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Die Hard - A Christmas Movie? Absolutely!

Hi everyone. Along with the Northern Lights, the Rolling Stones live and a golden eagle, I never thought I would see the movie Die Hard . But now I have and although film buffs may throw down their copies of Barry Norman's biography in horror, I can confirm that in my opinion anyway, it absolutely is a Christmas movie. So what qualifies the vest-wearing, Beretta 92F-toting, man-of- few-words Bruce Willis epic to be a fully paid-up member of this Holy of Holies? After all, Home Alone , White Christmas or Love Actually , it most definitely is not. I can't believe you got me socks again. The most obvious answer is that the story takes place on Christmas Eve and continues into Christmas Day and what can be more "Christmassy" than that? The baddies, led by the late great and sweetly sinister Alan Rickman, arrive as an office Christmas party is in full swing and there are numerous references throughout the film to Christmas, including Santa jokes and Christmas music, not ...