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Do you and your family have any movie traditions?

Like I dated a guy once who always went to see a movie on Christmas day with his dad and brother, or my daughter's dad's family ventures out to a movie on Thanksgiving. My husband and I have a tradition of watching Planes, Trains & Automobiles every night-before-Thanksgiving. And my daughter will bust out White Christmas while we put up the Christmas tree. About once a year I like to watch Nacho Libre (although both my daughter and husband hate it so I have to be tricky about when I do it).

What about you? Are there any movies that make your annual tradition list? It doesn't have to be holiday movies either.
 
Our movie traditions are all at the holidays. We always kick off Christmas by watching Elf on Thanksgiving night. It used to be Christmas Vacation before kids, but once they wanted to stay up and watch with us, we switched to Elf. We watch White Christmas on Christmas Eve, I absolutely love that movie. At some point we also watch Christmas Vacation and A Christmas Story.

And thanks to your suggestion, we might have a new tradition, we're watching Planes, Trains and Automobiles right now! :-)
 
It's a wonderful life, elf, miracle on 34th, polar express, the Santa Claus movies (Tim Allen movies)... they all come out in December at some point. :)
 
I will always got through all 8 Harry Potter movies at least once, usually more, and all 5 Twilight movies. No idea why I can't seem to get past them. Lol!

We definitely like to watch series movies though, such as all the Ironman movies, or all the transformers movies... all the fast/furious movies. We can almost never just watch one. (Usually over the course of a few days, obviously....)
 
We always watch The Polar Express before bed on Christmas Eve and Elf is becoming tradition for the day we put up the tree (usually the day after Thanksgiving).
 
We turn on Christmas Vacation while we put up the tree. Then that night my spouse and I watch Die Hard. Idk why we consider that a Christmas movie, but we do.
We have our own 25ish nights of Christmas movies after that including Rudolph, Frosty, Charlie Brown, Curious George Christmas and Elf to name a few. Some like Love Actually and Family Stone I wait until the kid is asleep to watch.
 
tkradtke said:
Our movie traditions are all at the holidays. We always kick off Christmas by watching Elf on Thanksgiving night. It used to be Christmas Vacation before kids, but once they wanted to stay up and watch with us, we switched to Elf. We watch White Christmas on Christmas Eve, I absolutely love that movie. At some point we also watch Christmas Vacation and A Christmas Story.

And thanks to your suggestion, we might have a new tradition, we're watching Planes, Trains and Automobiles right now! :-)
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Yay!!!!
 
tkradtke said:
Our movie traditions are all at the holidays. We always kick off Christmas by watching Elf on Thanksgiving night. It used to be Christmas Vacation before kids, but once they wanted to stay up and watch with us, we switched to Elf. We watch White Christmas on Christmas Eve, I absolutely love that movie. At some point we also watch Christmas Vacation and A Christmas Story.

And thanks to your suggestion, we might have a new tradition, we're watching Planes, Trains and Automobiles right now! :-)
Click to expand...

Yay!!!!
 
Wish i could say we do but I am the only person in my house who enjoys that "Cheesy" kind of stuff for the holidays as my family puts it. I have music on for Thanksgivi8ng dinner and was asked to turn it off. Ugghhh
 
We watch the old claymation movies.... those are my favorites! We also enjoy The Polar Express and Elf! So many!
 
We watch Planes, Trains, and Automobiles every Thanksgiving! And there will be a Christmas movie of some kind on every night from now until Christmas lol. DH loves them. I think he is watching Deck the Halls right now. Christmas Vacation is my favorite.
 
My family used to watch Christmas Vacation every year after our Thanksgiving day feast. I so want to watch it with my kids, but I have to find in on ABC family or something so they'll edit all the bad words out. Lol. (even though those parts are some of the funniest!) :giggle

I still have never watched Elf, but I think maybe we should this year.
 
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