• (nodebb)

    Where is THE Christmas movie, Die Hard?

    And yes, it's totally a Christmas movie on any objective metric. Just because people act realistically doesn't disqualify it from the rest of what is mostly low quality Christmas slop :-)

  • Westy (unregistered)

    Of course, you need to include the ultimate Xmas movie "Hardware".

    Yes it is a Xmas movie, transparently -- the (spoiler alert) rampaging robot was ultimately a Xmas gift.

    Best Xmas movie ever. After all, it features:

    • Lemmy as a taxi driver, who says to his passengers: "You like music? Check these guys out" while slamming a cassette / cartridge / whatever into the music player of the cab, out of which Ace of Spades comes roaring;

    • Iggy Pop as the (unseen) DJ Angry Bob, who bookends the entire movie, playing an Iggy Pop number;

    • Carl McCoy as the zone drifter who starts the whole trouble in the first place;

    • a soundtrack by Hans Zimmer, including Ministry and Public Image Limited, as well as the above classics.

    Beware of downloading an online version, because the soundtrack has been changed to anodyne synth-pop, completely ruining it.

  • Rob (unregistered) in reply to MaxiTB

    @MaxiTB in part 1: https://thedailywtf.com/articles/christmas-in-the-server-room

  • (nodebb) in reply to Rob

    Oh, I missed that one when I was doing family birthday visits. Thx!

  • (nodebb)

    Die Hard is NOT a Christmas movie!

    It's a CHANUKAH movie! Think about it -- heavily armed foreign invaders take over a building but a tiny poorly-armed force sneaks in to get rid of them. That's EXACTLY Chanukah!

  • (nodebb)

    And I bet that five-digit code is the same as on President Skroob's luggage.

  • (author) in reply to davearonson 0

    "The Beretta 92F only holds 15 rounds, but John McClane fired 30 without reloading."

  • Charles Olson (unregistered)

    Presumably the prefix codes are protected by some sort of internal security mechanism. The real problem with the prefix code thing is, why does it only lower the shields? If the intent is to thwart the hijacking of a Starfleet vessel, why doesn't it disable the weapons and drive systems, and be impossible to override? (Because it would have been a much shorter and less interesting movie, that's why.)

  • (author) in reply to Charles Olson

    The script describes the prefix code as granting remote access to the Reliant's systems. It's not just that it drops the shields, but that they can issue commands. Kirk made the decision to force the dropping of the shields, mostly for screenwriter convenience sure, but also we can assume that there are limits to how much they could get away sending in that specific operation.

  • (nodebb)

    I do not remember seeing or hearing any on Remys list, but allowing music, here are a couple of ShortestDays tracks I like:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryGDzIUHhnE

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlYfF_DUcco

  • (nodebb) in reply to davearonson 0

    Being a Christmas movie and being a movie from some other genre are not mutually exclusive. Whatever else it is, Die Hard is definitely a Christmas movie.

  • (nodebb) in reply to Charles Olson

    The prefix code thing is one example of the absolutely shocking lack of cybersecurity in the Star Trek universe. There are many episodes across all the series where some evildoer gains access to the ship's systems with ease and takes control, often from a secondary location like the IoT coffee dispenser (replicator) in their cabin,. Not only that, they usually manage to completely lock the legitimate crew out. You'd think that, having valiantly beaten off the miscreant with the deaths of a few red shirts, thy'd learn from the experience and maybe use the bad guy's own techniques to stop it from happening again.

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