Watched Die Hard for the first time last night 

That was weird. Fun movie, very solid structurally. It does not feel like a 2hr 12m movie at all. Bizarre mix of lots of copaganda stuff that really doesn't land in 2023, mixed with the *most* inept cops this side of a Police Academy movie.

Alan Rickman is just amazing, and the entire film hinges on his performance. I love that in a cast of baddies yelling "SCHNELL! 'EE KEELED MEIN BROTHER!!" he is playing a guy named Hans Kruger with the most English accent imaginable.

There was one amazing scene where it looked like it was about to turn into a mistaken identity romcom with Alan Rickman & Bruce Willis, but the cowards veered away from it at the last moment.

Give me that movie, dammit.

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re: Watched Die Hard for the first time last night 

It feels like it's ramping up to action films of the 90s, in terms of tone and writing. Things aren't at the point of campyness you'll get in stuff like Total Recall or Demolition Man, but the path to there from here is very clear.

re: Watched Die Hard for the first time last night (gun violence) 

What's wild is that Point Break only came 3 years later, and in that the "off-duty cop who starts a shootout in a building full of hostages during a robbery" is a minor antagonist who causes a tragic bloodbath.

Which feels very pointed and deliberate, like so much of that movie.

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