Why Die Hard is NOT a Christmas Movie

If I have to hear one more uppity asshole claim that Die Hard is a Christmas movie, I am going to lose my mind. This is not an argument on whether Die Hard is a good movie because I think Die Hard is a fantastic film. I mean Bruce Willis fighting a bunch of Germans with classic German, bad guy names is a movie plot I can get behind.

The idea that Die Hard is a Christmas movie is solely based on that it happens on Christmas. By that same reasoning, since Pearl Harbor happened during Christmas season then it is in fact a Christmas movie. See that sounds dumb as hell. Okay fine, it happened on Christmas day, but it still involves little to no Christmas references. The real problem here is that a company had a Christmas party on Christmas day! I like my coworkers just as much as the next guy but I do not want to spend a break from work with the people I see 40 plus hours a week.

Next lets go to the release date. The release date was July 15, 1988. I don’t know about you but that is quite literally the exact opposite of Christmas. Die Hard is heralded as a “Summer Blockbuster”. Does that scream Christmas? That is a Die “Hard Pass” from me.

MC