It happened to be on TV one Saturday afternoon when I was wrapping presents. It made the time go quickly. When it was over, I had finished wrapping and didn’t even notice.
The next year, I saw it on the TV listings and thought I would wrap again that day. After that, I just did it every year (having acquired the movie in an appropriate home media format). Now I am older, I also drink a bottle of wine while I do it.
It’s the best day. I bet I have been doing it for 20 years.
Nice, it sounds like a good tradition!
By the time I finish wrapping my presents the room looks something like a battlefield…
Today’s AV Club article?
Nope. It was released in July. It’s a summer blockbuster.
Didn’t Miracle On 34th Street come out in May?
:: looks askance at my favorite Thailand resident ::
Come on. The violence in these two movies is on a completely different plane of existence.
What, this movie? What about that makes you think it’s a Christmas movie?
Come off it, it was the groovy year of 1947, no one was so square as to want to see a Christmas movie.
The police shoot at George as he flees. There are harlots, for goodness sake!
I remember going to see Die Hard 2 in the heat of Summer, but we quickly got caught up in the Xmas spirit. Esp since the theater cranked up the A/C making it wickedly cold while watching. I wondered at the time if that was a condition for showing the movie. Going back outside to find my car was a total let down.
Release date: July 4, 1990 according to wiki
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An alternate reality, created solely for un-person George Bailey. 
Like Zaphod and the Total Perspective Vortex
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But it’s there! For everyone to see!
That’s the beauty of it! It doesn’t DO anything!
So Christmas Vacation is not a Christmas movie?
Christmas Vacation only says fuck once so it is only PG-13 and it is allowed to be a Christmas Movie
Die Hard is R and has too many cusses to qualify
Explain Silent Night, Deadly Night’s ho-ho-horror.
I’d say that shrieks ‘Halloween’ if anything, but each to their own.
And Die Hard is clearly a Christmas movie - it’s set at Christmas, and like a dirty-vested cop, saves us from drowning in saccharine.
Actually, it was written in 1850 by James Lord Pierpont (1822–1893) to be performed in a local church’s Thanksgiving Pageant. It was published under the title “One Horse Open Sleigh” in the autumn of 1857.
Actually it is about an estranged father/husband trying to get back to his **family **at Christmas time with the terrorist act taking place during a **Christmas **party all on Christmas Eve. There is Christmas music and decorations.
I absolutely count it as a Christmas movie and I think it is one of the best.
Read an interesting article on the wiki about It’s a Wonderful Life. It was never supposed to be a Christmas movie, was released in the summer and did terrible at the boxoffice.
I would say Die Hard was a WINTER movie but not a Christmas one, unlike the 12 versions of A Christmas Carol.
I’ve never had the Die Hard Christmas tradition, so I voted no. However, I feel like I should start it.