Ask nearly any guy over the age of 30 what their favourite Christmas movie is and the answer will come back like a shot – ‘Die Hard’.
Yep, Die Hard 2 was set at Xmas as well and was also awesome, and there are plenty of other great Xmas flicks, but Die Hard – like John McClane – always wins. Before digital special effects, before movies going for nearly three hours, there was a cop caught in Nakatomi Plaza crawling around air ducts killing bad guys and making smart-arse quips.
Die Hard was AWESOME!
And now, three decades after the movie’s release it’s been put into book form – an Illustrated Holiday Classic!
Taking is structure from ‘Twas the Night Before Xmas’, this Xmas book outlines the movies story from start to finish, in a jolly Xmas narrative which will have any fan of the Die Hard franchise going ‘F*ck yeah!’
This book is definitely intended for grown-ups, as what Die Hard book would be complete without all the gratuitous blood and violence?
I don’t want to go into too much detail as it is a short book (but quite reasonably priced at roughly $16au) and if I put too much into this review I will spoil it for people. So all I will add is that if you are struggling to think of a pressie for someone special this Xmas, and that someone special is in particular an over 30’s guy, then GO BUY THIS BOOK! HE WILL FRIGGIN LOVE IT!
And I’ll let the book sign off, as there is no way it could be done any cooler:
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