Holiday shoppers weigh in: Is 'Die Hard' a Christmas movie?
'Die Hard is a Christmas movie. Absolutely,' one shopper says
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Fox News asked holiday shoppers in Rockefeller Center a question that’s been hotly debated for years: Is "Die Hard" a Christmas movie?
Overwhelmingly, those who had seen the movie firmly supported the idea that the famed flick was a holiday movie.
"'Die Hard' is a Christmas movie. Absolutely," Jimmy, who visited New York from Atlanta, told Fox News.
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Another man agreed: "Definitely. Because it's a Christmas Eve party at the Nakatomi Tower."
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Whether the July 1988 action movie starring Bruce Willis is a Christmas film has been hotly debated for years. The film takes place on Christmas Eve at a holiday party. Willis plays a New York cop who showed up at his estranged wife’s Christmas Eve work party at the Los Angeles skyscraper Nakatomi Plaza.
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But when terrorists seize the tower, he must take on the terrorists alone to save the hostages, including his wife.
"I would say yes because I like to watch it at Christmastime," one woman told Fox News.
Her husband chimed in with a different opinion: "Eh, it’s an action movie … I don’t know, maybe, maybe not."
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"To each their own," she responded.
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Another man told Fox: "I say it can be both. It can be an action movie and a Christmas movie."
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One shopper, Jared, felt similarly: "A little bit of action, a little bit of comedy, a little bit of fun. Nothing wrong with that during the Christmas holidays."
There were some, however, who had a different opinion altogether.
One man said he didn't consider it a Christmas movie, "but whatever you make a holiday tradition can be a holiday movie."
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Jimmy had a message for doubters.
"Oh man. For those people, I say, ‘Hey, think again, it is definitely a Christmas movie,'" he told Fox News.