The five best holiday movies of all time
coming up today, with a little bit of
performance magic.
"Me and the Magic Man went for a long drive."
It's a great day to be alive,
welcome to Magic Inspired. And
today we're gonna do some very special
magic, and as we do that magic we're
going to talk about the five best
holiday movies of all time, in my opinion,
and we're gonna do this in a unique way.
I'm gonna take a deck of cards, I'm gonna
shuffle them up, and I'm going to take
the ace through five of hearts and lose
them in the deck. And as I find each one
of those cards, in a hopefully
interesting and impossible way, I'm gonna
introduce the movies from fifth-best to
the very best of the bunch. And I'm gonna
introduce each of them first with my
favourite quote from each of the movies.
So as I say the quote, if you recognize
it shout it out to your friends. Even if
you're on the bus, just like totally
shout it out.
So we're gonna be doing that and let's
start with movie number five.
The fifth best Christmas movie of all
time, starring Macaulay Culkin in Home
Alone as Kevin McCallister who was left
alone while his parents and family went on
vacation and of course his house is
being invaded by bad guys that he has to
defend the homestead against these bad
guys. I'm not gonna actually show footage
from each of these movies today because
there's crazy things happening with
copyright, so I'm just gonna show you the
image of the blu-ray. And this is one of
my favourite movies of all time, the fifth
favourite movie in fact because not only
is it festive and all those other things
but I've got amazing memories with this
movie. You see I think the real star of
this show is Joe Pesci and his co-hort
I forget that dude's name...
The antics that they went
through is really almost like
the Three Stooges, and I have this memory
of my dad absolutely losing his mind
laughing at the slapstick humour. So every
time I watch this movie I think of my
dad and him losing it and cracking up
watching these two idiots getting fooled
and beat up by this little kid. So the
fifth best holiday movie of all time, Home Alone.
Looking for the fourth, we give the deck
again a couple of cuts
and we cut it right out.
"Yippee ki yay tub of butter"
And that is straight up my favourite
quote from that show that you will only
hear if you were watching TBS about ten
years ago. That was the edit on TBS to
make it PG or family rated. It makes me
laugh. Anyway the movie itself may be a
bit surprising to many of you, that it
would be a holiday favourite of mine, but
it is. It's Die Hard. The original
Die Hard, John McClane and
Nakatomi Plaza. Beating down the bad
guys as they're trying to take over and
cause mayhem and it's an action film,
it's ridiculous, starring Bruce Willis. Of
course it's a favourite of Jake Peralta,
and I love Jake Peralta, so...
It really has a Christmas feel to it. If you're
watching this and you're pulling out
some of my suggestions to watch with the
family during Christmas, this movie is
not for children. It's actually R-rated,
there's lots of swearing and violence and
that type of thing. So even though it's
my fourth favourite holiday movie of all
time, don't watch it with the kids.
The third best is right here in the middle, well almost...
"I'm a cotton headed ninny muggins"
The third best Christmas movie of all
time, starring Will Ferrell. And I know
it's getting overplayed a lot on
network television, but I still love this
movie. I don't know why, but I've just got to
watch it every holiday season, a couple
times, and that is Elf. It's ridiculous
this man-child coming to New York who
thinks he's an elf.
It's a ridiculous movie, it's
family-friendly, it's fun, it's stupid and
it's totally holiday-ish,
and I love it. Sue me.
"Look it's a toaster!"
And the number two best Christmas movie
of all time...did you get it from the
quote? It's a tough quote, if you get it
you get bonus points. It's stars the
great Bill Murray and that line was
actually Carol Kane, delivering it
cracks me up every time I see it, and I
don't even have the case I just have the
DVD. I don't know if you can see it
probably not, just flashing. Its Scrooged
starring Bill Murray.
It's the Scrooge tale kind of told in a
modern time and it's hilarious and ridiculous.
I love the Scrooge tale in every form
but this particular version I absolutely
love, so definitely check it out. It's
probably a little scary for little kids,
there's some scenes in it that may be a
little bit off-colour, I think there's
a little bit of swearing in it as well
so probably PG-13 and up. But
yeah, it's Scrooged.
And the number one Christmas movie of all time,
"Whoopie! A Zeppelin!"
Except it's not a
Zeppelin it's the Millennium Falcon but
I'd like a Zeppelin. Well first of all, that
was another very difficult quote. And if
you get it, I am personally impressed. It means
you're a fan of this movie as well. The
number one movie is... A Christmas story.
Ralphie, in pursuit of his Red Ryder BB gun.
This show is all nostalgia. Now it
covers an age before me, I think it's
probably set in the 40s or 50s or
someplace like that, but I relate to many
of the scenes of this movie growing up
in a small Prairie town. And it really
brings back moments from my childhood in
different ways, so I love it for that
reason. And the final line of the movie I
think is one of the most beautiful lines
of any holiday film, and I'm not gonna
ruin it for you, go watch it for yourself.
And when that final line hits, you'll
know what I'm talking about. So that's my
top 5 Christmas movies of all time. You
may not agree with me, and that's cool.
Why don't you comment below and tell me
what's your top 5 Christmas movies of all
time. Let's get a little poll going, a
little survey, and see where yours line
up with everybody else's. Thanks for
hanging out with me, seeing a little bit
of magic, talking about Christmas films.
We're gonna see you next episode so live
bright, love big.
