Yes it is. Just like how The Shawshank Redemption is an after New Year's movie.
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No, because I have never watched it.
Why Die Hard is a Christmas Movie:
- there's a grinch who spoils the party
- "You're, uh...?" "Clay. Bill Clay." (checks directory to see if naughty or nice)
- need help? call a plump do-gooder (the cop at the donut shop)
- anxiously expecting a vehicle to land on the roof
- "It's Christmas, Theo! It's the time of miracles, so be of good cheer!"
- a good guy climbs down the chimney / elevator shaft
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Haters will say this is fake:
Gremlins is also a Christmas movie.
So is Mortal Kombat from the 90s. It’s all about people fighting to be number 1. Just like Christmas shopping.
the best classifier i've heard is "christmas movies are movies you would feel weird watching any other time of the year".
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No, we agree that “Die Hard is a Christmas movie” is a fun proposition to entertain, either because it’s edgy and freaks the mundanes with its audacious disregard for cherished norms, or (more recently) because it’s a fun meme, with own line of commercially available ugly Christmas sweaters and knowingly ironic greeting cards. Though the meme eventually will become so overexposed that quoting from Die Hard on Christmas will become as basic and mid as dressing up in a Santa costume and drunkenly making an arse of yourself with several hundred similarly attired dudes.
I like to pretend that John McClane is Santa trying to get gifts to the hostages.
It is literally set at a christmas party. Without christmas, that movie doesnt happen
That’s a glib technicality, but not sufficient to make it a “Christmas movie” in the usual sense. The Christmas party is a plot device, and could have been replaced with a different one without significantly altering the plot of the film.
The Muppets Christmas Carol is my favourite Christmas movie.
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My wife claims
- die hard is not a Christmas movie
Yet
- the sound of music is
She's so gorgeous but sometimes I just don't understand her.
It's about a man at a Christmas party that has gone incredibly wrong. It's a Christmas movie
I mean if a movie like It's A Wonderful Life can be a Christmas movie, despite most of it not having anything to do with Christmas, then so can Die Hard.
The real Xmas movie is Eyes Wide Shut
You NEED to download the 35mm scan.
Fucking distributors did Stanley dirty cleaning it up for release. It was under exposed and overdeveloped on purpose to make the film grain pop.
What’s the best way to sail the seas for this?
I just checked torrents and looks like this one isn't a point and click adventure, sorry.
Gonna need to figure out Usenet which typically includes at least 2 paid services, a Usenet provider and an NZB indexer and then a client to download with. not really worth it for a single thing but absolutely pays for itself if you totally replace streaming services.
A provider really is location dependant but I can totally recommend nzbgeek.info as a great indexer.
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One of my friends had this take on it:
Die Hard can't be a Christmas movie because Die Hard is actually good.
To me, Die Hard is a Christmas movie because it is set on Christmas Eve. I don't think it technically counts as a Christmas movie, but that just makes me consider it a Christmas movie even harder
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Bruce Willis would disagree
Bruce is senile, can't be trusted
Die Hard, the grade school musical?
subtract chrismas from the plot: you have no chrismas party filling a finished floor of the office tower with future hostages; you have no cross-county traveling hero to save-the-day. becomes a six page script and an easy in-and-out for snape and co.
The last thing it seemed like many perceived they had in common was Tiger King.
Now it's support for murder as a necessary means of change.
This is progress.
Yippee Kai Yay, motherfucker.
Now it’s support for murder as a necessary means of change.
Violence wasn't necessary, it was the only means available. If those in power want to peacefully negotiate, then they must make it possible.
“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."
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Hell yeah! Of course, best Christmas movie ever. Multicasting it over the corporate network since last Monday and won't kill the process before 2025!
now i've got a machine gun ho ho ho!
Even Plex agrees:
What We Left Behind made me feel idk. I loved seeing everyone again and some of the background info, but part of me wants to forget i ever saw it.
I don't know why, i love DS9. My next rewatch would be the 9th.
I was hyped for the documentary and couldn't wait to get to see it.
Missed Sisko.
Edit: on topic, i think Die Hard is Santa's favorite christmas movie - but really only the first one.
I’m kinda in the same boat. I think Ira is a really talented creator and producer but he’s got that tried to hard theatre kid vibe at times. Like, love him and don’t doubt his sincerity in the slightest but yeah, bit navel gazey.
I think Die Hard 1 & 2 both qualify for Christmas films but the first one is obviously superior for sure.
Yes, along with the dress being blue.
Okay, step away from the crack pipe, and nobody gets hurt.
No and I'm tired of people pretending it is. Now, Gremlins on the other hand.
I'd say they both have equal standing. Diehard couldn't happen. If it wasn't for the corporate Christmas party and Grimlin's because of the poorly thought out, last minute Christmas gift.
