Is Die Hard a Christmas movie?

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Upon my video shelf, it is filed in with other Christmas movies. In order for it to be considered anything else, I would have to file it amongst the action movies or sci-fi movies or children’s movies.

It’s right next to Rudolf the Red Nosed Reindeer…a Christmas movie!
 
See?
It’s a movie about Irish Republicanism, not a Christmas movie.
 
It’s a movie about a young man who’s the son of an executed criminal and has to overcome his bad past.

I believe the quote is said or written in the movie by Burl Ives playing a former judge of Irish-American ancestry who has fallen from grace and become a skid row alcoholic, but acts as a father figure to the young man and saves him from being killed by a gangster, dying heroically in the process.

When the movie came out, it’s likely there would have been a significant number of Irish-Americans in the audience who would have recognized the quote and known its source.
 
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F_Marturana said:
I’ve never seen “Die Hard”.
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you just never know when them russki spies is gonna show up . . .

Not having seen Die Hard is just as suspicious as knowing the 1955 National League runner up . . .

Years ago, we rented Sister Act and played it for my parents?

Remember the scene where as a young girl, she’s in the principal’s office?

My father immediately popped out with, “That’s not the principal’s office!”

He had quite extensive experience with the actual principal’s office at that school in that time period . . .

😱 😜 🤣
 
No and I hate those one man vs an army type films where the army wielding machine guns get killed by a man with with a bucket and a wet sponge.
 
To be fair, it was a big bucket and a really wet sponge. And it was John.

Machine gun armies could not overcome heroism.

So that’s why Die Hard is a Christmas movie tradition, despite lies, but lies, etc.
 
A friend posted this on Facebook:

Me: I like the Christmas movie where a man travels across the country to reconnect with his estranged wife. Everything goes wrong, but he manages to not just save the day but also win her heart back.

Robby: That sounds like one of Mom’s Hallmark movies.

Me: It’s Die Hard.
 
I get the feeling that people took me more seriously than I took myself…
but…
Die Hard isn’t a Christmas movie.
 
If it were not a Christmas movie, could I watch it every Christmas, while enjoying a pineapple pizza (which, as we can all agree, qualifies by definition as a sandwich)?
🍕 🍍 🥪

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