A List Of Things Thrown Five Minutes Ago

HANS ... BUBBIE ... I'M YOUR WHITE KNIGHT:  Is there anything left to be said about Die Hard upon its twenty-fifth birthday today? Maybe, says MZS:

More often than not, what's being made fun of is machismo itself. Man after man gets wounded or dies because he gives into rage, complacency or cockiness. The FBI guys Johnson and Johnson ("No, the other one") might have been the heroes in a different, less interesting film; look at how they run roughshod over everyone, inadvertently helping Hans' plans come to fruition. The coke-snorting Yuppie Ellis gets shot because he bought his own Master-of-the-Universe hype and thought of the hostage situation as another deal that he could negotiate, like a merger or acquisition. Hans' minions tend to think with their adrenal glands instead of their brains, particularly Alexander Godunov's Karl, who's so driven by the need to avenge his brother's death at the hero's hands that he can't think beyond the next five minutes. None of these men are as fearsome as they imagine. 

Bonus!  Vulture lists the twenty-five best post-Die Hard action films, more or less. (It's only one-per-franchise, and they forgot Face/Off, which is absurd. Both in the since that the film is absurd, and that it's absurd to exclude it from the list.)