Santa:
(from inside the bag) Haven’t you heard of peace on Earth and goodwill toward men?Lock, Shock & Barrel:
NO! (Burst out laughing.)
– From the Nighgmare Before Christmas, a Halloween movie that is a Christmas one too… 
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Die Hard ends with a man and his wife reconciling on Christmas.
Lethal Weapon ends with a man deciding not to kill himself after finding a good friend who cares for him, and tells said friend at a family Christmas Party.
Sounds good will promoting to me.
I believe you’ve mistaken White Christmas for its predecessor, Holiday Inn.
Nah, I’m talking about White Christmas. It’s technically set around Christmas, but the plot really has nothing to do about Christmas.
Except for the opening sequence being on Christmas Eve in Europe, 1944, and the closing reuniting the same troops from the opening on Christmas Eve ten years later. Where the four stars pair up and get engaged.
“Fellowship of men”, “good will on Earth”, and all that.
Some of you Scrooges are no doubt also mistakenly going to assert Groundhog Day is not a Groundhog Day movie.
It’s not then, is it? Any movie about someone living the same day over and over again could take place on any day. The movie just happens to take place on Groundhog Day, it’s not really about Groundhog Day and how long winter will last.
Proof it isn’t: You can change the day, and use the same idea. See “12:01”. Which came first, actually.
Just because the idea can be explored with other days doesn’t take away from the details that make Groundhog Day a Groundhog Day movie. Yes, the choice to make Phil a weather man and have the movie centered on Groundhog day is immaterial to one core idea for the movie. It serves as a way to place him and his crew in an unfamiliar town with unfamiliar people.
But having made that choice the movie leans into it and fully embraces the Groundhog Day spirit and shows how Phil eventually realizes, through the magic of Groundhog Day, how to be a better person.
I watch it every Groundhog Day before the ritual Groundhog meal.
You’re funny! I’m LOLing out loud!
Now we’re really bordering on blasphemy.
Is Batman Returns a Christmas movie?
Let’s see how many include an annual viewing part of their Christmas ritual.
The original saying is, “Peace on Earth to men of good will,” which has a totally different meaning and one much more applicable to Die Hard.
See, men (and women) of good will were having a peaceful Christmas party, when bad men of ill will showed up and ruined Christmas. So John McLane showed up, as if sent by God to restore peace at Christmas. He did this by alternately shooting and blowing up the men of ill will, so that the Christmas peace could be re-established.
Ho-Ho-Ho!
I saw this mentioned on The Hollywood Reporter website; John McTiernan, the film’s director, addresses the controversy.
I’d say it takes more than the ending. How you get there is important too.
But as a complete aside, would Die Hard still be considered a Christmas movie if the couple reconciles on Christmas just as the bad guys are about to mow them down?
I mean he saves good people from the bad people. Granted it’s far more violent than say Home Alone, but similar premise 
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As for the tragic reconciliation ending… that’d be really interesting. If done well I’d love it (though I tend to really like movies that have the balls to do an ending like that). Do Christmas movies require a happy ending? Would A Christmas Carol be a Christmas story if Scrooge comes to his reconciliation as he’s dying of a heart attack?
As Bruce Willis said, it’s still not a Christmas movie.
Reginald VelJohnson says it is a Christmas movie, even though – in his opinion – it didn’t start out as one.
I am envisioning a story that occurs one day when a Scrooge like character on Christmas Eve has a dream where he watches Die Hard, Lethal Weapon, and for some strange reason Ground Hog Day, and wakes up in the morning with a new understanding of Christmas movies. And then has the same dream every night until he gains a new understanding of the spirit and magic of Groundhog Day.