Favorite Quote - "I don't want any ******* sandwiches!"
Pick by Emily Standen, AI Social Media Specialist
Alien Legacy
So... the film doesn't feature a lot of cheer, but it's still a holiday favorite for one ApogeeInvent Staffer. A mining ship, investigating a suspected SOS, lands on a distant planet. The crew discovers some strange creatures and investigates.
Favorite Quote - "This is Ripley, last survivor of the Nostromo, signing off."
Pick by Megan Hutchison, AI Designer
White Christmas
This classic is one of the oldest picks on our list, but it has stood the test of time. The film features Rosemary Clooney, Bing Crosby, and Danny Kaye among others in this singing/dancing Holiday spectacular.
Favorite Quote - "Lord help the mister who comes between me and my sister, and Lord help the sister, who comes between me and my man!"
Pick by Emmy Harding, eWorld Media Liason
Home Alone
8-year-old Kevin McAllister thinks all his dreams have come true the Christmas he's accidentally left home alone. But when "The Wet Bandits" target his house for a Christmas robbery, he decides to fight back in one of the best sequences of burgular maiming ever!
Favorite Quote - Kevin McAllister "Do you guys give up? Or are you thirsty for more?"
Pick by Jennifer Louie, AI Coder
Die Hard, Jingle All the Way, Gremlins
Wizard of Oz
Another pick some might call untraditional, this year round favorite is about leaving your dull life behind and believing in a magical place that can change your life. Kind of like how the holidays transform your outlook? Favorite Quote - "Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain!"
Submitted by Rebecca Kasner, AI Web Designer
A Christmas Story
The most popular pick from three! AI staffers, this Christmas Story harkens back to a simpler time, where kids got their mouths washed out with Life Buoy soap for cursing, BB Guns were the baddest toy that guaranteed "You'll shoot your eye out!" and a chorus of Fa-Rah-Rah-Rah-Rahs for Christmas Dinner.
Favorite Quote(s) - Ralphie as an Adult: "In the heat of battle my father wove a tapestry of obscenities that as far as we know is still hanging in space over Lake Michigan."
Pick by Casey Yarborough, AI SVP of Communications
Miss Shelds: [reading Ralphie's theme in his fantasy, she clutches his essay to her chest] "Oh! The theme I've been waiting for all my life. Listen to this sentence: "A Red Ryder BB gun with a compass in the stock, and this thing which tells time". Poetry. Sheer poetry, Ralph! An A+! "
Pick by Dee Bowers, AI Lead Designer
"The Old Man: [unveiling his major award] Would you look at that? Would you look at THAT?
Mother: What is it?
The Old Man: It's a leg!
Mother: But what is it?
The Old Man: Well, it's... A leg, you know, like a statue.
Mother: Statue?" Pick by Noah Carbone, AI Designer
One Staffer couldn't make up her mind as to what her favorite holiday film was so for Samantha Greene, AI Executive Assistant, we're featuring a three way tie.
Gremlins
Favorite Line-
Grandfather: "Don't ever get him wet. Keep him away from bright light. And the most important thing, the one thing you must never forget: no matter how much he cries, no matter how much he begs . . . never, never feed him after midnight."
Jingle All the Way
Favorite Line-
Mall Santa: "We're not just doing this for us. We're doing it for the kids. For every kid who ever sat on Santa's lap. For every little girl who left cookies and milk for Santa on Christmas night. For every little boy who opens a package Christmas morning and finds clothes instead of toys. It breaks my heart. "
Die Hard
Favorite Line-
Theo: "All right, listen up guys. 'Twas the night before Christmas, and all through the house, not a creature was stirring, except... the four ******** coming in the rear in standard two-by-two cover formation."
Scrooged
The always amazing Bill Murray stars in a remake of A Christmas Carol. Bill Murray plays a sleezy TV executive whose lost his spirit, but gets a second chance after being put through hell during visits from three ghosts.
Favorite Line -
Props man: "I can't get the antlers glued to this little guy. We tried Crazy Glue, but it don't work.
Frank Cross: Did you try staples?"
Pick by Libby Spencer, ePR director
Thanks for reading, here is our list of honorable mentions -
A Peanuts Christmas
A Muppet Christmas Carol
Elf
The Grinch Who Stole Christmas (Cartoon)
Prancer
Trading Places
Mixed Nuts
Nightmare before Christmas
PeeWee's Christmas Special
Santa Claus Conquers the Martians
Enest Saves Christmas
Happy Holidays!
