The Biggest thing people ask is, "Why Doesn't anyone Hear the Shots". They're over 30 stories up, in the Business District, On Christmas Eve. The Only Person that can Hear them is Santa, and he's too busy Ducking and looking for Cover.
My thoughts too, they're around 500 feet in the air, no one's hearing anything from up there. Also my thoughts on my Argyle isn't doing anything (or couldn't if he wasn't on the phone and listening to the radio.) He's in the garage, John, he didn't hear those shots!
You can hear gunshots from a mile away if you are in a quiet area and outdoors. But LA? forget it. Especially in a financial district on Christmas eve after hours. There is nobody left in range to hear them. And indoors the only people alive to hear them are the hostages, the robbery crew, and the hero.
Note: corporate "Christmas parties" never happen on Christmas day... NEVER... They occurs one week earlier or something... So Santa is not there, and "that night" Hans is supposed to have select is not Christmas day, it's just the corporates party night (which should be on Friday evening, usually).
I get where you're coming from when you hear John say "you should've heard your brother squeal when I broke his fucking neck" but he's in a fight for his life and whoever makes the first mistake will end up dying and he wants to piss this guy off as much as possible to get him to make the first mistake and to be honest it's quite refreshing having the main good guy bring out a little dark side inside of them instead of saying things that don't make sense or that no one would say in a fight, what he said is exactly what I think you'd hear in a fight to the death
Well said. John isn't a 1 dimensional hero, he's complex. He is a good man/cop who did what he needed to survive and help people. Survival is primal. Like you said "fight to the death". He was angry, maybe he was making a calculated statement like you said. But maybe he was just tired and pissed offed. I have said things I regret in this state to people I love, so I imagine a fight to the death would bring it out.
The most revealing part of this reaction was that you were more emotional and troubled by the loss of a perfectly good cigarette than human life. Right on!
Karl, with the long blond hair, was played by Alexander Godunov, who was principal dancer in the Bolshoi Ballet until he defected from the Soviet Union and became an actor in the US.
What was it like living in the late 80's? I'll tell you. On the weekends you'd go "cruising" with your friends. Usually hang out at the mall. Dinner and a movie was a common Friday for many. But while this was the pre internet days we did still have computers and mind blowing game consoles. We're talking going from atari 2600 8 pixels to the NES which was like having arcade quality games in your own home. But TV was it back then. Today you'll spend your time online browsing your routine stuff. In the late 80's you had your tv line up. Each day of the week had it's own shows to look forward to seeing. And yes we went outside more. Rode our bikes around. Maybe get the gang together for some yard football. You had like 3 hours after school but before family dinner time to do your "friend thing" Then it was dinner with the family followed by homework while watching old reruns while eagerly anticipating the new prime time line up of shows. Then bed and school and you'd do it all over again.
The "papers" that were flying were the bearer bonds that they were stealing. Bearer bonds are not registered to an owner, and as such the "bearer" of the bond owns it. That is why they were stealing them... it's almost untraceable.
And (because of that) thanks to the Government's need to have it's hand in absolutely EVERYTHING, they also no longer exist! (only "Registered" Bonds exist from now on) In fact, if you were to ever FIND a valid Bearer Bond today, you would STILL have to go through an Escrow process (giving your Identity, etc.) to retrieve the funds, because they have all expired by now. (and, as I said, the government doesn't ALLOW the issuing of New ones) After all, if you can't IDENTIFY WHO got the money, you can't TAX them!
@@sharkdentures3247 You also can't use them for money laundering to help protect drug manufacturers or the funding of terrorism, so there's actually a positive of having them controlled. Plus taxes pay for our education and health systems, our roadways and water infrastructure, our police and military and all the other myriad services that make our way of life possible. Don't be upset that we have to pay taxes, they are a good thing. Get upset when rich people use mechanisms to avoid paying their fair share and get upset when politicians misuse our taxes.
@@daxriley8195 Ah yes, The Pro-Tyrannical Bloated, Overreaching Government excuse of "But, muh criminals". (next you'll be bringing up Terrorism & "Think of the children") I hear it ALL the time! Taxes is only ONE reason for Government effectively outlawing Bearer bonds. (the BIGGEST one, but still only one) After all, if there is EVER a way to squeeze more money out of it's citizens, our Government will FIND a way!) AND further limit our anonymity / privacy along with it. Taxes also pay for entitlements, broken welfare systems, contract services being provided by "Friends" of politicians, etc. etc. etc. (AMAZING how "Generous" these politicians are with OUR money, eh?) Also, you sound like Bernie Sanders talking about bread lines in Communist countries when you talk about taxes. "It's a GOOD thing!" And please shake off the "rich people are evil that don't pay their FAIR SHARE" brainwashing your teachers & media has given you. Look up the ACTUAL statistics of WHO is Financing most of those services you talk about. (hint, it AINT the lower 60% of the population)
I do believe that the bonds falling was to represent snow falling. Since it doesn't snow in LA. Ok thanks to CinemaWins for pointing it out in his video. I always though t it was just the bonds falling never made the connection it was to represent snowing. The film is that good I missed that all together.
12:15 They are on top of a large building in the middle of LA. No one on the street can hear a thing, and hell, it's LA,, I doubt they'd notice the additional gunshots anyway :) Seriously though, the sound of a gunshot from that high up would be very very easy to miss at ground level (if it was even audible to begin with) and when you look at the "neighborhood" it is largely empty due to it being Christmas Eve, no houses in the vicinity, no traffic on the streets. And the sound of the gunshots would not really be audible more than maybe 1 floor away while you are in the building as well, that is why no one on the 30th floor heard anything happening with John on the other floors.
thank you for posting this. Also, - Texan here - if you go to an outdoor gunrange....they're not that spaced out and you can hardly tell there are other gun enthusiasts at the firing range....gunfire noise does not travel as far as some people think
For a more reasonable explanation - ever been near a tall building being worked on? They could be running who knows what kind of heavy equipment up there - from the ground you can't hear a thing. Most of the sound just goes up and gets lost in the sky. Little to notice on the ground.
A Japanese company with a touchscreen directory wasn't skimping on construction, either. Solid construction, plush carpeting, etc... There was no way for the sound to travel throughout the building.
There was plenty of 'technology' at the time. It has just been refined since then. A lot of people had computers, they just weren't networked, cell phones existed, but they were big and bulky, so they were only used in cars, which is why Argyle said--call me on the car phone, that's what they were called. People basically had everything we have today, but now, they're all consolidated into one device instead, and smaller.
It was possible to link computers via LAN, or modem. The early modems required you to have a dedicated phone line, and then you put the handset of the phone on a special cradle while it dialed the number. Most early phones were either flip-style or long and rectangular with a collapsible antenna, but pagers were pretty common back then. The Fire Dept scene was a bit unrealistic, because any fire alarms would have been monitored by a separate alarm company, and they in turn call or cancel the Fire Dept response. But that would require the terrorists knowing what the account number was as well as a special password/code, not something that is just laying around or that the terrorists would know.
@@jeffburnham6611 While the internet has existed since the 70s it was still rare for individuals home computer to be networked for several years at the time of this films release, it was nearly a decade away from the start of adoption outside business/military/universities. Even home LAN use seems would not have been that common till the house had a internet connection.
This movie came out in 1988 (if memory serves). By this time, TVs could still have a screen up to 40-50" (102-127cm) BUT they were in 4:3 format (nearly square) and they used mostly Cathode Ray Tubes for the display, so the bigger they were the deeper they had to be. Generally, this meant they were VERY heavy floor standing units. By the time of the movie release, the VCR had been in common use long enough to drop in price below the $400 price point. DVD's would not be released until 1997. IBM had come out with the IBM PC in 1981, and a few years later clones were flooding the market. However, a "fully equipped" PC around the time of this movie would usually sell for $1600-$2000 with 640Kb of RAM, 64MB of Hard Disk space (that's roughly equivalent to 11-12 MP3s), and although graphics did exist at the time it was far more common to see a text based user interface. The SNES wasn't released until 1990, so the only Nintendo would have been the NES. Cameras to take pictures still used film, which had to be developed and printed on photographic paper. This was nearly the only way to see the image unless you used the older version of a Polaroid. The concept of pixels was irrelevant to film. Faxes were far more common. Phones were ALL attached to a wall, but the handset could potentially be cordless - if you had a few thousand dollars. Phone booths were still around. In 1988, Internet access was limited to certain Universities. This would SOON change as ISPs would prepare for the access to the Internet and accept users as customers in 1992 (at least in the US). Customers initially had to access the ISPs via the phone at no faster speed than 56Kbps. Radio Shack electronics stores were in every city. You could buy parts for fixing electronics. Although this was becoming less common and they sold mass market merchandise instead. Perhaps relevant to you, this movie was released BEFORE the USSR was dissolved (1991). This probably also means that it came out quite a while before you were born. You make me feel old. 😉 That's all I can remember. We also got free of the 1970's usage of the colors burnt orange and olive green - on everything. Walls, carpet, appliances, cars. AWFUL. 🤣🤣🤣 Thanks for the reaction video! I subscribed when I first saw you! After all, I love blue!
(34:28-34:44) Throughout this movie John McClane and Hans Gruber were referencing iconic actors who portrayed heroes in classic American Western films. This explains why Gruber called McClane Cowboy, and why McClane says Yippe-Kay-Yay, motherf****r. In this one scene they were referencing a 1952 film called High Noon, staring Gary Cooper and Grace Kelly. It’s about a lawman who must decide whether to battle a gang of killers all by himself, or flee town. High Noon is considered one of the greatest Western films of all-time.
The composite shot of Hans falling from the tower was such a flawless effect that _Die Hard_ was nominated for a visual effects Oscar. Unfortunately, it came out the same year as _Who Framed Roger Rabbit_ and nothing was going to beat that.
The stuntman in the scene where he is trying to grab the duct while falling, actually missed the grab and fell…so what you see was not planned…he managed to grab another as he fell.
a shame how underrated his work was.... he ripped every role he played... in cstners robin hood king of thieves, they even had to cut scenes of rickman, because he just outplayed kostner by far...
I live about 10 miles from the "Nakatomi" Building in the valley where this was filmed and every time I see that place i'm reminded of how big this movie was. Glad you enjoyed it!
that's the Fox building, which they were building at the time, so they used it for the movie & got a tax deduction or something because it was a business expense
Fun fact, the look on Alan Rickmans face when he fell off the building was genuine as the stunt team had rigged the fall without telling him, and that was his reaction when they let him go
Best Christmas movie ever made, and a true 80's action masterpiece; the director of this also directed Predator, so I definitely recommend you checking that out as well
Hi Blue! Another action Christmas movie is LETHAL WEAPON, starring Mel Gibson and Danny Glover. You will enjoy it just as much as you enjoyed DIE HARD. Merry Christmas 🎄💓!
NONONOOOO! Lethal Weapon IS a (awesome) movie that just so happens to be set around Christmas (the fallacious rebuttal against Die Hards xmassy cred). Gremlins one lives in the mid-xmas space between Lethal Weapon and Die Hard. But Die Hard is definately a (if not THE) Christmas movie! 😜🎄👍❤
here in April in Canada, we hit a new high: $6.50 a gallon (Canadian) (which is about $4.80 US / gallon) (we use litres here not gallons, but my late dad was American, so he always wanted me to give him the prices in gallons, then in US $/gallon 😅)
@23:40, during the early to mid 1980’s there were a number of terrorist hijackings/hostage situations around the world. The bad guys would hold people hostage for a few days issue a statement then let them go. So Ellis (despite being an idiot) was probably thinking this was a similar situation. This blasé attitude among the American public stayed in place until the attacks of 9/11. Now people assume if they are in a terrorist situation especially on a plane that it is a worst case scenario. I do give Ellis credit for not giving up Holly while pulling such a reckless and doomed stunt
I think it's a bit naive to think, given enough time and little persuasion, he wouldn't have given the name of his own mother to save his hide. The story works better with the later reveal anyway, in my opinion.
If Ellis was so smart he would have known that he was putting his head on the platter here. Even if it worked they may have still killed him just for being a nuisance they didn't have to worry about. And Ellis should have known if John didn't come out he was dead. So, he was kind of being idiot. But, coming down off the C he likely wasn't thinking straight.
@@DV80s Well, he was clearly not at his full faculties. I always chuckle when Karl hands him the soft drink can, I can just imagine Ellis thinking, "That's not what I meant when I said I wanted some "coke."
the walkie talkies were also portable CB(citizen band) radios. Channel 9 (there were 21 available) was reserved for emergency calls only. So he was trying to get help but the bad guys could hear too since they had the same equipment.
As I recall from playing with them when younger Ch. 9 wasn't restricted or monitored on this level. Were you to go in there and give non-emergent calls you wouldn't immediately get a response from a 911 dispatcher.
We didn’t think of it as a lack of technology. There was more technology than there had ever been, the age of computers was starting, and some already worried it was becoming too much. And that is all before people spent all day staring at little screens, like today! 😉
@@namelessjedi2242 it was less a lack of Technology and more a lack of options. Movies were very important because we weren’t watching Netflix, youtube and social media. So if you wanted a break from Reality it was going to a movie.
You asked near the end about the papers. Please do realize that this is a tall office tower, and there was a time when contracts, invoices, and many other important documents were recorded and stored on paper. Digital documentation was only just beginning when this movie was released, so if you destroyed a section of a business building, you probably unleashed a very large amount of loose papers, since falling from a few floors up, with nothing to hold them together, each page would fall through the air individually. At the very end, it was a really big thing that Al drew his gun and shot to protect John and Holly and everyone else. Remember he couldn't bring himself to draw his gun again for some time since the incident he described before.
This movie became a huge influence on movies that came after it - apparently writers and producers would pitch and sell their movie ideas by comparing them to Die Hard: Die Hard on a bus (Speed), Die Hard on a plane (many movies), Die Hard in a phone booth...and lots of TV series would do their "Die Hard" episode.
Speaking of old school technology, the lobby's 'touch screen' at the beginning was most likely not, actually, a touch screen. It probably had LEDs along one side and the top (or bottom) with photo-detectors opposite the LEDs. They were mounted just above the screen. The LEDs were quickly flashed in sequence and the photo-detectors were also read in sequence which told the computer where John's finger interrupted the light path. High-tech at the time.
For the movie, Bruce was acting with a blank screen. The text on the screen was B-Unit "pick-up" shots done later. But that *is* an accurate description of early *touchscreen* technology, of which advanced forms are still used in some applications today.
It's amazing how far we have come. Can literally talk to anyone on Earth, take pictures or video, listen to music.....but on device that doesn't cost that much money. God bless the human race.
you should watch Die Hard 2 now as it is also a Christmas movie and later check out 3, 4 and 5 and myself I think die hard 4 is the best of the three. You had probably watched The Predator and the other film there is from the 90's and they had one thing that made a spin-off with Alien (2 films) and the predators and one that is fairly new in addition to at least 6 films under 30+ years and the Alien movies are at least 8 (two are with the predators) RED + RED2 is good but it is fairly new
Die Hard is my second favorite Christmas movie after the all time greatest, A Christmas Story (1983). Blue, I can’t explain to you the joys of being a kid in the 1980s and a young adult in the 1990s. Good movies, good music, and good times!!!
@@bluebird3281 Nahh, those days are gone. Can't bring The Fun back with mask mandates, vax passports, massive inflation... It would take a lot more prosperity and freedom and a lot fewer Karens andess cancel culture to come close to those days.
35:47 "what are these lists of paper!?" lol, well you see, offices used to store most of their documentation on physical sheets of paper. great reaction to a great movie!
I've always felt that it was because of Die Hard's success that Culkin's father went 🤑, and he started making his kids act, hoping one would make it big, and it worked. There were three Culkins in the first Home Alone.
Best Christmas movie ever made!! I saw this on CBS Sunday night Movie in 1998 but never got a chance to watch the climax, until my dad got it on VHS from Blockbuster video and it blew me away!
Johns little bomb that he dropped down the elevator shaft wasnt that massive- it was only one C-4 brick - but it DID set off missiles and other stuff the bad guys had stored on that floor.
here in April 2024 in Canada, we hit a new record high: $6.50 a gallon (Canadian) (which is about $4.80 US / gallon) (we use litres here, not gallons, but my late dad was American, so he always wanted me to give him the prices in gallons, then in US $/gallon)
Well Blue, I used to ride my woolly mammoth to work at the spear factory before the ice age put us out of business...back then as you say. But seriously, your vibe is very laid back and chill and your channel is great.
"Seriously, why do they need the hostages?" You'll find out. And, roll with this: superstar actor John Wayne did not walk off with actress Grace Kelly in a Western, it was actor Gary Cooper and the movie was the 1952 classic, High Noon. Grace Kelly, by the way, left Hollywood, married a real prince and became Princess Grace of Monaco. Die Hard's plot owes a lot to High Noon's in that they both deal with one man being left to defy the odds and save the day.
people always mention how it's funny that the touch screen building directory (when john enters the lobby) was high tech at the time.... well just think... this was also about 6 years before anybody every heard about a web browser and for the most part...4 years before most people ever knew about the internet (unless you were one of a relative few).
Late to the party here, but the papers falling at the end were the bearer bonds, but not only that, it's white and is meant to simulate snow. It doesn't snow in LA, and at the end of Christmas movies, it usually snows.
The gunplay was at the top of a seriously high skyscraper. Its doubtful it would be been distinctly heard or discernible at street level at normal city/traffic noise levels. And as it was Christmas eve so few people would be in the business district anyway.
It always amuses me when young people wonder what life was like back then. Life was pretty much the same. We had electricity and cars and airplanes. People complained about the government and traffic and nothing to watch on TV. Teenagers were still idiots and old people still didn't get them. What we didn't have was the internet and smart phones. We didn't have the world at our fingertips. If we wanted to watch a movie, we either called the theater and listened to the recording telling us what was playing and when, or we popped a tape into the VCR. We also thankfully didn't have websites where morons could congregate with other morons and think they were the majority. Folks today are a little better informed than we were, but unfortunately that didn't translate into being any smarter or any less ignorant. Basically, life then was mostly the same as life today, just on a slightly smaller scale.
Yeah, same here. I even saw one young kid who was reacting to Elvis, wonder how Elvis became so popular, since there weren't many people back then... I suppose there were only a few thousand humans back in the 50's, 60,s and 70's. lol
Yeah, I was in California at the time. I think there was a gas war on because I think the normal price was around $0.85 to $0.90. A few years later when it cost me over $20 to fill my tank is when I had enough and moved to the Mid-West.
Side note before any comment about the reaction, I absolutely love your very blue hair in this, in has a nice shine that goes so well with your makeup and outfit, just perfect! Hahaha, I love how you thought he was naive when he gave the cigarette and gun to Hans. You did amazing with this movie, I'm glad you loved this, I hope you watch the sequels too, a few of them are pretty good even if not all of them are Christmas movies!
Trixie: 1) About the "walkie talkie" radios-they are citizen's band (CB) radios with channels 1-40. Channel 9 is an emergency frequency. Truckers still use them, but not as much as they used to. In the 1970's, CB radios were social media with people inventing "handles" (on frequency personalities). The version they used in the movie only had a range of 3-5 miles, the reason that the police could hear them was that they had "repeaters" which would boost the signal of the radios. 2) Westerns were referenced a lot in the movie. a) Roy Rogers was kind of a singing cowboy-never got in any gunfights. He wore sequined shirts and was kind of a showman. b) The reference that Gary Cooper walks off into the sunset with Grace Kelly was about the 1952 western "High Noon." Gary Cooper has to defend his town from a group of bad guys coming after him. c) John Wayne is arguably the king of the westerns. He talked tough, was rough, and was in gunfight after gunfight and when he wasn't shooting, he was in fistfights. John Wayne stood six foot two and didn't take crap off of no one. Legendary actor. I know that the movie reactor channels have copyright issues sometimes. His movie "Rio Lobo" is in the "public domain", which means no one owns it and therefore you could play the whole movie on your channel and no one could file copyright issues on it.
Best action film next to RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK (if you haven't seen that one you need to). FYI: The Gary Cooper/Grace Kelly/John Wayne dialogue between John & Hans is pertaining to a classic Western HIGH NOON which starred the former 2 - Wayne was a Western superstar. That's the joke :D You're lovely :D Nice job Trix
"not much technology". i love it. i remember saying that when i used my grandparents' old rotary dial phone, and hear them chuckle. there certainly is a more visceral feeling to pre2000 cinema (on average). it isnt just the practical effects - the average movie felt more organic. extras talked a bit more natural, a lot more caught honest movements, which would be scrapped today unless very intentionally kept in. whole different feeling of movie-making. though i think this natural feeling peaked in the 70s (before the birth of modern technology 😊).
A lot of people these days forgot about the pager generation. Before cellphones having a pager was the "cool" thing everyone had to have. You could do small texts on them. But having a pager was definately a sign of popularity status. You'd have to pay a monthly fee to use them. Most would rather have a pager than an early day cell phone. They were way more practical. I don't think it was until the days of the Razor Flip phone and blackberry did people finally start parting ways with their beloved pagers.
.... I remember a time before ATM's. If you wanted cash you had to fill out a withdraw slip and go to your bank. Us older schoolers from this time still have the sense to have a stash of emergency cash somewhere. Always like an emergency 20 someone hidden in the car. Or "Pocket Cash" hidden in the house. There used to be a sur charge if you used plastic on an order of less than 20 bucks in most places. Many would only take Visa but not mastercard. Or vice versa. Now everything is just fast pay via phone or card and bought online. It's nice but at the same time it's a business tactic to seperate you from your money because it's not tangably in your hands. When you make it an invisible number you tend to not care as much about spending and budgeting.
Fun Fact: The look of surprise on Hans' face is real. When they filmed it, they told them they were going to drop him on the count of 3 but they dropped him on 2.
Blue, You have to understand something. While out in the open it is possible to hear a gunshot up to a 1/2 mile away, HOWEVER, you have to understand that that building is in a more industrial business district and it's Christmas Eve. NOBODY is around the area. People are all at home or they were in the malls doing last minute shopping. Absolutely NO ONE is around to hear anything.
Grace Kelly, John Wayne, and Gary Cooper were popular American actors from the mid-20th Century. Hans was essentially comparing John to characters they used to play in old Western films and saying that he wasn't gonna get the same happy endings they usually did.
Great movie. You should watch the sequel which is even more a Christmas movie and Its a wonderful Life the classic Christmas movie . Another great underrated action Christmas movie you should see is Reindeer games 2000 with Ben Affleck..
yeah there was basically no internet like we know today, maybe some nerds had it but if you wanted to know something, you either had to go to the library to look it up in a book or go to the book store and buy a book or magazine about something. I knew that there was a Fantastic Four movie was supposed to come out in 1994 and a Spiderman movie with Charlie Sheen in 1991, that movie got cancelled , James Cameron was going to make it but he couldn't get the effects right of Spiderman swinging through the streets. i read all this in a magazine in the early 1990s. people had pagers in the 90s, little computers that if someone tried calling your beeper, it would read out on a screen saying the phone number that called it. then you would find a payphone and call that person from there.
Back in the day... My house had no air conditioning. Small TV (no remote control) but no VCR until I bought one. I think my parents got a microwave and a dishwasher before I moved out, but to be fair, we were poor. No cell phones, either - well, that's not entirely true, my boyfriend had a big old car phone, but I only had a landline. Faxes were just starting to be a thing, for businesses. The Internet was not a thing for most people (when I first bought myself a computer, the guy at the store told me that 10 MB was all the hard drive I'd ever need). Anyway... I saw this movie in the theater, when it came out, and *man* were we pumped after that.
Wow! I can't wait to see your reaction to this! 😂 You look awesome too, just like you IG pics 😁✌👍 (when they dropped Hans...they said "on 3" and let him go at 2....🤣, looked great)
As someone who did live back then I can tell you the 80s was the best decade to be alive. While we had a bit of modern technology we still lived our lives similar to those who live before us. We were not dependent on electronic leashes. We went out and met people in person. We hung out in shopping malls (when they existed) or in mall/shopping center parking lots and just hung out. We went to bars to meet people. We bought cars that we could work on and supped up by ourselves because car engineers weren't the kind of pricks they are today. And auto parts stores always had the part you needed. None of this "we have order it" bullshit. And since this was filmed in 87 and released in 88, did you notice the gas prices? .74 cents for regular and .78 for super? I had a 1978 Chevy Impala with a 20 gallon tank and it cost less than $20 to fill that up and I could go cruising around all weekend and still had enough to drive to work during the week with a V8 engine. If you were lucky like me you didn't have to drive to the next town or several towns/cities over to find something to do. My hometown, being the second or third largest city in the state had everything we needed. A movie theater, two malls, pizza places, sub shops, multiple brand grocery stores, videos stores, 5 or 6 different brands of gas stations, multiple McDonald's locations, record stores, multiple 7-11s, pretty much anything we wanted within 5 minutes of each other. My hometown was great in the 80s. Now it is unrecognizable from what it used to be. It's become more commercial in the 2000s and home construction went overboard and hundreds of houses are crammed in next to each other that nobody has any real privacy anymore. I knew it was time to leave at that point. But, yes, the 80s were a great decade to be alive in. If you were at least of driving age or older, you enjoyed the 80s at some point.
@@travismurell5228 You heard wrong. There is an old saying. If you remember the 60s, then you didn't live then. I add something new to that saying: If you remember the 60s then you didn't live back then or you were already a responsible adult. Most of what the 60s were to the younger crow, teens through the 20s, was one big long acid trip while trying to be a bum as much as you can. Hitchhiking to where ever karma brings you in the universe is NOT living. It is existing. We LIVED in the 80s. We went out and did things when we were not hanging out with each other. While there was drug use we didn't let it control us and let it place us where ever in the universe. We had goals in the 80s. We had money in our pockets in the 80s. We had jobs in the 80s. We had our own cars in the 80s. The 60s was nothing but a drugged out power protest of the Vietnam War. Outside of the space program that eventually landed us on the moon, the 60s, as decades go, was probably the least productive decade of the 20th century.
Huh, a naive viewer is about to enter the Die Hard Zone. Get into Argyle's limousine for a trip to the Nakatomi Plaza building and the Christmas party from Hell. Let's make a "Christmas Cake." Take one "TV guy," add a stage actor, fold in a script worthy of Action Adventure movies of the time, bake in an improvised oven over flaming C4, finally, garnish with 9mm bullets. "Detective John McClane" is iconic because: He isn't a "Rambo clone," takes damage, has moments of fear/humor/introspection, has a working class background, and is "falling down tired" by the last quarter of the movie. So, "Christmas doesn't begin until 'Hans Gruber' falls off the Nakatomi Plaza building." Something from a singer-songwriter who never got to make a Christmas album: ua-cam.com/video/wYHleFFhlFk/v-deo.html (And it sorta fits this movie.;)
You're right, I think it was fate. A very fun reaction. Die Hard 2 is pretty good but you should definitely watch part 3, Die Hard With A Vengeance. It's my favorite of the series. Honestly you could just skip to 3 and stop there. The rest are good but not great.
Yea, like others are saying, technology was everywhere back then, it was just different. You have to think of tech with a different perspective. Tech use to be all mechanical and then electricity came along and slowly electrical things were added to our lives. Lots of tech was the mechanical manipulation of electricity. Then electronics came along, then microelectronics followed that and that was followed by processors (computers) and no doubt there are more advancements in our future. Since you are in the medical field you might be interested in old movies that show medical tech in the middle of the last century. It is jarring to watch an old movie and see someone who has been shot not get any actual medical attention when the ambulance shows up.
I insist on pointing this out on every reaction to this movie because NO ONE realizes the C4 sets off the stockpile of rockets for the launcher they were using on the tank. That's why it nearly took out the entire floor.
The Biggest thing people ask is, "Why Doesn't anyone Hear the Shots". They're over 30 stories up, in the Business District, On Christmas Eve. The Only Person that can Hear them is Santa, and he's too busy Ducking and looking for Cover.
My thoughts too, they're around 500 feet in the air, no one's hearing anything from up there.
Also my thoughts on my Argyle isn't doing anything (or couldn't if he wasn't on the phone and listening to the radio.) He's in the garage, John, he didn't hear those shots!
You can hear gunshots from a mile away if you are in a quiet area and outdoors. But LA? forget it. Especially in a financial district on Christmas eve after hours. There is nobody left in range to hear them. And indoors the only people alive to hear them are the hostages, the robbery crew, and the hero.
Lol no
And that's exactly why Hans chose that night. They had hostages and access to Takagi due to the party, but no one else to interfere, or so he thought.
Note: corporate "Christmas parties" never happen on Christmas day... NEVER... They occurs one week earlier or something... So Santa is not there, and "that night" Hans is supposed to have select is not Christmas day, it's just the corporates party night (which should be on Friday evening, usually).
Die Hard is a beautiful Christmas film about family and forgiveness overcoming all... including thieves pretending to be terrorists.
...Who ALL get brutally murdered.
😁🤣👍
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Merry Xmas to all, and to all a goodnight.
😜
It's not Christmas until Hans Gruber is thrown off the Nakatomi Tower...
As long as there’s Twinkies in the stockings then it’s all good.
no; it's an action movie.
Just hearing “late 1900’s” makes me feel so old. I WAS ONLY 13 WHEN IT TURNED TO YEAR 2K!
I was born in 1993 and definitely seen Die hard because the millennium but that being said I watched Showgirls when I was about 5 years old 😂😂😂
I get where you're coming from when you hear John say "you should've heard your brother squeal when I broke his fucking neck" but he's in a fight for his life and whoever makes the first mistake will end up dying and he wants to piss this guy off as much as possible to get him to make the first mistake and to be honest it's quite refreshing having the main good guy bring out a little dark side inside of them instead of saying things that don't make sense or that no one would say in a fight, what he said is exactly what I think you'd hear in a fight to the death
Well said. John isn't a 1 dimensional hero, he's complex. He is a good man/cop who did what he needed to survive and help people. Survival is primal. Like you said "fight to the death". He was angry, maybe he was making a calculated statement like you said. But maybe he was just tired and pissed offed. I have said things I regret in this state to people I love, so I imagine a fight to the death would bring it out.
"It isn't Christmas until Hans Gruber falls from the Nakatomi Tower!"
It’s not Christmas until I’ve seen Hans Gruber fall from Nakatomi Towers at least twice!
The most revealing part of this reaction was that you were more emotional and troubled by the loss of a perfectly good cigarette than human life. Right on!
Karl, with the long blond hair, was played by Alexander Godunov, who was principal dancer in the Bolshoi Ballet until he defected from the Soviet Union and became an actor in the US.
RIP Alexander Godunov
What was it like living in the late 80's? I'll tell you. On the weekends you'd go "cruising" with your friends. Usually hang out at the mall. Dinner and a movie was a common Friday for many. But while this was the pre internet days we did still have computers and mind blowing game consoles. We're talking going from atari 2600 8 pixels to the NES which was like having arcade quality games in your own home.
But TV was it back then. Today you'll spend your time online browsing your routine stuff. In the late 80's you had your tv line up. Each day of the week had it's own shows to look forward to seeing. And yes we went outside more. Rode our bikes around. Maybe get the gang together for some yard football. You had like 3 hours after school but before family dinner time to do your "friend thing" Then it was dinner with the family followed by homework while watching old reruns while eagerly anticipating the new prime time line up of shows. Then bed and school and you'd do it all over again.
Don't forget VHS and the rental store.
sounds like my experience plus TV Party lol ua-cam.com/video/psUOyXGacL0/v-deo.html
The late 80s was a completely different world. Everything was so much more relaxed
Hello from the kid of the '80, bruh... :)
what's a "mall"?
The "papers" that were flying were the bearer bonds that they were stealing. Bearer bonds are not registered to an owner, and as such the "bearer" of the bond owns it. That is why they were stealing them... it's almost untraceable.
Dont they have serial numbers so if the thieves tried to cash in they would be found out?
And (because of that) thanks to the Government's need to have it's hand in absolutely EVERYTHING, they also no longer exist! (only "Registered" Bonds exist from now on) In fact, if you were to ever FIND a valid Bearer Bond today, you would STILL have to go through an Escrow process (giving your Identity, etc.) to retrieve the funds, because they have all expired by now.
(and, as I said, the government doesn't ALLOW the issuing of New ones) After all, if you can't IDENTIFY WHO got the money, you can't TAX them!
@@sharkdentures3247 You also can't use them for money laundering to help protect drug manufacturers or the funding of terrorism, so there's actually a positive of having them controlled. Plus taxes pay for our education and health systems, our roadways and water infrastructure, our police and military and all the other myriad services that make our way of life possible.
Don't be upset that we have to pay taxes, they are a good thing. Get upset when rich people use mechanisms to avoid paying their fair share and get upset when politicians misuse our taxes.
@@daxriley8195 Ah yes, The Pro-Tyrannical Bloated, Overreaching Government excuse of "But, muh criminals". (next you'll be bringing up Terrorism & "Think of the children") I hear it ALL the time!
Taxes is only ONE reason for Government effectively outlawing Bearer bonds. (the BIGGEST one, but still only one) After all, if there is EVER a way to squeeze more money out of it's citizens, our Government will FIND a way!) AND further limit our anonymity / privacy along with it.
Taxes also pay for entitlements, broken welfare systems, contract services being provided by "Friends" of politicians, etc. etc. etc. (AMAZING how "Generous" these politicians are with OUR money, eh?)
Also, you sound like Bernie Sanders talking about bread lines in Communist countries when you talk about taxes. "It's a GOOD thing!"
And please shake off the "rich people are evil that don't pay their FAIR SHARE" brainwashing your teachers & media has given you. Look up the ACTUAL statistics of WHO is Financing most of those services you talk about. (hint, it AINT the lower 60% of the population)
I do believe that the bonds falling was to represent snow falling. Since it doesn't snow in LA. Ok thanks to CinemaWins for pointing it out in his video. I always though t it was just the bonds falling never made the connection it was to represent snowing. The film is that good I missed that all together.
12:15 They are on top of a large building in the middle of LA. No one on the street can hear a thing, and hell, it's LA,, I doubt they'd notice the additional gunshots anyway :)
Seriously though, the sound of a gunshot from that high up would be very very easy to miss at ground level (if it was even audible to begin with) and when you look at the "neighborhood" it is largely empty due to it being Christmas Eve, no houses in the vicinity, no traffic on the streets. And the sound of the gunshots would not really be audible more than maybe 1 floor away while you are in the building as well, that is why no one on the 30th floor heard anything happening with John on the other floors.
thank you for posting this. Also, - Texan here - if you go to an outdoor gunrange....they're not that spaced out and you can hardly tell there are other gun enthusiasts at the firing range....gunfire noise does not travel as far as some people think
Yeah, I remember seeing news reports about L.A. as a kid in the 80's. Practically a goddamn warzone. People wouldn't have noticed shit.
Also, on Christmas Eve there would be very few other people around in a commercial area of town.
For a more reasonable explanation - ever been near a tall building being worked on? They could be running who knows what kind of heavy equipment up there - from the ground you can't hear a thing. Most of the sound just goes up and gets lost in the sky. Little to notice on the ground.
A Japanese company with a touchscreen directory wasn't skimping on construction, either. Solid construction, plush carpeting, etc...
There was no way for the sound to travel throughout the building.
There was plenty of 'technology' at the time. It has just been refined since then. A lot of people had computers, they just weren't networked, cell phones existed, but they were big and bulky, so they were only used in cars, which is why Argyle said--call me on the car phone, that's what they were called. People basically had everything we have today, but now, they're all consolidated into one device instead, and smaller.
It was possible to link computers via LAN, or modem. The early modems required you to have a dedicated phone line, and then you put the handset of the phone on a special cradle while it dialed the number. Most early phones were either flip-style or long and rectangular with a collapsible antenna, but pagers were pretty common back then. The Fire Dept scene was a bit unrealistic, because any fire alarms would have been monitored by a separate alarm company, and they in turn call or cancel the Fire Dept response. But that would require the terrorists knowing what the account number was as well as a special password/code, not something that is just laying around or that the terrorists would know.
@@jeffburnham6611 While the internet has existed since the 70s it was still rare for individuals home computer to be networked for several years at the time of this films release, it was nearly a decade away from the start of adoption outside business/military/universities. Even home LAN use seems would not have been that common till the house had a internet connection.
"I just can't help but think, what was life like back then?" God I feel old now.
This movie came out in 1988 (if memory serves). By this time, TVs could still have a screen up to 40-50" (102-127cm) BUT they were in 4:3 format (nearly square) and they used mostly Cathode Ray Tubes for the display, so the bigger they were the deeper they had to be. Generally, this meant they were VERY heavy floor standing units.
By the time of the movie release, the VCR had been in common use long enough to drop in price below the $400 price point. DVD's would not be released until 1997.
IBM had come out with the IBM PC in 1981, and a few years later clones were flooding the market. However, a "fully equipped" PC around the time of this movie would usually sell for $1600-$2000 with 640Kb of RAM, 64MB of Hard Disk space (that's roughly equivalent to 11-12 MP3s), and although graphics did exist at the time it was far more common to see a text based user interface.
The SNES wasn't released until 1990, so the only Nintendo would have been the NES.
Cameras to take pictures still used film, which had to be developed and printed on photographic paper. This was nearly the only way to see the image unless you used the older version of a Polaroid. The concept of pixels was irrelevant to film.
Faxes were far more common. Phones were ALL attached to a wall, but the handset could potentially be cordless - if you had a few thousand dollars. Phone booths were still around.
In 1988, Internet access was limited to certain Universities. This would SOON change as ISPs would prepare for the access to the Internet and accept users as customers in 1992 (at least in the US). Customers initially had to access the ISPs via the phone at no faster speed than 56Kbps.
Radio Shack electronics stores were in every city. You could buy parts for fixing electronics. Although this was becoming less common and they sold mass market merchandise instead.
Perhaps relevant to you, this movie was released BEFORE the USSR was dissolved (1991). This probably also means that it came out quite a while before you were born. You make me feel old. 😉
That's all I can remember. We also got free of the 1970's usage of the colors burnt orange and olive green - on everything. Walls, carpet, appliances, cars. AWFUL. 🤣🤣🤣
Thanks for the reaction video! I subscribed when I first saw you! After all, I love blue!
The internet was also used/developed by the military and major businesses from the start.
You mean a avocado green; not olive green
my mom's family's first VCR was $500 (Canadian) in 1985
my late dad paid $2,200 for his first VCR after selling his old truck
(34:28-34:44) Throughout this movie John McClane and Hans Gruber were referencing iconic actors who portrayed heroes in classic American Western films. This explains why Gruber called McClane Cowboy, and why McClane says Yippe-Kay-Yay, motherf****r. In this one scene they were referencing a 1952 film called High Noon, staring Gary Cooper and Grace Kelly. It’s about a lawman who must decide whether to battle a gang of killers all by himself, or flee town. High Noon is considered one of the greatest Western films of all-time.
"late 1900s" - way to make me feel old, Blue.
Yeah :( that hurt ... 💔😭😭
Yup😞. Its okay to say 80s and 90s but damn, late 1900s just killed me🤣
i was born in the late 1900s (1995)
The composite shot of Hans falling from the tower was such a flawless effect that _Die Hard_ was nominated for a visual effects Oscar. Unfortunately, it came out the same year as _Who Framed Roger Rabbit_ and nothing was going to beat that.
The stuntman in the scene where he is trying to grab the duct while falling, actually missed the grab and fell…so what you see was not planned…he managed to grab another as he fell.
"when I watch something from the late 1900s"- I felt so old.
Here I've always referred to the late 1800's or early 1900's as historical. 😂😭
i was born in the late 1900s (1995)
Did you say "the late 1900's"?!! Ouch! That hit me hard👴🏼
i was born in the late 1900s (1995)
I'm almost 30 LOL
Fun Action packed Christmas movie ☃️, Batman Returns is a good Christmas movie aswell with Micheal Keaton as Batman 🦇
DEFINITELY a holiday movie. Also Die Hard 2, Ghostbusters 2 and Lethal Weapon
imo the best batman movie.
RIP Alan Rickman (February 21, 1946 - January 14, 2016), aged 69
You will always be remembered as a legend.
a shame how underrated his work was.... he ripped every role he played... in cstners robin hood king of thieves, they even had to cut scenes of rickman, because he just outplayed kostner by far...
@@Metzwerg74 You, Mariam 10:30. You 10:45. Bring a friend.
I live about 10 miles from the "Nakatomi" Building in the valley where this was filmed and every time I see that place i'm reminded of how big this movie was. Glad you enjoyed it!
that's the Fox building, which they were building at the time,
so they used it for the movie & got a tax deduction or something
because it was a business expense
Half an hour away from Hans Gruber plummeting from the Nakatomi building and starting christmas off; Happy Holigays from Scotland, kerk hiraeth
Fun fact, the look on Alan Rickmans face when he fell off the building was genuine as the stunt team had rigged the fall without telling him, and that was his reaction when they let him go
Well he thought he was dropped on count of 3. They released him on 2.
that's such bullshit
i'd demand double my salary for that shit.
Best Christmas movie ever made, and a true 80's action masterpiece; the director of this also directed Predator, so I definitely recommend you checking that out as well
Hi Blue! Another action Christmas movie is LETHAL WEAPON, starring Mel Gibson and Danny Glover. You will enjoy it just as much as you enjoyed DIE HARD. Merry Christmas 🎄💓!
:)
NONONOOOO!
Lethal Weapon IS a (awesome) movie that just so happens to be set around Christmas (the fallacious rebuttal against Die Hards xmassy cred).
Gremlins one lives in the mid-xmas space between Lethal Weapon and Die Hard. But Die Hard is definately a (if not THE) Christmas movie!
😜🎄👍❤
Great reaction.
I still love the $.74 gas at 11:45, I remember my dad swearing if gas hit $1 per gallon he was going to stop driving LOL.
Yeah, but even that was much cheaper than gas was when the movie was released. But it would be wonderful to see it again.
here in April in Canada, we hit a new high:
$6.50 a gallon (Canadian)
(which is about $4.80 US / gallon)
(we use litres here not gallons,
but my late dad was American, so he always wanted me to give him the prices in gallons, then in US $/gallon 😅)
I've never felt older than when she said 1900's!
@23:40, during the early to mid 1980’s there were a number of terrorist hijackings/hostage situations around the world. The bad guys would hold people hostage for a few days issue a statement then let them go.
So Ellis (despite being an idiot) was probably thinking this was a similar situation.
This blasé attitude among the American public stayed in place until the attacks of 9/11. Now people assume if they are in a terrorist situation especially on a plane that it is a worst case scenario.
I do give Ellis credit for not giving up Holly while pulling such a reckless and doomed stunt
I think it's a bit naive to think, given enough time and little persuasion, he wouldn't have given the name of his own mother to save his hide.
The story works better with the later reveal anyway, in my opinion.
If Ellis was so smart he would have known that he was putting his head on the platter here. Even if it worked they may have still killed him just for being a nuisance they didn't have to worry about. And Ellis should have known if John didn't come out he was dead.
So, he was kind of being idiot. But, coming down off the C he likely wasn't thinking straight.
@@DV80s Well, he was clearly not at his full faculties.
I always chuckle when Karl hands him the soft drink can, I can just imagine Ellis thinking, "That's not what I meant when I said I wanted some "coke."
@@brianstraight9308 Yeah that C is probably not the best for critical thinking
23:48 You’re the first reactor I’ve seen saddened by Ellis’s execution.
Fuck Ellis 😂😂
the walkie talkies were also portable CB(citizen band) radios. Channel 9 (there were 21 available) was reserved for emergency calls only. So he was trying to get help but the bad guys could hear too since they had the same equipment.
As I recall from playing with them when younger Ch. 9 wasn't restricted or monitored on this level. Were you to go in there and give non-emergent calls you wouldn't immediately get a response from a 911 dispatcher.
"welcome to the party pal"😂 yes this is one of the best Christmas movies ever. Great reaction Blue 😃
Merry Christmas everyone ☃️🎄🎅
You've seen Die Hard, one of the greatest modern classics! Welcome to the party, pal!
...although I guess this movie is now over 30 years old and not so 'modern' anymore...
Blue John Wayne and Gary Cooper were movie actors from the 40's thru 60's who were famous for their roles as cowboys in westerns
From the 1920s
The lack of technology made movies like this bigger than life. It was pretty much all we had to all watch together as a society.
We didn’t think of it as a lack of technology. There was more technology than there had ever been, the age of computers was starting, and some already worried it was becoming too much. And that is all before people spent all day staring at little screens, like today! 😉
@@namelessjedi2242 it was less a lack of Technology and more a lack of options. Movies were very important because we weren’t watching Netflix, youtube and social media. So if you wanted a break from
Reality it was going to a movie.
Back in the days when every cave had a phone on the wall, and you had to pick what kind of animal skin you were going to wear that day.
You asked near the end about the papers. Please do realize that this is a tall office tower, and there was a time when contracts, invoices, and many other important documents were recorded and stored on paper. Digital documentation was only just beginning when this movie was released, so if you destroyed a section of a business building, you probably unleashed a very large amount of loose papers, since falling from a few floors up, with nothing to hold them together, each page would fall through the air individually.
At the very end, it was a really big thing that Al drew his gun and shot to protect John and Holly and everyone else. Remember he couldn't bring himself to draw his gun again for some time since the incident he described before.
This movie became a huge influence on movies that came after it - apparently writers and producers would pitch and sell their movie ideas by comparing them to Die Hard: Die Hard on a bus (Speed), Die Hard on a plane (many movies), Die Hard in a phone booth...and lots of TV series would do their "Die Hard" episode.
Jan De Bont, the director of Speed, was director of photography for this movie.
Die Hard for kids (Home Alone)
Speaking of old school technology, the lobby's 'touch screen' at the beginning was most likely not, actually, a touch screen. It probably had LEDs along one side and the top (or bottom) with photo-detectors opposite the LEDs. They were mounted just above the screen. The LEDs were quickly flashed in sequence and the photo-detectors were also read in sequence which told the computer where John's finger interrupted the light path. High-tech at the time.
My first time experienced touch screen was in a hotel back in late 70s.
@Necramonium Or maybe just a video with Bruce Willis “miming” along.
For the movie, Bruce was acting with a blank screen. The text on the screen was B-Unit "pick-up" shots done later.
But that *is* an accurate description of early *touchscreen* technology, of which advanced forms are still used in some applications today.
It's amazing how far we have come. Can literally talk to anyone on Earth, take pictures or video, listen to music.....but on device that doesn't cost that much money. God bless the human race.
Blue this movie was the first major movie roles for both Bruce Willis and Alan Rickman (Professor Snape)
And Bruce Willis had actually been a bartender 😂😂
Die Hard 2, Die Hard With a Vengeance (Die Hard 3), RED (Retired, Extremely Dangerous) 1 & 2 are very good Bruce Willis movies to add to this.
Of those I would put RED first
you should watch Die Hard 2 now as it is also a Christmas movie and later check out 3, 4 and 5 and myself I think die hard 4 is the best of the three. You had probably watched The Predator and the other film there is from the 90's and they had one thing that made a spin-off with Alien (2 films) and the predators and one that is fairly new in addition to at least 6 films under 30+ years
and the Alien movies are at least 8 (two are with the predators)
RED + RED2 is good but it is fairly new
Bruce Willis is also good in Tears of the Sun
i just say.... Hudson Hawk....
11:47 Hold the fucking phone! Never paid attention to that before. Gas was 74¢ a gallon?! Crazy.
20 years ago, the gas here was only 80s cents a litre
Die Hard is my second favorite Christmas movie after the all time greatest, A Christmas Story (1983). Blue, I can’t explain to you the joys of being a kid in the 1980s and a young adult in the 1990s. Good movies, good music, and good times!!!
Things were great back Before The Fun Stopped! Real shame that time is gone to return no more.
@@dr.burtgummerfan439 It is coming back, you can only have "no fun" for so long.
@@bluebird3281 Nahh, those days are gone. Can't bring The Fun back with mask mandates, vax passports, massive inflation... It would take a lot more prosperity and freedom and a lot fewer Karens andess cancel culture to come close to those days.
Of course Die Hard wants to play, it's Christmas time!
35:47 "what are these lists of paper!?" lol, well you see, offices used to store most of their documentation on physical sheets of paper. great reaction to a great movie!
Best Christmas movie ever made!
Things were great before the internet.. people actually had lives.
Late 1900's thanks for making me feel ancient
Late 1900's, I feel old. LOL! Please watch Die Hard 2!
Yep I’m feeling decrepit
21:15 Yep. Makeshift C4 bomb + missiles = big fat boom.
Great reaction to one of the best Christmas movies of all time!
Fun Fact: Bonnie Bedelia (Holly)is also Macaulay Culkin's aunt.
I've always felt that it was because of Die Hard's success that Culkin's father went 🤑, and he started making his kids act, hoping one would make it big, and it worked. There were three Culkins in the first Home Alone.
Best Christmas movie ever made!! I saw this on CBS Sunday night Movie in 1998 but never got a chance to watch the climax, until my dad got it on VHS from Blockbuster video and it blew me away!
Johns little bomb that he dropped down the elevator shaft wasnt that massive- it was only one C-4 brick - but it DID set off missiles and other stuff the bad guys had stored on that floor.
You don't know what u are talking about
@@J_bird-420 Thank you for that cogent detailed analysis.
@@quentinmichel7581 🤣🤣🤣 fantastic response brotha ✊🏻🤟🏻
@@julesvincent1113 Thnx man 😁👍
did you notice the gas prices??? 76 cents a gallon. oh the good times
here in April 2024 in Canada, we hit a new record high:
$6.50 a gallon (Canadian)
(which is about $4.80 US / gallon)
(we use litres here, not gallons,
but my late dad was American, so he always wanted me to give him the prices in gallons, then in US $/gallon)
McClane was testing Gruber to see how he held the cigarette. Americans and Europeans hold them differently. Gruber gave himself away.
Dayuum I’ve seen this movie dozens of times. That never occurred to me.
🤯🤯🤯
0:31 “You have chosen … wisely.”
Well Blue, I used to ride my woolly mammoth to work at the spear factory before the ice age put us out of business...back then as you say. But seriously, your vibe is very laid back and chill and your channel is great.
Your generation killed the wooly mammoths now it's up to us to bring them back!
"Seriously, why do they need the hostages?" You'll find out. And, roll with this: superstar actor John Wayne did not walk off with actress Grace Kelly in a Western, it was actor Gary Cooper and the movie was the 1952 classic, High Noon. Grace Kelly, by the way, left Hollywood, married a real prince and became Princess Grace of Monaco. Die Hard's plot owes a lot to High Noon's in that they both deal with one man being left to defy the odds and save the day.
people always mention how it's funny that the touch screen building directory (when john enters the lobby) was high tech at the time.... well just think... this was also about 6 years before anybody every heard about a web browser and for the most part...4 years before most people ever knew about the internet (unless you were one of a relative few).
Late to the party here, but the papers falling at the end were the bearer bonds, but not only that, it's white and is meant to simulate snow. It doesn't snow in LA, and at the end of Christmas movies, it usually snows.
some things that also make it a Christmas movie, Johns feet are bleeding just like Jesus' when he was crucified and John's wife's name is Holly .
The gunplay was at the top of a seriously high skyscraper. Its doubtful it would be been distinctly heard or discernible at street level at normal city/traffic noise levels. And as it was Christmas eve so few people would be in the business district anyway.
It always amuses me when young people wonder what life was like back then. Life was pretty much the same.
We had electricity and cars and airplanes. People complained about the government and traffic and nothing to watch on TV. Teenagers were still idiots and old people still didn't get them. What we didn't have was the internet and smart phones. We didn't have the world at our fingertips. If we wanted to watch a movie, we either called the theater and listened to the recording telling us what was playing and when, or we popped a tape into the VCR. We also thankfully didn't have websites where morons could congregate with other morons and think they were the majority.
Folks today are a little better informed than we were, but unfortunately that didn't translate into being any smarter or any less ignorant. Basically, life then was mostly the same as life today, just on a slightly smaller scale.
Yes. And apropo blues ”late 1900” as many has comment on, what is she, 5-10 years younger then most of us? Its nothing
"Call the theater?"
My local theaters to this day continue to have showtimes printed in the local paper.
Yeah, same here. I even saw one young kid who was reacting to Elvis, wonder how Elvis became so popular, since there weren't many people back then... I suppose there were only a few thousand humans back in the 50's, 60,s and 70's. lol
At about 11:55 ... gas was $0.75 a gallon. In California. Oh, the good ol' days!
Yeah, I was in California at the time. I think there was a gas war on because I think the normal price was around $0.85 to $0.90. A few years later when it cost me over $20 to fill my tank is when I had enough and moved to the Mid-West.
Side note before any comment about the reaction, I absolutely love your very blue hair in this, in has a nice shine that goes so well with your makeup and outfit, just perfect! Hahaha, I love how you thought he was naive when he gave the cigarette and gun to Hans. You did amazing with this movie, I'm glad you loved this, I hope you watch the sequels too, a few of them are pretty good even if not all of them are Christmas movies!
"from the late 19..00s" Like a knife in the back.
There are a few movies I watch over a three day time frame every year, Its a wonderful life, Christmas vacation and all the diehard movies
Trixie:
1) About the "walkie talkie" radios-they are citizen's band (CB) radios with channels 1-40. Channel 9 is an emergency frequency. Truckers still use them, but not as much as they used to. In the 1970's, CB radios were social media with people inventing "handles" (on frequency personalities). The version they used in the movie only had a range of 3-5 miles, the reason that the police could hear them was that they had "repeaters" which would boost the signal of the radios.
2) Westerns were referenced a lot in the movie.
a) Roy Rogers was kind of a singing cowboy-never got in any gunfights. He wore sequined shirts and was kind of a showman.
b) The reference that Gary Cooper walks off into the sunset with Grace Kelly was about the 1952 western "High Noon." Gary Cooper has to defend his town from a group of bad guys coming after him.
c) John Wayne is arguably the king of the westerns. He talked tough, was rough, and was in gunfight after gunfight and when he wasn't shooting, he was in fistfights. John Wayne stood six foot two and didn't take crap off of no one. Legendary actor. I know that the movie reactor channels have copyright issues sometimes. His movie "Rio Lobo" is in the "public domain", which means no one owns it and therefore you could play the whole movie on your channel and no one could file copyright issues on it.
Best action film next to RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK (if you haven't seen that one you need to). FYI: The Gary Cooper/Grace Kelly/John Wayne dialogue between John & Hans is pertaining to a classic Western HIGH NOON which starred the former 2 - Wayne was a Western superstar. That's the joke :D You're lovely :D Nice job Trix
Nothing like a hot 20yr old talking about the "late 1900s" to make you feel old. 😉
"not much technology". i love it. i remember saying that when i used my grandparents' old rotary dial phone, and hear them chuckle. there certainly is a more visceral feeling to pre2000 cinema (on average). it isnt just the practical effects - the average movie felt more organic. extras talked a bit more natural, a lot more caught honest movements, which would be scrapped today unless very intentionally kept in. whole different feeling of movie-making. though i think this natural feeling peaked in the 70s (before the birth of modern technology 😊).
1:11 “… late nineteen hundreds …”. Wow, how to make a Gen Xer feel old! 🥺
Yippie Ki-Yay Indeed To The Greatest Christmas- Action Movie Of All Time
A lot of people these days forgot about the pager generation. Before cellphones having a pager was the "cool" thing everyone had to have. You could do small texts on them. But having a pager was definately a sign of popularity status. You'd have to pay a monthly fee to use them. Most would rather have a pager than an early day cell phone. They were way more practical. I don't think it was until the days of the Razor Flip phone and blackberry did people finally start parting ways with their beloved pagers.
.... I remember a time before ATM's. If you wanted cash you had to fill out a withdraw slip and go to your bank. Us older schoolers from this time still have the sense to have a stash of emergency cash somewhere. Always like an emergency 20 someone hidden in the car. Or "Pocket Cash" hidden in the house. There used to be a sur charge if you used plastic on an order of less than 20 bucks in most places. Many would only take Visa but not mastercard. Or vice versa. Now everything is just fast pay via phone or card and bought online. It's nice but at the same time it's a business tactic to seperate you from your money because it's not tangably in your hands. When you make it an invisible number you tend to not care as much about spending and budgeting.
at least John could use ammo from the MP5’s in his beretta
Born in the 1970s and hearing a young person say, “I like the vibe of late-1900s movies.” 😓
I lived in the 19oos and we had fun I feel technology has took away alot of fun you can have with people in person
professor Severus Snape decided to rob a vault...
Blue: "why! he should know better"
John: " No Bullets, you think I'm fucking stupid Hans and Blue?" ;)
Late 1900s? That made me feel old. lol
Fun Fact: The look of surprise on Hans' face is real. When they filmed it, they told them they were going to drop him on the count of 3 but they dropped him on 2.
”Did you know that in Die Hard…”
Blue,
You have to understand something. While out in the open it is possible to hear a gunshot up to a 1/2 mile away, HOWEVER, you have to understand that that building is in a more industrial business district and it's Christmas Eve. NOBODY is around the area. People are all at home or they were in the malls doing last minute shopping. Absolutely NO ONE is around to hear anything.
Grace Kelly, John Wayne, and Gary Cooper were popular American actors from the mid-20th Century. Hans was essentially comparing John to characters they used to play in old Western films and saying that he wasn't gonna get the same happy endings they usually did.
John Wayne and Gary cooper started in movies in the 1920s,when John Wayne starred in Stagecoach 1939 people already thought the "western" was dead ☠️
the "vibe" was much happier, despite the lack of technology. Merry Xmas Blue
John McLean rules !! .... 9:07 -- NOW I HAVE A MACHINE GUN HO HO HO -- merry christmas Blue
Great movie. You should watch the sequel which is even more a Christmas movie and Its a wonderful Life the classic Christmas movie . Another great underrated action Christmas movie you should see is Reindeer games 2000 with Ben Affleck..
yeah there was basically no internet like we know today, maybe some nerds had it but if you wanted to know something, you either had to go to the library to look it up in a book or go to the book store and buy a book or magazine about something. I knew that there was a Fantastic Four movie was supposed to come out in 1994 and a Spiderman movie with Charlie Sheen in 1991, that movie got cancelled , James Cameron was going to make it but he couldn't get the effects right of Spiderman swinging through the streets. i read all this in a magazine in the early 1990s. people had pagers in the 90s, little computers that if someone tried calling your beeper, it would read out on a screen saying the phone number that called it. then you would find a payphone and call that person from there.
Back in the day... My house had no air conditioning. Small TV (no remote control) but no VCR until I bought one. I think my parents got a microwave and a dishwasher before I moved out, but to be fair, we were poor. No cell phones, either - well, that's not entirely true, my boyfriend had a big old car phone, but I only had a landline. Faxes were just starting to be a thing, for businesses. The Internet was not a thing for most people (when I first bought myself a computer, the guy at the store told me that 10 MB was all the hard drive I'd ever need).
Anyway... I saw this movie in the theater, when it came out, and *man* were we pumped after that.
Wow! I can't wait to see your reaction to this! 😂 You look awesome too, just like you IG pics 😁✌👍 (when they dropped Hans...they said "on 3" and let him go at 2....🤣, looked great)
As someone who did live back then I can tell you the 80s was the best decade to be alive. While we had a bit of modern technology we still lived our lives similar to those who live before us. We were not dependent on electronic leashes. We went out and met people in person. We hung out in shopping malls (when they existed) or in mall/shopping center parking lots and just hung out. We went to bars to meet people. We bought cars that we could work on and supped up by ourselves because car engineers weren't the kind of pricks they are today. And auto parts stores always had the part you needed. None of this "we have order it" bullshit.
And since this was filmed in 87 and released in 88, did you notice the gas prices? .74 cents for regular and .78 for super? I had a 1978 Chevy Impala with a 20 gallon tank and it cost less than $20 to fill that up and I could go cruising around all weekend and still had enough to drive to work during the week with a V8 engine. If you were lucky like me you didn't have to drive to the next town or several towns/cities over to find something to do. My hometown, being the second or third largest city in the state had everything we needed.
A movie theater, two malls, pizza places, sub shops, multiple brand grocery stores, videos stores, 5 or 6 different brands of gas stations, multiple McDonald's locations, record stores, multiple 7-11s, pretty much anything we wanted within 5 minutes of each other. My hometown was great in the 80s. Now it is unrecognizable from what it used to be. It's become more commercial in the 2000s and home construction went overboard and hundreds of houses are crammed in next to each other that nobody has any real privacy anymore. I knew it was time to leave at that point.
But, yes, the 80s were a great decade to be alive in. If you were at least of driving age or older, you enjoyed the 80s at some point.
I heard the 60's were.
@@travismurell5228 You heard wrong.
There is an old saying. If you remember the 60s, then you didn't live then. I add something new to that saying: If you remember the 60s then you didn't live back then or you were already a responsible adult.
Most of what the 60s were to the younger crow, teens through the 20s, was one big long acid trip while trying to be a bum as much as you can. Hitchhiking to where ever karma brings you in the universe is NOT living. It is existing. We LIVED in the 80s. We went out and did things when we were not hanging out with each other. While there was drug use we didn't let it control us and let it place us where ever in the universe. We had goals in the 80s. We had money in our pockets in the 80s. We had jobs in the 80s. We had our own cars in the 80s. The 60s was nothing but a drugged out power protest of the Vietnam War. Outside of the space program that eventually landed us on the moon, the 60s, as decades go, was probably the least productive decade of the 20th century.
Huh, a naive viewer is about to enter the Die Hard Zone. Get into Argyle's limousine for a trip to the Nakatomi Plaza building and the Christmas party from Hell. Let's make a "Christmas Cake." Take one "TV guy," add a stage actor, fold in a script worthy of Action Adventure movies of the time, bake in an improvised oven over flaming C4, finally, garnish with 9mm bullets. "Detective John McClane" is iconic because: He isn't a "Rambo clone," takes damage, has moments of fear/humor/introspection, has a working class background, and is "falling down tired" by the last quarter of the movie. So, "Christmas doesn't begin until 'Hans Gruber' falls off the Nakatomi Plaza building." Something from a singer-songwriter who never got to make a Christmas album: ua-cam.com/video/wYHleFFhlFk/v-deo.html (And it sorta fits this movie.;)
You're right, I think it was fate. A very fun reaction. Die Hard 2 is pretty good but you should definitely watch part 3, Die Hard With A Vengeance. It's my favorite of the series. Honestly you could just skip to 3 and stop there. The rest are good but not great.
Na,be honest 4 and 5 are dogshite 💩💩💩
1900's ...way to make me feel old
Yea, like others are saying, technology was everywhere back then, it was just different. You have to think of tech with a different perspective. Tech use to be all mechanical and then electricity came along and slowly electrical things were added to our lives. Lots of tech was the mechanical manipulation of electricity. Then electronics came along, then microelectronics followed that and that was followed by processors (computers) and no doubt there are more advancements in our future. Since you are in the medical field you might be interested in old movies that show medical tech in the middle of the last century. It is jarring to watch an old movie and see someone who has been shot not get any actual medical attention when the ambulance shows up.
Congratulations; You just watched the most Christmassy movie of them all.
30:34 Fucktonne (symbol: Ft) is a derived SI unit of mass used for movie explosions. It is equivalent to one kilomegagigaterapetaexatonne.
A "Shitload".
I insist on pointing this out on every reaction to this movie because NO ONE realizes the C4 sets off the stockpile of rockets for the launcher they were using on the tank. That's why it nearly took out the entire floor.
Thank you for liking the '80s so much. It does indeed have a charm to it.
The good ol days when gas was 77 cents a gal (noticing the gas pump signs). Merry Christmas Trixy.