I also found it to be a great workout video on the treadmill or elliptical machine. Plenty of action to keep your mind off the exercise.
For a different side of Rickman check out, “The Song Of Lunch”.
No, Trading Places is best Christmas movie!!!
Die Hard trivia:
The Nakatomi tower is actually the headquarters of 20th Century Fox. The company charged itself rent for the use of the then-unfinished building.
There are two references to the Japanese naval attack on Pearl Harbor on he 7th December 1941. The first occurs when John McClane questions whether the Japanese celebrate Christmas. Takagi replies “We’re flexible, Pearl Harbor didn’t work out so we got you with tape decks”. The second is the breaking of the code key for the vault. The password “Akagi” (Red Castle in English) is the name of one of the Japanese aircraft carriers which carried out the strike on Pearl Harbor.
Hans Gruber was also the name of an adversary in Our Man Flint (1966) with James Coburn.
For the shot where Hans Gruber falls from the top of the building, Alan Rickman was actually falling from a 21-foot high model. He was holding on to a stunt man and falling on to an air bag. To get the right reaction, the stunt man dropped Rickman on the count of two, not three.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095016/trivia?ref_=tt_ql_2
Far from the best but far from the worse.
Probably the most technically perfect action movie ever made. Which of course makes it the best at everything it is, including being a Christmas movie.
My favorite Christmas movie is “Donovan’s Reef.”
Gruber and his gang are not terrorists, but extraordinary thieves.
1988. So it’s a classic, like “Miracle on 34th Street.”
Back when only limo drivers had cell phones.
And bad guys had to rely on CB radios for advanced communications.
And Channel 9 was only for emergencies and ordering pizzas, and no one believed you if you called in an actual emergency.
It was normal procedure to send a semi-retired sergeant who shoots kids to check out a terrorist incident in a high-rise by himself. Tell him to “use caution.”
Back then, you could use “Red Castle” as your password without a number or special character.
Back then, computer monitors were detonation devices (why didn’t Hans just use those?).
Back then, you would “lose the grid or lose your job.”
I’m kinda partial to, “The Long Kiss Goodnight,” during Christmas time.
Very underrated movie.
Ha! Glad I found this thread!
We watched it last night.
Didn’t the terrorist lobby guard who played Eddie look like Huey Lewis?
I thought it actually was, until I looked it up on IMDB!