I actually appreciate how much time they spend setting everything up with the troubled marriage, him not wearing shoes and Ellis being a douchebag. The film wouldn't be hailed as a classic without the script featuring so many immaculate payoffs.

An Amazing Christmas film! I always say, it isn't Christmas until Hans Gruber falls from the Nakatomi Plaza!

The scene where John and Hans are talking to each other is shot at what is called a Dutch angle. It shows that John don’t trust Hans.

There are 5 movies. Die Hard 2 is also a Christmas movie. And the last one has their Daughter Lucy dating a man who helps John. Die Hard 3 has Hans' brother as the bad guy. 👱‍♀👱‍♀👗👗👠👠💓💓

"Welcome to the party, pal!" It isn't Christmas in my house until Hans Gruber is THROWN out of the Nakatomi Building. 😎 🎄 Fun Fact: Alan Rickman nearly passed up the role of Hans Gruber, which ended up being his first film role. He had only arrived in Hollywood two days earlier and was appalled by the idea of his first role being the villain in an action film. To a degree, Rickman was right to be concerned considering his performance as Hans Gruber was so hailed that the actor had to struggle being typecast as a player of villains for much of his career. First Face-Off Fact: The scene in which Gruber and McClane meet fir the first time was inserted into the script after Alan Rickman (Hans Gruber) was found to be proficient at mimicking American accents. The filmmakers had been looking for a way to have the two characters meet prior to the climax and capitalized on Rickman's talent. Making Lemonade Fact: The scene where McClane falls down a shaft was a mistake by the stuntman, who was supposed to grab the first vent, as it originally was planned. He slipped and continued to fall, but the shot was used anyway; it was edited together with one where McClane grabs the next vent down as he falls.

"I'm your white knight." That was Ellis attempting to sell himself as the man who can get Hans anything he wants. In American fairy tales, the "white knight" was a medieval knight in gleaming armor who came in and rescued the princess. Incidentally, as slimy as Ellis was, and as much as he was a real jerk of the world, he was more than a one-note villain. He never gave up Holly, and said that he had invited John there rather than she. He took all the attention onto himself. Again, he was a complete ass, but there was more to him than that. 'Eighties movies were good for that, for giving characters some depth, even in "just" action movies.

You had an individual pointing and firing a machine gun in the direction of civilians. They have every right and even a duty to shoot him. The real problem is that they never accepted or used John McClain as a friendly or an asset, which is why they assumed the individual on the roof is a terrorist. If they had interacted with him, communicated with him as a friendly, then they might have known what was going on, and known he was a friendly.

Welcome to the party, pal!

The movie that brought tank tops back into fashion. and by the way, also provided bruce willis' breakthrough in the cinema. until then he was mainly a television star.

Good catch on the clinching HO-HO-HO. IMO, _that_ makes this a Christmas movie.

Two things that are kind of ironic when you think back. One of them is John telling the police chief "who gives a shit about glass" because later on it becomes an issue for John. The other is when the news anchor gets the country wrong when the author it talking about the "Helsinki" syndrome. Even though he was wrong about where Helsinki was when he said Sweden, the actual syndrome that author is referring to is called "Stockholm syndrome", so the anchor is kind of right about where the syndrome originates from.

Great Christmas movie! Glad you watched it :D Merry Christmas!!

Flying from NYC to California, "John McClane" finds this song: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rb94n8h3q87Qdp8.html 5:05 This exchange shows that John and Argyle are "working class guys." 6:03 "Bill Clay has left the building...long ago." 6:53 Ellis doesn't DRINK Coke. John McClane isn't 'a muscular Rambo-type," takes damage, has moments of fear/doubt/introspection, and is "dead man walking" by the final quarter of the movie. Is it any wonder that audiences saw themselves in him? For his first Hollywood movie, Alan Rickman's "Hans Gruber" is a cool, ruthless, intelligent, 'exceptional thief."

5 more set at Christmas time: "Die Hard 2" (1990) Bruce Willis "Lethal Weapon" (1987) Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, Gary Busey "R.E.D." (2010) Bruce Willis, John Malkovich, Karl Urban, Helen Mirren, Brian Cox "The Long Kiss Goodnight" (1996) Geena Davis, Samuel L. Jackson, Brian Cox "Survivor" (2015) Milla Jovovich, Pierce Brosnan

Of the remaining movies in the Die Hard franchise, I believe that #4, Live Free or Die Hard is the best by far. FWIW, all of my greats were born in Sweden but all that survived by my generation was Julotta and Lutefisk, and nobody mourned when the latter was abandoned.

Lirtz! Merry Christmas and seasons greetings. Thank you for all of your wonderful KZfaq content. Watching your videos is like wearing a cozy sweater and I heard that the people of the earth voted and you won first place.

Merry Christmas to you also, Lirtzy.

Someday I hope to be sitting on a beach earning 20%.

"Bubbe" is yiddish term of endearment.

It was fun to see this one, been quite some time since I saw it myself! How can it be more Christmas than John McClane as your secret santa?! 😁 You should definitely give the other Die Hard-movies a shot. Merry Christmas Lirtz!🎄

Thanks for the upload @lirtzie great job 🌟 , and of course we were correct about it being an xmas movie

Merry Christmas Lirtz 💜.. love the reaction!

You got my subscription kid! Great reaction! :-)

Saved this video for today. Merry Christmas Lirtz. See ya on twitch on Monday

Looking forward to this one. There are four sequels, none of which are bad, but 1 and 3 are the best in the series (same director). Unfortunately Bruce Willis had to retire from acting after being diagnosed with aphasia this year or last year, resulting in trouble being able to think/speak. Sucks, always loved his movie. Also, this is Alan Rickman's (Hans Gruber) first movie. He was 40. Never too late to start! Merry Christmas, cheers!

SALUDÓ DESDE LA REPÚBLICA DOMINICANA EXCELENTE VÍDEO 🇩🇴👍🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿🏆🌟🌟🌟❤

1. Karl/Alexander Godunov(RIP) also played in "The Money Pit" with Tom Hanks and "Witness" with non Indiana/Solo Harrison Ford. He had a very interesting story. 2. Robinson/Paul Gleason(RIP) seems to always play buttheads. I.e. "Trading Places" and "The Breakfast Club". 3. Another fun Willis movie that have similar events is "The Last Boy Scout". They drop more F-bombs that you can shake a stick at. Including a little girl. 4. He better have a place to crash.😍😘😋 5. The dead body that fell was full of bullets Dumbass🙄🤬 6. YES, a Christmas movie. It takes place at a Christmas party. 7. Missing you Bruce.😪

The $640 million would be $1.6 trillion in 2022.

Your' Reaction was so great! keep doing more!

Great reaction. Thanks.

Alan Rickmans very first movie and he hit the ground running.

Great reaction ! - Really enjoyed it…It wasn’t “raining money”……It was “snowing” money…..”HOLLY Genero” etc….definitely a Christmas movie !

The Detective starring Frank Sinatra was also based on a novel written by the author of the Die Hard novel. Sinatra played the same character Bruce Willis does here (they may have changed the name, can't recall). Anyway, Fox Studios was still contractually obligated to Sinatra, and were actually and officially required to offer him Die Hard -- reprising his role from The Detective. Sinatra was an old man by then and was always gonna turn it down. He did, and the rest is history.

Happy holidays 💗🎄🎅

I now want to try Julmust! :) We have nothing like that in Canada.

Lirtzie! Been watching you since RDR2. You are awesome!

Thank you Lirtzie for reacting this amazing classic Die Hard starring by Bruce Willis. Next time reacts the sequels Die Hard 2, Die Hard with a Vengeance, Live Free or Die Hard and A Good Day to Die Hard.

Lirtz…..Bubbe…Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas, Lirtzie 🎅 🎄 AWESOME show, keep up the terrific work 👌 👏 👍 😀

I love that movie. Best Christmas movie there is! 🙌 Happy you liked it and I can recommend at least Die Hard 2+3. The other ones not as much. Mission Impossible is another amazing one. They get better with each part! Merry Chistmas, Lirtzie!

Helsinki sweden always cracks me up, its stockholm syndrom god damn it :D Gäsp XD

Oh, did the cigarette John offered Hans tip John off?

Great reaction, Lirtz! One of the best Christmas movie ever! The sequels are good. Only Die Hard 2 and Die Hard with a Vengeance.

Yippee ki yay!!

Smoking indoors and in the airport, airplane, office. Yes yes yes! I am a smoker and I miss those days, you obviously don't but I really don't care, go get yourself a big whiff of second hand smoke. Lol

MC and HNY! I am sorry to hear you are doing less reactions. Can you do Bioshock? Please! 😜

Was 1988 Bruce Willis good looking?

You know what sucks? I keep running into these sites that have all these beautiful women hosting them. I mean I'm really into what they're talking about and totally agree. But, then I read the text. They are exactly on the same page as me!?

"Bubby" is a childish term of endearment. I've never heard anyone say it in real life

You're so beautiful ❤❤❤❤❤

You are so adorable

Svensk huh? Får väl kika då. :)

re·con·noi·ter /ˌrekəˈnoidər,ˌrēkəˈnoidər/ verb make a military observation of (a region). "they reconnoitered the beach some weeks before the landing" noun an act of reconnoitering. "a nocturnal reconnoiter of the camp"