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.
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Why do people think that Die Hard is a Christmas movie?
- Thread starter Ballpoint Ren
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That line wouldn't work at any other time of year, hence it is a christmas movie.
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.
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."
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.
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."
Did this post have the dead terrorsanta "now I got a machine gun" pic.?
Part of what made Halloween so scary is specifically because it's Halloween it allows Michael Meyers to walk around in the mask without people immediately freaking out and calling the cops or whatever. It's hiding in plain sight.
There is nothing instrically Christmas about Die Hard. Just like many Shane Black movies (Lethal Weapon, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Iron Man 3) use Christmas or the time around Christmas as a way to make the movie more visually appealing. The fact that it's Christmas is not even secondary to the narrative, it's tertiary.
I mean if a Christmas song and a joke or two about Christmas is enough for some people to view it as a Christmas movie then all power to them.
What.
I have literally never ever seen that complication arise for anyone ever.
Correct, it isn't a Christmas movie - everyone knows that term is used for ones where they usually revolve around "the magic of the season", the concept of santa or about giving, spending time with your family or whatever. Die Hard, Gremlins etc are simply set at Christmas and therefore better to watch at the time. But hey, it became a meme and so now you can't have any Xmas movie discussion without someone trying to be smart and argue over Die Hard.
Lets flip this around. What *does* make a Christmas movie to you? Doesn't that limit it to movies about Santa Claus? Otherwise anything just set at Christmas doesn't count. Its a wonderful life - nope he could have been sad anytime.
He's coming to visit his wife and they're clearly having issues/long distance relationship - she's a high flying exec, he's a down to earth NYPD cop. He's coming to visit because its christmas - its a fundamental point that is bringing them together. It creates a sense of expectation/duty to be with family and goodwill to all men etc so you put aside differences and make an effort to be together.
And then machine guns.
So it is a christmas movie because Christmas is the central catalyst for bringing all characters together in that location
Well the other clear dilenation is Die Hard 1 & 2 are Christmas movies, but Die Hard 3 is never billed as such ... because it clearly takes place during the summer and has no Christmas references.
Plot wise too don't the "terrorists" choose to take on the scheme on Christmas Eve because of lower security or whatever?
Plot wise too don't the "terrorists" choose to take on the scheme on Christmas Eve because of lower security or whatever?
Die Hard is shown on a main UK terrestrial/free-to-air television channel at Christmas, every year, without fail.
I imagine most of the UK population think of Die Hard as a Christmas movie, or at least make some association between Die Hard and Christmas.
Also it is a Christmas movie.
I imagine most of the UK population think of Die Hard as a Christmas movie, or at least make some association between Die Hard and Christmas.
Also it is a Christmas movie.
People saying "it's just a meme" are being disingenuous or ignorant. There were literally 20 years before the word "meme" even entered pop culture where Die Hard was regarded as a Christmas movie without much dissent at all.
Just curious as to what the definition of a Christmas movie is? If it has to be a film specifically about/applicable only to the Christmas period then I can think of a number of films that would automatically be disqualified. As others have said Home Alone, and also It's a Wonderful Life, probably the most 'Christmas' movie there is, are both films that are set around Christmas, have only the most tenuous link to it in terms of it relating to the plot, could easily be transferred to a different time of the year and yet both are very much classed as Christmas movies.
I appreciate this is a thread about Die Hard but if you're going to apply certain criteria to one film to decide if it's a Christmas film or not then the same criteria should apply to any others.
I appreciate this is a thread about Die Hard but if you're going to apply certain criteria to one film to decide if it's a Christmas film or not then the same criteria should apply to any others.
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If it wasn't Christmas the ending would be different. He straps the gun to his back with Christmas wrapping tape.
Not Christmas = no tape = probably dead.
Not Christmas = no tape = probably dead.
There are two kinds of people in this world.
Those who think Die Hard is a Christmas movie, and those who are wrong.
Those who think Die Hard is a Christmas movie, and those who are wrong.
I don't get why people get so upset by this. It's a movie set on Christmas so people consider it a Christmas movie. It's not a hard concept to understand and it's not worth crying about if you have some different abitrary standard for what a Christmas movie is.
It's about a cop at Christmas who misses his family and both he and his estranged wife learn the meaning of being together while in a building overrun by terrorists.
