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The result was: not scheduled by Wehwalt (talk) 14:05, 4 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

A 2018 photograph of actor Bruce Willis
A 2018 photograph of actor Bruce Willis

Die Hard is a 1988 American action film directed by John McTiernan, with a screenplay by Jeb Stuart and Steven E. de Souza, and starring Bruce Willis, Alan Rickman, Alexander Godunov, and Bonnie Bedelia. Die Hard follows New York City police detective John McClane (Willis) who is caught up in a terrorist takeover of a Los Angeles skyscraper while visiting his estranged wife. Reginald VelJohnson, William Atherton, Paul Gleason, and Hart Bochner feature in supporting roles. Die Hard is considered one of the greatest action films, and is also often named one of the best Christmas films. It revitalized the action genre, largely due to its depiction of McClane as a vulnerable and fallible protagonist, in contrast to the muscle-bound and invincible heroes of other films of the period. (Full article...)

I missed it had been on the page in the last few years, but we did rerun Groundhog Day for a bit of fun, and this is relevant to the proposed date and on that particular day it seems like it would be an interesting piece on the front page instead of some article on a historic war or something. Anyway, I'm not going to argue about it, just my 2 cents. Darkwarriorblake / Vote for something that matters
The difference here is that Groundhog Day was about a character reliving the same day all the time so it was reposted on April Fools Day as part of a joke that was consistent with the films theme. In other words there was special considerations beyond date relevance for that rerun that simply don’t apply here.--65.92.162.81 (talk) 23:14, 29 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]