Posted on 11/28/2023 7:17:02 PM PST by DoodleBob
Die Hard is heading back to theaters for the holiday season.
Originally released in 1988, Die Hard is a bloody action movie that happens to be set on Christmas. Every year, fans debate over whether they consider the film to be a genuine Christmas movie, or just a film that happens to be set on Christmas, with some arguing that there's a big difference between the two. In any case, per AMC, it's been announced that Die Hard is coming back to theaters for this year's Christmas season, set to hit the big screen for a limited time starting on Dec. 8, 2023.
The debate has waged on for many years. Last year, the city of San Diego declared Die Hard to be the "greatest Christmas movie of all time" in a social media post. Die Hard's very own Bruce Willis mentioned the debate in his Comedy Central roast in 2018, joking, "Die Hard isn't a Christmas movie, it's a g*ddamn Bruce Willis movie!" As this was said as a joke, it's hard to gauge Willis' true opinion, but the actor's mother, Marlene, has said she's adamant that the film is not a Christmas movie.
Die Hard's Director Says It's Up to Fans to Decide
"If the audience decides they want to make it a Christmas movie, it’s a Christmas movie," Die Hard director John McTiernan also said of the debate last year on the Empire Film podcast. "It turns out that way. It wasn’t intended as a Christmas movie, although the fact that it was deliberately built around Christmas – but not intended to be a Christmas movie. But the fact that it was a Christmas movie had a lot to do with... it’s politically pretty strident. And the only reason that survived was that the people in the studio who would have stopped that were deceived, because they thought it was just an action movie about a Christmas party that goes wrong."
Die Hard starred Bruce Willis as John McClane, a New York detective who gets caught up in a terrorist takeover of a Los Angeles skyscraper on Christmas Eve. The film also starred Alan Rickman, Alexander Godunov, Bonnie Bedelia, and Reginald VelJohnson. Based on Roderick Thorp's novel Nothing Lasts Forever, the film was written by Jeb Stuart and Steven E. de Souza. John McTiernan directed.
Advance tickets for Die Hard's return to theaters can be picked up at AMC's website. To check out the classic film at home, it's currently streaming for free on Tubi, and it's also available to watch on Hulu.
Source: AMC
Oh, LOL
Bruce Willis doesn't say anything anymore. 'Twas good to see Moonlighting finally released for reruns last month.
That’s what I believe.
What about “Batman Returns”?
“Come out to the coast. Have a few laughs.”
If Trading Places is, then so is Batman Returns.
…and Gremlins.
It was a purely secular holiday.
Which should not have been a surprise considering it's author.
And "The Muppet Christmas Carol" is the best version and I will fight you over that. :)
Yippy kai yay, it’s a homecoming Christmas movie with a better RV than Christmas vacation.
That’s very true
It at least showed a changed man
That’s what I enjoyed
I still like the Peanuts Christmas 🎄
Likely it is a secondary Christmas movie. It has Santa and a lot of ho, ho, hoes.
Oh yeah, I forgot about “Gremlins”.
But I can also quote Luke two, verse one through forty so I guess there is symmetry.
John McClane Is Santa. Holly, helper elf for Santa tells Lucy “we’ll see what Santa brings us”. He arrives by air carrying a toy. A large stuffed bear. His reindeer, Argyle, in his limo/sleigh, takes him to where he is needed to provide the group ultimately a merry Christmas. He provides his family with Santa - bringing Lucy the bear by way of Argyle and his sleigh/limo
Is Trading Places a Christmas movie, too?
Of course!
“Bruce Willis said it is NOT a Christmas movie!”
Whether he said this or not, he did not write it.
It 100% IS a Christmas movie.
Every main storyline in Die Hard depends on it being Christmas.
Therefore it is a Christmas movie.
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