Merry Christmas and happy holidays everyone! I don’t know if you celebrate, but where I live, we celebrate Christmas on the 24th, which means I totally thought ahead and scheduled this post! Yay me!
As we’ve established by now, I am doing the Thursday Movie Picks feature. This series is hosted by Wandering through the Shelves and offers you a weekly prompt to post some movie recommendations/talking points according to the theme. Usually, you are supposed to post about 3-5 examples, which I find a very manageable amount.
Today’s theme is Holiday Action movies, which is not my forte at all. But I shall try my best!
Die Hard
I could not not mention it. It’s like THE classic action Christmas movie, because it’s set during Christmas AND has loads of action. Do I really need to say more?
Shazam!
Is a superhero movie automatically an action movie? I don’t know, but I am counting it towards that goal. There’s a winter carnival and everything, helping get some general themes across.
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
I loved this movie so much when I was younger. I completely forgot it was set during Christmas time, even though there’s several holiday parties and a toy store robbery and Michelle Monaghan in a sexy Mrs Santa outfit, but a little research brought back the memory.
Life and Other Disasters 
I’ll be watching Die Hard tonight with sushi and cupcakes. It’s going to be a party! Speaking of Die Hard, did you see the article where the director settled the debate about whether or not it counts as a Christmas movie?
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I think I heard of the article, although I didn’t read it. Was it something along the lines of “it plays during Christmas time, so, it’s a Christmas movie”? By which standard the Little Women movie should also be classified as a Christmas movie.
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Nope, it was more like, “We didn’t intend to make it a Christmas movie, but by the power of people’s beliefs, it became one.”
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Ah, okay! Well, it’s still settled then.
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We (and probably everyone else who participated this week) match with Die Hard 😀
I can’t believe that I didn’t think of Shazam!
And merry Christmas to you! ❤
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I found a post who was like “let’s not use Die Hard, let’s be more creative” and I thought “nah, I am not THAT creative” hahaha
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I had such a hard time coming up with anything, I couldn’t afford to be creative 😂
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Me neither! This was not my best theme
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Hope you had a wonderful Christmas, Kat! Excellent picks for this post though. Both Shazam and Die Hard are brilliant picks that fit the spirit of Christmas, one way or another, if you ask me! 😛 Can’t wait to see what Shazam 2 will be able to achieve next though! 😮
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I am so glad you approve of my picks, Lashaan! I can’t say this was a theme that came easy to me. And I, too, am really excited for Shazam 2.
Hope you had a wonderful Christmas as well 😀
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Fun list! Definitely agree about die hard and want to watch shazam!
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Shazam is just so much fun!
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