This is my favorite of the Die Hard series. I worked at an airport for 10 years, and always took the Christmas shift so my employees could have the night off. We would hang out in the empty concourse with the police and watch this movie and have a unofficial party. Kinda fun hanging out in an airport and watching another airport have a really bad day on tv lol!
I was the ARFF lieutenant at the airport fire station. Our shift Captain had to go through the security gate at the perimeter in order to check on us, nobody could ever surprise us. I slept once from 10am all the way to 3pm and nobody off the airport ever knew. I loved working out there. We got to know the airport police and the tower guys really well.
The Nakatomi building is actually Fox studios' (former) headquarters building in LA - it was brand new and actually still under construction, which is why they could use it for filming, and why some of the floors were incomplete. And, yes, even in the movie, it was LA. The whole point is that Bruce was playing a NYC cop whose wife moved to LA for her career, and he came out to LA for the first time to spend Christmas with her.
The Nakatomi Tower was (in the film) located in Century City (a few miles west of downtown LA) The building itself is currently owned by the "Irvine Company" (it was previously named the Fox Plaza Building) and is located at 2121 Avenue of the Stars. Quite a visible landmark if you're ever in the area
You two should definitely check out the Lethal Weapon movies. The first one has more heavy drama mixed with some humorous moments, but the later films (2-4) are increasingly more comedic.
@@ct6852 This made me wander thru his IMDB page and most every film is his Action Persona. THE KID is pretty different. BONFIRE OF VANITIES is. Maybe NOBODY'S FOOL but, naw, that's still the same ol' Bruce. At the same time, Bronson, Eastwood, Ahnold, Stallone (except for OSCAR), etc... they're alway s the same.
@@Cbcw76 He was really great in 6th Sense...the way he mentored that kid was really sweet, and multi-layered. Always kinda hoped he would build off that. Never saw Bonfire because I heard it was awful...that's too bad, though, because Tom Wolfe is an incredible author.
@@ct6852 I cheated. I saw the movie first and it's got a great twist ending; I never understood it's poor rating. I read the book a couple of years later, saw the movie again and they stand separately. Bruce is a minor character, more like a narrator.
*"The Long Kiss Goodnight"* might be the most underrated action movie I know. Samuel Jackson and Geena Davis are perfection together (and HILARIOUS). You TWO would love it.
@@danh8804 Weird coincidence, but Geena Davis is a real life Katniss with a bow and arrow. Almost made the Olympic Archery team if I remember right. I'll look it up after the reaction if I remember. EDIT: Almost made 2000 team, and had never picked up a bow til she was 41 in 1997. Practiced religiously 30 hrs/wk, and was winning competitions within months.
You two girls are so adorably wildly off the charts. You can watch Diehard, all the fights and shootouts and explosions and mayhem going on, but you still wish they took the time to show McClaine and his wife and family opening presents and drinking eggnog, etc. Ya'll are the most sweet and romantic happy ending fairytale girls ever. Funny thing about all this I am a grown man and can cry during a good romantic scene or father daughter hug. Kudos to both of you, I can't stop watching your videos. LOL
Well spoken! I absolutely LOVE these girls. How many times do you want to say who this guy is, or what movie they were in and they figure it out? They're so adorable!!!
Yes indeed, I love the sister, she is like an innocent child haha very adorable people these two. Being Canadian, they didn't even know the colour coding of real rounds and empty ones.
I had a brightly colored brick from Die Hard 3 until my move 3 years ago. Part of it was filmed at the SC General Dynamics plant where I worked on construction of three classes of subs from '90 to '94, and friends worked on the movie.
So interesting thing to know is that despite the fact that Bruce Willis became ultimately known as an action star, his actual start to stardom was as a comedic actor. Hence the one liners and tongue in cheek attitude of these earlier action movies of his.
I'm old enough to remember when there were question about whether he could be an action star. He was the "Moonlighting" and "Blind Date" guy. Not the typical action hero that movies were used to, but he actually changed the game.
@@user-dz6fy6qv2l Exactly. Even being a big Bruce Willis fan at the time, I remember people being really reluctant about the first Die Hard with him as an action hero. Some wondering if it was actually going to be a comedy action movie like Beverly Hills Cop or something.
Fun Fact: In the first "Die Hard" (1988), John McClane (Bruce Willis) only had a few scripted one-liners. However, Bruce Willis ad-libbed many one-liners and audiences liked them so much, so that in this sequel (and the next one), more gags were added and Bruce Willis was told he could ad-lib as much as he saw fit. Also, the scenes with Bruce Willis running through tunnels under the airport were filmed at a water treatment facility near Los Angeles. The facility has miles of underground tunnels and was also used in "Live Free or Die Hard" (2007), doubling as the Woodlawn Social Security Administration building.
Even though he was supposed to be at Dulles airport in Washington D.C., when he was talking on the phone to his wife at the beginning of the movie, it was a Pacific Bell payphone.
@@-M0LE I was raised to think otherwise, but use it too much anyway. Regardless, Cassie and Carly's F-bomb is "Fetch" 🤣🤣🤣. Because of that I always try to keep it G-rated out of respect.
Honestly, what a journey it's been, back in the day Cassie had no idea what a "Die Hard" was, and now she's making Terminator references, Batman references, recognizing actors from other movies, wow, I mean WOW! Good movie, not as good as the first one, but still entertaining. Great reaction!
@@davidcosta2244 Nah, Die Hard 2 definitely wasn't better than the first one. The first one was amazing, the second one was just a re-hash of the formula in a different setting. Glad you liked it though
With a Vengeance is what a sequel should be. This is an extremely poor sequel whose best idea was the location. Can you imagine the bad guys in the planning stage suggesting carrying two sets of clips, one with blanks? Col. Stuart would have shot them for such a stupid suggestion.
Colonel Stuart is a pretty underrated film villain. His actor even said he takes it as a compliment whenever someone tells him they hated his character.
William Sadler who frequently plays villains said he enjoyed playing Colonel Stuart was also the main villain in Hard To Kill also 1990 as a corrupt Senator who goes against Steven Seagal
I know I saw that interview and he seems to be a really awesome guy. So does John Amos (Major Grant). Another reason why I love Die Hard 2 is because of that twist! I remember the first time I saw this film I was in my teens I was like "Holy sh!t! They're all bad guys too!?!" Now after seeing that twist it's helped me deduce similar twists in other films, no matter what genre, before the reveal occurs. For example Scream 3. Many people mention that the reveal of the killer's identity comes completely out of left field. When I saw Scream 3 I was in college studying Performing Arts and when I saw that first scene with Roman Bridger, I thought "You're the director of Stab 3. Your cast are dying and your irate because your movie has been shut down? You're the killer because you're 'directing your own horror movie'." Turned out I was correct about the identity but not the motive as such.
I think it's underrated sequel. The director Renny Harlin is from my home country, Finland. His second best film was Cliffhanger, starring Sylvester Stallone. Also action.
Fun fact: Both Dennis Franz (Chief Lorenzo) and Robert Costanzo (Vito, the cop who had McClane's car towed) later played bitter enemies on _NYPD Blue._ Costanzo played a gangster who shot Dennis's character Andy Sipowicz.
Agreed. Yes, Cassie is the cornerstone, the foundation, but to me, Carly is the "sidekick" that completes the show. The Tonto to Cassie's Lone Ranger, the Poncho to Cassie's Cisco, the Louise to Cassie's Thelma. Do I still watch without Carly? Sure. Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
The first one was release in JUNE. It is NOT a X-Mas movie. It just takes place at X-Mas time. Why do people not understand that. (No question mark. Rhetorical)
@@Tero92 It is a movie of a robbery that happens during X-Mas. It was release in June. If you consider a X-mas movie that centers around a robbery a X-Mas movie, than there is no helping you. Idiots are born idiots, I guess.
A few fun facts about Die Hard: The word "Christmas" appears 18 times in the script. There are 21 visuals of Christmas things (Santa Claus, Santa hats, Christmas trees, etc.) throughout the movie. There are 3 Christmas songs in the movie. The whole movie took place on Christmas eve (and possibly some of the time was early Christmas morning). In polls taken, 75% of people say that Die Hard is a Christmas movie.
@@michaelweldon1127Well both 1 & 2 came out in July. Not sure why. Maybe whoever was in charge of release dates didn’t think they were Xmas movies 🤷♂️
I haven't seen this movie in about 30 years but I just noticed the guy at 5:32 was also in Die Hard 3, as one of Gruber's guys. And, he was in The Untouchables as the cop who accompanies Ness to the liquor bust at the beginning of the movie. Of all the death scenes in movies, the icicle scene in this stands out in my mind.
I might have mentioned this in the other die hard movies these gals watch, but... Does anyone else notice how John McClain starts out healthy and unhurt, and by the end, he is bleeding and looking like sh*t ran over twice?! Every die-hard movie is that way. 😊😊
I saw this on CBS Sunday Night Movie in 2000, and the way they removed or dubbed the swearing is hilarious especially when John McClane says, "Yippee Kay Yay, Mr Falcon." Lol!! I'm like, "Who's Mr Falcon?" Instead of, "Come to papa, Scumbag," it was "Come to papa, Falcon." Or "Forget Monday Night quarterbacks! My wife is one of those damn planes those guys are messing with. And if you moved your fat feet like I told you so, we wouldn't be too deep in snow right now!" Lol!!
This is my favorite Die Hard sequel. A lot of people will say the third one. But I like that they play with the coincidences of all this happening again on Christmas and that John is kind of a celebrity because of the first film. Always liked the scene where the girl at the desk comes on to him and he holds up his wedding ring. I think this one may be more of a Christmas movie than the first film. There's the snow and a lot more Christmas paraphernalia on display.
I thought part 3 is weird and totally different. It abandons almost everything about Die Hard (christmas, night time setting, confined space like airport or Nakatomi). It seemed like Die Hard 3 put together all the ideas for a Die Hard movie they had (locations) and then shuffled the bag... it's all over the place. Samuel L. Jackson is good in it though, and Bruce Willis as usual. But the setting doesn't have the same kind of atmosphere. A cruise ship would have been better (a confined space). They were already working on a script where Lucy McClane and John are on holiday on a cruise ship, and terrorists seize it. But they abandoned the script because Under Siege got ahead of them and did a ship (which was straight Die Hard ripoff). I wonder how Die Hard 3 would have been, if Under Siege didn't steal their idea
@@shredd5705 2nd Die Hard could be called Die Hard in an Airport. 3rd one is Die Hard in a City. Still confined, just bigger and just as complicated to get from A to B, what with traffic congestion, etc.
Second one suffered as it was a direct sequel to one of the greatest films ever made. It’s got better over the years and it builds on McLane eventually having to take down the bad guys on his own.
@@PHDiaz-vv7yo I always liked DH2. Maybe because of national pride, the director is from Finland my home country. Only director from Finland to make it in Hollywood. It's not as good as the first one, but it gets IMO closer than most people give it credit for.
@@fergalhughes165 Yes DH2 has a lot of "fan service" in it, elevator, air ducts, familiar elements. But I think it still stands on it's own, it has many elements that first one didn't, like the Major Grant plot twist. And that McClane isn't alone. I also think if 3rd movie was also set in Christmas, it would have been corny. It's not called "Christmas Cop" after all. So it's wise that they made it a summer setting instead. But not really sure if "city" can be considered confined space. I always thought (before DH3 released) that it will be set on a ship, metro, a sports stadium or place like that. Something that you can seal off. I think the script writers thought of those too, since all those locations are in DH3, just briefly. They lumped together all locations they had. I like DH3 but it's very different tone. McClane being in hangover and disrespected by his colleagues (initially) etc.
Die Hard could’ve been almost like a James Bond type of franchise where the main character changes for every movie. It’s a brilliant way for a movie studio to keep cranking them out.. especially with the Christmas theme too.
Alan Rickman - if you loved him in Die Hard, if you loved him as Prof. Snape in the Harry Potter movies, you will absolutely love him in Galaxy Quest (with Tim Allen and Sigourney Weaver!)
He was deranged in "Robin Hood Prince of Thieves", which PiB did a reaction to. Nobody knows "Quigley Down Under". Rickman acknowledged that it's still topical and relevant to what was done and is still being done to indigenous people.
I remember the day this was filmed in Michigan! Some outdoor scenes were filmed in Alpena, MI, while others needing to accommodate the landing of the 747 with snow were filmed at former Kincheloe Air Force Base in Kincheloe, MI. Other scenes were filmed on a sound stage in Los Angeles using fake snow.
Interestingly, respected critics Gene Siskel & Roger Ebert considered this to be the best in the franchise. The latter somehow didn't like the original, while the former ranked this sequel as the 6th best film of 1990 above the likes of Dances with Wolves and Godfather 3. Screen Junkies even did a couple of "Honest Action" videos for the series, and it was determined that McClane's chances of survival was actually at its most plausible in this film. It also has one of the greatest finales ever. Throughout the movie, the villains are always ahead of the protagonist. Even though McClane makes progress w/ each action scene, all of them (prior to the climax) ends w/ a trade-off of him losing: no one was left to interrogate after the baggage fight, the antenna array explodes and a plane is crashed after the skywalk shootout, Esperanza escapes after landing, and McClane ends up w/ blank ammunition in the snowmobile chase. All leading up to the plane fight where John loses against Stuart, and it seems that all hope is lost for Holly's plane. This is what Chris Stuckmann likes to call the "Breaking Point" moment, where the hero is at his lowest point in an action sequence and has to come up w/ a way to get out of that predicament. McClane does so after uttering his famous catchphrase and lighting the fuel trail left by the plane. With a single stroke, he finally defeats the bad guys and saves all of the hostages.
I'm really loving the reactions from the both of you. clevelandcbi is correct, A Long Kiss Goodnight is an amazing underrated movie. Geena Davis and Samuel Jackson are brilliant together. I wish they made a sequel. Another Amazing movie you both will enjoy is Entrapment with Sean Connery and Catherine Zeta Jones. Another brilliant couple.
I've had the chance to meet and hang out a little with Dennis Franz (the Airport Police Captain who also won Emmy Awards for his role of Detective Andy Sipowicz on NYPD Blue). He is a fellow Vietnam Veteran and one of the nicest guys you could ever want to meet.
I love how the movie recognizes the unbelievable situation "Oh man, I can't fucking believe this. Another basement, another elevator. How can the same shit happen to the same guy twice?".
Well, the script tried to address it by saying they reached "three of the planes" via phone. At least it was acknowledged, but honestly, the "plane hostage" thing really doesn't work the way the movie thinks it does.
I think the first 3 Die Hard movies are must sees (the 3rd one takes place in the summer) and I like the 4th one but the 5th, I could take it or leave it.
ha - something i didn't notice until your reaction - so in die hard 1, mcclane is a new york cop in l.a. and everyone's telling him that his new york badge doesn't mean squat in l.a. in this movie, they're back in new york and mcclane is a los angeles cop because of holly and everyone's telling him that his los angeles badge doesn't mean anything in new york!
I'm looking forward to y'all getting to Live Free or Die Hard (the fourth film). Weirdly enough it's my favorite of the franchise, but that may just be because of Justin Long. I felt like he and Bruce Willis were a good team.
If Col. Stewart (William Sadler) looked familiar to you. He was the father of the two little girls in "The Green Mile". I am surprised you didn't pick up on the different colored wraps on the gun clips for the shootout at the church. The live ammo had a red velcro wrap and the blanks had blue wraps. I remember watching this in the theater when it came out and picked up on that as soon as I saw it.
I had first seen this movie when it was pre released in the theatres. The whole place was packed, and everyone was so into the movie, especially when John stab the villain in the eye with the isacle. Everybody cheered at that scene !
"That punk pulled a Glock-7. You know what that is?" Something you just made up. Because that gun doesn't exist, and literally every thing you said about Glock was wrong. One of them had a Glock 17, which is an AUSTRIAN gun that contains no porcelain and is in fact more than 80% steel, thus why it does in fact show up under a metal detector. The other guy had a Beretta 92 which doesn't have so much as a plastic casing, therefor also undercutting the whole metal detector idea, and is also the same gun Lorenzo uses.
22:01 How bout that part where Gen. Esperanza is standing in the doorway of a gigantic airplane, and John McClaine, who is standing on the ground, punches him in the face. His arm would have to be like 12 feet long lol.
0:24 “how did he die?” It’s literally a meme now - it’s not Xmas until Hans Gruber falls out the Nakatomi building 2:15 “happens to most people twice”… 13:55 😂 30:36 “yippee-ki-yay Mr Falcon” 😂 You should definitely watch Die Hard: With A Vengeance. It’s rare that a sequel is as good as the original, but a second sequel that’s as good is almost unheard of… DH:WAV achieves that. Willis is great as John McClane, but the supporting cast of Samuel L. Jackson and Jeremy Irons are fantastic too. Die Hard 4.0 starts to get a bit tired, and Die Hard 5 is so far removed from its counterparts that if not for the title and Willis as McClane, you would think it was a different movie on its own. As you’ve both enjoyed Die Hard 1 & 2, I would recommend 12 Rounds. Same producer as Die Hard 2.
Surprised you missed William Sadler. He is the bad guy Stuart who guided the plane to its fiery end. He was also in Green Mile as the father of the dead girls and Heywood in Shawshank Redemption.
William Sadler also played the main villain Senator Vernon Trent in Hard To Kill in 1990 as a corrupt politician with mob ties who goes against Steven Seagal.
Classic film. I do community radio here in the U.K. and I often play your great theme tune, "Alienated" and gave you and your channel a mention live on the radio. 👍 Keep up the good work. You're one of the most genuine reactors on RUclips.
Amazing how lax airport security was pre-9/11! Getting a taser on a plane would've been no problem! Looking forward to DIe Hard WIth A Vengeance. My favorite of the series.
Absolute Classic theatre experience around Christmas time. The advertising was BIG and everywhere. Homevideo explode with this One. One of the biggest blockbuster movies of 1990 at nr 7 domestically. Could have been much higher if not for very strong competition from movies like. Ghost, pretty women, home Alone, total recall. What a epic movie year 1990 was. Unbelievable. 1990 is the grand finale tot the great 80s movie time periode. I dont think I have ever seen so much top quality movies in the box office top 20 as in 1990. Epic theatre 🎥 time.
Die Hard with a Vengeance (3) is a MUST watch now you have seen 1 & 2 - It would be great to see your reaction to that. It's also not a Christmas movie, so we don't have to wait a year haha
You will have to watch #3 "Die Hard With a Vengeance" also. But that one takes place in NYC during the summer so wait a few months before you schedule that for the both of you to watch.
I hope you will continue the DIE HARD series (at least part 3 and 4, part 5 is not so good). Other good action movies from the 80s/90s: -Lethal Weapon (all 4 movies are great!) -The long kiss goodnight (starring Geena Davis and Samuel L. Jackson) -The last boy scout (starring Bruce Willis, Damon Wayans and Halle Berry)
Also, the actor playing Col. Stuart is William Sadler. Besides his Shawshank Redemption reference, he also portrayed another famous Colonel - "Chesty" Puller from HBOs "The Pacific" 🙂
This is important. You've now seen 1 and 2. Next one up is "Die Hard: With a Vengeance". Everything after that...does not exist. Stop there, if you watch. Also love the sweater!. Great flick!
@@aussiekat6379 I know it wasn't intended to be a Christmas movie but as time has gone by it kind of has morphed into one. Not your traditional Christmas movie of course!
Two my favourite moments: 1. "Just a fax, mam, just a fax". My Hero😍😍!!! 2. "Holly!-John! Holly -John!" in the end 🥰 I am watching the movie for these five last minutes. Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow. And yes, it IS a Christmas movie!
I love that you connected the guns to the plot twist of the army being terrorists, but not quite in the correct way. lol John realised that the guns were filled with blanks. That's why he missed everyone HE shot at. It was the magazines: Blue=blanks Red=live ammo.
@x Seriously??? I gave up after getting a letter saying they were worried it'd be too easy for people to try at home, and didn't wanna see anyone (kids especially) get hurt attempting it.
I live in Colorado near the mountains. Most times I don't sleep with socks on. In fact I'm so tall my feet hang off the mattress and often stick out the end. Sometimes though, when a bitter wind rolls through and temperatures take a nose dive into the absurd, socks are welcome, along with an extra comforter.
Hi always love your reactions. Die Hard 1, 3 & 4 to me are the best. What i love the most in Die Hard 4..is when our John McClain gives a Samwise(LOTR)-like speech about "being that guy" the guy that sees something bad happening & 'being that guy' has to do something..no matter what. Like that.. "the only way for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing" .. Which is used in another great Bruce Willis movie. " Tears of the Sun". Hope you watch.✌
First Die Hard was in LA, Die Hard 2 was Dulles Airport, Washington, Die Hard With a Vengeance was New York, Die Harder (4) was also Washington, then I think they went to Moscow? Bruce Willis stated that it isn't a Christmas movie, but it is :)
Can' wait for you to do Die Hard 3. It's the best one imo. And I agree with clevelandcbi . The Long Kiss Goodnight is a brilliant action movie in this same strain.
Yeah, it can get confusing if you don't follow Mclain's story. He and Holly are from NY, but Holly got an amazing job opportunity in L.A., so the first movie starts with John going to L.A. to see her and reconcile a fight they had. THIS movie is some time after and John has transferred TO LAPD but now is back home waiting for Holly's plane to land so they can have Christmas with their family in NY. I think that about sums up these first two movies.
Can't wait to see your reactions to Die Hard 3. It's arguably as good, if not better, than the original. Hopefully, since this is the last Christmas Die Hard, we won't have to wait too long for the next one.
Die Hard took place in Los Angeles. The building used was the 20th Century Fox Building who made this movie. It's actually located in Century City. I made a delivery to that building soon after that movie came out and it really does look like that in the lobby and elevators.
Every Christmas eve with "a couple" of Guinness stout - (not draught) while waiting for Santa. My favourite 80's/90's action movie, my favorite christmas movie and my favorite Die Hard movie - it is perfect. I miss the 80's when kill counts were huge and blood bag squibs didnt vaporize the blood into a mist and everything was gloopy.
Die Hard 2 was the most expensive movie ever when it was made (until its budget was topped by Terminator 2 a year later), and to direct it they chose a Finnish guy called Renny Harlin, who'd made only four relatively low-budget movies before then and moved to the US only a few years earlier. And he knocked it out of the park! Anyway, Happy Holidays and greetings from Finland!
One of those four low-budget movies was the New Line Cinema release A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master, which was mega successful and saw Freddy become a household name.
@@DominiqueMarsell Yeah that probably made him enough name to get Die Hard 2. After that he did Cliffhanger which lifted Stallone's career from a low point back to stardom. But then he made a critical mistake, by making Cutthroat Island. The script and acting was bad, and Renny's career never recovered. He didn't get good scripts or big stars anymore.
This is my favorite of the Die Hard series. I worked at an airport for 10 years, and always took the Christmas shift so my employees could have the night off. We would hang out in the empty concourse with the police and watch this movie and have a unofficial party. Kinda fun hanging out in an airport and watching another airport have a really bad day on tv lol!
I was the ARFF lieutenant at the airport fire station. Our shift Captain had to go through the security gate at the perimeter in order to check on us, nobody could ever surprise us. I slept once from 10am all the way to 3pm and nobody off the airport ever knew. I loved working out there. We got to know the airport police and the tower guys really well.
Really nice of you to take that shift. Should be a special spot in the afterlife for you.
Lol I usually do maintenance work. So alot of times I'm like dam maintenance dude got a bunch of bullet holes to patch up. 🤣
I couldn't believe that they played this for us on an in-flight movie, back before the individual seat back systems.
@@eparabolic1347 LMAO really? They had that as a joke in Airplane! 🤣
I come here just to see Carly's SMILE... It's so Intoxicating! ABSOLUTELY Love it when her eyes squint
The Nakatomi building is actually Fox studios' (former) headquarters building in LA - it was brand new and actually still under construction, which is why they could use it for filming, and why some of the floors were incomplete. And, yes, even in the movie, it was LA. The whole point is that Bruce was playing a NYC cop whose wife moved to LA for her career, and he came out to LA for the first time to spend Christmas with her.
They moved headquarters? Like after Disney acquired them, or before?
@@ct6852 I believe they had already been in the process of moving out of the building before being bought by Disney.
The Nakatomi Tower was (in the film) located in Century City (a few miles west of downtown LA) The building itself is currently owned by the "Irvine Company" (it was previously named the Fox Plaza Building) and is located at 2121 Avenue of the Stars. Quite a visible landmark if you're ever in the area
@@ericc8705 I think for a while it really stuck out because it was by far the tallest building in the area. If it's the one I'm thinking of.
You two should definitely check out the Lethal Weapon movies. The first one has more heavy drama mixed with some humorous moments, but the later films (2-4) are increasingly more comedic.
Another Christmas movie.
Did you see the advertisement for Lethal Weapon 2 that is on the back of the magazine the lady next to Holly was reading?
Agreed!
And Beverly Hills Cop, 48 Hrs, Rush Hour, and Bad Boys.
Trancers is also a Christmas movie that spawned a great franchise.
Popcorn is Bed: *Says Die Hard isn't a Christmas movie.*
Also Popcorn in Bed: *Watches Die Hard 2 during the Christmas season.*
They said it is an action movie that takes place in *Christmas* time. 😄
She said in the introduction that she has since changed her mind.
@@Jay_Sullivan she based
Just remember Bruce Willis in SIXTH SENSE. In DEATH BECOMES HER. Wow... what a great range of characters he delivers.
I always thought of Sixth Sense as his first really dramatic role. Not sure if that's true, though.
@@ct6852 This made me wander thru his IMDB page and most every film is his Action Persona. THE KID is pretty different. BONFIRE OF VANITIES is. Maybe NOBODY'S FOOL but, naw, that's still the same ol' Bruce. At the same time, Bronson, Eastwood, Ahnold, Stallone (except for OSCAR), etc... they're alway s the same.
@@Cbcw76 He was really great in 6th Sense...the way he mentored that kid was really sweet, and multi-layered. Always kinda hoped he would build off that. Never saw Bonfire because I heard it was awful...that's too bad, though, because Tom Wolfe is an incredible author.
@@ct6852 I cheated. I saw the movie first and it's got a great twist ending; I never understood it's poor rating. I read the book a couple of years later, saw the movie again and they stand separately. Bruce is a minor character, more like a narrator.
@@Cbcw76 Oh sweet. I'm gonna see it then. Just found out it's a De Palma.
*"The Long Kiss Goodnight"* might be the most underrated action movie I know. Samuel Jackson and Geena Davis are perfection together (and HILARIOUS). You TWO would love it.
was literally about to suggest this. In honor of Jennifer Lawrence being the first female action hero :)
@@danh8804 Weird coincidence, but Geena Davis is a real life Katniss with a bow and arrow. Almost made the Olympic Archery team if I remember right. I'll look it up after the reaction if I remember.
EDIT: Almost made 2000 team, and had never picked up a bow til she was 41 in 1997. Practiced religiously 30 hrs/wk, and was winning competitions within months.
"I like to be frank and earnest with women. In New York I'm Frank and in Chicago I'm Ernest. Heheheh" God I love Samuel L. 🤣
Loved Long Kiss. 💋
Long kiss is excellent
You two girls are so adorably wildly off the charts. You can watch Diehard, all the fights and shootouts and explosions and mayhem going on, but you still wish they took the time to show McClaine and his wife and family opening presents and drinking eggnog, etc. Ya'll are the most sweet and romantic happy ending fairytale girls ever. Funny thing about all this I am a grown man and can cry during a good romantic scene or father daughter hug. Kudos to both of you, I can't stop watching your videos. LOL
Well spoken! I absolutely LOVE these girls. How many times do you want to say who this guy is, or what movie they were in and they figure it out?
They're so adorable!!!
Yes indeed, I love the sister, she is like an innocent child haha very adorable people these two. Being Canadian, they didn't even know the colour coding of real rounds and empty ones.
There are no 2 without 3, you can't stop watching Die Hard 3, with New York City in the 90s as the scene of the action. It is very entertaining.
YES!
I had a brightly colored brick from Die Hard 3 until my move 3 years ago. Part of it was filmed at the SC General Dynamics plant where I worked on construction of three classes of subs from '90 to '94, and friends worked on the movie.
3 is the only Die Hard sequel worth a damn
The best one
#3 is my all-time favorite one.. and I love the first two!
So interesting thing to know is that despite the fact that Bruce Willis became ultimately known as an action star, his actual start to stardom was as a comedic actor. Hence the one liners and tongue in cheek attitude of these earlier action movies of his.
Loved Moonlighting!!
I'm old enough to remember when there were question about whether he could be an action star. He was the "Moonlighting" and "Blind Date" guy. Not the typical action hero that movies were used to, but he actually changed the game.
@@user-dz6fy6qv2l Exactly. Even being a big Bruce Willis fan at the time, I remember people being really reluctant about the first Die Hard with him as an action hero. Some wondering if it was actually going to be a comedy action movie like Beverly Hills Cop or something.
Look for the movie "Blind Date" - Bruce Willis classic. Hilarious movie.
Almost an action movie
Fun Fact: In the first "Die Hard" (1988), John McClane (Bruce Willis) only had a few scripted one-liners. However, Bruce Willis ad-libbed many one-liners and audiences liked them so much, so that in this sequel (and the next one), more gags were added and Bruce Willis was told he could ad-lib as much as he saw fit.
Also, the scenes with Bruce Willis running through tunnels under the airport were filmed at a water treatment facility near Los Angeles. The facility has miles of underground tunnels and was also used in "Live Free or Die Hard" (2007), doubling as the Woodlawn Social Security Administration building.
Bruce calling that one guy a GD hamster in Live Free Or Die Hard is probably the hardest I laughed at any of his lines in the franchise.
@@clevelandcbi you can say god Damn you know it’s not swearing
Even though he was supposed to be at Dulles airport in Washington D.C., when he was talking on the phone to his wife at the beginning of the movie, it was a Pacific Bell payphone.
@@-M0LE I was raised to think otherwise, but use it too much anyway. Regardless, Cassie and Carly's F-bomb is "Fetch" 🤣🤣🤣. Because of that I always try to keep it G-rated out of respect.
@@asterix7842 I love catching the geographical errors the most. Seen multiple "Chicago" chase scenes with palm trees, for instance.
"This escalated quickly!" cracked me up.
Excellent reaction, ladies.
Great reaction!! The actor playing Colonel Stuart, William Sadler, also was in The Shawshank Redemption as Heywood, one of Andy’s friends in prison.
He also played Sloan in DS9 and the plane that he crashed was piloted by Chief O'brien of DS9 as well.
He was also the father of the murdered girls in The Green Mile.
He was also very good as Col. Chesty Puller in The Pacific.
He'll always be Death to me. (Bill & Ted movies) ☠️
@@BradleyJSeattle Love it when he got “Melvin’ed.” 😂
Honestly, what a journey it's been, back in the day Cassie had no idea what a "Die Hard" was, and now she's making Terminator references, Batman references, recognizing actors from other movies, wow, I mean WOW! Good movie, not as good as the first one, but still entertaining. Great reaction!
It was better than the first one, just saying. This is recognizing how awesome the first one was, the second gad a lot more up's, and down's.
@@davidcosta2244 Nah, Die Hard 2 definitely wasn't better than the first one. The first one was amazing, the second one was just a re-hash of the formula in a different setting. Glad you liked it though
THIS is what a sequel should be! Contain just enough of what made the first film so great while adding just enough new things to make it fresh!
With a Vengeance is what a sequel should be. This is an extremely poor sequel whose best idea was the location. Can you imagine the bad guys in the planning stage suggesting carrying two sets of clips, one with blanks? Col. Stuart would have shot them for such a stupid suggestion.
Nope!
@@hingethunder excellent reply.
that sequel was bad, it was like milking or trying to do the 1st one.. wich is bad its the fast furious strategie... the 3rd one is good too
@@philipocallaghan 46 (and counting) people would disagree with you and Hinge Thunder.
Colonel Stuart is a pretty underrated film villain. His actor even said he takes it as a compliment whenever someone tells him they hated his character.
William Sadler who frequently plays villains said he enjoyed playing Colonel Stuart was also the main villain in Hard To Kill also 1990 as a corrupt Senator who goes against Steven Seagal
I know I saw that interview and he seems to be a really awesome guy. So does John Amos (Major Grant). Another reason why I love Die Hard 2 is because of that twist! I remember the first time I saw this film I was in my teens I was like "Holy sh!t! They're all bad guys too!?!" Now after seeing that twist it's helped me deduce similar twists in other films, no matter what genre, before the reveal occurs.
For example Scream 3. Many people mention that the reveal of the killer's identity comes completely out of left field. When I saw Scream 3 I was in college studying Performing Arts and when I saw that first scene with Roman Bridger, I thought "You're the director of Stab 3. Your cast are dying and your irate because your movie has been shut down? You're the killer because you're 'directing your own horror movie'." Turned out I was correct about the identity but not the motive as such.
PiB liked "Gladiator", and they loved/hated Joaquin Phoenix amazing great performance as a deranged supremely evil villain.
I think it's underrated sequel. The director Renny Harlin is from my home country, Finland. His second best film was Cliffhanger, starring Sylvester Stallone. Also action.
Cassie, you should watch "Lethal Weapon" starring Mel Gibson and Danny Glover.
It's another great Christmas action movie!
Oh yea good choice. I agree 👍
She did, LOL.
The ending has one of my favorite movie explosions of all time.
@@zerpblerd5966 My favorite will always be Jabba's Sailing Barge blowing up in Return of the Jedi but this one is up there among the best as well.
It is a very good one, indeed
Fun fact: Both Dennis Franz (Chief Lorenzo) and Robert Costanzo (Vito, the cop who had McClane's car towed) later played bitter enemies on _NYPD Blue._ Costanzo played a gangster who shot Dennis's character Andy Sipowicz.
My favorite cop show of all time. Sipowicz, is my favorite character ever
@@nedrini1055talk about character development.
Carly should just make this her full time job... I love her!
And how cute is her hair? 😍
@@Bentwaters1961 She's a real-life Barbie doll.
Agreed. Yes, Cassie is the cornerstone, the foundation, but to me, Carly is the "sidekick" that completes the show. The Tonto to Cassie's Lone Ranger, the Poncho to Cassie's Cisco, the Louise to Cassie's Thelma. Do I still watch without Carly? Sure. Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
Who are you?
Me? Not sure whether I'm Waldorf or Statler.
The man playing the actor in charge of the airport is U.S. Senator Fred Thompson, he was in several movies. I always liked him in movies.
Briefly in and memorable in "the Hunt for Red October", which PiB did.
You definitely have to watch the 3rd one. It's brilliant and It's not Christmas related so you don't need to wait a year 😂
The first one was release in JUNE. It is NOT a X-Mas movie. It just takes place at X-Mas time. Why do people not understand that. (No question mark. Rhetorical)
@@donnilloyd1355 Poor baby. Are the Die Hard is a Christmas movie fans hurting your feelings? (There's a question mark. You can answer.)
@@jkhoover No, they're not. They're just ignorant and refuse to accept reality. That's all. But, even fools have opinions. Even if they are WRONG.
@@donnilloyd1355 it is a xmas movie tho. U are wrong.
@@Tero92 It is a movie of a robbery that happens during X-Mas. It was release in June. If you consider a X-mas movie that centers around a robbery a X-Mas movie, than there is no helping you. Idiots are born idiots, I guess.
A few fun facts about Die Hard: The word "Christmas" appears 18 times in the script. There are 21 visuals of Christmas things (Santa Claus, Santa hats, Christmas trees, etc.) throughout the movie. There are 3 Christmas songs in the movie. The whole movie took place on Christmas eve (and possibly some of the time was early Christmas morning). In polls taken, 75% of people say that Die Hard is a Christmas movie.
"And now I have a machine gun. Ho Ho Ho."
@@THOMMGB Doesn't get more festive than that :)
And it was released In July 😂
Well the first one was. Honestly don’t remember when the second came out
@@michaelweldon1127Well both 1 & 2 came out in July. Not sure why. Maybe whoever was in charge of release dates didn’t think they were Xmas movies 🤷♂️
I haven't seen this movie in about 30 years but I just noticed the guy at 5:32 was also in Die Hard 3, as one of Gruber's guys. And, he was in The Untouchables as the cop who accompanies Ness to the liquor bust at the beginning of the movie.
Of all the death scenes in movies, the icicle scene in this stands out in my mind.
I might have mentioned this in the other die hard movies these gals watch, but...
Does anyone else notice how John McClain starts out healthy and unhurt, and by the end, he is bleeding and looking like sh*t ran over twice?!
Every die-hard movie is that way. 😊😊
If you're not watching Hans Gruber falling from Nakatomi Plaza at Christmas time, it's just not Christmas.
TIME FOR Die Hard 3. Such a good trilogy. I still liked 4 myself it had a lot of good call backs and Bruce Willis only moments.
I saw this on CBS Sunday Night Movie in 2000, and the way they removed or dubbed the swearing is hilarious especially when John McClane says, "Yippee Kay Yay, Mr Falcon." Lol!! I'm like, "Who's Mr Falcon?"
Instead of, "Come to papa, Scumbag," it was "Come to papa, Falcon."
Or "Forget Monday Night quarterbacks! My wife is one of those damn planes those guys are messing with. And if you moved your fat feet like I told you so, we wouldn't be too deep in snow right now!" Lol!!
My favorite one of those is Samuel L in _Snakes on a Plane_ saying, “I have had it with these monkey-fighting snakes on this Moday to Friday plane.” 😎
@@billparrish4385 Going from "mother humpers" to "mean monsters" in Tremors is another funny one.
This is my favorite Die Hard sequel. A lot of people will say the third one. But I like that they play with the coincidences of all this happening again on Christmas and that John is kind of a celebrity because of the first film. Always liked the scene where the girl at the desk comes on to him and he holds up his wedding ring. I think this one may be more of a Christmas movie than the first film. There's the snow and a lot more Christmas paraphernalia on display.
I thought part 3 is weird and totally different. It abandons almost everything about Die Hard (christmas, night time setting, confined space like airport or Nakatomi). It seemed like Die Hard 3 put together all the ideas for a Die Hard movie they had (locations) and then shuffled the bag... it's all over the place. Samuel L. Jackson is good in it though, and Bruce Willis as usual. But the setting doesn't have the same kind of atmosphere. A cruise ship would have been better (a confined space). They were already working on a script where Lucy McClane and John are on holiday on a cruise ship, and terrorists seize it. But they abandoned the script because Under Siege got ahead of them and did a ship (which was straight Die Hard ripoff). I wonder how Die Hard 3 would have been, if Under Siege didn't steal their idea
@@shredd5705 2nd Die Hard could be called Die Hard in an Airport.
3rd one is Die Hard in a City. Still confined, just bigger and just as complicated to get from A to B, what with traffic congestion, etc.
Second one suffered as it was a direct sequel to one of the greatest films ever made. It’s got better over the years and it builds on McLane eventually having to take down the bad guys on his own.
@@PHDiaz-vv7yo I always liked DH2. Maybe because of national pride, the director is from Finland my home country. Only director from Finland to make it in Hollywood. It's not as good as the first one, but it gets IMO closer than most people give it credit for.
@@fergalhughes165 Yes DH2 has a lot of "fan service" in it, elevator, air ducts, familiar elements. But I think it still stands on it's own, it has many elements that first one didn't, like the Major Grant plot twist. And that McClane isn't alone. I also think if 3rd movie was also set in Christmas, it would have been corny. It's not called "Christmas Cop" after all. So it's wise that they made it a summer setting instead. But not really sure if "city" can be considered confined space. I always thought (before DH3 released) that it will be set on a ship, metro, a sports stadium or place like that. Something that you can seal off. I think the script writers thought of those too, since all those locations are in DH3, just briefly. They lumped together all locations they had. I like DH3 but it's very different tone. McClane being in hangover and disrespected by his colleagues (initially) etc.
You guys need to watch the first Lethal Weapon!! It's also a Christmas movie in the same way Die Hard 1 and 2 are.
The actor who plays the weasel news reporter, Wiliiam Atherton, also played the slimy bureaucrat in Ghostbusters.
Die Hard could’ve been almost like a James Bond type of franchise where the main character changes for every movie. It’s a brilliant way for a movie studio to keep cranking them out.. especially with the Christmas theme too.
3:51 - It's Sheriff Velenti! I honestly don't know who that actor is but he has a lot of key niche roles in Movies and Television.
Alan Rickman - if you loved him in Die Hard, if you loved him as Prof. Snape in the Harry Potter movies, you will absolutely love him in Galaxy Quest (with Tim Allen and Sigourney Weaver!)
He was deranged in "Robin Hood Prince of Thieves", which PiB did a reaction to.
Nobody knows "Quigley Down Under". Rickman acknowledged that it's still topical and relevant to what was done and is still being done to indigenous people.
I remember the day this was filmed in Michigan! Some outdoor scenes were filmed in Alpena, MI, while others needing to accommodate the landing of the 747 with snow were filmed at former Kincheloe Air Force Base in Kincheloe, MI. Other scenes were filmed on a sound stage in Los Angeles using fake snow.
Back when they didn't rely on cgi and green screen and made actual effort
The most Hollywood movie ever was filmed in Michigan. Lol.
Interestingly, respected critics Gene Siskel & Roger Ebert considered this to be the best in the franchise. The latter somehow didn't like the original, while the former ranked this sequel as the 6th best film of 1990 above the likes of Dances with Wolves and Godfather 3. Screen Junkies even did a couple of "Honest Action" videos for the series, and it was determined that McClane's chances of survival was actually at its most plausible in this film. It also has one of the greatest finales ever. Throughout the movie, the villains are always ahead of the protagonist. Even though McClane makes progress w/ each action scene, all of them (prior to the climax) ends w/ a trade-off of him losing: no one was left to interrogate after the baggage fight, the antenna array explodes and a plane is crashed after the skywalk shootout, Esperanza escapes after landing, and McClane ends up w/ blank ammunition in the snowmobile chase. All leading up to the plane fight where John loses against Stuart, and it seems that all hope is lost for Holly's plane. This is what Chris Stuckmann likes to call the "Breaking Point" moment, where the hero is at his lowest point in an action sequence and has to come up w/ a way to get out of that predicament. McClane does so after uttering his famous catchphrase and lighting the fuel trail left by the plane. With a single stroke, he finally defeats the bad guys and saves all of the hostages.
I'm really loving the reactions from the both of you. clevelandcbi is correct, A Long Kiss Goodnight is an amazing underrated movie. Geena Davis and Samuel Jackson are brilliant together. I wish they made a sequel. Another Amazing movie you both will enjoy is Entrapment with Sean Connery and Catherine Zeta Jones. Another brilliant couple.
Carly's right when she's says "You can't do that in a church at Christmas!" It's more of an Easter thing. He shoulda known better.
Carly a true Kevin McAllister. You can shoot a priest in church 364 days a year. And torture is legal if it's against thieves.
I've had the chance to meet
and hang out a little with Dennis Franz (the Airport Police Captain who also won Emmy Awards for his role of Detective Andy Sipowicz on NYPD Blue). He is a fellow Vietnam Veteran and one of the nicest guys you could ever want to meet.
NYPD Blue is one of the best series ever written! Love Sipowitz!
One of the best sequels of all times. Amazing action.
I love how the movie recognizes the unbelievable situation "Oh man, I can't fucking believe this. Another basement, another elevator. How can the same shit happen to the same guy twice?".
What's really cool is that McClane isn't invincible, he gets hurt and he's Bruce Willis. Best Christmas and Action movies
I think Bruce officially retired last year. Kind of sad.
@@ct6852 yep, Death Wish was i think one of his last great movies. I would recommend it if you like Bruce Willis' movies
22:37 Most replayed for me. Carly´s sound effects were SO ADORABLE! 🤩🤣
I love how they forgot the planes had phones (like the one Holly used to call John). You’d think they would just use those to communicate.
Well, the script tried to address it by saying they reached "three of the planes" via phone. At least it was acknowledged, but honestly, the "plane hostage" thing really doesn't work the way the movie thinks it does.
Well, there are about a million other reasons why the whole scheme would never work, from the comms to the ILS. Plenty of dramatic license taken :)
Almost nothing technical makes sense in this movie, but it is fun.
@@steriopticon2687 Scary the number of people fail to see how pretty much every action movie would never work.
@@Cheepchipsable Well, at least Commando and Independence Dy are fully realistic
The guy @ 3:18, the one whom you said looked like a terminator, is the same actor from 'Shawshank Redemption' who played Heywood (William Sadler).
I think the first 3 Die Hard movies are must sees (the 3rd one takes place in the summer) and I like the 4th one but the 5th, I could take it or leave it.
1,2 and 4 for me. I can leave 3 and 5.
ha - something i didn't notice until your reaction - so in die hard 1, mcclane is a new york cop in l.a. and everyone's telling him that his new york badge doesn't mean squat in l.a. in this movie, they're back in new york and mcclane is a los angeles cop because of holly and everyone's telling him that his los angeles badge doesn't mean anything in new york!
I'm looking forward to y'all getting to Live Free or Die Hard (the fourth film). Weirdly enough it's my favorite of the franchise, but that may just be because of Justin Long. I felt like he and Bruce Willis were a good team.
I was surprised to see Justin Long in DH4 after seeing him as a kid in Galaxy Quest.... But it was 8 years later.
If Col. Stewart (William Sadler) looked familiar to you. He was the father of the two little girls in "The Green Mile". I am surprised you didn't pick up on the different colored wraps on the gun clips for the shootout at the church. The live ammo had a red velcro wrap and the blanks had blue wraps. I remember watching this in the theater when it came out and picked up on that as soon as I saw it.
Cliffhanger by the same director Renny Harlin is definitely worth a reaction from you ladies.
Fun fact: the Cantonese dub at 32:09 called the parking ticket a “beef jerky”, because our local parking tickets are brown.
I had first seen this movie when it was pre released in the theatres. The whole place was packed, and everyone was so into the movie, especially when John stab the villain in the eye with the isacle. Everybody cheered at that scene !
"Operation Petticoat" (1959) Comedy, Romance, Adventure during the Christmas season at the star of WWII.
Hey Cassie so glad to see you and your sister keep making more fan reaction videos but I will highly recommend Bruce Willis The Fifth Element
"That punk pulled a Glock-7. You know what that is?"
Something you just made up. Because that gun doesn't exist, and literally every thing you said about Glock was wrong. One of them had a Glock 17, which is an AUSTRIAN gun that contains no porcelain and is in fact more than 80% steel, thus why it does in fact show up under a metal detector. The other guy had a Beretta 92 which doesn't have so much as a plastic casing, therefor also undercutting the whole metal detector idea, and is also the same gun Lorenzo uses.
Personally I loved Die Hard, 2, 3 & 4 . So much fun!!!
Not even the fifth movie, right?
@@nathancruz9172 No such movie was ever made and should never be contemplated
@@QuayNemSorr 👌🏻
3 is the best.
22:01 How bout that part where Gen. Esperanza is standing in the doorway of a gigantic airplane, and John McClaine, who is standing on the ground, punches him in the face. His arm would have to be like 12 feet long lol.
Die Hard 3 is the best in my opinion. Can't wait for you guys to react to it!
0:24 “how did he die?” It’s literally a meme now - it’s not Xmas until Hans Gruber falls out the Nakatomi building
2:15 “happens to most people twice”… 13:55 😂
30:36 “yippee-ki-yay Mr Falcon” 😂
You should definitely watch Die Hard: With A Vengeance. It’s rare that a sequel is as good as the original, but a second sequel that’s as good is almost unheard of… DH:WAV achieves that. Willis is great as John McClane, but the supporting cast of Samuel L. Jackson and Jeremy Irons are fantastic too.
Die Hard 4.0 starts to get a bit tired, and Die Hard 5 is so far removed from its counterparts that if not for the title and Willis as McClane, you would think it was a different movie on its own.
As you’ve both enjoyed Die Hard 1 & 2, I would recommend 12 Rounds. Same producer as Die Hard 2.
I hope you guys watch the 3rd one, it's one of my faves
Maybe they’ll do it next Christmas (though that one doesn’t have anything to do with X-mas).
4th one is even better IMO. If I had to rank them I'd say 4, 1, 3, 2, 5. The last one should have never been made it was so bad.
Love you guys. Great time seeing and hearing your reactions!
Surprised you missed William Sadler. He is the bad guy Stuart who guided the plane to its fiery end. He was also in Green Mile as the father of the dead girls and Heywood in Shawshank Redemption.
William Sadler also played the main villain Senator Vernon Trent in Hard To Kill in 1990 as a corrupt politician with mob ties who goes against Steven Seagal.
He's also in The Mist and Iron Man 3.
Classic film. I do community radio here in the U.K. and I often play your great theme tune, "Alienated" and gave you and your channel a mention live on the radio. 👍 Keep up the good work. You're one of the most genuine reactors on RUclips.
Finally somebody we all love did Die Hard 2. After only 10 hours being up you've got 5, 000 likes.
4:53 William Sadler was in Iron Man 3 where he portrayed President Ellis (which he would also gone to play in Agents of SHIELD).
I cannot sleep with my socks on. Great reaction! I love all of the Die Hard movies. Merry Christmas & yippee ki-yay!🙂
Amazing how lax airport security was pre-9/11! Getting a taser on a plane would've been no problem! Looking forward to DIe Hard WIth A Vengeance. My favorite of the series.
Too much violence
The 3rd is my favorite. No Christmas connection but a great movie. You should definitely watch it!
"Do they have parachutes?" An ejector seat without a parachute would suck.
DH2 is just as much of a Christmas movie as DH.
Absolute Classic theatre experience around Christmas time. The advertising was BIG and everywhere.
Homevideo explode with this One.
One of the biggest blockbuster movies of 1990 at nr 7 domestically.
Could have been much higher if not for very strong competition from movies like. Ghost, pretty women, home Alone, total recall.
What a epic movie year 1990 was. Unbelievable.
1990 is the grand finale tot the great 80s movie time periode.
I dont think I have ever seen so much top quality movies in the box office top 20 as in 1990.
Epic theatre 🎥 time.
Die Hard with a Vengeance (3) is a MUST watch now you have seen 1 & 2 - It would be great to see your reaction to that. It's also not a Christmas movie, so we don't have to wait a year haha
You will have to watch #3 "Die Hard With a Vengeance" also. But that one takes place in NYC during the summer so wait a few months before you schedule that for the both of you to watch.
I hope you will continue the DIE HARD series (at least part 3 and 4, part 5 is not so good).
Other good action movies from the 80s/90s:
-Lethal Weapon (all 4 movies are great!)
-The long kiss goodnight (starring Geena Davis and Samuel L. Jackson)
-The last boy scout (starring Bruce Willis, Damon Wayans and Halle Berry)
Also, the actor playing Col. Stuart is William Sadler. Besides his Shawshank Redemption reference, he also portrayed another famous Colonel - "Chesty" Puller from HBOs "The Pacific" 🙂
Christmas classic for sure, next one is my fav.
This is important. You've now seen 1 and 2. Next one up is "Die Hard: With a Vengeance". Everything after that...does not exist. Stop there, if you watch. Also love the sweater!. Great flick!
Bruce wasn't in any action movies before Die Hard, but it's impossible to think of anyone else as John McLane.
McLane
@@-M0LE TYVM. I swear I've never typed "McLain" into this phone, but that's what it corrects to if I'm not paying attention. Thanks again 👍👍
McClane
Die Hard with a Vengeance is the 3rd and best in the series, in my opinion. A must-watch.
Definitely a worthy sequel, that's as good or nearly as good as the original. And yes Die Hard 2 is also a Christmas movie! Yippee-ki-yay!
No it’s not it’s just happens to be at Christmas even Bruce said they aren’t Christmas movies 🧐🙄
@@aussiekat6379 I know it wasn't intended to be a Christmas movie but as time has gone by it kind of has morphed into one. Not your traditional Christmas movie of course!
Super Underated Sequel imo... and unpopular comment but better than part 3 for me
Two my favourite moments:
1. "Just a fax, mam, just a fax". My Hero😍😍!!!
2. "Holly!-John! Holly -John!" in the end 🥰 I am watching the movie for these five last minutes. Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow.
And yes, it IS a Christmas movie!
I absolutely love this movie and the first Die Hard and the next one Die Hard with the vengeance is pretty good too.
Die Hard was filmed at 20th century plaza, Doubling for the Nacatomi building which happens to release the movie
The lethal weapon series goes hand-in-hand with the die hard series, hopefully that makes your list one day, and yes Die Hard is a Xmas movie
I love that you connected the guns to the plot twist of the army being terrorists, but not quite in the correct way. lol
John realised that the guns were filled with blanks. That's why he missed everyone HE shot at. It was the magazines: Blue=blanks
Red=live ammo.
I wrote to Mythbusters for YEARS to test if ignited jet fuel could actually catch the jet. Still mad they never tested it.
@x Seriously??? I gave up after getting a letter saying they were worried it'd be too easy for people to try at home, and didn't wanna see anyone (kids especially) get hurt attempting it.
@x Can't believe I missed that!!!! And I believe it, too. I couldn't believe as a kid it'd go that fast.
I live in Colorado near the mountains. Most times I don't sleep with socks on. In fact I'm so tall my feet hang off the mattress and often stick out the end. Sometimes though, when a bitter wind rolls through and temperatures take a nose dive into the absurd, socks are welcome, along with an extra comforter.
I've been hoping for a reaction to *_"Lethal Weapon."_*
One of the greatest Christmas movies.
Hi always love your reactions. Die Hard 1, 3 & 4 to me are the best. What i love the most in Die Hard 4..is when our John McClain gives a Samwise(LOTR)-like speech about "being that guy" the guy that sees something bad happening & 'being that guy' has to do something..no matter what. Like that.. "the only way for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing" .. Which is used in another great Bruce Willis movie. " Tears of the Sun". Hope you watch.✌
I would honestly love to see you guys react to The Last Boy Scout- starring Bruce Willis and Damon Wayans.
First Die Hard was in LA, Die Hard 2 was Dulles Airport, Washington, Die Hard With a Vengeance was New York, Die Harder (4) was also Washington, then I think they went to Moscow?
Bruce Willis stated that it isn't a Christmas movie, but it is :)
Can' wait for you to do Die Hard 3. It's the best one imo. And I agree with clevelandcbi . The Long Kiss Goodnight is a brilliant action movie in this same strain.
Yeah, it can get confusing if you don't follow Mclain's story. He and Holly are from NY, but Holly got an amazing job opportunity in L.A., so the first movie starts with John going to L.A. to see her and reconcile a fight they had.
THIS movie is some time after and John has transferred TO LAPD but now is back home waiting for Holly's plane to land so they can have Christmas with their family in NY. I think that about sums up these first two movies.
Can't wait to see your reactions to Die Hard 3. It's arguably as good, if not better, than the original. Hopefully, since this is the last Christmas Die Hard, we won't have to wait too long for the next one.
Die Hard took place in Los Angeles. The building used was the 20th Century Fox Building who made this movie. It's actually located in Century City. I made a delivery to that building soon after that movie came out and it really does look like that in the lobby and elevators.
Perfect action pack Christmas movie this is
Every Christmas eve with "a couple" of Guinness stout - (not draught) while waiting for Santa. My favourite 80's/90's action movie, my favorite christmas movie and my favorite Die Hard movie - it is perfect. I miss the 80's when kill counts were huge and blood bag squibs didnt vaporize the blood into a mist and everything was gloopy.
The 90s when you could get a tazer onboard an airplane without problem 🤣
Could you really?? As a civilian?
Die Hard 2 was the most expensive movie ever when it was made (until its budget was topped by Terminator 2 a year later), and to direct it they chose a Finnish guy called Renny Harlin, who'd made only four relatively low-budget movies before then and moved to the US only a few years earlier. And he knocked it out of the park!
Anyway, Happy Holidays and greetings from Finland!
One of those four low-budget movies was the New Line Cinema release A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master, which was mega successful and saw Freddy become a household name.
@@DominiqueMarsell Yeah that probably made him enough name to get Die Hard 2. After that he did Cliffhanger which lifted Stallone's career from a low point back to stardom. But then he made a critical mistake, by making Cutthroat Island. The script and acting was bad, and Renny's career never recovered. He didn't get good scripts or big stars anymore.