Twenty-five years ago, I was excited to watch the thrilling new flick “Die Hard,” which starred the up-and-coming Bruce Willis as John McClane, a New York City cop who was in Los Angeles visiting his estranged wife in an effort to reconcile their relationship over the Christmas holiday.

Their happy reunion was tained, however, by a group of terrorists led by Hans Gruber (played by Alan Rickman — for those of you younger than 30, that’s “Severus Snape”) bent on stealing gold from the Nakatomi Plaza. The terrorists didn’t know he was there, he had training that allowed him to take them out, Yippe-ki-yay...

Well, you know the rest.