Serious question. Do you really consider Die Hard a Christmas movie, or are you just trolling? It seems like this topic cropped up about 5-10 years ago, for no reason whatsoever, and it just seems so silly.
I will not die on this hill, but Die Hard is absolutely not a Christmas movie for the following reasons:
- It was released in July, obviously not Christmas season.
- Christmas was not a central part of the plot, only a small element of the plot.
- it’s not traditionally shown around Christmas, at least on the stations that I watch.
- It was never promoted or themed as a Christmas movie.
- It’s not really family friendly. You wouldn’t sit down and watch it with your 5 year old kids. “Yippie Kiyeah Motherfucker”
- None of the sequels were even remotely associated with Christmas.
We could go down the list of lots of movies that could be a Christmas movie, but somehow this one always makes a lot of conversation. What about Gremlins?