Do you think that pacing in movies in general became much better? It's sometimes very hard to watch movies from the 80's now, and I'm not even talking about the 60's. But maybe that's just me
What I love about the first DIE HARD, is that every fight, every kill feels personal. We get to know the antagonists names and implissit backstories. They are people, not faceless gons. Every fight feels like a bossbattle.
I don't agree that the McClane/Powell scenes in the first film feel like padding. I think they add a human element and contribute to making McClane more relateable. The first Die Hard is one of my favorite films ever.
Yeah, I agree with you. Powell and McClane share some emotional scenes that give the film more heart. Padding are scenes you could cut out and they wouldn't hurt the movie. Taking these scenes out would have hurt the character or the film.
Anders Enggaard i agree completely, not only aren't they padding, but the are essential to the movie in so many ways. First it provides for pauses in the action, while still being focused on McClain, next it helps show the passage of time, and how the situation wears on McClain. Add ti this the fact that they give McClain more if a story than just being Super Cop, and allows the audience to grow more attached to McClain himself, as opposed to just some random person in an action movie. Without these scenes I don't think the movie would have done nearly as well as the audiences wouldn't have been invested in McClain not to mention the movie would feel rushed.
Exactly! The end scene where McClain finally meets Powell, hugs him, and completely breaks down is one of my favorite movie scenes of all time. You can hear the sheer relief and anguish in McClain's voice, and it makes you realize just how important that human connection on the other end of the walkie-talkie was for keeping him sane. Without those earlier scenes between Powell and McClain, a lot would be missing from the movie. The ending definitely wouldn't have been as strong, imo.
It would be like a worse Charles Bronson in the death wish movies. Potential schlock gold. Interestingly, or not so much. But Willis went on to do that death wish remake.. Probably not a good sign
As someone else once pointed the Die Hard 3 is made like being an opposite of the first one: New York vs. Los Angeles, open space instead of closed one, day vs. night, summer vs. winter, communicating with the antagonist with radio/phone instead of communicating with the helper with one.
Alan Rickman was glorious in this movie. Unquestionable evil he managed to make you describing him as "suave". Not many "suave" things that kill people. He rocked Die Hard just as easily as he dominated the screen in Robin Hood.
I think Michael Scott said it best when he said "You know what, here's the thing about Die Hard 4. Die Hard one, the original, John McClane was just this normal guy. You know, he's just a normal New York City cop, who gets his feet cut, and gets beat up. But he's an everyday guy. In Die Hard 4, he is jumping a motorcycle into a helicopter. In air. You know? He's invincible. It just sort of lost what Die Hard was. It's not Terminator."
I don't agree with that. People exaggerate the extent to which John McClane does impressive things in the fourth movie. He doesn't come off as invincible unless - because it's the fourth film - you've given up entirely on suspension of disbelief.
Yea he was played by Clarence Gilyard Jr who was in Top Gun in 1986 and was in the Chuck Norris tv show Walker Texas Ranger in the 1990s as Ranger Trivette
I always have loved the moments in Die Hard when McClain and he cop are talking on the radio. There's something satisfying about this friendship that develops between them even though they haven't actually met. It's a nice breather before the action starts back up that serves to add some depth to the movie on several different levels. And then near the end when they do finally meet it has more impact. Fucking love Die Hard.
I'm surrised his channel hasn't appeared in my feed and searches before, I've been gawping at movie stuff for more than long enough. Just shows how broken the YT system is in many ways. He reminds me a bit of the moviedrome intro guy on BBC2 waaay back, just talking about movies in an interesting an thought provoking manner, what ordinary TV used to be able to do 20 years ago. Georg, if you get censored, remember minds.com and vid.me.
@@Zancb Zan, Zan the man, what's the plan? why hurt the man? why give a damn? He spelled it wrong and that is right. But let it be and, be alright. The pain you bring to his poor soul, has lost to his humor, ten, ten fold. Zan the man, you see so clear, that you're the one who's Losing, LOSING here. I got your back Markus
They're apparently going to do a breif hiatus after 3 to avoid over saturation, but then they'll come back stronger with Lava Lamp 4: The Last New Lamp Awakens
I'm just glad to see that someone else also likes 3 the best. All old Die Hards are great, but 3 is easily the most entertaining. And I never get tired of seeing Willis and Jackson interact with each other, the chemistry is just so strong between them.
Get off the damn phone lady Police business!😂🤦🏽♂️ It was great! 1&3 where the best of the series. I felt his pain when he forgot the gold bar in the back seat.
It's always strange how little love Die Hard 2 gets. It's my favourite of the bunch! I love that it focuses more on McClane and idk I like the atmosphere of the airport a lot.
I'm really glad someone else likes Die Hard 3 as much as I do and thinks it rivals the first, just by a little. It's such a tightly made movie, it's a blast to watch.
Funn Nugget : Same here, the best trait that "3" has, is that if someone hasn't seen the movies before, "halfway" into the series makes an excellent place to start - as it goes back to the original, without harming the series.
3 really showed how you could take a franchise, keep it believable, change the formula, and it still be "exactly what it always has been" but evolved. It doesn't counteract, contradict, or retcon anything. There's the whole revenge plot of a man related to Hans that takes over a crazy chase of trying to stay alive and keep others from dying. It was the first one that "buddied" John McClane up with somebody (which would be done in the next 2 sequels), and it changed up the formula. Yes, John was in the city Simon wanted to hit, that's about it. Otherwise, he is a total (and very useful) distraction to what Simon is really after, and by all means, John deserves to live if he made it through all that craziness Simon put him through, but also by all means, he really shouldn't have. It wasn't just "wrong place wrong time" or "guy he has to save" even. Zeus (samuel jackson) didn't even have to hang around-he meant NOTHING to Simon, but he got involved and thus became another distraction.
Just imagine you had never heard of the Die Hard series and start watching the first one thinking it was a romantic/family drama. What a great moment when Hans Gruber and his thugs finally enter the movie, turning it 180° into an glorious action classic! 😁😁😁
I just watched Die Hard 1 again after a long time and I do think it's remarkable how well it holds up. It has dated relatively little, despite it's an 80's movie, but unlike many other 80's movies, it doesn't drown in the era it was made in.
I like the the Lava Lamp. A lot of times it disagrees with you but in the end has the same purpose you do. Its like you are John and it is Zeus. You both make a good team.
Sam Jackson's Zeus makes the third installment my favourite. The chemistry between him and Willis makes it the most entertaining for me. The original isn't too far behind, mostly due to Rickman's Gruber, which is one of the best villains ever IMO.
I agree that Die Hard and With A Vengeance are the strongest entries into the series. They're both thrilling fun. 5 was truly confusing, I remember watching it and wondering why, why did the studio think to gain from this too oft-repeated formula of modern 'action movies'. It's as if they hadn't seen 'Die Hard' through to 'With a Vengeance'. This isn't to say that a new movie would need to replicate them entirely, but part of the social contract of franchising is that you maintain loyalty to the characters in the originals, with Die Hard 5 that contract was breached.
i just realized that bruce willis was 33 years old when die hard 1 came out. i am now 32 years old and it just feels like he was older. he looks at least 37 in that movie.
Also, I LOVE your breakdown/discussion of how "Die Hard 4", despite having many of the same elements of the previous, is a clear departure merely by virtue of the era of film it is a part of. I have always observed this kind of thing with various series, and struggled to articulate/put it into words...the ways in which there are these kind of 'invisible lines' that get crossed, where completely apart from the individual script, acting, etc, there's a change in ANY film being released, where "this is what movies are now"--you don't see it happening in progress, but looking back its clear as day. It's the root cause of a lot of nostalgia and/or, especially with series of any kind, the archetypal "man, I wish they would go back to making them like they did with [blah blah]", when what people are really longing for, without even realizing it, is an entire bygone era, even if it's not that long ago. ...Shit, now I'm wondering if my post even makes sense. Lol
Fun fact about the german version of Die Hard 3: Willi's usual voice actor was off filming a movie so they replaced him with the man who (among others) is providing the voices for Schwarzenegger and Stallone (yes, they have the same voice). It's a bit confusing. ;)
I've said this from the moment the announced DIE HARD: YEAR ONE as the next film: "We don't need a Die Hard prequel. We have one. It's called THE DETECTIVE". That said, apparently DIE HARD: YEAR ONE is based on the comic book of the same name, written by Howard Chayakin. I've read the first four issues...it's not bad. But as it's set in the 70s, it has a very 70s-film style of action. Not sure how that would play today with modern audiences.
Fun fact: Siskel & Ebert actually considered Die Hard 2 to be the best in the franchise. Roger didn't even like the original, while Gene ranked that sequel as the 6th best film of 1990 above the likes of Dances with Wolves and Godfather 3.
@@StratumPress Perhaps start w/ the first guy who replied b/c all I did was inform people of what two famous critics thought instead of referring to how good or bad they were at their jobs.
totally. I have no idea how, it was actually the only one originally being written as a script to be a sequel to die hard, and just somehow ends up feeling like a decent bruce willis led action-film. Meanwhile Live Free or Die Hard was based off an article now far less famous than the actual film, Die Hard with a Vengeance was a seperate film called "Simon Says," and Die Hard 2 was an adaptation of another book from a different series from the same author that original die hard was based on. Also, they cast Jai Courtney, and couldn't even get the location of chernobyl right.
The first Die Hard made a huge impression on me, I remember watching it as a young kid staying up late and I think it was probably the first action film I'd ever seen. I was hooked though, it was brilliant. Ho Ho Ho, now I have a machine gun!
The day they were shooting the scene where the cab crashes over the wall in DH3, I happened to be in the area having lunch, and was looking on at the set when the cab stunt was performed. Nearly 20 years later I met a woman, my now fiancé, who unlike me is not from NYC, and after being together for a few years, we one day got to talking about Die Hard. Turns out, she was also in the crowd of onlookers when they were shooting that very same scene so long ago, as she just happened to be visiting the New York that week. Not the most amazing story but, I've always thought it was pretty cool.
The original Die Hard is the best film. The lines are written perfectly, the real thing that isn’t discussed enough is that Alan Rickman is the reason why the original is the best to me. Die Hard 2 was fine (not great), 3 was not written with the same craft in my opinion as the first. You did a great job talking about the way Gruber was written, and I don’t think the villain was ever cared for in the same way after.
How the hell can you have a prequel to Die Hard? There's nothing to the story, Bruce Willis is the only thing that defines the series. Do they have a clone they've been ageing for this moment?
Have Jai Courtney play a time traveler who travels back in time to save his parents marriage. This will work since I'm fairly certain the real McClain was killed off and replaced with a Terminator somewhere between diehard 3 and 4. The franchise jumped the shark with diehard 4.
I was actually really surprised with Die Hard 4. It was definitely more PG-13 but still enjoyable as hell. Die Hard 5 on the other hand.....oooooooooh noooooooooooooo.
Compare Die Hard 4 to the previous film and you have a perfect example of what's happened to movie making since the mid 90s. Not saying it's terrible - and it is underrated - but DH4 has that pre-cooked, marketing friendly look and feel that the suits want you to see. There's less risk to providing a product that is familiar in as many ways as possible. Die Hard With a Vengeance is pretty much at the apex of film craft used for 100 years. It never broke and people will still talk about the first 3 Die Hards, and any other action movie made before software replaced hardware. Who really remembers cgi characters jumping off cgi planes with fondness?
Johnny J you put into words my thoughts on 4. I enjoy 4 immensely but it certainly seems washed out and "kid friendly" and it has more satire about the franchise itself than the law and police system like in the earlier films so there's a focal shift. I thought that the sidekick and villain+minions were greatly realised though and feel charismatic and relatable. But it was definitely a step towards the "big audience big cash" mentality, not to mention the unbelievable action cgi that could've survived without. Then 5 just crash-landed with no soul.
DH4 would undoubtably be hailed in much higher regard if it were not attached to the DH universe. I saw it again not to long ago and was shocked at how much I enjoyed it.
@@saschamayer4050 Trump has had cameo's in several films and series, mostly in the 90's. It was a requirement in exchange for allowing a scene to be filmed inside one of his buildings
I just love how they got the downtrodden McClane character so very downtrodden in the infamous sign-holding scene. That was some serious humiliation blended with genuine fear of harm.
I really liked the 4th Movie because it showed an Old School 80s Action Hero in the 2000. The scene where he has no idea how a Webcam works is really good. So is the action. The 5th Movie is one of the worst movies. No Soul, boring action and no Die Hard.
How long could Mc Clane just be a regular guy at the wrong place at the wrong time ? The kind of over the top, superheroic feeling he gives in the fourth comes from the fact that he's previous adventures somehow alter him. You just can't forget that somehow he singlehandedly save a building from robbers, an Airport from rogue soldiers and New-York from bombers.
I remember taking the Universal studios tour when "die harder" had just hit theaters. The guide made a joke saying the next film will be "die hardest" and the final film will just be called "Dead".
Die Hard 3 was based on a previously written, unrelated screenplay ("Simon Says") and later converted into a Die Hard movie by adding the connection to the first one.
Great video, one of my favorite movie franchises. The third film is by far my favorite. The role of John McClane was also offered to Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Mel Gibson & Harrison Ford too.
The first 3 Die Hard movies will always be Christmas movies for me specially the first one. It is true what you say, action movies were different in the 80's and I guess audiences became more mature and just expected more action. Great video Georg.
Well Actually the reason Mclane gets so heavily involved in Die Hard 2 is because Holly is on one of the Planes that is running low on fuel in danger of crashing.
I think my favourite part of Live Free or Die Hard was when Maggie Q's character was pretending to be a police dispatcher and Justin Long's character recognized her voice, so McClane tries tricking her with radio codes (I forget which one he used) and she went along with it, saying the whole force was being dispatched and he goes "Really, the whole force showed up for a naked guy?" and the look on her face was like "Fuck, I walked right into that one."
Die Hard with a Vengeance is my favourite too. It is punchier in it's humour and as you say the chemistry between Willis and Jackson really lifts the film.
"I'm sure if the us air force wanted that plane out of the sky they could have made it happen in about three minutes"... Yeah, just like they did on 9-11. Oh wait.... Maybe they didn't want those planes out of the sky on 9-11. Huh.
The first 3 are good films worth watching. 4th is alright and I'd watch it if I randomly found it on some channel. 5th... Actually only watch like 30-45 minutes of it. Just found it boring.
15:00 on one swedish translation they for some of reason replaced "I'm going to marry Donald trump" to (lose translation) "I'm going to be the president's wife". The translator probably didnt think the average Swede at the time know how Donald trump was... but that is one coincident.
7:29 "And Robert Patrick fails to turn into liquid metal" amazing, also he was super good in T2, just wanted to say 'cause I'm already talking about it
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I knew about the "Simon Says"/Lethal Weapon prehistory for Die Hard 3, but I hadn't heard it was supposed to be a vehicle for Brandon Lee. It's remarkable how much backstory this script had before it was even made into a film!
The fourth film lacks the charm of the first three. It's just a tired effort to squeeze more money out of the franchise. The fifth was simply an embarrassment.
I never watched the fifth, and never will watch the fifth. It just looks unpleasant and dull. Nothing compells me and it doesn't look like anybody really liked it, so I'm just gonna go with my gut instinct here and stay the hell away.
I'd actually disagree about the 4th. I honestly think the 4th is as good as die hard 2, but in slightly different ways. I think 3 and 1 are the best though, no question.
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Do you think that pacing in movies in general became much better? It's sometimes very hard to watch movies from the 80's now, and I'm not even talking about the 60's.
But maybe that's just me
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I honestly hate the idea of a prequel, because it kind of undermines the fact that the original is the first time that has ever happened to McClane.
But just think of all that money!!!
GTAfan421 there seems to be a good idea for a die hard year one foalting around..the author even took out an ad in varairty
Why do a prequel Willis was young and good looking at the time I wish I touched him
He was a cop, so presumably _something_ happened to him before Die Hard.
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What I love about the first DIE HARD, is that every fight, every kill feels personal. We get to know the antagonists names and implissit backstories. They are people, not faceless gons. Every fight feels like a bossbattle.
I don't agree that the McClane/Powell scenes in the first film feel like padding. I think they add a human element and contribute to making McClane more relateable. The first Die Hard is one of my favorite films ever.
Yeah, I agree with you. Powell and McClane share some emotional scenes that give the film more heart. Padding are scenes you could cut out and they wouldn't hurt the movie. Taking these scenes out would have hurt the character or the film.
Anders Enggaard i agree completely, not only aren't they padding, but the are essential to the movie in so many ways. First it provides for pauses in the action, while still being focused on McClain, next it helps show the passage of time, and how the situation wears on McClain. Add ti this the fact that they give McClain more if a story than just being Super Cop, and allows the audience to grow more attached to McClain himself, as opposed to just some random person in an action movie. Without these scenes I don't think the movie would have done nearly as well as the audiences wouldn't have been invested in McClain not to mention the movie would feel rushed.
Exactly! The end scene where McClain finally meets Powell, hugs him, and completely breaks down is one of my favorite movie scenes of all time. You can hear the sheer relief and anguish in McClain's voice, and it makes you realize just how important that human connection on the other end of the walkie-talkie was for keeping him sane. Without those earlier scenes between Powell and McClain, a lot would be missing from the movie. The ending definitely wouldn't have been as strong, imo.
I completely agree. The scenes with Powell and McClane are probably my favorite scenes in the entire film.
I ship it
Imagine if a 70-year-old Frank Sinatra accepted the offer to star in 'Die Hard'.
It would be like a worse Charles Bronson in the death wish movies. Potential schlock gold. Interestingly, or not so much. But Willis went on to do that death wish remake.. Probably not a good sign
Well, the character in the book it's based on is older, like ag least in his 60's so it could have worked but would have been a very different movie..
@@Elazam and the previous novel was adopted into a movie staring Frank Sinatra
I somewhere heard that Bruce Willis played as a crowd actor in The Detective
He could have at least played the chairman of the board.
As someone else once pointed the Die Hard 3 is made like being an opposite of the first one: New York vs. Los Angeles, open space instead of closed one, day vs. night, summer vs. winter, communicating with the antagonist with radio/phone instead of communicating with the helper with one.
Alan Rickman was glorious in this movie.
Unquestionable evil he managed to make you describing him as "suave".
Not many "suave" things that kill people.
He rocked Die Hard just as easily as he dominated the screen in Robin Hood.
And a great way to start his film career
His role as the bad guy in "Quigley Down Under" was just as memorable.
100% agree.
An exceptional thief
I think Michael Scott said it best when he said "You know what, here's the thing about Die Hard 4. Die Hard one, the original, John McClane was just this normal guy. You know, he's just a normal New York City cop, who gets his feet cut, and gets beat up. But he's an everyday guy. In Die Hard 4, he is jumping a motorcycle into a helicopter. In air. You know? He's invincible. It just sort of lost what Die Hard was. It's not Terminator."
TheGoldenCaulk I dont know who Michael Scott is, but that's a great quote.
Michael Scott is the name of Steve Carrell's character in The American version of The Office.
Skooma Joe He's the main character in The US Office. You should check it out. It's very, very funny.
I don't agree with that. People exaggerate the extent to which John McClane does impressive things in the fourth movie. He doesn't come off as invincible unless - because it's the fourth film - you've given up entirely on suspension of disbelief.
none of the sequels really get that right.
Die Hard 3 wouldn't have worked without Samuel L. Jackson. Their Partnership was perfect in that movie.
Shocked he didn't mention Theo the computer guy in Die Hard 1. He was a very memorable character in that movie.
Yea he was played by Clarence Gilyard Jr who was in Top Gun in 1986 and was in the Chuck Norris tv show Walker Texas Ranger in the 1990s as Ranger Trivette
The quarterback is TOAST!!
Who ??
The police have themselves an RV.
@@lordmoncef5494 Theo, Christmas miracles, quarterback is toast
I always have loved the moments in Die Hard when McClain and he cop are talking on the radio. There's something satisfying about this friendship that develops between them even though they haven't actually met. It's a nice breather before the action starts back up that serves to add some depth to the movie on several different levels. And then near the end when they do finally meet it has more impact. Fucking love Die Hard.
The fifth movie also fails at geography, because the Chernobyl plant is not even in Russia.
Don't you know that every Slavic nation is simply Russia?
*Muffled* *Hardbass* *Plays* *in* *the* *background*
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Cheeki Breeki iv damke! This S.T.A.L.K.E.R. is right opaa! People outside of the Zone just don't know anything.
Yes, but at that time no American knew any former soviet state apart from Russia. They played to their main market's ignorance.
I feel like "The Last Boy Scout" was more of a Die Hard movie than the 5th Die Hard
There is no such thing as a fifth Die Hard lol. Just like there's only 3 Indiana Jones movies.
Also "Unbreakable" is just John McClane with more superpowers than in Die Hard with a Vengeance
Absolutely! A few tweaks here and there and "Last Boy Scout" could have easily been a Die Hard movie without any problem.
Absolutely
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I'm surrised his channel hasn't appeared in my feed and searches before, I've been gawping at movie stuff for more than long enough. Just shows how broken the YT system is in many ways.
He reminds me a bit of the moviedrome intro guy on BBC2 waaay back, just talking about movies in an interesting an thought provoking manner, what ordinary TV used to be able to do 20 years ago.
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die hard is as series of movies about a man loosing hair, being pissed about it and taking it out on others
Markus Nävergård ROFL!
Losing. LOSING. Jesus fucking christ, spell it right!
@@Zancb Zan, Zan the man, what's the plan? why hurt the man? why give a damn?
He spelled it wrong and that is right. But let it be and, be alright.
The pain you bring to his poor soul, has lost to his humor, ten, ten fold.
Zan the man, you see so clear, that you're the one who's Losing, LOSING here.
I got your back Markus
@@Zancb if enough of us spell it wrong, the spelling will change and we wont have to learn.
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They announced Lava Lamp 3: The Lamp of Lava
Can't wait.
They're apparently going to do a breif hiatus after 3 to avoid over saturation, but then they'll come back stronger with Lava Lamp 4: The Last New Lamp Awakens
Grey, The Mad King Lava lamp 3: Silence of the lava-lamps
After that, Mad Lava: Lava Road
Then, Zero Cool, after another hiatus, comes the announcement of a prequel: Lava--Dawn of the Lamp.
I'm just glad to see that someone else also likes 3 the best. All old Die Hards are great, but 3 is easily the most entertaining. And I never get tired of seeing Willis and Jackson interact with each other, the chemistry is just so strong between them.
Get off the damn phone lady Police business!😂🤦🏽♂️
It was great! 1&3 where the best of the series.
I felt his pain when he forgot the gold bar in the back seat.
1, 2 and 3 in that order.
It's always strange how little love Die Hard 2 gets. It's my favourite of the bunch! I love that it focuses more on McClane and idk I like the atmosphere of the airport a lot.
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Its so distracting... Sometimes I just stare at the lava lamp and forget what is being said. Then I rewind and repeat.
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Live Free was criminally underrated. Watch the unrated, uncensored edition, really, its a great film
I'm really glad someone else likes Die Hard 3 as much as I do and thinks it rivals the first, just by a little.
It's such a tightly made movie, it's a blast to watch.
Third is my favorite. I like the buddy cop sort of formula with Willis and jackson
im so glad there is someone out there who thinks the 3rd is equal if not better than the first.
There's more of us than you think.
Funn Nugget : Same here, the best trait that "3" has, is that if someone hasn't seen the movies before, "halfway" into the series makes an excellent place to start - as it goes back to the original, without harming the series.
Anthony Lewis....Good point. 3 is fun and you get the back story within the first 10/15 minutes. It's a laugh riot but still with jeopardy.
3 really showed how you could take a franchise, keep it believable, change the formula, and it still be "exactly what it always has been" but evolved. It doesn't counteract, contradict, or retcon anything. There's the whole revenge plot of a man related to Hans that takes over a crazy chase of trying to stay alive and keep others from dying. It was the first one that "buddied" John McClane up with somebody (which would be done in the next 2 sequels), and it changed up the formula. Yes, John was in the city Simon wanted to hit, that's about it. Otherwise, he is a total (and very useful) distraction to what Simon is really after, and by all means, John deserves to live if he made it through all that craziness Simon put him through, but also by all means, he really shouldn't have. It wasn't just "wrong place wrong time" or "guy he has to save" even. Zeus (samuel jackson) didn't even have to hang around-he meant NOTHING to Simon, but he got involved and thus became another distraction.
it’s not nearly as good but it is still really good and easily the second best. maybe if it had an R rating it could have had a chance to top 1.
favorite Die Hard 3 joke:
"Why you keep calling me Hey-Zeus?? My name is ZEUS!"
Jesús
Just imagine you had never heard of the Die Hard series and start watching the first one thinking it was a romantic/family drama. What a great moment when Hans Gruber and his thugs finally enter the movie, turning it 180° into an glorious action classic!
😁😁😁
I just watched Die Hard 1 again after a long time and I do think it's remarkable how well it holds up. It has dated relatively little, despite it's an 80's movie, but unlike many other 80's movies, it doesn't drown in the era it was made in.
I like the the Lava Lamp. A lot of times it disagrees with you but in the end has the same purpose you do. Its like you are John and it is Zeus. You both make a good team.
"...and Robert Patrick fails to turn into liquid metal."
Cheeky, mate.
Sam Jackson's Zeus makes the third installment my favourite. The chemistry between him and Willis makes it the most entertaining for me. The original isn't too far behind, mostly due to Rickman's Gruber, which is one of the best villains ever IMO.
I agree that Die Hard and With A Vengeance are the strongest entries into the series. They're both thrilling fun. 5 was truly confusing, I remember watching it and wondering why, why did the studio think to gain from this too oft-repeated formula of modern 'action movies'. It's as if they hadn't seen 'Die Hard' through to 'With a Vengeance'. This isn't to say that a new movie would need to replicate them entirely, but part of the social contract of franchising is that you maintain loyalty to the characters in the originals, with Die Hard 5 that contract was breached.
i just realized that bruce willis was 33 years old when die hard 1 came out.
i am now 32 years old and it just feels like he was older. he looks at least 37 in that movie.
Also, I LOVE your breakdown/discussion of how "Die Hard 4", despite having many of the same elements of the previous, is a clear departure merely by virtue of the era of film it is a part of. I have always observed this kind of thing with various series, and struggled to articulate/put it into words...the ways in which there are these kind of 'invisible lines' that get crossed, where completely apart from the individual script, acting, etc, there's a change in ANY film being released, where "this is what movies are now"--you don't see it happening in progress, but looking back its clear as day. It's the root cause of a lot of nostalgia and/or, especially with series of any kind, the archetypal "man, I wish they would go back to making them like they did with [blah blah]", when what people are really longing for, without even realizing it, is an entire bygone era, even if it's not that long ago. ...Shit, now I'm wondering if my post even makes sense. Lol
Fun fact about the german version of Die Hard 3: Willi's usual voice actor was off filming a movie so they replaced him with the man who (among others) is providing the voices for Schwarzenegger and Stallone (yes, they have the same voice). It's a bit confusing. ;)
I've said this from the moment the announced DIE HARD: YEAR ONE as the next film: "We don't need a Die Hard prequel. We have one. It's called THE DETECTIVE". That said, apparently DIE HARD: YEAR ONE is based on the comic book of the same name, written by Howard Chayakin. I've read the first four issues...it's not bad. But as it's set in the 70s, it has a very 70s-film style of action. Not sure how that would play today with modern audiences.
His parents don't get shot in an alley, I hope?
@@dreamquesttv no, but Holly's inexplicably a hooker.
Fun fact: Siskel & Ebert actually considered Die Hard 2 to be the best in the franchise. Roger didn't even like the original, while Gene ranked that sequel as the 6th best film of 1990 above the likes of Dances with Wolves and Godfather 3.
@ Well-known fact: they were way more respected than the likes of you.
@@shiranuiaensland1442 Fucking relax. Were you lovers of Siskel and Ebert? Jesus.
@@StratumPress How about you and Christopher Marlowe get a room? Hypocrisy at its finest.
@@StratumPress Perhaps start w/ the first guy who replied b/c all I did was inform people of what two famous critics thought instead of referring to how good or bad they were at their jobs.
@@shiranuiaensland1442 Critics are pompous hacks. Their opinions on movies should be considered worthless.
can we all agree that Die 5 is bad and should not be considered as part of the saga
nor 4
No, I like 4 and 5. The one I think is the worst in the series is 3.
Porfle Popnecker Wrong
The first one was great the second and 3rd WERE acceptable part 4 getting alitte far fetched AND part 5 sucked 2 me not a die HARD movie!!!
totally. I have no idea how, it was actually the only one originally being written as a script to be a sequel to die hard, and just somehow ends up feeling like a decent bruce willis led action-film.
Meanwhile Live Free or Die Hard was based off an article now far less famous than the actual film,
Die Hard with a Vengeance was a seperate film called "Simon Says,"
and Die Hard 2 was an adaptation of another book from a different series from the same author that original die hard was based on.
Also, they cast Jai Courtney, and couldn't even get the location of chernobyl right.
The first Die Hard made a huge impression on me, I remember watching it as a young kid staying up late and I think it was probably the first action film I'd ever seen. I was hooked though, it was brilliant.
Ho Ho Ho, now I have a machine gun!
The day they were shooting the scene where the cab crashes over the wall in DH3, I happened to be in the area having lunch, and was looking on at the set when the cab stunt was performed. Nearly 20 years later I met a woman, my now fiancé, who unlike me is not from NYC, and after being together for a few years, we one day got to talking about Die Hard. Turns out, she was also in the crowd of onlookers when they were shooting that very same scene so long ago, as she just happened to be visiting the New York that week. Not the most amazing story but, I've always thought it was pretty cool.
Timothy Oliphant's two speeds: intensely brooding and brooding intensity.
In "Die Hard 6: Die Harderer With More of a Vengeance", Bruce Willis plays the role of John McClaine's grandfather.
The original Die Hard is the best film. The lines are written perfectly, the real thing that isn’t discussed enough is that Alan Rickman is the reason why the original is the best to me. Die Hard 2 was fine (not great), 3 was not written with the same craft in my opinion as the first. You did a great job talking about the way Gruber was written, and I don’t think the villain was ever cared for in the same way after.
going full artistic integrity at 12:19 kudos to you for being brave enough to show the original unedited shot.
How the hell can you have a prequel to Die Hard? There's nothing to the story, Bruce Willis is the only thing that defines the series. Do they have a clone they've been ageing for this moment?
Die Hard 6: Attack of the Clones
Have Jai Courtney play a time traveler who travels back in time to save his parents marriage. This will work since I'm fairly certain the real McClain was killed off and replaced with a Terminator somewhere between diehard 3 and 4.
The franchise jumped the shark with diehard 4.
boringweek2 it might have jumped the shark with 4 but it nuked the fridge with 5.
I guess a remake of 'The Detective' would count as a 'Die Hard' prequel.
@@runningcommentary2125 so maclane Solves a murder in the gay beach front community?
Most comforting channel that makes you wanna smoke a cigar and drink fine wine while watching. thank you
I was actually really surprised with Die Hard 4. It was definitely more PG-13 but still enjoyable as hell.
Die Hard 5 on the other hand.....oooooooooh noooooooooooooo.
not you I too think die hard 4 is underrated.. Its better than 2 in my book
Compare Die Hard 4 to the previous film and you have a perfect example of what's happened to movie making since the mid 90s. Not saying it's terrible - and it is underrated - but DH4 has that pre-cooked, marketing friendly look and feel that the suits want you to see. There's less risk to providing a product that is familiar in as many ways as possible.
Die Hard With a Vengeance is pretty much at the apex of film craft used for 100 years. It never broke and people will still talk about the first 3 Die Hards, and any other action movie made before software replaced hardware.
Who really remembers cgi characters jumping off cgi planes with fondness?
DH4 isn't god awful, but it is meh.
Johnny J you put into words my thoughts on 4. I enjoy 4 immensely but it certainly seems washed out and "kid friendly" and it has more satire about the franchise itself than the law and police system like in the earlier films so there's a focal shift. I thought that the sidekick and villain+minions were greatly realised though and feel charismatic and relatable. But it was definitely a step towards the "big audience big cash" mentality, not to mention the unbelievable action cgi that could've survived without. Then 5 just crash-landed with no soul.
DH4 would undoubtably be hailed in much higher regard if it were not attached to the DH universe. I saw it again not to long ago and was shocked at how much I enjoyed it.
You are by far one of my all time favorite film-analyzing-type TH-camrs. Keep up the good work!
What are the chances that both Hillary and Trump get 'shout outs,' in the same movie (3rd one)?. Hmm.
I L L U M I N A T I ?
jermaine tobin I'm sure some consistency theorist will some how link it to 911
Didn't he also have a cameo in Home Alone 2?
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I think you (@Person Place) are just making links where there aren’t
@@saschamayer4050 Trump has had cameo's in several films and series, mostly in the 90's. It was a requirement in exchange for allowing a scene to be filmed inside one of his buildings
I just love how they got the downtrodden McClane character so very downtrodden in the infamous sign-holding scene. That was some serious humiliation blended with genuine fear of harm.
Thank you so much for having your lava lamp shut off for a while before starting the video. So much better when it just started.
Excellent orator George ...well done ✔ 👍
I really liked the 4th Movie because it showed an Old School 80s Action Hero in the 2000. The scene where he has no idea how a Webcam works is really good. So is the action. The 5th Movie is one of the worst movies. No Soul, boring action and no Die Hard.
You provide some of the best content consistently on TH-cam. Thanks mate!
your videos are amazing keep goin lol love the star trek refrence with obrien
The third is the only DH I saw in theaters. And, agreed! The "mime joke" at 13:23 is great! I hate that it's deleted in every rerun.
How long could Mc Clane just be a regular guy at the wrong place at the wrong time ? The kind of over the top, superheroic feeling he gives in the fourth comes from the fact that he's previous adventures somehow alter him. You just can't forget that somehow he singlehandedly save a building from robbers, an Airport from rogue soldiers and New-York from bombers.
Die Hard is one of my favorite Christmas movies. A classic!
Do how the Hannibal Lecter films changed
I think this might be my new favourite channel just the right blend of witty sarcasm for me
I remember taking the Universal studios tour when "die harder" had just hit theaters. The guide made a joke saying the next film will be "die hardest" and the final film will just be called "Dead".
I love how the dad from family matters has to learn to kill again.
Also lowkey when he does kill again and it's played all sentimental i always laugh
I had a huge crush for the girl who played McClain’s daughter in die hard 4, which is probably why I liked The Thing 2011
You watched Scott Pilgrim?
Mary Elizabeth Winstead was perfectly cast as McClane`s daughter in Die Hard 4. She was totally worthy of your crush!
She's so hot I'd eat the corn out of her shit.
@@ktom5262 and she shows her ass in Fargo. 😍
Die Hard 3 was based on a previously written, unrelated screenplay ("Simon Says") and later converted into a Die Hard movie by adding the connection to the first one.
Now i wish there actually was a "Die Harderer"
Great video, one of my favorite movie franchises. The third film is by far my favorite. The role of John McClane was also offered to Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Mel Gibson & Harrison Ford too.
Pretty sure his wife being on one of the holding planes is his main motivator in DE2.
The first 3 Die Hard movies will always be Christmas movies for me specially the first one. It is true what you say, action movies were different in the 80's and I guess audiences became more mature and just expected more action. Great video Georg.
Well Actually the reason Mclane gets so heavily involved in Die Hard 2 is because Holly is on one of the Planes that is running low on fuel in danger of crashing.
A passenger jet would never run out of fuel and crash circling the airport. They would divert to the alternate landing location
I think my favourite part of Live Free or Die Hard was when Maggie Q's character was pretending to be a police dispatcher and Justin Long's character recognized her voice, so McClane tries tricking her with radio codes (I forget which one he used) and she went along with it, saying the whole force was being dispatched and he goes "Really, the whole force showed up for a naked guy?" and the look on her face was like "Fuck, I walked right into that one."
Bruce Willis was an extra in the Sinatra movie. You should have mentioned that
The biggest change is that they never , ever , ever found a villain as great as Alan Rickman!
maybe different coloured lamps for different subjects or genres?
BLASPHEMY!!! BLASPHEMY, I SAY!!! AND THRICE!!! *BLASPHEMY!!!!*
Die Hard with a Vengeance is my favourite too. It is punchier in it's humour and as you say the chemistry between Willis and Jackson really lifts the film.
"I'm sure if the us air force wanted that plane out of the sky they could have made it happen in about three minutes"... Yeah, just like they did on 9-11. Oh wait.... Maybe they didn't want those planes out of the sky on 9-11. Huh.
And the mafia killed Kennedy, and the moon is made out of cheese etc etc
There weren't any armed planes on standby, the jets sent up were without cannon ammunition or missiles.
With a Vengeance is also my favorite. It felt like an old adventure movie (which I guess it is now). They don't make films like it anymore.
The first 3 are good films worth watching. 4th is alright and I'd watch it if I randomly found it on some channel. 5th... Actually only watch like 30-45 minutes of it. Just found it boring.
Amazing analysis of movies. I've come back to watch these multiple times. Amazing!
What are your thoughts on Event Horizon? I would love to see your analysis.
I think the movie doesn't even know what's happening... it's a bit of a jump-scare-happy, gore-porn mess.
jeff peake I have my own opinion, I would just like to hear his take on it.
you are better off checking Good Bad Flicks channel for those kind of movies
Gerald Darden Hellraiser in Space.
Brilliant film, cult clsasic. Just really hoping the directors cut will finally see the light of day.
Keep the lamp please.
It's the most entertaining thing that i have found on youtube.
(Your commentary about movies is good too)
15:00 on one swedish translation they for some of reason replaced "I'm going to marry Donald trump" to (lose translation) "I'm going to be the president's wife". The translator probably didnt think the average Swede at the time know how Donald trump was... but that is one coincident.
7:29 "And Robert Patrick fails to turn into liquid metal" amazing, also he was super good in T2, just wanted to say 'cause I'm already talking about it
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This was a great video Georg. I'm loving your channel. I don't usually care for movies all that much, but you really make it interesting. I love your humor.
nice references to their origins. more of where films got their stories from / films we didn't know were remakes please
This channel is exactly the kind of content I've been trying to find more of. I don't know why youtube has never recommended your videos to me before, but I'm glad they didn't since now I've got all these never-before-seen (by me) videos of yours to watch! Great channel, great content and a nice execution. Good work and keep it up!
Fun fact: in Brazil the 4th movie was called Die Hard 4.0 .
That's what it was called in most of the world
Glad to see this video back up. Congrats on winning the copyright dispute!
Die hard 4 : die hardererer
but we never ever got Die Hardest!
I found this channel yesterday and honestly I am shocked. I looked at the subscriber count expecting a few hundred thousand subs. This channel is so good! I'm sure it will reach 100000 subs really soon.
Have you ever seen Red Dwarf?
You remind me of Norman Lovett.
That's totally a good thing.
Tom !!! Holly for the win! "Everyone is dead Dave. Dave, everyone is dead. Oh, smeg it."
I knew about the "Simon Says"/Lethal Weapon prehistory for Die Hard 3, but I hadn't heard it was supposed to be a vehicle for Brandon Lee. It's remarkable how much backstory this script had before it was even made into a film!
Downloading, in case the FOX has something to say.
If it does get taken down I'll put it back up with alterations, but please download away!
Die hard 3 was my first introduction into the series and honestly, its my favorite.
The fourth film lacks the charm of the first three. It's just a tired effort to squeeze more money out of the franchise. The fifth was simply an embarrassment.
I never watched the fifth, and never will watch the fifth. It just looks unpleasant and dull. Nothing compells me and it doesn't look like anybody really liked it, so I'm just gonna go with my gut instinct here and stay the hell away.
It's exactly the way you characterize it.
I'd actually disagree about the 4th. I honestly think the 4th is as good as die hard 2, but in slightly different ways. I think 3 and 1 are the best though, no question.
Greg Camp : Check out my post on the Die Hard series, high praise to Georg Rockall-Schmidt!.
After the colour of the first three, 4 looks really bleak and depressing.
Die Hard 4 was great fun. I really don't get why anyone thinks of it as a lesser Die Hard movie. It's a blast!
My ranking because everyone is dying to know: 3, 1, 4, 2, 5 doesn't exist. For some reason I'm unusually soft on 2.
I didn't even know there was a fifth one, but seeing what I've seen, I'm thankful. Excellent analysis of a wonderful quadrilogy.
If you had a podcast, I'd listen to it.
Well, you're in luck, check his back catalogue.
But then it wouldn't have a groovy lava lamp!
thank you!
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Thank you so much for your cliff notes version of the Die Hard series. I’m sure it’s useful for people who do not watch nor enjoy the films.
cool vid... btw keep the lava lamp!
Great educational piece, love the lamp as always. Thanks for a great twenty-three minutes and forty-eight seconds to enjoy prior to going to work and losing all hope in humanity