A paraphrased quote from 2001's Attack of the Clones from the guy who says he stopped watching generic Hollywood drivel long before Die Hard and Home Alone were released.
Actually, i didn't say that at all. I said: "I've stayed away from run-of-the-mill Hollywood standard products for a while now, with a very few exceptions".
That star wars quote has long since entered the public domain. And for the record, i watched about 1.5 "star wars" movies in total in my whole life. The "star wars" universe is not my thing, simply - not that any of that has any significance in a discussion about what makes a movie a christmas movie.
What is and isn't a Christmas movie, imo, is not exactly a law of nature, so i don't think one can be "right" or "wrong" about it. If an action flick set in an Xmas scenario is *your* idea of a Xmas movie, i'm 100% fine with it.
DH is a pretty fun, very well made action movie. Someone thought: "Hey wouldn't it be a good plot if a bunch of terrorists capture a whole business tower but by some freak coincidence, there happens to be a badass ex-cop present to drop a few monkey wrenches in the gears". -"great idea! hey but that won't work, people in other buildings would notice and interfere" --"so what if its Christmas?" -- "great! it givers us a reason why the other office towers are empty and no one notices anything for hours, right? And it also gives us a background plot why the cop is there in the first place" - "cool, and we can also add some human interest "--ex-wive, still in love, kids, etc...".
But the main thing is the action, isn't it?
In DH the Xmas thing is a McGuffin to set up the whole action plot, it serves to give the otherwise pretty unlikely scenario a somewhat believable background. But no one really cares too much about credibility in those kind of pictures, do they. One reason is a good as another.
