Fact: Die Hard is the best action movie ever made. It is better than Star Wars, it’s better than Raiders of the Lost Ark, and it’s playing this week at Central Cinema as part of their Christmas Classics! series (which will include Gremlins later this month, bless their hearts). Luke Skywalker is a whiny brat who’s in love with his sister. Indiana Jones is rad until you wave a snake in front of him. John McClane is 100 percent badass—he’ll take on 12 evil terrorists, walk on broken glass with bare feet, and still be up for a make-out session with his wife. Yippee kay yay, motherfucker. (Central Cinema, 1411 21st Ave, 686-6684, 9:30 pm, $5 adv/$7 DOS, 21+)
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Excuse me: yippie kay yay? Rilly?
I don’t think it tops Raiders, but it’s above Star Wars. A bit on par with Aliens, in my opinion.
For me, it’s tied as the best xmas movie ever, along with Bad Santa and Christmas Story.
Meh. It had it’s day – last century.
Alas, it has Bruce Willis in it, who is the most repellent human being who has ever appeared on a screen.
@4,
Alan Rickman doesn’t cancel him out?
#4 – I don’t know about that, Fnarf. You’re appearing on my computer screen right now.
@4 You’d take Mel Gibson over Bruce Willis? REALLY?
Megan
Some would say that the Wild Bunch is the best action movie ever made.
Some friends had a Die Hard watching party this weekend to get us in the holiday spirit… haven’t seen it in years and it was pretty funny to watch Alan Rickman in this part, after I just saw the last HP movie. All I could think of was Severus Snape holding all those people hostage….
@7, yes, really. Not by much. Mel Gibson, for all his faults, never played harmonica. Neither did Michael Douglas, who is third.
I guess Willis has some loathsome elements about him, but that movie was just goddamn fantastic and I really think changed the way action films would be made & viewed for the next 20 years (until Matrix ushered in the largely disappointing era of CGI anyway. Blah.) I love the weird flash of the black & white effect during the crashing helicopter scene — think that was a fancy “add-in” to the DVD release. I also love “Argyle”, the limo driver.