Jeopardy declared Mayim Bialik is a good host, and a lot of dopers disagree with that. So, not settled. 
Die Hard is a Christmas movie, and Mayim is a good host. There, that’s settled.
Not only is Die Hard a Christmas movie, Lethal Weapon is also a Christmas movie!
I still wish she had got the job they gave Ken Jennings.
Does it come with a pet cockatoo?
Only one cock. Not two.
Tis the season to resurrect this thread. Happy Holidays!
Still not a Christmas movie.
Still watching it on Christmas eve.
Must we have this tired discussion every year? of course Balrogs have wings!
The better question: is It’s A Wonderful Life an action movie?
No, but it’s a pretty solid science fiction movie. Time travel and alternative histories? Toss out the angel and put in a flux capacitor, and you’ve got Back to the Future, I II and III.
Great Scott!
" That’s it! Out you two pixies go… through the door, or out the window! "
George punches out Burt the cop.
Mr Welch punches out George.
George heroically dives into freezing water to save his brother and Clarence.
Burt shoots randomly into a crowd.
Signs point to a qualified…YES.
Also, car crashes into tree.
OK I just watched a new Christmas action movie. Russian Roulette a 1975 political assassination thriller with George Segal. It involves Russian dissidents, KGB, assassins, a brave and resourceful RCMP officer who has to unravel a complex plot despite disbelief and no support from his superiors or the federal agencies. It ends with a shootout on a tall building where the head bad guy falls to his death. All in the days before Christmas, with decorations and Christmas music.
Add it to your playlist!
Die Hard isn’t a Christmas movie, but Lethal Weapon is. And Ghostbusters 2 is a New Year’s movie.
Ah…the two certain harbingers of Christmas: the Hickory Farms pop-up store, um, pops up at the Mall, and the annual bump of this thread.
Yes, I say it is a Christmas movie.
Is this a Christmas thread, or just a thread that happens to get bumped every Christmas?
It’s A Wonderful Life is a mediocre time travel/alt history movie, but it’s a pretty decent neo-noir and Donna Reed is an underrated femme fatale.
Die Hard is definitely a Christmas movie, and the vault scene set to Mozart’s “An die Freude” is the most celebratory Christmas scene on film. The sheer joy of Theo in cracking the electromagnetic door lock and opening the drawers with the bearer bonds is like a small child getting exactly that they wished for. And there is an argument that the film is an unacknowledged sequel to A Christmas Story.
“Welcome to the party, pal!”
Stranger
Well, overlooking that it’s a little early, yep, still a Christmas movie. I’ve been seeing these calendars that reveal a 3D sculpture as you pull each day off, and the first thing I thought was I want the Nakatomi plaza that reveals Hans Gruber in December.