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| 1. DIE HARD |
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| 2. GREMLINS |
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| 3. LOVE ACTUALLY |
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| 4. HOME ALONE |
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| 5. TRADING PLACES |
Let the heated arguments and popcorn throwing commence!
HALLIE EHRON: I am embarrassed to say, I have only seen one of these. LOVE ACTUALLY. Which I love, actually, and is for me the perfect deliciously silly Christmas movie. I'd add A CHRISTMAS STORY, with its “Little Orphan Annie” decoder ring, a triple-dog dare on the schoolyard and the Red Ryder Carbine Action 200-shot Range Model air rifle... and the leg lamp.
RHYS BOWEN: I've seen them all, except for Die Hard, for which you'd have to tie me to a chair and gag me to make me watch it. Home Alone was a Christmas movie but not my cup of tea. I personalize too much when children are in bad situations. But I do love LOVE ACTUALLY. I watch it every year. There are so many poignant threads going through it. It is true and real and touching. (apart from Hugh Grant trying to dance).
JENN: I like Hugh's dancing. Don't judge me!
HANK PHILLIPPI RYAN: I've never seen Home Alone--well, wait, I guess I've seen parts of it, which have the kid outwitting dumb burglars and it's all very prat-fally. I keep thinking, why would he be home alone? I know there's some reason, but meh. Gremlins and Trading Places, I have not seen one frame of them. Am I completely out of it? Die Hard--LOVE. Love that movie, It has everything: party, family, bad guys, suspense, hostages. Everything you need for the holidays. Love it. And Love actually? LOVE. Love! When he says: You learned English? And she says: Just in cases? Awwww.
DEBORAH CROMBIE:
1. Die Hard, definitely! Rhys, you might like it better than you think.
2.Gremlins, have to admit I've never seen it. Even the ads gave me the creeps.
3.Trading Places, yes, and love this movie. I'd never seen it until a couple of years ago, when Rick MADE me watch it. Now it's on my yearly list.
4.Love Actually, well, duh. Best Christmas movie ever. Is it time to watch it yet?
5.Home Alone, another one I have to admit I've never seen. I just couldn't get around the kid being left in the house. Should I reconsider?
LUCY BURDETTE: You're forcing me to rethink watching the first three, which I've never seen. LOVE ACTUALLY, definitely, no one would argue any differently. I haven't seen HOME ALONE for maybe 25 years. But it was one of our son's favorites so we saw it more than once back in those days. He had all the parts memorized and would parrot them back to us. I still use this line from time to time: "There has to be a way to find twenty-thousand dollars!"
Well, how about it, Readers? What do you think of the most debated holiday movies? Yea or nay?
