A COMPLETE LIST OF "DIE HARD IN…" MOVIES
To celebrate its 25th Anniversary, the next Jameson Cult Film Screening will be of seminal action flick Die Hard, which has gone on to become THE most influential action flick of all time. Got a guy (preferably an off-duty cop or special agent) who is forced into becoming the hero? Got a bad guy with a bomb, some hostages and a list of demands? Got a contained area or mode of transport to terrorize? Then you’re probably on this list!

DIE HARD in… an AIRPLANE: PASSENGER 57 (1992)
Budget: $15 million
Box Office: $55 million
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 23%
“Yippee-Ki-Yay Motherf***er” Moment: “Always bet on black!”
Good, Bad, Or So Bad It’s Good?: Thanks to Bruce Payne’s bad guy, basically if Hannibal Lector decided to become an international terrorist, it’s So Bad It’s Good.
See also: EXECUTIVE DECISION (1996), CON AIR (1997), AIR FORCE ONE (1997)

DIE HARD in… an AIRPORT: DIE HARD 2: DIE HARDER (1990)
Budget: $70 million
Box Office: $240 million
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 67%
“Yippee-Ki-Yay Motherf***er” Moment: “Another basement, another elevator. How can the same shit happen to the same guy twice?”
Good, Bad, Or So Bad It’s Good?: This is nobody’s favorite Die Hard movie, but it’s still a pretty solid action flick, so this falls firmly under Good.

DIE HARD in… a BATTLESHIP: UNDER SIEGE (1992)
Budget: $35 million
Box Office: $156 million
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 75%
“Yippee-Ki-Yay Motherf***er” Moment: “You're in the Navy, remember? It's not a job, it's an adventure!”
Good, Bad, Or So Bad It’s Good?: Blurring the line between Good and So Bad It’s Good, making it genuinely Great, mostly thanks to Gary Busey’s entirely unhinged performance.

DIE HARD in… a BEAUTY PAEGANT: NO CONTEST (1995)
Budget: N/A
Box Office: N/A
Rotten Tomatoes Score: N/A
“Yippee-Ki-Yay Motherf***er” Moment: “She's like a Bruce Lee with boobs, man!”
Good, Bad, Or So Bad It’s Good?: Starring former porn star Shannon Tweed, as well as Robert Davi (who was actually in Die Hard), this is an overlooked cult classic in the making.
See also: NO CONTEST 2 (1997) aka DIE HARD in … a MUSEUM!

DIE HARD in… a BUS: SPEED (1994)
Budget: $30 million
Box Office: $350 million
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 90%
“Yippee-Ki-Yay Motherf***er” Moment: “Shoot the hostage!”
Good, Bad, Or So Bad It’s Good?: So, so, SOOO good! Up there with Die Hard as one of the best action films ever made, and with some killer dialogue brought to you by none other than Joss Whedon!

DIE HARD in… a CRUISE LINER: SPEED 2: CRUISE CONTROL (1997)
Budget: $110 million
Box Office: $164 million
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 3%
“Yippee-Ki-Yay Motherf***er” Moment: “Come back, you’re my hostage!”
Good, Bad, Or So Bad It’s Good?: So, so, SOOO bad! Although to be fair, we haven’t watched it in over a decade, so there is chance it has crossed over to So Bad It’s Good. But we also don’t want to be the lab rats who have to find that out.

DIE HARD in… a HOSPITAL: HARD BOILED (1992)
Budget; $4.5 million
Box Office: $3.5 million
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 94%
“Yippee-Ki-Yay Motherf***er” Moment: “Give a guy a gun, he thinks he's Superman. Give him two and he thinks he's God.”
Good, Bad, Or So Bad It’s Good?: Probably the best action film you’ve never seen. Go rectify that right now. Or if you have seen it, then you know it deserves to be rewatched, also right now.

DIE HARD in… a HOUSE: HOSTAGE (2005)
Budget: $75 million
Box Office: $78 million
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 36%
“Yippee-Ki-Yay Motherf***er” Moment: “You know what cops do when they retire? They play golf. I don't want to play golf. I hate f**king golf.”
Good, Bad, Or So Bad It’s Good?: A Die Hard-homage that isn’t an actual Die Hard movie but still manages to bag Bruce Willis is impressive, but even that can’t help this from being just plain bad.

DIE HARD in… the INTERNET: DIE HARD 4.0 (2007)
Budget: $110 million
Box Office: $384 million
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 81%
“Yippee-Ki-Yay Motherf***er” Moment: “You just killed a helicopter with a car!”
Good, Bad, Or So Bad It’s Good?: If you can get your hands on the director’s cut, with more violence and swearing, all the better. Otherwise this is an actually pretty good, if watered down, McClane adventure.

DIE HARD in… a MOUNTAIN: CLIFFHANGER (1993)
Budget: $65 million
Box Office: $255 million
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 69%
“Yippee-Ki-Yay Motherf***er” Moment: “Your friend just had the most expensive funeral in history.”
Good, Bad, Or So Bad It’s Good?: Like Under Siege, blurs the line between Great and Awful to become some magnificently watchable trash.

DIE HARD in… a MUSIC ARENA: COMMAND PERFORMANCE (2009)
Budget: $6 million
Box Office: N/A
Rotten Tomatoes Score: N/A
“Yippee-Ki-Yay Motherf***er” Moment: “Dying's easy, rock and roll is hard.”
Good, Bad, Or So Bad It’s Good?: Dolph Lundgren playing an aging rock ‘n’ roll star who is the supporting act for a major international pop star when the arena gets taken over and she gets kidnapped. Tell us you don’t want to see that!

DIE HARD in… a PRISON: THE ROCK (1996)
Budget: $75 million
Box Office: $335 million
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 67%
“Yippee-Ki-Yay Motherf***er” Moment: “I love pressure. I eat it for breakfast.”
Good, Bad, Or So Bad It’s Good?: One of the more inoffensively entertaining movies in Michael Bay’s career, with an awful lot of bang for your buck.

DIE HARD in… a SCHOOL: TOY SOLDIERS (1991)
Budget: $10 million
Box Office: $17 million
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 36%
“Yippee-Ki-Yay Motherf***er” Moment: “Great, the school gets taken over by terrorists and I'm still on pots and pans.”
Good, Bad, Or So Bad It’s Good?: Die Hard meets Dead Poets Society, so kind of all three. Somehow.

DIE HARD in… a SHOPPING MALL: POINT BLANK (1998)
Budget: N/A
Box Office: N/A
Rotten Tomatoes Score: N/A
“Yippee-Ki-Yay Motherf***er” Moment: “You never did tell me why you just walked in one day and laid down your badge and never did come back.”
Good, Bad, Or So Bad It’s Good?: To be honest, we’d never even heard of it before researching for this article. It has some semi-famous folk in it – Mickey Rourke, Danny Trejo – but it looks like one of those films that everyone involved with making would like to wish out of existence.
See also: PAUL BLART: MALL COP (2009)

DIE HARD in… a SKYSCRAPER: SKYSCRAPER (1996)
Budget: N/A
Box Office: N/A
Rotten Tomatoes Score: N/A
“Yippee-Ki-Yay Motherf***er” Moment: (while in the middle of a shoot-out) “Well, excuse me for still believing in Sunday walks in the park and little babies!”
Good, Bad, Or So Bad It’s Good?: Apparently forgetting that Die Hard was itself Die Hard in a Skyscraper, here we have Skyscraper, starring the incomparable Anna Nicole Smith. Another film we didn’t know existed before today, and with any luck, we’ll forget exists by tomorrow.

DIE HARD in… a SPACE JAIL: LOCKOUT (2012)
Budget: $20 million
Box Office: $32 million
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 38%
“Yippee-Ki-Yay Motherf***er” Moment: “I'd rather castrate myself with blunt rocks.”
Good, Bad, Or So Bad It’s Good?: Moments of good, moments of so bad it’s good, but mostly it is, unfortunately, just bad.

DIE HARD in… a SPORTS ARENA: SUDDEN DEATH (1995)
Budget: $35 million
Box Office: $64 million
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 52%
“Yippee-Ki-Yay Motherf***er” Moment: “He hit him so hard that his kids will be born dizzy.”
Good, Bad, Or So Bad It’s Good?: Along with Timecop, the best film in Jean Claude Van Damme’s whole CV. Admittedly, that’s not saying much, but still… Yes, it’s good.

DIE HARD in… a TRAIN: UNDER SIEGE 2: DARK TERRITORY (1992)
Budget: $60 million
Box Office: $104 million
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 34%
“Yippee-Ki-Yay Motherf***er” Moment: “If you try anything stupid, Federal Regulations require that I kill you. So please, no hero shit!
Good, Bad, Or So Bad It’s Good?: Oooooh…. Tough call. Probably more bad than so good it’s bad, although that ridiculous bad-guy and Seagal barely able to run without collapsing into a heaving crumpled blob makes it borderline entertaining.

DIE HARD in… the WHITE HOUSE: OLYMPUS HAS FALLEN (2013)
Budget: $70 million
Box Office: $160 million
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 47%
“Yippee-Ki-Yay Motherf***er” Moment: “My advice - save the last bullet for yourself. Because if you don't, I'm gonna stick my knife through your brain.”
Good, Bad, Or So Bad It’s Good?: Due to it’s ridiculous OTT nature and fantastically gory violence, it is actually pretty good. Just don’t go expecting, ye know, Die Hard.
See also: WHITE HOUSE DOWN (2013)

DIE HARD in… a WHOLE CITY: DIE HARD WITH A VENGENCE (1995)
Budget: $90 million
Box Office: $366 million
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 52%
“Yippee-Ki-Yay Motherf***er” Moment: “threw his little brother off the thirty-second floor of Nakatomi Towers out in L.A. I guess he's a little pissed off about it.”
Good, Bad, Or So Bad It’s Good?: Most people’s second favorite Die Hard movie probably couldn’t be made today – blowing buildings up for fun just doesn’t go down well in modern society – but it’s still a hell of a lot of fun thanks to Willis and Sam Jackson’s buddy banter.

DIE HARD in… a WHOLE COUNTRY: A GOOD DAY TO DIE HARD (2013)
Budget: $92 million
Box Office: $305 million
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 14%
“Yippee-Ki-Yay Motherf***er” Moment: “The 007 of Plainfield, New Jersey.”
Good, Bad, Or So Bad It’s Good?: Bad. Just… bad.