{"id":10152,"date":"2015-12-24T07:15:50","date_gmt":"2015-12-24T13:15:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hcstx.org\/?p=10152"},"modified":"2015-12-24T07:15:50","modified_gmt":"2015-12-24T13:15:50","slug":"which-is-the-better-badass-christmas-flick-die-hard-or-lethal-weapon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2015\/12\/24\/which-is-the-better-badass-christmas-flick-die-hard-or-lethal-weapon\/","title":{"rendered":"Which is the Better Badass Christmas Flick? Die Hard or Lethal Weapon?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I concur with the authors choice…John McClaine is one awesome holiday crime fighter! The latest Die Hard was not bad either..putting John McClaine up against the Russian Military was entertaining! Merry Christmas! -SF<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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We compared two Christmas flicks that happen to be the best action movies of all time.
\nYou may not think that \u201cDie Hard\u201d and \u201cLethal Weapon\u201d are Christmas movies at a first glance given they\u2019re both set in Los Angeles and there\u2019s an intense lack of snow that usually lets us know it\u2019s Christmas.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s be clear, they are both Christmas movies, period. \u201cDie Hard\u201d is about a corporate office Christmas party crashed by terrorists who want to steal a metric shit ton of bearer bonds, while \u201cLethal Weapon\u201d begins with a prostitute leaping from a balcony to the tune of \u201cJingle Bell Rock.\u201d It\u2019s obviously Christmas in L.A.
\nWhile I acknowledge that both movies are epic, classic action movies, and badass of their own accord, a winner must be crowned as reigning supreme.<\/p>\n

I set up a grading scale of one to five stars, based on four criteria: badassery of the main character or characters, collateral damage and destruction, tactical weapons handling, and hand-to-hand combat scenes.<\/p>\n

Badassery<\/strong><\/p>\n

Die Hard \u272e\u272e\u272e\u272e\u272e<\/p>\n

Lethal Weapon \u272e\u272e\u272e<\/p>\n

Die Hard takes this one hands down. John McClane, played by Bruce Willis, defeats an entire terrorist group barefoot, running through broken glass, and repelling off the roof of a building using a fire hose as rope. He\u2019s a New York City cop who loves old westerns, refers to himself as Roy Rogers, and coined the pop culture catchphrase, \u201cYippee-ki-yay, motherfucker.\u201d Additionally, taping a pistol to your back to take out the head bad guy is a pretty slick move.<\/p>\n

While I\u2019d like to give Martin Riggs and Roger Murtaugh from \u201cLethal Weapon\u201d a higher rating \u2014 especially considering they\u2019re both Vietnam War veterans with special operations backgrounds \u2014 their actions simply didn\u2019t live up to the level of badassery displayed by McClane. Even considering a slick leg choke by Riggs to escape from the electrocution hook, and some brief moments where Riggs shows his suicidal tendencies, the overall timid and fearful approach Murtaugh takes to everything but the final showdown dials back the badassery for \u201cLethal Weapon.\u201d<\/p>\n

When looking for official body counts, the website Movie Body Counts reports that McCLane took out a total of 10 bad guys, while Riggs and Murtaugh combined had a total 21 kills. While Rigg\u2019s had 17 kills, McClane only had 10 terrorists to hunt and kill the entire film, and he was confined in the building with all 10 the entire time and had a finite number of henchmen to pick off.<\/p>\n

Read the Remainder at Task and Purpose<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Stay Alert, Stay Armed and Have a Merry Christmas (While Staying Dangerous!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I concur with the authors choice…John McClaine is one awesome holiday crime fighter! The latest Die Hard was not bad either..putting John McClaine up against the Russian Military was entertaining! Merry Christmas! -SF We compared two Christmas flicks that happen to be the best action movies of all time. You may not think that \u201cDie…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[2039],"tags":[3421,3422,3423,3424,1582],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10152"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}