Let's Argue About Christmas Movies (ft. Movies w/ Mikey)

Clickbait Title: Die Hard Isn't A Christmas Movie

Go watch Mikey's companion video for the other half of the Dan and Mikey Christmas Special. His is way better and he put so much work into it.

We had a proper blizzard a couple days ago, so I just had to dig my car out from under over six inches of snow. And that's not like "oh, we got six inches" but it's kinda spread all around, this was six inches at the shallowest. It actually snapped my car's radio antenna. Anyway my arms feel like noodles from all the digging so I'm just going to wish you all happy New Year.

Written and performed by Dan Olson

[PanAndScanBuddy]

Tired: Die Hard is a Christmas Movie
Wired: All movies can be Christmas Movies.
Inspired: HOME ALONE IS A DIE HARD MOVIE

[Chimera-man-man]

My ritual is making people watch Polar Express while I argue that it’s part of the Silent Hill canon

[Rob-yjgg]

Everyone knows Die Hard started out as a Pagan Festival.

[inciaradible]

That's all well and good, but Lord of the Rings has elves in it and is therefore a Christmas movie.

[AlRoderick]

Empire Strikes Back, if you follow Leia. Tense road trip with a rough working class man from your snowed in office that takes an unexpected detour, you run into his ex and your estranged dad, there's a very tense sit down dinner, your brother shows up home from college and a family brawl kicks off.

[theoneandonlymichaelmccormick]

I’m sure that the moment when I STARTED saying that Die Hard is a Christmas Movie I was trolling, but I started watching it every year, so now I sincerely think of Die Hard whenever Christmas comes along.

I’ve Pavlov’s Dog-ed myself.

[Slaker]

Let's introduce a new axis to this debate:

This 13 minute youtube video is my favorite Christmas movie.

[QuinnCurio]

Meet me on the roof at midnight tonight if you want to fist fight about The Nightmare Before Christmas being more of a Halloween movie than a Christmas movie. This is my holiday tradition.

[Nekeku]

Broke: "Trolling"
Woke: "Countering the social metagame"

[DBraeges]

For what it's worth: The best Christmas movie is Tokyo Godfathers.

[caedilly]

the only Christmas movie is actually a mupet Christmas carol.

[skep]

You joke that “a skeleton is Christmas as long as it has a hat, ” but a house in my city does exactly this for Christmas. It’s their gimmick.

[doyleharken]

tired: die hard is a christmas movie
wired: "christmas movie" is a signifier clarifying our position in the social conversation
inspired: movies don't exist and are a shared mass hallucination

[flamshiz]

I want "social consensus is a nebulous thing" on a mug

[Virusth]

The Snowman is a Christmas Movie. You had all the clues.

[randomlydeterministic]

"Die Hard is a Christmas movie" is just seasonal "Hot dogs are sandwiches".

[Taomach]

That scene with you fully clothed in the shower really threw me for a loop!

The thing is, Russia has its definitive Christmas move, and that movie is "The Irony of Fate, or Enjoy Your Bath!" by Eldar Ryazanov. There is an iconic scene in that movie, where one of the characters comes into the flat from the street completely drunk, takes a shower fully clothed while delivering a heart-felt monologue about the moral failings of the main characters, and then leaves again, in his wet clothes, into the frosty winter, presumably to die from cold.

I wouldn't expect you to be familiar with that movie, but this really looked like an intentional reference on your part!

[JCog]

Okay so what I'm hearing is that Dan watches Spring Breakers every Christmas.

[onfrolicker]

When Dan brought up the draft format of magic: the gathering in the context of a rhetorical strategy I knew this was a video worth watching

[K-Kil]

As someone who has spent many a Christmas estranged from their family due to their civil service, a movie like Die Hard actually resonates with the loneliness wrought from said service. It's lack of traditional Christmas themes are sometimes the closest someone can get to the theme during lonely dark times. Sometimes our own terms are not even accessible. Every year we were in port my single ass would sit on watch (i always volunteered xmas duty cause I'm single) and argue that die hard is the best christmas movie, it was the only one that explored relatable themes of estrangement without flying to close to the sun.