Annual Xmas movie argument has started, help me settle it once and for all!

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YANBU - Die Hard is an action movie that happens to be set at Xmas therefore does not count as a xmas movie

YABU - Die Hard is obviously a Xmas movie!

Every single year me, my ex, all the kids and my DSis and BIL all argue (good naturedly) about this!

I’ve been having the same argument with one of my friends for about 15 years. I say it’s not he says it is but this was on Bruce Willis comedy roast

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A Christmas movie is whatever reminds you of Christmas. No matter what the plot or genre is.
Ghost stories always remind me of Christmas in the early seventies, as the BBC used to put them on every year.

I refuse to accept pineapple belongs on pizza!!

I agree …… but your position on Die Hard makes you a statistical outlier

Exhibit A, m’lud. The homepage of my Disney+ app.

The case rests.

Torn on this. I do think the combined pressures on him because "it's Christmas" - and the fact he's scampering round in a vest in freezing December kind of add overall to the feel of film so I do reluctantly think it has to be classed as a Christmas film.

I don't personally find it very Christmassy - or good- but each to their own. I do class Gremlins and The Odessa File as Christmas films- partly setting, partly because I've always watched them at Christmas.

I did enjoy Die Hard the first time I saw it but I personally didn't find it really stood up to a rewatch. I napped through it. I don't really feel the need to rewatch it any time soon but DH likes it so I will. I can rewatch John Voight chasing Nazis endlessly though! Our Christmas eve tradition is watching OF with gluhwein and a party tea of German-ish Christmas goodies from Lidl.

It's a Christmas film. It's set at a Christmas party, on Christmas Eve. Christmas is crucial to the plot, therefore it is a Christmas film.

Oh I recall that series of BBC ghostly stories in the 70s, they were fabulous, especially the one where there was a dinner party and suddenly 'outside' didn't exist! If they were to make those today they would need half an hour of warnings that some people may be upset, by watching a ghost story!

Re BBC ghost stories, just found them on YouTube, including The Stone Tape. I may brave them later tonight.

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It's a feel good, family reunion Christmas movie set at Christmas time with lots of Christmas decorations and trees in lots of shots? Plus Bruce Willis. Who's basically the perfect man. He is also on record saying he thinks it's a Christmas movie and it's bad form to disagree with Bruce Willis. And he's in a vest.

It was thinking like this that made me watch pooka. Candy canes, cute bear. Nope.

Also a Thanksgiving film autoplayed after it that was disturbing.

He writes HOHOHO on a dead body..of course it's a Christmas film! Also watch Gremlins asap 😁

And I like your username. I don't think many people have seen that film.

Die Hard IS a Christmas movie.

End of discussion.

I agree with you and Bruce Willis!

No.

Die Hard is about a man trying to get home to see his wife and child at Christmas.

His journey is hindered by terrorists,

Thought that was Ptang Yang Kipperbang ?

obviously similar though 😁

There are more, excellent new ones! Mark Gatiss has been adapting stories by the likes of MR James as A Ghost Story for Christmas on BBC for the past few years. I think last year’s is still up at the moment on iplayer.

Die Hard is a Christmas movie I watch it every year while wrapping presents. Everyone knows that Santa can't start delivering presents till Hans Gruber has fallen from Nakatomi Plaza.

Christmas movies a normally soapy, but yes Home alone is for example the movie of my childhood. Forever classic Love Actually. And ofcourse the movies about Jesus's birth! There should be just love sharing and no violence should apply!

Christmas Chronicles 1 - Kurt Russel is Santa and it’s a feel good story too - win win

This is what I came here to say. For me, it's a Christmas movie if Christmas itself is important to the plot - as in, if it wasn't Christmas the film wouldn't have happened. This absolutely makes Die Hard a Christmas movie, as the whole thing is about a Dad trying to get to his kids in time for Christmas. But Home Alone could easily have been about any family holiday away from home. Therefore Home Alone is not a Christmas movie. Or at least, not as much of a Christmas movie as Die Hard. I realise this may be even more controversial 🤣

Well it depends whether you think 'Christmas movie' means a movie that's actually about Christmas or a movie that lots of people watch at Christmas (probably because Christmas vaguely fearures in it somewhere). I think it's a Christmas movie.

My username is part jack rosenthal play and part because at the time I was reading a lot of biographies by N.Korean defectors!

Bruce Willis himself said in many interviews it isn't a Xmas movie