People say Die Hard is Christmas movie because people are so fucking tired of the same rehashed Christmas movies that get played in repeat every year. I like Elf but I’ve seen it enough.
Same with Christmas music. I’m tired of this boomer era shit starting in October.
Ooooor when I was a kid I’d always put it on during christmas time because it was both A) Not claymation Rudolph again for the third time this month, and B) it DOES take place at a cristmas party so I could count it. Also Gremlins and Nightmare Before Christmas both got halloween time plays and christmas time plays, sue me.
Fuck christmas I do my best to ignore it until some annoying person comes along and invites you to some Christmas markets or whatever.
Jingle All the Way is a better Christmas action movie that’s actually about Christmas.
So my husband also loves this movie. I try every year to like it, but I simply cannot. I wonder if it’s one of those that you find and love as a kid or else it’s hard to get into, haha.
I watched this again a few years ago, and Sinbad has some of the worst delivery of all time, even among people who flexed into an “acting” career. That’s to go among with Arnie’s “unique” delivery of predictable dialogues and bad puns.
Phil Hartman was hilarious, or course.
It’s a terrible movie.
You have to buy into the premise of its fantastical, half real/half cartoon reality. If you’re watching it through a serious lens or even as a comedy that takes place in a real world Minneapolis, you’ll never be able to appreciate it.
Violent Night is going to be a Christmas tradition of ours. I also checked out Fatman this year.
“get a personality” and “that’s your whole personality” is just lazy writing. it’s a generic insult deployed against anyone who likes a thing that says nothing about the person or the thing. it’s the satire equivalent to “vegan bad”. why should I read an article written by someone who makes parroting bland criticisms from the internet their whole personality?
“If you _____ it means you have no personality” is played out
Unfortunately it’s not. People are so desperate to engage with others about pop culture and not have to face the horrible truth about the world we live in, that they really lean into stupid irrelevant debates about whether or not a movie is a Christmas movie.
It’s great that as Lemmy users, we’re above such trivial nonsense and would never waste multiple minutes debating with strangers about any of this piff.
If you like Christmas and typical Christmas things you are an NPC without a soul.
Agreed. Saying everything isn’t a personality isn’t a personality either.
Sorry, Onion, some of these literally have Christmas in their titles. That’s a stretch, even for you. XD
The post is from hardtimes.net
“No, the only Christmas movies are movies I SAY are Christmas movies!” ~ Dan Rice / Chat GPT
Imagine caring what other people consider a holiday movie? Dan sounds like a miserable person who will go through your movie collection and call them all horse shit and demand you and your group watch a 4 hour movie about a woman brushing a horse and proclaiming It to be true art.
I stopped reading at his banal prologue. Don’t invite Dan over for movie night, for he is armed with a Chat Bot and a thesaurus.
