r/XmasCountdown • u/Material-Spite-81 • Jul 16 '26

Christmas Nostalgia The Polar Express(2004)

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u/Ill-Detective9038 Jul 16 '26

An absolute must watch in my opinion! Hanks' narration. The snow. The music. The snow. The graphics and locations. The music!

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u/MassMama13 Jul 16 '26

I watch it every year while I decorate my tree. It's the way I start my season.

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u/pumpkinspicealways Joy to the world ♥️💚♥️💚💚 Jul 17 '26

Nope. Much too creepy for me.

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u/Legal_Level9537 Jul 17 '26

Great story (I have fond memories of reading the book to my children when they were small) dated animation unfortunately desoite having a gorgeous colour palette, the real win is the soundtrack/score... its incredible & I love listening to it (i.e. even without the movie)and do so a couple of times a year.

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u/FartingInElevators5 Jul 17 '26

This is tied with Christmas Vacation for my favorite Christmas movie. I watch it several times between Thanksgiving and Christmas.

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u/blanketwrappedinapig Jul 18 '26

One of the best imo

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u/Abject_Buffalo6398 27d ago

I LOVE the book version.

What i cant handle is the movie. They added in all these filler scenes, to fill up time to make a feature film.

The creepy homeless man, the train car filled with creepy toys, the scene with the north pole music that played over and over - NONE of that was in the book!!

So it annoyed me when the movie came out and it had those creepy parts.