The day after Thanksgiving four or five people on my Facebook news feed shared the 2014 ABC Family 25 Days of Christmas lineup. I went searching for this year’s lineup and couldn’t find it and then as I was decorating my planner I had an a-ha moment. Why don’t I just make my own?
There’s a mix of corny holiday romantic comedy TV movies mixed with classics. Now as much as I love the claymation classics, they didn’t make this particular list (because they must be watched every year regardless). I’ve checked off everything I’ve watched so far (this month), and my thoughts on those.
The Palmetto Peaches’ 25 Days of Christmas
✓ Love Actually
Believe it or not until last week I had never seen Love Actually. To be clear – I love all things Hugh Grant and I’m a huge Walking Dead fan (hello baby Andrew Lincoln) so those two should have been enough motivation for me to watch the movie years ago. I obviously loved every sappy minute of it. Although, it was hard for me not picture Liam Neeson looking for his kidnapped daughter. I also now understand why people hated Valentine’s Day and New Year’s Eve so much. They don’t hold a candle to Love Actually.
✓Home Alone 2: Lost In New York
One of my missions in life is to booby trap a house like Kevin and my list wouldn’t be complete without the a little Home Alone. If you’re truly binge watching Christmas movies you might as well add the original Home Alone on the list.
✓The Family Stone
Not to be confused with Sly and the Family Stone. This movie features Sarah Jessica Parker, Claire Danes, Diane Keaton, Rachel McAdams, Luke Wilson and Craig T. Nelson and causes a bucket of tears. Because what’s Christmas without a little drama and some Kleenex.
✓A Christmas Kiss
I was happy to see one of my favorite actor from Roswell in something…anything, but this really was a train wreck of a movie with terrible acting and a predictable ending. For the over 21 club, make an adult hot cocoa and then laugh your way through this movie.
✓12 Dates of Christmas
Think Groundhog Day, but with Christmas themed dates and a grown up Zack Morris. It’s cheesy and I loved it.
✓While You Were Sleeping
It’s Sandra Bullock. What else do you need to know?
✓This Christmas
If you do nothing else — go hit up Spotify and listen to this soundtrack. It’s perfect and it’s full of Chris Brown pre-Rihanna drama. Or you can just check out Ace’s Christmas playlist.
✓Holidaze
Holiday High School Reunion
I fell asleep on this one, so the only thing I can tell you is that Jonathan Bennett, AKA Aaron Samuels (On October 3rd, he asked me what day it was)
- How the Grinch Stole Christmas
- Snow
- Happy Christmas
- Coming Home For Christmas
- The Best Man Holiday
- The Fitzgerald Family Christmas
- Desperately Seeking Santa
- Dear Santa
- Christmas Bounty
- The Nightmare Before Christmas
- Bad Santa
- The Preacher’s Wife
- Christmas Angel
- Elf
- A Very Murray Christmas
- The Mistle-Tones
Which movies have you seen? What should I add to my list? Let me know in the comments below!
My favorite Christmas movie is Moonlight and Mistletoe with Tom Arnold and Candace Cameron Bure. Cheesy, but I love it. Another one is Farewell, Mr Kringle with Christine Taylor (Mrs Ben Stiller, are they still married?). Oddly these movies star the same “leading man” but I have no idea what the actor’s name is.
Ooh, I’ll have to add both of these to my list. Thanks for the suggestions. -Donni
What a great list! I can’t believe you haven’t seen Love Actually until recently. It’s been my all-time favorite movie for the past 10 years!
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I know! I’m so ashamed. I instantly loved it though. Thanks for stopping by. -Donni
Elf is certainly one of my favorites! I havent seen some on your list and now need to hunt them down!
Elf is fantastic. Some of the movies on the list are pretty cheesy, but they still put you in the spirit. Thanks for stopping by! -Donni
So great! I can’t even tell you how much I love cheesy Christmas movies. And thank you for the claymation shout out!! Yes! We watch that California raisin special every year! Lol
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Yesss!!! 🙂 The California Raisin special is one of my absolute favorites. Thanks for stopping by. -Donni
Shamefully admitting that I’ve never seen Love Actually. But I’ve been looking for some new Netflix movies to watch so I think I’ll get on it!
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I couldn’t believe that I hadn’t sat down to watch it until now. It really was great. Let me know if you like it. -Donni
Such a great list! I LOVE watching Christmas movies!!! I’m doing it right now, actually!!!
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That’s awesome! You really can’t go wrong with Christmas movies! Thanks for reading. -Donni
These are some of the best Christmas movies ever! Love your list!
I love the classics! It’s a wonderful life…and White Christmas! hehe