"High above the city of L.A. a team of terrorists has seized a building, taken hostages and declared war. One man has managed to escape. An off-duty cop hiding somewhere inside. He's alone, tired... and the only chance anyone has got."
"Back in the '90s, the role of the action movie screenwriter was basically to take the premise of Die Hard and come up with a new location to set it in. There was the boat in Under Siege, the plane in Passenger 57, and the, uh, building in Skyscraper.note Eventually this trend resulted in the Jean-Claude Van Damme movie Sudden Death, which brings Die Hard to a hockey arena."
"Ladies and gentleman. I'm afraid your in-flight entertainment program has been cancelled. The weapons being carried by my staff are real, so is their desire to use them if provoked. I am prepared to do whatever is necessary in order to achieve my goal. If you do as instructed, you will not be harmed. If you disobey or interfere with their activities, you will be shot."
— Charles Rane, Passenger 57
"Whether it's on a battleship, a train, a hockey rink, an airplane, a school for delinquents, or a shopping mall, somehow an all-star team of international terrorists will take over whatever location you're hanging out in and really fuck up your day."
— The Cinema Snob reviews Crackerjack aka Die Hard in a Ski Resort
"Now, think. Remember your Hollywood movies. People who do hijackings and things on Christmas always end up stopped by some hero who happens to be there... That's right—a hero. Could the hero in this case be storied submarine captain, Killy B. Sailor, here on break to deal with his marital problems?"
—Killy B. Sailor, mistaking himself for the protagonist of Full Metal Panic!
