For the first time...... Die Hard.
Yup, that one. Never saw it. Hey, you can't see everything, it's relatively easy to miss a movie if you don't watch it in the theaters and anyway you don't bother too much with action films.
Still, I can now finally see why this movie was so famous... totally deserving and I assume this movie was a benchkmark for many, many action films to come.
I liked how John McCaine was not a superhuman one step away from a comics superhero, but a regular cop caught in the action who time and again feared for his life or cursed himself for the things he was about to do. Badass move to send down the first guy he killed with the writing "Now I have a machine gun", way to throw the bad guys off. And the douche that revealed his name to Gruber totally deserved his fate.
Also it was nice to see again Alan Rickman
I don't know if it can be called a "christmas movie", because it has nothing to do with it aside the fact that it happens on Christmas Eve, but still, Xmas or not, it's one hell of a ride and the long running time doesn't weigh it down in the least!
Also, gotta love this from Wikipedia:
Willis's first day on set was on 2 November 1987 when following completion of that day's filming on Moonlighting at MGM Studios at Culver City they shot the nighttime scene of him jumping with a fire hose around his waist as an explosion occurred behind of what appeared to be the top of the Nakatomi tower behind him.
In reality he jumped from the roof of a five-storey parking garage onto an airbag. The force of the explosion blew him out to the very edge of the airbag. When upon completing the stunt Willis inquired why they hadn't filmed such a dangerous scene at the end of production, he was told that if they had, then they would have run the expensive risk of having to reshoot the whole movie with another actor.
"Hey let's shoot the most dangerous scene first so in case you die we'll just get another actor"