Better Christmas Movie: Die Hard or Some Other Movie

Schindler's List, fun for all the family.

Gremlins

One Of Our Dinosaurs is Missing.

it's bad santa

fuck Die Hard

i never make connection till today but home alone is die hard. yippee-ki-yay you filthy animal

Pop Cliché: Advanced Level

die hard 4eva

kiss kiss bang bang

Clearly Enemy of the State is the best XMAS movie.

The Miracle of Morgan's Creek
Eyes Wide Shut

morbs what's yr fave silent night deadly night?

Black Christmas

die hard is a fine movie, but the best christmas movie is still fanny & alexander.

^^^^ otm

lethal weapon

die hard is incredible and shakey mo is in dwayne t. robinson mode here, but i do think the best xmas movie is probably fanny and alexander w/a shout-out to the 1951 'a christmas carol' (the alastair sim on, the most genuinely creepy version of the story, up there with the spookiest tourneur flix) and i do love 'it's a wonderful life'

not saying these films are necessarily better than 'die hard' (maybe! maybe not!) but die hard's christmas elements aren't completely essential to the story in that the film could exist without them (not in my world, mind you, at this point they're probably inseparable elements.)

should do a poll on the polar express vs love actually: which film becoming a xmas classic horrifies you more

Home Alone tho

But imo die hard

Category of movies that become 'christmas movies' without having anything to do with christmas could be interesting

i've sat through maybe two dozen versions of scrooge (my ex's dad collected them) and yes, 1951 sim is the best one by a long way -- though the 1970 musical deserves a shout-out just for alec guinness's terrifying jacob marley.

"christmas movies" for me means just watching old movies on the TV, kinda bored of stations trying to make every flick they show have some christmas tie-in right now, gimme James Bond and The Great Escape ffs

Category of movies that become 'christmas movies' without having anything to do with christmas could be interesting

IAWL actually belongs in this category for me -- feel like it's become kind of a cliche to say this but even watching it as a kid i vividly remember being stunned by how bleak and sad it was.

I dunno who dwayne t. robinson is I just no Bruce Willis is insufferable

Ive s een three mins of 70s musical scrooge, the thangyewveeerymuch song, it has stayed with me always and i prob play it in my head, if not under my breath, each time i hear or think the phrase.

the muppets christmas carol is pretty good i thought.

Salo

pretty sure the definitive xmas carol is the rich little one

we're no angels, imo

Oh yeah incredible movie

Muppets awes also

surprised no mention of "a christmas movie" in xmas movie thunderdome.

Brazil

A Christmas Tale also an acceptable answer

Surely without the bleakness in IAWL, the redemption would not work?

Eyes Wide Shut

oh i see Dr Morbius beat me to it.

Home Alone is on right now. Buzz is such a dick.

And I keep wishing this was Uncle Buck but it's still cute.

Grinch

Home Alone is my pick

OG cartoon Grinch tho none of that Jim Carey shit.

Dayo AMC right now. It just started at eight!

Gremlins 4-ever

home alone was so my shit when i was a kid, that house + family was basically my fantasy life

so many of those chitown north shore homes are fuckin sweet. hughes flicks were aspirational real estate porn for a kid from the sticks like me.

The house is ridiculous. I was just thinking that before. It's enormous!

it's like the borg ship

We watched Some Other Movie in class today (guy thought the world would have been a better place without him). Haven't seen Die Hard, can't vote.

I don't have AMC E :(

But I've related before how you know, kids have that movie they watch every. single. day. when they are kids

Home Alone was that movie for me

oh yeah tbc I don't think it was intentional, just the de bont touch and something in the air

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qiOgpkNaR_E

Behind the Scene: Director John McTiernan on making the Christmas classic DIE HARD

I guess it’s because I’ve always seen this movie in a crowded room with alcohol, but the last viewing might’ve been the first time the “Happy trails, Hans” kiss off registered as a call back. Pretty great.

Hans Gruber : Uh, no, I'm afraid not. But, you have me at a loss. You know my name but who are you? Just another American who saw too many movies as a child? Another orphan of a bankrupt culture who thinks he's John Wayne? Rambo? Marshal Dillon?

John McClane : Was always kinda partial to Roy Rogers actually. I really like those sequined shirts.

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I mean yippee kay ay is repeated ten times

I mean... is that a Roy Rogers trademark?

Happy Trails is.

i’m with dmac but welcome to the club i guess lol

Lol I thought Y.K.A. was a generic cowboy thing. Ok, I’ll file this in the “things you learned when you were way too old” thread.

Heh

TIL

For Roy Rogers and Yippee-Aye-Oh-Kye-A see:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fagq3CgSe4A

The song was very popular, but it wasn't exclusive to Roy Rogers.

Haha, you guys embarrassed me into googling. It really isn’t a Rogers trademark.

My point wasn’t “oh, wow, he’s saying cowboy stuff and they talked about cowboys earlier!”, was just the preference for Rogers.

TIDL

lol

Come now this is splitting hairs imo

The French Connection is a christmas movie

The French Connection is a christmas movie

― Tracer Hand, Monday, November 29, 2021 9:21 AM (four years ago)

just watched the movie again and came here to post this

also I did not realize what a fucking idiot of a cop Popeye Doyle actually is

he'd be pathetic if he wasn't always _constantly getting people killed_ and/or actually killing other law enforcement officers himself

Am I watching three hours of Fanny And Alexander with my family this Christmas season or five hours of it

go big or go home imho

The first episode of the long version is the most ‘Christmassy’ thing I’ve ever seen.

https://i.ibb.co/BHVs9gRj/Screen-Shot-2025-12-18-at-9-22-54-PM.png

Watched "12 Monkeys" again last night, it's set at Christmas with lots of Christmas stuff (for a movie that has nothing to do with Christmas).

Night Of The Comet is an excellent Christmas movie. I recently read that the character of the younger sister, who spends most of the movie in a cheerleader costume, was partial inspiration for the character of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

It's worth watching Die Hard just to hear Alan Rickman say "Ho Ho Ho".

A work colleague turned up for our xmas lunch wearing a diehard t-shirt with this on, and i did my best every Rickman impression.

I was told yesterday that the score for Die Hard is entirely snippets of transformed Christmas carols and I’m excited to rewatch and listen for them

Cobra is a christmas movie.

Jackie Chan's Police Story is a christmas movie

We watched Scrooged last night - I'd never seen it before. And as I watched it, I came to this weird realisation that Bill Murray isn't all that much of an actor. He has a thing he does in every role I've seen him in - grumpy drunk uncle arsewipe who yells a lot, looking like he's trying not to laugh, who redeems in some dumb way at the end. And this film was a really over-egged version thereof. Very 80s, very cliched.

yeah but Bobcat Goldthwait is in it so it's automatically classic.

Yeah he was great in this, that is true.

and Alfre Woodard!

Well, and to be fair, Carol Kane as a gleefully violent fairy.

she’s incredible!
And KAREN ALLEN aka the human Christmas tree star

I kinda consider it a classic but yeah, one can hit their limit of Bill Murray

funnily enough I think Scrooged is the most Murray family-heavy film ever made, featuring four Murrays. Caddyshack only has three.

I demur about it being that family friendly given how often he calls someone a bitch, but 'twas the era I guess?

Scrooged is a good Christmas horror movie.

A Christmas Tale is devastating; it might as well draw blood.

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city on fire is a christmas movie

Throw Lethal Weapon in there too.

Tangerine and The Baltimorons are my two new favorite Christmas movies.

I love Scrooged; up there with Love and Peace which I didn’t realize was going to be a Christmas movie till it really leaned into it.

I want to see all the IBC Christmas lineup. Especially the Lee Majors saves Christmas one.

How had I never twigged the miles Davis cameo.

Yes I will probably be live posting to Scrooged. My wife and son are sick and I have this on whilst I clean house, wrap presents and prepare for having people over.

I love carol kane on this movie so much.

I love carol kane on this movie so much.

Can't watch Murray's speech at the end of Scrooged without ending up a weepy mess

Also might be time for a Baileys and my annual Love & Peace viewing

oh, could do a double bill with Big Man Japan, that sounds like a good time

I have made a drink with Armagnac and quince vermouth that gets called the ‘carol kane’ or the ‘goldthwaite’

Can't watch Murray's speech at the end of Scrooged without ending up a weepy mess

Mostly improvised it seems, and the director hated it. But agreed, it hits all the right notes.

Die Hard cheerfully passes The Bechdel Test before the opening credits have even finished.