Ho! Ho! Ho! And a very Merry Christmas to you from all of us at Fabulous Film and Friends! With our yuletide spirit in maximum overdrive we’re going to spread the Holiday Cheer by discussing everyone’s favorite Christmas movie, the 1988 Bruce Willis/ John McTiernan action extravaganza, Die Hard!
Joining me on my panel of red-blooded, steak-eating, cigar chomping, gun toting manly men are the tech titan from Salt Lake City, Burton Brown and standing tall with me in America’s number one blue state, Gordon Alex Robertson.
Before we dive in, the all-important synopsis
In Die Hard, tough, no-nonsense New York Detective John McClane has flown out to Los Angeles to reunite with his children and estranged wife Holly Gennaro for Christmas. Meeting Holly at a Christmas party in her place of employment, The Nakatomi Building in Studio City, John immediately butts heads with his wife over the fact that she has dropped his last name and seems to be trying to move on without him. But before this marital friction can resolve itself, a group of slick, heavily armed European led terrorists/robbers take over the building in an effort to steal 640 million dollars in bearer bonds hidden in a maximum security safe on the 30th floor.
Murdering Joe Takagi the head executive of the LA wing of the firm, the robbers lead by evil mastermind Hans Gruber seem destined to succeed in their scheme. Except they didn’t count on one intelligent, resilient New York cop who escaped their initial attack and prowls in the shadows of the elevator shafts and abandoned floors, slowly evening the odds and thwarting Gruber’s plans.
Will John McClane stop Gruber?
Will the estranged couple reconcile?
And most important of all:
Is Die Hard a Christmas movie?
Find out!
