July 15, 20232 yr A damn good thread to read today, the 35th anniversary of the movie's release. Also, if you haven't seen it already, Netflix has a great documentary called The Movies That Made Us which has a good episode about the making of Die Hard.
July 15, 20232 yr That’s a fun twitter follow although a bit of a repeater at times but a lot of Twitter is that.
July 16, 20232 yr Die Hard was released in July? My brain hurts. You got any aspirins?Got something better for you:
July 17, 20232 yr Nine million terrorists in the world and I gotta kill one with feet smaller than my sister.
July 17, 20232 yr On 7/15/2023 at 9:18 PM, Murfdogg21 said: Die Hard was released in July? My brain hurts. You got any aspirins? They’re called summer blockbusters for a reason.
July 18, 20232 yr At the time, they released it as a summer blockbuster. They had no idea they'd created the greatest Christmas movie of all time.
July 18, 20232 yr 2 minutes ago, utee94 said: At the time, they released it as a summer blockbuster. They had no idea they'd created the greatest Christmas movie of all time. This. They needed a plot device to have all the executives there after hours with barebones staff and security at night. Coulda been a ribbon cutting to open the plaza but that means press. It could have just been an anniversary party or promotion party for Takagi or Holly or even the cokehead dude. They actually did a risk, Hanks & Co., that the FBI/electric company wouldn't cut the power on Christmas Eve for fear of panic/riots/political blowback to Mayor, et. al. But ultimately they chose Christmas Party as the plot device for one simple reason other than Hans getting to tell Theo, "It's the Christmas season. It's the time of miracles. Now be of good cheer and call me when you've opened the last key." :::::::: "Ho, Ho, Ho. Now I have a machine gun." The sweatshirt and santa hat don't make no sense otherwise.
July 18, 20232 yr Shouldn't that have been Ho Ho Ho Now I have a Fully Automatic Rifle? At least he didn't refer to it as having an extended clip.
July 18, 20232 yr We laugh, but you know that detail still bugs the shit out of Texans. "Look, I'm willing to accept him jumping down a 30 story HVAC shaft, and saving himself at the last minute by wedging the weapon at the exact angle at the exact instant he needed to save himself from certain death...but I'll be goddamned if a decorated LEO is gonna mistakenly call that thing a 'machine gun', when clearly the trigger hold is disparate."
July 18, 20232 yr I've always believed it's because John assumes his Euro-trash enemy is poorly educated in the proper terminology but he wants them to understand that he does indeed now have a fully automatic rifle weapon which he is about to use to kill all of their asses. Yippee-ki-yay, motherfucker.
July 18, 20232 yr 2 hours ago, Underdog said: We ever get a final on that ND/USC game? ahh yes... the one absolutely completely unbelievable part about the whole movie- thats right haters, its the ONLY unbelievable part. USC/ ND playing past the first week of Dec, let alone Christmas eve. When it was released, It had been 7.5 years since they had even played in Dec. of course now with the playoff, I guess its technically possible. Edited July 18, 20232 yr by AUS-97HORN
July 18, 20232 yr 1 hour ago, Underdog said: Motherfucker, all that drivel and you still didn't give me a final. 27 - 10 Notre Dame
July 18, 20232 yr What if both teams had a shitty season and got rematched in the Poulan Weedeater Two Pesos Pepto-Bismol Bowl? That would explain why they were playing in December.
July 18, 20232 yr 12 minutes ago, Macanudo said: What if both teams had a shitty season and got rematched in the Poulan Weedeater Two Pesos Pepto-Bismol Bowl? That would explain why they were playing in December. In 1988 the weedeater bowl was on 12/23 and the Sun Bowl was on 12/24. In 1987 the weedeater bowl was on 12/19 and the All American bowl was on 12/22. No other bowl games until Christmas day.
July 18, 20232 yr 27 minutes ago, utee94 said: In 1988 the weedeater bowl was on 12/23 and the Sun Bowl was on 12/24. In 1987 the weedeater bowl was on 12/19 and the All American bowl was on 12/22. No other bowl games until Christmas day. Nerd.
July 19, 20232 yr In 1988 the weedeater bowl was on 12/23 and the Sun Bowl was on 12/24. In 1987 the weedeater bowl was on 12/19 and the All American bowl was on 12/22. No other bowl games until Christmas day. John McClane wasn’t really a police officer. A man by the name of Bruce Willis pretended to be a police officer for a fictional moving picture show. You see John McTiernan, a man employed to lead a group of camera, light, and sound technicians, asked Willis to pretend to be a police officer for the film and Willis agreed. But not until after Willis could confirm with McTiernan that he knew Willis was not really a police officer.
December 24, 20232 yr Just another American who saw too many movies as a child Greatest Christmas Movie of All Time Yippie Kay Yay Mother Fucker
December 24, 20232 yr 5 minutes ago, Parliament said: 1234 that was "totally family friendly" TBS at their absolute worst... yet they created one of the best "I know how old you are if you dont know this phrase" moments in history.
December 24, 20232 yr 14 hours ago, Surly Bevo said: Yea, like you did with Takagi Did those photos come with the frames? Asking for a friend.
December 24, 20232 yr 29 minutes ago, Underdog said: Did those photos come with the frames? Asking for a friend. I wish, would have been a shitload cheaper. Those are pictures of kids who are much much older now (one is a Jr at Texas)
December 24, 20232 yr So we see that John arrives in "magic hour" before sunset in Los Angeles to meet Argyle, at that time of year (12/24). So let's call that 5:00p-PST given it's on the far edge of its timezone. We know it's a 7.0 hour flight from New York. Meaning he leaves one of 3 NYC's airports, with the 3 hour time change (gate-to-gate, not wheelsup-wheelsdown). So his local flight departure time is 1:00p-EST/12:00p-CST. In a few hours time, John will receive the worst advice of his life. He will be told to arrive at his final destination and remove his shoes. As he is enjoying lunch on the flight with a drink, another group of the Asian Dawn JV are assembling in their motor pool and checking weapons and ammo. Theo is packing up the hacking hardware. And the game...is on. Edited December 24, 20232 yr by YGIFS
December 24, 20232 yr 2 minutes ago, YGIFS said: So we see that John arrives in "magic hour" before sunset in Los Angeles to meet Argyle, at that time of year (12/24). So let's call that 5:00p-PST given it's on the far edge of its timezone. We know it's a 7.0 hour flight from New York. Meaning he leaves one of 3 NYC's airports, with the 3 hour time change (gate-to-gate, not wheelsup-wheelsdown). So his local flight departure time is 1:00p-EST/12:00p-CST. In a few hours time, John will receive the worst advice of his life. He will be told to arrive at his final destination and remove his shoes. John could have checked Marco's shoes before he welcomed Al to the party. Or Heinrich, when he took his detonators.
December 24, 20232 yr 1 hour ago, Surly Bevo said: John could have checked Marco's shoes before he welcomed Al to the party. Or Heinrich, when he took his detonators. John may have been in the very early stages of dementia.
December 25, 20232 yr On 12/24/2020 at 1:59 PM, Jive Turkey said: in a movie that asks you to suspend all possible belief, those are the two things that bug me because they're not realistic. yeah, the entire movie is unrealistic, but come on, don't say your company Christmas party is on Christmas Eve. nobody does that. and USC ain't playing Notre Dame on Christmas Eve. they play every year during the regular season in either October or November. pick a different game to show. they're continuity errors that should have been corrected. Even if these unrealistic things annoy you, they are not continuity errors. Continuity errors are problems with internal logic, discontinuities within the fiction.
December 25, 20232 yr 46 minutes ago, Parliament said: Most of the quotes in this thread have been repeated at least 2 times.
December 25, 20232 yr On 12/14/2022 at 11:28 AM, YGIFS said: Kinda weirding me out to think about how this all changed from the time I was in grade school to kids of my own in grade school. That's a complete, tectonic, cultural shift in our biggest holiday in just a three decades. that's pretty weird to see unfold when you look back on it. Next time somebody you love bitches about the War on Christmas, remind them "Christmas Season" didn't start when we were kids until a few days before the Solstice. Good point and funny because the entire Christmas holiday with the presents and the tree and the food is really an invention of Victorian England and Charles Dickens. Before that the bigger celebrations were the twelve days *after* Christmas, including the New Year's exchange of gifts, in anticipation of the feast of the epiphany. I'm always so confused by the twelve-day Advent calendars that people start before Christmas. They just don't know. Of course if you make it through twelfth night to king's day, you get the start of my personal favorite holiday season, mardi gras. See y'all in New Orleans on the 1st.
December 25, 20232 yr Also, I'm laughing at all the historicizing posts in this thread arguing about the possible dates for football games and the potential for Christmas Eve office parties. That's not how fiction works! But to be fair, that is how message boards work
December 25, 20232 yr Fake news. First rounds weren’t fired until after dusk. Typical mass shooting hysteria bullshit. While you apologists are sorting through the Asian Dawn manifest for clues, we’ll be sitting on a beach earning 20%
December 25, 20232 yr 2 hours ago, Parliament said: Most of the quotes in this thread have been repeated at least 2 times. Eat it, Parliament!
December 25, 20232 yr 9 hours ago, Parliament said: Most of the quotes in this thread have been repeated at least 2 times. Eta And that’s cool.
December 25, 20232 yr 21 hours ago, elfenix said: Still love the idea that rickman agreed to do the wire fall and they dropped him on 2 to get the reaction.
December 26, 20231 yr Currently flipping between this and The Firm. I havent read the book Die Hard was based on, but Im guessing the movie was better than the book, same as The Firm. The Godfather movie was definitely better than the book.
December 26, 20231 yr On 12/23/2023 at 6:13 PM, bschoolprof said: Hans . . . bubby . . . I'm your white knight. Best line of the movie
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