MINI: Favourite Christmas Movies

The team dives into their all time favourite Christmas movies, sparking a festive debate full of nostalgia, strong opinions and a few unexpected choices

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Speaker 1 (00:09):
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Speaker 3 (00:20):
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Speaker 2 (00:28):
What is the team's favorite Christmas movie? I would say Elf.
Elf is a great just giving our family, we watch
it every Christmas. On Christmas Eve, it's like officially Christmas
is here when we all sit down and it's like
karaoke really because we all know every single line in it.
But there's something we've watched that movie so many times.

(00:48):
Always of that to me, you can track. As I'm
watching the movie with the girls, I'm also watching them
as well. I remember when you are half the size
and now we're still watching the same movie. As your
kids start to grow up, and especially once they become teenagers,
everything just accelerates.

Speaker 1 (01:04):
It's like you're becoming a parent.

Speaker 2 (01:06):
Your life goes on double time, and so suddenly they're
nineteen and twenty one, but they're back next to you
on the couch and you're watching Elf again, and actually
it's kind of like it's that's what Christmas is about.
You all come back together, don't you. At Christmas time?
You know, no matter what age and stage of your life,
right and elf has been this constant. It's constant for us.
So I yet that's that's the best one for me?

Speaker 1 (01:27):
What's yours? Rio?

Speaker 3 (01:28):
The Family Stone is the perfect.

Speaker 2 (01:32):
Smart Yorkish minipus rubbish that's got a serious sugar problem.

Speaker 1 (01:38):
No, no, we just got early into extreme opinions. Perfect movie,
killer cast and the labor world. Great cast, great cast,
some of that.

Speaker 3 (01:48):
Diane Keaton, Luke Wilson, Sarah Jessica Parker.

Speaker 1 (01:52):
Yeah, it's like a traveling wheelbreas. It doesn't up to
a great sun.

Speaker 3 (01:56):
It's actually like this. You couldn't possibly have any edit
notes for that movie every single second.

Speaker 1 (02:01):
But are you running now the debate cup?

Speaker 2 (02:03):
You could ed who has edit notes?

Speaker 1 (02:07):
Who has edit notes? For Christmas? With the crank excuse,
mister Spielberg, I've got some edit notes about Jaws.

Speaker 2 (02:15):
It's a bit the first quarter is a bit sluggish.

Speaker 4 (02:18):
It's a beautiful story about a family patriarch, and I think, yeah,
it's gorgeous.

Speaker 3 (02:23):
The end, oh my goodness, is great because it's ended, Yes,
smart man.

Speaker 2 (02:36):
Irritating, and the husband is portrayed such a narrow way
as well.

Speaker 1 (02:41):
It's a dullarg Why did gay people hate husbands? No,
gay people have two husbands.

Speaker 3 (02:52):
We love your pro husband.

Speaker 1 (02:55):
What's what's your favorite Christmas movie?

Speaker 4 (02:57):
Definitely National Lampoons And that's Christmas Night for us, and
it kind of is representative of the day of excess
and you know, just silliness by the end of Christmas,
Christmas Night when you know the kids have got up
at four or five am for presents, and it's just
that is always our tradition is to sit down and
watch that after leftovers for dinner. I just think it's hilarious.

(03:20):
And I know you've seen it a million times and
laughed at it a million times, but it's always funny
every time.

Speaker 2 (03:26):
It's just, yeah, Christmas Eve, it's the highlight of Christmas
for me. Yeah, that's That's when I'm happiest the whole
year is Christmas Eve because you know it's coming. Yeah mine,
as we mean a kid.

Speaker 1 (03:35):
Do you remember that, You're almost sick with excitement.

Speaker 2 (03:38):
You just couldn't believe everything went so suddenly so slowly,
didn't it.

Speaker 1 (03:42):
Yes, you're trying to work out what the time was.

Speaker 2 (03:44):
You couldn't sleep very well, and then you my Mum
and Dad would say to me, listen, if you're not
properly asleep, Santa doesn't leave any presents now, which it
just developed so much sleep anxiety.

Speaker 1 (03:56):
It's my melotonin bike. She's not going to give me
the b Rex bike. Alex, what's your favorite Christmas?

Speaker 3 (04:02):
Moore?

Speaker 5 (04:03):
Mine is the same one as Pats Christmas Vacation Clark
Great Chevy Chase.

Speaker 1 (04:07):
It's some of his finest work. I absolutely love it.

Speaker 5 (04:10):
I love the scene where he's trying to get the
Christmas tree, he's trying to get it on the car
into the front yard, and that scene when the neighbors
rock up and they say where are you gonna put
a tree that big Clark, and he goes, why don't
you bend it over?

Speaker 1 (04:23):
And I'll show you.

Speaker 5 (04:23):
Yeah, he says, you got a lot of nerve talking
to me like that like that, and his wife's standing
there with him, and he.

Speaker 1 (04:31):
Goes, I wasn't talking to you. So it's just it's
there's those.

Speaker 5 (04:34):
Lines throughout the film that I just know every single
one of them verbatim, and I just sit there and
watch it with the family and we laugh every single time.

Speaker 2 (04:42):
Yeah, there's something what we're talking about movies that are
Christmas movies that are reassuringly predictable.

Speaker 1 (04:48):
You're never going to watch a brand new movie on
Christmas Eve. Yes, you don't want surprises, that's under the tree.

Speaker 2 (04:53):
You want something that's beautifully familiar, don't you, trusty friend.

Speaker 1 (04:58):
Yes, that's what it is.

Speaker 2 (04:59):
That's what is all right, And let us know what
do you think is? You'll go to what is your
favorite Christmas movie? Text me o four seven five three
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