The best christmas movie!
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Yes, and so are The Long Kiss Goodnight and Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
I thought this was a closed deal? Of course it is a Christmas movie.
...melon farmer.
heck yeah, it's a christmas film. the whole thing is based around a christmas party and is all about love
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I remember the 90's TV censored edit was "Yippee Ki Ay, Melon Farmer!"
The most recent time I watched the TV version it was, "Yippee Ki-yay, my friend".
I was doing the B99 version
No, we all do not.
Not really.
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Okay, step away from the crack pipe, and nobody gets hurt.
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.
Sure, but just because a movie happens to play around Christmas time doesn't really make it a Christmas movie.
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In as much as home alone and Batman is a Christmas movie.
Indeed. It’s perhaps the only Christmas movie.
the best classifier i've heard is "christmas movies are movies you would feel weird watching any other time of the year".
Yes it is. Just like how The Shawshank Redemption is an after New Year's movie.
Die Hard is awesome, but I've always liked The Ref too.
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.
Do we really have to do this every year?
Yes, that's what Christmas is for.
I find the topic exhausting because Did Hard is obviously a Christmas themed action movie (and I believe that qualifies as a Christmas movie), but everyone really making a stand about it is sort of being cringe. I don't really know how to explain it. It's like they're acting like it's so wild and crazy to say, like they've found some weird loop hole. I think it's this weird tone of the discussion that leads to the pushback. Because, while it's definitely a Christmas movie, it's not like super Christmas-y. The Christmas aspects could easily be edited out and the movie would still make sense.
Technically it is set during Christmas, but it's not about Christmas. But a movie tons of people like to watch at Christmastime is a Christmas movie.
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Die Hard is not a Christmas movie!
Die Hard is a Christmas Eve movie.
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