My Thoughts on the movie, Die Hard…

It’s a Christmas movie! It’s an Action/Adventure movie! It’s a Dark Comedy…According to IMDB, it’s many films at once. But one thing’s for certain: it’s a trendsetter, a template for action films that have followed it.

We’ve all seen this film; it’s become a part of our cultural lexicon. Like A Wonderful Life, Miracle on 34th Street, and A Christmas Story, many of us watch this film during the appropriate time of year.

I watched it because of a meme.

I thoroughly enjoyed it, although many of the film's tropes are incredibly dated. If you used all of the hair gel and Aqua Net the actors used in the film, a small town’s atmosphere would become sticky. I’m so glad that we, as a culture, have transcended viewing women as objects. And of course, there’s the inherent violence in the film. The villains could not have reached their goal without a body count. One would think that such an organized, educatedand clever thief like Hans Gruber would have created a plan that included as little collateral damage as possible.

Did I mention that this film was dated?