Thanks for the respectful conversation guys! To me, not a Christmas movie. The primary nature of the plot (or the focus) has to be about Christmas in order to be a Christmas movie, otherwise, it's just a movie that happens to be during Christmas. BTW, I recommend Invasion USA (1985), another action movie that happens during Christmas.
So based on that logic, I double down on the Home Alone argument. Don't get me wrong, I wholeheartedly believe it's a Christmas movie, but with that approach it wouldn't be. Home alone isn't ABOUT Christmas, it's about a family that goes on vacation and accidentally leaves their child behind. It just happens to be during Christmas. The vacation could have been for any other holiday, a summer vacation, a work trip, etc. and the same events would have unfolded. You could argue that the only reason the burglars were targeting houses was because they knew people would be gone for Christmas, but that argument would support the Die Hard argument because, similarly, the terrorists only targeted the building because they knew it would be empty because of Christmas.
Thanks for the respectful conversation guys! To me, not a Christmas movie. The primary nature of the plot (or the focus) has to be about Christmas in order to be a Christmas movie, otherwise, it's just a movie that happens to be during Christmas. BTW, I recommend Invasion USA (1985), another action movie that happens during Christmas.
So based on that logic, I double down on the Home Alone argument. Don't get me wrong, I wholeheartedly believe it's a Christmas movie, but with that approach it wouldn't be. Home alone isn't ABOUT Christmas, it's about a family that goes on vacation and accidentally leaves their child behind. It just happens to be during Christmas. The vacation could have been for any other holiday, a summer vacation, a work trip, etc. and the same events would have unfolded. You could argue that the only reason the burglars were targeting houses was because they knew people would be gone for Christmas, but that argument would support the Die Hard argument because, similarly, the terrorists only targeted the building because they knew it would be empty because of Christmas.