Will it or won’t it???

I am, of course, pondering whether or not Live Free and Die Hard will rule. In recent weeks I felt so nervous and conflicted over this question that I have considered not seeing the movie at all. But today I am going to gather the courage and go see what my man has to offer me after all these years.
My relationship with John McClane is long and rocky (much like his relationship with Holly). I heard about John long before I ever saw him. We had a strict policy against macho action movies in our home. But next door neighbor extraordinaire, Eric Guerrero, who had seen Die Hard either because he was a year older or absolutely no parental supervision, told me all about him. I knew John was a gruff cop with no respect for authority, I knew he let Hans Gruber fall to his demise. I knew he didn’t wear shoes. I was, to say the least, intrigued.
When Die Hard 2: Die Harder was released I heard about it not from Eric but around the dinner table with my relatives. My uncle said that Die Hard 2 had the largest body count ever in a movie (a fact that I have never doubted nor verified) because an entire plane of innocent people crashes. “How could John let such a thing happen?” I thought to myself. It was not until years later upon seeing the film that I learned John did everything to save those Irish people on that plane. God bless him.
In my early teen years the family stigma around violence loosened. I recall rollerblading to the video store to rent the Die Hard movies. At first sight John McClane felt like an uncle. A totally bad ass uncle. Way more bad ass than my uncle who chastised Die Hard 2 for its high body count. His adventures in Nakatomi tower and the airport were just as incredible as I had imagined. Then, in the 10th grade, I got to see John on the big screen for the first time. I have to admit that I went to a 10:30 am show of Die Hard with a Vengence by myself. I didn’t want to share the experience with my friends or too many other theater goers. While the movie was a little off base I think it is too quickly dismissed by most casual viewers. I mean, the man saves his hometown from another member of the Gruber family! It is set during a heat wave! Samuel L. Jackson wears glasses!
It has been a long time since I’ve seen John. Sure there was the Die Hard video game that I bought and dominated. I even married a young woman who watches the first movie with her family each Christmas. But John has been largely absent from my life lately. Tonight at 7:30 I will let him back in. I hope he doesn’t disappoint.

P.S. If you go to youtube.com and look up "Die Hard music video" you should be able to find something hilarious. But be warned it does have some bad words. Yippie ki yay etc.