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This week the crew heads to Nakatomi Plaza for a holiday party gone very, very wrong. We unpack John McTiernan’s Die Hard (1988) — the film that redefined the modern action hero, made Bruce Willis a movie star, and somehow became the most debated Christmas movie of all time. From “shoot the glass” to “Yippee-ki-yay,” we dig into the film’s perfect pacing and connective tissue, Alan Rickman’s suave villainy, the Christmas-in-L.A. irony, and why every action movie since has tried to be “Die Hard on a ___.” Grab your bare feet and a bag of glass... it’s Franchise Forum at its most explosive.