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Originally Posted by Malsua
Well, I'm somewhat facetiously referring to Die Hard, the 1986 action movie that changed the action genre as a Christmas movie. It _is_ a Christmas movie in that it takes place at Christmas time, it has a Christmas party as a major part of it and there's plenty of Christmas music in it. It is of course, a hotly debated topic as to it's Christmas cred.
Who can forget "Now I have a machine gun, Ho Ho Ho" complete with a dead terrorist wearing a Santa hat? Or maybe Ellis giving Holly Genero(Holly another reference) a Rolex as a present?
Even at the end, John uses Christmas ribbons to hold his gun, as if he's waiting to give a present to Hans. He does of course, a Christmas eve plummet about 30 stories. A free ride you might say, his final gift to Hans, the best terrorist of all time and an exceptional thief.
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OK yes, I liked his 1st couple of Die Hard movies - then for me they started to become mediocre and repetitive. Many a movie series becomes its own worst enemy due to its initial success, which it can then, in the future, never surpass.
If you have Amazon Prime a sure thing is "Leave No Trace". A great mystery genre movie recently out is, "Knives Out" with Daniel Craig. And great sleeper movie that IS NOT for everybody is, "Attack the Block" a very English type of movie. Not the usual fare for most Americans, but GREAT for those that can find appreciation in it!
Billy Bob Thorton's Goliath 4th year series about cocaine-based pharmacy-sold legal pain pills is GREAT! Pretty soon there should be some CV movies coming out - and they may even focus-in on the confusion associated with it in the US. And maybe even reference the 98% CV vaccination rate of Portugal. I would love to see that one!