Macaulay Culkin sagt, „Stirb langsam“ sei kein Weihnachtsfilm und „Don’t Fight Me“: Der Film „würde immer noch funktionieren“, wenn „es auch St. Patrick’s Day wäre“
https://variety.com/2025/film/news/macaulay-culkin-die-hard-christmas-movie-1236611785/
50 Kommentare
> “No, no it’s not. Don’t fight me!” Culkin recently answered during an interview with Mythical Kitchen. “It’s based around Christmas, but if it were also St. Patrick’s Day, it would still work. But you couldn’t do ‘Home Alone’ on Memorial Day. It doesn’t work that way.”
> Culkin then quipped: “I’m the godfather of Christmas nowadays. My opinion has some sway in this argument.”
What part of „Now I have a machine gun ho – ho – ho“ does he not get?
The sweatshirt would have to say “Kiss me, now I have a machine gun!”
If it wasn’t Christmas there would be no party at Nakatomi so he’s factually wrong
Well… I’ve watched Home Alone exactly once and seen Die Hard and Gremlins a million times.
I’ll be the judge of my own Christmas movies, thank you very much. 🙂
‚Home alone‘ also works if the family goes on a summer vacation to Disney World.
100% agree with this take.
John McClane learns that it’s truly better to give death than to receive it.
By that logic Home Alone isn’t a Christmas movie either because it would still work if it was Thanksgiving
What’s Ja Rule’s opinion?
Maybe I’m not a purist, but if a movie takes place at Christmas, references Christmas several times, and is entirely buoyed by Christmas music and and an original score that uses Christmas song melodies throughout, it feels pretty Christmas-movie-like to me.
I think it’s so weird to dig in against it being a Christmas movie.
…… Yea but it wasn’t on St. Patrick’s day. It was during a Christmas party.
It’s an action movie that takes place around Christmas
Top christmas movies home alone 1 & 2, die hard, street fighter 1994.
No one flys cross country for St. Patrick’s Day.
Ironically the movie title is what happened to his career.
Also: who cares what he thinks?
*Now I have a machine gun, top o’ the mornin’ to ye.*
Top of the mornin’
I have a shillelagh now
Oh, yeah, there’d be no problem having an office Christmas party for St. Patrick’s Day. Makes total sense, *Macaulay.*
The movie could function if there was a April fools party. Doesn’t need Christmas for the plot to take place.
He so right
That Christmas-heavy soundtrack, Christmas party, and numerous references to Christmas in the dialogue would be pretty out of place on St. Patrick’s Day…
This is equivalent to saying “A Nightmare Before Christmas” is not a Halloween movie.
I remember a tweet that said something like „Die Hard isn’t a Christmas movie because it takes place on Christmas. It’s a Christmas movie because it starts with an unwanted family obligation and spirals into a seemingly unending nightmare that you can’t escape from.“
St John McClane drives the snakes out of Nakatomi.
Home Alone would also work if it was the family on a summer vacation. It’s a Wonderful Life also doesn’t require it to be Christmas.
I’m here fighting you Mr. McCulkin
He’s right in that it could be made around another event/holiday and it would work. If it had been made with St Patrick’s day at the center of it then it would be a St Patrick’s day move. But it wasn’t. It’s a Christmas movie.
The Fugitive is a St Patrick’s Day movie
How many companies have corporate St. Patrick Day parties??
Wouldn’t home alone work for any family vacation?
People famously fly across the country to see family on St Patrick’s day?
Companies shut down early St Patrick’s Eve and hold a big party?
K but he’s wrong
It is a Christmas movie, and everyone just needs to move on.
Home Alone is the junior version of Die Hard.
@Macaulay Culkin, same with Home Alone by that logic
I guess the Nakatomi Thanksgiving bash must be a big one „now I’ve got a machine gun. Gobble Gobble Gobble.“ Doesn’t work.
Christmas movie = Die Hard
I could make the argument that, with enough modifications, Home Alone is not a Christmas movie either. Heck, I could remake “A Christmas Story” occurring around Easter with very little loss in fidelity. In Cleveland (filming location) you could still stick your tongue to a pole and wears full winter clothing in late March.
Lmfao
Yeah I bet that St Patrick’s Day party at fucking Nakatomi would warrant John McClane flying all the way across the country to stop Hans Gruber who also decided ST PATRICKS DAY was the best day for a heist of that magnitude
Pretty sure the building would be full of people too unlike Christmas where almost everybody else was gone from the building
Home Alone doesn’t even need to be on a holiday at all lmfao. Home invasions or vacations don’t actually require a holiday.
How do we know that Mac lived a sheltered Hollywood life? He thinks companies have St Paddy’s parties.
Run DMC doesn’t have a St. Patrick’s Day song and do big corporations have St. Patty’s Day parties on premise?
Die Hard is a movie about coming home for Christmas, but you can’t because you were a dick to your (ex-)wife – also terrorists.
By that metric Home Alone is also not a Christmas movie
Look Culkin can be a fantastic person and all that, but he can also be very wrong haha.
No office holds an annual st Patrick’s day party
I don’t care what side someone is on with the Die Hard Christmas movie debate, but if you say Die Hard isn’t a Christmas movie then neither is Home Alone. Home Alone is just Die Hard for kids.
Well, I knew there had to be something wrong with Macaulay Culkin and we found out what it is. Die Hard is 100% a Christmas movie and I will fight him on it because this is a hill I will die on.
No way I’m fighting him. He’ll run off and hide and the next minute I’m stepping on a 6 inch nail barefoot because my shoes and socks are now glued to the stairs
Die Hard is most definitely a Christmas movie, otherwise Christmas in Hollis wouldn’t be on the stereo.
It wouldn’t work though, by his own metric, the only reason John went to LA was specifically to see his kids and try to patch things up with Holly for Christmas. The heist took place during the end of the year and Christmas time because that’s when all those bond would be there. They chose the Christmas party because the tower was mostly cleared. It literally doesn’t work if it wasn’t for the Christmas aspect.
Also, what kind of psychopathic company has a Christmas Party on Christmas Eve? Company parties are on December 10th or something. Takagi was a terrible CEO.