Is Lethal Weapon a Christmas movie?

CFetters_Nacho_Lover

https://twitter.com/bmp_1972/status/1604830385409490945?s=46&t=CE9VxxiRszhTyI-e7F00jg

YellowSnow

No. Christmas has to be central the plot. Hence, Die Hard is not a Christmas movie either.

RaceBannon

YellowSnow said:

No. Christmas has to be central the plot. Hence, Die Hard is not a Christmas movie either.

Found the communist

YellowSnow

RaceBannon said:

YellowSnow said:

No. Christmas has to be central the plot. Hence, Die Hard is not a Christmas movie either.

Found the communist

I will die on this hill, comrade.

PurpleThrobber

That's like asking whether Bonnie Bedelia has nice perkies.

It's in the eye (handful) of the beholder.

RaceBannon

YellowSnow

RaceBannon said:

Still a great fucking movie, in spite of my being 100% right on this topic.

DerekJohnson

CFetters_Nacho_Lover

YellowSnow said:

No. Christmas has to be central the plot. Hence, Die Hard is not a Christmas movie either.

CFetters_Nacho_Lover

CFetters_Nacho_Lover

YellowSnow said:

No. Christmas has to be central the plot. Hence, Die Hard is not a Christmas movie either.

Um, pretty sure the Christmas party in Die Hard is very central to the plot.

RaceBannon

Here's a great Easter movie

YellowSnow

CFetters_Nacho_Lover said:

YellowSnow said:

No. Christmas has to be central the plot. Hence, Die Hard is not a Christmas movie either.

Um, pretty sure the Christmas party in Die Hard is very central to the plot.

It's an action movie that takes place in the setting of an office holiday party. There's not Santa and Christmas theme.

CFetters_Nacho_Lover

YellowSnow said:

CFetters_Nacho_Lover said:

YellowSnow said:

No. Christmas has to be central the plot. Hence, Die Hard is not a Christmas movie either.

Um, pretty sure the Christmas party in Die Hard is very central to the plot.

It's an action movie that takes place in the setting of an office holiday party. There's not Santa and Christmas theme.

Swaye

YellowSnow said:

CFetters_Nacho_Lover said:

YellowSnow said:

No. Christmas has to be central the plot. Hence, Die Hard is not a Christmas movie either.

Um, pretty sure the Christmas party in Die Hard is very central to the plot.

It's an action movie that takes place in the setting of an office holiday party. There's not Santa and Christmas theme.

Suck it Hans.

CFetters_Nacho_Lover

YellowSnow said:

No. Christmas has to be central the plot. Hence, Die Hard is not a Christmas movie either.

https://babylonbee.com/news/9-all-time-greatest-moments-in-christmas-movies

YellowSnow

CFetters_Nacho_Lover said:

YellowSnow said:

No. Christmas has to be central the plot. Hence, Die Hard is not a Christmas movie either.

https://babylonbee.com/news/9-all-time-greatest-moments-in-christmas-movies

TITTT Buddy.

CFetters_Nacho_Lover

YellowSnow said:

CFetters_Nacho_Lover said:

YellowSnow said:

No. Christmas has to be central the plot. Hence, Die Hard is not a Christmas movie either.

https://babylonbee.com/news/9-all-time-greatest-moments-in-christmas-movies

TITTT Buddy.

Huh?

Doog_de_Jour

I stand with Yella. I love Die Hard and the Lethal Weapon but they are not true Christmas movies.

Here’s my reasoning:

If you were to set the film’s events during another holiday, would the movie still make sense?

I would argue if Die Hard took place during Super Bowl weekend or New Year’s Eve, it would still be Die Hard. Take a movie like Miracle on 34th Street and remove the Christmas elements and you have an unhinged Race Bannon being taken in by a Macy’s employee for…reasons???

Still, in the spirit of the holiday season I would propose that if people want to call those films Christmas movies, let them. There enough of those that are borderline (think Gremlins, Trading Places, Rocky IV) that we should create a new genre…

Christmas-ish Movie!

RaceBannon

In the 80s the Christmas season was when you released the big movies for maximum ticket sales. That's part of the reason they are Christmas movies

So the inclusion of Christmas stuff was intentional

Star Wars was a summer blockbuster movie series so not a Christmas movie

Doog_de_Jour

RaceBannon said:

In the 80s the Christmas season was when you released the big movies for maximum ticket sales. That's part of the reason they are Christmas movies

So the inclusion of Christmas stuff was intentional

Star Wars was a summer blockbuster movie series so not a Christmas movie

Good point! Families who are forced back together during the holidays and hated each other could always count on a trip to the movie theater back in the day to take a break from the fighting.

Now that everyone has a smartphone or tablet that’s not necessary.