What I like about this movie is that John isn't simply defying the authorities again when they tell him that they have the situation under control. He is trusting what Matt is saying because he was in that situation in the frist two movies.
In the mid-late 2000s like Rocky, Rambo and Indiana Jones, nobody saw or even thought that John McClane would return to the big screen. Just like the other aging heroes we have, McClane proved the naysayers wrong and i loved it. The basis of the movie was an article "A Farewell to Arms" (1997) from Wired magazine by John Carlin on the infrastructure's change in our country. Director Len Wiseman (the Underworld saga) turned in a pretty good sequel. Years later, Wiseman was interested in doing a prequel film based on BOOM! Studios' "Die Hard: Year One" limited comic series (2009-2010) and casting for a younger John McClane. Bruce Willis as McClane just keeps the charm and grit going like we loved it since DH1. The supporting cast is good. The action, humor and suspense is great. "A Timex watch in an digital era" is a very good line by the villain. Timex is known to make watches that 'take a licking and keeps on ticking'. A character like McClane (at that time) close to 20 years since the first film and still being one of the great action icons we have, says a lot. LF or DH is the highest grossing film in the series. The 5th and final installment came out in 2013 and it's considered the worse of the films by the general consensus. Either you watch it or you don't. But I'm just a Bruce Willis fan and I loved all the DH movies.
14:23 That's Jonathan Sadowski, he was in "Sh!t My Dad Says" with William Shatner, and a great episode of "Chuck", amongst other things. 27:26 There aren't that many celebrities that I'd actually want to meet, but Kevin Smith is at the top of that list. Aside from making some of my all-time favourite movies, he loves so many of the same things that I do, and truly seems like a genuinely sweet Dude. Also, he's got that whole "Prophet of God" thing going for him. Snoogens...😉
This movie is obviously the most modern of Die Hard, in many countries it was called: Die Hard 4.0 and drinks a lot from the series 24 with Kiefer Sutherland, it was very successful at the time of this movie and its influence is noticeable, very much in that style and even with the same color palette.
My third favourite Die Hard, and a great movie overall. Excellent writing, amazing action, amped-up stakes, and absolutely the best cast of any of them (Timothy Olyphant is always awesome, Justin Long is a hilarious side-kick, and Mary Elizabeth Winstead is {things I can't say in a public forum or I might get put on a list}.😍💋🍈🍈👄🍑👅🍩 Also, Kevin Smith is a God.🙏🙌 Now that you're done with the Die Hards (what fifth movie?), I would highly recommend "The Last Boy Scout" (1991).
"Jesus Christ. It's a fire sale." "What?" "It's a fire sale." "Hey! We don't know that yet." "Yeah, it's a myth anyway. It can't be done." "Oh, it's a myth? Really? Please tell me she's only here for show and she's actually not in charge of anything." "Hey, what's a fire sale?" "It's a three-step... it's a three-step systematic attack on the entire national infrastructure. Okay, step one: take out all the transportation. Step two: the financial base and telecoms. Step three: You get rid of all the utilities. Gas, water, electric, nuclear. Pretty much anything that's run by computers which... which today is almost everything. So that's why they call it a fire sale, because everything must go." Fun Fact: Director Len Wiseman cameos as the pilot of the F-35 jet. Location Location Fact: A water treatment facility near Los Angeles doubled as the film's Woodlawn Social Security Administration building. The facility has miles of underground tunnels, and was also used in Die Hard 2 (1990) when Bruce Willis runs through tunnels under the airport. Ransom Note Fact: It took four months to assemble and combine archive footage of past American presidents from Franklin D. Roosevelt to George W. Bush to create the televised warning from Gabriel (Timothy Olyphant). The goal was to create a video representation of a ransom note. Movie Magic Fact: The stunt featuring McClane driving a police car into a helicopter took three weeks to rehearse. The shot was accomplished by suspending the helicopter in the air with cables and combining two separate shots: one of the stuntman leaping from the helicopter and one of the car colliding with it. CGI was then used to delete the support cables and add rotor blades. What Script Fact: Kevin Smith rewrote the lines for his Warlock character. Bruce Willis thought the rewrite was too funny and did not follow the serious mood of the movie. Smith then rewrote the part to what Willis requested. Director Len Wiseman credits actor Timothy Olyphant with coming up with the idea of how McClane kills Gabriel. In order to keep it a secret, the scene was not included in the film's shooting script. Fall Guy Fact: Bruce Willis' stunt double, Larry Rippenkroeger, was seriously injured when he fell 25 feet to the pavement. He suffered broken bones in his face and fractures in both wrists. Production was temporarily shut down. Willis picked up the tab at area hotels for Larry's parents and visited him numerous times at the hospital. Larry also doubles for James Caan in his television series, Las Vegas (2003). Caan came and visited Larry in the hospital and joked around for over an hour. Larry told his parents he was glad when Caan left because he hurt so bad from laughing at his jokes.
I only just watched this movie for the first time today. I enjoyed it, too. I particularly enjoyed Timothy Olyphant since I rewatched Hitman a few days ago.
I was thrilled to see another DH movie after so long! I saw it in the theaters and went back the next day. Before the tunnel scene, during the chase, there was a complete "wrap around(it's what I call it)" camera angle that circles the car without an edit cut. I thought that was impressive as hell. This cast was bad@ss and it's where I came across a majority of them as well.
The last time I saw Justin Long was in the Goosebumps Series on Netflix. He was actually my favourite part of the whole series. Wait, it was on Disney not Netflix
Fun fact there’s a r rated version of this movie out there somewhere. It’s kinda hard to find (here in the UK) anyway and has more f bombs including the full famous line at the end, and is also colour graded differently
Since you enjoyed this, have you watched WarGames 1983? In my opinion it's an excellent film showing retro technology but is still very relevant today. Anyway, I do like Live Free and Die Hard. I don't feel that it's the best one but it's certainly not the worst. As ever I enjoyed your reaction, thank you.
This was such an awesome movie. It's s damn shame they regressed so badly in the garbage 5th movie they made. And very sad that we'll never truly get to see Bruce Willis right that wrong and give John McClane the proper send off he deserves
This movie definitely required you to suspend your disbelief for some of the over the top action, but I still enjoy it quite a bit. Also that scene where the car flips through the air was a practical effect, the wire work was insane to pull it off, recommend checking out the 'behind the scenes' for it
It was very ahead of its time. EoT didn’t exist back then, it’s also pre-smartphone and pre-widespread mobile internet era, and hence this level of digital control used to be a stretch, but it’s totally plausible now and it getting even more so every year. This makes this movie age better than it could have. Shame for PG-13 rating. I, as everyone else, would previously blame Willis for lazy acting here, but it actually seems that his illness was beginning to manifest already at that time, so I feel bad.
20:56 - *_Indeed! As I always say, following Sam Jackson in the previous Die Hard was an impossible mission (So was following the revenge premise of that movie) but Justin Long and the writers did pretty much as well as they could under the circumstances and I think this Die Hard probably would have been better received had it come before Die Hard with a Vengeance (Not that it was panned as terrible, but I do thin many people didn't give it a chance because they knew it wouldn't beat the 3rd installment). I at least respect that they created a character to follow John around and be the encyclopedia of computers, rather than doing what some Hollywood writers would have done, namely say that John took up some computer classes since the last movie or some dumb excuse like that (... And if anyone would say that they would do that, they actually DID it with the helicopter flying lessons John mentions later in the movie 😜). This at least plays well into the quintessential John McClane character who is not superhuman, does not have all the answers or solutions but has to figure out the next move while being in the dark about many things, all the while getting banged up pretty badly in the process_* 23:38 - *_Can't confirm if the movie was shown in 3D in theatres (Even after searching), but many sets (Like the elevator shaft, the elevated highways for jet sequences and others) were described as new and powerful (Back then, in 2007) 3D technology (So if I were a betting man: I'd place my money on it having indeed been projected in 3D as well). This led to one of the (Valid) complaints of many fans of the franchise who did give it a chance, saying that it was "too grandiose", "too big", "too CGI", when they were use to Die Hard being much more grounded in simple gun fighting and practical explosions_*
The entire opening credits of the movie was setting up the fact these guys were planting C4 into hackers computers and blowing them up......but you missed it bc you were talking over literally the entire credits.
Many people talk about Lucy McClain, but what did your daughter give to this film? There wasn’t much of her, at the beginning, where she had sex with a guy and had a fight with her father, showing her strong character, a little in the middle, where she was held hostage, told her father the number of terrorists, and at the end in the final battle, where she screamed along with the stupid jock Emerson, after hitting the henchman Thomas with the back of her head, penetrated with her tied hands into the holster with Emerson's pistol, after which she shot him in the foot and he dropped his machine gun on the floor, screaming, grabbing her hands so that she would not kill him with his own pistol, she turned around while Emerson was screaming and screaming and kicked Emerson's machine gun at his father and Thomas stopped him at the last second, then after everything she ran up to her father and sobbed for her attitude towards him at the very beginning. There wasn't much of her in this film, unfortunately ((
Darling, I love you, but you kept missing soooooo much from jump because you kept getting distracted by side shit that didn’t matter. 😂😂😂😂Get a hold of your ADHD!!!!❤
What I like about this movie is that John isn't simply defying the authorities again when they tell him that they have the situation under control. He is trusting what Matt is saying because he was in that situation in the frist two movies.
The most underrated and unexpected last of John McClane's adventures.
35:19 if you wanna see more of that dude i recommend the french movie B-13. its an action movie with him and David Belle, the founder of parkour.
My wife and I consider this our favourite action movie of all time. It’s so impossible but it’s so well done.
36:12 - That's Jonathan Sadowski as Trey, Gabriel's main hacker.
Boris was actually Nightcrawler (Alan Cumming) from X-Men 2.
He is invincible 😂
In the mid-late 2000s like Rocky, Rambo and Indiana Jones, nobody saw or even thought that John McClane would return to the big screen.
Just like the other aging heroes we have, McClane proved the naysayers wrong and i loved it.
The basis of the movie was an article "A Farewell to Arms" (1997) from Wired magazine by John Carlin on the infrastructure's change in our country.
Director Len Wiseman (the Underworld saga) turned in a pretty good sequel.
Years later, Wiseman was interested in doing a prequel film based on BOOM! Studios' "Die Hard: Year One" limited comic series (2009-2010) and casting for a younger John McClane.
Bruce Willis as McClane just keeps the charm and grit going like we loved it since DH1.
The supporting cast is good.
The action, humor and suspense is great.
"A Timex watch in an digital era" is a very good line by the villain.
Timex is known to make watches that 'take a licking and keeps on ticking'.
A character like McClane (at that time) close to 20 years since the first film and still being one of the great action icons we have, says a lot.
LF or DH is the highest grossing film in the series.
The 5th and final installment came out in 2013 and it's considered the worse of the films by the general consensus.
Either you watch it or you don't.
But I'm just a Bruce Willis fan and I loved all the DH movies.
14:23 That's Jonathan Sadowski, he was in "Sh!t My Dad Says" with William Shatner, and a great episode of "Chuck", amongst other things.
27:26 There aren't that many celebrities that I'd actually want to meet, but Kevin Smith is at the top of that list. Aside from making some of my all-time favourite movies, he loves so many of the same things that I do, and truly seems like a genuinely sweet Dude. Also, he's got that whole "Prophet of God" thing going for him. Snoogens...😉
This movie is obviously the most modern of Die Hard, in many countries it was called: Die Hard 4.0 and drinks a lot from the series 24 with Kiefer Sutherland, it was very successful at the time of this movie and its influence is noticeable, very much in that style and even with the same color palette.
Justin Long has a podcast and he’s directing! Also still acting, which I’m really happy about.
My third favourite Die Hard, and a great movie overall. Excellent writing, amazing action, amped-up stakes, and absolutely the best cast of any of them (Timothy Olyphant is always awesome, Justin Long is a hilarious side-kick, and Mary Elizabeth Winstead is {things I can't say in a public forum or I might get put on a list}.😍💋🍈🍈👄🍑👅🍩 Also, Kevin Smith is a God.🙏🙌
Now that you're done with the Die Hards (what fifth movie?), I would highly recommend "The Last Boy Scout" (1991).
I freaking love this one!
They’re in Camden, NJ which isn’t too far from Philly!
"Jesus Christ. It's a fire sale."
"What?"
"It's a fire sale."
"Hey! We don't know that yet."
"Yeah, it's a myth anyway. It can't be done."
"Oh, it's a myth? Really? Please tell me she's only here for show and she's actually not in charge of anything."
"Hey, what's a fire sale?"
"It's a three-step... it's a three-step systematic attack on the entire national infrastructure. Okay, step one: take out all the transportation. Step two: the financial base and telecoms. Step three: You get rid of all the utilities. Gas, water, electric, nuclear. Pretty much anything that's run by computers which... which today is almost everything. So that's why they call it a fire sale, because everything must go."
Fun Fact: Director Len Wiseman cameos as the pilot of the F-35 jet.
Location Location Fact: A water treatment facility near Los Angeles doubled as the film's Woodlawn Social Security Administration building. The facility has miles of underground tunnels, and was also used in Die Hard 2 (1990) when Bruce Willis runs through tunnels under the airport.
Ransom Note Fact: It took four months to assemble and combine archive footage of past American presidents from Franklin D. Roosevelt to George W. Bush to create the televised warning from Gabriel (Timothy Olyphant). The goal was to create a video representation of a ransom note.
Movie Magic Fact: The stunt featuring McClane driving a police car into a helicopter took three weeks to rehearse. The shot was accomplished by suspending the helicopter in the air with cables and combining two separate shots: one of the stuntman leaping from the helicopter and one of the car colliding with it. CGI was then used to delete the support cables and add rotor blades.
What Script Fact: Kevin Smith rewrote the lines for his Warlock character. Bruce Willis thought the rewrite was too funny and did not follow the serious mood of the movie. Smith then rewrote the part to what Willis requested. Director Len Wiseman credits actor Timothy Olyphant with coming up with the idea of how McClane kills Gabriel. In order to keep it a secret, the scene was not included in the film's shooting script.
Fall Guy Fact: Bruce Willis' stunt double, Larry Rippenkroeger, was seriously injured when he fell 25 feet to the pavement. He suffered broken bones in his face and fractures in both wrists. Production was temporarily shut down. Willis picked up the tab at area hotels for Larry's parents and visited him numerous times at the hospital. Larry also doubles for James Caan in his television series, Las Vegas (2003). Caan came and visited Larry in the hospital and joked around for over an hour. Larry told his parents he was glad when Caan left because he hurt so bad from laughing at his jokes.
There is a NASTY RUMOR that they made a 5th film. It’s a lie, don’t even look into it. Four films, that’s it. LOL
Ok, yeah. I forgot how good this one was.
I only just watched this movie for the first time today. I enjoyed it, too. I particularly enjoyed Timothy Olyphant since I rewatched Hitman a few days ago.
I was thrilled to see another DH movie after so long! I saw it in the theaters and went back the next day.
Before the tunnel scene, during the chase, there was a complete "wrap around(it's what I call it)" camera angle that circles the car without an edit cut. I thought that was impressive as hell.
This cast was bad@ss and it's where I came across a majority of them as well.
this movie got a lot of flak back then obvi the pg 13 rating is lame but honestly i find it really fun and rewatchable, totally cool action flick.
The last time I saw Justin Long was in the Goosebumps Series on Netflix. He was actually my favourite part of the whole series.
Wait, it was on Disney not Netflix
Fun fact there’s a r rated version of this movie out there somewhere. It’s kinda hard to find (here in the UK) anyway and has more f bombs including the full famous line at the end, and is also colour graded differently
There was a DH box set that csme out in 2008.
It has the unrated version of LF or DH.
Die Hard 3 is my favourite, but this is still a great Die Hard
love this film so freakin much!
I like your rankings of the Die Hard IP but mind would be 3,1,4 and 2. I liked this one better than 2.
Since you enjoyed this, have you watched WarGames 1983? In my opinion it's an excellent film showing retro technology but is still very relevant today.
Anyway, I do like Live Free and Die Hard. I don't feel that it's the best one but it's certainly not the worst. As ever I enjoyed your reaction, thank you.
You have to watch maybe Maggie Qs first movie which is Naked Weapon it goes hard
This was such an awesome movie. It's s damn shame they regressed so badly in the garbage 5th movie they made.
And very sad that we'll never truly get to see Bruce Willis right that wrong and give John McClane the proper send off he deserves
This movie definitely required you to suspend your disbelief for some of the over the top action, but I still enjoy it quite a bit.
Also that scene where the car flips through the air was a practical effect, the wire work was insane to pull it off, recommend checking out the 'behind the scenes' for it
All these movies require suspension of disbelief lol. Definitely good practical stunt work in this!
It was very ahead of its time. EoT didn’t exist back then, it’s also pre-smartphone and pre-widespread mobile internet era, and hence this level of digital control used to be a stretch, but it’s totally plausible now and it getting even more so every year. This makes this movie age better than it could have. Shame for PG-13 rating. I, as everyone else, would previously blame Willis for lazy acting here, but it actually seems that his illness was beginning to manifest already at that time, so I feel bad.
20:56 - *_Indeed! As I always say, following Sam Jackson in the previous Die Hard was an impossible mission (So was following the revenge premise of that movie) but Justin Long and the writers did pretty much as well as they could under the circumstances and I think this Die Hard probably would have been better received had it come before Die Hard with a Vengeance (Not that it was panned as terrible, but I do thin many people didn't give it a chance because they knew it wouldn't beat the 3rd installment). I at least respect that they created a character to follow John around and be the encyclopedia of computers, rather than doing what some Hollywood writers would have done, namely say that John took up some computer classes since the last movie or some dumb excuse like that (... And if anyone would say that they would do that, they actually DID it with the helicopter flying lessons John mentions later in the movie 😜). This at least plays well into the quintessential John McClane character who is not superhuman, does not have all the answers or solutions but has to figure out the next move while being in the dark about many things, all the while getting banged up pretty badly in the process_*
23:38 - *_Can't confirm if the movie was shown in 3D in theatres (Even after searching), but many sets (Like the elevator shaft, the elevated highways for jet sequences and others) were described as new and powerful (Back then, in 2007) 3D technology (So if I were a betting man: I'd place my money on it having indeed been projected in 3D as well). This led to one of the (Valid) complaints of many fans of the franchise who did give it a chance, saying that it was "too grandiose", "too big", "too CGI", when they were use to Die Hard being much more grounded in simple gun fighting and practical explosions_*
What did you get out of the X-Files Gears of War thing?? Lol I'm intrigued
The entire opening credits of the movie was setting up the fact these guys were planting C4 into hackers computers and blowing them up......but you missed it bc you were talking over literally the entire credits.
But Omn1, there one thing that bothers me about this movie. Since you were just in DC, you'd know, there's no tunnels here....
You might be shocked to learn that there is no New York city hero policeman named John McClain either. LOL
@@enadegheeghaghe6369 OMG, for real!!??? Die hard is a lie!!
@@mistajay885 hahahaha. It's a fictional story. Get over the tunnels
Great Movie! 😀
It's definitely the underrated one of the Die hard films. But the next one is definitely the worst of one of the lot.
the 4 and 5 are ok movies but the "trilogy" were better :D
I know you will, but you REALLY shouldn't watch the next one. 😖
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🥃
Many people talk about Lucy McClain, but what did your daughter give to this film? There wasn’t much of her, at the beginning, where she had sex with a guy and had a fight with her father, showing her strong character, a little in the middle, where she was held hostage, told her father the number of terrorists, and at the end in the final battle, where she screamed along with the stupid jock Emerson, after hitting the henchman Thomas with the back of her head, penetrated with her tied hands into the holster with Emerson's pistol, after which she shot him in the foot and he dropped his machine gun on the floor, screaming, grabbing her hands so that she would not kill him with his own pistol, she turned around while Emerson was screaming and screaming and kicked Emerson's machine gun at his father and Thomas stopped him at the last second, then after everything she ran up to her father and sobbed for her attitude towards him at the very beginning.
There wasn't much of her in this film, unfortunately ((
Darling, I love you, but you kept missing soooooo much from jump because you kept getting distracted by side shit that didn’t matter. 😂😂😂😂Get a hold of your ADHD!!!!❤
No point in watching the last one