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I hope you weren’t offended by the title but I cleaned it up pretty good.  You may be wondering what Christmas movie could possibly be connected with such a phrase.  Well, it is actually 2 movies; Die Hard and Die Hard 2: Die Harder.  You may be wondering how these action packed flicks could possibly be considered Christmas movies.  It is quite simple; they both take place during Christmas time (Lethal Weapon also takes place during Christmas time, it even starts off with a Christmas Song, but I chose to discuss Die Hard because there are 2 movies).  Die Hard even takes place on Christmas Eve.  There are several instances in both movies that reference Christmas so I feel that including them in my Christmas Specials Series.

 Die Hard, as some of you may recall, is the favorite movie of Joey, Chandler, and Ross from friends.  Ross even claims that he had the idea of Die Hard first and he had it written on a napkin (Ross also claims to have came up with Jurassic Park as well).  Why is Die Hard their favorite movie?  That’s probably because it is one of the manliest movies of all time.  John McClane is truly one tough dude.  Since that Bruce Willis played that role people instantly started seeing him as one BA dude.  One may be surprised to find out that Mr. Willis (I try to be respectful because I know he could beat me up) was actually starting up as a comedic actor.  True story, look it up on Wikipedia.  But I believe he is most famous for playing John McClane, a character who has been thwarting terrorists in 4 separate films for almost 20 years and in 3 separate decades.  Always being technically challenged but highly skilled in afflicting some major pain, John McClane is the epitamy of a die hard hero. 

We all should know that in Die Hard John defeats a gang of European Terrorists led by Hans Gruber (Alan Rickman better known as Professor Snape) in a skyscraper and if you don’t then you are required to watch Die Hard.  Many though, do not know what happens in the sequel.  In this one, Officer McClane takes down professionally trained mercenaries and an international drug lord at an airport in the snow.  He literally fights hand to hand with not one, but two different guys while on the wing of the plane (also, the plane is moving).  How awesome is that?  Now I will admit that Die Hard 2 is the lesser of all the Die Hards (I rate them in order from favorite to least favorite as follows; 1, 4, 3, then 2).  But even if it is lacking as far as Die Hard movies go, it is still one of the most action packed Christmas films you will have the pleasure to watch.  Also, in Die Hard 2, John and his wife, Holly, are in the best place as far as their relationship goes in all of the movies.  This makes it a bit more family friendly, just a smidge.

There is nothing like watching one man take on an entire terrorist group by himself to get you in the Christmas Spirit.  When watching you can’t help but fell all warm and full of goodwill towards men as you cheer on Officer McClane.  Well, most of us.  There is an episode of How I Met Your Mother where Barney confesses that he roots for Hans Gruber.  This is because in Barney’s words, “Hans Gruber, charming international bandit. In the end, he dies hard. He's the title character.”  But Barney is a fictional character so he doesn’t really count.  In fact, I think I’m going to create a new Christmas Tradition around the country.  I believe that on December 15, families shall pop popcorn and make hot cocoa and put on holiday headwear (Santa hats, Elf hats, Reindeer antlers etc) and watch one of the first 2 Die Hards.  I’m sure I could talk TNT into showing them back to back every December 15.  If TNT won’t do it then I will just go to TBS, FX, or Spike.  It could be just as big as the Christmas Story marathon on Christmas Eve.  I say we all start with this tonight, and if you are reading this too late, you can join in too.  We won’t judge if you do it on the 17^th or anytime between now and Christmas.  I think we really have a good idea here so let us all take it, and run with it. 

Merry Christmas Mother Bleep (still censoring myself)

-LD