{"id":557,"date":"2014-12-12T14:54:32","date_gmt":"2014-12-12T19:54:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.avengingforce.com\/?p=557"},"modified":"2014-12-12T14:55:37","modified_gmt":"2014-12-12T19:55:37","slug":"five-by-friday-favorite-holiday-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.avengingforce.com\/?p=557","title":{"rendered":"Five by Friday: Favorite Holiday Movies"},"content":{"rendered":"
Welcome to\u00a0Five by Friday<\/strong>, our end-of-week fandom list meme! Every week we pick a new topic to cover, and this week we’ve picked our favorite holiday movies!\u00a0\u00a0<\/em>See our picks below–and share yours in the comments!<\/div>\n
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Sarah’s Picks<\/h3>\n

I really, really, really love Christmas movies. I will watch the great ones, I will watch the terrible ones. By the time mid-November rolls around you can\u00a0pretty much assume that my tv is set to ABC family or the Hallmark channel fairly exclusively. As long as they feature some sort of Christmas theme, odds are I’ll give it a try. And usually, the cheesier or more ridiculous they are, the more likely I am to kinda love them.<\/p>\n

Since I love Christmas movies so much, it was difficult to narrow down to my top five. I decided to go with movies where Christmas is the main focus and\u00a0isn’t just\u00a0the backdrop\u00a0(which is why\u00a0Die Hard<\/em> didn’t make the cut even though I watch it every Christmas). Without further adieu, here are my top five picks:<\/p>\n

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The Santa Clause<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Elf<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Santa Claus: The Movie<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Home\u00a0Alone<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Teija’s Picks<\/h3>\n

For me, the thing that marks a favorite Christmas movie is just how many times I am able to watch it without getting absolutely sick of it. A lot of movies make this cut–there were quite a few that\u00a0almost<\/em> made it to this list, but were just edged out. Films like A Year Without a Santa Claus<\/em>, Frosty the Snowman<\/em>, White Christmas<\/em>… the list goes on. I couldn’t fit them all here! There are also terrible-but-fun Christmas movies like Bad Santa<\/i>\u00a0and\u00a0Love, Actually,\u00a0<\/em>both of which I enjoy every time I see them despite the rather large part of my brain that sits there and screams “WHY” at me as I’m watching.<\/p>\n

However, the films listed below are, at the end of the day, my favorite Christmas films. They combine the joy of the season with great acting, unceasing\u00a0quotability, nostalgia, and in the case of\u00a0Die Hard<\/em>, explosions and gunfire, and I don’t go a single holiday season without watching each and every one of them.<\/p>\n

Elf<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Home Alone<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Santa Clause<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Muppets Christmas Carol<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Die Hard<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Welcome to\u00a0Five by Friday, our end-of-week fandom list meme! Every week we pick a new topic to cover, and this week we’ve picked our favorite holiday movies!\u00a0\u00a0See our picks below–and share yours in the comments! If you would like to participate on your own blog, please link back to us with the image provided below. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":584,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9,7],"tags":[181,182,38],"class_list":["post-557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-five-by-friday","category-movies","tag-christmas","tag-holiday","tag-movies-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.avengingforce.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/santa.jpg?fit=640%2C461","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Vfwz-8Z","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.avengingforce.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.avengingforce.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.avengingforce.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.avengingforce.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.avengingforce.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=557"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.avengingforce.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":587,"href":"http:\/\/www.avengingforce.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557\/revisions\/587"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.avengingforce.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.avengingforce.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.avengingforce.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.avengingforce.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}