements or scenes, or are set primarily during Christmas but don't otherwise have a ton to do with the holiday. In honor of that, I'm counting down the top 10 best Christmas movies ever. OK, maybe that's an exaggeration, but suffice it to say that no holiday has been covered quite as extensively as Dec. That's actually about 3,582 more than there are movies period. There are, at last count, about 18,372 Christmas movies.

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