Die Hard 25th anniversary

[HarryCanyon]

Starting in January, the franchise celebrates it's 25th anniversary with the new one coming out on Valentine's Day.

The original movie is always one of the perfect holiday movies to watch during Xmas time as it with Lethal Weapon are the quintessential Christmas action movies.

I still remembered seeing Die Hard in theaters 5 times when i was 7 and blew me away each time, even my family dug it. McClane became one of my childhood heroes and i saw Die Hard 2 about 4 times at 9 with Die Hard 3 about 5 times at 13 and i even liked Die Hard 4 but only in it's unrated cut.

[TanyaTate]

I am going to take a picture of myself in front of the building

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox_Pla...Los_Angeles%29

[GeologyMule]

I am going to take a picture of myself in front of the building

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox_Pla...Los_Angeles%29

I took my picture in front of the Federal Reserve Bank of NY. Granted that was from the third one, but I love me some Die Hard.

[HarryCanyon]

who else saw this in theaters as a kid and who watches this every christmas season?

That glass pulling scene looked quite painful if you ask me.

[theotherguy]

I do love the Die Hard movies!!!

I saw it in theaters when I was about 9 I think. Pretty sure it was the $1.50 theater with just my parents. I don't think my 2 older bros were with us.
When it was out for rent we had it for days and watched it over and over.

My wife and I visited LA in 05 or 06 and when I got out of the rental car in front of the 'Nakotomi' bldg to take a pic, a security guard rushed over to say I couldn't do that for security purposes. I explained I was a huge Die Hard fan but he didn't care.
So of course I went 1 parking lot over and got what I wanted anyway. I think the 9/11 scare was still in effect...I wonder if they are the same way now? Seems silly to me but he was just doing his job.

I watch Die Hard at Christmas each year as well. Actually caught it on HBO this year!

[redsquadron]

25 years... gawddddddd! I didn't see it at the flix but I definately saw it new to rental, so I suddenly feel old again. Awesome movie - Yes it's a deserved classic but even so, I still don't think it get's the credit it deserves for revolutionising the genre.

[gbagok]

The original movie is always one of the perfect holiday movies to watch during Xmas time as it with Lethal Weapon are the quintessential Christmas action movies.

Eh, not so much for me. I have still not warmed up to either of those being Christmas classics. I can watch them anytime, they don't become magic at Christmas like It's a Wonderful Life or White Christmas. Even just for the sake of being subversive I much prefer Lion in Winter or possibly Gremlins.

But neat that it's 25 years old...except for the part about how old that makes me.