Hosted by Andrew Quinn and Darren Mooney, and this week with special guests Ciaran Mooney, Gerry Mooney and Helen Mooney, The 250 is a fortnightly trip through some of the best (and worst) movies ever made, as voted for by Internet Movie Database Users.
This time, a Christmas treat. John McTiernan’s Die Hard.
Travelling across the United States to reunite with his estranged wife, New York cop John McClane finds himself embroiled in a high-stakes hostage crisis on Christmas Eve.
At time of recording, it was ranked the 122nd best movie of all time on the Internet Movie Database.
Show Notes:
- Recorded 21st December 2017.
- Die Hard at The Internet Movie Database.
- The IMDB 250 as it appeared at time of recording.
- YouGov reports on the percentage of Americans who consider Die Hard a Christmas movie, December 2017.
- Empire ranks the thirty best Christmas movies, December 2016.
- Justin Trudeau talks to MTL Blog about whether Die Hard is a Christmas movie, December 2017.
- Shane Black discusses his tendency to set his films at Christmas with Entertainment Weekly, May 2016.
- Michael Hann at The Guardian on how Die Hard became a classic Christmas movie, December 2017.
- Zack Handlen at The A.V. Club ponders whether Die Hard works so well because it is only Christmas tangential, December 2013.
- Dreamgun Film Reads podcast on iTunes.
- Joe Eszterhas discusses “the Larry Gordon rule” with The Independent, January 2007.
- Alan Rickman talks to The Hollywood Reporter about what he brought to the role of Hans Gruber, April 2015.
- Tom Breihan at The A.V. Club on how John McClane humanised the action hero, November 2016.
- Ryan Vlastelica at The A.V. Club discusses the novel that inspired Die Hard, November 2017.
- Emily Upton at Business Insider on how Frank Sinatra was originally offered the lead role in Die Hard, March 2014.
- Screenwriter Steven E. De Souza explains a plot hole in Die Hard, March 2017.
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