Die Hard - Best Xmas Movie. ;)

[Holdfast]

Perhaps uniquely, Die Hard has also spawned its own sub-genre, the 'Die Hard on a ...' movie. The concept of one man up against a gang of terrorists or criminals, set in a confined setting. It became quite common in the 1990s for movies to be pitched in this way. For example:

Can anyone think of any others?

Die Hard on an X

Damn you. Now I can't stop reading TV Tropes.

I just got back onto TBBS after spending the last THREE HOURS reading TV Tropes. This happens every fucking time someone links to that site. I hate myself...

 

[Captaindemotion]

There was this novel they were trying to make into a movie -- Vertical Run -- which is Die Hard in, um, a building. Maybe that's why it still hasn't been made.

I think I saw it and noticed the similarity. Was tempted to buy it on that basis. Was it any good?

There's also Philip Kerr's Gridiron, which is in similar vein, bu features a futuristic, hi-tech and 'intelligent' building, which those trapped inside have to contend with.

As regards movies, there are two Die Hards in A School, aka Toy Soldiers (1991) and Masterminds (1997). Funny enough, the former features Will Wheaton and the latter Patrick Stewart.