You may have read my recent tales of disaster--with an attempted “natural” Christmas and also with the artificial kind. As the holiday approaches and I need a break from the craziness of the shopping and decorating season, I turn to that all-time best Christmas disaster movie. No, not the Chevy Chase one, or the one where Jimmy Stewart tries to kill himself. Though I do love “It’s a Wonderful Life.”
The all-time best Christmas disaster movie, “Die Hard” is just the ticket to get you in the holiday disaster spirit. What’s not to like? Bruce Willis with sort-of-bulging muscles in a dirty “beater” shirt, Bonnie Bedalia with big ‘80’s hair and shoulder pads, and a towering–inferno-in-the-waiting. Identifiable bad guys with German accents but only greed, not real political or terrorist motivations. And a good-hearted, hefty, Twinkie-eating cop who is smarter than all his bosses and the FBI combined.
Sorry for the spoiler but if you haven’t seen the movie by now you’ve been living on the moon or in a coma the last twenty years: the good guy wins, the obnoxious media guy gets a well-deserved punch from Bonnie, and Bruce and Bonnie decide they both should compromise and appreciate each other a little more. And that doesn’t even mention the cute, African American limo driver kid, Argyle, who help s save the day.
Some ‘80’s media and “art” have not aged well. But pull out your copy of “Die Hard”, or download or stream it or whatever you do. Pour a little rum in your eggnog and have yourself a merry little Christmas disaster, complete with happy ending. If you are surviving the holiday season you deserve it. And most likely you did not have as tough a time making it home for the holidays as Bruce and Bonnie did.
Good grief! It's one of my favorite movies . .. but I hadn't really thought about its being a Christmas movie. Somehow if I were categorizing the movies in my collection, I probably wouldn't have snuggled it up against Wonderful Life or even National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation. But if it's an excuse to pour some rum into the eggnog . .. then that's what I'll do.
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