We all have that one friend, the person who cannot stand a sappy feel good movie with a weak plot and sad characters. I am that friend. I like almost no “traditional” Christmas movies. A Christmas Story was shunned even when I was a child, that little boy in a bunny outfit was ridiculous. Scrooge was just as obnoxious – 50 variations of the movie and all of them frustrated me with their slow plots and obvious endings. Frosty didn’t melt fast enough for my taste, and Rudolph had low self-esteem that only got better when outside forces deemed him good enough. The Peanuts movie was ridiculous – a bad plot, silly characters, no action. Even newer Christmas movies fail to excite me – Elf is too obnoxious, Polar Express is just too long, the Grinch turns nice, and Bad Santa is just bad.

Someone get me something better!

So here’s a list of movies to enjoy if you are like me and want something more from your Christmas movies. I’ve started at the bottom of the top 10 so your excitement builds as you read.

10. Jingle All the Way

It’s the Terminator in a Christmas movie. That’s all that needs to be said. He also goes full on rage while Christmas shopping, a feeling many of us wish we could give in to.

9. National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation

What can go wrong, will go wrong. Poor Clark never gets to have an easy time of it. I have always dreamed of a lighting display on my house that was powerful enough to shut down an entire city.

8. Gremlins

It’s a Christmas movie / horror film. The gift that turns on you, leading you to a fight for your very life. Merry Christmas.

7. The Family Stone

Here it is everyone, the one sappy movie on my list. I let this one slip by because there are brawls, cheating partners, and people smoking marijuana.

6. The Terminator

While most wouldn’t consider this a Christmas movie, I love it. There’s nothing cheerier than a robot uprising and time travel, coupled with shootouts and Ah-nold.

Villains... Explosions... Mayhem... Death... Sounds like a great Christmas movie to me!

5. Home Alone 2

Let’s face it, this Kevin kid just can’t stand his relatives. The universe is sending a clear message to him that he should just take a vacation alone each year. He should also be getting updates from the prison system on the whereabouts of these two criminals!

4. The Santa Clause

Tim Allen makes enough jokes that this is a thoroughly enjoyable movie despite its lack of grave bodily injury and explosive devices. It’s sequels were good, but they didn’t make the list.

3. Die Hard 2

Sequels are rarely as good as the original, but this one did justice to its franchise. Another Christmas, another set of explosions. Not to mention the really exciting fact that airplanes are landing on a runway full of flames. Nothing can go wrong.

2. Home Alone

What kid didn’t dream of getting the house to themselves during the miserable crush of the holidays?! Let’s face it, no matter how much you love your relatives, you also love being able to get a slice of cheese pizza to yourself.

1. Die Hard

Classic action movie with swearing and explosions…and a touch of Christmas. Any time you see “ho,ho,ho” scrawled in someone’s blood you know an exciting story is about to unfold.

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86 replies on “Top 10 Christmas movies for people who hate crap plots…”

  2. I’m ashamed to say I’ve only seen the Home Alones (and possibly The Santa Clause, I’m not sure). I’m the opposite to you and love a feel good, sappy movie!! Now this begs the question…where do you stand on Love Actually?!! #DreamTeam

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  3. I just love all movies! I love all the ones you mention, good and bad! I remember teaching Gremlins at the cinema and loving it! I love Love Actually as my favourite movie at Christmas and Krumpus….it’s a horror Christmas movie but my teenagers love it for some reason! It’s not that scary; just a bit stange! #dreamteam

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  7. The Home Alone movies and National Lamppon’s Christmas Vacation are among my favorites. In fact they’re my top two! My youngest and I love watching the Home Alone movies together since he discovered those movies two years ago:)

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  19. Heather! I was completely expecting a different type of movie altogether. These are all great and I can remember watching many of these after our big family Christmas dinners. Gremlins used to petrify me, so I spent most of that movie with my eyes closed. #DreamTeam x

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  20. It’s just not Christmas without Home Alone. I still haven’t seen any of the Die Hard series though and I think that clearly needs to be rectified this year! Happy holidays lovely x #DreamTeam

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    1. You definitely need to rectify that this year!!!! One and two are great, 3 is not great – 4 brought it back to a great series and then 5 lost it a bit. But 1 & 2 are the Christmas ones!!!

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  35. I’m afraid I’ve hardly seen any of these! But, to be fair, my repertoire is pretty much limited to The Snowman and Elf at the moment as that’s the only thing my 3yo will let me watch! Haha. But Home Alone is one of my faves and The Santa Clause is fab! I must try and dig these out from somewhere! #dreamteam

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  45. What a great list! How ’bout we have a get-together movie night and I’ll get the popcorn, and the tacos! Happiest of holidays Heather! Give Lola a sloppy kidd from G and have a super season of fun and laughter! xoxo #dreamteam

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