Just as he did in 2020 when interviewed by Ben Mankiewicz. This matter has long been put to bed.
I didn’t realize until reading your post this year was the tenth anniversary of this thread.
I’d say not really.
The fact that the events of Die Hard takes place on Christmas Eve is incidental: The movie would play out the same if the holiday was Easter, Thanksgiving, Halloween, or The Fourth of July.
Very few elements of Christmas other than ornamentation and decoration factor into the plot.
If you argue Die Hard is a Christmas Movie, then I argue “It’s a Wonderful Life” is Science Fiction, since a major plot device is crossing over into an Alternate Reality/Parallel Universe.
OK, I have no problem with you arguing that.
I’d say that it’s more like fantasy, since it makes no claim that the crossing-over has any scientific explanation.
Hmm, did anyone get my point that Carroll originally told the story to the Liddell sisters while traveling down the river near Oxford on the Fourth of July in 1862.
“It’s Halloween, Theo. It’s the time of miracles.”
Would there be an office party for those holidays?
The events only happen because the office building is deserted except for the office party. The exceptional thieves have a small group to control and cover their escape.
The out of town policeman altered the plan.
Unless the Alice books take place on the 4th of July (and I’ve read 'em twenty times, so I would be surprised to learn they did. Surprised, indeed!) this analogy does not hold up.
I think the books have as much to do with the Fourth of July as Die Hard has to do with Christmas.
LA during the 80s?
The chance for the “beautiful people” to consume alcohol and hit on each other?
They’d throw a party commemorating the invention of moth balls!
Tis the season to bring this thread back for some holiday cheer. “Now I have a machine gun. Ho Ho Ho”
Tonight’s double feature, Die Hard and Trading Places. Merry New Year!
Eleven years later, and still not.
Now I’ll go watch the movie about the true meaning of Christmas, Lethal Weapon.
Of course it’s a Christmas movie. That’s why we have a Hans Gruber Falling from the Nakatomi Tower Advent Calendar.
I guess I’m the only one who thinks it’s not a Christmas movie.
hello? Is this thing on?
I’m glad not to be the only one. It takes place at Christmas, that doesn’t mean it’s about Christmas.
It’s a Christmas movie. Always has been. Christmas time, Christmas theme. Director, screenwriters, actors (except BW who’s out of it); all agreed it a Christmas movie. There. Settled. Go back to arguing about UFOs, Flat Earth, and Dan (not D. B.) Cooper.
j/k not being mean
ps It’s always in the rotation with Reindeer Games and Violent Night.