re: Is Die Hard a Christmas movie?

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There are a million reasons why it isn’t. People who say it is are dumb or trolling.

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Id love to hear the argument that makes home alone a Christmas and die hard not.

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Id love to hear the argument that makes home alone a Christmas and die hard not.

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This

Is Home Alone a Christmas movie?

Because Die Hard is adult Home Alone.

No.

It’s a movie set at Christmas time

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Gremlins

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See above

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Id love to hear the argument that makes home alone a Christmas and die hard not.

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I’d say the Christmas themes in Home Alone are a lot more prevalent than in Die Hard.

I mean other than the movie Die Hard taking place during an office Christmas party and the Ho-ho-ho reference, there isn’t anything Christmas at all.

Home Alone has much stronger Christmas themes from the start when the family is going on Christmas vacation, to all of the Christmas visuals such as the neighborhood with Christmas lights and snow, him hiding in the nativity scene, watching the Grinch on TV, playing “Rocking Around the Christmas Tree” while setting up the diversion, playing the Christmas music in the van with John Candy, Kevin meeting Santa Claus telling him instead of presents he wants his family back, Kevin going into the church with the choir singing Christmas music and talking with the old man, even the theme song has sleigh bells in it.

Die Hard seemed to just happen to take place during a Christmas party whereas Home Alone made Christmas an integral theme in the movie.

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Home Alone has much stronger Christmas themes from the start when the family is going on Christmas vacation, to all of the Christmas visuals such as the neighborhood with Christmas lights and snow, him hiding in the nativity scene, watching the Grinch on TV, playing “Rocking Around the Christmas Tree” while setting up the diversion, playing the Christmas music in the van with John Candy, Kevin meeting Santa Claus telling him instead of presents he wants his family back, Kevin going into the church with the choir singing Christmas music and talking with the old man, even the theme song has sleigh bells in it.

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You could move the setting to Labor Day or Fourth of July and nothing really changes in home alone.

The entire reason John McClain is in LA is to visit his estranged wife and kids for the Christmas holiday. The events in the movie bring him and his wife closer albeit in an unhealthy fashion, But can we really argue that Kevin leaves the events of home alone without PTSD?

Both of the sets of villains plan around christmas.
Songs: you missed run dmc, let it snow and the song they play when the vault opens.

Both movies use Christmas as a plot devise.

Yes

Hey numbnuts, the writer/creator of the Die Hard universe says it is.

ESPN link

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But the argument was reignited this summer when Detective John McClane himself, star Bruce Willis, at the end of his Comedy Central roast, said, "Die Hard is not a Christmas movie. It's a goddamn Bruce Willis movie."

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Clearly that was in jest.

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Because the man who created the world of "Die Hard," screenwriter Steven E. de Souza, said it was a Christmas movie. He has said it many times, in many interviews and in many tweets, including this one, where he even made a handy chart to compare "Die Hard" to "White Christmas":

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Link to the tweet.

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You could move the setting to Labor Day or Fourth of July and nothing really changes in home alone.

The entire reason John McClain is in LA is to visit his estranged wife and kids for the Christmas holiday. The events in the movie bring him and his wife closer albeit in an unhealthy fashion, But can we really argue that Kevin leaves the events of home alone without PTSD?

Both of the sets of villains plan around christmas.
Songs: you missed run dmc, let it snow and the song they play when the vault opens.

Both movies use Christmas as a plot devise.

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I don’t know... if you got up to pee real quick and missed the Ho-ho-ho elevator part of Die Hard, you’d probably forget the movie has anything to do with Christmas at all.

Whereas with Home Alone, it’s Christmas scene after Christmas scene throughout the whole movie.