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OHMSS: A Christmas Movie


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#1 JackUnion

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Posted 24 November 2011 - 12:38 AM

So the girlfriend and I are putting our annual Christmas movie watch list together and OHMSS always comes top of the list. Besides it being the best James Bond film, do you consider it a Christmas movie?

For the Jewish, Happy Chanukah!!

#2 DaveBond21

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Posted 24 November 2011 - 01:21 AM

I only really watch it at Christmas because of the Christmas elements, so, yes, I would say it is a Christmas movie.

What else is on your list?

It's a Wonderful Life?

Holiday Inn?

Love Actually?

Home Alone?

A Christmas Carol?

Scrooged?

Muppet Christmas Carol?


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Posted 24 November 2011 - 01:41 AM

I only really watch it at Christmas because of the Christmas elements, so, yes, I would say it is a Christmas movie.

What else is on your list?

It's a Wonderful Life?

Holiday Inn?

Love Actually?

Home Alone?

A Christmas Carol?

Scrooged?

Muppet Christmas Carol?


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DIE HARD , LETHAL WEAPON and GREMLINS - all set during the holidays.

#4 AMC Hornet

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Posted 24 November 2011 - 02:22 AM

My annual OHMSS viewing is accompanied by champagne, pate and caviar (not from the north of the Caspian, sorry, but my love and I make do).

Other holiday essentials include DAF, TMWTGG (also December releases), Die Hard 2, Where Eagles Dare and Love, Actually (my daughter's choice).

I used to watch my vid of Jean Sheperd's A Christmas Story every December, but that one has become impossible to avoid on network TV.

There are others, such as The Enforcer (Dec. '76), The Gauntlet ('77) and Missing in Action (84), but so much violence is hardly conducive to holiday cheer, so I've had to trim the list a little as I trim the tree.

I just finished watching the first two episodes of V the Series, as I was feeling nostalgic for Dec. 84 tonight.

#5 SecretAgentFan

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Posted 24 November 2011 - 07:22 AM

The Bishop´s Wife (the Cary Grant version)

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Posted 24 November 2011 - 09:00 AM

Apart from several films already mentioned, my personal idiosyncratic favorites are Fargo, Coup de Grâce, and a Korean movie called Lightereul Kyeora which I stumbled across several years ago. They have nothing to do with Christmas itself, but they feature snow, shivering, and misery, and are therefore appropriate to the season. My favorite actual Christmas movie is René Cardona's Santa Claus, a technicolor feverdream involving Mexican children, robotic reindeer, and a skinny man in a devil costume. You may remember it from MST3K.

I associate most Bond films with the winter holidays, I suppose because I first saw most of the films during Christmas Bond marathons. OHMSS is the most obviously Christmassy, but I also find TWINE, TLD, and (for some reason) FRWL to be somewhat Yuletidal.

The real question is which Bond films should you watch during Hanukkah? Jewish Bond moments are few and far between. There may be just enough to compile a twenty-minute kosher reel:

Dr No, in which Bond comes this close to eating Chinese food
From Russia With Love, in which Bond is stalked by Groucho Marx
Goldfinger, in which Bond putters around in Miami Beach, and later is almost circumcised
Thunderball, in which a girl named Kaplan gives Bond a guilt-trip
You Only Live Twice, in which Bond must explain the concept of lox to a gentile
Diamonds Are Forever, in which Shady Tree plotzes
The Spy Who Loved Me, in which Bond is persecuted in Egypt
For Your Eyes Only, in which Bond teams up with Tevye
A View to a Kill, in which an old Nazi blows himself up
GoldenEye, in which Bond and Xenia share a schvitz
The World Is Not Enough, in which several scenes are drenched in schmaltz
Die Another Day, which includes a cameo by a renowned Kabbalistic scholar
Casino Royale and Quantum of Solace, in which Bond tries not to disappoint an overbearing woman

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Posted 24 November 2011 - 01:28 PM


I only really watch it at Christmas because of the Christmas elements, so, yes, I would say it is a Christmas movie.

What else is on your list?

It's a Wonderful Life?

Holiday Inn?

Love Actually?

Home Alone?

A Christmas Carol?

Scrooged?
aaaaaahhhhhhhhhh
Muppet Christmas Carol?


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DIE HARD , LETHAL WEAPON and GREMLINS - all set during the holidays.

aaaaaahhhhhhhhhh yeeeaaaahhhhhhh! lol now ur speakin my language.

#8 larrythefatcat

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Posted 24 November 2011 - 01:49 PM

Apart from several films already mentioned, my personal idiosyncratic favorites are Fargo, Coup de Grâce, and a Korean movie called Lightereul Kyeora which I stumbled across several years ago. They have nothing to do with Christmas itself, but they feature snow, shivering, and misery, and are therefore appropriate to the season. My favorite actual Christmas movie is René Cardona's Santa Claus, a technicolor feverdream involving Mexican children, robotic reindeer, and a skinny man in a devil costume. You may remember it from MST3K.

I associate most Bond films with the winter holidays, I suppose because I first saw most of the films during Christmas Bond marathons. OHMSS is the most obviously Christmassy, but I also find TWINE, TLD, and (for some reason) FRWL to be somewhat Yuletidal.

The real question is which Bond films should you watch during Hanukkah? Jewish Bond moments are few and far between. There may be just enough to compile a twenty-minute kosher reel:

Dr No, in which Bond comes this close to eating Chinese food
From Russia With Love, in which Bond is stalked by Groucho Marx
Goldfinger, in which Bond putters around in Miami Beach, and later is almost circumcised
Thunderball, in which a girl named Kaplan gives Bond a guilt-trip
You Only Live Twice, in which Bond must explain the concept of lox to a gentile
Diamonds Are Forever, in which Shady Tree plotzes
The Spy Who Loved Me, in which Bond is persecuted in Egypt
For Your Eyes Only, in which Bond teams up with Tevye
A View to a Kill, in which an old Nazi blows himself up
GoldenEye, in which Bond and Xenia share a schvitz
The World Is Not Enough, in which several scenes are drenched in schmaltz
Die Another Day, which includes a cameo by a renowned Kabbalistic scholar
Casino Royale and Quantum of Solace, in which Bond tries not to disappoint an overbearing woman


HA! Amazing list... but don't forget that OHMSS also falls into that category because the ending is likely to leave viewers quite verklempt.

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Posted 24 November 2011 - 02:24 PM

OHMSS is an excellent Christmas choice, while I don't watch exactly the same films every year by and large at least 3 from the list below will generally get a play;

A Christmas Carol (Alister Sim version or Muppets version)
Batman Returns
Die Hard 1 and/or 2
Its a wonderful Life
A Marx Bros or two (generally Duck Soup, Horse Feathers, Night at the Opera or The Big Store)
OHMSS
White Christmas

#10 David Schofield

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Posted 24 November 2011 - 02:58 PM

Trading Places.

The ultimate "just finished for Xmas hols and am on sofa with a bottle of bourbon" movie.

OHMSS IS a Xmas movie. And the sooner it gets released on Blu Ray the sooner I'll start watching it again. As usual after its prequel, THUNDERBALL, of course. ;)

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Posted 24 November 2011 - 04:01 PM

I'm looking forward to the HD broadcast on German television this weekend. Even though it'll only be a 720p version, it should certainly improve on the DvD quality.

Edited by lechero, 24 November 2011 - 04:02 PM.


#12 JackUnion

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Posted 24 November 2011 - 04:22 PM

Love Actually is a must every year in this household. Scrooged is on this list this year also.

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Posted 24 November 2011 - 05:40 PM

Oh yeah, and Casablanca, which I have taken to double-billing with CR 54.

Nowt to do with Christmas, but I came upon a coffee-table book with the story told in stills from the film*, and gave it to my father for Christmas in '76, before I'd even seen the film.

*(Casablanca, that is, not CR 54)

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Posted 24 November 2011 - 07:36 PM

My annual OHMSS viewing is accompanied by champagne, pate and caviar (not from the north of the Caspian, sorry, but my love and I make do).


That sounds amazing right now :tup:

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Posted 24 November 2011 - 08:09 PM

I'm looking forward to the HD broadcast on German television this weekend. Even though it'll only be a 720p version, it should certainly improve on the DvD quality.

Oh, thanks for reminding me. Almost forgot to set up the recording for that one.

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Posted 27 November 2011 - 02:08 AM

Another vote for Batman Returns!