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The people have spoken: Die Hard is NOT a Christmas movie
- Thread starter Aurongel
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The tower wouldn't be mostly empty either save execs throwing an xmas party at the top.
The Christmas setting and the fact that it tends to be shown around Christmas on UK TV make it a Christmas film in my eyes.
Watching Die Hard 1 or 2 near Christmas is a tradition for me. Have the Blu Rays, so planning on watching 2 on Christmas Eve.
Watching Die Hard 1 or 2 near Christmas is a tradition for me. Have the Blu Rays, so planning on watching 2 on Christmas Eve.
This is such an accurate description of nearly every Christmas themed Hallmark/Lifetime movie. I'm dying.
I view Die Hard so much as a Christmas movie if it was possible I'd have a miniature Hans Gruber figure hanging from the tree as if he was falling.
People (well, that 1-in-5 based on the poll) in here probably think Home Alone isn't a Christmas movie either smdh. I don't even dare ask about National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
I mean you can poll anything over the internet.
Doesn't make it true.
Weak argument
It is absolutely a Christmas movie. It takes place on Christmas Eve, Christmas is a theme throughout, it's ultimately a feel good story about one cop finding redemption and forgiveness and another saving his marriage. That it's an action film is beside the point. A Christmas movie doesn't have to be some cornball romantic comedy or large muscular Austrian man looking for a toy. People can get shot in a Christmas film. And they did, many times, in the greatest Christmas movie ever made: Die Hard.
I love all these garbage Facebook polls that never seem to have polled anyone that anyone actually knows. Does anyone know someone who was asked about die hard?? Yet our poll is wildly different in the exact opposite way. 🤔
Its a Christmas movie and you'll never be able to take that away from me. I'll argue that one to my grave
I've only seen Die Hard once, but I don't think of it as a Christmas movie because there aren't enough memorable/iconic scenes revolving around Christmas. In fact, "I have a machine gun ho ho ho!" is the only one I can think of off the top of my head.
Feel free to call it a Christmas movie, but you'd have to be pretty daft to suggest that it's as Chistmas-y as A Charlie Brown Christmas, A Christmas Story, Grinch, or many, many other films.
Feel free to call it a Christmas movie, but you'd have to be pretty daft to suggest that it's as Chistmas-y as A Charlie Brown Christmas, A Christmas Story, Grinch, or many, many other films.
I thought Hallmark was a company that made really crappy Christmas cards. If that were my standard for a Christmas film I don't think I could imagine a film awful enough to qualify.
All that shows is that there are people in existence who think there's a serious difference between films that are appropriate to watch at Christmas and this mythological class of "Christmas films", which excludes films such as Die Hard for some reason.
It is not only unequivocally a Christmas movie, it's the GOAT Christmas movie. Now I have a machine gun......ho ho ho.
Not only a Christmas song, but the GOAT Christmas song
Not only a Christmas song, but the GOAT Christmas song
It is. Doesn't matter what Bruce Willis thinks. It's GOAT Christmas film. Not joking.
This is me as the dead brother in the elevator at an annual event my friends throw called "A Very McClane Christmas"
It is. Doesn't matter what Bruce Willis thinks. It's GOAT Christmas film. Not joking.
This is me as the dead brother in the elevator at an annual event my friends throw called "A Very McClane Christmas"
That is awesome and definitely a holiday tradition I can get behind.
A Christmas movie is a movie expected to be watched only at Christmas time, but not all movies that are expected to be watched at Christmas time are Christmas movies.
Die Hard is set at Christmas so it is expected to be watched at Christmas, but I think it's a movie that's really expected to be watched any time of year, but if you want to limit it to Christmas time ......
By unanimous RESETERA decision I have been declared KING OF CHRISTMAS.
AS KING
I hearby decree that DIE HARD is forever known as A CHRISTMAS MOVIE
ALL YE WHO ENTER HERE: REJOICE IN THE LIGHT OF CHRISTMAS! 🌲🌲🎄🎄🌲🌲
AS KING
I hearby decree that DIE HARD is forever known as A CHRISTMAS MOVIE
ALL YE WHO ENTER HERE: REJOICE IN THE LIGHT OF CHRISTMAS! 🌲🌲🎄🎄🌲🌲
Does this have any themes in line with a Christmas movie? It's always seemed to me like an internet meme that people embraced semi-ironically after the fact rather than it really being a thing. Is Iron Man 3 a Christmas movie as well?
By comparison, Home Alone at least has the themes to make it past that bar because at the heart of the film is sort of a twist on "It's a Wonderful Life" where instead of Kevin seeing how everyone would be if he was never around, he makes the wish for his family to never be there and then he sees how it would be to really be forgotten and them to not be around for Christmas.
By comparison, Home Alone at least has the themes to make it past that bar because at the heart of the film is sort of a twist on "It's a Wonderful Life" where instead of Kevin seeing how everyone would be if he was never around, he makes the wish for his family to never be there and then he sees how it would be to really be forgotten and them to not be around for Christmas.
As I said, Die Hard can only be excluded from the class of Christmas films if you apply arbitrary and nonsensical rules like "must be a film nobody wants to watch except at Christmas." What kind of garbage would that be? It would have to be an awful film.
You can watch any film any time of the year you want too, but a Christmas film is not expected, you know out of the norm, to be watched outside of Christmas time. I think Die Hard as a year-the-round film, but for some reason you "yes" voters want to limit it to Christmas time.
Never seen his Twitter before. that avatar is killing me :DDD
What does thinking Die Hard is a film, that is not out of the norm for it to watched year-round, have to do with being entitled to my own facts?
A Christmas film is called a Christmas film because it is not the norm, for it to be watched outside of Christmas time.
Now I have a machine gun, ho ho ho.
Just cos people don't think climate change is happening doesn't stop it from being a fact :p
Just cos people don't think climate change is happening doesn't stop it from being a fact :p
You're misrepresenting the position of others. You obviously know you're doing it.
This^.
I don't know how this internet meme started, but its not that funny anymore. Its a late 80s action flick. That's it. It's not a Christmas special.