Uncouth, Cranky and Rude: Movies in 1988 Were a Far Cry From Today

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/02/movies/box-office-tenet-die-hard.html

Some of what keeps “Die Hard” a perfect movie is how it can bury us in peevish, cocky, haughty, drunken, short-tempered, goony, stubborn men yet relax because its star is a miraculously calibrated combination of those qualities, but with a pinch of humility, a workingman ease and a gallon of charm. The movie, a major sleeper in fourth place in its ninth week, will forever be remarkable for Bruce Willis’s hero journey from chauvinist cop to husband of the year.