🎅☃️❄️Ho-Ho-Holiday Movie Showdown🎄🤶📽

Busy morning for me so I haven't even had time to look at the voting so there will be a little bit more time for voting before I get myself organized 😅
 
It is a dead tie at 5-5. So one more hour of voting and if there is no decision I will break the tie.
 
The winner of Battle #7 which saw more complaining about the movies than actual voting, in overtime (6-5), National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation! It limps helplessly, impotently into the quarterfinals against Home Alone that will pound the figgies right out of its pudding. Love Actually, leaves the ring, unnoticed and unloved actually. Now onto a Battle people might care about.

Battle #8

White Christmas

vs.

A Christmas Story

In the corner to my right, a holiday classic that spawned one of the most beloved Christmas songs of all time (but is it the GOAT 🐐? We might find out if I go through with a Christmas song tournament after this), White Christmas! In the corner to my left, the nostalgic powerhouse that is a Christmas Story. This is the the battle of the Bing vs. the Bang, you'll shoot your eye out. But who will bring the boom? Let the last battle of the first round begin!
 
White Christmas

vs.

A Christmas Story

In the corner to my right, a holiday classic that spawned one of the most beloved Christmas songs of all time (but is it the GOAT 🐐? We might find out if I go through with a Christmas song tournament after this), White Christmas!

My vote is White Christmas - but the song was a hit from the movie Holiday Inn (which I prefer) which spawned the making of the movie White Christmas. 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰
 
The winner of Battle #7 which saw more complaining about the movies than actual voting, in overtime (6-5), National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation! It limps helplessly, impotently into the quarterfinals against Home Alone that will pound the figgies right out of its pudding. Love Actually, leaves the ring, unnoticed and unloved actually. Now onto a Battle people might care about.

Battle #8

White Christmas

vs.

A Christmas Story

In the corner to my right, a holiday classic that spawned one of the most beloved Christmas songs of all time (but is it the GOAT 🐐? We might find out if I go through with a Christmas song tournament after this), White Christmas! In the corner to my left, the nostalgic powerhouse that is a Christmas Story. This is the the battle of the Bing vs. the Bang, you'll shoot your eye out. But who will bring the boom? Let the last battle of the first round begin!
Absolutely White Christmas
 
I hate this vote because I love both films. My love of Darren McGavin knows no bounds (and I am eternally angry that there was no Kolchak Christmas Special. "December 24th. Barry Wilson was a man who would make Ebenezer Scrooge cringe. Hated by coworkers. Feared by neighbors. Shunned by family. Friends were not in the equation. And a swindler of the poor and downtrodden to boot. Perfect for Santa's 'Naughty' list. But tonight, Mr. Wilson would find that there are far, far worse things to receive than coal...")

That said? White Christmas. Bing Crosby. Danny Kaye. Rosemary Cloony. Vera-Ellen. All at the height of their skills and strengths. Absolutely a product of it's time, it is still an Old Time Hollywood Musical at it's best.

Vote, painfully cast: White Christmas.
 
White Christmas!

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Christmas Story is wildly overrated and not very enjoyable.

But even if it was not so, it would have a tough time getting my vote here. White Christmas was my mom's favorite and I still watch it every year remembering her. It easily gets the vote.
 
Wait a minute!! How is it possible this list doesn’t include “Santa Claus Conquers the Martians” ??? Such a brilliant cinematic masterpiece!

*runs out of the room before getting pummeled with rotting fruit… giggling the whole way*
I know? Or the one with Santa and Satan fighting on the sleigh?
 
I went to the house some of A Christmas Story was filmed in Ohio
 
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