Well, it also ensured that McClane would be barefoot during the incident. Had he not gotten that tip he wouldn't have taken his shoes and socks off and would have been shod for the movie. 
Die Hard, did you watch it?
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I indoctrinated my oldest son into the Die Hard at Christmastime club. After showing it to him once, he, on his own, suggested we watch it every year.
The last time I saw Die Hard 2 was the night of September 10, 2001. Logically, I know rewatching it won't cause another major domestic terrorist attack, but emotionally, I don't want to be responsible for that. Plus, it is my least favorite of the original three, probably because it mirrored the first one too much, with a closed location (though they did get out on snowmobiles), taking place at Christmas, even going so far as to bring back Reginald VelJohnson. While I love that they included him, I thought they did a nice job with his character arc in the first one and didn't need to bring him back.
I love Die Hard with a Vengence, because it changed the dynamic. Making it a race through New York City opened up things, dramatically. Likewise, it played on the Grubers using misdirection to get what they wanted. And, Jurassic Park aside, it was my first introduction to Samuel L. Jackson.
The fourth was forgettable. The fifth, too, but it holds a special place in my heart, as I watched it with my father, who I had seen the first three with as a kid. Not many times I get to do things like that in my 30's.
"Just like fuckin' Saigon, hey, Slick"
"I was in junior high, dickhead."
Does anyone listen to Greg Proops' podcast, "The Smartest Man in the World"? He loves to read things in Jeremy Irons' voice from Die Hard with a Vengeance. It just makes everything better.
The last time I saw Die Hard 2 was the night of September 10, 2001. Logically, I know rewatching it won't cause another major domestic terrorist attack, but emotionally, I don't want to be responsible for that. Plus, it is my least favorite of the original three, probably because it mirrored the first one too much, with a closed location (though they did get out on snowmobiles), taking place at Christmas, even going so far as to bring back Reginald VelJohnson. While I love that they included him, I thought they did a nice job with his character arc in the first one and didn't need to bring him back.
I love Die Hard with a Vengence, because it changed the dynamic. Making it a race through New York City opened up things, dramatically. Likewise, it played on the Grubers using misdirection to get what they wanted. And, Jurassic Park aside, it was my first introduction to Samuel L. Jackson.
The fourth was forgettable. The fifth, too, but it holds a special place in my heart, as I watched it with my father, who I had seen the first three with as a kid. Not many times I get to do things like that in my 30's.
I love the deadpan line by the FBI guy: "I'm Agent Johnson and this is Special Agent Johnson." (pause) "No relation."
"Just like fuckin' Saigon, hey, Slick"
"I was in junior high, dickhead."
Does anyone listen to Greg Proops' podcast, "The Smartest Man in the World"? He loves to read things in Jeremy Irons' voice from Die Hard with a Vengeance. It just makes everything better.
DH3 had the added bonus of being yet another Bruce Willis movie where he quotes the Statler Brothers' song "Flowers on the Wall". 
Even though it takes place at Christmas, like Die Hard, I don't completely feel like Lethal Weapon is a "Christmas movie" in the same vein as Die Hard. It doesn't feel like it has the right mix of elements in it and "Christmas themes", like the "rebirth" of McClane and his doing all of this for his family, not to mention the use of a lot of Christmas imagery and songs.
I like Lethal Weapon, don't get me wrong, but ti doesn't have quite the tenuous grasp on "Christmas" like "Die Hard" does and, well, we could make similar arguments about Iron Man 3 since it also takes place around Christmas.
Lethal Weapon is just missing "something" to make it a Christmas movie, it's more dramatic, it has torture scenes in it and other elements in it that makes it hard for me to think of it as a "Christmas" movie even in the very loose way I think of "Die Hard" as being one.
Die Hard has some Christmas imagery and themes in it, some pretty strong ones, really. Lethal Weapon? Not so much.
Oddly enough, that was when I first saw the uncut With A Vengeance, as the R1 trilogy set had arrived from Amazon that day... (DHWAV was still heavily cut in the UK back then, though it has been released uncut since.)
It was a while before I watched it again...
I watched Independence Day on September 10, 2001, so I know the feeling.
But it's been 13 years, and it's only a movie.
DH3 was pretty funny watching the back-and-forth between Samuel L. Jackson and Bruce. Those two should do another DH film together!
And I always wondered how they got away with shooting the poster-board scene - the one where McClane has to walk around in the middle of Harlem wearing a board that says I HATE N
RS - like that. Originally I thought that the TV version, where it just says I HATE EVERYBODY, was how it was originally shot, and the N-word was added via CGI. Well this isn't the case: the board was blank during filming, and both versions of the text were added later.
And I always wondered how they got away with shooting the poster-board scene - the one where McClane has to walk around in the middle of Harlem wearing a board that says I HATE N
RS - like that. Originally I thought that the TV version, where it just says I HATE EVERYBODY, was how it was originally shot, and the N-word was added via CGI. Well this isn't the case: the board was blank during filming, and both versions of the text were added later.
