DIE HARD WITH A VENGEANCE (1995) | FIRST TIME WATCHING | Reaction & Commentary
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- Oh hey, today is DIE HARD WITH A VENGEANCE day and woah this really brought back the magic for me. Willis and Jackson are my dream team. Sound off, did you see this one in theaters?
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Elephants are always ready to travel because they have trunks.
Ba. Doom. Tiss.
5:37 😂 I love that very "Hooaight American" reaction to that moment.
It's interesting to study reactions to this film from different countries.
This one is definitely my favorite. Bruce Willis and Samuel L. are so good together.
I always hoped they'd do another together but sadly probably not now with Bruce's health.
Pulp fiction fans might be mad at me for this, but i kind of think this is Samuels best movie
Samuel L Jackson is the ultimate side character/co star.
Wish they'd reunited in the 4th and 5th installments somehow.
The elephant joke… Four legs and always ready to travel-because it’s always carrying its trunk.
I absolutely love the lines "Have you been drinking?" "No, not since this morning!"
I've been hoping my whole life to be able to use that line somewhere somehow for something just to see if anyone got the reference lol
The aspirin bottle that gave away the final location was sold at the hotel at the counter. Years ago hotels offered o.t.c. meds to customers and they put stickers on items as a small reminder to people.
The water puzzle with the 3 gallon and 5 gallon for exactly 4 gallons is solved like this:
1. Fill the 5 gal
2. Use the 5 gal to fill the 3 gal (don't spill) and you should be left with 2 gallons in the 5 gal.
3. Empty the 3 gal and then pour the 2 gallons in the 5 gal into the 3 gal (leaving 1 gal of empty space)
4. Fill the 5 gal and then pour of 1 gallon into the remaining space in the 3 gal.
5. Set the 5 gal with 4 gallons on the pad before the bomb blows up.
I’ve always loved that puzzle because you can solve it doing it the same way but opposite.
Fill the 3, pour 3 into 5
Fill the 3, then pour 2 into 5
Empty the 5, pour 1 left in 3, into the 5
Fill 3 and empty into 5
It reminds me of a math game we played in my 7th grade math class…. Called Buzz Bang
In a spelling bee elimination round you went around the room starting with the number 1…. With every number that is a multiple of 3 (6,9 , etc) or has a 3 in it (13, 23, 35) you said buzz,
Same thing with 7 (14 , 17, 21, 72) you said bang ) with numbers with both (21, 37, 42, 63, 73) you said buzz bang
There's a second solution.
Fill the 3 gallon and empty it into the 5 gallon. Leaves 2 gallons in the big jug.
Fill the 3 gallon again and empty as much as you can into the 5 gallon. This will leave 1 gallon in 3 gallon jug.
Empty the 5 gallon.
Pour the remaining 1 gallon from the 3 into the 5.
Fill up the 3 gallon and empty into the 5 gallon and you end up with exactly 4 gallons.
Die Hard 2 is okay... but to me, this was the true sequel. It had Sam, Bruce and the fricking voice of SCAR telling McClaine to BE PREPARED!
I agree 100%
The 3rd had more equivalent in the 1st one
agree, the 2nd one was kinda weak in comparison to 1 and 3
The thing that annoys me most between the two sequels is that 2 implies McClane moved to LA. But now he’s back in New York.
@@willmuny9201 but you had no Holly
Samuel L. Jackson was absolute perfect casting as Zeus. This is the perfect buddy cop movie. My favorite performance from Samuel L. aside from his character in Quentin Tarantino’s Jackie Brown.
*Jesus
@@positivelynegative9149Naw man, he said “Hey, Zeus!”.
he does elevate this movie big time. every movie he's in actually.
This is mot a buddy cop movie. Tango and Cash is a buddy cop movie. Lethal weapon is a buddy cop movie. Zeus is a civilian in this movie. Not a professional cop.
@@WheresWaldo05 i know. Just gives those vibes. Like the 48 hrs movies, one is a cop the other an ex bank robber, but to me still feels like a buddy cop movie.
The bottle clued John in that they'd staged the heist in Quebec (it said "north of the border" in French). They'd have needed a port and a warehouse big enough to take the gold.
The aspirin bottle was a last-minute change. In the original ending, Simon gets away, and John spends ages tracking him down for personal revenge. The ending was changed, because they decided that it was too out of character for John McClaine.
And too dark
That ending would have been better
It can be seen on CZcams, if anyone is curious. It's good, but I think the theatrical ending works better.
Much better ending. The bottle of aspirin having the name of the hotel really is a stretch. And McLain recognized what it was and knew where it was?
Yes and no. Like all the other Die Hard this one started off as something else that was adapted to fit the Die Hard franchise. He doesn't just track him down for the hell of it. The FBI think John was involved in the heist so he loses his job and pension. He goes after Simon because he has nothing left to lose. The ending was changed because it didn't fit with the franchise and was a little bit anticlimactic since it was just two guys sitting around a table when DIe Hard needs a big action finale. Not to mention part of the appeal of the movies is that John is just a guy. He's not someone who can track down an international terrorist on his own after somehow finding all the other bad guys and killing them off screen.
Elephant joke , it's always ready to travel because it carries it's trunk everywhere
The ending was originally a lot darker where Simon gets away. John then tracks him some time later ( after being fired from NYPD) and plays Simon Says with a bazooka that has the right way to aim shaved off. After tricking Simon to play an unlivable game, John walks away nonchalantly.
John came off anti-heroesque and out of character in this so they scrapped it and rewrote it which where the pill bottle ending came from.
It's about dang time! Probably my favorite Die Hard. Good choice, Shanelle. For a Disney girl, not knowing Jeremy Irons was Scar in the original Lion King is a movie sin.
My favorite one in the series. Love the real NYC setting, one of my friends even played one the corner guys in Harlem that stepped to Bruce.
The first R-rated movie I ever snuck into. Missed the first 10 minutes, but what I saw blew my thirteen-year-old mind.
Was only MA15+ in Australia which meant if u were over 10 then no one cared
I love the first two, but this was always my favorite. It has everything an action/comedy should have.
The 3rd is more of a bang
Samuel L Jackson and Bruce Willis always had such great on-screen chemistry. Love this one nearly as much as the first.
“It’s Christmas! You could steal City Hall!” This IS a Christmas movie 🤣
Sam Jackson's young nephew is played by a very young Aldis Hodge.
Wow.. I had no idea how long he's been in the acting game. A couple of years ago I found a 90's playbill from Showboat where he was in that too.
@@disconnexionsdotcom funnily enough he isn't playing the same character but he's also in Live Free or Die Hard I think he's an FBI computer tech..
You know there are films that are described as "edge of your seat action" and they're not but when it comes to DIE HARD WITH A VENGEANCE that statement is 100% true. It's the best film EVER made (in my opinion) and my favorite of all time. You've just made my week in watching this one and I'm really glad you enjoyed it as well shanelle. Also I'm sure we all send our love ❤️ and best wishes to Bruce and his family with what Bruce is going through.
I would love to see it without the 800 cuts!
Awesome Trivia: The "silent" female killer companion to Jeremy Irons is actually singer-songwriter Sam Phillips who, for a time, was married to legendary Music Producer T-Bone Burnett. Sam Phillips released a masterpiece album (Produced by Burnett) in 1994 called "Martinis and Bikinis" that is absolutely brilliant! Here is one beautiful gem off that incredible album, "Strawberry Road" Enjoy! czcams.com/video/zGQ7CQLfxyk/video.html
One of our greatest songwriters.
@@jonathanroberts8981 Saw her supporting David Byrne a few years ago, hadn't heard of her before but she was so good, she had the audience in the palm of her hand.
Absolute BEST Die Hard of them all!! Bar none!
I so much enjoyed how much you enjoyed this film.
Again I will recommend _The Fugitive_ (1993). Harrison Ford is very good in it, but Tommy Lee Jones steals the show.
Also, film and TV will continue to be strong in NY, as the NY Film Tax Credit has been raised to $700 million for 2024.
The Fugitive is a perennial - any time it’s on you can enjoy it even if you’ve seen it many times before.
My fave of the Die Hards! John in his natural habitat, and the fabulous Jeremy Irons. The combative chemistry between Sam and Bruce is sooo good!
And it also has a thrilling B-plot with the school, tying the drama closer to Zeus while giving the rest of the NYPD something to keep them busy so John and Zeus are forced to go it alone.
Shanelle: I think what makes the bottle of aspirin work is that Simon and his band of Merry Terrorists probably entered the U.S. via Canada at the same place they were leaving the U.S. later. He is shown with some sort of spasmic disorder during the film, presumably needing the aspirin to alleviate the symptoms. He buys the aspirin in a shop at the border crossing, not even noting that the name of the border crossing shop is printed on the bottom. That moment of levity / carelessness when he villains out and gives McClane the aspirin and then leaves before the good guys are killed in the unnecessarily complicated death trap leads to his, literal, downfall... ;-)
I do think its a fun "movie" touch. Especially John complaining non-stop about his headache, it's a fun little throwaway that has huge consequences for the villain. So for that im down with it 😂
@@ShanelleRicciobut John is depresed
One of the rules of the universe: No good deed goes unpunished
It's actually kind of brilliant in it's way. That Simon is so meticulous, and has everything planned to the smallest detail, but the downfall is a tiny casual thing that he couldn't possibly have thought to pay attention to, and resulting from something he couldn't fit into his plans, John having a headache. On rewatch I love the big well thought out plan, falling to such a literally small thing.
@@ShanelleRiccio all the other Die Hard movies are down hill from here
Fun fact: the first "Die Hard", and "Die Hard 2: Die Harder" are based on separate novels, by separate authors.
The first "Die Hard" was based on Rodderick Thorps': "Nothing Lasts Forever". Which, it itself, is a sequel to "The Detective" (1966).
"The Detective" was made into a movie in 1968, with Frank Sinatra as the title character. Only, McClains name in that series is Joe Leland.
"Die Hard 2" was a novel called "58 minutes" (1987) by Walter Wager.
"Die Hard: With A Vengeance" feels so similar to the first is because only "Die Hard", and "Die Hard: With A Vengeance" share the same director: John McTerinan.
"Die Hard 2" was directed by Renny Harlin.
Oh, and "Die Hard 2" was supposed to take place at the Dullus Towers in Washington D.C., but, was filmed at Stapleton Airport in Denver Colorado
The 3 and 5 gallon thing. You fill the 5 gal, then pour into the 3, leaving 2 gal in the 5 gal jug. Empty the 3 gal jug and pour that 2 gallons into the 3 gal. Then fill the 5 gal again, pour into the 3 gal, fill that remaining 1 gal, leaving you with 4 gallons in the 5 gal jug.
But is it 4 gallon each ?
Yes, McTiernan knows what he's doing. Interestingly, the script was not designed as a "Die Hard" film but was adapted into one from an unrelated story. It's my favorite, with the original in second place (#2 barely passes muster).
7:12 - No need to apologize, we already know you well enough to know that, and are use to it. Also: no shots! I don't wanna die of alcohol poisoning!
If you want Sam Jackson at the height of his badass m-f-er powers definitely see The Long Kiss Goodnight, it's amazing, he's amazing in it.
Saw this in the theater as a teenager along with Batman Forever. Hard to believe there was a time when there was multiple movies playing at the same time that I wanted to see.
Thank you. Raymond, one of the boys with Zeus at the beginning and at the school later is played by Aldis Hodge. Aldis brother Edwin also appears as one of the boys.
Aldis was a regular on the action TV drama "Leverage" and is currently on "City On A Hill". He's recently played Hawkman in "Black Adam". Elwin is a regular on "FBI: Most Wanted".
Every time I hear "When Johnny Comes Marching Home" (like at the ending) I think of the movie "Stalag 17".
18:40 He also knew cause some of the phrases they used weren't typical American ones, like when the guard says "I feel like it's gonna rain like *dogs and cats*..." instead of saying "cats and dogs", or when he called the elevator a "lift'.
Brilliant movie, the best in the series, and the best character in this movie is Zeus, played by Samuel L Jackson, also, the elephant bomb puzzle in this movie is so easy to do, but Zeus and McClean struggle with it lol. Elephant puzzle...fill 5 litre bottle with water, drain into 3 litre, leaving 2 litres in 3 litre bottle, empty the 3 litre bottle, then empty contents of 5 litre bottle into 3 litre bottle giving you 2 litres in 3 litre bottle, fill 5 litre bottle again, then pour 1 litre from 5 litre bottle into 3 litre bottle to fill it up, leaves 4 litres in 5 litre bottle.
Another brilliant movie with Samuel L Jackson is The Negotiator, you should watch that, it's brilliant.
I Agree with "The Negotiator"......
But was it actually each 4 gallons ? It is more then 3rd of 5 gallon each
@@lexkanyima2195 gallons, litres, you come to the same conclusion lol
@@wolfie35p so ?
When Shan said "Willis Jackson combo..." I thought of Willis Jackson, Arnold's older brother, the "Whachootalkin'bout Willis?" kid from Diff'rent Strokes. He's the only original cast member of that show who's still alive.
Fun Fact: McClane says the following line to Zeus “I was working on a nice fat suspension. Smoking cigarettes and watching Captain Kangaroo.” That’s a reference to the song Bruce Willis was listening to in Pulp Fiction in the car after he retrieves his father’s watch.
I'll try to explain water jug properly Fill the 3 gallon tank pour into the 5 gallon tank, fill the three gallon tank again, you will only be able to pour 2 gallons into the 5 gallon bucket because it already has 3 gallons in it, leaving 1 gallon left in your 3 gallon tank, dump out 5 gallon tank, fill with the 1 gallon left in your 3 gallon tank and then add another 3 gallon tank to get 4 gallons. There's also another method but i forget it right now.
Fill the 5 gallon jug
Empty it into the 3 gallon jug leaving 2 gallons in the 5 gal jug
Empty the 3 gallon jug and refill it with the 2 gallons you have left
Fill up the 5 gallon jug again then pour into the 3 gallon jug til its full
BOOM 4 gallons in the 5 gallon jug
We Canadians love it when Canada is shown in movies *AS* Canada, like in Cool Runnings. Best recent example was an episode of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds where they time travel back to 21st century Toronto :)
I love that the two biggest villians in this franchise were brought down by their narcissistic complacency. They were both incredibly smart and came up with these big and seemingly fool-proof plans only to have them taken apart by this one guy they cant predict. Also, the final nail in the coffin(s) being the watch and the pill bottle.
This is one of my favorite Die Hard films ever made!
along with the less liked With a Vengeance!me, my lil bro and cousin went to watch it, it was very nice, Timothy Olyphants villain was kinda Bond worthy!
@@johnbernhardtsen3008
I like the unrated version of Live Free or Die Hard (2007).
@@johnbernhardtsen3008 except that time it was the villains girl that "got an SUV drove up her ass."
@@markmac2206 did u see the interviews for it?Justin Long was asked to try to punch Maggie Q!she was pretty harsh on him, said he punches like a girl!
@@johnbernhardtsen3008 thats a badass girl!
McT 's knowledge of cinematic language is outstanding.
He really had a hot streak for a long time, didn't he?
Thumbnail got shanelle out here looking like she taking a mean ass dookie 😆😂😄
While the 9/11 attacks were happening, someone was trying to evacuate gold bullion from underground near the WTC with trucks - almost EXACTLY like in the movie. One of the trucks was trapped by collapsing structures and was abandoned in place.
So, it's still there?
Shanelle, I think it's a stretch for a location name to be printed on a bottle of aspirin, but compared to falling 50+ feet onto to metal and walking away and being 50 feet underwater from a massive explosion (where the effects would be worse) are so far out of the stratosphere, that a name written on a pill bottle is not worthy of notice.
And not one of those three things is the most outlandish. But it's Die Hard and damned fun, so nobody should care.
Great reaction as always. Peace!
Elephant has got 4 legs and a trunk. "The last boy scout" with Bruce Willis was pretty cool as well. You might want to check it out when you're done with the "Die hard" movies.
The Mercedes in the chase scene was actually just the body of the car attached to a rotating mechanism on a trailer and that is how the spinning scene was filmed. My brother used to work for the movie company as a truck driver.
As a Texan, I learned a LOT about the districts in NYC. You can follow this movie quite well with a map. If you’re a New Yorker, there are probably obvious flaws, but I enjoyed it. It’s my favorite Die Hard.
The aspirin was okay, my problem was with John going airborne out of the aqueduct at the exact time that Zeus was driving by.
There was one redeeming line by Simon - " I'm a soldier, not a monster."
This and the original are tied as my favourite John McClane movie. Yes the aspirin bottle was a stretch but is forgiven because of how fun the movie is.
Easily the 2 best. Tied in my book, just depends on if I'm in a Rickman or Irons mood.
Yeah, she's willing to accept all those 1 in a million impossible action sequences, but the aspirin bottle was too much... 🙄😆
They filmed parts of this movie in Charleston, South Carolina where I live. You can definitely tell in certain scenes. Back then I worked at Hollywood Video and some of the crew members stayed at the hotel next door. They rented a VCR for the weekend and told us that Bruce Willis was really cool, very down to earth.
Tell what scenes
Glad you enjoyed it! This movie doesn't get as much praise as it should!
I disagree, everyone I know says it's their favorite of all the die hard movies.
If you rewatch the movie it takes place in the fall/winter. The characters reference the unseasonable warmth and the term "Indian Summer". An Indian summer is basically a hot snapp where from October to late December the weather can get unseasonbly warm for a few weeks to even a month, like a second summer. So yeah it's a Christmas movie, that's why the department store was so busy.
Elephants have trunks so they ar always ready to travel. Cause a trunk is a type of luggage.
5+0=5 You fill the large jug up with water. 5-3=2 Then you fill the (empty) small jug with the water from the large jug. 2+0-2 You empty the small jug leaving the large jug 2/5ths full. 3-2-=1 You pour the conents of th large jug into the small jug leaving it 1/3rd empty. 5-1=4 You fill the large jug up and pour it into the empty space in the small jug. Clear as mud., Right? Or 5 minus 3 is. 2 gallons. 2 gallons in a 3 gallon container leaves 1 gallon of space. 5 minus 1 is 4.
Totally rad reaction Shanelle!
Here's a fun little fact.....
When McClane is on the subway train and says to the lady in the dresse excuse me mamm and she lifts her feet up, that same actress is on the platform waiting for the train.
I guess they didn't catch that in editing.
Again great reaction!
Many blessings to you and yours.
I did watch this in a NYC theater opening weekend and the crowd loved it.
Great reaction! At the time, the coolest thing about Willis and Jackson together was that they were insanely cool having just been together (but maybe not shared the screen?) in Pulp Fiction. Great casting to put them together. Still a very good action movie, but does seem to run out of steam a bit towards the end - everything after the boat explosion feels kinda tacked on and anticlimactic. Much better than the second one though which was excessively violent and mean-spirited and had none of the joy of Die Hard.
Die Hard reaction with Shanelle? My day is definitely made 😄
3:08 - Holy shit, you got it right for once! That IS New York! 😁
This one came out about a year after Pulp Fiction, and when McClain said that he was enjoying his suspension smoking cigarettes and watching Captain Kangaroo, my wife and I busted out laughing in the theater. People were turning around and glaring at us because we found it so funny. They just didn’t get the connection. Lol
Great to see you! This is a fun one. Samuel L. and Bruce Willis, bouncing off a good, mad story and each other in 1995. Just a treasure. Thanks. Here we go! :)
One little Easter egg that a friend had to point out to me:
When John is asked how he's been occupying his time, he replies, "smoking cigarettes and watching Captain Kangaroo." This is a lyric from the Statler Brothers song "Flowers on the Wall," which was the song playing on the radio in Pulp Fiction when Bruce's character encounters Marcellus right before the infamous pawn shop scene.
Liking the video one second in just off GP because not many reactors react to 3....they for some odd reason stop at 2 and imo 3 is waaaay better than 2....so props to you for doing 3!!! Cant wait to view the vid. Btw i def suggest The Last Boy Scout. I think of it as an unofficial Die Hard....i think you'd enjoy
Edited: awesome reaction and review....agree 💯 1&3 are canon lol... Keep em coming!
"How? How did they film this?"
I must utter this a dozen times on every rewatch. John McTiernan was an absolute witch with the camera.
for real!!
He is innovated
I caught this movie in the cinema as a teenager - and like you, it was everything I wanted from a Die Hard movie. I felt a bit cheated not having Al and Holly, but the duo of Zeus and McLane more than made up for it.
One of the things that I loved about the original, is that it feels so isolated. John really is a lone wolf, cut off from the outside world and in fact, it feels as if the location of Fox Plaza with its entrance raised off street level is completely isolated. But DH3 went completely the other direction and it was such a refreshing change; to have John have a sidekick and place them in amongst a city full of people.
Almost 30 years after this movie was released, I still find myself cackling at McLane being launched out of that water pipe. Such a great piece of unexpected physical comedy.
Two years after the movie was released, I found myself in NYC. Man, what a great place!
There is another Bruce movie that didn't go over as big, where you get a lot of the sarcasm and jokes while there is an almost comedic crime caperish kind of thing. You might enjoy it. It's called Hudson Hawk. Good cast. Pretty entertaining. The aspirin bottle. A lot of times hotels etc will stock small bottles of aspirin and other things that are imprinted with their name on them. The translation was "North of the Border" I believe. Oh and Die Hard 2 was supposed to have taken place at Dulles airport in D.C. Seriously Shanelle, give The Sting a try. Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Robert Shaw and so many really good character actors too.
I remember this Die Hard the most because they shot of McClane and Zeus jumping off the bridge here in Charleston, SC at the old Grace Memorial Bridge. I remember as a kid watching the news cover it.
This was such a great movie and an even better reaction! I love the pacing and feel like this is another love letter to New York! I love the cat and mouse aspect and the puzzle!
total love letter to NYC -- Loved that element!!
@@ShanelleRiccio This was also back when NY was generaly thought of the best city in the world.. that.. well.. might not be true any more
What has four legs and is always ready to travel? An Elephant, it has 4 legs and is always carrying a trunk, so it's ready to travel.
Jeremy Irons that plays Simon. He also plays Alfred in the Ben Affleck Batman movies. He is a very good actor
Always love your reactions. As for getting the wind knocked out of you, oh man! Ice skating the first time in my 30’s. Started getting a little confident after a few laps around the ice and decided to go faster. And then, coming outta turn 4, TOE-PICK! I was like Superman flying through the air. I just remember arching my back and tipping my head back hoping I wouldn’t slam my face into the ice. Instead, I landed right on my ribcage and fully lost my air. I couldn’t breathe and I couldn’t stand so I crawled to the edge and grabbed the wall. It took forever to breath again. Everything started getting dark, I think I was about to pass out.
But, being of the walk it off generation, once I could breath again, I just traded the ice skates for hockey skates and went back out there. No more falls, thank goodness.
An elephant is always ready to travel because it always has its trunk with it.
There are two ways to solve the water puzzle:
1. Fill the 3g jug, pour it into the 5g jug. Fill the 3g jug again, use it to fill the 5g jug, leaving 1g of water. Dump out the 5g jug, pour the 1g of water into it, then fill the 3g jug again and pour it into the 5g jug, making 4g of water.
2. Fill the 5g jug, use it to fill the 3g jug, leaving 2g of water. Dump out the 3g jug, then pour the remaining 2g of water into the 3g jug. Fill the 5g jug again and use it to fill the 3g jug, leaving 4g of water.
ok so heres 1 way to solve the elephant water riddle: fill up the 3 gallon, pour it into the 5. then repeat and you have 1 gallon in the 3. empty the 5, pour the 1 gallon in the 5. fill up the 3, pour it in the 5 for a total of 4.
Hi Shanelle...you said that the three movies were by the same director, but they weren't. The 1st one and this one were made by John McTeirnan, but the 2nd was made by somebody else...that is why you love the first and third films so much.
The bridge used to get to the boat was the old Cooper River Bridge here in Charleston, SC. At the time, people weren’t exactly keen on trying to cross it because of its age. After 76 years, it was closed in 2005 and replaced with the Arthur Ravenel Bridge.
I saw this in the theater when it was released. You could tell the people who had done work because they were wearing “Crew” shirts. When the bridge scene came on, there was a guy near the middle of the theater yelling,”THAT’S OUR BRIDGE!” Needless to say, we all chuckled.
Jeremy Irons, Bruce Willis, Samuel L. Jackson, Graham Greene and Colleen Camp are some of my favorite actors. This movie absolutely rocks and is the last great Die Hard movie. The transit cop was played by Scott Nicholson. Who played Colin Stiles on the HBO series Succession. Shanelle you are razor sharp. Seriously nothing got by you well done beautiful.
18:42 Chekov's Badge Number
I remember this big gigantic movie complex opened in Antwerp two years before this film came out and I still hadn't been there, so when this film came out, my best friend wanted to see it and I went with her, but ofcourse we got there late and the only seats available were in the middle of the front row. This was the first time I saw a giant screen and the sound came from everywhere ... I felt I played in the movie itself, it felt so real and there was so much action going on, I was exhausted by the time it was over. So every time I see this movie, I feel that same experience (except for the exhaustiation), best experience ever.
16:46 - It has a "trunk". 😉
If you love this, you will love The Last Boy Scout too.
What's hilarious too at 23:07 while John rides the water from the dam, he's finally getting that shower they said earlier
2:30 - the first and third films were directed by John McTiernan, the second by Renny Harlin, and the last two by Len Wiseman and John Moore, respectively.
You have such an amazingly expressive face, especially your smile, it really adds another layer of enjoyment to your reactions, especially when you are having a good time. This reaction was a real treat. Thank you!
"I have to answer that phone"
"Get 'em up!"
"I'm thirsty; I need a drink of water"
Same cadence as in "The Incredibles" :)
I love this movie lol
3:10 I love the opening to this movie, the song is classic and it literally starts with a bang lol
5:49 if you ever see this movie on tv the sign says "I Hate Everybody" lol
10:00 one of my favorite lines is when they're going through the park "McClane are you aiming for these people?!" "What No, well maybe that mime" lol
22:15 another great line "how colorful" lol
Best Die hard movie of them all, Also he is not german but Dutch...you can hear him say "dank je wel" at 15:26 wich means "thank you" in Dutch.
I was in love with this movie when I was around 13; had it on VHS, recorded from HBO. I love how the setting is pretty much the opposite of the first Die Hard, with ita sprawling daytime tour of NYC.
This is my favorite Die Hard. Being from NY it makes me feel great as they tour the whole city all day long lol. I still marvel at him getting to 59th and Central Park South so fast. Thats a dream.
shanelle fub fact , the actor who played the cop with the badge # 6991 was in the 1st die hard . he played cop who was helping al powell , so if you go back to any scene with al powell is talking to officer dwayne you'll probably see him
I remember seeing this film in a cinema in France. We had a wave of bloody attacks in Paris in 1995 and the first scene with the sudden explosion shocked the audience.
How ?
3:36 - And let's not forget the world famous mid-noon NYC random explosions. Someday I gotta go see them up close, I hear it's quite the experience! 🤪
I'm going to be 48 in 4 days, and I still take out nervous energy out on my fingernails. No shame girl. Love the content.
17:48 Suddenly Die Hard III just became a Christmas movie. LOL
16:45 Yes it is, an elephant has four legs and a trunk, so it is ready to travel.
I think Last Action Hero would be right up your alley after seeing how much you liked this one. It's a play on action movies with Arnold in the lead, lots of the same comedy mixed with action vibe, and one of Arnold's best films that is criminally underrated.
There's a callback to a scene in this Die Hard film, in "The Incredibles" (2004) - when Frozone (voiced by Samuel L. Jackson, naturally!) has a gun drawn on him, also by a scared cop. As in this film, the cop in "The Incredibles" has good reason to believe that Jackson's character is up to no-good. In each scene, the tension is created because the protagonist, for the greater good, can't comply with the cop's instructions, and you genuinely do not know whether the cop is going to fire.
Another thing to note: In the first "Die Hard," the L.A. Police are incompetent from one end to the other, except for Reginald. In this film, by contrast, the NYC police (as well as ordinary New Yorkers) are depicted as not only competent but as courageous and as rising to the challenge.
Die Hard With A Vengeance is truly one of the great action films of all time.
Fun fact that's the older Cooper River Bridge in Charleston, SC for the bridge scene. Got to see them do some of it from a downtown building. Was super cool as an 8 year old who'd seen the first two XD😂
The truckstop in the end of the film was actually what is now the TA South Baltimore in Jessup , MD
I love the way they referenced this movie in "The Incredibles".
I saw this opening night, the theater was so packed there was a line of people standing wall to wall but didn't mind...
An elephant is always ready to travel because it always has its trunk with it