{"id":150,"date":"2025-12-02T12:49:21","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T12:49:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/?p=150"},"modified":"2025-12-02T12:49:21","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T12:49:21","slug":"macaulay-culkin-booed-after-making-surprising-comment-about-christmas-which-left-some-fans-upset","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/?p=150","title":{"rendered":"Macaulay Culkin booed after making surprising comment about Christmas which left some fans upset"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Home Alone star’s opinion on a beloved Christmas film caused some of the crowd to boo<\/h2>\n
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Hollywood stars are no stranger to courting controversy with their personal opinions about politics or social justice.<\/strong><\/p>\n

But\u00a0Macaulay Culkin<\/a>\u00a0learned this week that there are some topics you simply cannot talk about without whipping people up into a frenzy.<\/p>\n

You might think that being the star of the\u00a0Home Alone<\/em>\u00a0movie series would give you the right to speak definitively on the topic of Christmas films, but 45-year-old Culkin found himself being booed on stage after sharing his mind at an event in Long Beach,\u00a0California<\/a>.<\/p>\n

During this event marking the 35th anniversary of the\u00a0Christmas<\/a>\u00a0flick that launched him to child stardom, called A Nostalgic Night with Macaulay Culkin, the actor was asked what his favorite film is to watch over the holiday season – and his answer certainly divided the crowd.<\/p>\n

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Macaulay Culkin’s ‘Home Alone’ is a Christmas classic (20th Century Fox)<\/cite><\/div>\n

He started off with a classic crowd pleaser, with People\u00a0reporting<\/a>\u00a0the star as sharing: “A big one in our household growing up was\u00a0A Christmas Story,<\/em>\u00a0certainly was always on.”<\/p>\n

Culkin then shared his love for a classic but less-remembered Bill Murray film, adding: “A lost classic or one that people kind of forget:\u00a0Scrooged<\/em>….\u00a0Scrooged<\/em>\u00a0is awesome though. Yeah, we watch it all the time. Those were ones that really stick out.”<\/p>\n

But after this good start, he was perhaps too honest. Culkin said: “There’s some ones that come later.\u00a0Elf<\/em>\u00a0is a really good one, but I wasn\u2019t raised on\u00a0Elf<\/em>\u00a0so it doesn\u2019t have that nostalgia factor.<\/p>\n

“And also, OK guys for real:\u00a0Die Hard<\/em>\u00a0isn\u2019t a Christmas movie.”<\/p>\n

This last line caused some of the audience to boo Culkin at his own event, but the former child star had clearly heard worse before and doubled down despite the jeers.<\/p>\n

The ‘Die Hard<\/em>\u00a0is a Christmas movie’ crowd have grown in strength over the years, with people bored by the formulaic and often childlike plots of traditional festive films pitching the 1988 action flick as another essential part of the TV schedule.<\/p>\n

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Die Hard takes place at Christmas, but is it a Christmas film? (20th Century-Fox\/Getty Images)<\/cite><\/div>\n

This is because the film’s events take place during the holiday season, with Bruce Willis’ John McClane traveling to a Christmas party at Nakatomi Plaza to reconcile with his wife.<\/p>\n

“I know. Some of you guys want to fight me. I\u2019ll meet you at the loading dock, but it\u2019s just a movie that\u2019s set at Christmas,” Culkin argued.<\/p>\n

Despite some fairly vocal backlash from parts of the audience, Culkin clearly believed he was right and made quite a good point about the film using the season as set dressing.<\/p>\n

“If you set it at St. Patrick\u2019s Day, the exact same movie. But you set\u00a0Home Alone<\/em>\u00a0at St. Patrick\u2019s Day\u2026” the star pointed out.<\/p>\n

And now we are all thinking about 8-year-old Kevin McCallister attempting to thwart two burglars who have drank too much Guinness, which would certainly have made his\u00a0Home Alone<\/em>\u00a0mission all the easier.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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