But “Mother-frogger” sounds too dirty for a family-friendly movie.
Plus, Sam deserves his own vehicle after all these years. Even Gonzo got his own movie!
The 2019 series of A Christmas Carol (with Guy Pearce) is pretty dark. Not as dark as Die Hard, but with more molestation and sexual humiliation.
Wait, what?
I concur. Those are the Spirits of Christmas
Yep. I included the year without a Santa Claus, which isnt “bad”, but I watch it only for the Snow and Heat Miser songs.
I did above. Some supernatural elements. Being fort and formots about Christmas, and the Spirit of Christmas. I gave two definitions, and like i said- take your pick- if you like the first one- with elements of Christmas in the background of a Action film- then fine. Die Hard qualifies. It is certainly set during the holiday.
Not sure about the schmaltzy, but yes, Family friendly,
Eeven one of the scariest versions-A CHRISTMAS CAROL - 1984 with Geoge C Scott is just a PG rating, same with A CHRISTMAS CAROL - 1999. and Disney’s A Christmas Carol- which is kinda scary.
I’m being quite serious. You can check it out on Wikipedia or IMDB to get a plot summary.
Die Hard is not a Family Friendly Christmas movie. That’s a subcategory of all Christmas movies. Die Hard is still a Christmas movie though, because of all the previously stated and obvious reasons.
I anxiously await: Die Hard - The Lego Movie or Lego Dies Hard
Or a Godzilla themed redux.
He can drive a black SUV in his role as an FBI agent. 
Other roles:
The president of the company could be Fozzie Bear, whose good-natured bumbling stalls the bad guys long enough for Kermit to save the day. “Of course I have the vault codes!” he says as he drops his Rolodex and sends cards flying everywhere. “I think it’s this one! Oh wait, this is part of the stand-up act I’m working on. Where do they grow the best pizza ingredients? Nakatomato Plaza! Wakka wakka wakka!”
Gonzo would of course be the demolitions guy. We periodically cut to shots of him climbing into progressively larger cannons and shooting himself at the vault.
Instead of cutting all the phone lines to the building, the reason the cops take so long to show up is because Beeker is the dispatcher and nobody can understand his APB.
Hans Gruber should be an actor with serious dramatic chops, playing it absolutely straight and chewing the scenery like beef jerky.
I’m thinking Rizzo and/or Pepe for the limo driver.
Cameos would be police officers, Nakatomi staff, and various celebrities (as themselves) watching news coverage from their couches.
Muppet Die Hard.
I’d watch it.
Still not a Christmas movie.
Off the top of my head, at least three are not stage numbers. “Snow” takes place on the train to Vermont. “Count Your Blessings” occurs during a midnight snack. “The Best Things Happen When You’re Dancing” occurs when Danny Kaye and Vera Ellen are dancing at a night club. There may be others.
4 performers together for an extended period? They’re going to sing. Performers always perform for each other.
Ok, ya kinda got me on the other two. “Dancing”, especially. Very typical of a musical - throw in a big dance number.
Pah, by that criterion Bad Santa isn’t a Christmas movie, and that’s just crazy talk.
It isnt, and stop calling me Shirley. 
One thing is certain: discussing Die Hard is a holiday tradition that comes around at the end of every year…just like Christmas.
That is the “Christmas movie” genre. Other things are “movies set at Christmas” or “movies that subvert Christmas”, but neither of those are “Christmas movie” as a genre.
I said specifically “G” or “PG”, with the one “R” exception (because I don’t share the horror of nudity that US raters do). I’m happy to allow other R Christmas movies if it’s just nudity and language.
I guess what I’m getting at is that it’s violence, specifically, that I feel makes a movie not a Christmas movie.
And they made a horror movie of Winnie the Pooh. Just because a particular interpretation is dark doesn’t make the original or most interpretations not a Christmas story, just that version.
They all have it. A Christmas Carol always has its Tiny Tim, The Holiday and Love, Actually both have the dead mom, classics like It’s A Wonderful Life and " Miracle on 34th Street" are pure unadulterated schmaltz, and the less said about the schmaltz content of Hallmark Christmas movies, the better you’ll sleep at night.
Never seen it, so I can’t really say.
It might be an exception, like “Love, Actually”, which I’d watch with a 10 year old, or it might be too much for that kind of family viewing.
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It’s a feel good movie about a depressed mall Santa who befriends a neglected young boy and a Jewish woman seeking love, and with their help finds the true meaning of Christmas. With a lot of cursing, sex, and a little bit of violence.
So a movie about the Christmas Truce in WWI wouldn’t be a Christmas Movie, because of the violence just before and just after the truce?
Depends on if and how the violence, and the other horrors of the trenches, are depicted, but I’m inclined to think not, no.
So in your opinion, Christmas is for kids only?