Title: Is Die Hard a Christmas Movie or Not?
Headings: One Last Time, Here's Why
Die Hard
Is a Christmas Movie

One Last Time, Here's Why Die Hard Is a Christmas Movie
Holiday songs, Santa jokes, festive cheer and machine guns—what more do you want?
Is Die Hard a Christmas movie? Answer: no.
Is Die Hard a Christmas movie? Answer: yes!

Content: They have to argue that Die Hard fails to incorporate non-setting features of a Christmas movie—in other words, not only is Die Hard ’s setting not enough to call it a Christmas movie, none of its storylines, themes, or structures place it into this genre either. This is a more difficult argument. What are Christmas movie themes? What makes a Christmas movie a Christmas movie? One definition might entail how integral the holiday is to the story. Does the story work without the holiday? Is it still as effective? Yippy Ki Nay might then suggest that the action elements that make Die Hard good are ones that can take place in any season. The center of Die Hard holds when the Christmas is taken away. Plus, Die Hard was never marketed as a Christmas movie and it was released in July 1988.