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Die Hard
Die Hard is not just an action film; it's a holiday classic that spurs spirited debate on its status as a Christmas movie. This episode delves into its iconic characters, humor, and lasting impact on the action genre, while also acknowledging cultural considerations of the past.
• Analysis of Die Hard's Christmas settings and elements
• Insight into Bruce Willis and Alan Rickman's iconic performances
• Discussion on the screenplay's comedic elements and impactful writing
• Exploration of Die Hard's influence on subsequent action films
• Reflection on characters and cultural portrayals
• Personal anecdotes on our Die Hard experiences
• Merry Christmas!
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Hello and welcome to the we Recommend podcast, a movie podcast where every week we recommend a movie for you to watch and come back here and listen to us discuss. I'm Jesse and I'm Jason. Now I have a machine gun. Ho ho, ho, because this week we recommend Die Hard. Merry Christmas y'all. What makes this a Christmas movie? Is it just the jingle bells and the score?
Speaker 2:The fact that it's Christmas Eve and it plays Let it Snow at the end, I guess, wraps the guy up in Christmas stuff, because I was looking at there's a Reddit post about there was a debate about whether it's a Christmas movie or not and one of the comments was like I've got a better question Is a hot dog a sandwich?
Speaker 1:Yeah, I don't know. It's one of those things where it's like everybody likes to debate it. But I'm like I don't know. If a movie takes place during Christmas and they're having a Christmas party and they're literally have sleigh bells in the score of the movie, I'm like I think it's a Christmas movie. It's just in LA, so it doesn't look snowy. That's it. Carl Winslow's and all the Christmas movies. Yeah, that's true, but I mean, yeah, do you?
Speaker 2:think he did it. Really I don't think so Right. I don't think so right, I don't know.
Speaker 1:I think that was just a rumor. I don't know enough about it. I just hope Bruce Willis isn't involved with P Diddy, If that happens then just kill me, because Bruce Willis fucking goes in this movie, baby, oh yeah, why do you think they chose Bruce Willis for this? Well, so they went to everybody else.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, yeah, they all turned it down arnold sylvester, sloan burt reynolds, richard greer, all of them, they all turned it down.
Speaker 1:They're like apparently nobody wanted to do a terrorist movie, oh, which, uh, ended up. The director, john mcterian, said I didn't want to do it because it was going to be a terrorist movie. So he's like well, let's turn into a robbing, like a robbery movie. They're still terrorists, but they're there to rob, not blow up the entire country and then but they do like to have. They have a lot of explosives. Yeah, they do have a lot of explosives, but they're fun terrorists yeah, yeah, pretty fun.
Speaker 2:Um, I feel like they could have had schwarzenegger as one of the German. Yeah right, the Austrian guy, the Carl the big one.
Speaker 1:But so and they were looking for people and the show Moonlighting was on and that's what Bruce Willis was in, and they offered him the movie and he wasn't going to do it. But I guess what's her name? That's in it.
Speaker 2:His girlfriend, the girl in Moonlighting. God damn. I just looked it up.
Speaker 1:I don't know, I can't remember, but anyways, sybil Shepard, I believe, is her name. She got pregnant and so he was able to do the movie. She gets fired immediately for that, and Bruce Willis wanted to do the movie, but he couldn't because of the show. She was pregnant myself. And then they like gave him five million dollars and he was like I'm doing it.
Speaker 2:It's like I should have.
Speaker 1:And then, which actually kind of rippled throughout all of cinema, because people were like you're giving this guy who does TV five million dollars. Bruce Willis said it's like everybody should be happy because I gave everybody a five million dollar pay bump on all their movies from here on out Nice. Because they gave a TV actor five million dollars. Oh yeah, and he's. He had a quote. It's like you know what. No one ever talked to me about it and I didn't even receive a Christmas card for it.
Speaker 2:Well, yeah, he's so good in this and I think, but you couldn't have his script with Arnold Schwarzenegger. I think, because whenever he did Commando, Was it Commando. All of his oh man, his one-liners, yeah.
Speaker 1:All of it's just constant bad one liners all the time. And so this the script was written by Jeb Stewart, who he did a lot of like more serious action movies, and so they fired him. Actually because John John McTiernan wanted to, wanted to add something funny to it, because his biggest issue with the script was like this is no fun. I want like let's make it funny. So that's why he got like the I forgot his name, uli or whatever. The Asian guy gets a candy bar whenever he's just like waiting to shoot. One got the crunch bar yeah.
Speaker 1:And then the what the SWAT team guy runs into a thorn bush.
Speaker 2:He's like ow, or like when the big tank-looking thing just crashes on the stairs. Yeah, I don't even think that was meant to be funny, but it was to me yeah, I think it probably was.
Speaker 1:They're like oh, what if we have this giant thing? It's like damn.
Speaker 2:Can't go upstairs, though. Let's ram the building. Yeah, maybe they'll fall out.
Speaker 1:So, yeah, maybe they'll fall out, but so the guy that came in to help write it was Stephen E DeSouza, and I believe that was him. Right, yeah, let me see a picture of him.
Speaker 2:See he wrote Commando in 48 hours.
Speaker 1:So that was the guy that brought in all the humor into the movie and once they got that makes so much sense. And they had trouble with Bruce because they're like it's like on the small screen he was a charming asshole, but on the big screen he's kind of coming off as just an asshole, but a funny asshole, yeah. So, steven and Bruce, they got together and had dinner and he was like, yeah, add more comedy, because Bruce Willis likes to do comedic things, and I think that's why I like him the most.
Speaker 1:I think he might be. My favorite action star is bruce willis. Yeah, hell yeah, dude, because arnold you just can't do much with him. He tries, yeah, it's like whenever you make him normal, it's like who the fuck is this johnny guy?
Speaker 2:like in all the ones where he's like the kindergarten cop.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah. It's like we should question why this guy's here, but he's big. You got Sylvester Stallone who's, you know, love him. He's great in all the Rocky movies. You know he can't really act. It's just very unnatural people you know, Call me Joel McClane. This is very unnatural people, you know.
Speaker 2:Call me joel mcclain, you're fine and then with bruce willis it's like, hey, this is a regular guy and he's just kind of cool.
Speaker 1:He gets the shit kicked out of him I know and you can tell and I just love the progression of him getting dirtier and dirtier and dirtier his little tank top it's so good, yeah, I've got a lot of tank tops that look like that.
Speaker 2:But I haven't been doing the same thing. Yeah, I just roll around, mostly just eating spaghetti. I just roll around in the mud by myself.
Speaker 1:Damn. I just actually ended up saying like all my, all my main facts actually.
Speaker 2:Do you think this movie set like a precedent for every action movie that came after?
Speaker 1:That's why you got Speed Cliffhanger Die Hard on a Bus Die.
Speaker 2:Hard on a Mountain, die Hard in Space.
Speaker 1:Yeah. I mean it kind of it changed everything, because eventually people would just come in with scripts and just be like this is Die Hard blank, this is Die Hard blank and that's it was selling movies.
Speaker 2:I mean that's how we got Speed. What year did it come out? Was it 88? 88, yeah, yeah, and my wife was born. Aw, she's as old as this movie.
Speaker 1:I literally Wow, I shouldn't have said that I couldn't have.
Speaker 2:I'm in trouble.
Speaker 1:I just immediately was like I have no, I have no idea what to add. So Speed directed by John DeBond, who filmed this movie. He was the cinematographer on this movie, oh shit, and he did.
Speaker 2:Just wasn't fast enough for him he did Die Hard on a bus later.
Speaker 1:Another interesting fact. To bring it back to our previous movies, shane Black was responsible for the movie title. The title Die Hard came from Lethal Weapon writer Shane Black. It was his original title. The title Die Hard came from Lethal Weapon writer Shane Black. It was his original title for the Last Boy Scout, but Joel Silver managed to convince him to hand it over when they worked together on Predator Nothing Lasts Forever. Author Roderick Thorpe, who is the guy that wrote the book Die Hard, but it was called Nothing Lasts Forever, was furious about the name change. He confronted Silver, who told him the best thing that ever happened to your book is this movie.
Speaker 2:Oh man, that's a bad name for a book.
Speaker 1:Nothing Lasts Forever.
Speaker 2:It's a.
Speaker 1:James Bond thing. Oh yeah, I mean that just sounds like a James Bond title. It's not a James Bond book, but yeah. So the original book was actually a six-year-old who was trying to like save his daughter, like being around like cocaine dealers or whatever in a building or something, and like he ends up dropping her at the end instead of like Alan Hans Gruber, and it was more of like you know, like 1960s type detective stuff.
Speaker 1:Not really like hey, yo, I just got done eating a pizza in New York. Now I'm going to Christmas Eve in LA. I don't know what that you know evolved into there, but it's kind of weird. So John McTiernan was in. I feel like we should talk about John McTiernan real quick. Do you know everything he's done? No, well, he did. Predator right Predator. Last Action Hero Die Hard. 13th Warrior Hunt for Red October.
Speaker 2:Oh, 13th Warrior.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that was cool. Die Hard with a Vengeance, thomas Crown Affair, hell yeah. And then he ruined his career with Rollerball the remake Rollerball. God bless him. God bless him. Sorry that had to happen to you, but you did that really bad movie that I enjoyed as a kid.
Speaker 2:Wait, rollerball, was that what is?
Speaker 1:that they're on roller skates. Yeah, die hard on skates. Yeah, they're doing Die Hard. And Rollerball Die Balls the perfect combination. But John McTierian was inspired by William Shakespeare.
Speaker 2:He says he saw Die Hard playing out like Is that where he got Ellen Rootman? Yeah, who put a thespian in this movie?
Speaker 1:Yeah, he saw Die Hard playing out like a midsummer night's dream, a festival night where everyone's involved In his mind. He made the festival Christmas and turned it upside down. The princes in the story become fools, like making the FBI and police look stupid. The fools in the story become princes, like Powell and Argyle. Then the next day the world goes back to normal, with the lovers reunited. Mctiernan didn't want to tell producer Joel Silver that he saw it like this for fear of being fired Because Joel Silver only likes beefcake men and tough guy stuff.
Speaker 1:That's why all his movies have giant explosions and usually two to three. That's funny which the explosions in this movie look sick.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I will say that this movie looks a lot better when you're not watching it on a teeny little TV. Yeah, the old TVs, yeah.
Speaker 1:Oh, dude, like with my frown sounds. Oh, the gunfires. Oh, cool, let's see. So during the first screening for Fox executives for the movie, mctiernan noticed that there was a mistake in the scene where Hans and his crew walk out of the back of the truck. When they arrived, there was nothing behind them in the truck. But when they arrived, there was nothing behind them in the truck. But there should have been the ambulance that Theo drives out later in the film. Without the option of digitally adding an ambulance, mctierian decided to trim the scene down. This caused a ripple effect on the film because there were key elements that had to go. As a result, the cut scene showed Hans and his crew synchronize their watches here. It established that they have the same timepiece. Later, mcclane would notice that all the terrorists he kills have the same watch, including the scene when he first meets Hans, when he poses as Bill Clay. So that's how he knows Hans is actually.
Speaker 2:Oh, because of the watch, because of the watch, because I didn't know, I was going to ask you what you thought about that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I was going to end up skipping this thing, but I was like, oh yeah, yeah, they don't show the watches and he has no reason to believe this guy, except for the fact like, why the hell are you up?
Speaker 2:here and he just talked to him on the radio like five minutes ago. So that's what I thought, how he figured it out.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and he was just like you know but in the movie it just looks like oh, it's just classic hero, knows everything and is good at everything. But no, like. But I mean, I guess it was already a long movie, so I get cutting it they could have cut a lot more yeah. Just in the beginning.
Speaker 2:It just takes so long.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and that's all just to set up further scenes later. You know, the feet thing had to set up because he got to walk on glass park all stuff, argyle stuff, just so he can ram the ambulance and it's just like, come on, let's go, let's go, got a set up Ellis as being a cokehead, so he does something stupid and it just it's all just there to build up. Hey, mcclane, you're gonna have a really bad time at this Christmas party, yeah, um, so Alan Rickman thought he was gonna be fired on set. Casting director. So Alan Rickman thought he was going to be fired on set. Casting director.
Speaker 1:Jackie Birch wanted Rickman to play Hans from the get-go. She became aware of him from a submission of his she received when she was casting Red Heat. She wanted to play a Russian heavy, a theater actor. Diehard was Rickman's movie debut and he was nervous in the early days of shooting that he was going to get fired. He heard whispers that there were concerns that he couldn't fire a gun without blinking and the fact he could his limp was always a risk, or his wrist was always limp.
Speaker 2:I know it was funny watching him shoot the gun because he's like a kid with a new toy like that he's scared of. Yeah, there's this one part where he runs out and to intimidate all the other hostages and he does this like points his gun in the sky and like leans over, does this pose? And he shoots the gun to the ceiling like hey, yeah, like the most flamboyant villain.
Speaker 1:It's like you can tell it's like a theater kid that, yes, got to be a criminal baby, bang, bang, um. But so, like the john de bont and joel silver, they saw like you know how I kind of uncomfortable he was with like the gun and all that, and they're like no, we like this. There's actually something interesting going on here. It's great, though. Uh, alan rickman. I've watched so many alan rickman. He's like the king of christmas really. Yeah, I mean think he's in all the Harry Potters. They're practically Christmas movies at that point, love Actually Die Hard. There's another one I'm blanking on.
Speaker 2:He's even the villain in Love Actually.
Speaker 1:Yeah, right, I know it's the saddest part of the whole movie. It's like shit. And it's kind of my favorite like story in that because it's you know they're just so all the good actors are there in that one and it's just like damn it. Why'd you have to?
Speaker 2:do it. Yeah, I loved Alan Rickman um growing up Cause he was the you know sheriff of Nottingham and Robin hood.
Speaker 1:And yeah.
Speaker 2:God loved him in that one.
Speaker 1:He's so silly, just like off the wall yeah, crazy, I don't know I need to watch that. I've never seen it. Um, I guess we'll just kind of end it on uh, yeah, we'll end it on this one dig your heart out with a spoon anytime. I think of Robin Hood, I just think of Men in Tights. I just can't think of any other one. Dave Chappelle's in it so good they do their terrible little dance.
Speaker 2:Oh god, it's horrible.
Speaker 1:Oh God, it's great, horribly great, so bad. So Rickman was caught unaware when he dropped from the top of Nakatomi Tower. Mcterion persuaded Rickman to do this stunt himself, and he had to go through training to learn how to fall backwards. He had to bring the gun up, whilst also remembering to spread his arms and legs to allow for a safe landing. If he didn't, his body would likely turn and he would land on his head. The stunt was performed on stage with a blue screen background that was replaced with a shot taken from upper floors of Fox Plaza, which is actually the building that we're in. Yeah, and it was just across the street from from where the studio was. Cool, mcterion did it first, again to show how safe it was. The effects coordinator said that the rig operator would drop him at the count of three, but secretly arranged to drop him on one. What an asshole. To capture genuine fear and terror in Rickman's eyes. They did a second take, but it was the take one that made it into the film.
Speaker 2:Smart though Smart it's like let's confuse them and freak them the fuck out.
Speaker 1:But it rules. That's such a really good shot.
Speaker 2:Spend all day doing. Trust falls and then you fuck with them.
Speaker 1:Yeah, okay, I can trust you now, just like immediately.
Speaker 2:Never coming back here again, yeah.
Speaker 1:All right, we'll run down the cast list and then we'll get started, baby. So, bruce Willis, john McClane, alan Rickman, hans Gruber. Bonnie Bedelia is Holly We'll talk about her later. Reginald Vail Johnson is Sergeant Al. Paul Gleeson is Dwayne T Robinson. You know the principal in Breakfast Club is Sergeant Al. Yeah, paul Gleeson is Dwayne T Robinson. Um, you know the principal in Breakfast Club, oh shit, yeah, he's the detention guy or whatever. All right, he's the asshole, yeah, um. And then you got Argyle uh, devereaux, favorite pattern of sucks, yeah. And then William Arthur, arthur Arthurton, he's the bad guy in Ghostbusters. He's the asshole in Ghostbusters, the ghost, yeah. And then Hart Botchner, who's Ellis, who's my favorite little cokehead. And the last one's going to be Alexander Godunov. Godunov, he's Carl. They found him because they saw tapes of him as a ballerina and was like hey, you look magnificent, you got the stuff.
Speaker 1:Come be in our movie and he's your tutu and he you know, he's my third favorite favorite character. That's awesome. I mean, he's so great. He's just a big pissed off blonde boy, my favorite type of blonde boys. But yeah, what a cast.
Speaker 2:Freaking crush it. I really enjoyed watching all this stuff.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I know he's such a. I make million dollar deals for breakfast. Classic 80s coke head. That's like man. You've definitely done something inappropriate with a woman.
Speaker 1:It's because, as soon as he walks up, I'm like dude, you've definitely done something inappropriate with a woman. It's because, as soon as he walks up, I'm like dude, you got to get this guy out of your office. When you have the pregnant lady in with her and he's in there, it's like no, don't tell her to leave. She needs to stay with you. All right, so we're going to start, all right. On Christmas Eve 1988, john McClane sits on a flight headed towards Los Angeles. A fellow passenger notices stress and tells him that the best cure is to take his shoes off and just put his feet in the carpet and make like knuckles with your bare feet.
Speaker 1:That's nice. I do that sometimes in the morning when I get up.
Speaker 2:I'm just like, ok, I do it when I'm, like on the edge of sleep.
Speaker 1:Yeah, when I get up I'm just like, okay, I do it when I'm like on the edge of sleep, yeah, and so, and also during this we learn that he has been a cop for 11 years in New York. Then we cut to him getting his baggage, and then the terrible titles which is kind of just a thing in old action movies come up as diehard, and also the titles for, like producers and stuff like block some of the shots and main characters throughout the beginning of the movie. I'm like, what is this Like smaller titles, guys? After landing and collecting his luggage, John sees a chauffeur holding a sign labeled J McClain.
Speaker 1:The driver, Argyle, drives him to Nakatomi Plaza and on his way roots out that John still works as a police detective in New York City but that his wife, Holly Gennaro, relocated to California for a great career. Both John and Holly thought the other would bend and move to join the other, but they are both too hard-headed. Argyle does a really good job at getting information. He should have been in the building. He would have annoyed everybody. Like all right, I'll just tell you everything.
Speaker 2:His car is his home though.
Speaker 1:Yeah, man, he cranks it yeah he does what he cranks it in his little I know and I love that. Um, john mclean's like uh, what do we do now? Our guy's like I don't know, this is my first day. It's like, all right, I've never been in a limo, it's like this first day driving it. So. And then katsuo, they're both in the front seat and Argyle has the front seat kind of messy and he's like sorry, I didn't think you'd sit up here. Yeah, this is kind of a weird thing to do, yeah.
Speaker 2:In a limo.
Speaker 1:It's like I just want to be in the back of a limo.
Speaker 2:I was valeting cars. I parked John Daly came to the hotel, right the golfer.
Speaker 1:And he was driving a Maybach.
Speaker 2:I think it was called Super fancy car, right, it's like a limousine, but he was driving it. So when I parked it I was like this is the most expensive car I've ever sat in. So I went and sat in the back just for a little bit to feel fancy. Yeah, did you crank it? No, you should have, I should have, yeah.
Speaker 1:So cut to Nakatomi Plaza. Joe Takagi addresses his employees of Nakatomi Corporation at their company Christmas party on the 30th floor. He announces that they that day was one of the most successful days in the company's history. Holly Gennaro walks through the crowd finishing up some paperwork. She walks down a hallway. Her co-worker, harry Ellis, flirts with her as it says hey, I just said cocaine, you should come over. She arrives at her office office. She excuses her pregnant secretary.
Speaker 2:He wants to get some alcohol in her even though she's about to bust. She also kicks Harry out the door. Pregnant secretary who wants to get some alcohol in her even though she's about to bust. She's smoking.
Speaker 1:And she also kicks Harry out the door.
Speaker 2:This baby's going to be fine. Do you think I could have a sip?
Speaker 1:No, dude, you're almost done being pregnant. You're so close, maybe it'll pop before.
Speaker 2:New Year's Eve Five more minutes, and then you can drink.
Speaker 1:So she then speaks with her young daughtery and nanny paulina on the phone about john's arrival, stating that she isn't certain if he made his flight or not. She looks at a photo of her john and the children, and she sighs and places it face down on the shelf. Though yeah, she's a career woman now. Thank god she did that, though, because the movie would have been over quicker oh, because hans would have noticed.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and let's see it'd be a completely different movie at that point. So john's limo pulls up at the entry of nakatomi plaza. Our guy tells him he will wait in the garage until john calls and informs him that he's made other plans. Because he's like do you got, do you, are you staying anywhere? And he's like I'll figure it out. He's like do you got, do you, are you staying anywhere? And he's like I'll figure it out. He's like I'll just stay here till you figure it out. I'm a great driver, yeah, so thoughtful. I mean, if you could just get paid to sit in a limo all day, I would do it. So John greets the security guard and uses a computer to find out that Holly has changed her name, last name, to her maiden name, gennaro Love.
Speaker 2:Generic.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I love this computer. The security guard's like who are you looking for, Holly McClain? He's like, well, just look on the computer and then he presses it. I was like, oh, all the people are up on 30th floor, they're the only people here. And it's like hey guy, maybe just tell them that from the start. We don't have to do this whole computer thing.
Speaker 1:But they're just trying to show how high tech this place is, so it's like whenever the bad guys come in, they're like okay, so they can kind of control the whole building with the computers.
Speaker 2:I see.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but it is just like dude, Use the fancy computer man. Just tell them where he's at. So he takes the elevator to the 30th floor, walks to the party and meets Joe Takagi, who shows him to Holly's office. In the office sits Harry Ellis, who obviously finished snorting cocaine. Just got the milk mustache. Yeah, because he introduces himself and John informs him that he missed some and Harry quickly brushes his nose with his finger. Then Holly enters. Ooh la la.
Speaker 2:Let the romance fly. She's like cut me a line, bitch.
Speaker 1:Yeah, dude off my butt. My husband's never coming here. Walks in the door. Oh shit, bad timing. Why did we yell all this?
Speaker 2:right outside the store. It's a party, yeah.
Speaker 1:Holly enters and the two jilted lovers give each other a subtle greeting across the room. Ellis informs John that Holly just closed the biggest deal in company's history and received a new Rolex watch. And Ellis is like here look, look at this watch. Come on, show them. It's going to be a plot point later. Come on, please show them. It's going to be a plot point later. Come on, please show them. It's like dude, chill out with the fucking watch. Okay, I get it, he really is. It's like, hey, plot point later. This is going to be a thing in the movie. Make sure you look at this audience. All just so we can do a bit at the very end.
Speaker 1:I guess watches were a lot bigger back then. Yeah, I mean a Rolex back then Dang High roller. Yeah, I don't know, I would love to have a watch. I just know I'd probably not lose it and not wear it. Yeah, I'd just be uncomfortable.
Speaker 2:I'd be like every wristwatch I've ever owned has been stolen.
Speaker 1:Oh really, yeah, damn dude, don't buy one, because you know you're about to get robbed or something.
Speaker 2:Yeah, like Ashley wanted to get me an Apple Watch, I'm like no, no, I don't, your kids would just take it, couldn't wear it anyway. Yeah.
Speaker 1:So Joe and Ellis leave as John asks for a place to wash up. As John washes up, the two comment that they missed each other but quickly begin arguing about Holly's decision to move to California. Then they are interrupted by Jenny who just had seven glasses of champagne even though she's pregnant. Her request Holly to join the party. That was a bit of a great time. Yeah, I love it, it's so perfect. It's like, oh man, oh, we still so love each other. Immediately start getting in an argument because they just can't help. But like he's the passion, yeah, the passion, yeah the passion. It's like you know, honestly, I'd be like, yeah, I'll move to LA. You're obviously in a high rise and making plenty of money, I will stay in LA with the kids.
Speaker 2:He'd just be a cop in LA, couldn't he? No, I would just stay home sell a Rolex, if we have to. He'd be the best dressed police officer in LA, like bad boys, will Smith, driving a fucking Ferrari, if we have to. He'd be the best dressed police officer in LA, right, like Bad Boys. Yeah, will Smith. Yeah, driving a fucking Ferrari. I'd probably look more like Eddie Murphy in 48 hours.
Speaker 1:So outside a Mercedes pulls up at the Nakatomi Plaza entry as a Pacific Courier truck pulls into the garage. Carl and Theo approach the Nakatomi security guard at his desk, while Theo talks about basketball nonchalantly and Carl shoots the guard in the forehead. Two points, ouch. I love Theo. The actor is the guy from Walker, texas, rangeranger he's like the sidekick and he's great.
Speaker 1:I've always loved him and anything he's in. Mainly, I've seen him in these two mood things. What a wild ass show that was. Yeah, holy, did you ever watch the the conan? Yes, we had the lever yeah, yeah and he does the hayley joe osmond one. He's like don't worry guys. Walker told me I have AIDS. It's like what the fuck? What was that show talking about?
Speaker 2:And then Walker kicks it out of him.
Speaker 1:It's crazy. You know, I watched so much of it as a kid and I just I don't remember any of the silliness, I just remember so much. I remember the roundhouses, that's all I remember.
Speaker 2:Oh God, when he jumps he's holding two grenades and he jumps. Or maybe that was a different Chuck Norris movie, I don't know.
Speaker 1:I don't know.
Speaker 2:He like dives over something, holding a grenade in each hand, and then there's an explosion. And he just like walks away, Walks away.
Speaker 1:Explosions don't hurt me Scorpions. These explosions don't hurt me Scorpions. So Theo hops over the desk and begins using a computer to shut off all the elevators in the building except one, as well as sealing all the exits to the garage and the building. Carl uses a flash grenade and his silent pistol to take out the other security guard. Looks like an Oreo.
Speaker 2:An.
Speaker 1:Oreo. I was like whenever he throws the flash grenade I was like what is that? Looks like a macaroon in the garage. Hans Gruber and the rest of the team of terrorists exit the back of the courier truck. It's a great shot when it's just kind of kind of zooming in on them as they're all coming out and you see, like all these Scandinavian looking people they're Germanic I guess, but and then like they kind of separate a little bit and Hans Gruber kind of comes to the forefront. I'm like let's fucking go, baby. Hans seals the front door while Eddie puts on the guard's jacket and mans the desk. I love Eddie, like he's got his country.
Speaker 1:He's got like his country accent whenever he talks to Al. I don't know. There's something about that guy Eddie who becomes the security guy. Hell yeah, love this guy. No wonder you put him up front. He's so charming.
Speaker 2:He's the face yeah.
Speaker 1:So then we cut to. Tony makes his way to the telephone junction boxes and this is Carl's brother and begins patching into the system and begins patching in to the system. He barely finishes patching in before his brother, carl, uses a chainsaw to cut through all the phone cords to prevent any calls from leaving the building. It's like Carl, wait five fucking seconds, dude, what are we doing? He's like no, don't do it. Nine, nine, nine. It's like why are you so gung-ho about cutting these right now? You know.
Speaker 2:I just it's like why are you so gung-ho?
Speaker 1:about cutting these right now. You know, I just got one job. Got one job, get it over. My beautiful hair doesn't allow me to think and make rational decisions. Meanwhile, a barefoot john is making fists with his toes and it's surprised it's working. To curious jet lag. He calls argyle, but it's cut off because of carl. Carl hans and some of his henchmen arrive via elevator to the christmas party and begin firing at the ceiling to capture everyone's attention. I love when they come out, though they're all like sneaky and they're just in the back of the party and hans is like let's go he loves shooting the ceiling.
Speaker 2:Yeah, he does, shoots it like six or seven times.
Speaker 1:The boy loves being dramatic and I love him for it. John hears the gunshots and is able to sneak out of the office into the stairwell with his police issue gun. He nearly enters the 35th floor but notices other henchmen wheeling equipment through the hallway. Can you up to the 32nd floor, which is under construction, where he tries to gather his thoughts and think of a way to alert authorities?
Speaker 2:Can you bring guns on planes in the 80s? If you're a cop, I guess. Yeah, I think you could have done anything on the plane in the 80s it was definitely smoking on the plane you could have definitely done.
Speaker 1:You could do anything on the plane until 9-11 happened, Sitting next to Uma Thurman with her katana.
Speaker 2:They're like oh, you got one too.
Speaker 1:That was first class. First class has the katanas? Oh yeah, in the foyer, hans informs Nakatomi Corporation employees that he's going to teach the company a lesson on their real use of power, because their company has a legacy of greed. Oh, what you mean? A corporation in America?
Speaker 2:has like a legacy of greed. Yeah, this was the only one. It's like what and what do they do? Because you buy and selling, I don't know, but like when they break into the safe, there's like all this samurai.
Speaker 1:Samurai.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:I don't know, it's just the Japanese.
Speaker 2:It's like just full of art and stuff. Yeah.
Speaker 1:It's just like Hans and them are German. They're just mad Like God. Dang it Japan. We're supposed to make it big over here, not you guys.
Speaker 2:Well, yeah, that's rough. We're never going to let them forget Pearl Harbor, never forget.
Speaker 1:So he calls out Joe to talk to Kagi, but Holly tells Joe to stand back. He steps forward after Hans lists several detailed facts about his life. Hans greets him and the two take the elevator to floor 34. Interesting fact so this building was it's a Fox Studios building. All the floors that they used were floors that were not being used by, like, lawyers and businessmen at that point, and it was floor 2 and then all like 30 and up. So that's how. That's why all the floors are all under construction.
Speaker 2:Yeah, like they haven't moved in cause they're actually doing construction at the place.
Speaker 1:Oh nice, that's fun, that's cool. So in the boardroom Theo asked Takagi for the CEO daily key code and encryption number. Takagi insists that he doesn't have them and even if he did, they couldn't steal any information because they'll just change all the information, so it doesn't matter, or something like that. And then Han corrects him that they aren't after information, but the 640 million in bearer bonds in the company's vault Classic Always about bearer bonds.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I guess we don't really do a lot with bonds these days.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and you know what it's like they're robbing a train. Yeah.
Speaker 2:Like this is 1850.
Speaker 1:I actually do not like when they use bonds instead of money. It just well, you know, because when they get it you just like see it. It's like, oh, that's a lot of sheets of paper, yeah, sheets of paper, yeah, that's what I thought it was. I was like is that just like money before it got cut up into money? I don't understand what bonds are.
Speaker 2:I'm assuming they're special, like notes for banks and then you give them to them and they give you money. Yeah, I don't know. I guess it's like why not this special thing that anybody can have can turn them in for money?
Speaker 1:maybe whenever, like the money, the, you know, like after a thousand dollars, you're like, all right, we can't think of another dollar bill. We have to start making huge pieces of paper to really signify how special this money is. But so john mclean enters from the sterile and overhears the interrogation of takaki. I can't, it's like if I go like five minutes without saying it, I cannot remember mr t, that won't get confused. Mr T. Hans gives Mr T the count of three to give him the codes, but he refuses.
Speaker 1:Just like Mr T would. Hans shoots him in the head, orders Tony dispose of the body and Theo to begin hacking into the vault. John makes a noise as he escapes from the room but the terrorists don't find him and dismiss the noise. Classic like hero stuff Like oh, there was a noise, eh, who cares?
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's totally not.
Speaker 1:It's like who else is in there?
Speaker 2:A rat, so right with a badge.
Speaker 1:Yeah, this rat's going to take down all the terrorists. Say cheese motherfucker. God damn it. Detective rat, you solved crime. I'd watch that Pixar movie. Yeah, I'd watch that Pixar movie Ratatouille. It's like the great mouse detective, but gritty, it's Ratatouille, but this time he's a detective. You just have a Cop with a giant police hat on Cause. There's a rat underneath it Controlling him. Nobody can know. It's Sergeant Ratatouille, dang it. You've killed 14 innocent people this week.
Speaker 2:He's got like he's tugging on the hair that pulls the gun. Sergeant Ratatouille, dang it, you've killed 14 innocent people this week. He's got like he's tugging on the hair that pulls the gun all the time and he's like yeah but I solved five crimes, those 14 deaths were worth it.
Speaker 1:It's like dang it. Sergeant Ratatouille, you're the best detective we've ever seen. Damn good movie gonna make it so. In the garage, argyle is still listening to loud music in the limo and talking to a girl on the phone, having no idea what's going on around him. Henrik, marco and Yuli work in a room full of the building's heating and cooling machinery. They wire the room with what appears to be explosives. They have a bunch.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they all say C4 on them, so it's pretty yeah easy guess did you ever see c4 in? Yeah, I got to use some yeah, a little bit does it say c4 on uh well, when they gave it to us it was just kind of it was already opened out of the package yeah, it's like a putty put a little it's wild cap in there whenever.
Speaker 1:Whenever I see C4, I'm like I don't get it. I don't understand how it happens, but it's cool.
Speaker 2:It's cool. It is cool. Yeah, did you make shapes out of it?
Speaker 1:I don't understand how silly putty explodes, but I'm cool with it. So Theo and Hans walk to the vault. While Theo explains the vault's seven layers of security, he stresses that he can complete the first six, but the seventh lock a electromagnetic system cannot be cut locally. Hans guarantees he has a plan. So what do you think about the vault thing? Pretty cool.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's kind of cool. I mean he's just drilling. He's talking about hacking into it and bypassing the security.
Speaker 1:It really is just a drill, he's got to bypass the first layer, which I guess is a special door they can't cut through. So once that gets undone or there's like a special, I don't fucking know mumbo jumbo, action movie. Mumbo jumbo, you know there's a vault we gotta drill at some point. It's gotta be complicated. If you don't drill through a vault, is it an action movie?
Speaker 2:I don't think so. Is it a robbing movie?
Speaker 1:so Eddie informs Hans of oh wait, uh. So john like goes back to floor 32. He's like cursing himself. He's like god, dang, I should have done something, but then, well, he, we'd both be dead then. I love when he talks to himself. It's my favorite part, yeah. But he suddenly comes up with a plan to pull a fire alarm. Nice, eddie informs Hans of the alarm and Hans orders him to call 911 to disable the alarm and turn off the system. John celebrates the approaching fire trucks but gets angry when they turn off their sirens and turn around. I love when he's looking outside and he's getting so excited. He's like stiffening his arms and legs and he's like walking real funny and I was like hell yeah, but don't, don't they still?
Speaker 2:if a fire alarm, even if it's a mistake, they still show up and like walk through the building. I think that's like the law, like mandatory yeah maybe that hadn't not in the 80s, baby, not in the 80s.
Speaker 1:they're like oh, if there is a fire, that's great, everybody can light their cigarettes.
Speaker 2:They fight fire with actual fire. Yeah, it's like everything worse, damn it.
Speaker 1:We need our dragon. He's got to burn out all this fire. So Tony enters the room and John hides. He searches for John in the labyrinth of the construction. They fight, crashing through drywall and aluminum beans, and stumble down a stairwell where Tony dies in the fall.
Speaker 2:Crashing through drywall is very satisfying, yeah.
Speaker 1:I, whenever we're tearing down our old trailer to put in our better trailer, like they, my dad's friends were like just running through the drywall yeah, it's so fun. He's like you just got to have some fun with it and I was like, okay, I think you're on drugs, but that's okay, yeah. So in the vault, theo bypasses the first level of security and begins using a drill to proceed the heist. And then John takes Tony's radio lighter and his machine gun.
Speaker 2:His cigarettes too.
Speaker 1:Yeah, his cigarettes's like this is bad for you, tony. He then dresses up Tony's body on a chair in the elevator and sends it down to the Christmas party. Hans frightens the party by telling them that Mr Takagi has been killed. Now I don't have to say that anymore. He, um, he says he won't be joining you for the rest of his life. Um, but then he is interrupted by the arrival of tony's body. He's angered by the message on tony's sweatshirt now I have a machine gun. Oh so good, perfect line delivery.
Speaker 2:I love that um con air did this with the whole writing on the shirt thing oh yeah.
Speaker 1:The tank top, yeah, oh man so good, right on people's tank top, right on people's dead bodies.
Speaker 2:Throw them out of a plane.
Speaker 1:When I'm in my casket, I hope someone's written on my dead body. Yeah, now you don't have to deal with me anymore. Oh, oh, and you've got one of those, those laughy things from the Joker.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so riding on top of the elevator, I want like a string you can pull. Yeah, just like out of my bag. Yeah, it's like. Damn, jesse was really cool. Now that I'm thinking about it, who would have thought of doing this? So, on top of the elevator, john listens to the terrorists and take notes on his arm. He rides the elevator, john listens to the terrorists and take notes on his arm. He rides the elevator to the top of the floor and sneaks out to the roof.
Speaker 2:Meanwhile, hans tells Carl, was that the one where he was riding on top of the elevator?
Speaker 1:Yeah, that was a cool last shot and he was listening and then it started going up and he's like I'm going to die.
Speaker 2:So, like a mission impossible, have they have the claws at the top of the elevator? Yeah, claws at the top of the elevator.
Speaker 1:Just in case, I guess a raccoon wants to ride on top of it. It's kind of wild. I was like, yeah, elevators have bumpers to make sure it doesn't hit the top of the roof. All I know is usually elevators will not crush you from movies, except for Mission Impossible. Or if you're on the bottom of it and getting crushed, yeah, that would suck. Meanwhile, hans tells Carl about Tony. Carl gets even blonder and gets enraged. He becomes super saiyan at that point. Now I'm super blonde, I must have my vengeance. Hans tells him that he'll get it, though, but after Henrik and Theo finish their jobs. So then McClane arrives at the roof and uses the CV radio to call out on Frequency 9, but is chided by the 911 officer Yells at her to send help. No fucking shit, lady. Does it sound like I'm ordering a pizza?
Speaker 2:It's so good. Surprised he didn't say pie yeah, pizza pie.
Speaker 1:I don't know if you know, lady, I'm from New York over here, Gonna go to Einstein's bagels after this.
Speaker 2:Those are some damn good bagels. We got rats over here. I don't know shit about bagels, but they had an Einstein on them.
Speaker 1:I had a bagel this morning.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah.
Speaker 1:It was from Walmart.
Speaker 2:Nice and it was mediocre. You call that a bagel.
Speaker 1:Yeah, oh man, put some of that whipped cream cheese on it. But anyways, carl and others begin shooting at him, prompting him to evade. The operator decides to send a sole officer to investigate Al Powell. What a name, al Powell. He receives the call while buying Twinkies for his pregnant wife, and the guy behind the counter does not believe him.
Speaker 2:I mean I bought some weird shit for my wife when she's pregnant, but Twinkies 500 different, like there's always fried pickles. Really I always had to go get some.
Speaker 1:All right, then I must be pregnant, because I'm always out for some fried pickles. Oh, hell yeah.
Speaker 2:Sonic has fried pickles now. Maybe I'll stop by when I go to Walmart.
Speaker 1:So on the roof, john evades the gunfire and makes his way into a dead-end closet with a large ventilation fan. He blocks the fan with his gun, climbs through and evades the terrorists back to floor 35. Still pursued he. What do you think about the fan stuff? I love movies where there's a fan and they have to stop it and they up and get it yeah, the fan is like it's so powerful it can like maim you yeah, even though this one's going so slow, I'm like I think he'll just kind of like go or he'll just hit you and stop.
Speaker 1:Yeah, like um, but he's still being pursued. He is cornered in the elevator shaft and must climb down the ventilation shaft to floor 34 you don't think they ever heard him crawling around up there?
Speaker 2:no, they eventually did.
Speaker 1:Like a rat. Yeah, Dang LA's got big rats. Thought that was just New York.
Speaker 2:Am I right, John?
Speaker 1:McClane hey, Walk in here. I backed it over here. He uses this machine gun and it's strapped to climb down the ventilation shaft, but the strap slips free from the gun and he falls a couple of floors.
Speaker 2:Damn. I'm surprised he didn't shoot the air to make himself slow down. Yeah.
Speaker 1:Or just throw a C4 below him and he fires him back up. He manages to catch himself on a ledge and climb into a horizontal vent. He uses a ladder to see in the vent. Come out to the coast We'll get together. Have a few laughs Now I know what a TV dinner feels. Ladder to see in the vent, come out to the ghost we'll get together. Have a few laughs. Now I know what a tv dinner feels like. But carl sees the light and follows him to floor 31. Carl shoots at the ducks and begins pressing them, checking for body weight, but it's called away before he finds john because carl has a short attention span. We found out.
Speaker 1:Can't get through a door even though he heard a sound. Eh, it's fine. Hey, I know he's definitely in these vents. Eh, I gotta go. Mcclane exits the shaft and watches as Al enters the building and is fooled by Eddie disguised as a security guard when Al's driving around. Who is this fucking Stevie Wonder driving this car? Because he's blondedie. Um, lets him in. You know he's watching the usc, or yeah?
Speaker 2:usc versus notre dame game.
Speaker 1:He's got 50 on the game. But hey, eddie, you know my boy, eddie, he's just a regular old pal. John attempts to break the window with a chair but is spotted from the roof by James. He radios Marco and Henrik and they run to stop him. Marco appears to surrender but John shoots Henrik when he runs in. Marco then traps John under the conference table by standing on top of it and shooting towards the ground. It's like you're at the end of the rope. You should have shot me instead of letting me surrender. Then he shoots him at the end of the table, shoots his legs, all the hell. Yes, hey, thanks for the advice.
Speaker 2:Hell yeah, the leg shots in this movie are so chunky. Yeah, I know.
Speaker 1:I was like damn he like his, these leg shots really killed him. Yeah, man.
Speaker 2:It's just like meat honks of meat coming off of him. It was awesome.
Speaker 1:Meaty legs and then like he's getting pissed at al's leaving, and then he just throws marco's body onto his car to alert him, and then the terrorists open fire and he's just backing out like that's a fucking help uh, it's great.
Speaker 2:What do you think about al? Yeah, he's fine. I guess the actor's great. The actor crushes yeah, the actor does. But like the um, the backstory, well, they're just the whole movie. They're just the whole movie. They're having this conversation with each other over the radio and it's super weird sometimes.
Speaker 1:They're falling in love. I know Two cops. You know it's like Romeo and Juliet. There's no way it should work. You have an.
Speaker 2:LA cop. Star-crossed lovers.
Speaker 1:Nobody would accept an LA cop and a New York cop getting together.
Speaker 2:Maybe that's why he never moved. He knew it couldn't be, couldn't be.
Speaker 1:It's like I'll just fall in love with an LA cop. I know I will.
Speaker 2:No, my last boyfriend, Al, moved there. I can't stay there.
Speaker 1:All my exes moved to California, the, but we will bring up this gay relationship at the end of the movie where it definitely feels like they're in love. So, yeah, al ends up making it OK, though out of the car and backups going to come soon. In a news equipment room, journalist Richard Thornburg overhears the call for help on a police scanner. He argues with his news producer and assaults a news host seconds before he goes on air and is given a truck to investigate the story. Dude, that news host was pissed.
Speaker 2:They make a fool out of him too later on when he's talking to the book guy. Yeah, it's great.
Speaker 1:But man, he's staring daggers in that guy. He sucks. He just said one statement. He's looking like he's ready to get up and stab him.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's like the anchorman he just rules everything, but he's just an asshole.
Speaker 1:Yeah, he's just an asshole. So as police arrive at Nakatomi Plaza, john harasses Hans over the radio. Hans insults him for watching too many cowboy shows on TV, but John takes it as a compliment, insisting the likes Roy Rogers. He then signs off by saying Yippee-ki-yay, motherfucker.
Speaker 2:Motherfucker. Hell yeah, best line yeah.
Speaker 1:Wasn't the director really into Westerns? I don't know.
Speaker 2:Not from what I know, because there's a lot of Western shit In this movie.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean, I guess this is like the outside of America People just see us as all cowboys, I guess. Oh yes, that's why everybody thinks we're cowboys yeah and I will always say that I am yeah, that's why I constantly, that's why I'm, that's why I'm wearing my 20 gallon cowboy hat, right?
Speaker 2:now, yeah, I gotta bring up my belt buckle yeah, fuck, yeah, dude, it's like we're all dressed. There's a cow in our house as part of my uniform in the army, because we were scouts and that was like a special thing. Hell yeah, we got to wear. We were the only people allowed to wear Stetsons and Spurs.
Speaker 1:Yeah, do you and your partner often go up to the mountains?
Speaker 2:No, yeah, because if you get too cold, you got to sleep in the same sleeping bag, maybe he's beautiful.
Speaker 1:I'm sorry if I'm using it as a joke. I I haven't seen it.
Speaker 2:I've just seen the end, when he gets hit in the head with the pot and he dies Right. That's the best part. It's the saddest.
Speaker 1:The movie ends so sad, it hurts your heart, yeah.
Speaker 2:Makes you want to die.
Speaker 1:So Han gets a status report from his men and learns that Theo is making good progress on the vault but that Heinrich's bag of detonators has been taken by John. He orders Fritz to retrieve the detonators.
Speaker 2:Whole bag of detonators. Yeah, just a bunch of detonators.
Speaker 1:Al radios John, who briefly explains what is happening. Deputy Police Chief Dwayne T Robinson arrives, insults Al and takes command. I love the deputy chief. Like I know he's like the asshole of the movie and that's kind of what he plays, but he's kind of an idiot he's really good he, he does a really good job at like showing.
Speaker 1:Whenever he like screws up and like he does a really good job at showing it on his face, he's like fuck, I should have listened to these guys. I don't know. I just think if you're gonna be like a douchebag, you should like if you're a good actor at being a douchebag, you have to be really good at having it all like right back in your face.
Speaker 2:Recognizing your mistakes. Yeah because most of them don't, and he does a really good job about it.
Speaker 1:Makes them makes them feel human, makes them likable. This side character gets to be human for a second. Hans, who has chosen Holly's office as a command post, is approached by Holly, who makes two simple demands A couch forny and that the terrorists let the hostages use the bathroom. And I love that hans is, even though he plans on killing all these people yes, is nice enough to do this. Oh, because he knows he needs to make everybody calm plus he doesn't want to there to be like poop everywhere.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you know, man everybody was drinking champagne and well they had to pee. You know they had to go and they got. There's been so much gunshot they probably already peed themselves. Just like directs them to the fountain. Yeah, um and she makes sure, whenever he asked her name, that she used Gennaro so that she can't be linked to John use my generic last name, yeah so Argyle turns on the TV in the limo and notices that the building he is in is under siege how does that work?
Speaker 2:how does the limo have television?
Speaker 1:in 1988 did they have that technology when you're rich. Well, he works for this company that has a computer that controls the whole building, so I guess it's just you know they're fancy people.
Speaker 2:that might have been a bad call too. Yeah, making one button control everything.
Speaker 1:Hey, well, now that's how all our cars are controlled.
Speaker 2:Nice, yeah, can't wait till that goes out, wonky.
Speaker 1:Yep. He looks for an exit from the garage but finds himself trapped. But turns on his CV radio to overhear John and Al's conversation. I radio to overhear John and Al's conversation. I love it. There's just like a five minute scene of him just driving around the garage and he ends up parking like, alright, I'm here.
Speaker 2:He's got the teddy bear up there on the dash.
Speaker 1:So the police set up spotlights and send a four man SWAT team to enter the building. They are Rivers Rodriguez and two unidentified SWATs. No, they're dead. They get shot up. John is recommended by Al to sit tight, but he knows the terrorists have extremely heavy artillery.
Speaker 2:They've got a bazooka.
Speaker 1:They have bazookas, and it's got to be a bazooka C4 and like a ton of weapons.
Speaker 2:That's the most fun explosive thing that happened in the 80s. It's like in Patch Adams when you explosive thing that happened in the 80s.
Speaker 1:It's like in Patch Adams, when you got the one guy. They're like pretending to, it's like at the beginning and they're like pretending to shoot stuff and he brings out and there's like the one guy with the rat a bazooka Best part of that movie. So Yuli and Eddie fire at the team as they try to break in the front door. So the police department sends in an RV to rescue the men. That was fucking awesome yeah.
Speaker 2:It's great the stairs. Yeah, drive it into the building.
Speaker 1:They should have watched those shit stairs. Should have watched the Dark Knight. That's how you build the tank, baby. So Hans orders James and Alexander to take down the tank with a rocket launcher. He then orders them to hit it with another rocket Like. The people outside are like what's going on? Why are they shooting us? Who are these people? That's my Jerry. I'd watch that die hard.
Speaker 2:Yeah, he's almost a billionaire, Makes it, I mean.
Speaker 1:Seinfeld and coffee. Like right, he has like a coffee thing. I don't know, Something like that. I didn't know that. He's not that funny. And coffee, like right, he has like a coffee thing, I don't know something like that. I don't know that, um, but that's funny. Well, that's. I mean seinfeld was. Yeah, seinfeld was. He's funny in like his talk shows. He just doesn't really do anything. Yeah, yeah, he has a podcast I haven't listened to. He also just seems like kind of like he might be an asshole yeah, I'm sure he's rich.
Speaker 1:Yeah, rich asshole yeah there's a point where it's like you've just earned to be an asshole yeah, you've earned it.
Speaker 2:You can just do it.
Speaker 1:Now you get a little badge, yeah so they hit the rv with another rocket. This upsets john enough to throw some c4 down the elevator shaft, blowing up the entire second floor and killing james and alexander geronimo's motherfuckers hell yeah. So the police in thornburg look on in amazement. Deputy Robinson takes the radio from Al, but John insults him and informs him that he will only speak with Al Because he's like you could have killed anybody and it's like I saved you guys' life, dude.
Speaker 2:What are y'all talking about? They suck at being cops. I guess when they really kill Ellis they're like why'd you do that?
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's right. You know why? Because LA cops got nothing on these New York cops Am I right, baby, let's go. Hey, j-e-t-s, Jets, jets, jets, fuck. I messed it up, j-e-t-s. Or you know. Giets, jets, fuck, I messed it up, j-e-t-s, or you know.
Speaker 2:Giants, whatever. Whatever they play in New Jersey, not even New York teams, let's go Bills.
Speaker 1:So back in the foyer, ellis is getting antsy so he snorts more cocaine and gets up to talk to Hans. He tells Hans that he can get John to cooperate. He gives Hans John's name and occupation and uses Hans radio to talk to John. I love Ellis. He's so great at what he's doing. I guess I don't know what he's doing, but he's doing. I know. John McTiernan, the director, was like can you calm down? He's like no, my dude's on coke.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I just did all this coke.
Speaker 1:I did it for real, yeah, but I just I just did all this coke. I did it for real, yeah, but I just I love his like cockiness and swagger Sure, and it's just like you just love that. You know he's going to die. I was so confused on why Hans Gruber listened to this man. He seems to just be having fun with him.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I guess With everything.
Speaker 1:He's like oh, let's see how this plays out. Yeah, he's just hoping that john slips up with some sort of information that he can use against him. I think that's what all this is he's like. He just wants those detonators and if this guy can bring him john, then let's try it. You know, and you know he he's not from america. He's probably this is americans all weird and cocky. Yeah, cowboy, I just love that. They give us a great character we want to see die.
Speaker 2:Yeah, man. It's so great. So, he's so sure of himself.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and now that Thornburg knows who John McCain is and where he worked, he sends an assistant to look up McCain's information, while Ellis tries to convince John to give over the detonators. Ellis pretends that he is John's good friend, but he doesn't recognize that Hans plans to kill him if John doesn't operate. It's like, hey, ellis, you're over your head here. Usually deal with people that don't have guns.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I was interested to think about how the reporter got all the information. Yeah, I don't have the Internet, I'm sure he just made some calls. Yeah, like hey, can you give me all the personal information and their home address? Sure Gore, sure, it is goofy.
Speaker 1:So John struggles to barter with Hans to spare Ellis. But Ellis sticks to pretending. John refuses to respond to Ellis's friendly request to give back the detonators. So Hans fatally shoots Ellis.
Speaker 2:Yeah, got him, yep, got him. And then he shoots, goes in. He's like I'm gonna kill more if you don't give him to me. And that's when he runs out and does the weird like shoot the ceiling thing in a pose hey, y'all, I'm back, baby.
Speaker 1:I'm the scary man with a gun yeah, so everyone inside and outside the building are shocked. Robinson dismisses Al to go home, but he refuses to leave until the situation is resolved. It's like man, just like force him to leave.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you're kind of his superior. Yeah, you can just say go away.
Speaker 1:I mean you can't if, like one of the guys in the building, will only talk to him.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you should probably keep him around.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so Robinson believes Ellis would still be alive if John turned himself in. But John radios back with his own opinion on the matter, that he was going to kill both of them no matter what. Yes, yeah, turns out the bad guys in the building. They're bad guys.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you don't negotiate with terrorists.
Speaker 1:Hans finally addresses the police and begins to list the names of fellow freedom fighters he wants released from prison around the world. He also orders a helicopter to take him, so he's a terrorist for freedom no, it's all ruse, because I guess he's a part of like some organization. He's like oh, I'll use this as why I'm doing it is to release other freedom fighters, or whatever. Yeah, so john and al, don't buy the story and realize that something else is afoot.
Speaker 2:And special agents johnson and johnson arrive from fbi and take over control from deputy chief I love that.
Speaker 1:They're like oh, that's how that's how p, did he got it, did it, oh man. But I love it's just the added humor of having two guys named johnson and it's like we're not related. It's like, oh, you two guys aren't really.
Speaker 2:They're twins. Yeah, that was really funny, like whenever the I thought they were going to do the thing like a men in black. When they show up and he's like hi, I'm Officer White, I'm Officer Black, this is Officer White.
Speaker 1:You know that kind of shit, and the black guy's name is why my guy's name is black. Yeah damn, we should have wrote this movie we could have that would have been a great joke. Hans inspects the explosives in the mechanical room and is cornered by John, but he decides to pretend to be an escaped hostage, and John believes it oh god, no god, you're one of them so they came.
Speaker 1:So they wanted this was actually supposed to be two different people in this situation. It was supposed to be John and Theo the guy that's breaking into the vault but Hans would do this like funny California accent on set and it made everybody on set kind of laugh and they're like it's actually really good. And then John DeBont and Matiernan heard it and they're like we have to make this into the script and they replaced Theo with Hans and this is how this happened, but it is pretty great.
Speaker 2:I love this part of the movie. Does he believe it at first?
Speaker 1:John, I think at first Okay, but then I think he just kind of it's like well, you seem pretty calm and you look not American. So, hans, on floor 33, john gives him a handgun, which Hans pulls on him instantly. John tries to get him to reveal his plan, but Hans pulls the trigger rather than spoiling it. The gun was never loaded. But before John can arrest or shoot Hans, the elevator arrives with Carl, franco and Fritz. But I love it and, like you know, this is setting up. It's like oh, he knows he doesn't have shoes on, so it's gonna set up the whole next scene.
Speaker 1:Man, I felt like there was more stuff I had for this part of the movie, but I don't. Apparently the shootout and the well, no, just like their conversation together, I don't know, it's really. I love when you know it's like a western bad guy and the good guy talk for a minute before they shoot out and he tricks them. Yep, Click, click. So John manages to shoot Fritz and Franco but runs out of bullets. Hans, knowing John is barefoot, has Carl shoot the glass walls of the office John is trapped in. They use a flash grenade, but John has vanished by the time the smoke has cleared. However, he was forced to leave the bag with the detonators. Yeah, there's just blood everywhere.
Speaker 2:Yeah, oh, it's great.
Speaker 1:Just pulling his leg along with leaving a huge trail could easily find him. So Hans gives you leave the detonators and Carl smashes some decorations at the Christmas party Cause he's mad. It's like one of those anger rooms. Yeah, and Holly was like only John can make someone that mad. It's like okay are you sure?
Speaker 2:Yeah, he's still alive.
Speaker 1:Yeah, john slinks into a bathroom with bloody feet which he begins to clean and bandage that one foot dude, that looked painful and I would just sit in that bathroom and not move.
Speaker 2:I'm kind of glad he didn't have to rip his tank top to bandage it.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Because the tank top kind of makes him.
Speaker 1:Yeah, until the end where he's like I have to shred this thing so I can confront Hans. Right, theo informs Hans that he has broken through the first six levels of the vault security and that he is ready for Hans to disengage the final lock. Thornburg's assistant brings good news to Thornburg, telling him that she knows John McClane's records and his LA address. As Al tries to keep an injured John company over the radio, we learn Al shot a 13-year-old kid and that's why Al is at a desk job Such a touching moment.
Speaker 1:I was really on Al's side and I forgot that a cop shot a 13-year-old, which has never happened again in the history of the world.
Speaker 2:No, it never did, and I love that the terrorists are not listening in on this radio conversation, like you think they'd be listening to the police. No, I think they're listening the whole time.
Speaker 1:It's just nothing is really important is being said at the moment.
Speaker 1:They're like shh oh, he's gonna say yeah but you know this is further along John and Al's relationship, being brothers, slash lovers. So Theo and Hans realize that the FBI is planning on cutting the power to the building. Theo smiles realizing that the electromagnetic lock will disengage when the power is cut. You wanted a miracle. I give you the FBI. That was going to be my, that was my other option for it. If you can just have him say something kind of starting quick and then end up just pronouncing letters, that's the best.
Speaker 2:Yeah, he's like what does he say to him when he turns to go meet him? Like immediately he's so excited that the FBI is there, like Sergeant guy.
Speaker 1:Oh, I don't remember Al Powell. Al Powell, yeah, but Special Agent Johnson instructs the power company worker to turn off the power for a 10 block radius around Nakatomi Tower, and this is a written document from Gremlins. 2. The Burbs.
Speaker 2:Oh really.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's the same guy. Hell, yeah, we just talked about him. All movies come back To die hard. We just keep doing movies and it's funny that for that month we'll do a movie and it's like, hey, this has ties to, like, the three other movies you just did. It's like fuck. So the FBI celebrates yippee, robinson worries that the mayor will be upset about the cut power, al complains about the FBI's predictable behavior and Hans and Theo celebrate as the vault opens yeah, that was a fun scene, so they plan on them cutting the power to the building.
Speaker 1:Yeah, okay, it was all, because they are going directly by the book, the terrorist handbook, so they know everything that they're going to do.
Speaker 2:Did you see like the when Theo's trying to break into the safe and you see like on the computer screen it's got the lock. It kind of looks like the lock game from Skyrim oh yeah, do the pins.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, exactly, or not? Skyrim.
Speaker 2:It was the one before that, but anyway, oblivion.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah. So John asked Al to tell his wife goodbye, should anything happen to him. But Al says God damn it, you're going to make it out because I got to put a smooch on your brother. So Thornburg arrives at Holly's house and threatens Paulina to let him talk to the children because he says you're going to get deported if you don't. That sucks, yeah.
Speaker 1:And then now you got John waddling around. He's back to the machinery room and finds a large amount of C4 wire to blow up the roof. He radios out but is caught by Carl. Yeah, it's a double crossing. Yeah, carl takes John's radio and gun, but John throws a punch and the two begin to fist fight, agreeing. Takes John's radio and gun, but John throws a punch and the two begin to fist fight, agreeing that it's personal for both of them. Now Hans watches a small TV and recognizes the children Thornberger's interviewing. He then picks up the face down family photo of the McClain's and approaches Holly. He fires the gun into the air, orders all the hostages to the roof and takes Holly with him to the vault.
Speaker 2:Yeah, do you ever see him, hans, like actually kill anyone?
Speaker 1:No, he attempts. No, yeah, he does, he kills.
Speaker 2:Ellis, but he's off screen.
Speaker 1:Takagi, takagi, takagi. Okay, I can't say his fucking name, mr T. Yeah, we see him. He pulls the trigger on him. Okay, so she's in the vault. He's like I'm a really fucking good crook, though.
Speaker 2:I think that's some cool shit in there, man.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's okay, lady, I just got $640 million.
Speaker 2:So how about?
Speaker 1:you shut up.
Speaker 2:It's like the samurai shit. There's like a completed Rubik's Cube. Yeah, all the rare things.
Speaker 1:It's like, hans, did you do this With my my eyes closed or no? Carl should say that I did it more of a Carl voice. So Carl holds the upper hand of the fight, but John manages to get in some good hits. Carl is able to get his hands on a gun, fires and grazes John's shoulder as he escapes through a doorway. Carl follows, but John gets the upper hand, knocking the gun free. The two continue to wrestle and throw punches up the stairs to John.
Speaker 2:Wrap some chains around Carl's neck, pushing him over the railing.
Speaker 1:I love when they're fighting up the stairs, though You're like they're fighting you. Motherfucker, I'm going to kill you, I'm going to fucking cook you and I'm going to fucking eat you. Yes, that had to be like. That had to be ad-libbed man. It's like who says it, who just writes that I'm gonna cook you, I'm gonna fucking eat you.
Speaker 2:I just need him to say something mean.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so he then pulls the other end of the chain along a track, causing Carl's hanging body to zip across the room and slam into the wall. Carl hangs from the chain. It's fucking metal. Yeah, it was so cool. I'm like I forgot that they did that.
Speaker 2:I got it too. It was awesome.
Speaker 1:There's something so haunting about someone hanging.
Speaker 2:Yeah, she's getting wrapped up in a.
Speaker 1:Yeah it seems like a terrible way to die. Yeah, just choking. Turns out being hung doesn't seem pleasant. Now in the bedroom, what's?
Speaker 2:another story baby.
Speaker 1:Okay, so he then pulls the other.
Speaker 2:No, I don't want to see your harness, Jesse.
Speaker 1:Oh dang, even with my best 20 gallon hat. So two army helicopters approach Nakatomi Plaza, special Agent Johnson and Agent Johnson right in one of them, commenting that they plan on ambushing the terrorists and that they would be happy with a 25% hostage loss. Whoa, yeah man, it's a lot. You see, they're just like LA police enforcement. This movie doesn't like them. It's like New York cops or no cops.
Speaker 2:I feel like the others definitely.
Speaker 1:I mean it's might as well just be firefighters versus cops at this point, that'd be fun. So big hoses yeah, he does use a fire hose. Well, coming up here, yuli and Eddie usher all the hostages to the roof and John shoots Yuli as he chases the hostages searching for Holly. Jeannie tells John that Holly is with Hans trying to warn the helicopter not to land and to get the hostages away from the explosives. John begins firing Yuli's machine gun in the air. The hostages run back down into the building but the FBI chopper begins firing on John Classic. I mean he gets mad at him, but it's like hey, dude, I don't know.
Speaker 2:Like you seem like a terrorist. They're just shooting at anything that's moving, Even the worst hostages.
Speaker 1:He's firing a gun in the air, you know. At that point he seems like he's going loco. So it's like this guy just might shoot all the hostages. But he manages to make it to a slightly hidden edge and uses a fire hose to repel down the building as he jumped. Eddie informs Hans that the hostage have returned to the 30th floor in a panic, so Hans pushes the trigger for the explosives. Explosives, huge, freaking explosion hell yeah, it's great.
Speaker 1:You got him tied up in the thing he jumps up over and it like looks great, so awesome, amazing. And of course that was uh, that was a model, so yeah, looked amazing.
Speaker 2:The whole building was the model well.
Speaker 1:So like the jump they, they recreated the building in like a parking lot or whatever and did his jump with the explosion Nice. But then the rest of it is just a model. That's cool, I love models.
Speaker 2:I love making films like that. I used to blow up my brother's models his model cars.
Speaker 1:Yeah, with like fireworks.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it was awesome.
Speaker 1:I did, and hills.
Speaker 1:Those fucking assholes. Yeah, so the explosion engulfs the fbi helicopter, killing both johnson and johnson and everyone on board. The fire hose reel snaps from the wall and follows john off the roof. I love that, I love. When he gets on there he's like uh-oh, but he um see, but yeah. So he goes into the window and then the weight of the reel starts to pull him down in the window. He manages to untie the hose in time.
Speaker 1:The helicopter falls and explodes yeah, the 30th and surrounding floors, setting the foyer on fire. The elevator is affected by the blast and blows out the wall. On the 30th floor, john follows his wife screams to the vault where Hans is in a hurry to finish loading all the bear bonds. Argyle follows his wife's screams to the vault where Hans is in a hurry to finish loading all the bear bonds. Along the way, he notices a mail cart with tape and other supplies and discovers he only has two bullets left. Next time I lose my wife, I'm going to ask her to just scream, yeah, just start screaming, I'll follow the screams, honey.
Speaker 1:So in the garage, argyle notices Theo unloading an ambulance from the back of a courier truck. He rams the ambulance with his limo, then rushes to the car and punches out Theo. He actually, I guess, hurt his hand in that. Oh shit, the actor did, yeah, punching him.
Speaker 2:You think he had health coverage? I hope so. Did actors have health coverage?
Speaker 1:Yeah, I'm sure they did, If they're in the guild. So as Kristoff runs a stack of bonds down the hallway, john knocks him out. He slowly walks down the hallway towards Hans. This is where he's like all like kind of like limping along, it looks hell rad, leaving like bloody footprints.
Speaker 1:He lost his shirt at this point, yeah, letting the boys out. It's like he's so bloody, dirty and stinky looking, so many guns Every girl's swooning, yeah. So he slowly walks down the hallway towards Hans, eddie and Holly. Hans holds a gun to Holly's head and orders John to drop his weapon. Eddie picks up another machine gun, but Hans instructs him not to shoot. Hans mocks John for being a cowboy and points his gun towards him. John holds his hands behind his head and starts laughing. It's like fucking, uh, austin powers for a second here, because everybody, ha ha ha, everybody's just laughing. It's like what are we doing?
Speaker 1:here, at the table with dr evil. Yeah, that's I mean. That's what I mean. Is it not like exactly what?
Speaker 2:it is Group laugh. That's what's said in the script.
Speaker 1:Yeah, because everybody knows the situation is futile. At that moment. John grabs his handgun, which is taped to his back, fires one shot at Eddie, killing him, and another at Hans, hitting him in the shoulder. Hans falls out the window but managed to hold on to Holly's new Rolex. It comes into play the plot points here. I on to Holly's new Rolex. It comes into play the plot points here. I'd be so pissed. Just got that watch, I know right. Han slowly aims his gun at Holly, but John manages to unclasp the watch, sending Han's plummeting to the ground.
Speaker 2:So that clasp was the only thing holding him on.
Speaker 1:That's a strong ass clasp dude. He's kind of like I guess his hand was gripping onto the watch. What a great shot. What a quality watch.
Speaker 2:Right, rolex, baby, they're the best we should come out with like a podcast rolex, oh yeah, you just talk about watches. Yeah, time pieces, um, oh, it sucks so bad, yeah so man, the fall for hans falling from the roof.
Speaker 1:It's a beautiful shot, man. Yeah, it was fun. That doesn't make your cinematic dick hard, I don't know Will.
Speaker 2:That's the one that's like right under the other one, yeah.
Speaker 1:That should be a. That should be a first T-shirt. This doesn't make your cinematic dick hard, I don't know, will. So in the rubble outside, john is reunited with his, is hugging his wife. Everybody's around him. They're all like, oh, there's paper flying everywhere. It looks amazing. And then, after he kisses his wife a little bit, john meets his true love, al dude seriously he was so more, so much more excited to meet al than saving his wife. It's insane.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I think at at that age, making a friend is more rare.
Speaker 1:Literally, she made me stop hanging out with all my friends. Now I have one I can be friends with again.
Speaker 2:They start running upstairs together.
Speaker 1:Yeah, they hug. They go into their room with bunk beds, so much room for activities. But they both hug and thank each other. Robinson approaches and chews out McClain for the damage of the building. It's like dude, I didn't do half of it.
Speaker 2:And like they're not going to have to pay for it, are they? Yeah, right.
Speaker 1:It's going to be insurance. Who cares? Yeah, it's covered. So a not-quite-dead Carl arises to scream and aims his gun at John and Holly. I guess his neck was super strong. He didn't die. Everyone falls to the ground, but Al who fires his sidearm killing Carl and it's like hey, you can kill someone other than a 13-year-old. I thought these were only killing 13-year-olds. I didn't know they could kill adults.
Speaker 2:He did kill the 13-year-old that was behind John.
Speaker 1:Yeah, just bad luck. She's like dang. Why did you shoot so low the?
Speaker 2:kid shot right into that building full of kids.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and then, after this, argyle rams his limo through the garage garage's gate and John and Holly walk towards his limo. On the way they are stopped by Thornburg for an interview. Holly punches the shit out of him in the face and the couple continues the limo kissing as Ariel drives away from a damaged and burning Akatami blossom.
Speaker 2:Why did he have to drive through the door?
Speaker 1:Just to excite, because I guess it was still closed and he's like you know what I'm done? Oh yeah, too many explosions he could have just done that at the beginning, but he didn't want to, and now that it's already wrecked, he probably got fired after his first day. Yeah right, I don't know, he kind of saved him, saved the escape plan.
Speaker 2:Imagine what he told his boss. Like you don't understand, there are terrorists.
Speaker 1:What you didn't know is Theo had some of those bear bonds and he took some and put it in his limo. Nice, argyle, you're raising some, you're getting your Fuck. You're raising some, you're get your fuck yeah, I don't know, I don't know what I'm saying. He's set man, yeah, but that's Die Hard baby. Merry Christmas, ho, ho, ho.
Speaker 2:I can't do it. I can't do a.
Speaker 1:Alan Rickman impression.
Speaker 2:I just can't do it, it's easier to do Harry Potter. It's easier to do in snake blinds, but but I love Alan Rickman.
Speaker 1:Rip man. Oh yeah, he died the day that Bruce Willis dies.
Speaker 2:It's just like this movie's gonna be hard to watch yeah, but like he's already pretty much dead, he's gonna be so sad.
Speaker 1:He's on his way out yeah, he's got like dementia or something. Yeah, it sucks, it sucks. Well, now that we bummed ourselves out, let's do our first a lot. Yeah, maybe that's why that's probably it, or his head got too big for his britches. So our first category is the good, the bad, the ugly, the fine. It's where we talk about the good of the film, something we like, the bad, something we didn't. The ugly, something that didn't age well. The fine, something that did age well what you got for the good.
Speaker 1:Uh, it's alan rickman man I guess, I didn't know that this was his first feature film and, hell yeah, man love Alan Rickman so much thank you Die Hard for giving us him like who would have been Snape, like who would have been in love actually with some other British people boring ass British people that don't talk constantly like this. Again, it's terrible. My good is Bruce and Hans Hell. Yeah, man, let's go. Baby Bruce Willis, just so charismatic and good at action and also can do serious movies.
Speaker 2:Sixth Sense hell yeah, oh yeah, that was a good one.
Speaker 1:He's the whole reason that M Night has a career.
Speaker 2:He's dead at the end. Spoiler alert Okay.
Speaker 1:I'm going gonna leave it in and I'm sorry, I didn't mean to do it, but at this point it's been spoiled for you anyways shows all is spoiler.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it is a spoiler. It is a spoiler podcast.
Speaker 1:All right, what do you got for the bad? I'll tell you mine nothing and I won't hear it.
Speaker 2:You got it, man. Uh, yeah, there wasn't really.
Speaker 1:I mean, it's just long yeah it's just really, really long, especially if you're watching on disney plus, which is the only way to watch it for free. Oh no, I was on hulu. Yeah, well, it still has ads, so it just makes it even longer. Yeah, all right. What do you got for the ugly?
Speaker 2:mine's pretty obvious well, mine was just the way that they talked about japanese people like Like come on yeah. It's been long enough. Yeah, we can forget about Pearl Harbor now. Yeah.
Speaker 1:So my ugly I picked was cop shooting a kid. Nah, we hear about it all the time it happens every day.
Speaker 2:Now it's really sad. There are 20, 324 mass shootings this year. Yeah, and it's not even over yet. Yeah, the 84th 84 of them were schools. Oh, no, yeah.
Speaker 1:It's just using a. It's really started a trend, the emotional death and something that we're supposed to, you know, like feel bad for this cop. Is he shot a kid? And it's like, no, yeah, you probably should you probably shouldn't have a gun anymore. Dude, I'm like totally okay with you not having a gun and you didn't redeem yourself at the end. It's like it's just, I don't know, dude, you shot a kid. I'm sorry it's over, it's like I don't know they should give him a wooden gun like yeah, and the other guys hit him in the head with it.
Speaker 1:The fine something that aged well. Mine was just the them in the head with it. All right, the fine something that aged well.
Speaker 2:Mine was just the movie in general yeah, yeah, I mean, people are still watching it every year. Everybody loves it there's a door at work that everyone decorated.
Speaker 1:People decorated to look like this movie and alan ripman falling off the building and it's the worst door because they didn't finish it.
Speaker 2:It looks like yeah it's kind of a bad job, but it's still cool, so it's yippee-ki-yay on it yeah, they should have just put it.
Speaker 1:They should put the rest, it's like a staple for christmas somehow.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and like I really didn't expect, because I told ashley I was gonna watch this movie, and she's like why didn't you tell me before? We would have had all the kids watch it too. I'm like, are you serious? There's so much violence in it.
Speaker 1:I don't know.
Speaker 2:That's why she's like yeah, but it's just a cheesy 80s movie. I'm like, yeah, that's true. I guess I don't know, but now we have to watch it with the kids and I'm really excited about that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's awesome. And if they don't like it?
Speaker 2:They're going to hate it. Give them up for it.
Speaker 1:It's not One Piece or Arcane or my Little Pony. Just say there's a my Little Pony reference in it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but it's at the very end, very end.
Speaker 1:All right, we're going to go to our next category Double feature Movie. That goes well with this movie. I picked the Michael Bay movie starring Nicolas Cage and Sean Connery.
Speaker 2:And those little green balls, the Rock Hell, yeah, man, and the heart shot. Yeah, yes. And those little green balls, the rock hell, yeah, man, and the heart shot. Ah, yes, ah, it's so good so fun, yeah, oh, and then they shoot. Then they shoot like missile, like at a football stadium. It looks amazing it was awesome.
Speaker 1:It all looks great. It's a fun movie. It's so corny and cheesy and I love it, and it's about domestic terrorism hell yeah, man love me. Some domestic terrorism fun alright, love me some domestic terrorism.
Speaker 2:All right what you got. I was going to choose Predator, yeah, but now I kind of want to say Robin Hood, prince of Thieves, because seeing Al Rickman, my pal Al Rickman, yo. Ali, Ricks yeah, it really makes me want to watch that movie.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I could just watch anything with him at this point. And that is our discussion on Die Hard and all our categories. Next week we're going back to Denzel Washington's Bag Baby and Tony Scott. It's another movie with these two because we're doing man on Fire. I've actually never seen this movie. It's fun and this is Jason's recommendation. It's very violent and I'm super excited that you recommended this movie. It's fun and this is Jason's recommendation. It's very violent and I'm super excited that you recommended this movie it's got some really good actors in it, because I could just watch anything.
Speaker 2:Like Dakota Fanning's in it. Very young Dakota.
Speaker 1:Fanning yeah, christopher Walken.
Speaker 2:Yeah, christopher Walken.
Speaker 1:Mark Anthony. He's got a cool couple movies Mickey Rourke, robert Robert Socher, and there's like one of the best, like ways to kill a human.
Speaker 2:I think okay in this movie hell yeah it's super fun.
Speaker 1:I can't wait it's very emotional is it? Yeah, well, make sure you join us next week for that baby. It's gonna be great. Can't wait. And let's land this plane.
Speaker 2:Let's let's fall. Oh god, we're on a plane. How are we going to?
Speaker 1:land it. Let's fall off this building, all right, so make sure you join us next week All right on the count of three.
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