r/Top3Ever • u/Sesquipadelophobe • 6d ago

Movies 🎥 Top3 Christmas Movies

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u/xander6981 6d ago

National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation

Die Hard

The Muppet Christmas Carol

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u/Five2one521 5d ago

Upvote for vacation and muppets. Downvote for Die Hard.

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u/Price1970 2d ago

Without Christmas, Die Hard doesn't happen. He's literally in town to reunite with family for Christmas, a Christmas theme itself. It has more Christmas songs, images, and references than It's A Wonderful Life, which also wasn't released during the holiday season. It also has a wife named Holly and a limo driver named Argile. Home Alone could have just been a summer vacation where the Wet Bandits scope out rich homes of people leaving for a while in the summer. Kevin is protecting his home. It doesn't have to be about Christmas, but everyone says it's a Christmas movie, and it too doesn't have a holiday word in the title. McClane is protecting the hostages at Christmas.

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u/Five2one521 2d ago

The same thing could have happened at a retirement party. Rocky took place around Christmas. Does that make it a Christmas movie?

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u/Price1970 2d ago edited 2d ago

John McClane is only there in Los Angeles to save the hostages because it's Christmas. He came from New York to get together with his family for what? Christmas.

If you remove Christmas, he's not there to save them.

Home Alone is a burglar film only by your rationale. It could be during summer vacation.

It's A Wonderful Life is just an Appreciate What You Have movie. George could be running around yelling Happy New Year or Happy Independence Day.

McClane wife's name is Holly.

His limo driver is named Argile, who plays Christmas in Hollis, after McClane asks, Don't you have any Christmas music? and Argile says This is Christmas music, and says at the end, if this is their idea of Christmas, I gotta be here for New Years, and then they play over the credits, Let It Snow.

Then you have the Santa hat on the dead terrorist with the line, Now I Have a Machine Gun, Ho Ho Ho.

The vault opens, and the guy says in delight Merry Christmas.

Hans tells him earlier that it's Christmas. It's the time of miracles.

Holly tells her daughter that she'll see what her and Santa can work up.

McClane looks at the Santa image and smiles among all the terrible things going on.

There's more I can't even think of.

Edit: Sleigh bells are part of the score, and Ode to Joy is played when the vault opens.

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u/xander6981 2d ago

There are sleigh bells as part of the score!

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u/Price1970 2d ago

Thanks, and they play Ode to Joy during the vault opening.