One down

Watched Die Hard last night.  It's a Christmas tradition.  It's simply not Christmas until Hans falls off the Nakatomi building. 

Now I need to make time for Trading Places.  If I can, I'll try to squeeze Death Race in there, too.

One down, two to go.

Speaking of Trading Places, it was a long time before I truly understood what was happening in the climactic scene on the floor of the commodities exchange.  Once I learned a few basics about finance, though, the pieces sort of fell into place.

Fun fact: a few years ago, the Dodd-Frank Act was passed, and it contained "the Eddie Murphy rule," a regulation of insider trading.  The allusion is to the movie Trading Places.