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....
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.
For me, it's tied as the best xmas movie ever, along with Bad Santa and Christmas Story.
Alan Rickman doesn't cancel him out?
Some would say that the Wild Bunch is the best action movie ever made.