discussion Is Die Hard a Christmas movie

[xurbec]

If it is set in or around Christmas then its a Christmas move

 

[azobo12]

defiantly

 

[Frodo]

Why in the f... should be a Christmas movie?
Its not.

 

[Deleted member 207685]

I know in Europe for some reason it is.

 

[Jantio1999]

Does it play during christmas? It's been so long ago that I last saw it...

It's such a movie you watch when the TV is on, we haven't had TV for 20 years or so...

 

[HTYYHRK]

Any movie that uses a specific holiday as it's setting and that setting is important in some way shape or form is a movie for that Holiday. The original Die Hard is a Christmas movie.

Does that make The Hebrew Hammer simultaneously a Christmas, Hanukah and Kwanza movie?

Somebody explain to me, why Die Hard is a christmas movie

It's set during Christmas, the main character rekindles his relationship with his estranged wife through the magic of Christmas and explosions, and he channels his inner Santa by giving gifts to all the bad guys in the building (the gifts being bullets).

 

[Arachel]

Does that make The Hebrew Hammer simultaneously a Christmas, Hanukah and Kwanza movie?

It's set during Christmas, the main character rekindles his relationship with his estranged wife through the magic of Christmas and explosions, and he channels his inner Santa by giving gifts to all the bad guys in the building (the gifts being bullets).

Never seen it, if all those holidays specifically influence the plot or set the scene intentionally rather than as a happen stance then sure. Something that just moves through the calendar year and it just happens to be a holiday does not count. If Die Hard didn't NEED to be set during Christmas and it just happened to be Christmas it wouldn't have been a Christmas movie. If it wasn't Christmas then the entire plot of Die Hard would have feel apart since the crowds and the holiday directly influence the situation that's in addition to trying to reconcile with his wife Holly at her office Christmas party. The minor things like the the Ho Ho Ho message on the dead terrorist wouldn't by itself make it a Christmas movie as that'd simply be a reference to the Holiday and not integration of the Holiday.

 

[maraschouche]

Not only is it a Christmas movie, it's my FAVORITE Christmas movie

 

[bullshtm]

More Christmas movie than Kevin Alone!