Film Is Die Hard really a Christmas film...

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Without the nostalgia you probably won’t enjoy it half as much as the rest of us.
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You’ve never watched fecking Star Wars!!!! I know I’m speaking from a glass house here, but that the smeg? :)

I have found that watching old movies from the 70s and 80s brings that nostalgia feeling regardless of having seen it before or not. Like there’s a style of film making that’s been lost, the technology used or something. So I see a film made like they were made back then and it takes me back to sneaking into the living room after bed time to watch movies on late night tv my mother would never have allowed. Saw night of the living dead, escape from New York, strips, and countless others sneaking around the house at night and watching with the volume on low. 80s movies take me right back to that. So I should be ok with home alone now.

Hopefully :D
 

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No more than The Great Escape is, I suppose. We usually watch Lord of the Rings over Christmas as well as Scrooge, with Alastair Sim. Might do something different this year and watch Bleak House with Diana Rigg and Denholm Elliot. OK, it's made for TV but its a superior drama done by the same team that did Tinker Tailor and Smiley's People. I'm saving Red Beard for New Year's Eve.
 

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Hans Gruber: The author-turned terrorist who led the attack on the Nakatomi Plaza building
On Christmas Eve 33 years ago, he died a criminal, but perhaps Hans Gruber should've been remembered for something else...

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I watched the first Lethal Weapon recently and it was much more of a christmas film than Die Hard in my opinion.

Pretty much every second line was someone wishing the other person Merry Christmas it has Jingle Bell Rock as its opening theme, there are set pieces among Christmas Trees and the overall arc is the main character turning from being suicidal into becoming a changed man embracing others as his friends
 

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Will probably watch Die Hard, Home Alone & National Lampoons during the next few days to get me into the festive mood.

Also Entrapment (Sean Connery and Cath Zeta-Jones :drool:) as we head into the new year..
 

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GueRed said:
Will probably watch Die Hard, Home Alone & National Lampoons during the next few days to get me into the festive mood.

Also Entrapment (Sean Connery and Cath Zeta-Jones :drool:) as we head into the new year..
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Dont forget Batman returns.

whats more "Christmasy" than a hot blonde falling to her death onto a Christmas tree light switch
 

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Die Hard totally is an Xmas film. As is the second one.

Every year we watch Die Hard and Muppets Christmas Carol almost to the exclusion of any other Xmas film.
 

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Never seen Die Hard.
But I know I shock a lot of people when I say I don’t think Home Alone is a Christmas Film.

Just because it’s based around Christmas doesn’t make it a Christmas film in my eyes. One of the Harry Potters is at Christmas time isn’t it? Doesn’t make it a Christmas film.
 

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Hernandez - BFA said:
Never seen Die Hard.
But I know I shock a lot of people when I say I don’t think Home Alone is a Christmas Film.

Just because it’s based around Christmas doesn’t make it a Christmas film in my eyes. One of the Harry Potters is at Christmas time isn’t it? Doesn’t make it a Christmas film.
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And what does make a film a Christmas film?
 

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And what does make a film a Christmas film?
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Something that has a genuine “Christmas spirit” behind it, as cheesy as that sounds. Home Alone is just about a boy boobie-trapping his home against burglars.

Anything with the overall theme encapsulating Christmas.
 

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Hernandez - BFA said:
Something that has a genuine “Christmas spirit” behind it, as cheesy as that sounds. Home Alone is just about a boy boobie-trapping his home against burglars.

Anything with the overall theme encapsulating Christmas.
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Its not about a mother doing everything she can to be with her son on Christmas then? Or an old man reuniting with his family for the first time in years because its Christmas? Kevin booby trapping the house to catch some burglars is only one part of the movie.
 

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Hernandez - BFA said:
Something that has a genuine “Christmas spirit” behind it, as cheesy as that sounds. Home Alone is just about a boy boobie-trapping his home against burglars.

Anything with the overall theme encapsulating Christmas.
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I thought so. Each to their own but schmaltzy feel good stuff does very little for me and shouldn't be a prerequisite.
 

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Carl said:
Its not about a mother doing everything she can to be with her son on Christmas then? Or an old man reuniting with his family for the first time in years because its Christmas? Kevin booby trapping the house to catch some burglars is only one part of the movie.
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I’ll be honest, it probably doesn’t help that I don’t rate the Home Alones. So I’ll probably come from a biased/bitter view admittedly.
 

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Withnail said:
I thought so. Each to their own but schmaltzy feel good stuff does very little for me and shouldn't be a prerequisite.
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Exactly. Bad Santa's is a good example. That's not festive feel good, but undeniably a Chrismas movie.
 

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Hernandez - BFA said:
I’ll be honest, it probably doesn’t help that I don’t rate the Home Alones. So I’ll probably come from a biased/bitter view admittedly.
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Ahhh I geddit. You're one of those that likes to be contrary against popular stuff just because it's popular. Makes sense now. You should have said that from the start.
 

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Carl said:
Ahhh I geddit. You're one of those that likes to be contrary against popular stuff just because it's popular. Makes sense now. You should have said that from the start.
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I mean, it’s probably the only highly controversial opinion I have. But if you want to generalise my general views based on my opinion on one film, then all good.
 
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