Jan. 6, 2026

Midweek Mention... Die Hard

Midweek Mention... Die Hard
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Die Hard is the kind of “comfort violence” film that never gets old, and your recap hits basically every reason it works.

A few extra bits worth calling out (because they’re the secret sauce):

  • It’s a Christmas film for structural reasons, not vibes.
    Christmas isn’t just background dressing. The party only happens because it’s Christmas, the building is half-staffed because it’s Christmas, McClane is only in LA because it’s Christmas, and Hans’ whole timing depends on a holiday lull. Remove Christmas and the plot collapses.
  • McClane isn’t an action hero at the start — he becomes one.
    He’s scared, he bleeds, he’s improvising, and he’s basically running on stubbornness and spite. That’s why it’s satisfying: it’s competence earned under pressure, not superhero nonsense.
  • Hans Gruber is the real blueprint villain.
    He’s calm, intelligent, funny, and actually seems like he has a plan. Rickman makes him feel like he’s doing theatre while everyone else is doing an action film. It’s why the film still plays now.
  • Ellis is the most realistic character in the whole thing.
    Not “realistic” as in good, but realistic as in: give a coke-sniffing corporate gobshite a crisis and he’ll try to negotiate his way into being important. Then immediately get shot.
  • The Powell/McClane friendship is pure genius.
    They barely share a scene, but it lands emotionally because it’s built on voice, trust, and the fact Powell is the only person treating McClane like a human being instead of a “situation.”

And yes: a 24/7 Die Hard channel is basically the final form of Christmas television. Even if you don’t watch it, it’s reassuring that it exists, like a lighthouse for divorced dads and men in dressing gowns.

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Bad Dads

Die Hard

Cris: 2026.

Done with the

Sidey: Cheers. First, first drink

Cris: chin. chin, cheer,

Dan: Chin, chin.

Sidey: first drink since New Year's.

Dan: Yeah. This is, is, um, obviously we're, is it not true for you? No, we broke on the second.

Sidey: Yeah, because I think I'd opened a bottle of wine and I hadn't finished it, so I Right.

Dan: Did the decent thing.

Um, no. I had a drink on Christmas Day, then I had my next drink on New Year's Eve and I haven't touched a

Sidey: I got, I was really pissed on Christmas Eve. Really

pissed.

Cris: you said so that you didn't seem like that bad in the car though.

Sidey: because we all went out and you've

Dan: Oh yeah. I remember

Sidey: hour window.

Yeah, and it wasn't like we were just being silly or anything, but because Paolo just

Cris: Oh 15.5, Dan

Dan: was strong wine.

Cris: that shutting off the pop.

Sidey: So later on that evening, um, I think it got to about. So we left the pub about half, four or something So it was very

Cris: Five. Let's just say

five. Yeah, [00:01:00]

Sidey: it got to about nine, half nine. I was like, fuck it. I haven't made the, um, the dessert for Christmas in case like you did it about three hours ago. And I thought,

Dan: You were on it. Yeah, you're on it. Okay. Um, I don't think I came home and drunk anything else but I couldn't be sure like you and the dessert, um, who knows? Um,

Sidey: straight into the box fear

Dan: bang on again, don't you? Yeah.

Sidey: And I have to tell you, my Christmas and year, very, very quiet. Little bit of family time like with the in like, not just with my own phone, but a little bit of in-law's Christmas day. And other than that, I've been on the couch. I've either been building Lego or I've been on the couch watching like millions of

Dan: seen some of your Lego

Sidey: and and TV programs. Yeah. Loads. Yeah, it's good, isn't it?

Cris: It, yeah, it does look good. Yeah. Yeah.

Sidey: I, I've completed it, so I've had to buy something else today 'cause I've already got with Jaws, so I bought Sound Wave for the Transformers character.

Dan: We've been getting the flowers

Sidey: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.

I've seen them in the shop today. Yeah,

Dan: so we've had a few of them to put together. Been quite nice. It's [00:02:00] great building Lego. You know, you just talk and chat

Sidey: No, I do. On my own.

Dan: Oh, well I did it with Nelly. It was nice. It was just putting it together. Um, enjoyed it.

Cris: Would Mullin not enjoyed doing that with you, or you just wanna do it

Sidey: I wanna do it myself. Yeah. Put some records on.

Dan: I've seen a, in the auction, a ano, clock. Did you see that?

Sidey: Uh, is the full catalog out? 'cause I looked at the preview

Dan: This was, I think it's the full catalog

Sidey: Oh, I've not seen it

Dan: So it was, um, a ano. Like grandfather clock.

But it wasn't the whole stand, it was just like the bit, but it's got a chime. And I was like, do I? Um, but I, what I won't be doing is buying any more champagne because I spent 200 pounds on champagne at the auction and it was all corked.

Sidey: Really?

Dan: all of it.

Cris: that's the risk.

Sidey: That's the thing. You dunno how it's been stored?

Dan: Not very well. Yeah. Even that massive magnum that we were really looking forward to. Well my sister said it, it had all [00:03:00] been corked and tipped it away. Um, maybe she drunk it all before

Sidey: a whole lot.

Dan: like four, four bottles here before I got there.

No, it was um, so that was disappointing.

Sidey: is disappointing.

Um, 'cause we were, I mean I, about the case of support, weren't we? Yeah. And then you could drop, 'cause it went for 800 quid by seven 80. And if you'd spent that and then it was shy, it'd

Dan: Well, it made me think, I'm not gonna buy

Cris: Well, that's what, uh, our common friend Bs, who is a sommelier, he told me a few times because I asked him about a few wines and, uh, he said a couple of times that uh, because he works for a local company here, that they also store in their wine cellar.

Sidey: It's properly done.

Cris: Proper wine for wealthy people that they just pay a rental fee. And he said that there's a couple of people that came back to them, like really wealthy people over here that, uh, they were like, oh, we drank this collector's item from 1983. And, uh, it didn't. And he, he just turned around. He's like, look, there's an 80% chance that the wine hasn't been always stored properly.

So if it's been moved, it's [00:04:00] been done. This, if it's seen daylight

Sidey: it's just been stood up without,

from, corks dried out

Cris: now.

Sidey: now, it's

Cris: That's, that's more than 40 years. You're not, that's not gonna be a nice wine anymore. You know, when people like certain vintages, if it goes over 12, 15 years, it should be stored properly. Otherwise, especially with wine.

And that goes for champagne as well, especially champagne. If it changes light or if it changes the way it's been stored or everything, it's really dangerous. So you're taking a chance for a lot of money when it's not really

Dan: you live and learn and we have learnt. but we never really lived,

Cris: We lived. I lived, I

Dan: we lived. We lived

Cris: had a nice, I had a nice

Sidey: You went to a party, Chris, uh, new Year's Eve

Cris: Yes.

Dan: Woo.

Look at you getting parties. We just

Cris: you, I can show you the picture. Uh, you can call me Mr. Gatsby,

Dan: Right? Ah,

Cris: uh

Sidey: oh,

is it, was it Jake Gatsby themed? Yeah. Okay, nice. Our

Cris: bow tie. Bow tie, uh, velvet, uh,

Sidey: suit. Oh, get you.

Dan: This was

obviously the Mrs.

Connection, not yourself.

Cris: Yes. Yeah, definitely not me. [00:05:00] It was nice though.

It was a nice party and we got out at half one,

Which was

Sidey: not

Dan: good innings. Yeah. Good innings. Everyone's happy at yeah. Well, um, for all those people expecting to hear nonsense about films, you've heard nonsense about wine so far. But we did watch some

Cris: We did watch some

Dan: although I watched.

More parts of films than actual whole films. There was a lot of, you know, when you're just eating too much, you've drunk too much, you, you're just flicking through. You can't settle on anything.

Sidey: No concentration

Dan: you start on a film, you think you're gonna watch, and then it's like.

It's not what you wanted after 10 minutes and you turn it off. And then,

Sidey: yeah.

So

Dan: my algo rhythms and, um, my Netflix and Prim and all that is just full of, full of films that, um, continue watching, continue

Sidey: watching. Oh, right. Yeah. You watching, did you watch anyone watch Stranger Things?

Dan: No, I haven't seen any of it.

Cris: Me neither. Yeah. I dunno

Dan: I will one day watch that. [00:06:00] But um, I know that Nelly and Janna have been watching it so. They're really keen. Um, but I go upstairs because I don't, I know one day I will watch it and I don't want it to be sport for me right now.

Sidey: you know?

Do you see Lord of the Rings? Yeah. And the final film. The ending is really long. Yeah. They outdo it in this one. The last episode is over two hours long.

And they like it. It is resolved after within an hour. And you're like, and then they just go on and on, on and on with a fucking ending. Like, come on, wrap this

Cris: two hours, but, but that's normally what, 50 minutes episodes?

Sidey: Yeah, the first few series. They're like sensible 45 minutes to an hour episodes.

Then in the last series, because they, uh, because longer episode equals better, they're all an hour, 45, 2 hours. Oh,

Cris: Oh, That's a full movie.

Sidey: Lemme tell you. It doesn't, it doesn't make this

Dan: Yeah,

It is. You're right. It's like

Cris: But by the time, and, and look, you know me, right? By the time [00:07:00] you finish the, an episode and you start the second one, by the time you finish the second episode, you forgot half of what happened in the first one. If it's that long.

Sidey: Yeah. You

Dan: binge, can you really?

Sidey: Oh, we did, we did the, so they, they released the last series in chunks. So they did the first three episode, then the next three, whatever it was.

And then the last one was on New Year's Day. Um, so with the first series we did, we did in back to back.

Dan: So that's six hours

Sidey: Uh, no, they weren't quite that long. It was probably three or four

Cris: Still still long

Dan: Still. a chunk

Sidey: Still a big

Dan: could have watched.

I dunno, uh, Lawrence of Arabia in that time.

Sidey: yeah, yeah. Speaking of which, um, you're not hearing the voice of Res today? No, because he succumbed

Cris: The man

Sidey: He succumbeded I think man flu. Yeah. There's a lot of that going around. Um,

Yeah, he, he'll be back, um, but not

Cris: speaking of series, I've watched, uh, the Rack.

Sidey: Oh, okay. The most, the recent one? Yeah.

Cris: yeah. The one that's filmed in bit in Jersey. Not the old one. No. Some of it, [00:08:00] some of it in Jersey, some of it in,

I dunno where else in England.

Sidey: Yeah, the mainland.

Cris: did watch that. It's,

it's

not bad,

Sidey: It's been renewed for season two. Yeah. It's um, I think it lacks some of the charm of the origin.

Um, but they do it differently. They do one

Cris: Yeah. You told me that

Sidey: the series, whereas the old one, it would be, it'd be one crime per episode.

Cris: per episode each episode. Yeah. This one's a bit more,

Sidey: but it still did have a bit of a narrative through line, the old

Dan: And, and back in the day you had four channels and this was on one of them, and now

Sidey: was just mainstream

Dan: channels

and

Cris: and so much, yeah. So

Dan: got everything to, to choose from. But yeah, it is nice as from a, a Jersey men to hear that it's going for a second series at least. Um, we'll see how it goes. I didn't actually watch any of that. Um, and as I say, I, the one thing that I did watch was die Hard. Because it's Christmas movie.

Cris: Yeah.

It

Sidey: it categorically is a Christmas movie. Yeah,

course. Yeah.

Dan: And [00:09:00] I've seen this probably five or six times. We may have even done it for the

Sidey: podcast. We did die hard two, we didn't do die

Dan: Right. Okay. So

Sidey: talked about it briefly because we did, uh, or we have done a couple of

Cris: top fives.

We've done some top

Sidey: No, I was thinking of Shane Black. We did, um, we did. Cus Bang Bang, which is a shame black movie. So he, he wrote the screenplay or the, the, the, because this is a book, I think originally Die Hard, and then he did the adaptation or whatever it was, and it was sold on and then Made Into the Die Hard movie.

Right. That we know in love. And just, can I just clarify that all the events of the movie would not take place without it being Yes. So therefore it fundamentally

Cris: Well, the first two, right? Yeah. The first two are Christmas movies because after that, the one where he's

Sidey: with, that's the summer.

The other

Cris: that's in the summer, and I think the other one, the White House one

Dan: I don't think I went beyond three

Sidey: Oh, I've seen them all.

Cris: Oh, the four one is when he kills the helicopter with a

Sidey: In the [00:10:00] motorway. Yeah. Something.

Cris: it's just something

Sidey: Absolutely. It jumps the shark number four, but number one, like where it all begins.

Classic.

Dan: Yeah. Number one is where diehard made its name and why they. Kept on making other movies because they thought, let's get back to to that. And you've got Naka Plaza, um, or Tower It where it's all, um, filmed and.

It's, you know, running through the plot quickly. You've got John McLean who's going to, um, yeah, that's it.

He's flying, driving home for Christmas, flying home for Christmas. Um, he's eyeing up all the girls in the airport and everything. Um, so you can see that he's a bit of a player and, um, that he's probably not as committed to his wife as he should

Sidey: Well, yeah, he's a, he's a New Yorker. Yeah. He's a New York cop, and his wife has left and moved to the other side of the country to take a good job.

Yeah. She's earning California good bank and so there's, [00:11:00] there's like some unresolved, uh, marital issue.

Dan: Yeah. And she, he, she complains a little bit later on. He was never really there even when he was there. Um, that kind of, you know, high pressure job and she's following her career, but they have kids as well.

So it's, um, it's complicated but. McClain. Um, Bruce Willis eventually gets to the, the tower and he's been picked up by, um, and he's just a, a basic New York cop, but he's been picked up by a limo. Um,

Sidey: it's the guy's first day on the job, isn't it?

Dan: It's his first down the job. He's never really driven a limo before.

So they're having these kind of conversations and he's very, Franklin, his name is, he's very, um, I say bit nosy saying, why are you here? And he's just calling him out. He's saying, so. Tell me you'll miss. He works it out for himself. Oh, so the miss has got a job and you're not pleased, and now you are coming, you know, all the rest of it.

And he's going, just keep driving. Just keep driving. But he goes, look, you all right, I'll tell you what. I'll wait for you here [00:12:00] and if she's gonna come home with you, I'll go home, but if not, I'll drive you to a hotel. So he waits downstairs in the bottom of the, the Nagarama Plaza, um, tower building. But as all this is unfolding, um, they're having a party on the 39th floor to celebrate a merger and a deal that his,

Cris: Mrs.

Dan: his misses has, has been fundamental in making happen.

So they're all really kind

Sidey: but she's still working while the party's going

Dan: Yeah, she's

Sidey: trying to get her secretary to Does you go and party. I'll sort the rest of it out and I'll get it all done, blah, blah, blah.

Dan: go, go. Um, and as all this is happening, you, you've got, um, the baddies coming and, As we first, um, see them just scoping out the place. They're ruthless, aren't they? They're just, um,

Sidey: there's like a solitary security guard on the front desk because everyone's basically

Cris: yeah, it's Christmas

Sidey: [00:13:00] Yeah. And they, they rock up, um, just walk up just to speak to him. And he goes to speak and they just

Dan: they go, hi. Do you know what they, because they're going, oh, what about those

Sidey: He's talking about sport results, I

Dan: Yeah, yeah. What about this?

Sidey: gun him down.

Dan: And he's gone out the way. Um, and, um.

Alan Rickman

is, um, just striding through in his, his kind of suit.

Sidey: He's got like a long trench coat on and he

Dan: Hans Gruber, um, is the, the villain's name, and I love the way that they refer back to this in, in three, where he goes, look, it's my brother. And you see, you see him like just at the end where he is falling down, um, grasping for, for air and um, well, yeah, grasping at the air as he falls out the tower right at the end, because.

McClain has gone up there and he's, he's starting already to argue with the mrs. She goes back in, 'cause she's gotta say a speech to the. To the crowd and he's like beating himself up going, oh, well that fucking didn't go well. Like I, I've [00:14:00] already started an argument

Sidey: think he dis disappears up a floor too, doesn't he? He goes, have a ciggy.

Dan: Well, no. Well, he, he hears the, the shooting going on and then he, he looks and there's just an angle quickly 'cause they're checking all the doors, all the offices. Um, and while they're looking in one, he's up the stairs and, um, and so starts his one man mission to, um. Breaker down, and you've got the, the cop, um, who's

Cris: it's a black guy. No. Yeah, yeah.

Dan: he's

Sidey: Powell

Dan: Powell Powell. Al Powell. Al Powell. Um, and

They're able to get a message out to the, to the police through, uh, an otherwise unused channel who are pretty pissed off. They're using it and going, what, what is this? This isn't for this. It's going, it's fucking emergency. That's why I'm using this channel because you sound like it's fucking, you know, anything less than that.

And she's going, well, look, just don't use this channel. What are you talking about? Instead of actually reacting to it. But they just think it's a crank call. Yeah. Um, and they get Powell to do a drive by. And [00:15:00] he does that. Um, and just as he is pulling away, because they've managed to just settle everything down and make sure that they, they're not, the suspicions aren't aroused too early.

McClain has already killed one body and the body gets sort of thrown on top of Power's car, and then they open up with machine gunfire on him and that's it. Everybody's then in on it and they've got a siege on, but it's all part of

Sidey: of, they, they've got the whole, uh, office in this foyer area, haven't they? And then they go off into the room.

Guru Bernie's saying. Listen, no one's gonna get hurt. We're just here to get in the vault. Um, they've got a guy trying to crack the vault, um, like a techie guy. Um, he goes, everyone just shut the fuck up. We'll get outta your way. Don't worry

Dan: minor inconvenience,

Sidey: to. Um, Togi talk to Togi and he won't give up the information.

Um, but before that, we've been introduced to this fucking super sleazy guy Yeah. Who kind of steal, almost steals the whole movie.

He's like, he's

[00:16:00] Harry Ellis.

Cris: Well, the one with the beard,

Sidey: Yeah. He is like, like the salesman kind of. I'm the Mr. Big shot. And he sort of tries to negotiate. He's

Dan: I'm a negotiator. It's what I

Cris: But he does. He does. He sniffs coke.

Sidey: He is all over it. Yeah. He's like proper eighties stereotypes.

he

Dan: he goes, right. You know, he sniffing coke when he first comes in and meets McClain. Yeah. And McClain goes left a bit on your nose. He is like, yeah. Yeah, baby. Yeah. Come on. It's all cool. It's all cool. Um, we just closed a big deal on a pretty big deal around here.

Um, and after another line of Coke, he has a Dutch courage to go and speak to, um, the, the kind of badass gruber. he goes, come on, we've got a deal here. Like, you know, um, he doesn't understand how much deep shit he's in and how little his life means, um, and

It made me laugh. 'cause every now and again around Christmas, you look at Facebook and somebody's put a post on like, of those two characters, like [00:17:00] remembering the souls that lost their, their lives at Naka.

Sidey: But Ellis, he's, he's executed and to kgi. He, he's got the access code to the, to the vault. Um, it's something like 450 million that they're trying to get out of there, bare bonds or whatever.

Um, and he, but he won't give it up, so he's just shot in front of everyone or well, in the, in the room. And then he goes, they go out and everyone's like, what's happened to him? And he says he won't be joining us for the rest of his life. But in the

Dan: Ah, they're all screaming.

Sidey: the way he delivers the life is so good.

Dan: Around that same time. Um. McClain is sent down one of, uh, Gruber's henchmen in the lift, tied to a chair, um, with like ho, ho, ho, it's

Sidey: Christmas now. I've got a radio.

Dan: of thing. I've got a radio, um, and more screams from, from the crowd.

But Holly, his misses, who's going under the name of Janero because she's taken her, her old name. and which is at the moment masking the [00:18:00] fact that she's related to, um, McClain. Um, she's like, oh, he's still alive. And, um,

Sidey: only John could piss people off this

Dan: Yeah.

Sidey: Yeah,

Dan: And there's loads of great lines in it. I mean, it's just,

Sidey: the rest of it is like, it's a lot of cat and mouse between, you know, the one man.

Police force of McLean against this gang of terrorists with machine guns

Cris: And most of the building or the few floors up and down, they're abandoned. So they're kind of

Dan: that's why they're finishing the building at the

Sidey: They twig there. He is not wearing shoes, so they shoot out all the glass and all the partitions.

So he cuts all his feet. There's the really, like, iconic bit of him crawling through the, the vents. Yeah. Um, they see that all the time with him, with his light trying to look around. Getting amongst it

Dan: so many times.

Cris: He also catches gruber at some

Sidey: up and about. And he, and he bumps into him, and Han puts on a different accent, um,

me. don't kill

Dan: Don't kill

Sidey: and they say they kind of double bluff you here because, um, McClean gives him a gun. Yeah. And you think that he's fallen for it. And then when he tries to shoot him, he is like, you think I'm fucking stupid? And there's no bullets in the [00:19:00] gun. Um, so

Dan: but at that point, the lift pings again and a couple of his henchmen save the day. So Gruber lives to fight another day. Um, it's only ever gonna end one way.

Powell on the outside is having, um,

Sidey: well, the fed's come, don't they?

Dan: Yeah. The feds are coming and they're having arguments with. Um, they, they, the other police captain, of course, is an asshole and, um, of course doesn't believe anything and thinks that just going in. With loads of might is going to sort it out. Um, even though McClain is on the inside, he's saying, well, how'd you even know?

It's like a friendly, it could be, you know, somebody setting you up in there. He goes, look, I know So you are waiting almost from the moment they meet for their big man hugging brace right at the ends, because you know that they're just gonna do that. Look across the, you know, just catch each other's eye in a, in a crowded car park as, um, as it all [00:20:00] comes to head at the end.

Um, because Gruber does end up falling off the building after, um, more cat and mouse shenanigans.

Sidey: Yeah. They end up on the rooftop, don't they? There's the whole sequence of him like swinging around off to avoid an explosion and

Dan: at one point he's tied the, um, the fire hose around him

Sidey: Yeah, he's leaping around the corner of the building itself.

Yeah. He

Dan: jumped off the building, um, broken the windows with his bare feet again.

Um, that must have really hurt, even if you've got a little bit

Sidey: glass. Big carus built at the end. Yeah.

Dan: yeah. Um, but he's, he shoots it actually doesn't he? He shoots the glass. He with the last few of his bullets. Um, and of course, um. They get back together, um, with his misses. He's, he's a bit like Rocky. If you think that Adrian, he's going

Holly, and they get hooked up together.

Um, he has the, the look across the car park to power. It could be anyone, but he knows it's him. And, [00:21:00] um, they, they kind of give 'em a big hug like they've been best friends forever. Um, they've been through hell. Chris, they've been through hell and back and they've made it, um, he tells the, the captain he's an asshole and he can fuck off.

Um, and then Al who's put away his gun, he doesn't, he's a desk jockey these days. He, he doesn't get, 'cause he shot a kid. Yes.

Cris: Yes. Yeah, he did say that. Yeah.

Dan: Um, and he, he manages to redeem his, his self in some way, shape or form, um, and shoots down the guy who's about to gun a load of them down with a a, um, machine gun or something, um, gives him three little friends to the chest.

Um,

Sidey: casting, casting wise,

Dan: it's perfect. I mean, there's, there's not a,

Sidey: a, it is perfect, but it could have been so different. They were contractually obliged because this was a film adaptation of a [00:22:00] book owned by the studio. Uh, they were contractually obliged to first offer it to Frank Sinatra.

who was 70 years old at the time, uh, and he declined. Uh,

Dan: Frank Sinatra as,

Cris: as

Sidey: John

McClain,

That would be a different

Dan: What was this? 19 90

Sidey: 89,

Cris: 89?

Dan: I mean, MCC

Sidey: 88

Dan: McClain looks.

Sidey: They had to offer it. I, they probably were thinking, God, we've gotta offer it to him.

If he says no, uh, which he did, um,

goodness not that. Yeah, we all love Sinatra, but a

70-year-old,

Cris: that's, yeah. Not an action hero

Dan: I, I could see, I could see him doing a part in it, you know, he could have been like a singer within

Cris: the, party.

Sidey: At the party, yeah. Yeah. Entertainment. Yeah.

Cris: yeah. Something.

Sidey: Right at our Christmas day we had, uh, a magician and he was fucking awful.

Like absolutely awful. And I think I felt a little bit guilty 'cause I think he overheard me panning him.

Cris: Well,

Dan: well,

Sidey: But he was shit. I mean he was, uh,

Cris: look, if you're on the stage, you set yourself off for good and bad,

Sidey: We had to, I was thinking [00:23:00] fucking how we paid for this guy. We paid for him to come over from England and his hotel, it was fucking shit.

Anyway, they also offered the role to get this Stallone gear. Eastwood Ford Harrison knows, uh, but Reynolds, Nick Novelty, Mel Gibson, Don Johnson, Richard Dean Anderson, Paul Newman, James Kane, and Al Pacino. And there's, is there anyone left in Hollywood? Well,

Cris: And they all said no.

Sidey: all said no. They all turned it down. Yeah. Um,

Cris: was he, what? 88th Choice

Sidey: was offered to a Schwartz, but he wanted to branch out into comedy, so he did twins. Um, and then, uh, they landed on Bruce Willis, who was known for Moonlighting at the time.

Dan: well,

Sidey: which he did originally decline. Uh, do this, but then was, uh, convinced when Silver Shepherd was pregnant that there was a gap in filming of Moonlighting, and he'd come do this

Dan: Right. Okay. Oh,

Sidey: And then begin his action career after that.

Cris: Right.

Okay. Well there you go. The decision, great decision at the end of the day, right?

Dan: a twinkle in his eye, isn't he? Um,

Sidey: and directed by John [00:24:00] Tiernan, who also did, this is a great double 87, he did predator and a eight did die hard. Wow.

That's

Dan: That's, that's a nice, a

Cris: yeah. Two bangers.

Dan: a, that's a good couple of years work,

isn't it? Um, yeah, it's still a, a solid choice. If you haven't seen this, you can watch it time of the year. It doesn't have to be at Christmas, but it is particularly relevant now

and Christmas time.

Sidey: yeah, And

Dan: summertime and anytime. It's just a really good fucking

Cris: to be fair, you say that, but generally. It, can you, you watch it around

Sidey: Yeah. Yeah, yeah.

And,

Cris: and and like you say, you can all, obviously you can watch it in June if you want to, but generally

Sidey: so there's

Cris: is a

Sidey: like ubiquitous Christmas films in our house.

One is home alone and the other is this like without fail every year? Yeah, they on, yeah.

strongest strongest possible. Recommend.

Dan: It it's a, yeah, it's a really solid choice.

Cris: Oh, just as a last thing I told you, Dan, on um, [00:25:00] at home I have, uh, they just popped up on my thing, uh, Christmas, uh, films or Christmas channels and there was a, a channel that showed diehard films.

24 7. Oh, so 24 hours. It would be all the

Sidey: direct into my veins.

Cris: So at any time you would wake up, you would put the tele on, and there's a diehard film there for

you. I mean, one more. One more. Could you want in life,

Dan: you, you'd die

Sidey: you completed

there

Cris: the festive

period.

Sidey: Well

Cris: on that note,

Sidey: ho,

Dan: ho, ho. ho. Got a radio

Cris: strong recommend.