I think Lethal Weapon has more of a Christmas message than Die Hard - Mismatched couple work through their differences to overcome adversity and finally spend Christmas Day together. That’s a Hallmark pitch if ever there was one.
If it’s about a romance during wartime, it is both a romance and a war movie, just as Kelly’s Heroes is a heist film, a war movie, and a comedy a rolled into one. If it’s about German terrorists taking over a Christmas party and being thwarted with a lot of action by a cop, it’s a Christmas movie, a cop movie, and an action movie.
And Top Gun is a romance movie, a gay romance movie. Who can forget “playing with the boys?” (Not passing judgement, if Mavrick got Goose’s goose that’s between them and Iceman!)
I’m going to argue that Die Hard is NOT a Christmas movie. It’s simply a movie where the events within it, happen to take place around Christmas time.
Die Hard is to Christmas movies what Top Gun is to romance movies, or what Casablanca is to war movies.
Just because it contains a thing, doesn’t mean it’s about said thing.
I think Lethal Weapon has more of a Christmas message than Die Hard - Mismatched couple work through their differences to overcome adversity and finally spend Christmas Day together. That’s a Hallmark pitch if ever there was one.
If it’s about a romance during wartime, it is both a romance and a war movie, just as Kelly’s Heroes is a heist film, a war movie, and a comedy a rolled into one. If it’s about German terrorists taking over a Christmas party and being thwarted with a lot of action by a cop, it’s a Christmas movie, a cop movie, and an action movie.
And Top Gun is a romance movie, a gay romance movie. Who can forget “playing with the boys?” (Not passing judgement, if Mavrick got Goose’s goose that’s between them and Iceman!)