Posted on 12/26/2019 5:17:19 AM PST by EyesOfTX
Can’t ANYTHING be non-political nowadays?
Yes, Diehard is a Christmas movie.
No, Diehard isn’t political analogy.
Leave one of my favorite movies alone and let me enjoy it without seeing Nancy Pelosi’s face superimposed on any of the bad guys...
Classic!
It’s meant for a generation of people who grew up differently.
It doesn’t make any difference when you were born or how you grew up. Die Hard may be a good movie about a make believe hero who never really existed but, it’s simply just that, a movie. Christmas is about the birth of Jesus, a true superhero who saved the world. He actually physically existed. It’s interesting how much effort is directed in not making movies about Him, even at Christmas.
Uh....no.
You killed your argument with your own post.
An honest businessman would have returned the $8000 immediately.
It’s totally a Christmas movie. It’s a Christmas movie for people that can’t stand the saccharine pap that passes for Christmas entertainment. That’s how a friend of mine introduced me to it. It was coming on Christmas time and I was complaining how awful the entertainment of the world gets this time of year, with Burl Ives crap fests, and the teary BS. And he said “watch Die Hard”. Great advice. There actually is a pro-family message in the movie. And it’s probably the most technically perfect action movie ever.
It’s no more cultural rot than all the other Christmas movies. Actually it’s much less. Because 90% of the “traditional” Christmas movie Die Hard is actually a good movie.
“And although “It’s a Wonderful Life” is a great movie, it makes an honest and good businessman, Potter, into a villain. Sure he takes the $8,000 and attempts to shut down Bailey, but Bailey gives loans to people that don’t qualify and puts his other clients into jeopardy. Potter rents out “shacks” but they do have a choice of bettering their lives.”
So, wait, Potter didn’t threaten stockholders by stealing bailey’s $8,000.00?
Wow.
I suggest you get smart on what happened during the stock market crash depicted in the film
You compare a successful multi generational family loan company to our contemporary democrat politicians taking middle class taxes and giving them away to welfare recipients who turn around and vote for Democrats when the should not be allowed to vote if they are not working as the conflict of interest threatens tge middle class backbone of this country?
Ok. George Bailey and his family and stockholders were in business to make a living and improve the community. There is always risk
The threat you see in the film was the Great Depression, when the every man for himself mentality was the threat which George fought off
Potter was in for himself, stealing the Bailey stockholder money during the depression.
Potter is Paul Si nger, driving entire towns into the ground, taking care of his greedy stockholders who pretend they’re not responsible for turning the community into pottersville or worse. Allowing the government to have to come in with middle clas tax revenue and support the irresponsible for generations while people like him and bought-out senators pay single digit loopholed tax rates
And Die Hard is a Christmas movie
I don’t really care for the traditional Christmas movies either, I find them rather boring. I’m not a devout Christian either, but the entire American Christmas experience disgusts me more each passing year with all the hypocrisy.
Sears sells DieHard brand to Advance Auto Parts for $200 million:
Well then you should embrace the Die Hard movement. Because a lot of what that’s all about is ditching the American Christmas experience for your own custom made version. It’s really a flag to wave that says “I’m not into that commercial American Christmas that’s all about debt and bad movies and crappy music and overcrowded malls. I’m going my way.”
Hmm well...I see the point, but I still understand what the actual Christmas holiday is, and I respect the idea of it. Making up my own perverted celebration of Jesus birth is too cynical, even for me.
Die Hard is on its way to being ruined because of this cliche that it’s a Christmas movie. Give it enough time, it’ll get its own 24-hour marathon just like A Christmas Story and before long nobody will care to watch again due to over-saturation.
Just like the sub-prime financial scam...except the banks were forced and Bailey did it of his own free will.
Home Alone is also a Christmas movie.
This yr, for the first time, I watched A Wonderful Life and didn’t like it at all.
They talked too fast, the first part was slower than molasses, and he treated his kids like crap.
The wife actually said..... George, why do you have to torture the children?
No way - "The Ref" was the best Christmas movie ever made (besides "Christmas Story").
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