Die Hard is actually a Christmas movie, as much as a workable distinction exists.
Studies suggest that viewers do draw a delineation: 50% of British audiences believe that a movie set at Christmas is not inherently a Christmas movie. A YouGov survey in December 2017 suggested that 56% of Americans and 52% of Britons don’t believe that
Die Hard is a Christmas movie. The following year, a poll from Morning Consult and The Hollywood Reporter was even more definitive, suggesting 62% of Americans did not think of
Die Hard as a Christmas movie.
Of course, just because the majority believes something does not necessarily make it true. These surveys are all the product of a post-truth age, after all. There is plenty of anecdotal evidence to support the idea of