In the same way that tomatoes are fruit and bananas are berries.
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Bruce thinks it’s a Bruce Willis movie.
… he gets a pass.
What are we agreeing in?
My dad was arguing that it wasn't because being set at Christmas isn't enough, and said a bunch of things typical of a Christmas movie to have; while I countered with a list of things that happen in Die Hard that met his criteria.
"Someone needs to receive a gift."
"McClane was gifted a machine gun."
"There needs to be a miracle."
"It's a miracle John survived."
"It needs to capture the feeling of Christmas."
"Have you never spent time with your relatives at Christmas? It feels just like being held hostage at Nakatomi Plaza."
Haha this is very funny.
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I think its important to establish why it's a Christmas movie. I consider it one not just because it's Christmas time in the movie but because it's heavily Christmas themed the entire movie. For this exact same reason I think other movies also fall into this category like gremlins and terrifier 3.
Never understood where that came from. Definitely not a Christmas movie for me.
The set up for the plot is that everyone is at a holiday party, in addition the cops were slow to respond because of the holiday (Hans Gruber planned for this). Without xmas, the date of the attack would have been different and a special someone whould not have been in the building either.
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The whole McClaine takedown of the terrorist is a Xmas miracle
If the only thing a Christmas movie takes is being set on or around Christmas, Batman Returns and Eyes Wide Shut are Christmas movies. Oppenheimer has a Christmas scene, is that a Christmas movie too? Clearly there's a line somewhere.
Mean girls... Christmas movie.
That's not the only reason, it literally is about a family man trying to reconcile with his family for Xmas, there's a Grinch trying to ruin the party, a Xmas miracle, let it snow, let it snow, let it snow. It's Christmas Theo.
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Wrong. As I have said in a similar conversation:
I’m going to argue that Die Hard is NOT a Christmas movie. It’s simply a movie where the events within it, happen to take place around Christmas time.
Die Hard is to Christmas movies what Top Gun is to romance movies, or what Casablanca is to war movies. Just because it contains a thing, doesn’t mean it’s about said thing.
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There are 2 kinds of people, those who say die hard is a Christmas movie, and those who are wrong.
I just think it's a nondenominational winter season celebration movie.
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...melon farmer.
heck yeah, it's a christmas film. the whole thing is based around a christmas party and is all about love
Every scene in this movie is a work of art. It's so rare for a movie to check as many boxes as this one does so perfectly. it has humor, a love story, action, Alan Rickman, a heist, and most of all Christmas!
Happy holidays everyone! Hoping you can all get together and have a few laughs with your loved ones.
Astonishingly, that was also Rickman's movie debut
No, we all do not.
Not really.
Die Hard is awesome, but I've always liked The Ref too.
Absolutely. There can be zero disagreement on this.
Since we can all agree that "The Wrong Trousers" is the best Christmas film, I think that "Die Hard" is a Christmas film is a no brainer.
The Straight Lads need a film they can be emotional, bond over, and feel festive joy.
Indeed. It’s perhaps the only Christmas movie.
The best christmas movie!
I'm not sure if I have ever even seen it fully
Every movie that's set during Christmas is a Christmas movie. I'm watching Eyes Wide Shut with my wife tonight
No.
That's like saying Flight Club is a movie about soap.
Yes, and so are The Long Kiss Goodnight and Kiss Kiss Bang Bang