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Die Hard is Christmas movie.

Die Hard II is better than Die Hard.

Don't @ me.

I'm in the "it's a great movie but I don't care" category of people that are tired of hearing about this stupid debate.

Honestly because of AVGN.

So it is now a Christmas movie.

Stop fighting it.

Calm down man. Can’t believe a guy in his 40’s is so worked up about this

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The singular criteria for a movie being a Christmas movie is that it is about Christmas. Christmas has to be THE central theme of the movie.

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It's a Wonderful Life says frick you and your criteria.

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You are the people who try to keep prayer out of schools.

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You were doing so well until this point.

We don't live in a theocracy. If it's acceptable to say a christian prayer in schools when christians are in the majority, surely you'd have no problem saying Islamic prayers if they get a majority. Shintoic prayer if they become the majority. Or a hindu prayer if they gain a majority.

No? Color me shocked.

Shintoic?

Keep that nasty language out of here

It's a Wonderful Life isn't about Christmas either and when they make it a Christmas movie, it sort of cheapens the film.

The one scene at the end which takes place during Christmas and public television playing it non-stop during Christmas because it was free and in the public domain has convinced people it's a Christmas movie.

Hell, you could argue more passionately it's a religious movie or an Angel movie.

The one thing that makes It's A Wonderful Life supporters of a Christmas movie is the end which is interpreted as "Christmas spirit" when the townsfolk all bail George out of his predicament. But they do so because he bailed them out...it was quid pro quo, not Christmas spirit. It's a Wonderful Life has such deep themes of a young man's dreams and then reality punching you in the face and being bogged down in living a life not extraordinary...to not travel, see the world, to feel like you got jipped.

I don't care really if people think it's a Christmas movie but pigeon-holing it as such takes away from what the movie really is and what it isn't and that's certainly not a movie where Christmas is a theme...nor was it ever intended to be thought as such.

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Just because you get a nostalgic feeling watching die hard every Christmas doesn’t make it a Christmas movie.

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Nope. That isn't what makes it a Christmas movie.

The writer has said it's a Christmas movie.

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Why do some of you insist Die Hard isn’t a Christmas movie?

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Hipsters.

It's what they do. They find something obscure that people enjoy, they latch onto it and pretend they discovered it, then when it's too "mainstream" they move onto something else.