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Does anyone else find it scary that 44% believe we are living in a simulation?

I don't know what to think about 59% saying that Die Hard is a Christmas movie.
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Die Hard IS a Xmas movie!!
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Of course it is. As that final arbiter of facts, Wikipedia, puts it: often named one of the best Christmas films.

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15 questions? Mine had 22. Of which I agreed with 17 of them.
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Burning Petard wrote:
Thu Jan 13, 2022 6:30 am
often named one of the best Christmas films.
And Donald Trump is often named America's best president . . . but consider, by whom? :lol:
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datsunaholic wrote:
Thu Jan 13, 2022 8:23 am
15 questions? Mine had 22. Of which I agreed with 17 of them.
My bad.  It WAS 22 questions.  Living like I do up here in Wisconsin, home of the REAL Holy Land (the Frozen Tundra of Lambeau Field), I'm gonna blame it on a brain freeze.
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Scooter wrote:
Thu Jan 13, 2022 3:58 am
Does anyone else find it scary that 44% believe we are living in a simulation?

I don't know what to think about 59% saying that Die Hard is a Christmas movie.
Yeah where are the other 41%?
Okay... There's all kinds of things wrong with what you just said.

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I was split right down the middle — I agreed with the internet on exactly half (11) of the 22.

One of those I disagreed with is the "Die Hard" question. If "Die Hard" is a Christmas film, then by that standard I guess "Gremlins" and "The Battle of the Bulge" are also Christmas films.

And "The Poseidon Adventure" would have to be considered a New Year's Day film.
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Die hard is THE Xmas movie!!
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Gremlins IS a Xmas movie!!

And by the way is famously responsible for the creation of the PG-13 rating on account of all the violence that takes place on Christmas Eve.
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I am looking for a frame for my new motivational poster. I shows the classic pic of Washington Crossing the Delaware (which is re-enacted each year an easy 2 hour drive from my home). The caption reads: AMERICANS We will cross a frozen river to kill you. In your sleep. On Christmas day. Really. We already did it.

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I thought temple of doom created it and Gremlins was the first to get it. Could be wrong tho.
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I had never thought of Die Hard as a Christmas movie until our kids insisted that it was. Sooo, a year ago at Christmas time we watched it. Sure enough, it's a Christmas movie.

And yes, you too can have a poster depicting Washington crossing the Delaware with a motivational message. https://libertymaniacs.com/products/americans-poster Cool.
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BoSoxGal wrote:
Thu Jan 13, 2022 1:42 pm
Gremlins IS a Xmas movie!!

And by the way is famously responsible for the creation of the PG-13 rating on account of all the violence that takes place on Christmas Eve.
Gremlins, Indiana Jones, and I recall one of the Bond movies. (And had it been released a few months later, Ghostbusters would probably have been PG13.)

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Crackpot wrote:
Thu Jan 13, 2022 4:21 pm
I thought temple of doom created it and Gremlins was the first to get it. Could be wrong tho.
First PG13 movie was Red Dawn.

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That’s right I had forgot. (I had tried to anyway)
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This article discusses the role Gremlins and other PG rated but pretty violent films played in the creation of the PG13 rating at Steven Spielberg’s urging:
https://www.indiewire.com/2014/06/30-ye ... 85120/amp/
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