{"id":672,"date":"2015-12-30T13:57:28","date_gmt":"2015-12-30T19:57:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coffeeswirls.com\/?p=672"},"modified":"2015-12-30T15:28:27","modified_gmt":"2015-12-30T21:28:27","slug":"call-for-help-what-are-the-best-christmas-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.coffeeswirls.com\/?p=672","title":{"rendered":"Call for Help: What are the Best Christmas Movies?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I want to start a debate of the best Christmas video presentations out there, not limited to feature film presentations. My intention is to gather up the various titles and have a bracket-style tournament next year between Thanksgiving and Christmas Eve. The categories and titles below are not set in stone, so please help me add to my lists! Also, I am limiting any series to just one entry. Then, next autumn, I&#8217;ll seed each bracket and find the best way to crowd vote for the best Christmas film of them all.<\/p>\n<p>What am I missing here? Surely there&#8217;s another Black and White title that needs to be included! If not, I&#8217;ll need to fit these movies into other categories!<\/p>\n<p>Classic Cartoons<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A Charlie Brown Christmas<\/li>\n<li>Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer<\/li>\n<li>Frosty the Snowman<\/li>\n<li>How the Grinch Stole Christmas (animated)<\/li>\n<li>The Little Drummer Boy (actually a horrible movie)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Dark Horses<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Die Hard<\/li>\n<li>The Star Wars Holiday Special<\/li>\n<li>The Nightmare Before Christmas<\/li>\n<li>Scrooged<\/li>\n<li>Bad Santa<\/li>\n<li>The Holiday<\/li>\n<li>Jingle All The Way<\/li>\n<li>Gremlins<\/li>\n<li>Batman Returns<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Movies in Color<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Elf<\/li>\n<li>The Santa Clause<\/li>\n<li>A Christmas Story<\/li>\n<li>How the Grinch Stole Christmas (live action)<\/li>\n<li>The Muppet Christmas Carol<\/li>\n<li>Home Alone<\/li>\n<li>National Lampoon&#8217;s Christmas Vacation<\/li>\n<li>Christmas With The Kranks<\/li>\n<li>Jack Frost<\/li>\n<li>The Polar Express<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Black and White<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Miracle on 34th Street<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s a Wonderful Life<\/li>\n<li>A Christmas Carol (1938)<\/li>\n<li>White Christmas<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I want to start a debate of the best Christmas video presentations out there, not limited to feature film presentations. My intention is to gather up the various titles and have a bracket-style tournament next year between Thanksgiving and Christmas Eve. The categories and titles below are not set in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coffeeswirls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coffeeswirls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coffeeswirls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coffeeswirls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coffeeswirls.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=672"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.coffeeswirls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":676,"href":"https:\/\/www.coffeeswirls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672\/revisions\/676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coffeeswirls.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coffeeswirls.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coffeeswirls.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}