Me, I’m a Die Hard 2: Die Harder apologist, but you can see where that one falls on our official ranking of the Die Hard movies.
McTiernan didn’t set out to make a Christmas movie… not by traditional standards of a Hollywood holiday story.
There are so many more interesting aspects of Die Hard to discuss, so the fact that the Christmas debate continues to swirl around it is mildly frustrating.
There’s no way possible that director John McTiernan, when working on the action classic Die Hard in the late 1980s, could have predicted that audiences members would still be debating – three decades after the film’s release – about whether Die Hard is a Christmas movie or not.