If your movie starts with Run DMC's "Christmas in Hollis" and ends with "Let It Snow" (one of the most famous Christmas songs) and the movie takes place on Christmas Eve and has a "Ho Ho Ho" in it ... you're in Christmas movie territory.
I don't think of it as being much of Christmas movie because hardly any of the most memorable scenes of the movie have anything to do with Christmas. It's the dead terrorist in the Santa hat and that's just about it.
Came to post this.
The creator of the gif pronounces it jif. Doesn't mean he's right.
Because It's a Wonderful Life could literally only take place at Christmas? Die Hard takes place during a Christmas party and that's a recurring theme throughout the film, but because it's an action film it doesn't count? Come on now.I just finished watching Die Hard for the first time last night and its just straight up unsettling that there are people who will claim that it's a Christmas movie. Just because the movie takes place on Christmas Eve doesn't mean that the movie is about Christmas. Die Hard could have taken place on any other holiday or occassion and the movie would still work without any major changes to the plot, but some people out there are still gonna call this a holiday classic just because John McClane put a santa hat on a dead terrorist.
Anyway, Die Hard is an awesome movie, but anyone who says it's a Christmas movie should never be allowed to watch it again. Yippie-ki-yay, motherfuckers.
Christmas means any number of things to any number of people, so much so that there's hardly anything specifically Christmas-y about anything Christmas-related if you remove the setting. And Die Hard is enjoyable to watch on Christmas, which is more than can be said for the vast majority of so-called "Christmas movies."I just finished watching Die Hard for the first time last night and its just straight up unsettling that there are people who will claim that it's a Christmas movie. Just because the movie takes place on Christmas Eve doesn't mean that the movie is about Christmas.
It doesn't mean anything beyond what anyone feels like it means, and most people agree that "jif" is clunky.
Because "gift" is already a word that is very difficult to distinguish from "gif" whereas "jiff" is not a word outside of a specific brand of peanut butter. GIF as "jiff" is so much easier to make sense of.The creator of the gif pronounces it jif. Doesn't mean he's right.
A very popular specific brand of peanut butter. We live in a stingy cutthroat world that appreciates good peanut butter; it's much more convenient to confuse "gif" with "gift" than "jif" with "Jif."whereas "jiff" is not a word outside of a specific brand of peanut butter.
Halloween is set during Halloween, but really it's just a movie about a psychotic escaped serial killer Instead of trick-or-treating and costumes.
So it's not a Halloween movie, right
Because "gift" is already a word that is very difficult to distinguish from "gif"
Bet. The overarching plot of the movie has little to do with Christmas. Though there's a little bit of Christmas peppered throughout the film, like when Al is singing Let it Snow, John is just a New York cop who was in the wrong place at the wrong time. He did his due diligence to stop a terrorist threat because he's a cop and it was his duty to respond when there's no local law enforcement in the building. The fact that it takes place on Christmas Eve (within the universe of the film) is coincidental and has no bearing on John's motivations to stop Hans and save the hostages.
Yeah because this thread isn't about Home Alone, it's about Die Hard.
I'm pretty confident in thinking that when John first saw the terrorists walking into the suite with machine guns he wasn't thinking "aw fuck, there goes my Christmas." Or for that matter, he could have given Al any Christmasy themed name like Nick or Rudolph, but he chooses Roy instead because of an old action/cowboy movie star.
I regret to inform you that Die Hard is no longer a Christmas movie.
I regret to inform you that Die Hard is no longer a Christmas movie.
I never thought I'd agree with a Trump on anything. Die Hard is building bridges!