Christmas Movie

It is the Holiday Season once again. My problem is this time of year is forced down your throat with a shovel. I wish this time of year practiced a little more moderation.

Every year on Christmas Eve I watched movies. There is only one requirement. It cannot have anything to do with Christmas what so ever. Last year for example it was Chinese Christmas. It featured Bruce Lee’s Enter the Dragon. Another year the theme was “Peace on Earth”. Nobody is more responsible for bringing “Peace on Earth” than Clint Eastwood starring in the greatest western series The Man with No Name Trilogy. You get the idea.

I have to admit there are only two Christmas themed movies I can watch. More accurately two I can tolerate. A Christmas Story
and National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation.

I got to thinking maybe this year I should try watching a movie that had some Christmas in it. So what would it be? And there was only one real choice. Die Hard. It is the perfect Holiday movie. In the movie, Bruce Willis is invited to his wife’s office Christmas party. We have all experienced the “dread” of going to a party that we really do not want to be at. It goes from bad to worse when the terrorists show up to ruin the occasion. And it is up to Bruce to save the day. Bruce Willis gets to act out what we have all felt at some point during a Christmas party. You know the thought. “If I only had a gun right now…” We have all thought it at one point. But it is not something 99.9% of us would act on. That is a good thing. So please do not read this post as giving you any ideas. (This is my disclaimer here.)

And here are some scenes from the film