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

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.

 

Die Hard 2 yes, the others, no.

 

"It's Christmas. You could steal City Hall."

 

'Twas a figure of speech. The kids were in school and it was clearly hot outside.

 

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.

 

Merry Christmas everyone

 

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

 

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!

 

additional evidence

https://www.outdoorhub.com/stories/2014/12/23/7-iconic-guns-greatest-christmas-movie-time-die-hard/

 

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

 

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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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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"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...

 

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.