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festive cheer: it's f***ing Christmas
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festive cheer: it's f***ing Christmas

I'm not sure why we don't debate the Christmas-ness of this one...

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MaryAnn Johanson
Dec 20, 2021
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Lethal Weapon is a Christmas movie. I’m not sure why we don’t get into the same kerfuffle every year over this movie the way we do with Die Hard. But I am here to pick that fight, and also to end it right now.

Not only did this 1987 action comedy, along with 1988’s Die Hard, ignite that subgenre, it also, like Die Hard, is set at Christmastime and is del…

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