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44% of people don’t consider Die Hard to be a Christmas film. Macaulay Culkin agrees. Absolute scenes.

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IcyPuddles · 01/12/2025 23:38

Come on, it’s set at Christmas and it’s integral to the plot. More evidence of the social and
cultural decline of this once great nation.

38% do, for the record.

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ComedyGuns · 02/12/2025 22:04

We watched it for the first time last Christmas Eve. What a load of rubbish - it’s now Try Hard in our family!

ThisLittlePony · 02/12/2025 22:01

LittleJustice · 01/12/2025 23:56

I watched it for the first time on Saturday night and I completely agree it is totally a Christmas movie. I whacked my partner every time a Christmas decoration appeared as he is in the other camp 😅

It is Christmassy throughout.

Skills McGills and copying!

AwfullyGood · 02/12/2025 22:00

It's no coincidence that 49% of people are below average intelligence. 🙃

BelloMinions · 02/12/2025 17:49

weaselwords · 02/12/2025 17:23

My Hans Gruber falling from the Nakatomi building advent calendar, makes it a Christmas movie.

We also have one of those. 😎

WaffleParty · 02/12/2025 17:39

It’s a Christmas film. Who cares what Macaulay Culkin thinks. He’s not Santa or Noddy Holder so had no authority on what is or is not Christmassy.

strugglingwithlife · 02/12/2025 17:29

Potatoelephant · 02/12/2025 11:16

Goodness, I didn’t know that 😢

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Me either. That's heartbreaking 😞

weaselwords · 02/12/2025 17:23

My Hans Gruber falling from the Nakatomi building advent calendar, makes it a Christmas movie.

BartholemewTheCat · 02/12/2025 16:30

Christmas film. HTH.

Potatoelephant · 02/12/2025 11:16

NoWordForFluffy · 02/12/2025 09:40

It's about Tony's brother's suicide. It's not a Christmas song. It was made into a Christmas-sounding song.

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Goodness, I didn’t know that 😢

myblueskirt · 02/12/2025 09:46

Xmas movie.

NoWordForFluffy · 02/12/2025 09:40

Potatoelephant · 02/12/2025 06:29

Stay by east 17 is a Christmas song. It doesn’t mention Christmas but does have some Christmassy bells

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It's about Tony's brother's suicide. It's not a Christmas song. It was made into a Christmas-sounding song.

Billybagpuss · 02/12/2025 09:29

McCauley Culkin thinks playing a kazoo and trying to sing badly sings about pizza makes him a musician. I don’t necessarily trust his opinion on this one.

JustHereWithMyPopcorn · 02/12/2025 09:12

zaxxon · 02/12/2025 06:24

Die Hard is super sentimental, though. When he's not crawling over broken glass to hurl dynamite down a lift shaft, John McClane is agonising over how he can get to see his kids at Christmas and patch up his broken marriage. At the end, when he reunites with Hollie, the film-makers deliberately have bits of office paper floating down after the explosion, like snow. 100% a Christmas movie.

Exactly! THIS is why it's a Christmas film.

PodMom · 02/12/2025 09:08

Die Hard was released in July 88, maybe they should have released it in December

ForeverScout · 02/12/2025 08:45

This year's challenge though will be to watch the "not a Christmas movie" movies with the Hallmark bingo sheets and see how many squares I can tick off. I'm willing to bet it'll be just as many as the Hallmark ones 😊

ForeverScout · 02/12/2025 08:43

Die Hard is just as Christmassy as the forced drivel of Hallmark. I say that while still quite enjoying watching them still, but come on. Christmas is not restricted to all happy-joy-learn-a-lesson-fall-in-love-in-fake-snow. Maybe cos I live in NZ so Christmas is usually hot and sunny or hot and wet, grew up swimming at the beach Christmas arvo so don't relate to the dominance of winter Christmas, and one year my grandfather died on Christmas Day so spent the afternoon at the hospital saying goodbye to him. My first look at a dead body age 11 right after Christmas lunch, that was festive.

So I'll watch the classic Christmas films, the Hallmark crap with a bingo sheet, the randoms that were always on like Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, and films set at Christmas like Die Hard and Gremlins. All are Christmas movies and I'll enjoy them all because Christmas isn't just one thing.

strugglingwithlife · 02/12/2025 08:19

Not a Christmas film

RobinTheRed · 02/12/2025 08:18

It is a Christmas movie, set at Christmas with a soundtrack that lists all Christmas songs. John is trying to get to see his daughters on Christmas eve. He attends a Christmas party.

It was originally released in July but that is peak summer holidays for the US where all schools are off for summer (May-August) and to be honest I have seen it in summer and it is weird watching Christmas stuff in summer.

You can even get a Hans falls off the tower advent calendar which is epic.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Christmas-GWAWG-Countdown-Interactive-Decorations/dp/B0CJ2T9CPX

Amazon.co.uk

Amazon.co.uk

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Christmas-GWAWG-Countdown-Interactive-Decorations/dp/B0CJ2T9CPX?tag=mumsnet&ascsubtag=mnforum-am-i-being-unreasonable-5453371-44-of-people-dont-consider-die-hard-to-be-a-christmas-film-macaulay-culkin-agrees-absolute-scenes

zaxxon · 02/12/2025 08:06

The real scandal of this survey is that 9% voted for Love Actually as their favourite festive film, when in fact it is a big pile of pants

Mylittledrum · 02/12/2025 08:01

Planesmistakenforstars · 02/12/2025 02:26

It is definitely not a Christmas film. Lethal Weapon and Gremlins are both set at Christmas too, and are not Christmas films.

Haha, gremlins IS a Christmas film! Well in my own brain categories it fits into Christmas. Maybe Christmas horror genre? Me and my mum watched Silent Night Gory Night one Christmas, another Christmas horror.

And my partner has a Die Hard Christmas jumper, so that settles it heh.

i wonder what defines a Christmas film to people?

DeanElderberry · 02/12/2025 07:58

Yippee-ki-yay

NamelessNancy · 02/12/2025 07:54

Of course it's a Christmas film. I've never heard such nonsense. Broken Britain.

Mumsknot · 02/12/2025 07:47

Who are these people they asked?

namechangedforthisone90 · 02/12/2025 07:42

Why are you so interested in what MC thinks ? How odd!

Not an xmas film imo

BelloMinions · 02/12/2025 07:34

Planesmistakenforstars · 02/12/2025 02:26

It is definitely not a Christmas film. Lethal Weapon and Gremlins are both set at Christmas too, and are not Christmas films.

Gremlins is definitely a Christmas movie

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