I tried listening to this as sleep ambience. Instead, as I listened a lump began to well in my throat because the music is so beautiful and nostalgic and perfectly represents what Christmas felt like to me as a kid; a time of wonder, excitement and a trifle spooky at times. A time full of mystery and love and warmth. A time when the cold weather and festive spirits compliment each other in the most beautiful of ways. And finally it reminded me of the fleetingness of life, as life is like a train in so many ways. Like a lonely train on a cold winters night, life steams ahead until it reaches its inevitable destination. Every moment lasting for but a glimpse as the train chuffs on. Every sound and sight, finite. Though I grow older and wiser with new adventures ahead, I think back on the innocence of my early years, like two childhood friends waving good bye to each other at the station as the train pulls away, never to see each other again. All this is to say that this music and ambience reminded me to cherish each moment since, like even the most beautiful of all trains, life inevitably comes to an end. So cherish each moment of the journey since you don’t know when you’ll here the call for your stop. And when you see those night time glimmering lights at your station and smell the sweet smells and chiming through your ears is the bells of the ticket machines as some young excited passengers board to start their own journeys, and other weary travellers, having reached their destiny, fade in into the glimmering station lights. And as you begin to take your last steps towards the exit, think of what you left behind, where you started in life and the beautiful journey you’ve been on.
as a student in school.. very young. we used to watch this movie... usually every year no matter what grade or teacher... those days have passed... used to watch it with my grandparents.. my parents... or myself alone... every year. I miss this movie... and the memories i used to get with them. I am very happy I get to have such memories.. sitting in the dark classroom... shuttered windows... hot chocolate from the school staff.. every class room blasting this music... through the walls... just the music... the smell of joy and christmas.. Hot chocolate, marshmallows... somewhat of side chatter.. sleeping bags... pajamas... the good ol' days..
Same. I think its the mix of watching it as a kid with the movie being through a kids perspective and of course the ambiance and music. Very magical and transformative.
I remember being a kid and watching this movie over and over at my grandmother's house. My grandmother is no longer with me but I find comfort in the fact that I can come back to such familiar and 'safe' music, whether it be at Christmas or when I'm studying.
When you're a kid time moves so slowly, and all you want to do is grow up. Before you know it you're in your mid 20s. I wish I could feel the way I did when I watched this movie as a kid. Every Christmas my family and I would watch polar express, it wasn't Christmas without this movie.
I start to feel like a kid again when I watch this movie or any other childhood movie. This short period of time that sends me back in time , in my childhood full of joy and fairytale. We don't have to stop watching Christmas movies in order to keep our inner child alive❤❤❤❤❤❤
I am 73 now. Watched this over and over again with my grandson when he was very young. So many wonderful memories. Time moves on, the memories stay alive till they don’t.
My grandfathers last Christmas present to me was the original book for the Polar Express. He died 3 weeks after in 2022. Its now one of my most cherished possessions and I hope that one day I can read it to my kids and ignite that passion I have for the story and movie for them.
This give me a comforting feeling... I wish I could stay young. Because in the future, there won't be a dad taking you out to restaurants anymore, a mom who kisses you goodnight anymore...
Wow this is so true! I nearly died back in 2021. I had a 5% chance of living being in a coma in a vent with collapsed lungs and respiratory arrest and other organs shutting down with severe pancreatitis that went septic (bc my doctor told me it was just a “pulled muscle” kidneys were failing so during my 8 week coma I was also getting dialysis and I was bleeding internally so I was also getting blood transfusions and so much more was wrong with me.) my doctors called my son in and told him I’d need a lot of prayers. I was in icu for nearly 4 months. I am 49 now but my mother told me I “you’re moving in with your father and I. I don’t want you going back to that toxic relationship.” She’s sacrificed so much for me. But your comment brought some pretty heavy tears to my eyes because my dad is ill at 83 and my mother is ill 80 😢😢and I don’t know what the heck I’m going to do without them. I’m lost. Lonely. Frightened. And scared. 😨 I’ve got my many birds and my 3 guinea pigs and I’ve got a son who is 27 but he doesn’t need or want me. He’s too busy with his life and his girlfriend. I’ll have nobody when my parents are gone and that breaks my heart. My man is 15 years older than me and he’s quite ill also with stage 4 COPD (that was the toxic relationship we get along better living separately) I’m always always asking practically begging my son almost daily if we could meet up even for a quick coffee or something he’s a welder making huge money and I am on ssd I tell him I’ll pay I don’t care as long as I get to see you. I live in NY so when those 3 people mom dad and Alan I’m seriously considering of packing up my animals and I and moving to Brattleboro, VT. I miss the old days so much. When I was my son’s first love. When he needed and wanted me. When he couldn’t wait to do things with me. 😢oh well I’m grasping at straws for once was and what will never be I guess. 😢 I’m sorry I’ve written a book here. I guess it feels good to get this out there. And out of me. Maybe. 😢 I miss the magic of Christmas through my son’s eyes.
@@ktnkbdle278 you are almost same age as my father. he lost his both parents and only has his brother and us (me and my brother) reading your comment made me think about lots of things. i'm so sorry sir :( i felt bad when i read that you are scared. being alone is indeed scary. i will move abroad alone for univercity and i don't know how to do. (i'm 18) i wish your son talked to you once in a while. i can never know what's happening in your lives but i think your son genuinely loves and cares about you. but now since he has his own life, maybe he can't have enough time to spend time with you, i don't know. oh and get well soon. i can't imagine laying in coma🥺 sounds terrifying. my father had a surgery several months ago. i was with him the entire time. the hospital and everything was stressfull and terrifying. (i had my first nightmare ever there 😅) part of me wants to erase those memories in hospital but part of me wants them to stay. i'm just glad that my father didn't went through those days alone. (it was his very first surgery.) i wish somehow your relationship with your son strengthens. i don't talk with my father much as well. i'm trying to spend time tho. just today we watched a comedy show with popcorn. i usually lock myself in my room entire day so this is an improvement i can say :') oops. i'm writing a book here as well :') yeah it feels nice to let things out. if you ever feel like talking but can't find someone, we can talk maybe. i just don't want anyone to go through these feelings alone. (by the way, i just remembered this was a video based on Polar express. my father loves that movie as well. i'm happy to see someone else visiting these videos!!!) best wishes💌🙂
This movie has been so special to me. I took my wife and young son to see it when it debuted in theaters, and bought the DVD when it came out, for us to watch during the following Christmas celebrations. I believe it to be a parable for the real message of Christmas, dealing with belief, faith, and doubt. I pray that all will “hear the bell” in their lifetime. The movie means as much to me today. My son, now 24, had his wedding yesterday. Time passes so quickly, but the message is eternal…
I'm almost 40.. and I Still get chills listening to this soundtrack or watching the movie.. the pure feeling of joy when december arrives.. is something beyond and only the true believers will understand.
I understand, so I must be a true believer. I'm almost 65. Since my childhood, Christmas has been a magical time to me - an escape from the mundanity of everyday life. I love the sights, sounds, smells, magical stories, TV specials, decorations, etc.
How I love this film, it's no joke. I'm Brazilian and I'm 28 years old and it's not immaturity, but rather love for the beautiful things that life gives us, especially Christmas, a time that I love very much. Listening on September 11, 2024. Oh, may God bless each one of you!!!
Tenho 25 anos e sou de MG e eu também sou apaixonado nesse filme, apesar de não ter tido uma família que cultivou o natal, ele me remete a uma época muito boa... é meu filme de natal preferido! emfim... viver é um presente, poder viver essas coisas é incrível... obrigado Deus.
I am 28 Years old and watching this movie is a Christmas tradition that I will continue to keep alive forever. With my siblings growing up, with my wonderful wife, and my children in the not too distant future 🎅🏼 🎄
This video made me do one thing I haven't done in a long time: cry. I remember getting the lionel polar express train set for christmas when I was 3. I remember when my family was together around the christmas tree, we were happy, my parents weren't divorced, I still had a lot of friends, my brother and I were the best of friends. We used to have a tradition where we would have a get together with friends and watch this movie. Sure it had some problems, but I loved it as a kid. Now I'm all grown up, my parents have long since divorced and moved away, my brother and I haven't seen each other in a while, I've lost a lot of my old friends, But I still watch this movie every Christmas, regardless if I'm alone or not. I still wish to keep that tradition alive, just to remember my family.
One of my favorite Christmas traditions was getting my favorite pizza and watching The Polar Express! The pizza place sadly closed a few years ago due to its owner who's known me since I was a baby, didn't want to run it anymore. But me, my mom, and my brother still watch this wonderful movie every Christmas season!
Reach out. Don't ignore that nudge, Reach out to your friends and family. Because your text or call may not impact the, but you can have that peace of mind. Christmas is a time where alot of regrets and sadness shows up, and if you ignore that nudge, who knows what could have been
The Polar Express soundtrack just resonates the feeling of Christmas. The joy, the wonder, that cozy feeling you get when just thinking of snow. This is truly THE Christmas movie tbh
This is my comfort movie... every year, our school would gather all the kids into the auditorium... and we would watch the Polar Express. All the other kids would complain about having to watch this movie for the "100th time!" Not me... I would watch this movie with the same wide eyes as when i first saw it - my dad would dress up as the conductor every year and walk around town giving out express tickets - all of the other kids thought my dad was the actual conductor... it was fun- those where the best days of my life- i was raised on this... anyway- sorry for the long paragraph, ❤
Lost my nan this year to a stroke back in April. Came here because the Polar express was one of those special movies in a precious moment in life. Miss you Nana…
My mother loved this movie. She passed away just under a month ago from pancreatic cancer, so this will be (what's left of) my family's first Christmas without the matriarch and holiday master of ceremonies. I think I may go see this movie again this Christmas season, and buy a second seat just for her. Miss you mom.
Ohhh I’m so sorry for your loss. Thank God we are given memories to cherish forever! Losing a parent is very tough…..lost our dad 6 yrs ago. He was the strength of our family……but we know we will see him in Heaven someday & we will never be apart again!!! God loves you & your mom!! Prayers for you this Christmas!! ❤
My 92 year old mom and I watch Christmas movies all December through Christmas. 2 a week until Christmas week, when we watch one each night, culminating with The Polar Express on Christmas Eve after coming back from seeing the Christmas lights in town. We munch on cookies and treats and drink hot cocoa even though we live in Florida. Then we each get to open one gift before going to bed. In the morning, the tree is surrounded with brighty wrapped packages and we know that Santa has remembered us both. It is magical and we both can still hear the bells ring. We believe and we will forever. 🔔🎁🎄🚂😁✌️❤️
I remember when my mom bought us this movie and my little brother and i would watch it. I cant even how many times we watched this together just enjoying our childhood. Now that my little brother has passed away it brings back soooo many memories man. I can still feel him hug me or hear him laughing. God i miss him.
My heart aches for you! Kept it together until your comment...so sorry. All I can say is that maybe the sound of the bell rings for another reason to believe. I know you will be reunited again some day and that this will be as if it never was. Continue the journey and hang in there brother!
This makes me think of my dad. This is his favorite christmas movie and seeing his inner child come out when I bring it up or when we watch it is really sweet to watch. He always jokes around with this bell we bring out at christmas time like he can't hear it cuz his inner child is gone but the joke proves it's still alive and well in him.
A random night of watching random TH-cam videos has led me here. This song and atmosphere bring back so much nostalgia from when I was little watching this movie; this movie always has a special place in my heart.
last year I had my window open as I watched this film. Christmas lights and tree on, hot chocolate in my hand, and a snowfall outside. It was the perfect ambience.
As a husband and a special needs Dad, this movie and this holiday is everything. My daughter who has autism absolutely loves Christmas and I love it and see it through her eyes. That bell will always ring for me
Thank you so much for being a loving ❤️ father to an incredible daughter! It's an honor and a blessing ✨️🎄from God to be a parent! You were chosen ✨️ by God to be her guide in life along with her Mom! ✨️🙏🏻🎄❤️Never forget that God loves ❤️ you more than you are able to understand! Jesus Christ is the reason we come together at Christmas 🎄 time! He gave us the most precious 🎁 gift of all the atonement! The gift of repentance that we can be , made new again and repent and have eternal ✨️ 💕 life! May God bless you and your family, with his love and peace! 🎄🌟🎅 Santa is a reminder to us all to be gentle and kind and to be as a servant of God to help others as Jesus Christ has done!❄️☃️❄️☃️❄️🎁✨️🙏🏻✨️
@andrewferrauiolo4618 Without faith in God , you choose to live life without Hope! And hope is a lot to live without! I know you didn't practice any religion when I wrote back to you! Most people think life is easier without it! But it's only more difficult without it when life gets hard! I know God he has walked with me since I was four years old! When you except Jesus Christ, and get baptized you have the spirit of God with , that's the spirit of Christmas 🎄 🙏🏻✨️ You feel it it brings you peace and comfort and happiness! When you turn your radio 📻 on the music ▶️ plays but you don't see the radio waves , but you know it's there because the music is playing! Same thing with God and Jesus Christ, you can't see them but everything around us on earth was created by them! I feel God's spirit and I felt impressed to say what I said not from me but from God! I pray one day you will all know God's love and joy ! I'm sorry if this offended you in any way, but it wasn't my doing. I just listen 🎶 to God!
One of the most magical Christmas movies ever. Along with the precious memories of being together with the family at the local theatre during the holidays. Masterpiece.
I remember watching this back in kindergarten on Christmas break. Then I remember being with my classmates watching it in first grade in our cozy pajamas at school. Then by middle school in eighth grade, at that time it was cool to “hate on it” by then. Now I’m in college, and this is probably my favorite Christmas movie of all time. I still feel the wondrous joy that I felt as a kid watching this for the first time. Coming back to this, I never understood the ending until I got a bit older. And when I finally did, it opened my eyes even more as a child!
@ yeah back in first grade. It was a special day before Christmas break and we all could wear pajamas at school. I think we did that all the way up to like second grade and then we stopped.
When I was in 3rd grade I had a teacher who you knew genuinely loved being a teacher, two days before Christmas break she handed all of us a big golden ticket replica from the movie and told us to bring it in the next day, and I remember so vividly coming to class the next day, she stood at the door with a hole puncher and had the entire classroom rearranged as a mock-train with cardboard cut outs and christmas lights, hot chocolate, candy canes, everything, she went all out and it created such a good memory. This movie and its soundtrack really encapsulates that mystical feeling of Christmas I had as a kid, and reminds me of that teacher.
I watched this movie for the very first time with my dad. I was 11 at the time. (30 in the current). Since then, I watched it as a worship every christmas season. Evenmore, all people who knows me inner close, they know this is my fav movie. I'm still wishing deep inside of me, spending a christimas night as those kids had that night.
I see once again I have found a gathering of beautiful, peaceful individuals who care to share their thoughts, feelings, and memories about a collectively beloved topic, allow me to add my two cents as well... I am much younger an inexperienced in life than the majority seem to be here, only nineteen, but I, too, grew up with this movie, and make it a point to watch this strange, aloof, and wonderful movie each year, I'm a steam train enthusiast, and I love that they treat the Express herself as a character in the story in a way, her proud departure from... oh gosh, I can't remember the kid's name... but the street the main kid lives on, her steam flooding the road when she arrives, along with her daunting, almost alien hums and pressure releases, her daring escape from the crackling ice... it's so rare for these old, beautiful steam powered beasts to be treated as I, alongside many others, so whimsically see them, as living, breathing, absolutely breathtaking monsters, with souls of their own... My love and enthusiasm for steamers has only swelled since seeing Union Pacific's Big Boy number 4014 in Nokomis a couple weeks back, and that love will only further draw me back to this movie, again and again
I remember watching this when it came out. My mom and I went to see it in 3D and it brought back memories of reading the book (I still have it). I remember there were tons of kids like me who were eagerly awaiting the start of the movie. Every Christmas, I watch this and it will never get old. I'm glad they made The Polar Express into a movie. It's the best investment the movie industry could have made. :)
Takes me back to a time when everything was easy with no worries. Being young, innocent and full of wonder. I'll alway remember those feelings of Christmas when I was a kid.
My favorite christmas movie of all time it brings back so many memories and sometimes tears of that nostalgic feeling of being a kid and having no worries and being excited for santa in a warm cozy house with family. Age 21 and I will never stop watching this every christmas eve.
Me and my brother bonded over this film together as kids got to see him again after many years as adults I finnaly smile watching this no more tears 😊❤ I finnaly see my older brother again hehe never been happier used to cry to this video and movie until I found my brother again him and bonded over it for year until I turned 15 lost contact with him now things have changed and when I watch it I am so happy again
This is what I’ve always imagined a beautiful Christmas feels and sounds like. My only truly memorable and lovely Christmas was in 2018. After that my parents weren’t at all invested, my mother even denied it completely due to different reasons. My heart breaks every time I remember how insanely excited I was for Christmas every year up until my mom got sick in 2019. It’s like a part of me got lost and it really hurts not knowing how to get it back. I used to be the most enthusiastic Christmas person in my whole circle. Now that’s just gone. I can’t even watch the polar express anymore because I cant help but get super sad. It used to be in my top 3 favorite movies of all time ever since I was a little kid. I really hope that since I’ve felt this strong love, warmth and excitement for Christmas before, that I’m still capable of feeling it again someday.
This movie and ambience makes for a magical Christmas time no matter how much I’ve grown up. This makes me feel the hope and happiness I had as a very little girl. It makes me feel like I never grew up. Maybe the magic won’t disappear even when I turn 20 this year.
First time I watched this was in 2004. I was staying at my babysitters house, it was quiet and I was with my friends. We’d just finished lunch, it was starting to snow, so our babysitter, put this on. She gives us Christmas cookies and made hot chocolate. My biggest memory is when she’d start the movie. She’d call out, “ALL ABOARD!!” and we’d all scurry into the playroom to watch. The woman “rini” , is what we’d called her, her name is Irene Schinder. Yesterday was my 23rd birthday. And I will forever and always remember this movie. And the happy times I shared with rini and the other kids, Year round. But like the little boy, I’ve grown to a adult woman. holidays seem a bit more quiet. But it doesn’t mean the magic is gone. Just lying for the right time. ;)
Oh god the nostalgia that hit me… I remember watching this every Christmas Eve with my family. Hot chocolate with whipped cream and two big marshmallows or warm apple cider with a hint of cinnamon, the glow of the lights from the Christmas tree giving a small yet warm glow, huddled under blankets, singing along with some of the songs, and falling asleep shortly after. I may have grown up now but I will never forget that feeling. I will never stop believing.
i remember being in a warm classroom while the outside being cold. you’re huddled with your best friends on the floor, with your popcorn and candy cane in hand and your hot chocolate beside you. you also had your pajamas on too, making you warmer. man i miss those feelings. everyone, please cherish your memories with loved ones before it’s too late. and if it’s december for you as you read this, merry christmas :)
As a child watching this movie before Christmas break, this movie brought tears to my eyes every year. Now in college and watching this my college friends it is even more emotional for me. I love the story, music, and what is being told. so many great things in this movie I love! Definitely a movie to watch every year. Another movie I enjoyed watching was, ELF.
I remember watching the polar express in school just before Christmas break. The short day spent watching a Christmas classic, no work, lights off, a snack and a blanket, and all you had to do was watch the movie, and then it’s Christmas break. I really do miss those days, and would give anything just to relive it again.
Omg. I don’t even care that it’s not even Christmas yet but The Polar Express is my childhood. I’ll listening to this from now on every single day year round. I’m getting a little teary eyed because this is amazing TH-cam. Thank you so much.
Bro the polar express is my favorite movie ever. And being so young when I watched it for the first time it felt like magic as if Santa were real hell I still believe in Santa
I'm from Brazil and I have incredible memories with this film and its songs. I was very happy thanks to the Christmas magic of this film, it's a shame there's no snow here haha. But today all that ended, here at home my family hates Christmas, I believe it's because of the death of my late grandfather 5 years ago, because he was the one who made everyone happy and still worked as Santa Claus making people happier. happy.
You know, I really miss how it was like as a kid, Christmas I mean. Really believing he was out there. That those reindeer did fly... That snow was a form of his magic... That he would eat our cookies we left out for him... and that our gifts came from the cold crisp north pole... But, even though I wish I could go back... Part of me is glad I can't, it only makes those moments and feelings ever more special. I am beyond thankful to have experienced it during those moments in time. Thank you Mom and Dad, for the best Christmas seasons. Thank you to my brothers who experienced it with me. Something to believe in. Something that truly shaped who I am today, we are today. Even though I grow older, the Christmas spirit never has left me. The lessons it taught, and the happiness its capable of spreading. I'm still young, but I can't wait to pass what I experienced and learned to my kids someday. Maybe that'll scratch that itch, of wanting to go back, feel it all again. Holidays are fun, but Christmas... its a lesson. A lesson the world needs more of today. Spreading Kindness, joy, and spirit to those around. I know its early as of writing this, but Merry Christmas y'all. Spend time with your families. Hold them close. It doesn't last forever.
I absolutely agree. I'm almost 65, and I look back on the magic of Christmas as you do. I remember really believing. I left the cookies out, too, and I really thought Santa ate them. That was a magical time.
Even up to this day I still have the same amazing feeling as when I was 6, 12 years ago and watched Polar express with my family for the first time. We still watch it every year🎄
The Bell still rings for me as it does for those who truly BELIEVE. Amazing! The ambience and everything i have that feeling again that feeling that my heart is ready to come out for its Love of Christmas and this amazing music and film. Thank you for making this I'm definitely hearing this on Christmas before i sleep!❤
I know this movie gets a bad wrap for its animation but the spirit of this movie is why I come back every year and will continue for as long as I live. Best Christmas movie ever Imo.
I’m 21 years of age, I remember me being in elementary and watching this movie as a kid, we all would wear pajamas and drink hot coco and pizza to celebrate our Christmas spirit and I had a great amazing time I miss my elementary times like that. Maybe I can go back those days by doing it with my crush or with the boys like that
I vaguely remember seeing this in 3D when it came out in theaters. The scene with the train on the ice terrified me but this will still remain my all time favorite Christmas movie 🤍 ABC family played it on my birthday every year
When I was a kid my family and I fell on hard times. We ended up staying at a shelter somewhere in Vancouver, I remember it being like a very large home filled with Christmas decorations and sweets and many other families like us. But most of all I remember the kindness from the staff that worked there. The staff never mistreated us, but loved us, cared for us and tried to make our stay there as magical as they could. I think that's what Christmas is about...and listening to this music has brought back those beautiful memories. God I still love the magic of Christmas.
Im not that old im only 18 years old but, this music and movie will always bring a tear to my eye from nostalgic and cheer its bring this is HANDS DOWN one of the best christmas movies i ever watch the younger generation will never understand this Masterpiece🙏🏾❤️
How beautiful that so many people carry such sweet memories with the polar express and its music . I also really miss the feeling of Christmas as a young child . I force my parents to watch this movie with me every year ❤️
This was one of my favorite Christmas movies. The train, the magical experience also, the main character, im not kidding, looked a little like me. But i was young when i thought that last part. Regardless this will always be special to me, even when im old.
This has always been my firm favourite Christmas Eve movie, and I've watched it on this particular day for a good number of years now. My mom loved this movie as well, but she sadly passed away at 95 in May 2021 😢 I really miss her and my dad loads, as I live on my own now. So, to keep the magic and love going I always watch this movie every Christmas Eve without fail, now that I have it on dvd. It sometimes brings a tear to my eyes when I watch it. 😢 I often think of my innocent childhood days with my mom and dad. I hope they're watching over me 😔
This year is the 20th anniversary of the polar express coming out. I watched this at 8 years old in the theaters. It’s One of my favorite Christmas movies ever ❤
This movie is beautiful and brings me back to simpler times. Unfortunately I watched it too much as a kid, and now my family really doesn't like watching it that much. I wish I had someone to watch it with.
This movie will always hold a special place in my heart. It takes me back to a time when my Grandad was still alive and the family all sat together in the living room to watch it for the first time. It really brought back the magic of christmas for me. Now when I watch it back, it reminds me to always be grateful for the people I have around me and the love we share. Such a powerful movie.
This movie does unspeakably joyful things to my brain and has ever since I was a kid. A few years back I even found a pair of Polar Express print crew socks and now, every year, I have to wear them while I watch the movie as a tradition. It ain't Christmas without watching it.
inspired by this classic to create something special fr. dropped a study mix with custom polar express skits between tracks - come through if you need that magical study motivation ❄ tried to capture that same christmas spirit but made it perfect for late night focus sessions
I realized the message of this movie more and more as I got older, and now it makes me cry. It becomes even more serious when you consider the theme in light of the gospel.
Honestly its amazing Im right there with you bro being 30 you really grasp the message of this movie you see it different versus watching it as a child especially the end when the children rang the bell and can hear it but the parents ring it and hear nothing and think its broken just goes to show Christmas becomes less magical as we get older sadly
Ciao dal Italia .Ogni anno a Natale siamo tutti seduti davanti al televisore e guardiamo questo bellissimo Polar Express .E fantastico sembra realtà e fatto con bambini e tanto ❤❤.E Amore.Ciao ciao. A voi tutti .
This will make for good background music as the Holiday Season approaches. From 2006 to 2009, I worked at Carnegie Science Center in Pittsburgh in an exhibit called The Miniature Railroad & Village. We had an event called The Breakfast Express, every Saturday morning in December leading up to Christmas. People would have breakfast, watch the movie on an Omnimax screen, and then head to the exhibit. We had Lionel's Polar Express running. We also had a special guest, usually Mr McFeely but there were others. One time I dressed up as the fireman from The Polar Express, but without the beard but I did have red hair.
This makes me feel nostalgic. I just love Christmas’ magic, even if I am a grown up, even if the bell stopped ringing. I just love it. Time for love. Time for peace. 🤍
26 years old, turning 27 on the 24th of December. The bell still chimes for me. Though i know the truth of christmas and santa now, the idea of it will not fall for me.
I will always remember being little and watching this movie in the theatre. The calm and quiet as the boy is trying to sleep to the shaking of the theatre from the sound as the Polar Express pulled up to the front of his house. One of the best Christmas memories of mine, and now I watch this movie every year without fail.
the last time I watched this movie was at my high schools senior shut in party in the library. we played the kid friendly version of cards against humanity, decorated cookies, and enjoyed snacks and hit chocolate while watching this movie. I was really sentimental during this year already and I was just feeling everything, thinking about how that would be the last time I would ever get to have fun like that. now here I am thinking back on all of that, my entire childhood, all those parties in elementary school, and all the memories I made with my friends, and how much I miss the majority that I couldn't keep in contact with
Damn.. this ambience is actually making me so emotional. I was so in love with this movie as a kid and I always *believed.* As I grow up this movie will always be my favorite christmas movie and my childhood memory
This movie brings back so many memories as a kid. It does remind me of the simpler times before I lost my grandmother to Cancer and the innocent times I had before things got hard. As in present I am studying for the ASVAB and hoping to move out and start my life. This may remind me of the older times but always a good thing to look forward to my future ahead.
Im very drunk rn in university and all I want is to go back to when life was simple, I only ever feel happiness now at Christmas because I go back to my childhood where everything wasnt so depressing and miserable, I cant ignore the reality of the world we live in but at Christmas I can, I go back to when everything was great and I felt love and happiness, now most days I just feel hollow and hatred. Please I don't ever want to leave Christmas, why is the world so shit?
We feel hope and love at Christmas because it is the celebration of the birth of Christ Jesus. Praying that the love that God has for you would become real in your life the way it has for me and completely changed my life!
Buddy....Idk who you are...but I'm 32 with a 1 month old standing in my living room at about 11pm just staring at my first christmas tree as a dad... the opening song hits different... the happiness you're craving comes from the love of a mother and father making christmas magical. The torch has been passed fam. It's our turn for the kids to feel the spirit of christmas. Merry christmas from south carolina
Every Christmas Eve I would watch this with my family when I was little and it became one of my most favorite Christmas traditions that we still do. When I was little this was Christmas to me, and it made Christmas Day even more special and magical.
I tried listening to this as sleep ambience. Instead, as I listened a lump began to well in my throat because the music is so beautiful and nostalgic and perfectly represents what Christmas felt like to me as a kid; a time of wonder, excitement and a trifle spooky at times. A time full of mystery and love and warmth. A time when the cold weather and festive spirits compliment each other in the most beautiful of ways. And finally it reminded me of the fleetingness of life, as life is like a train in so many ways. Like a lonely train on a cold winters night, life steams ahead until it reaches its inevitable destination. Every moment lasting for but a glimpse as the train chuffs on. Every sound and sight, finite. Though I grow older and wiser with new adventures ahead, I think back on the innocence of my early years, like two childhood friends waving good bye to each other at the station as the train pulls away, never to see each other again.
All this is to say that this music and ambience reminded me to cherish each moment since, like even the most beautiful of all trains, life inevitably comes to an end. So cherish each moment of the journey since you don’t know when you’ll here the call for your stop. And when you see those night time glimmering lights at your station and smell the sweet smells and chiming through your ears is the bells of the ticket machines as some young excited passengers board to start their own journeys, and other weary travellers, having reached their destiny, fade in into the glimmering station lights. And as you begin to take your last steps towards the exit, think of what you left behind, where you started in life and the beautiful journey you’ve been on.
love this!
Your comment is very heart-warming and beautiful! It brought tears to my eyes! Thank you for sharing your beautiful memories!
Big w luv this :)
nice essay
This is really timely. Really feeling at peace and connected to God tonight, thanks for sharing this! ❤
as a student in school.. very young. we used to watch this movie... usually every year no matter what grade or teacher... those days have passed... used to watch it with my grandparents.. my parents... or myself alone... every year. I miss this movie... and the memories i used to get with them. I am very happy I get to have such memories.. sitting in the dark classroom... shuttered windows... hot chocolate from the school staff.. every class room blasting this music... through the walls... just the music... the smell of joy and christmas.. Hot chocolate, marshmallows... somewhat of side chatter.. sleeping bags... pajamas... the good ol' days..
the hallways, dim with christmas decor... snow outside... everybody was calm and happy..
… and one day the bell fell silent for you.
@@frebnewman6403 yeah... i remember the day it did...
if u dont mind me asking which years were those times u watched this movie every year in school?
My senior year of high school we watched it! We was like little kids all watching it drinking hot chocolate! Class of 2012
The Polar Express is my all time favorite Christmas movie and to me this is indeed a work of art as well:).
Same here.
Same. I think its the mix of watching it as a kid with the movie being through a kids perspective and of course the ambiance and music.
Very magical and transformative.
@@LU6TIE Yep.
Same here
same...
One of my favorite comfort movies. I watch this every Christmas and no matter how old I am (26) it will always resurrect that child in me.
you're never to old for any movie. Say Land Before Time i'm 31 and that will always be my favorite movie
I'm 60 and I watch it every year.
u watch tis every christmass but this video is only 9 months old 💀
@@dtbbb I watch the movie dumbass
Me also and I am 75.
I remember being a kid and watching this movie over and over at my grandmother's house. My grandmother is no longer with me but I find comfort in the fact that I can come back to such familiar and 'safe' music, whether it be at Christmas or when I'm studying.
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Sorry for your loss. She’s in a better place now. Remember they are never truly gone. They’ll always be with us. ❤❤❤
A beautiful book and a beautiful movie every child should have the experience of having
Your Grandma lives in your heart.
I KNOW THE FEELING ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨
When you're a kid time moves so slowly, and all you want to do is grow up. Before you know it you're in your mid 20s. I wish I could feel the way I did when I watched this movie as a kid. Every Christmas my family and I would watch polar express, it wasn't Christmas without this movie.
Facts
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Same 😢
I start to feel like a kid again when I watch this movie or any other childhood movie. This short period of time that sends me back in time , in my childhood full of joy and fairytale. We don't have to stop watching Christmas movies in order to keep our inner child alive❤❤❤❤❤❤
I am 73 now. Watched this over and over again with my grandson when he was very young. So many wonderful memories. Time moves on, the memories stay alive till they don’t.
This gives me so much love and inner peace❤
My grandfathers last Christmas present to me was the original book for the Polar Express. He died 3 weeks after in 2022. Its now one of my most cherished possessions and I hope that one day I can read it to my kids and ignite that passion I have for the story and movie for them.
My condolences! 💐
❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ that’s very sweet!!!
I’m sorry for your loss 🙏🏻
Sorry for your loss. But I'm glad you have good memories with your grandfather.
In my mind the most remarkable, memorable movie ever created
I watched this movie every year with my mom til she past😢 She loved Christmas wish she was still with me.❤❤
My condolences ❤
My condolences mate
@@jimmylyras8269 thank you
@@jimmylyras8269 Thank you
My condolences!
My childhood memories, still can't believe they don't make masterpieces like this anymore
"One thing about trains, it doesn't matter where you're going, what matters is deciding to get on. *wink*". - Conductor
This give me a comforting feeling... I wish I could stay young. Because in the future, there won't be a dad taking you out to restaurants anymore, a mom who kisses you goodnight anymore...
Very true
😢yes
Wow this is so true! I nearly died back in 2021. I had a 5% chance of living being in a coma in a vent with collapsed lungs and respiratory arrest and other organs shutting down with severe pancreatitis that went septic (bc my doctor told me it was just a “pulled muscle” kidneys were failing so during my 8 week coma I was also getting dialysis and I was bleeding internally so I was also getting blood transfusions and so much more was wrong with me.) my doctors called my son in and told him I’d need a lot of prayers. I was in icu for nearly 4 months. I am 49 now but my mother told me I “you’re moving in with your father and I. I don’t want you going back to that toxic relationship.” She’s sacrificed so much for me. But your comment brought some pretty heavy tears to my eyes because my dad is ill at 83 and my mother is ill 80 😢😢and I don’t know what the heck I’m going to do without them. I’m lost. Lonely. Frightened. And scared. 😨 I’ve got my many birds and my 3 guinea pigs and I’ve got a son who is 27 but he doesn’t need or want me. He’s too busy with his life and his girlfriend. I’ll have nobody when my parents are gone and that breaks my heart. My man is 15 years older than me and he’s quite ill also with stage 4 COPD (that was the toxic relationship we get along better living separately) I’m always always asking practically begging my son almost daily if we could meet up even for a quick coffee or something he’s a welder making huge money and I am on ssd I tell him I’ll pay I don’t care as long as I get to see you. I live in NY so when those 3 people mom dad and Alan I’m seriously considering of packing up my animals and I and moving to Brattleboro, VT. I miss the old days so much. When I was my son’s first love. When he needed and wanted me. When he couldn’t wait to do things with me. 😢oh well I’m grasping at straws for once was and what will never be I guess. 😢 I’m sorry I’ve written a book here. I guess it feels good to get this out there. And out of me. Maybe. 😢 I miss the magic of Christmas through my son’s eyes.
@ktnkbdle278 ümid edirəm ki sizin üçün hər şey yaxşı olacaq. 😊
@@ktnkbdle278 you are almost same age as my father. he lost his both parents and only has his brother and us (me and my brother)
reading your comment made me think about lots of things. i'm so sorry sir :(
i felt bad when i read that you are scared. being alone is indeed scary. i will move abroad alone for univercity and i don't know how to do. (i'm 18)
i wish your son talked to you once in a while. i can never know what's happening in your lives but i think your son genuinely loves and cares about you. but now since he has his own life, maybe he can't have enough time to spend time with you, i don't know.
oh and get well soon. i can't imagine laying in coma🥺 sounds terrifying. my father had a surgery several months ago. i was with him the entire time. the hospital and everything was stressfull and terrifying. (i had my first nightmare ever there 😅)
part of me wants to erase those memories in hospital but part of me wants them to stay. i'm just glad that my father didn't went through those days alone. (it was his very first surgery.)
i wish somehow your relationship with your son strengthens. i don't talk with my father much as well. i'm trying to spend time tho. just today we watched a comedy show with popcorn. i usually lock myself in my room entire day so this is an improvement i can say :')
oops. i'm writing a book here as well :')
yeah it feels nice to let things out. if you ever feel like talking but can't find someone, we can talk maybe. i just don't want anyone to go through these feelings alone.
(by the way, i just remembered this was a video based on Polar express. my father loves that movie as well. i'm happy to see someone else visiting these videos!!!)
best wishes💌🙂
This movie has been so special to me. I took my wife and young son to see it when it debuted in theaters, and bought the DVD when it came out, for us to watch during the following Christmas celebrations. I believe it to be a parable for the real message of Christmas, dealing with belief, faith, and doubt. I pray that all will “hear the bell” in their lifetime. The movie means as much to me today. My son, now 24, had his wedding yesterday. Time passes so quickly, but the message is eternal…
I am 62 and I Believe and still hear the Bell🙏🏻God Bless
Also based on time travel
I'm almost 40.. and I Still get chills listening to this soundtrack or watching the movie.. the pure feeling of joy when december arrives.. is something beyond and only the true believers will understand.
I understand, so I must be a true believer. I'm almost 65. Since my childhood, Christmas has been a magical time to me - an escape from the mundanity of everyday life. I love the sights, sounds, smells, magical stories, TV specials, decorations, etc.
What do you mean by True Believer. Have you experienced bizarre events during Christmas time? I have, and I believe.
How I love this film, it's no joke. I'm Brazilian and I'm 28 years old and it's not immaturity, but rather love for the beautiful things that life gives us, especially Christmas, a time that I love very much.
Listening on September 11, 2024.
Oh, may God bless each one of you!!!
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Tenho 25 anos e sou de MG e eu também sou apaixonado nesse filme, apesar de não ter tido uma família que cultivou o natal, ele me remete a uma época muito boa... é meu filme de natal preferido! emfim... viver é um presente, poder viver essas coisas é incrível... obrigado Deus.
I am 28 Years old and watching this movie is a Christmas tradition that I will continue to keep alive forever. With my siblings growing up, with my wonderful wife, and my children in the not too distant future 🎅🏼 🎄
God bless my friend. Saw this movie when it first released in NYC, it was amazing. Feels like yesterday dont it? Wild man. Cheers 90s brother 🍻
This video made me do one thing I haven't done in a long time: cry.
I remember getting the lionel polar express train set for christmas when I was 3. I remember when my family was together around the christmas tree, we were happy, my parents weren't divorced, I still had a lot of friends, my brother and I were the best of friends.
We used to have a tradition where we would have a get together with friends and watch this movie. Sure it had some problems, but I loved it as a kid.
Now I'm all grown up, my parents have long since divorced and moved away, my brother and I haven't seen each other in a while, I've lost a lot of my old friends,
But I still watch this movie every Christmas, regardless if I'm alone or not. I still wish to keep that tradition alive, just to remember my family.
🙏🏻
One of my favorite Christmas traditions was getting my favorite pizza and watching The Polar Express!
The pizza place sadly closed a few years ago due to its owner who's known me since I was a baby, didn't want to run it anymore. But me, my mom, and my brother still watch this wonderful movie every Christmas season!
Reach out. Don't ignore that nudge, Reach out to your friends and family. Because your text or call may not impact the, but you can have that peace of mind. Christmas is a time where alot of regrets and sadness shows up, and if you ignore that nudge, who knows what could have been
The Polar Express soundtrack just resonates the feeling of Christmas. The joy, the wonder, that cozy feeling you get when just thinking of snow. This is truly THE Christmas movie tbh
This is my comfort movie... every year, our school would gather all the kids into the auditorium... and we would watch the Polar Express. All the other kids would complain about having to watch this movie for the "100th time!" Not me... I would watch this movie with the same wide eyes as when i first saw it - my dad would dress up as the conductor every year and walk around town giving out express tickets - all of the other kids thought my dad was the actual conductor... it was fun- those where the best days of my life- i was raised on this... anyway- sorry for the long paragraph, ❤
Lost my nan this year to a stroke back in April. Came here because the Polar express was one of those special movies in a precious moment in life. Miss you Nana…
My mother loved this movie. She passed away just under a month ago from pancreatic cancer, so this will be (what's left of) my family's first Christmas without the matriarch and holiday master of ceremonies. I think I may go see this movie again this Christmas season, and buy a second seat just for her. Miss you mom.
Ohhh I’m so sorry for your loss. Thank God we are given memories to cherish forever! Losing a parent is very tough…..lost our dad 6 yrs ago. He was the strength of our family……but we know we will see him in Heaven someday & we will never be apart again!!! God loves you & your mom!! Prayers for you this Christmas!! ❤
God bless you
God bless x
My 92 year old mom and I watch Christmas movies all December through Christmas. 2 a week until Christmas week, when we watch one each night, culminating with The Polar Express on Christmas Eve after coming back from seeing the Christmas lights in town. We munch on cookies and treats and drink hot cocoa even though we live in Florida. Then we each get to open one gift before going to bed. In the morning, the tree is surrounded with brighty wrapped packages and we know that Santa has remembered us both. It is magical and we both can still hear the bells ring. We believe and we will forever.
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You are so Blessed ❤️
G@@bonnieblack6973ty. 🙂✌️
❤sending love from Dublin Ireland 🇮🇪 fantastic movie
I'm 65. My wife and I do like you and your mom. We're in Georgia - not far from you. Christmas is magic to us.
Polar express is my favourite Christmas film and it brings so much nostalgia.
I remember when my mom bought us this movie and my little brother and i would watch it. I cant even how many times we watched this together just enjoying our childhood. Now that my little brother has passed away it brings back soooo many memories man. I can still feel him hug me or hear him laughing. God i miss him.
My heart aches for you! Kept it together until your comment...so sorry. All I can say is that maybe the sound of the bell rings for another reason to believe. I know you will be reunited again some day and that this will be as if it never was. Continue the journey and hang in there brother!
I'm looking forward to Christmas, so I can watch The Polar Express with my family, and make sure that Christmas is magical for them.
Just Brilliant, at 70 I watch every Christmas Eve and I become emotional every time.
Me too!
This makes me think of my dad. This is his favorite christmas movie and seeing his inner child come out when I bring it up or when we watch it is really sweet to watch. He always jokes around with this bell we bring out at christmas time like he can't hear it cuz his inner child is gone but the joke proves it's still alive and well in him.
"Though I've grown old, the bell still rings for me as it does for all who truly believe"
A random night of watching random TH-cam videos has led me here. This song and atmosphere bring back so much nostalgia from when I was little watching this movie; this movie always has a special place in my heart.
for us all bro :')
last year I had my window open as I watched this film. Christmas lights and tree on, hot chocolate in my hand, and a snowfall outside. It was the perfect ambience.
As a husband and a special needs Dad, this movie and this holiday is everything. My daughter who has autism absolutely loves Christmas and I love it and see it through her eyes. That bell will always ring for me
Thank you so much for being a loving ❤️ father to an incredible daughter! It's an honor and a blessing ✨️🎄from God to be a parent! You were chosen ✨️ by God to be her guide in life along with her Mom! ✨️🙏🏻🎄❤️Never forget that God loves ❤️ you more than you are able to understand! Jesus Christ is the reason we come together at Christmas 🎄 time! He gave us the most precious 🎁 gift of all the atonement! The gift of repentance that we can be , made new again and repent and have eternal ✨️ 💕 life! May God bless you and your family, with his love and peace! 🎄🌟🎅 Santa is a reminder to us all to be gentle and kind and to be as a servant of God to help others as Jesus Christ has done!❄️☃️❄️☃️❄️🎁✨️🙏🏻✨️
@stardustgirl2904 Appreciate it, but we don't believe in religion nor do we practice
@andrewferrauiolo4618 Without faith in God , you choose to live life without Hope! And hope is a lot to live without! I know you didn't practice any religion when I wrote back to you! Most people think life is easier without it! But it's only more difficult without it when life gets hard! I know God he has walked with me since I was four years old! When you except Jesus Christ, and get baptized you have the spirit of God with , that's the spirit of Christmas 🎄 🙏🏻✨️ You feel it it brings you peace and comfort and happiness! When you turn your radio 📻 on the music ▶️ plays but you don't see the radio waves , but you know it's there because the music is playing! Same thing with God and Jesus Christ, you can't see them but everything around us on earth was created by them! I feel God's spirit and I felt impressed to say what I said not from me but from God! I pray one day you will all know God's love and joy ! I'm sorry if this offended you in any way, but it wasn't my doing. I just listen 🎶 to God!
One of the most magical Christmas movies ever. Along with the precious memories of being together with the family at the local theatre during the holidays. Masterpiece.
“One thing about trains, it doesn’t matter where they are going. What matters is deciding to get on. 😉”
Tears man… tears… 😢
I remember watching this back in kindergarten on Christmas break. Then I remember being with my classmates watching it in first grade in our cozy pajamas at school. Then by middle school in eighth grade, at that time it was cool to “hate on it” by then. Now I’m in college, and this is probably my favorite Christmas movie of all time. I still feel the wondrous joy that I felt as a kid watching this for the first time.
Coming back to this, I never understood the ending until I got a bit older. And when I finally did, it opened my eyes even more as a child!
you were wearing pyjamas at school?
@ yeah back in first grade. It was a special day before Christmas break and we all could wear pajamas at school. I think we did that all the way up to like second grade and then we stopped.
@@TJCoolzD well,that explains the "cool" in your digital name!
@@ΒασιλειοςΒασιλειαδης-ψ4δ LOL yeah I guess it does!
When I was in 3rd grade I had a teacher who you knew genuinely loved being a teacher, two days before Christmas break she handed all of us a big golden ticket replica from the movie and told us to bring it in the next day, and I remember so vividly coming to class the next day, she stood at the door with a hole puncher and had the entire classroom rearranged as a mock-train with cardboard cut outs and christmas lights, hot chocolate, candy canes, everything, she went all out and it created such a good memory. This movie and its soundtrack really encapsulates that mystical feeling of Christmas I had as a kid, and reminds me of that teacher.
I never in my life celebrated Christmas but whenever i watch this movie i feel like i always did , sometimes it gets me choked up , best movie ever
The polar express isn’t just a movie it’s a work of art
i never realized how beautiful it sounded until i listened to this
I watched this movie for the very first time with my dad. I was 11 at the time. (30 in the current). Since then, I watched it as a worship every christmas season. Evenmore, all people who knows me inner close, they know this is my fav movie. I'm still wishing deep inside of me, spending a christimas night as those kids had that night.
I see once again I have found a gathering of beautiful, peaceful individuals who care to share their thoughts, feelings, and memories about a collectively beloved topic, allow me to add my two cents as well...
I am much younger an inexperienced in life than the majority seem to be here, only nineteen, but I, too, grew up with this movie, and make it a point to watch this strange, aloof, and wonderful movie each year, I'm a steam train enthusiast, and I love that they treat the Express herself as a character in the story in a way, her proud departure from... oh gosh, I can't remember the kid's name... but the street the main kid lives on, her steam flooding the road when she arrives, along with her daunting, almost alien hums and pressure releases, her daring escape from the crackling ice... it's so rare for these old, beautiful steam powered beasts to be treated as I, alongside many others, so whimsically see them, as living, breathing, absolutely breathtaking monsters, with souls of their own...
My love and enthusiasm for steamers has only swelled since seeing Union Pacific's Big Boy number 4014 in Nokomis a couple weeks back, and that love will only further draw me back to this movie, again and again
I remember watching this when it came out. My mom and I went to see it in 3D and it brought back memories of reading the book (I still have it). I remember there were tons of kids like me who were eagerly awaiting the start of the movie. Every Christmas, I watch this and it will never get old. I'm glad they made The Polar Express into a movie. It's the best investment the movie industry could have made. :)
Takes me back to a time when everything was easy with no worries. Being young, innocent and full of wonder. I'll alway remember those feelings of Christmas when I was a kid.
“Sometimes seeing is believe. And sometimes, the most real things in the world are the things we CAN’T see.”
My favorite quote ❤
I lost my heart and soul awhile ago. Only a few things make me cry and this is one.
Me too! 😭
My favorite christmas movie of all time it brings back so many memories and sometimes tears of that nostalgic feeling of being a kid and having no worries and being excited for santa in a warm cozy house with family. Age 21 and I will never stop watching this every christmas eve.
Me and my brother bonded over this film together as kids got to see him again after many years as adults I finnaly smile watching this no more tears 😊❤ I finnaly see my older brother again hehe never been happier used to cry to this video and movie until I found my brother again him and bonded over it for year until I turned 15 lost contact with him now things have changed and when I watch it I am so happy again
Still watch it in honor of my mom. She loved this movie.❤❤
This is what I’ve always imagined a beautiful Christmas feels and sounds like. My only truly memorable and lovely Christmas was in 2018. After that my parents weren’t at all invested, my mother even denied it completely due to different reasons. My heart breaks every time I remember how insanely excited I was for Christmas every year up until my mom got sick in 2019. It’s like a part of me got lost and it really hurts not knowing how to get it back. I used to be the most enthusiastic Christmas person in my whole circle. Now that’s just gone. I can’t even watch the polar express anymore because I cant help but get super sad. It used to be in my top 3 favorite movies of all time ever since I was a little kid. I really hope that since I’ve felt this strong love, warmth and excitement for Christmas before, that I’m still capable of feeling it again someday.
Hey there sorry to hear that. I hope you are ok 👍
the one movie any school will play during a Christmas party. The memories....
This movie and ambience makes for a magical Christmas time no matter how much I’ve grown up. This makes me feel the hope and happiness I had as a very little girl. It makes me feel like I never grew up. Maybe the magic won’t disappear even when I turn 20 this year.
First time I watched this was in 2004. I was staying at my babysitters house, it was quiet and I was with my friends. We’d just finished lunch, it was starting to snow, so our babysitter, put this on. She gives us Christmas cookies and made hot chocolate. My biggest memory is when she’d start the movie. She’d call out, “ALL ABOARD!!” and we’d all scurry into the playroom to watch. The woman “rini” , is what we’d called her, her name is Irene Schinder. Yesterday was my 23rd birthday. And I will forever and always remember this movie. And the happy times I shared with rini and the other kids, Year round. But like the little boy, I’ve grown to a adult woman. holidays seem a bit more quiet. But it doesn’t mean the magic is gone. Just lying for the right time. ;)
The very first film I saw in a cinema; the film we watch every Christmas eve; the film and music that brings me tears of joy ❤
Oh god the nostalgia that hit me…
I remember watching this every Christmas Eve with my family. Hot chocolate with whipped cream and two big marshmallows or warm apple cider with a hint of cinnamon, the glow of the lights from the Christmas tree giving a small yet warm glow, huddled under blankets, singing along with some of the songs, and falling asleep shortly after. I may have grown up now but I will never forget that feeling. I will never stop believing.
This music remembers to me that wonderful music from the film Edward Scissorhands. Amazing.
i remember being in a warm classroom while the outside being cold. you’re huddled with your best friends on the floor, with your popcorn and candy cane in hand and your hot chocolate beside you. you also had your pajamas on too, making you warmer. man i miss those feelings. everyone, please cherish your memories with loved ones before it’s too late. and if it’s december for you as you read this, merry christmas :)
As a child watching this movie before Christmas break, this movie brought tears to my eyes every year. Now in college and watching this my college friends it is even more emotional for me. I love the story, music, and what is being told. so many great things in this movie I love! Definitely a movie to watch every year. Another movie I enjoyed watching was, ELF.
I remember watching the polar express in school just before Christmas break. The short day spent watching a Christmas classic, no work, lights off, a snack and a blanket, and all you had to do was watch the movie, and then it’s Christmas break. I really do miss those days, and would give anything just to relive it again.
Omg. I don’t even care that it’s not even Christmas yet but The Polar Express is my childhood. I’ll listening to this from now on every single day year round. I’m getting a little teary eyed because this is amazing TH-cam. Thank you so much.
Bro the polar express is my favorite movie ever. And being so young when I watched it for the first time it felt like magic as if Santa were real hell I still believe in Santa
as i begin my first christmas alone this year, i came across this about 20 minutes ago, got me crying because of the memories ive made over the years
I'm from Brazil and I have incredible memories with this film and its songs. I was very happy thanks to the Christmas magic of this film, it's a shame there's no snow here haha. But today all that ended, here at home my family hates Christmas, I believe it's because of the death of my late grandfather 5 years ago, because he was the one who made everyone happy and still worked as Santa Claus making people happier. happy.
You know, I really miss how it was like as a kid, Christmas I mean. Really believing he was out there. That those reindeer did fly... That snow was a form of his magic... That he would eat our cookies we left out for him... and that our gifts came from the cold crisp north pole... But, even though I wish I could go back... Part of me is glad I can't, it only makes those moments and feelings ever more special. I am beyond thankful to have experienced it during those moments in time. Thank you Mom and Dad, for the best Christmas seasons. Thank you to my brothers who experienced it with me. Something to believe in. Something that truly shaped who I am today, we are today. Even though I grow older, the Christmas spirit never has left me. The lessons it taught, and the happiness its capable of spreading. I'm still young, but I can't wait to pass what I experienced and learned to my kids someday. Maybe that'll scratch that itch, of wanting to go back, feel it all again.
Holidays are fun, but Christmas... its a lesson. A lesson the world needs more of today. Spreading Kindness, joy, and spirit to those around. I know its early as of writing this, but Merry Christmas y'all. Spend time with your families. Hold them close. It doesn't last forever.
I absolutely agree. I'm almost 65, and I look back on the magic of Christmas as you do. I remember really believing. I left the cookies out, too, and I really thought Santa ate them. That was a magical time.
@@billsmith7673 I'm glad others share similar experiences. I wish you a Merry Christmas!
Even up to this day I still have the same amazing feeling as when I was 6, 12 years ago and watched Polar express with my family for the first time. We still watch it every year🎄
The Bell still rings for me as it does for those who truly BELIEVE. Amazing! The ambience and everything i have that feeling again that feeling that my heart is ready to come out for its Love of Christmas and this amazing music and film. Thank you for making this I'm definitely hearing this on Christmas before i sleep!❤
I know this movie gets a bad wrap for its animation but the spirit of this movie is why I come back every year and will continue for as long as I live. Best Christmas movie ever Imo.
I remember getting to wear pajamas to school on the day we read Polar Express. Then, in seventh grade, the school took us to the movies to see it.
I’m 21 years of age, I remember me being in elementary and watching this movie as a kid, we all would wear pajamas and drink hot coco and pizza to celebrate our Christmas spirit and I had a great amazing time I miss my elementary times like that. Maybe I can go back those days by doing it with my crush or with the boys like that
I vaguely remember seeing this in 3D when it came out in theaters. The scene with the train on the ice terrified me but this will still remain my all time favorite Christmas movie 🤍 ABC family played it on my birthday every year
My favourite Christmas 🎄 movie it's absolutely the most wonderful meaning to Christmas for me such fond family memories ❤️ cry every time
I watched this movie when I was in my 18s wow what a feeling way beyond imagination it's truly a masterpiece I miss these days
When I was a kid my family and I fell on hard times. We ended up staying at a shelter somewhere in Vancouver, I remember it being like a very large home filled with Christmas decorations and sweets and many other families like us. But most of all I remember the kindness from the staff that worked there. The staff never mistreated us, but loved us, cared for us and tried to make our stay there as magical as they could. I think that's what Christmas is about...and listening to this music has brought back those beautiful memories. God I still love the magic of Christmas.
Im not that old im only 18 years old but, this music and movie will always bring a tear to my eye from nostalgic and cheer its bring this is HANDS DOWN one of the best christmas movies i ever watch the younger generation will never understand this Masterpiece🙏🏾❤️
The polar express was literally my childhood man, the memories from this movie so precious ☺️
I want to watch the movie again, I love it , watching this movie makes me feel comfort / serene and feeling so well.
How beautiful that so many people carry such sweet memories with the polar express and its music . I also really miss the feeling of Christmas as a young child . I force my parents to watch this movie with me every year ❤️
This was one of my favorite Christmas movies. The train, the magical experience also, the main character, im not kidding, looked a little like me. But i was young when i thought that last part. Regardless this will always be special to me, even when im old.
Adoré ésta película ❤. Siempre la miro cuando la dan. 🎼🕊️🇦🇷❤️👋
This has always been my firm favourite Christmas Eve movie, and I've watched it on this particular day for a good number of years now. My mom loved this movie as well, but she sadly passed away at 95 in May 2021 😢
I really miss her and my dad loads, as I live on my own now. So, to keep the magic and love going I always watch this movie every Christmas Eve without fail, now that I have it on dvd.
It sometimes brings a tear to my eyes when I watch it. 😢
I often think of my innocent childhood days with my mom and dad. I hope they're watching over me 😔
This year is the 20th anniversary of the polar express coming out. I watched this at 8 years old in the theaters. It’s One of my favorite Christmas movies ever ❤
This movie is beautiful and brings me back to simpler times. Unfortunately I watched it too much as a kid, and now my family really doesn't like watching it that much. I wish I had someone to watch it with.
This movie will always hold a special place in my heart. It takes me back to a time when my Grandad was still alive and the family all sat together in the living room to watch it for the first time. It really brought back the magic of christmas for me. Now when I watch it back, it reminds me to always be grateful for the people I have around me and the love we share. Such a powerful movie.
This movie does unspeakably joyful things to my brain and has ever since I was a kid. A few years back I even found a pair of Polar Express print crew socks and now, every year, I have to wear them while I watch the movie as a tradition. It ain't Christmas without watching it.
inspired by this classic to create something special fr. dropped a study mix with custom polar express skits between tracks - come through if you need that magical study motivation ❄ tried to capture that same christmas spirit but made it perfect for late night focus sessions
I realized the message of this movie more and more as I got older, and now it makes me cry. It becomes even more serious when you consider the theme in light of the gospel.
BELIEVE! 🎆✨🙏✝️
Honestly its amazing Im right there with you bro being 30 you really grasp the message of this movie you see it different versus watching it as a child especially the end when the children rang the bell and can hear it but the parents ring it and hear nothing and think its broken just goes to show Christmas becomes less magical as we get older sadly
This brings me so much peace
Ciao dal Italia .Ogni anno a Natale siamo tutti seduti davanti al televisore e guardiamo questo bellissimo Polar Express .E fantastico sembra realtà e fatto con bambini e tanto ❤❤.E Amore.Ciao ciao. A voi tutti .
This will make for good background music as the Holiday Season approaches.
From 2006 to 2009, I worked at Carnegie Science Center in Pittsburgh in an exhibit called The Miniature Railroad & Village. We had an event called The Breakfast Express, every Saturday morning in December leading up to Christmas. People would have breakfast, watch the movie on an Omnimax screen, and then head to the exhibit. We had Lionel's Polar Express running. We also had a special guest, usually Mr McFeely but there were others. One time I dressed up as the fireman from The Polar Express, but without the beard but I did have red hair.
God bless you, and i wish you the best in life
The feeling i get from the Polar Express soundtrack is what i always associate with winter.
Yes:)❤
They’re apparently making a sequel to the polar express and I’m so happy they are cause I grew up watching that movie
This makes me feel nostalgic. I just love Christmas’ magic, even if I am a grown up, even if the bell stopped ringing. I just love it. Time for love. Time for peace. 🤍
26 years old, turning 27 on the 24th of December. The bell still chimes for me. Though i know the truth of christmas and santa now, the idea of it will not fall for me.
IMHO Christmas will always remind me of my childhood because of how fun it used to be.
Stuff like this is just wow. I use this to sleep a lot. I love this movie I miss watching this in Elementary with hot cocoa 🙁😞
I will always remember being little and watching this movie in the theatre. The calm and quiet as the boy is trying to sleep to the shaking of the theatre from the sound as the Polar Express pulled up to the front of his house. One of the best Christmas memories of mine, and now I watch this movie every year without fail.
the last time I watched this movie was at my high schools senior shut in party in the library. we played the kid friendly version of cards against humanity, decorated cookies, and enjoyed snacks and hit chocolate while watching this movie. I was really sentimental during this year already and I was just feeling everything, thinking about how that would be the last time I would ever get to have fun like that. now here I am thinking back on all of that, my entire childhood, all those parties in elementary school, and all the memories I made with my friends, and how much I miss the majority that I couldn't keep in contact with
YAP YAP YAP SHUT UP!
Damn.. this ambience is actually making me so emotional. I was so in love with this movie as a kid and I always *believed.* As I grow up this movie will always be my favorite christmas movie and my childhood memory
I am 33 years old and this is my favourite movie (also at non Christmas time)
This movie brings back so many memories as a kid. It does remind me of the simpler times before I lost my grandmother to Cancer and the innocent times I had before things got hard. As in present I am studying for the ASVAB and hoping to move out and start my life. This may remind me of the older times but always a good thing to look forward to my future ahead.
Im very drunk rn in university and all I want is to go back to when life was simple, I only ever feel happiness now at Christmas because I go back to my childhood where everything wasnt so depressing and miserable, I cant ignore the reality of the world we live in but at Christmas I can, I go back to when everything was great and I felt love and happiness, now most days I just feel hollow and hatred. Please I don't ever want to leave Christmas, why is the world so shit?
Don’t loose hope❤❤❤❤ you got this and Christmas is coming soon
We feel hope and love at Christmas because it is the celebration of the birth of Christ Jesus. Praying that the love that God has for you would become real in your life the way it has for me and completely changed my life!
Don't loose hope! Praying is so helpful and just hearing what I need to say to the universe/God I think has helped guide me. Hang in there friend! 💪
Buddy....Idk who you are...but I'm 32 with a 1 month old standing in my living room at about 11pm just staring at my first christmas tree as a dad... the opening song hits different... the happiness you're craving comes from the love of a mother and father making christmas magical. The torch has been passed fam. It's our turn for the kids to feel the spirit of christmas. Merry christmas from south carolina
For the people in Canada and Quebec. We know this is a classic 🫶
Every Christmas Eve I would watch this with my family when I was little and it became one of my most favorite Christmas traditions that we still do. When I was little this was Christmas to me, and it made Christmas Day even more special and magical.