Red Mosquito

Rangi Guy wrote:

@SkitchP wrote:Team Chud on this one. I think about 10 years ago, someone thought it would be cute to count Die Hard as a christmas movie on some facebook list or some shit, making people think it was a perfectly valid little joke to steal and somehow it gained legitimacy. It's bullshit. It's not a christmas movie. Hell, Die Hard 2 is more of a christmas movie.

Die Hard totally counts as a Christmas movie. It's about a man visiting his family at Christmas.

That's the setting. Not the story. It doesn't have a christmas theme nor is it central to the storyline.

A Christmas movie is whatever the hell makes you feel Christmassy.

@SkitchP wrote:

Rangi Guy wrote:

@SkitchP wrote:Team Chud on this one. I think about 10 years ago, someone thought it would be cute to count Die Hard as a christmas movie on some facebook list or some shit, making people think it was a perfectly valid little joke to steal and somehow it gained legitimacy. It's bullshit. It's not a christmas movie. Hell, Die Hard 2 is more of a christmas movie.

Die Hard totally counts as a Christmas movie. It's about a man visiting his family at Christmas.

That's the setting. Not the story. It doesn't have a christmas theme nor is it central to the storyline.

The hostage situation takes place during a Christmas party. There's Christmas all around that movie - from the music to the decorations in many of the rooms that scenes take place in....

ABNorman wrote:A Christmas movie is whatever the hell makes you feel Christmassy.

Agreed. Just because Die Hard's main narrative thrust doesn't directly involve Christmas themes doesn't mean it doesn't have the holiday's fingerprints all over it (Christmas decorations throughout the movie, the action taking place during an office Christmas party, the protagonist visiting his family for Christmas, ending with a Christmas song, the already discussed sleigh bell-heavy score).

Rangi Guy wrote:

@SkitchP wrote:

Rangi Guy wrote:

@SkitchP wrote:Team Chud on this one. I think about 10 years ago, someone thought it would be cute to count Die Hard as a christmas movie on some facebook list or some shit, making people think it was a perfectly valid little joke to steal and somehow it gained legitimacy. It's bullshit. It's not a christmas movie. Hell, Die Hard 2 is more of a christmas movie.

Die Hard totally counts as a Christmas movie. It's about a man visiting his family at Christmas.

That's the setting. Not the story. It doesn't have a christmas theme nor is it central to the storyline.

The hostage situation takes place during a Christmas party. There's Christmas all around that movie - from the music to the decorations in many of the rooms that scenes take place in....

don't forget about the teddy bear Christmas gift...

I mean, by your logic, Skitch, Black Christmas - a movie with the word "Christmas" in the title - would not technically be a Christmas movie either.

LoathedVermin72 wrote:I mean, by your logic, Skitch, Black Christmas - a movie with the word "Christmas" in the title - would not technically be a Christmas movie either.

Let's not bring race into this.

@SkitchP wrote:

LoathedVermin72 wrote:I mean, by your logic, Skitch, Black Christmas - a movie with the word "Christmas" in the title - would not technically be a Christmas movie either.

Let's not bring race into this.

Star Wars is a good Christmas movie.

The Ref

Batman Returns

Star Wars: Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back: The Two Towers

theplatypus wrote:Batman Returns

http://forums.theskyiscrape.com/viewtop ... 08#p246508

Hey if Die Hard isn't a Christmas movie, then why the fuck do they replay it on TV every year around Christmas time?

Fred Claus and Trading Places make the rotation sometimes in the d_v household. I'm sure as my little one gets older, some kiddy themed movies will start making the rotation too.

Emmet Otter is just fantastic

Sgt. Crackpot wrote:Hey if Die Hard isn't a Christmas movie, then why the fuck do they replay it on TV every year around Christmas time?

Because they replay it on TV all year?

E.H. Ruddock wrote:Emmet Otter is just fantastic

Indeed -- the River Bottom Nightmare Band was just hitting its groove back then before it sold out.

Scrooged

What's everybody's Christmas movie cut off? Christmas Eve is the last time I'll abide a Christmas movie.