That's what makes it more meaningful and heart warming. Anyone can reunite with friends and families after an angel or a ghost or three helps them out. McClane had to serve up Christmas cheer with bullets and a quickly decorated dead body. Also, they were thieves like the villains in Home Alone, not terrorists.
I consider Batman returns to be a Christmas movie. I’ve never watched die hard, but if Batman returns is a Christmas movie then so should die hard.
Yes! That, and because it's one of Bill's best acting jobs. Saw Die Hard again, a Christmas tradition. What a wonderful holiday movie!
additional evidence https://www.outdoorhub.com/stories/2014/12/23/7-iconic-guns-greatest-christmas-movie-time-die-hard/
I watched Die Hard last night with my wife and two daughters. I can report that they agree that Die Hard is a great Christmas movie.
I don't understand why people argue against its classification as a Christmas movie Its a badass action movie that is so good it can be watched year round but its ALSO a Christmas movie. Its a movie about a man trying to spend Christmas with his family, it is full of Christmas music and references to the holiday and even takes place during a freaking Christmas party on Christmas Eve. There is no legitimate argument that it is not a Christmas movie other than the fact that its an action movie and they don't talk about "the Christmas spirit" or Santa Clause. If Die Hard isn't a Christmas movie because its 80% action and 20% Christmas then neither are Home Alone (20% Christmas 80% burglary), A Christmas Carol (20% Christmas 80% Scrooge learning about what a POS he is) and Its a Wonderful Life (10% Christmas 90% how awesome George Bailey is).
"Somewhere a snowflake named Clanton is slowly melting down, down to the realization that everything he every believed was a lie..." Spoken like Walton on a Mobile...
Rereading this thread, my biggest takeaway is that @percicles didn't see Die Hard until 2017. How is that possible? I also just learned that his moniker is not, in fact, "pericles" which is how I've pronounced it in my head for about 15 years.