Easy: Hans Gruber is the Mourinho figure in the story, McClane the Klopp.
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Fuck off, you selfish bastard.*
Aquaman is coming: That is so Liverpool/Rangers/Sevco/Celtic.
Also, Patrick Duffy. (Saying nothing. Sort yourselves Uti.)
*Nope, apparently you are a racist. I am a greyhound who fucking hates Ballyregan Bob, but you know, hooves for typists.
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Oh, yes...
It's not the first Bruce Willis thing, it's always the second, without the ham acting, and the other stuff (except Bonnie Bedelia, who, along with Dennis Franz, is wasted, literally, in this. And you skid on an airport runway whlilst setting fire to a tune, Ye[, fuck you, Merry Christmas.
Die Hard Plural, was sighltle better.
NBUt I dohnt care.
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It's not about Gruber being the good guy. But McClane is a cop acting outside his jurisdiction. An extrajudicial murderer putting the lives of others at risk to fulfil some American fantasy. As Gruber notes "just another American who saw too many movies as a child. Another orphan of a bankrupt culture who thinks he's John Wayne? Rambo? Marshall Dillon?"
McClane is the NRA. He's police brutality. He's, as ad hoc pointed out, Trump and MAGA. He's aggressive foreign policy in the Middle East and Latin America. He's a totem for the complete failure of the American dream.
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Originally posted by Sporting View PostJust fifteen minutes or so but often shown on German TV at Christmas:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVd_VLO9xcc
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- Mar 2008
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- Tyne 'n' Wear (emphasis on the 'n')
- Dundee Utd, Gladbach, Atleti, Napoli, New Orleans Saints, Elgin City
Die Hard is shown the penultimate week before the winter vacation on my Intro to Film module (the last week is saved for La Haine, cos I’m not daft).
I have discovered that in Croatia it’s called “Die Like a Man” and in Poland “Trapped in Glass”.
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Slight tangent but most the diminished Christmas experience between childhood and now has to be reading the double issue of the Radio Times. I bought it last year, partly out of surprise that it still exists, but the hours of schedule plotting fun that it used to afford were entirely lacking. I didn't look for the TV Times, not wanting to compound the disappointment.
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Both Scrooged and the Muppet Christmas Carol are ones that I won't mind watching if they're on. I have a soft spot for A Christmas Story just because it feels like both an unsentimental/yet somehow sentimental take on a largely gone period of American life; that said, it's a faint shadow of the glimmering brilliance of Jean Shepherd's stories (of which, the two that were always the most evocative for me, was his story about going fishing with his father and the apex, his depiction of the Fourth of July).
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- Mar 2008
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- Tyne 'n' Wear (emphasis on the 'n')
- Dundee Utd, Gladbach, Atleti, Napoli, New Orleans Saints, Elgin City
I'm showing Bad Santa in the Xmas slot at Cineclub tomorrow night. Sadly the caterers no longer do pizza, so it's sandwich selection plus nuts crisps n dips.
Only done a Xmas film once before (Muppets) cos I prefer bring-alonga-clip which allows participation and natural snack/toilet breaks. And there arent enough good xmas films to choose from
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I can't remember if we touched on this before on the thread but recent releases Green Book and Paddington 2 are now "Films I Like To Watch at Xmas" without necessarily being Xmas films (though the finale of the former does take place at Xmas).
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Originally posted by Gangster Octopus View PostJust had It's A Wonderful Life on Film4. I still think of it as a fillum about being stuck in a small town, but there y'go...
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Originally posted by Patrick Thistle View PostYep. What Snake says. LOTR and Star Wars films aren't action. If you walked into Blockbuster back in the day and went to the Action Movies shelf and those films were on there you'd laugh.
Three years too late but I'm not letting a good quip go to waste.
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I'll go for A Christmas Story too. Also One Magic Christmas, because it has Harry Dean Stanton as an elf in a tree, and somebody dies which never normally happens in Hollywood at Christmas. Favorite oldie (Alistair Sim excepted) Christmas in Connecticut, Barbara Stanwyck and Sidney Greenstreet can never be bad in anything, at any time of he year.
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There's a sort of reboot of A Christmas Story out now. It's called 8-Bit Christmas or something like that and is about a guy telling his kid about growing up wanting a Nintendo. I watched a bit, but it starts off with him recalling that his school had one rich kid with an Nintendo who was a dick to all the other kids. I remember that world and don't want to return.
As I mentioned, I watched White Christmas which is extremely "white" in a way the makers didn't consider. I like watching those old films mostly just so I understand a bit about the history of film, but it was kinda enjoyable anyway.
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