Die Hard and Ghostbusters

It's that time of year for everyone's favorite Christmas movie: Die Hard. I watched it last week on Amazon Prime Video in 4K UHD. 

And on a recent weekend (which is when I watch movies), I watched Ghostbusters and Ghostbusters II. I watched them on a cable channel which means they were "edited for content." I hate that. Also, I haven't seen Ghostbusters II since probably 1990 or whenever it was available in my local Blockbuster. I have Ghostbusters on DVD so I can watch it whenever the mood strikes.

While watching Ghostbusters, I remembered the connections it has to Die Hard. Everyone pretty much knows that Reginald VelJohnson played an unnamed cop in Ghostbusters and played a cop (Sgt. Al Powell) in Die Hard. (He also went on to play a cop in the sitcom Family Matters.)

Also in Ghostbusters is William Atherton as a pesky, annoying EPA bureaucrat. And he's in Die Hard as a pesky, annoying television news reporter.  

But then I went on to watch Ghostbusters II and it, too, has Die Hard connections. In it, Mary Ellen Trainor plays a mother at a birthday party. She was also a news anchor in Die Hard.

Finally, Wilhelm von Homburg plays Vigo (the bad spirit) in Ghostbusters II and James (one of the terrorists) in Die Hard.

Welcome to the party, pal!

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