How did I miss this?!?!?! Twenty years ago yesterday, Die Hard was released. To celebrate, this blog gives a minute-by-minute breakdown of what they call, and I agree is, “the greatest movie of all time.”

1:46: John McClane cries, apparently after a heated debate on set as to whether an action hero has tear ducts. But again, not fun to write about. So how about a fun fact? The list of actors who turned down Die Hard is legendary: Sinatra first, then Clint Eastwood, Sylvester Stallone, Richard Gere, and even Burt Reynolds (remember, by 1988, Reynolds wasn’t the guy from Smokey and the Bandit. He was the guy from Rent-a-Cop). I like the work of every one of those guys, but Die Hard couldn’t have been DIE HARD without Bruce.

Yippee kai yay!