I searched online and found some Christmas movies this or that questions that I thought would be fun to answer (in a festive red and green color scheme, no less!):
1. Love, Actually or The Holiday - I remember not being very fond of The Holiday and I really like Love, Actually, so this is an easy choice. (I don't think they're all going to be so cut and dry!)
2. How the Grinch Stole Christmas or Miracle on 34th Street - I'm not sure if this is the animated television special from the' 60s or the 2000 movie with Jim Carrey. Either way, I'm going with Miracle (whether it's the one from 1947 or 1994, it doesn't matter). I haven't seen the animated Grinch in years and the 2000 movie is not that good, so therefore either iteration of Miracle wins this for me.
3. The Polar Express or The Christmas Chronicles - This might be a controversial pick, but I'm going with the latter. I love the illustrated Polar Express children's book and the movie is good for what it is, but The Christmas Chronicles has a certain charm and was a nice addition to the Christmas movie canon.
4. Nativity! or The Muppet Christmas Carol - Even if I was familiar with Nativity! (which I'm not), I would still choose Muppet Christmas Carol.
5. Scrooge or It's a Wonderful Life - So I had to look up to see if Scrooge was a movie (it is; it came out in 1970) and not some typo where they forgot to add the d at the end and meant the Bill Murray movie from 1988. I have never seen Scrooge (which, according to Wikipedia is "a musical adaptation of Charles Dicken's A Christmas Carol") so therefore I'm going with It's a Wonderful Life which I haven't seen in years, and, if I'm being honest, I don't think I've actually seen the entirety of in one sitting. It wins more on a technicality.
6. Bad Santa or Die Hard - I've never seen Bad Santa, but I still think I would go with Die Hard even if I had because it's such a classic Christmas action movie and who has never quoted Alan Rickman as Hans Gruber dryly saying, "Ho, ho, ho"?
7. National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation or A Bad Mom's Christmas - I'm starting to sound like a broken record! I've never seen A Bad Mom's Christmas and while I'm sure it's very funny, even if I was familiar with it, there's no way it can be better than Christmas Vacation because now only is that a classic Christmas comedy, but it's also the best (in my option and I think a lot of people's) movie with the Griswold family.
8. Elf or A Christmas Story - I have to go with Elf and not because I love to quote it and I remind people every year how "the best way to spread Christmas cheer is singing loud for all to hear" and that the four food groups of elves are candy, candy canes, candy corn, and syrup, but I do prefer it to A Christmas Story. Elf is in my top three for favorite Christmas movies while A Christmas Story isn't even making my top ten.
9. The Santa Clause or Jingle All the Way - I'm going with The Santa Clause because while I don't love this movie, I remember Jingle All the Way being pretty dumb and The Santa Clause does have an interesting premise (though the sequels are awful).
10. Happiest Season or Last Christmas - I'm not familiar with nor have seen Happiest Season, but I remember liking Last Christmas and thought it was charming.
11. Home Alone or Home Alone 2 - While I do like Home Alone 2, I have to go with the original.
Christmas movie adjacent questions!
1. Cameron Diaz's mansion or Kate Winslet's cottage - This is referring to The Holiday and of course I'm taking Kate Winslet's cozy English cottage which Cameron Diaz stayed at when she swapped houses with a stranger for the holidays.
2. Kurt Russell's Santa or Richard Attenborough's Kris Kringle - The Kurt Russell Santa from The Christmas Chronicles (and its sequel) is more of a cool Santa while the Richard Attenborough Santa from the remake of Miracle on 34th Street is more of a traditional Santa. I think the Russell Santa would be more fun to hang out with. Thought I do feel this is weird pitting these two against each other since we know Russell is definitely Santa in The Christmas Chronicles, but we're really never really sure about Santa in Miracle. This should have been Attenborough's Santa or Edmund Gwenn's Santa or Russell's Santa against Tim Allen's Santa since we know Santa Claus is a real person who exists in The Santa Clause movies.
3. Michael Caine's Scrooge or Alastair Sim's Scrooge - I don't even know what A Christmas Carol version Sim is from, but I'm choosing Michael Caine because he's Scrooge in A Muppet's Christmas Carol!
4. Kevin McCallister (Home Alone) or Susan Walker (Miracle on 34th Street) - Kevin is more of an iconic Christmas character to me. I do like Mara Wilson's Susan more than Natalie Wood's as I felt Wood seemed more like a mini adult with a stick up her butt. At least Wilson's Susan felt more like a kid. But Kevin is the ultimate Christmas movie kid.
5. Would you rather be Kevin from Home Alone or Kate from The Christmas Chronicles - Of course I'd rather be Kate from The Christmas Chronicles! She gets to meet Santa and ride in his sleigh and travel to the North Pole...twice! Santa's Village in the two Christmas Chronicles films looks awesome! If I were Kevin, I would be terrified if I was left home alone and there were two burglars trying to get into my house! I probably wouldn't be able to come up with all those DIY traps like he did; I'm just not very hand around the house, especially at the age of 8.
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