I think the original Die Hard movie much like the first Star Wars (New Hope now episode IV but still the first movie) benefited from being different from a lot of the movies of its time and thus fresh and surprising. I liked it the first time I saw it a lot, much less in later viewings because the surprise was gone. Neither of its successor movies were very good (the 2nd one was simply awful in part because it took a script for another movie and inserted Willis's character into it no doubt).
They are making a fourth installment of the Indiana Jones series as well, with a 64 year old Ford no less.
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Even if UAW workers at GM took a 20% pay cut, it would only save the company about $1.1 billion annually because the company's unionized workforce in the United States has decreased dramatically in recent years, to 55,000, he said.
“As a result of the extraordinary growth at Merrill during my tenure as C.E.O., the board saw fit to increase my compensation each year.” E. Stanley O’Neal, the former chief executive of Merrill Lynch, March 2008
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