Sunday, July 15, 2018

30 Years Ago


Die Hard was released.

"Yippie-kai-ai, motherfucker" became a thing.

Die Hard was a good thriller that suffered from stupid sequels. But that's how Hollywood rolls.

(What I didn't know was that Die Hard itself was a sequel to The Detective, which had been made twenty years prior. By contract, they had to offer Die Hard to the star of The Detective, Frank Sinatra. He was in his early 70s and declined.)
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4 comments:

  1. B P7/15/2018 11:23 PM

    The Peter Principle, in another context.

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  2. re the paragon7/16/2018 2:14 AM

    I liked how the bad guys had all the good guns. Hans Gruber had a HK P7, which clearly showed that it was not loaded in the scene before he falls out of the building.

    OK, I know HK hates me and I suck. I admit to being a total HK fan boi.

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  3. Jones, Jon Jones7/16/2018 9:06 PM

    The first sequel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZZSfGdXIf8

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  4. Nangleator7/17/2018 10:08 AM

    This is a feminist appreciation of Die Hard: https://anotherangrywoman.com/2016/12/18/making-fists-with-your-toes-towards-a-feminist-analysis-of-die-hard/

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