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
If Die Hard is a Christmas movie,
then so is Rambo First Blood.
They should re-release Trading Places also, let people see a really funny movie.
You make a good point there.
Played by William Atherton, the best slime-ball actor ever!
Rap group Christmas song in the limo, there’s a Christmas party, “Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!” performed by Vaughn Monroe at the end.
Is.
Act on left, I don’t know at all. Actor in middle, I used to see him in many things, but don’t have his name.
Actor far right: Reginald Vel Johnson, later on cast of Family Ties TV show.
I had a thing for Bonnie Bedelia back in the day.
Is this true?
I think it’s, “come out to da coast…”
Summary of “Christmas Movies” up through comment #51:
Die Hard
Trading Places
Batman Returns
Gremlins
Donovan’s Reef
Rambo: First Blood
That’s what I understand.
"Airborne, huh?"
and...
"Those men wanted to have sex with me! They tried to bend me over this..."
LOL, don’t know, it was at a party and someone just interjected it...I did hear Bruce Willis is having physical issues.
Catches up to all of us sooner or later.
How ‘bout
Lethal Weapon? The first one. It opens with a drug bust and shoot out in a Christmas tree lot.
I am going to have to watch that movie again! Been a few years!
Don’t forget: GREMLINS is a Christmas movie too!!
It’s almost a perfect film. Never regret watching it. John McTiernan had a heck of a decade, starting with Predator, then this film, then The Hunt for Red October. Enjoyable, well-paced films with top-notch casting and snappy dialogue.
Omg! 😂
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