4 Things 'Die Hard' Movies Need More than Bruce Willis | Obsessive Pop Culture Disorder
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You missed a very important part. The undershirt that gets exponentially dirty as the movie goes on. This is what separates mall cop from being a die hard and makes White House Down even more of a die hard
I’m still watching these episodes and loving them
I'm rewatching so much of the Cracked stuff because of Quarantine.
Ditto
Yep.
Same
Still true. OPCD is my comfort show.
Watching this in 2019 after DOB WON A FN EMMY.
Dude deserves it.
Wait he did?
or in 2021 and now he has 2
@@gnosticagnostic9326 Oh shit son it's 3 now!! Woo Woo Daniel "Big Swinging Dick" O'Brien!
3 Prime Time Emmys and 1 WGA Emmy
I want episodes in which Daniel has all the time he wants to talk about whatever.
I like when he talks super fast and gets that, "what the fuck are you talking about, idiot dan?!" look on his face without losing flow
you got em now
Mad Monkee I am fucking down with that!!!!
In other words: you want episodes that are endless.
I just wish cracked video still existed...
they should have just made the episode f****** longer. I could have watched Daniel rant about this for another 20 minutes at least. Cuz fuck it, he was right.
So fucking true.
shas1882 ikr
Unfortunately they ran out of Internet and had to cut it short
"The stakes are immediately higher... everything is more dire... and more harder." That one there? That's beautiful writing.
You made me watch White House Down. Thank you. It is absolutely a Die Hard. This video is straight facts.
Black people in Die Hard work because they pull the protagonist out of his comfort zone even more, but give him someone to talk to and develop. The black guy usually isn't on good terms with the hero at first, but they eventually become friends, which is Die Hard at it's core: A good man in a bad position making the best of what he's got against insurmountable odds.
The "Black Guy" doesn't even need to be black. He just needs to be "other" enough that initially, you could never see these two becoming friends.
Damn you danieled harder than daniel
Sam Ancer well, his name IS danny...
Danny McMillan Damn Daniel, back at it again with the bad ass comment! No, seriously, that makes absolute sense.
Mmm I see you make sense, but I'm still not ready to accept a die hard movie without a black sidekick
Kazemaru 8 in Speed the role of the black person was played by Sandra Bullock. Speed is easily the fourth best Die Hard movie, right below White House Down, and above Air Force One, Under Siege and Die Harder
White House Down might have been a better Die Hard 5, but Olympus Has Fallen was a better White House Down.
+Johnny Mocny I was searching the comments for this! haha
+Johnny Mocny No way. Both movies are riddled with plot holes and bad writing. At least White House Down was a fun movie that wasn't trying to be serious. Olympus has fallen was terrible. It was too serious and seem like a call for jingoism against North Korea. It's basically another Red Dawn.
He had me at "Die Hard is a perfect movie".
He says "die hard" exactly 45 times. Just thought you should know for that special occasion.
Thanks for letting us know.
so paul blart maul cop a diehard film?
down on his luck protagonist. check
one location. check
family at risk. check.
and that one guy with the chili sauce is black
booyah!!!!!!
+Daniel Haddock Good point, well made although to be fair there were some moments of humour in diehard movies so maybe not.
Dammit, I was now coming in the comment section to make that very same point.
+Jonathan Anstock Also, people actually saw Die Hard.
+Daniel Haddock I always thought that mall cop was an homage or parody of Die Hard.
please do not come in the comment section
As I was watching Olympus Has Fallen I was saying to myself "Man this is a complete rip off of Die Hard" Thanks for letting me know I'm not alone in the universe
and I would watch that 44 minute episode, goddamnit
Unofficial Die Hard movies:
The Detective (1968) The main character, Joe Leland, is based on the same literary character that John McClane is based on.
Tears of the Sun (2003) The script for this movie was considered to be used as a Die Hard 4 script. Bruce Willis is in the movie but it was decided to make this a stand alone film.
Wait. Does that mean movies like 'Mall Cop' counts as a Die Hard..?
They count as more die hard than die hard 5 :P
silentlamb21 no, there is no black sidekick
Don't be dumb but ya maybe haha
E - Paige Nice to see others are finally waking up to that fact -- and that's a FACT Fact, not a "Daniel Fact" ;)
No black sidekick means it's not up there with #1 and #3 but it definitely crushes the others. "Die Hard For Kids" imo.
+E - Paige maybe like a parody
I realize that Die Hard 4 broke away from what Die Hard really was, but I still enjoyed the movie a lot.
It was alright, would've been better if it wasn't a Die Hard flick is all. Turn the common man protagonist into a superhuman and we instantly lose much of our relation to him; there were no moments like in the first one where he had to tie a firehose around his waist and leap over the side of a skyscraper in a panic ("God, please don't let me die"). It's true that after all of his adventure's he's gotten a bit desensitized, but it shouldn't be THAT much. John McClane doesn't drive a car into a helicopter, that's more of a James Bond thing; Riggs from Lethal Weapon would've made more sense than McClane for that. From a narrative perspective, 4 was simply a horrible Die Hard flick but a pretty good action movie
Interestingly, Extra Credits just had an episode on a topic very similar to this called "Spectacle Creep" where videogames feel the need to go bigger and bigger each time. In the same way, when writing sequels for movies, there is this feeling that you need to get the protagonist in bigger and bigger situations until eventually they are saving the world and shit.
I always thought "Herbie The Love Bug" was the greatest Terminator-movie ever.
Paul Blart: Mall Cop! Down on his luck protagonist ✓ Escaped under the radar ✓ Action is confined to one location ✓ Bonus points for having a relative of the protagonist one of the hostages ✓ The only thing it doesn't have is a black guy, but it does have a latino, and Paul takes over the role of the fuddy duddy family man! It's perfect!
But it missed the most important point.Don't be a joyless shit.
tisf0 What?
by these rules would that make Paul Blart: Mall Cop a Die Hard movie
but that movie literally is a parody of Die Hard.
Checking in from 2023… congrats on all ur success since the making of this video Dan it’s well deserved
I was always so nervous to admit my love for White House Down as it seems like the entire world hated it. I was even more nervous to admit my hatred for Olympus Has Fallen as it seems like the entire world loved it.
I love this video.
+magicman205 Are you in America? Because down here in Australia it didn't go over so well.
People like hearing their country is great and does no wrong. If we made an Australian Olympus Has Fallen we'd probably love it.
+MrNozza123 I am! But the patriotism behind it wasn't why I loved/hated both films. I just thought that Olympus Has Fallen was incredibly slow and lacking of any kind of personality. White House Down had a more playful and fun tone to it that made it much more enjoyable to watch. The setting behind it had nothing to do with it. I really love Raiders of the Lost Ark, but not because of the politics behind the Nazi regime.
Definitely very true, but I was thinking about why everyone around you liked it.
Man OHF was a bad film. Can't believe they made a sequel.
This means that The Last Boy Scout, while lacking the enclosed location of a TRUE Die Hard, is as much a Die Hard movie as Die Hard With A Vengeance.
That's a forgotten gem of a movie love it.
This just became one of my favorite episodes. Die Hard was the very first rated R movie I ever saw when I was a kid and you are spot on with the order of greatness!
White House Down WAS awesome...and now I know why. Thank you cracked.
I'll never tire of this series
Dude great episode!
jeez cracked thanks for not making a video about the new update like how i wanted you to in my head!!!
By these points, Paul Blart is Die Hard
Mr. O'Brien, you are simply amazing. I've read your Cracked.com columns (SXSW in particular, as well as every "My Brief Time as..."), watched "After Hours", "Agents of Cracked", etcetera, etcetera, etcetera. AND OPCD, up to this episode. But this one, in particular, prompted me to comment. You rule, every president-based column and video you have done is THE SHIT --not just a shit, but the shit-- and the world of comedy should revolve around you. I dare not address you as Dan, THAT is how awesome your work is.
Die Hard 4 McClain didn't just have bad father daughter relations, he was asked to go out of his jurisdiction (not entirely familiar with the area, but mapped it and it didn't add up) to pick up a kid for another agency. He wasn't looking for trouble, he had to go out of his way for it. Then he was thrown into a tech world he didn't understand. The whole PG13 rating made people upset, but Live Free or Die Hard is a good Die Hard movie. However, I do agree with your points on WHD. I'm not even going to argue why Olympus has Fallen was good because this video came out 8 years ago and no one probably reads these. I just needed to vent my opinions like everyone else on the internet.
Don't bash pacific rim for having an indirect name. Your logic states that Die hard, the movie you are praising should be called "shoeless man kills German guy and his thugs"
***** Die Hard is a movie about a bunch of people who cease living in a non-soft manner. It's in the name.
Where, in "Pacific Rim," are monsters or gigantic robots mentioned?
Except the movie takes place in China for the most part. A pacific rim is a land bordering the pacific ocean. last I checked, china fits that criteria
I would watch the shit out of Shoeless Man Kills German Guy and His Thugs. I wish all movies were titled like that. Scrawny Space-Farm-Boy Fights His Space-Nazi Father. Jeff Goldblum Wears Leather and Runs From Dinosaurs. Everything becomes so much better with that name scheme.
+vonschuhart But China doesn't border the Pacific Ocean. You're thinking of the East China Sea, which is separated from the Pacific Ocean by a chain of islands southeast of Japan.
+Jarrett Wattenburger so China is not a pacific rim, the name still stands. Both Alaska and San Francisco are pertinent in the movie. The interdimensional portal that the kaiju come out of is in the Pacific Ocean, Hong Kong is just where they keep the robots so it's where most of the action happens.
Pacific Rim was named because the entirety of the movie takes place along the RIM of the PACIFIC ocean. Because it would be too obvious to name it GIANT ROBOTS or GIANT MONSTERS or GIANT ROBOTS VERSUS GIANT MONSTERS!
And Olympus Has Fallen was named for the Code Phrase used to describe that the White House was taken or destroyed.
Good thing they knew their target audience would understand this.
Dan, you make me want to watch the(good) Die Hard movies right now! And your passion has raised my interest in seeing Chans McTates(fucking hilarious) movie. I hope this series stays going, for a long time. You're my hero, Daniel O'Brien.....not, like my only hero, I guess that'd be a little sad. But you rock!
I never watched a single Die Hard movie, and this was still very entertaining. Daniel O'Brien, you're awesome.
I could listen to this man talk about pop culture for six hours straight.
Great episode
NOOOO!! MUST HAVE MOAR!!!
Thanks for getting me to watch White House Down! You were right straight up Die Hard nostalgia it was great!
Die Hard 2 was my favorite. "Just the fax, ma'am, just the fax".
There are no words for me to truly describe all of the joy that I get from this video. My dick just got a nerdrection and I thank you for it. I insist on more videos like this one specifically! You made me laugh out loud. It's becoming more rare to have that happen and I, once again, thank you!
I have such a crush on this guy! Some parts were laugh out loud funny! Keep it up!
Question. Isn't the end of this the SAME as another episode, promising us the 44 minute episode of Obsessive Pop Culture Disorder that will be Game of Thrones performed by action figures?
I've STILL never seen an actual Game of Thrones episode. (We have antenna TV right now. Well, for the past...I don't know. 14 years? Whatever.)
BUT I WANT THIS IN MY LIFE.
I NEED this in my life.
NOW.
Jeezly crow, you guys are as bad as those stupid scientists that promised we'd all have flying cars and personal robots and seashell toilets now.
GIVE THIS TO US, DANIEL. PLEASE.
please?
yes
If you ever DO that GOT:Action Figures episode, the guys who made "Villager News" did a rendition of the theme song, and its epic. I love collabs and shoutouts and weird product placement.
(Yes I know it was a joke. Yes I would watch it.)
While I did enjoy White House Down, I like Olympus has Fallen more. Both good movies though. I can't wait for London Has Fallen later this year.
Travis LeeIs this going to be like a series?
God.
Travis Lee
I agree. White House Down sucked. Olympus Has Fallen was Millius back up to old form.
Olympus Has Fallen was the republican White House Down, which was why it failed.
KingofSting19 But it had a better villain, and a better protagonist the kid character wasn't in most of the movie which was better. And their plan to take over the white house, so much cooler. An AC-130 attack, a full on ground assault with garbage trucks turned into armored gun platforms, and a team of terrorists inserted into a south korean diplomatic mission beats a bomb in the capitol building and some guys pretending to be home theater repair guys.
KingofSting19 Yeah, the bad guys were north koreans and korean mercenaries.
In what world is Channing Tatum the average man?
I love you DOB. This three year old video has actually made me want to watch White House Down. GG.
Daniel. really important question. Does Paul Blart: Mall Cop fit the die hard formula?
Can we get more of these please?
I just realized that the endings are pre-made and isnt done for each episode. my childhood is literally ruined you ruin my childhood!!
Brilliant Sir..just Brilliant.
Okay so by Dan's list of Die Hard criteria Paul Blart: Mall Cop Is a Die Hard movie.
1. Paul is womanless and did not get accepted into the police force. Down on his luck Check.
2. the Blartman is just closing up when this group of Robbers? come crashing in and him getting locked up in the mall to fight for the mall. Wrong place wrong time Check.
3. Other then a few exposition scenes the movie was consistently shot in the same place i.e a small mall. Consistency of location check.
4. there was this fat black "side kick" that helped while he was a hostage his name was leon. Black people check.
Plus... blartyblartblart is just a mall security guard for god sake he can't even become a cop. he is just a run of the mill guy, nothing special about him. Also Paul blart's daughter is one of the hostages and so is his love interest. So Yeah Paul Blart: Mall Cop is a great Die Hard Film. *Drops mic*
Bravo sir, well done.
It makes me very sad that there will never be any more episodes of this show.
Dear Cracked, you have promised us now an video has action figures in it. If you don't live up to this promise I might cry. I say might because I'm a real man and real men don't cry. But we do love action figures. (Just don't trick us as use dolls.)
Amen! I want to see Game of Thrones done in miniature written by DOB!
I think Air Force One is a good "Die Hard" movie. It may of not had a down-on-his-luck hero or a black guy (i think) but it had a vet as president and he actually did shit, and since the whole movie took place on Air Force One midflight so the place was tighter and the steaks were, literally, higher
Man, just wanna say I love cracked. First comment i have ever written on You Tube. Hey Cracked guys (if that is what yall like to be called) ever talked about Breakfast of champions. Cool weird movie, cool weird book. Also, will yall ever do some book stuff. Hope somebody reads this stuff.....
One thing not explicitly mentioned in this is the protagonist talking to himself. It was such an odd quirk of the first Die Hard, and arguably a really lazy form of exposition, but it was somehow incredibly endearing, and made McClane seem much more human. It's a thing real people do in stressful situations, and it really helped drive home how not-a-supercop his character was. That moment where Cale says "Don't go in there, just - ugh this is so stupid" captures that perfectly, and has the same effect. He's a fuck-up who has to literally talk himself into doing what needs to be done, which is super relatable.
One of my favorite guilty pleasures that's actually really good and come to think of it I don't feel all that guilty because it's actually a die hard movie. Thanks Daniel.
IS this monetized? Who owns Cracked currently? This content is gold, and any money made from people watching it should go to the original authors!
Dear Daniel, Can we please watch the Game of Thrones episode you wrote starring action figures, please? This sounds fantastic
The best Die Hards were 1 and 3 because they both had incredibly sexy British men pretending to be Germans. Mmm. Alan Rickman. Yum.
The moment with Jeremy Irons when he's playing a German pretending to be American (when he's talking to the contractor) was one of most unintentionally funny moments in any action movie.
Anybody know where the "Your bleeped up brain" vids are? I can only find the History UK playlist
Wait, so do I subscribe or unsubscribe in order to get Soren to take off more of his clothes?
Do you ever get the impression that Daniel is secretly an improvisational voice actor working with the Rick and Morty team, filling in for Roiland? Because the Pacific Rim 're-naming' (7:06) could have been straight out of the Two Brothers trailer.
I’m going to watch you every day until I die Danny.
Brilliant!!
Man, you're good! You only forgot to mention the "Armageddon of Baldness" theory: Before the movie Armageddon, we usually get the streetwise, tough and funny willis - He's just a guy who wants to get the job done, go home, have a beer and take a nap! (Or a cappuccino, if we talk about the much underrated Hudson Hawk...) He doesn't have time for your shit, or your rules...he just gets shit done and fires a couple of jokes along the way! And he doesn't give a shit about going bald either! He had be going bald trough the previous 20 years, and no one cared!
Then, Armageddon comes...
He drops the jokes...he stops looking funny badass, and goes on to look "Eastwood-badass". (You know...always squinting his eyes, going like he hasn't crapped in 2 years, or is seeing the sun for the first time...)
John Mclane dies in that movie...not the character Willis was playing in Armageddon, but John Mclane! He shaves his head, and he begins acting like this wise person who knows it all, under that crust of eye squinting and 2 day beard. He keeps giving us badassery, but another kind of badassery: it's like, he knows what he has to do, and he does it! He genuinely wants to save the world, and he is not gonna bitch about it! Seriously! Not even one joke! Not even one wise ass attempt to be funny!
And for me, that's the major reason the 2nd generation of Die Hard movies was not as good. Bruce Willis has to be in a hurry to do something else WHILE he beats the crap out of bad guys!
I've actually only seen Die Hard 3 but hot damn do I love it.
I like this show keep it up!
So Paul Blart Mall Cop is Die Hard?
Make more videos I love you guys!!!
one of the best I have seen...
Erm... Die Hard 3 wasn't confined to one location yet it is the second best in the series. That kind of under cuts your theory.
Oh, AND DON'T YOU DARE DITCH PACIFIC RIM!!
Your alternative title for Pacific rim reads exactly like something you'd see in interdimensional cable on Rick and Morty
Alot of people are trying to defend Olympus Has Fallen as better than White House Down but it's not, it can't be because they are two completely different genres. OHF is touted as a serious action drama with an unbelievibly stupid plot...really the C130 would've been blown out of the sky, and even if it haddn't been the President would've been long gone before it came near the White House....I don't feel like going into the other faults. but WHD is an action comedy (like a buddy cop moive) with some serious points. The plot is surprisingly even more believable, because the only reason the terrorist got in was because the head of the secret service allowed them in....They are both "Die Hard" movies but WHD is a bit more so because Die Hard movies always throw in the bit of comedy that OHF was completely lacking
This video made me notice that Dan kind of sounds like Morty from "Rick and Morty". That's good stuff.
MOAR!
HOLLY!!! Dude you fucking nailed it!
White House Down IS Die Hard 4. This video did not have enough Tony. Yippeekiyay
Olympus has Fallen was an awesome Die Hard film
subtitles are fun.
I actually thought White House Down was actually a Die Hard remake
White House Down seemed like a rip off of Die Hard.
And Olympus Has Fallen and White House Down...come out at around the same time...seem to be about the same thing...
...not sure which one is the original ripping off the other....
You said it, brother
Both come from the same place of "Man, this president we have at the moment is sure getting a lot of death threats" and "Man, no-one's quite been able to scratch that Die Hard itch!". Movies don't come out of nowhere, they emerge from the culture around them. Sometimes two really similar things emerge at the same time (Volcano and Dante's Peak, The A Team and The Losers, Dredd and The Raid) because the people in the movie world consume the same media and the same culture from the same sources in the same city.
I may have to watch them again, but at the time I remember thinking that Olympus Has Fallen was more of a Die-Hard than White House Down. Although I do agree with the points in the video, OHF felt like the better film, WHD was extra cheesy - which, while not always a bad thing, didn't quite work for me in this environment and they way they used it - not sure if was just the delivery of some of the lines though e.g. When Foxx drops the rocket launcher out of the limo - the argument was more in line with Jump Street quality than Die Hard quality
I miss this guy
I thought of this video when I saw the trailer for Violent Night (2022) with David Harbour as Santa Claus
Dan, could you say you are a die-hard Die-Hard fan?
live free or die hard was a good flick
I am subscribed and have been for a while, please keep your pants on.
I liked your name idea for Pacific rim, reminded me of an alternian film name. Yes my first thought was a homestuck reference.
omg creepy but hysterical ending, I subscribed! LOL
One other detail White House Down got from Die Hard was having the hero kill the brother/close friend of the second in command. So then the second in command has a personal vendetta against the hero and goes nuts trying to kill him.
The 5th Element is Die Hard in space and nobody will ever convince me otherwise
7:17 gave me a heart attack
I miss this...
What I never understood was that White House down looks exactly the same as Olympus has fallen just with a younger "swag" induced cast
So funny. Good job guys.
what building is it that gets blown up at 1:27 ? i am asking as someone who isn't an american, all i can tell is there is that it most be an important building meant to give us some sort of emotional stakes, like that passenger airplane that got harmed before the building
It's the Capitol building. It's where Congress, the branch that makes laws, meet. It's probably the second most important building in Washington DC.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Capitol
It's the Capitol Building. It houses the US Congress, which makes the laws. Probably one of the more important buildings in the city, even though nowadays Congress doesn't do anything. Nothing but gridlock.
Daniel Campman thank you
Best episode of OPCD