It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas...

With the Beermas holiday behind us; trips to see the lights at Temple Square and Hoogle Zoo completed; comes the time to sit on the couch with your Snuggie and watch some holiday classics. You'll find that I don't watch your typical "It's a Wonderful Life" or "Christmas Story". I love to watch movies that are more akin to my 10 year old child inside and what I loved to watch as a kid. Yes, action movies.

Everyone has their list of movies that are Christmas to them and that they watch year in and year out. I figured I'd list my Christmas movies out and why they're there. Let me know what your favorites are too.

National Lampoons Christmas Vacation
I just have to say that I'm thankful my dad never really got that into Christmas lights. I always worried that one day this movie would thrust him into that realm of house decorations; but fortunately we remained safe from nearly shutting down a power grid for lights.

This movie also contains one of the greatest rants in history:


Scrooged
All I can say is Bill Murray and him improving as he goes along. Plus, the ghost of Christmas present is awesome. Not to mention the commercial for what Frank Cross (Bill Murray) thinks should be the promo for Scrooged is epic. In fact; here is a list of things great about this movie. I couldn't have put it better.

Rocky IV
I know what your asking right now:
- "Marcus, isn't this one of the greatest movies of all time?"
- "Isn't this on your list of movies that ended the Cold War?"
- "Doesn't Rocky IV have the greatest montage of all time?"
- And lastly; "How does Rocky IV relate to Christmas?"

Well, the first three questions are all yes. The last question is because this movie takes place during Christmas. Rocky goes over to Mother Russia to pound in Drago's face during Christmas. And at the end of his epic speech; Rocky tells his son Merry Christmas as the Russians are chanting his name.

Die Hard
I have to say that this is the quintessential Christmas movie in my house. I have a standing tradition to watch this on Christmas Eve/Christmas Morning (before I go to bed). I've done this for 20 years now and this year looks to be no different.

What more can you ask for? Family? Check. Witty dialogue? Check. A bad guy who tries to spoil Christmas? Check? A father who will fight like hell to make sure his families Christmas isn't ruined? Check. And watching 10 or so terrorists get leveled by a NYC cop with no shoes? Check.

So, I have a handful of awesome videos that highlight my favorite Christmas movie. Some are NSFW unless you have headphones; then you should be okay:

Die Hard Trailer: After watching this, is there any reason why you would doubt how awesome this movie is?


Die Hard Music Video: This is surprisingly catchy song that covers all three Die Hard movies. Yes, I purposely left out Die Hard IV since they didn't say 'fuck' once and it was just ridiculous. PG-13 Die Hard = Fail.


Die Hard - The Fucking Short Version: This pretty much takes the highlights of the movie. This one is NSFW either unless you have headphones.



So, those are my holiday movies. Yes, I am sure I left a few off. Elf is close, but not in the final cut. And I really don't get why people have such a hard on for the Christmas Story (looking at you Melissa). But, I think it comes down to tradition. These were movies that made up my Christmas tradition and thus are movies that remind me of the holidays.

With that in mind; what are your holiday movies? If I don't see, talk, or write to you until after Christmas; I wish all of you a safe and Merry Christmas with your loved ones.