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Where is THE Christmas movie, Die Hard?
And yes, it's totally a Christmas movie on any objective metric. Just because people act realistically doesn't disqualify it from the rest of what is mostly low quality Christmas slop :-)
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Of course, you need to include the ultimate Xmas movie "Hardware".
Yes it is a Xmas movie, transparently -- the (spoiler alert) rampaging robot was ultimately a Xmas gift.
Best Xmas movie ever. After all, it features:
Lemmy as a taxi driver, who says to his passengers: "You like music? Check these guys out" while slamming a cassette / cartridge / whatever into the music player of the cab, out of which Ace of Spades comes roaring;
Iggy Pop as the (unseen) DJ Angry Bob, who bookends the entire movie, playing an Iggy Pop number;
Carl McCoy as the zone drifter who starts the whole trouble in the first place;
a soundtrack by Hans Zimmer, including Ministry and Public Image Limited, as well as the above classics.
Beware of downloading an online version, because the soundtrack has been changed to anodyne synth-pop, completely ruining it.
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@MaxiTB in part 1: https://thedailywtf.com/articles/christmas-in-the-server-room
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Oh, I missed that one when I was doing family birthday visits. Thx!
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Die Hard is NOT a Christmas movie!
It's a CHANUKAH movie! Think about it -- heavily armed foreign invaders take over a building but a tiny poorly-armed force sneaks in to get rid of them. That's EXACTLY Chanukah!
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And I bet that five-digit code is the same as on President Skroob's luggage.