# The best Christmas movie ever: "Die Hard"

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [December 7, 2017, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-christmas-movie-ever-die-hard/803827 "2017-12-07T20:15:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\
**Post date:** [December 9, 2017, 7:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-christmas-movie-ever-die-hard/803827/61 "2017-12-09T07:10:52Z")

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It most certainly IS a Christmas movie, but Alas! not the best one. That would be _It’s a Wonderful Life_.

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**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\
**Post date:** [December 9, 2017, 7:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-christmas-movie-ever-die-hard/803827/62 "2017-12-09T07:27:43Z")

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> [@Projammer](#):
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> It’s just not Christmas until Hans Gruber falls off the Nakatomi Plaza.

“He only flies on Christmas Eve!”

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**Author:** ![elbows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b3f665/32.png) [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)\
**Post date:** [December 9, 2017, 9:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-christmas-movie-ever-die-hard/803827/63 "2017-12-09T09:24:36Z")

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> [@FoieGrasIsEvil](#):
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> “He only flies on Christmas Eve!”

“Gramma’s chewing through the restraints!”

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**Author:** ![ExTank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/35a633/32.png) [@ExTank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ExTank)\
**Post date:** [December 9, 2017, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-christmas-movie-ever-die-hard/803827/64 "2017-12-09T14:04:47Z")

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> [@elbows](#):
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> “Gramma’s chewing through the restraints!”

I’m sorry but I have had it! I have never heard of such a Christmas! Sex… and drugs… an-an-and women being set on fire!

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**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\
**Post date:** [December 11, 2017, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-christmas-movie-ever-die-hard/803827/65 "2017-12-11T00:10:03Z")

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Seems like, with the preponderance of Xmas movies on the Hallmark Channel, the odds are good that one of them is the greatest Xmas movie ever made.

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**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\
**Post date:** [December 11, 2017, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-christmas-movie-ever-die-hard/803827/66 "2017-12-11T00:29:09Z")

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> [@Biffster](#):
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> Yeah, it’s weird. My Favourite Things is about how to calm yourself down during a thunderstorm. No mention of anything even remotely Christmassy about it.

Well, it certainly has a winter-time feel to it, with mentions of sleighbells, snowflakes, “silver-white winters,” and mittens. (Yes, it has non-winter imagery, too, but that dominates for me.) And, with that, packages tied up with string; yeah, I could see it being construed as “Christmassy.” (I personally don’t consider it a Christmas song, just like I don’t really call Die Hard a Christmas movie, and I don’t really consider “Linus and Lucy” a Christmas song, but they all culturally are, whether I like it or not.)

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