Whatever float your boats, I'm done arguing about this particular matter. I never considered Die Hard as a Christmas movie and I won't change my mind. I don't feel the need to watch it on Christmas because I don't get the Christmas spirit out of it. It's an awesome action flick that I can watch at any time of the year, unlike other movies that really have a significance during holyday season for me.
On another hand, I can definitely argue on the case of Home Alone because, indeed, it kinda have the same ''issue'' as Die Hard: it could had been set at any time of the year and still work. I realize that the fact that they are both set around Christmas time can make you relate them to Christmas movies. So yeah, it's a bit tricky and I can see how the same case could be made about both.
HOWEVER, I personally DO feel the need to watch Home Alone on CHristmas, and very rarely at any other time of the year. My reasons are simple: I mostly consider Christmas movies the ones that are made for family viewing when the whole family gather together to watch them and feel Christmas joy out of them, that Christmas decorations are all around the place, that Santa does at the very least have some presence in the story and that I can relate to the feeling of the Holiday season. I get that from Home Alone, but not from Die Hard.
Die Hard is a movie I watch for all the thrill I get from all the amazing action, all the adrenaline I feel out of the gun fights, the outstanding visual effects (if you are interested to know some interesting facts about the production and the visual effects, I really suggest to watch the episode about Die Hard of the new Netflix series The movies that made us), the explosions, the tension, the chlaustrophobic feeling of being trapped on the last floor of a tall building taken by the terrorists, etc. I couldn't care less about the fact that it happens during a party on Chrismas eve.
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