Getting caught up with the greatest Xmas movie of all time

[BRoth]

Started with Die Hard last night (the aforementioned best movie) and I'm working my way through the series.

Got me thinking ... how would everyone else rank the four movies?

To me, it's got to be: #1 Die Hard, #2 With a Vengeance, #3 Live Free, #4 Die Harderer

After all, Die Hard did offer the "greatest one-line in history: http://www.slate.com/id/2168927/ ... and is the most overlooked Xmas movie, according to slate: http://www.slate.com/id/2179936/

Yippiy kay yay

 

[Seahawk]

I have enjoyed all of them, but for no particular reason, the second one was my least favorite.

Actually, my order is the same as the one you presented, with Live Free being just a little behind With a Vengence.

 

[novelist_wannabe]

My preference: 1, 4, 3, 2. Second one wasn't very good except for the lighting the jet fuel part at the end. Third one was pretty cool and is only slightly behind the most recent one for me.

BTW, though I love the movie, I wouldn't rate it even close to the greatest Christmas movie. That almost has to be Miracle on 34th St. In my lifetime, I'd have to rate A Christmas Story the best.

 

[Norman Stansfield]

I have yet to see 4, but I have a hard time believing that it would knock 3 out of the top spot for me.

I think it's Simon that made 3 tops. A creative, yet underappreciated lead foil. And Samuel L. Jackson wasn't bad, either.

 

[expendable]

It's 1 and then the rest for me.

 

[Claws for Concern]

After the first one, there was no point in a sequel, let alone three. The original rules.

 

[alleyallen]

I'm a fan of the first but hated the second. Never saw the third or fourth.

 

[bigpern23]

Haven't seen 'Live Free' but 2 was a steaming pile of **** (though, as previously noted, blowing up the jet with the draining fuel was pretty cool, and it also had a cameo by future T-1000 Robert Patrick as a nameless bad guy).

I assume my list would go: 1, 3, 4, 2, though I leave room for the possibility that 4 could be better than 2.

And hopefully I'll shore up the list shortly after X-mas (and if someone doesn't buy it for me, I'll be pissed, Dammit!)

 

[Chef]

Any best Christmas Movie list that does not have "Christmas Vacation" at the top is a FRAUD!

 

[Cape_Fear]

If Die Hard is consdiered a Christmas movie, than so is Lethal Weapon.

 

[Seabasket]

Clearly the rankings go 1, 4, 3, 2.

The original Die Hard is probably the best action movie ever, or at least it is in my eyes.

 

[Chef]

Clearly the rankings go 1, 4, 3, 2.

The original Die Hard is probably the best action movie ever, or at least it is in my eyes.

THE BEST?

It is definitely up there.....I will give you the "Yippi-ki-yay.....mother ****er" is probably the most reckongized line in an action movie, right next to "Go ahead.....make my day."

 

[BRoth]

Going through the second movie right now and aside from the insane amount of intense close-ups provided, the sexond most annoying thing is Robert Patrick continually referring to Dallas as "Dullus."

At least some henchman just got an icicle through his eye.

 

[Bad Guy Zero]

I haven't seen DH4. I love the first one. I liked the second one. And I'm in the minority...I thought the third was dreadful. Was I the only that initially thought that Uncle Scar was the villain in the third flick?

 

[Chi City 81]

Going through the second movie right now and aside from the insane amount of intense close-ups provided, the sexond most annoying thing is Robert Patrick continually referring to Dallas as "Dullus."

At least some henchman just got an icicle through his eye.

It's Dulles Airport. Why would he be talking about Dallas?

 

[Ace]

Even Bruce Willis takes shots at Die Hard 3. That movie was crap.

1 was a great action flick.

2 was decent but an airport is a boring place to stage it.

3 was way over the top.

4 was pretty good but the scenes with the jet and the truck on the highway were way over the top.

 

[Oz]

Any best Christmas Movie list that does not have "Christmas Vacation" at the top is a FRAUD!

Nope, it's "Die Hard." I've felt that way for years, and I never fail to watch it during Christmas season. I love Slate for running those two columns. Awesome.

 

[Rumpleforeskin]

It's on HBO right now.

 

[Piotr Rasputin]

The thread title is misleading, being as how the thread's not about Bad Santa.

Hell, as action flicks go, Lethal Weapon was a better Christmas movie.

The first Die Hard was good. The second was very mediocre (sorry, even my suspension of disbelief flies out the window when McClane fires the machine gun full of blanks at Sipowicz in the office, and doesnt get gunned down by all those other cops in the room).

Didn't bother seeing the other two. But I was amused by the thread earlier this year where some dudes called McClane the greatest action star of all time.

http://www.sportsjournalists.com/forum/threads/44062/

 

[Chi City 81]

Didn't bother seeing the other two. But I was amused by the thread earlier this year where some dudes called McClane the greatest action star of all time.

http://www.sportsjournalists.com/forum/threads/44062/

Hmmm ... some guy named Norrin Radd was amused, too. ;)