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Ricardo Alanis

Amazing that this was Alan Rickman’s first film. He was previously a theater actor. I think Die Hard with a Vengeance is my next favorite in the series. Also, the bonds they were stealing are basically cash certificates from the government. Whoever holds them owns them.

Shreddy

I think the touching the poster with the girl was more about "I'm gonna probably die tonight, might be the last time I'll touch any sort of woman so might as well"

SnabbKassa

West Wing reference. It's Big Block Of Cheese Day at Nakatomi Towers. Come on down! That was a real thing held by the President who shares my name.

David Lonewolf Wright

Christmas Movie Checklist 1. Christmas time 2. Christmas Things 3. Christmas Music 4. Terrorists? I feel Die Hard 1-4 are great and worth the watch, number 5, I would skip.

pinkdino99

There are a few cock-ups... one in which we get to see inside the truck as the goons exit, yet at the end there is an ambulance in there. That scene had not been written yet. The second is that the two missile launches both break the same window (same shot different angle). The trailers were so unpopular as Bruce Willis was only known for comedy sit com Moonlighting, and people laughed so hard at him during the trailer action scenes that the initial posters in cinema foyers only featured pictures of the building and scrubbed off Willis' name. I love you picked up on the rose thorn gag. That always makes me laugh as does Al Leong chowing down on the vending candy.

sagesaria

The music playing in the vault opening is Ode to Joy, key part of Beethoven's 9th symphony.

Torstein Skurve

YES! I adore these movies and you guys are fantastic! Looks like my evening is set❤

Eik104

I have the same scar, I'll call it a Bruce Willis scar from now on 😄

Mario

Aaaaah.....a christmas movie.... 😉😉

Paul Davey

The first Die Hard is definitely the best (Bruce Willis regardes it as the only good one) but I would suggest watching the first three movies overall. 4 and 5 are very forgettable. There was an intended prequel set in '79 greenlit to be made and Willis claimed the script was even better than the first movie, but was cancelled by Disney after their purchase of Twentieth Century Fox. Anyway, as for how McClane knew Gruber was the bad guy upon meeting: his watch. In an earlier deleted scene McClane notices all the villains wear the same watch.

JediLounger

You guys did not say what was coming up next lol. As to the other Die Hard movies. Die Hard 2: Die Harder is worth watching because it picks up some of the story from Die Hard, but the movie is just ok. Very silly. Some good action and twists though. Die Hard with a Vengeance is excellent, and you for sure should watch it. Great action and very funny. Top tier 90’s movie. Live Free or Die Hard is pretty good. Once again, very silly. But it’s easy to watch, good action. Make sure you rent the unrated version though. A Good Day to Die Hard is….a movie. That exists. You can certainly watch it, because it exists. lol. Yup.

Theoshin

From my memory the 2nd is mediocre. Third makes me think of a buddy comedy movie. And anything thing after that i don't ever remember anymore

Sir_Dalagad

You might be thinking "Hey, let's watch a Die Hard sequel every year at Christmas time!" That is a horrible idea, because: why wait? Please do Die Hard 2 before New Years this year!

The Inedible Mattman!

The phrase "Die Hard" is a euphamism for being impossible to kill. A man you can't kill will "Die Hard", meaning it takes everything you have to kill him. At least, according to my dad in 1987 when I watched this movie and he told me that. Up to you to believe it or not lol

Einherj

They were stealing bearer bonds. So, in theory, they would be untraceable.

Paul Davey

...oh and Die Hard wasn't a term made up for the movie. It means someone who is determined and/or devoted to an agenda. Ex: somebody who would follow say, a sports team or a musician, would be referred to as a die-hard fan.

Eik104

Could you add Kill Bill Vol. 1 to a future poll if you guys haven't seen it?

William Burnham

Second film is ok but not as good as the original The rest are nothing to shout home about The law of diminishing returns 🙂🙂

Githerax

1:16:24 George: "Yeah, that's a lawn chair." ?? (jk I know what you said :D)

Githerax

And the string ensemble was playing Bach's Brandenburg Concerto #3. Soimeone's got good taste.

Kristopher Chavez

Couldn't help but notice your shirt there Simone. Along with another shirt you've worn, I'd say you're really on a Role.

Raven Dark

Love this reaction, guys. So good. Here's my opinion on the other Die Hard films, for what it's worth. The second Die Hard is as good or almost as good as the first. I loved it. The third is also really good, so I would suggest watching two and three. The others are pretty forgettable. The second is a Christmas movie in the same way this one is. The third is not. The name of the building is Nakatomi Tower. The song that was playing when the vault was opening is called Ode to Joy, It is not, as such, a Christmas song, but it's become thought of as one, and thus is often played as one around Christmas time. In the movie, they gave it a more Christmasy feel. Here is a definition of flat feet, according to what I found looking it up: A person with flat feet has no visible arch in the foot when they stand. All babies have flat feet. Arches form during early childhood. If arches don’t develop — or they collapse later in life (fallen arches) — flat feet can cause pain and affect walking. One of you - and I can't recall which - asked what defines a Christmas movie in relation to whether or not this is a Christmas film. At least in my opinion, what usually defines a Christmas film would be all the things Simone said (a tree, Christmas music, presents) but it also often includes Santa, his village, toys, or his elves. Standard Christmas themes in movies usually, and in fact, almost always, include someone learning the meaning of Christmas, discovering that Santa is real, someone becoming Santa, or someone otherwise getting into the Christmas spirit (ie, the Grinch). At the time this movie came out, Christmas movies did not, however, include terrorists, a lot of death, or violence. At the time, a Christmas movie that was action-based or had this tone was virtually unheard of. That, coupled with the lack of above mentioned themes, is what causes the world-wide argument as to whether this is a Christmas film (It is, dammit!). This movie has just enough for some people to consider it one. It treads the line, but barely. With regards to Bruce Willis looking like a dad. I can see both sides of this. What I think Simone meant when she said, "Does anyone look like anything," is, what does a dad look like? It's like the way people say, what does a serial killer look like, or what does a normal person look like. That's true. What is it about a person that makes them look like a dad or a mom or anything else? However, I can also see what George is saying. Now that I think about it, Brice Willis does sort of have that certain look that makes me think that he looks like a dad. But if I was asked to say why, what is it about him that makes him look like one, I can't put it into words. Sometimes people just have a certain look to some people that you can't explain. Hopefully, that makes sense. Again, great reaction. I hope you'll react to the second Die Hard film.

E.P.B.F.

I think that a lot of Bruce Willis' dad impression stems from two things: 1) He was a relative late bloomer as an actor. His breakthrough role was as male co-lead in the TV series 'Moonlighting' which premiered in 1985, when he was already 30 years old, and he only became an actual A lister after starring in Die Hard at age 32. 2) Early onset hair loss. Even during his Moonlighting days you could see his hairline receding steadily, By the time he hit the peak of his acting career throughout the 90ies he was already effectively bald on top (which he somewhat 'camouflaged' by mostly wearing very close cropped buzzcuts , or fully shaved heads for his movie appearances).

E.P.B.F.

I love how the two FBI agents are listed in the End Credits as Big Johnson and Little Johnson. You just know the script writer was giggling like an eight yearold when he named those characters just so that he could make that joke.

Daryl

“80s bruh” is my go to answer when things don’t make sense in 80s movies, haha

Joe D. MacGuffinstuff

Oh I see someone mentioned that the music they play throughout the movie is "Ode to Joy" from Beethoven's Ninth. Just a recommendation, not for the channel necessarily but it's just a movie I love and recommend if you get a chance and are so inclined, it's "Immortal Beloved", starring Gary Oldman as the master himself, Beethoven. I don't believe it's exactly a biopic but, yeah, I love Beethoven's music and Gary Oldman's acting so it's great, maybe not as good a film as "Amadeus", which was about Mozart and I think won some Academy Awards, but still great 👍

Joe D. MacGuffinstuff

Oh yeah, I don't know if anyone else mentioned why Alan Rickman's falling looked so great, it's because he wasn't expecting it I heard he was actually really nervous about the stunt and they told him they would drop him on the count of three, but they let him go on two 😆 Old school filmmaking, when they literally abused the actors to get better reactions, you wouldn't believe the kind of stuff directors like William Friedkin on The Exorcist, Stanley Kubrick on The Shining, Francis Ford Coppola on Apocalypse Now, et al pulled.

Dor

If I were you, I would skip Die Hard 2 entirely and go straight to Die Hard With a Vengeance, the third movie, which is really excellent and co-stars Samuel L Jackson and Jeremy Irons. The last two are totally skippable, only 1 and 3 are really great.

JarHead0351

Flatfoot is a term for beat cop which is a old saying since 1913 - I do think this as a Christmas action movie

E.P.B.F.

Bah! Pikers all. If you want to talk about _ real_ abuse by a film director look at Michael Curtiz on Noah's Ark from 1929. For the climactic flood scene where some 600,000 gallons of water were to be dumped onto the stage area from a bunch of giant water tanks a set had been constructed that was divided into permanent and breakaway parts. The safe, permanent part was supposed to be filled with extras while the breakaways that were going to be swept away by the water should have only dummies in them (for obvious reasons). Curtiz _deliberately_ reversed this putting the humans in the about to be destroyed breakaway part of the set and the mannequins in the solid one without telling them, and then added a bunch of longhorn cattle to the mix for good measure. Because he wanted more 'realism'. Three people drowned in the filming of the scene, one lost a leg and thirty-eight ambulances had to go back and forth multiple times to transport all the injured to the hospital. Even Dolores Costello, the female lead of Noah's Arc, caught pneumonia. She nick named the production " Mud, Flood, and Blood". https://youtu.be/e91G9aDyS_s?t=1289

PaulChristopher

People who are on their feet a lot sometimes suffer from fallen arches in their feet. It's called having flat feet.

Christopher Greenley

Watch Die Hard 2. Great sequel. Like all of them. Except for the 4th one.👎👎 The rest are great films!😎

Tim Pierce

There was a reason John seen through Hans' act as Bill Clay, it was just cut from the movie. While he was doing recon, McClane noticed all the bad guys had the same watches, including Hans.

Miles E Coburn

Plus Hans doesn't even blink at the European cigarettes. Most of the U.S. population wouldn't be accustomed to the difference.

Odd Thomas

1 through 4 are all good in their own way tbh, but actually 3 is my favourite. Sam Jackson & Bruce running through 90s New York is so much fun. Another underrated 90s actioner with Jackson is The Long Kiss Goodnight; written by Shane Black and directed by Renny 'Die Hard 2' Harlin.