I don't see it as a Xmas film - it wasn't even released anywhere near Xmas, but that's just my opinion, It's not my idea of a Xmas film. But it's a Xmas film to a lot of people and that's fine. Good for them. Just stop telling me I'm wrong for having a different view on it.
Yeah there’s a never ending debate about FGTH The Power Of Love and East 17 Stay Another Day amongst others. Both of those have very Christmassy videos but the songs have nothing to do with Christmas.
Lol, I think there are greater things to worry about than whether any of those songs are considered Christmas songs. Like Die Hard, if anyone thinks they're related to Christmas, then that's fine - it's just an opinion. It's also fine if they don't.
To me the more interesting debate and somewhat related is whether most of the stuff we do in the West ostensibly for Christmas is actually Christmas. I like to use lowercase christmas for that. Most of the Santa, Coca Cola esque materialistic nonsense doesn't have much to do either with the holiday
Christmas has nothing to do with Jesus. It was adopted as a commercial holiday to sell a new religion to the Roman people who didn't care so much about their gods as they did getting drunk, naked and going around town annoying the neighbors.
Oh it's definitely got additional layers for sure. Not to mention it's so easily adopted by other cultures because pretty much everyone has similar festivals already.
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Oh boy.... get me off this planet.