wtf, Die Hard 2 is better than Die Hard 1? WTF???
I see your suffering from the removal of your emotion engine!
Madness!
Die Hard is still one of the tightest action movies I can remember, and no i'd refute the fact that 'better' aciton movies have come along, which ones? That's utter bollocks I'm afraid, Die Hard is just as good as it has ever been. There's not a purer action movie I can think of.
I like Die Hard 3 way better than Die Hard 2, but its not even in the same league as the first. I'd still say Aliens is in the same league as Die Hard 1, Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Good, The Bad and The Ugly and Once Upon a Time in the West, Hard Boiled, Seven Samurai... Same league very different types of movies. I guess there's some awesome war movies too, but Die Hard is till a brillaint movie. They've tried to clone it and failed, say with films like Hostage (Willis again) or Negotiator, but i can't recall a single film of the same subgenre that is finer.
So are you saying the likes of Speed, Con Air, Face / Off, Titanic etc. are Die Hard betters you mad old fuck?!

Those films are so lame next to die hard 1, and they are some of the more popular action films. The only ones that have been of real merit have been a totally different type of movie, like say True Romance, Pulp Fiction, Resevoir Dogs, et al. Not really adrenaline action movies though, they've got more going on. Or one of the modern "meh" fests like Gladiator, please! Ridley, go home....
Die Hard is still the template for those kind of movies, its the template because its the best.
Crazy
