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

[IcyPuddles]

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.

Gremlins is 100% a Christmas film! We watch it every year!

Die Hard is not part of my Christmas tradition however I am happy to accept that it is a Christmas film for many

It’s not a Christmas film because it could be set at any time of year and would still work, it lacks Christmas music and doesn’t have a specific Christmassy feel good factor.

Die Hard 2, however, is definitely a Christmas film. More outdoors, where the snow plays a specific part in the plot, everyone is travelling to see family for Christmas (so you get the feel good factor of everyone being home for Christmas) and the Christmas music is more obvious in the soundtrack. Plus, as a bonus, there’s more of a focus on working together to succeed.

It absolutely is.

The time of year it's set aside, the score is definitively Christmassy. There's sleigh bells, brass, woodwinds, all with a very festive tone.
And there's at least 4 actual Christmas songs.

That just means you've not written a very good book

Christmas film!

Guess we could tell Culkin that Home Alone isn’t a Xmas movie either then. Does he think it is? I mean it’s just set at Xmas but it’s actually a movie about breaking and entering 😀

It's a movie set in December but absolutely not a Christmas movie.

Why is that different to home alone for example, it's just a random story based around the Christmas period.

Gremlins is definitely a Christmas movie

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

Not an xmas film imo

Who are these people they asked?

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

Yippee-ki-yay

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?

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

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

Not a Christmas film

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.

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 😊

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

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

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.

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

Xmas movie.

Goodness, I didn’t know that 😢