Merry Christmas!
10. Polar Express
Santa Claus is up there in awesomeness with Optimus Prime and Dracula.
And this movie perfectly captures how we all, at one point, realize that he is not real. It is sad really but all too necessary. This movie also gives us a glimpse of the “what if” many of us want to explore, “What if Santa is real?”
9. The Santa Clause
The premise of the story is an absolute genius. It makes some sense for Santa to meet an accident at one point in his career which will leave him unable to fulfill his Christmas duty, to deliver gifts.
It is just hilarious to think that anyone will be forced into substituting for him. I mean, you can’t even substitute Kobe when he gets injured, what made anyone think that you can get someone to take Santa’s place?
8. The Grinch
Because no one can hate Christmas. It’s just impossible.
Even people of different religions celebrate with the rest of the world. It is a clear sign that as much as it is supposed to be about the birthday of Christ, it is also about that one day in a year when nothing else matters but love.
7. The Holiday
It is as cheesy as cheesy can get.
Christmas can do this to some people. Christmas reminds us all of our heartaches and loneliness especially when we see everyone else with their “the one”. I just wish that Christmas can bring to us all what it brought to the main characters, the love of their lives.
6. The Nightmare Before Christmas
A Tim Burton Christmas story! That cannot be taken out of this list, no matter what.
It tells the story of Jack Skellington, a being from “Halloween Town” who opens a portal to “Christmas Town”. Walt Disney Pictures decided to release the film under their Touchstone Pictures banner because they thought Nightmare would be “too dark and scary for kids”. The Nightmare Before Christmas has been viewed with critical and financial success. Disney has reissued the film annually under their Disney Digital 3-D format since 2006.
5. A Christmas Carol and Home Alone
An animated retelling of Charles Dickens’ classic novel about a Victorian-era miser taken on a journey of self-redemption, courtesy of several mysterious Christmas apparitions.
Home Alone, on the other hand, is a classic despite the lead character’s terrible acting.
4. Elf
It was released in the United States on November 7, 2003 and grossed over $220,400,000 worldwide. And why not? Imagine being adopted by Santa?! Epic!
3. Miracle on 34th Street
It is the story of what takes place in New York City following Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, as people are left wondering whether or not a department store Santa might be the real thing. Because of its Christmas theme, the film has become a perennial Christmas favorite.
The film won Academy Awards for Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Edmund Gwenn), Best Writing, Original Story (Valentine Davies) and Best Writing, Screenplay. It was also nominated for Best Picture, losing to Gentleman’s Agreement.
The next time you take a photo with that Santa in Walmart, start thinking what would happen if you discover he is the real Santa.
2. It s a Wonderful Life
The heaviest movie on the list.
The film stars James Stewart as George Bailey, a man whose imminent suicide on Christmas Eve brings about the intervention of his guardian angel, Clarence Odbody (Henry Travers).
1. Love Actually
Love Actually is the ultimate Marathon of romantic comedies. The most fun marathon anyone can ever participate in. This movie is a blatant call for love and it was impossible for us not to give it. There the Prime Minister (Hugh Grant) who’s smitten with his caterer; a widower (Liam Neeson) whose young son nurses the ultimate schoolboy crush; a writer (Colin Firth) who falls for his Portuguese housekeeper; a devoted wife and mother (Emma Thompson) coping with her potentially unfaithful husband (Alan Rickman); and a lovelorn American (Laura Linney) who’s desperately attracted to a colleague.
Every story ends sweetly, enough to fulfill our sweet Christmas cravings.
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