In our very special holiday edition of the monthly Hoyts Poll, we got into the festive spirit by asking the people of Aotearoa for their favourite moment in legendary Christmas film Die Hard.
Here’s the top seven, ranked and with comments from your fellow Kiwis.
7. The bare-feet-on-glass gunfight
“Every child remembers walking slowly across gravel and quicker on hot sand, so this scene was immediately relatable in a ‘what next, OMG’ way.” -Peter, Wellington
6. Getting Al’s attention via dead body out the window
“It’s the type of lateral thinking that I aspire to.” -Della, Auckland
5. Hans Gruber falling to his death
“It ain’t Christmas till I see Hans Gruber fall off the Nakatomi Building!” -Phil, Wellington
4. The line: “Come out to the coast, we’ll get together, have a few laughs…”
“It still makes me laugh.” -Luvia, Auckland
3. The ‘Now I have a machine gun. Ho ho ho.’ guy
“This moment inspired a thousand knock off shirt designs. An injection of Christmas cheer to the hostages, combined with a menacing threat for the terrorists and an insight into John McClane’s sense of humour all in one moment of perfect comic relief.” -Daniel, Otago
2. The fire hose escape sequence
“I like a movie that doesn’t care that the likely outcome here in the real world would probably be massively ruptured internal organs and a broken back.” -Des, Wellington
1. The line: “Yippie-ki-yay, mother fucker.”
“Immortal line popularised and parodied and now part of our lexicon!” -Juliet, Auckland
“Way too young to be watching movies with swear words in them which made it super awesome.” -Lesley, Wellington
“What can be said? Pretty much the coolest line from any film ever.” -Jason, Wellington
