It's a Christmas movie

[Martoto]

Trading Places
Battleground (1949)

[DR Herbert West]

Trancers

[mwynn]

You Could Steal City Hall - YouTube

[Ruemorgue10]

David Cronenberg's Rabid. That poor Mall Santa...

[Show spoiler]

[BloodshotUSA]

Edward Scissorhands

[JDub1]

Rambo kicking the crap out of Teasle & his men is the gift that keeps on giving throughout First Blood.

[AintNoSin]

Originally Posted by RustinCohle

If the word “Christmas” is said, it’s a Christmas movie. In The Hateful Eight, Joe Gage is going home to visit his mother for Christmas, so it’s a Christmas movie.

By that standard, The World Is Not Enough is a Christmas movie because of Denise Richards.

[Martoto]

Why do people think It's A Wonderful Life is a Christmas movie?

[mwynn]

Originally Posted by Martoto

Why do people think It's A Wonderful Life is a Christmas movie?

Merry Christmas Bedford Falls - YouTube

[spaceball-one]

David Lowery's The Green Knight is absolutely a Christmas movie.
Also, On Her Majesty's Secret Service and Eyes Wide Shut.

[HipsterTrash]

Night of the Comet

[kevin87]

Eyes Wide Shut is a Christmas movie too then, right?:P

I categorize certain movies as either "Christmas" or "seasonal." Christmas movies involve the actual holiday as a plotpoint, seasonal movies take place in December around the holiday but aren't about it. Things like Christmas With the Kranks and Christmas Vacation are obviously "Christmas movies" but then stuff like Die Hard and The Holiday or Last Holiday are "seasonal movies" but there are also gray areas like Love Actually where it's heavily set around Christmas activities but it could have been changed to something else and it'd basically be the same.

Originally Posted by mwynn

I don't think we ever mention Thanksgiving movies, or pretty much any other Holiday themed movies, even though they all would have examples.

If you like Happiest Season, watch it's Thanksgiving cousin Lez Bomb

[Martoto]

Originally Posted by mwynn

[Show spoiler]Merry Christmas Bedford Falls - YouTube

Is that it? Makes it about as Christmassy as Goodfellas and Rocky V.

The real reason, I think, why it resonates with people as a Christmas movie is that the main character considers jumping off a bridge at one point.

[mwynn]

Originally Posted by Martoto

Is that it? Makes it about as Christmassy as Goodfellas and Rocky V.

The real reason, I think, why it resonates with people as a Christmas movie is that the main character considers jumping off a bridge at one point.

It's a Wonderful Life: The Lost Ending - SNL - YouTube

[RCRochester]

Originally Posted by Martoto

Is that it? Makes it about as Christmassy as Goodfellas and Rocky V.

Hardly... excluding the flashbacks, the film primarily takes place on Christmas Eve. The plot of the short story upon which it was based was inspired by A Christmas Carol and the author gave copies of it to family and friends as a Christmas gift.

[Jonno2009]

Really bugs me how Die Hard is apparently the quintessential Christmas movie.

To ME a Christmas movie needs to be ABOUT Christmas. Not just be SET around Christmas time

[Martoto]

Originally Posted by RCRochester

Hardly... excluding the flashbacks, the film primarily takes place on Christmas Eve. The plot of the short story upon which it was based was inspired by A Christmas Carol and the author gave copies of it to family and friends as a Christmas gift.

The flashbacks make up most of the movie. Don’t they? And the part where George is shown what life would be like if he had never been born is purposely unfestive.

[Martoto]

Originally Posted by Jonno2009

Really bugs me how Die Hard is apparently the quintessential Christmas movie.

I don’t believe anyone’s made that claim.

[mwynn]

Reindeer Games (2000) Official Trailer 1 - Ben Affleck Movie - YouTube

[Jonno2009]

Originally Posted by Martoto

I don’t believe anyone’s made that claim.

i seen a lot of online polls over the years of peoples favorite christmas movies and Die Hard often tops them all and sometimes by a big margin