My earliest memory of the first Die Hard is watching it with my dad on a rented VHS tape. I must have been pretty young at the time, but my parents never put any movies off-limits as long as one of them was there to watch, too. I don't really remember the movie itself from that screening, but I can distinctly recall my father explaining the black bars at the top and bottom of the screen, telling me about aspect ratios and why Die Hard got a special video release to make it look like it did in the theater. Years later, I went to film school and, lo and behold, "Die Hard" was the very first textbook reference for my freshman cinematography class. The teacher played scenes on mute, showing off the visual mastery that John McTiernan and Jan de Bont worked into just...
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