Someone left a comment in my last movie post saying that A Nightmare Before Christmas was less of a Christmas movie than Die Hard.
I take exception to that. Die Hard is more than just a better Christmas movie than Nightmare. Die Hard is one of the most Christmas movies ever.
It belongs at the top of the Christmas movie hierarchy.
Think about the plot at the most basic level.
A husband and father starts the movie alienated from his family because he is over worked. He goes through a struggle that forces him to confront his situation with his family and learn that the true meaning of the season is being with the ones you love.
There are countless movies with this same plot structure.
Jingle All The Way is a 1996 Schwarzenegger Christmas movie where the struggle is dad getting the perfect sold out gift on Christmas Eve.
The Santa Clause is a 1994 movie staring Tim Allen as an overworked toy salesman who struggles with the fact that he is now Santa Clause.
Die Hard is the 1988 movie staring Bruce Willis in which the struggle is terrorists taking over the building owned by his wife’s employer during their Christmas party.
It is in every way a classic Christmas Movie plot, just with European bank hijacking terrorists instead of annoying children.
If The Hallmark Channel and El Rey Network got together to make a Christmas movie, I doubt the plot would be much different.
Also, if anybody wants to add their favorite blogger to their Christmas list, I really want a machine gun.
It doesn’t feel like the holidays until you see Hans Gruber fall off the Nakatomi Plaza.
If the Nightmare Before Christmas is *less* of a Christmas movie than Diehard, that means Diehard is *more* of a Christmas movie than TNBC, which the rest of this post seems to be trying very hard to prove. Therefore you’re taking exception to something you agree with?
See the update.
Sadly this Secret Santa will have to wait until he wins the lotto. Then he will have to fulfill his own belt-fed fetish. In the meantime check out the C&Rsenal You Tube channel and for a look into restoring/rebuilding some interesting weapons, check out Mark Novak’s Anvil You Tube channel.
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“If The Hallmark Channel and El Rey Network got together to make a Christmas movie, I doubt the plot would be much different.”
And that is the game ender right there… LOL
Okay, I should have said ‘Die Hard is far more of a Christmas Movie than TNBC’. Linguistic inaccuracy plagues me some days, and today it is in full force 🙂
And I agree 100% with the analysis. DH1 and DH2 are two of my all-time favorite holidays movies.
So where does Lethal Weapon come in on the Christmas Movie list?
Below Bottom since the Director is an anti-gun freak.
Lethal Weapon is more of a buddy-cops type of flick.
What about “A Christmas Story”?
Never seen it… at least not front to back. Seen a few of the “best” scenes that people rave about and pop out on TV around this time of the year, but never had the urge to see the whole thing.
Now, Gremlins? There’s a holiday classic. 😉
But we know you are weird anyway 🙂
Never claimed otherwise. 😀
I see it once a decade… maybe a Score. Yes, it goes in the list