Posted on 12/26/2019 5:17:19 AM PST by EyesOfTX
Ok, are you finally getting tired of all this WINNING yet? – The NASDAQ closed at a record high level yet again on Tuesday, marking its 9th consecutive record high trading day. The Dow Jones Industrial average and S&P 500 were fractionally down, but all market indexes are pointing to a higher open in pre-trading this morning.
Yes, Virginia, “Die Hard” is a Christmas movie. – C’mon, how can we still be arguing about this? Of course, it’s a Christmas movie. In fact, other than “A Christmas Story,” “Die Hard” may be the greatest Christmas movie ever made.
Think about it: The entire plot of the film revolves around the Nakatomi company Christmas party. The party is being held on Christmas eve. Christmas music permeates the film from beginning to the very end. Christmas imagery is everywhere.
“Die Hard” is not just a great Christmas movie, but a truly great movie, period. Released in 1988, “Die Hard” was the first film of its genre. It was the first pure action film, and it remains the greatest pure action film ever made today, despite hundreds of attempts to replicate it, including five sequels. Its greatness includes:
Best Action Hero: Bruce Willis as John McClane Best Action movie villain: The great Alan Rickman as Hans Gruber Best Action movie cop: The great Reginald VelJohnson as Al Powell Best Action movie wife: Bonnie Bedellia as Holly Gennaro McClane Best Action movie FBI Guy: Robert Davi as FBI Special Agent Johnson Best idiot cop: Paul Gleason as Deputy Chief Dwayne T. Robinson Best corporate jackass: Hart Bochner as Harry Ellis Best obnoxious TV reporter: William Atherton as Richard Thornburg
Pure greatness, all around.
The plot of the movie resolves itself exactly as any Christmas movie should: Truth triumphs over deception, honesty over thievery, justice over crime and good over evil.
So, “Die Hard” is indeed a Christmas movie, and a great one at that.
But here’s the other thing “Die Hard” is: It’s a totally relevant analogy to the three years of the Donald Trump presidency. Think about it:
The Nakatomi party-goers are the American people; The terrorists are the globalist Deep State; The terrorists are there to deprive the people of their freedom and rob them of their wealth; The hero sort of stumbles into his role, almost by accident and fate; The hero spends the first half of the film fighting the Deep State alone, but about midway through the plot is joined by Al Powell, the defender of justice who is eerily analogous to William Barr; The FBI guys are utterly corrupt and inept. Perfect; You even have the corrupt fake news media personified in Richard Thornburg; The terrorist played by ballet dancer Alexander Godunov, who McLane dispatches after a long, brutal battle, is Robert Mueller; Harry Ellis, the self-absorbed jerk who tells Hans Gruber “I can give him to ya,” is James Comey; Deputy Chief Dwayne Robinson is former Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe; McLane even describes himself as Donald Trump perfectly in this exchange with Gruber:
Hans: Who are you, then? McClane: A fly in the ointment, Hans. A monkey in the wrench. A pain in the ass.
And there is more to come:
Hans Gruber falling from the 31st floor of Nakatomi Tower will come in 2020 with the indictment and public perp walk of John Brennan;
The climactic scene, with John and Holly McLane riding off safe and sound in their limo will come on Election Night 2020 when Donald Trump gives his victory speech with Melania by his side, after which they will ride back to the White House in Air Force One.
The script for “Die Hard” was based on Roderick Thorp’s 1979 novel, “Nothing Lasts Forever.” It obviously wasn’t intentional, but it’s a little spooky how, 40 years ago, he so accurately depicted everything our nation has been put through over the last three years.
“Die Hard” isn’t just a Christmas movie, it’s a Trump movie, too.
“Oh, the weather outside is frightful,
and the fire is so delightful;
But since we’ve no place to go,
Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow.”
That is all.
Can’t ANYTHING be non-political nowadays?
Yes, Diehard is a Christmas movie.
No, Diehard isn’t political analogy.
Leave one of my favorite movies alone and let me enjoy it without seeing Nancy Pelosi’s face superimposed on any of the bad guys...
Classic!
It’s meant for a generation of people who grew up differently.
It doesn’t make any difference when you were born or how you grew up. Die Hard may be a good movie about a make believe hero who never really existed but, it’s simply just that, a movie. Christmas is about the birth of Jesus, a true superhero who saved the world. He actually physically existed. It’s interesting how much effort is directed in not making movies about Him, even at Christmas.
Uh....no.
You killed your argument with your own post.
An honest businessman would have returned the $8000 immediately.
It’s totally a Christmas movie. It’s a Christmas movie for people that can’t stand the saccharine pap that passes for Christmas entertainment. That’s how a friend of mine introduced me to it. It was coming on Christmas time and I was complaining how awful the entertainment of the world gets this time of year, with Burl Ives crap fests, and the teary BS. And he said “watch Die Hard”. Great advice. There actually is a pro-family message in the movie. And it’s probably the most technically perfect action movie ever.
It’s no more cultural rot than all the other Christmas movies. Actually it’s much less. Because 90% of the “traditional” Christmas movie Die Hard is actually a good movie.
“And although “It’s a Wonderful Life” is a great movie, it makes an honest and good businessman, Potter, into a villain. Sure he takes the $8,000 and attempts to shut down Bailey, but Bailey gives loans to people that don’t qualify and puts his other clients into jeopardy. Potter rents out “shacks” but they do have a choice of bettering their lives.”
So, wait, Potter didn’t threaten stockholders by stealing bailey’s $8,000.00?
Wow.
I suggest you get smart on what happened during the stock market crash depicted in the film
You compare a successful multi generational family loan company to our contemporary democrat politicians taking middle class taxes and giving them away to welfare recipients who turn around and vote for Democrats when the should not be allowed to vote if they are not working as the conflict of interest threatens tge middle class backbone of this country?
Ok. George Bailey and his family and stockholders were in business to make a living and improve the community. There is always risk
The threat you see in the film was the Great Depression, when the every man for himself mentality was the threat which George fought off
Potter was in for himself, stealing the Bailey stockholder money during the depression.
Potter is Paul Si nger, driving entire towns into the ground, taking care of his greedy stockholders who pretend they’re not responsible for turning the community into pottersville or worse. Allowing the government to have to come in with middle clas tax revenue and support the irresponsible for generations while people like him and bought-out senators pay single digit loopholed tax rates
And Die Hard is a Christmas movie
I don’t really care for the traditional Christmas movies either, I find them rather boring. I’m not a devout Christian either, but the entire American Christmas experience disgusts me more each passing year with all the hypocrisy.
Sears sells DieHard brand to Advance Auto Parts for $200 million:
Well then you should embrace the Die Hard movement. Because a lot of what that’s all about is ditching the American Christmas experience for your own custom made version. It’s really a flag to wave that says “I’m not into that commercial American Christmas that’s all about debt and bad movies and crappy music and overcrowded malls. I’m going my way.”
Hmm well...I see the point, but I still understand what the actual Christmas holiday is, and I respect the idea of it. Making up my own perverted celebration of Jesus birth is too cynical, even for me.
Die Hard is on its way to being ruined because of this cliche that it’s a Christmas movie. Give it enough time, it’ll get its own 24-hour marathon just like A Christmas Story and before long nobody will care to watch again due to over-saturation.
Just like the sub-prime financial scam...except the banks were forced and Bailey did it of his own free will.
Home Alone is also a Christmas movie.
This yr, for the first time, I watched A Wonderful Life and didn’t like it at all.
They talked too fast, the first part was slower than molasses, and he treated his kids like crap.
The wife actually said..... George, why do you have to torture the children?
No way - "The Ref" was the best Christmas movie ever made (besides "Christmas Story").
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