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Calling Die Hard a X-mas movie is a stretch.

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  1. Joe Joe

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    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.
     
  2. StupidMoniker

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    Die Hard 2 yes, the others, no.
     
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    "It's Christmas. You could steal City Hall."
     
  4. StupidMoniker

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    'Twas a figure of speech. The kids were in school and it was clearly hot outside.
     
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    LOL, y'all wild.
     
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    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.
     
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    Merry Christmas everyone

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    WHOA . . . let's set the record straight, "Let's close that chapter."

     
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    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!
     
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    ANY movie made around Christmas, is inherently a Christmas movie. It can not be more simple.
     
  13. Os Trigonum

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    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.
     
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    Are you talking about the filming or the plot taking place?
     
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    Reported
     
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    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).
     
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    bump for relevance
     
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    "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...
     
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    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.
     
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