Borrowing Blockbusters: The Best, Worst & Weirdest Die Hard Knock Offs (Part 2)

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In Try Hard 2: Try Harder fake McLanes do their thing on trains, boats and, ultimately, spaceships!
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00:00 Intro
00:32 Die Hard in a Venue
17:48 Die Hard in a School
20:29 What a Try Hard Isn't
22:11 Die Hard on a Ship
29:54 Die Hard on a Train
31:50 Die Hard in Space!
35:54 Modern Try Hards, Epilogue

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@kevinrhea7332 Год назад

thorough , literate , funny and passionate about garbage , I’ll be recommending you to my friends

@TheBadMovieBible Год назад

Thanks!

@Alucard-A-La-Carte 8 месяцев назад

"Pleasant person talks about schlock" is my favorite genre of RU-vidr.

@TequilaToothpick Год назад

Damn you missed the brilliantly fun Final Score with John McClane's Dave Bautista. It takes place during an unrealistic West Ham European final and has an American punched for saying the word "soccer". Definitely recommend.

@TheBadMovieBible Год назад

This seems to be the most suggested omission. Starting to think I should have left it in!

@TequilaToothpick Год назад

@@TheBadMovieBible Thanks for the reply! It was a great video

@Jabber-ig3iw 11 месяцев назад

And less than a year after your comment West Ham are in and win a European final🤷‍♂️

@Hardworlder Год назад

I was thinking "he better subvert this casting joke for Stacy Keach's character" and YOU DID! Good job.

@RossTheNinja 11 месяцев назад

Judging by his size now, Seagal wasn't acting when expressing his love for pies

@rikuruohomaki3230 Год назад

One of the more "imaginative" Die Hard knock-offs was Skyscraper, starring Dwayne Johnson, which was kind of like Die Hard, except set in a... Skyscraper. I'm wondering if, when they pitched the idea to a producer, the producer asked the writer if he realised that they've just described Die Hard, exactly, and the writer replied: "Yes. But our John McClane has a peg leg."

@DocMarsTalesToAmaze Год назад

I can’t believe they remade the Anna Nicole Smith movie

@grouchotrout444 Год назад

Can't believe it took me this long to discover this channel. Fantastic content! The movie selections, the commentary, the editing, your voice/tone - it's all working for me! Suspect this channel will blow up soon. Keep 'em comin' please!

@grouchotrout444 Год назад

PS just gotta let u know the editing/pacing and scoring system is on point as well

@catoblepag Год назад

Toy Soldiers has some serious talent behind it (Daniel Petrie Jr., who wrote Beverly Hills Cop, and David Koepp, who wrote Mission Impossible, Spiderman and Jurassic Park); in my opinion it's not only the best Die Hard ripoff ever, but a very solid movie that can be unironically enjoyed by anyone. Curiously, it's based on a novel, just like Die Hard was.

@DNT87 Год назад

It must take a ton of time and effort to assemble these videos, but I’m so glad you’re doing it because I really love these man! Awesome work!

@arneophyte3672 Год назад

I don’t comment often but this is great work. It popped up recommended and I was worried it was going to be like the drinker guy who is on some intel ish I’m not with. I love these movies and your approach to them is so refreshing and hilarious.

@arneophyte3672 Год назад

Incel not intel

@kildogery Год назад

You have an excellent way with a turn of phrase. Great video. Subscribed.

@TheBadMovieBible Год назад

Thanks, Paul!

@siyeats8064 Год назад

Your videos are great. Would love to see a Borrowing Blockbusters episode on Alien/Aliens knock offs.

@TheBadMovieBible Год назад

Thanks very much! (Alien/Aliens is near the top of my list.)

@TheSmart-CasualGamer Год назад

@@TheBadMovieBible May I ask what else is on the list? I'd love to see what that live action Seven Dwarves thing in the opening is!

@suedenim Год назад

Among other things, I'm curious how many movies rip off Alien, how many rip off Aliens, and how many have the audacity to go after both.

@TacoJack Год назад

Start with that terrible Geico commercial

@nvcn86 11 месяцев назад

speaking from the future - you got what you asked for!

@emilymcplugger Год назад

TBF Sudden Death is superb. Peter Hyams is a bloody good director, the humour is top-notch, Powers Boothe is fantastic and the ending is great. Brilliant film.

@jumhed994 10 месяцев назад

'Brilliant' is pushing it a bit mate

@emilymcplugger 10 месяцев назад

@@jumhed994 10/10?

@jumhed994 10 месяцев назад

@@emilymcplugger Haha! I like a B movie as much as the next person, but c'mon.

@emilymcplugger 10 месяцев назад

@@jumhed994 it’s corny but SO much fun. Let’s face it, if it’s on TV and I switch on to it, it gets finished. Probably Van Dame’s second best film behind Universal Soldier of that era.

@jumhed994 10 месяцев назад

@@emilymcplugger I only watched it once, and Universal Soldier and Time Cop are all guilty pleasures, but for me Deep Rising with Treat Williams is the best b movie evaaaaaarrrrrr

@MrNegativecreep07 Год назад

Michael Jai White was awesome in Black Dynamite, he should have been a bigger star.

@PatTheBatmanFan Год назад

He _is_ still alive you know

@jmorrow888 Год назад

A Diehard in space you missed was 2012’s Lockout starring Guy Pearce. It’s pretty bad and mostly notable for the part early in the movie where an action sequence turns into a cutscene from a PlayStation 2 game because they just put unfinished animation into the final movie.

@TheBadMovieBible Год назад

It's a fun movie, and one day I want to do an episode of this series on Escape from New York.

@TalkingHands308 Год назад

I'm glad he didn't leave out Olympus Has Fallen because that one was clearly a Die Hard clone, but surprised he left out Lockout...

@Bleyst666 Год назад

Lockout rulez, one liners and Guy Pearce make it comedy gold!

@phillyvoodoo Год назад

You went in deep but didn't mention the one with Guy Pierce in Space

@cruzcflores Год назад

It’s not the whole movie but Star Trek: First Contact has a subplot that’s basically Die Hard on the starship Enterprise

@brendansmith2405 Год назад

Honestly wish he spent more time talking about Under Siege 2. Eric Bogosian and Everett McGill were both terrific in that one.

@TK42100 Год назад

Especially Bogosian. I still crack a smile when he says, “I’m gonna shock the world by spreading ca-ca all over the place.” Also McGill being upset God-Mode Seagal ripping his coat.

@andrewt6802 Год назад

Honorable mention: in the comedy Airheads, our main characters become accidental and sympathetic hostage takers in a radio station building, which is a wonderful subversion of tropes. Also, Michael Richards plays a guy who works there, and he completely fails at being John McClane in hilarious fashion, so props to that. 😀

@CSXIV Год назад

"Airheads" is both a Die Hard parody and a Dog Day Afternoon parody, with thier attempt to just get thier song played snowballing into a media circus, much like Dog Day Afternoon's bank robbery snowballing into a media circus. Brendan Fraiser shouting "Rodney King" is directly referencing Al Pachino shouting "Attica."

@GBDupree 10 месяцев назад

The funny thing is that Airheads takes place in a building that is literally across the street from Nakatomi Plaza. You can even see it in the background several times. I can't imagine anything inspired by a movie daring to take place in the same location. But it kinda works as a subtle nod to the fact its a parody of Die Hard specifically.

@martinholt8168 8 дней назад

30:09 Rob Schneider was on a talk show relaying a story about how Steven Seagal came up to him and said, 'I just read the greatest script ever written.' Rob asked, 'Who wrote it?' Seagal replied, 'I did.' The only time I've ever laughed at something Rob Schneider said.

@Football__Junkie Год назад

If you want to experience Stacey Keach really hamming it up then you should listen to his narration of the CNBC show American Greed

@Aaron-zt5ee Год назад

I gave this video a thumbs up for referencing Red Dwarf.

@robertseddon2512 Год назад

This guy really knows his stuff,love the humor.a must for any b movie geek. great work.

@theaaroncarruthers Год назад

Speed 2 also manages to waste Temura Morrison too

@troyschulz2318 Год назад

A crime.

@TheBadMovieBible Год назад

Man, what was he meant to be doing in that movie!

@jorgezarco9269 Год назад

Powers Boothe played the infamous Peoples Temple leader Jim Jones in a 1980 CBS miniseries.

@connorbrennan4233 Год назад

I'm eager to see what you have in store for the next Borrowing Blockbusters video. Maybe Alien or Rambo? Robocop? The Exorcist?

@TheBadMovieBible Год назад

They're all on my list. Alien and Rambo will each be a hell of an undertaking!

@fmsyntheses Год назад

I quit rewatching Charlie Brooker to see this so it better be good

@TheBadMovieBible Год назад

That's an honour. Hope it was worth it!

@NorthRainProductions Год назад

Found your channel via die hard knockoffs part 1 and only had to wait two hours for part 2. Nice

@justmeandthethree Год назад

How did I miss all these remarkably abysmal movies??? During college we traveled to Blockbuster specifically to visit its "Le Bad Cinema" section (later rebranded as "Camp Classics").

@wimvanderstraeten6521 Год назад

I'd love to see you do a video on Rambo rip-offs.

@matman000000 6 месяцев назад

Nothing can beat Deadly Prey in that category.

@omarzgdz 2 месяца назад

Turkish rambo is waiting to be rediscovered!

@MrPolicekarim Год назад

I love how at 1:37, the poster for WELCOME TO SUDDEN DEATH, the pistol magazine in his hand, is a CO2 Airsoft magazine. You can tell not only from the CO2 air cartridge but from the lip of the magazine! LOL!

@hedgehog3180 5 месяцев назад

Modern Try Hards seem to all base their visual language from that one mission in COD MW2 where you assault the White House.

@rogerfrankham3890 Год назад

Brilliant...would love to see you do an episode on all the Mad Max rip offs!

@jakethet3206 3 месяца назад

The “My name is Rosewood, sir” joke hot just as I was taking a b0ng hit, and the combination nearly killed me! 😂

@armavirumquecano6190 Год назад

Colm Meaney was also fantastic in Under Siege despite only having 3 lines of dialogue😐

@DrWhom Год назад

he never has a bad scene.

@emitindustries8304 Год назад

This video HAD to end with the original "Yippee-yay-yo-kii-yah!". Perfect.

@emitindustries8304 Год назад

Now I know how to spell 'Y-Y-Y-K-Y', instead of having to do the whole y,y,etc thing. Thanks! I'll be using it more now.

@TOOFUTURETV Год назад

Great video series, easy choice to subscribe. 👍🏼😎

@ThePressurizer Год назад

This was gloriously entertaining, thank you!

@SewerTapes Год назад

Am I just stoned, or does his hand look like the hotdog hands from Everything Everywhere All at Once? 28:54

@Kerwinnn Год назад

amazing work bro, great rhythm 👏

@wastelandvagrant251 Год назад

@27:54 ...- "[...]can't even be bothered to hot-glue a calculator to the wall" BWAHAHAHAHAHHAAAAA Awwwwshit...sorry...that was really funny... She is poking the wall with her finger hahahah

@DrWhom Год назад

told her it would be added in post for the actors on set, their credibility is entirely in the hands of the clowns running the production

@TheBeird Год назад

Excellent video! I was actually wondering if Speed was technically a Try Hard, but Speed 2 is defo one. Ashamed to say, I was really excited to see it back in the day. Was geared up to go watch it in the cinema but my sister, who agreed to take me, took one look at the trailer and took me back home. Was well pissed. Six months later I rented it out and . . . she was right to take me home. Although I can't hate it too much cause it was my introduction to Willem Defoe

@TheGrungy1 Год назад

Rutger Howard is a what now? I've watched it three times I'm still not comprehending how that happened.

@LynnHermione 10 месяцев назад

I hope Artemins Fowl is in this, the book was advertised as "Die Hard with fairies" and it is fairly accurate as a DH in a mansion with the bad guy as the protagonist.

@rog2224 Год назад

My late mother really liked Sudden Death.

@kundeleczek1 Год назад

Your videos are very entertaining Sir. Good job. Your style is calm but content is bombastic.

@JeanBabtisteGrenoui Год назад

Freaking amazing commentary and editing. What a supremely enjoyable learning experience through wonderful entertainment.

@donparedes9130 Год назад

That was a great two-part video. I'm definitely going to go back and look at some of the knockoffs you mentioned. There is one recent Die Hard knockoff that you forgot though. And that was Run. Hide. Fight. It was surprisingly very good. And it has a protagonist that you actually care for and worried for her safety

@healerforce4165 Год назад

Thank you so much for doing this

@MrDman21 Год назад

It's funny that both John Kreese and Terry Sliver we're in these Die Hard knock-offs 😄

@sventhiede6505 Год назад

I'm quite surprised by the lack of Jürgen Prochnow in this one, considering he was featured quite prominently in the first part. Interesting coincidence with the ordering of the subcategories happening here.

@JessicaRabbit666 Год назад

City Hunter is one of the best movies ever made. There. I said it. You have Jackie with all his martial arts and slap stick, the card dealer guy who uses cards as weapons, the gymnast girl who gymnasts herself away from the bad guys, the hot but competent police woman who brought guns onto the cruise ship because she knew something was up and the idiot super pervy sidekick who becomes a traitor the second he thinks it would save his own skin...all culminating into an epic fight at the end. what more could you want???

@TheBadMovieBible Год назад

I adore this movie, and Jackie's the single greatest action star ever in my book!

@AdityaWaghmare Год назад

Unfortunately, Jackie hated that movie and in turn massively pissed off the director.

@whoisyouranime Год назад

Sudden Death, Command Performance, 3 Ninjas: High Noon at Mega Mountain, Paul Blart: Mall Cop, Con Air, The Rock, Speed 2, Under Siege 1, Under Siege 2, Olympus Has Fallen, White House Down and Non-Stop are good.

@Symon2099 Год назад

I enjoyed all of this immensely. Except the bit where the inexplicably bland "...has Fallen" movies were praised. 😳

@Emulous79 Год назад

These look so hilarious. Great video!

@philpheburbs Год назад

this is great work!!!

@samuelrichardson1564 3 месяца назад

My friend, you are the Charlie Brooker of movies commentary, I love it and will share. You deserve a bigger audience.

@briansinger5258 Год назад

Wil Wheaton dying on film was the most satisfying cinematic experience of my life. Is it weird that picard was in the next movie?

@Lantement 10 месяцев назад

Lockout (2012) with Guy Pierce is fun Die Hard knock off too, maybe the best honestly

@EurDawg Год назад

Another fantastic video! Nobody researches these movies like you do!

@prince-solomon Год назад

Excellent video, good choices and funny jokes! It ain't a movie but an episode from a tv show: DIE HARD ON A SPACESHIP -> Star Trek: The Next Generation S06E18 "Starship Mine" with Captain Picard (Patrick Stewart) as John McLane!

@theaaroncarruthers Год назад

It's not a die-hard clone but Airborne is a must see because it has Steve Guttenberg as an action star in a film that also stars Sean Bean & Kim Coates.

@TheBadMovieBible Год назад

This looks right up my street, thanks.

@theaaroncarruthers Год назад

No worries

@Pdotta1 Год назад

Thank you for making these. 🙏 ❤

@spoonhanz Год назад

I love that most of these movies are on RU-vid.

@danielvandersall6756 10 месяцев назад

"Soon to be ex-wife Tia Carrera" has to be one of the saddest sentences I've ever heard.

@newspaperface Год назад

That rutger hauer scene was priceless

@albowenal Год назад

Great video looking forward to more.

@yohei72 Год назад

Really appreciate the way you approach these movies sincerely, with a sense of humor, but with little condescension or easy irony, and giving them serious analyses from a craft point of view. I presume you intend to do a video on "Star Wars" knockoffs, but maybe that's a daunting prospect (it would have to be at least two parts).

@Thundarr100 Год назад

Just watched a Die Hard Knock Off tonight. It takes place on Christmas Eve. Terrorists invade a wealthy Christmas party in order to steal millions of dollars. The soldiers who were supposed to be coming to save the day are actually in on the heist (same as Die Hard 2). One of the terrorists is killed by being stabbed to death with an icicle (like in Die Hard 2). There’s a snowmobile chase (like Die Hard 2). And the hero wasn’t initially planning on getting involved and got caught up in the action entirely by accident, but decided to see it through and be the hero because it was the right thing to do. This movies John MacLean? Santa Claus! And the movie? Violent Night! It is a really fun movie. I’m adding it to my Christmas DVD collection next year. Go watch it if you haven’t seen it already.

@Joecbg100 Год назад

Surprised not a hint of Lock Out in die Hard in Space section. Regardless i love this series.

@TheBadMovieBible Год назад

One day I'll get to Escape from NY knock offs, and Lockout will be front and centre. Thanks for the compliment!

@Joecbg100 Год назад

@@TheBadMovieBible no prob sir

@rikuruohomaki3230 Год назад

Lock Out is so close to Escape from New York, the rights holders actually sued its producers and won. Similarly, they were also going to sue game company Konami for Metal Gear Solid, as the games featured similar names, themes and plot points, but writer/director John Carpenter told them not to, because he had met the games designer and story writer Hideo Kojima and thought he was a nice guy.

@maskoolio5824 Год назад

@@rikuruohomaki3230 that's cool of Carpenter.

@JoeScaramanga Год назад

I know you probably hate people moaning that you didn't mention "such and such" film, but I can't let pass the omission of 'Death, Deceit and Destiny on the Orient Express' from your 'Die Hard on a train' section. While being very cheap and absolute terrible it pits Richard Grieco's McClane against Christoph Waltz' Gruber. Teen Agent v Blofeld!!!

@TheBadMovieBible Год назад

When it's a well observed omission like this I honestly appreciate it being pointed out. I'm not proud and want to be thorough. The annoying thing is I've seen this freaking movie but forgot all about it!!

@SICK2210 Год назад

Gotta see part one now. YOU DID SKYSCRAPER?!?!?!?! WITH ANNA?!?!?!? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAA!!!!!! SUBSCRIBED!!!

@CaptNRetro Год назад

i genuinely laughed hard at a few of these reviews ..love this series

@inevitableleopard3810 Год назад

These are so great!

@emutekk Год назад

Awesome job...keep the hard work 👏

@TheBadMovieBible Год назад

Cheers, Rafael!

@puolukkahillo1637 Год назад

Well, shit, man. Now I have to find a way to see all of these movies. I love you, cheers!

@Madmax-rz5hz Год назад

Speaking of trains, perhaps Silver Streak qualifies as ticking the boxes, though it came out 12 years before Die Hard itself

@minaverry Год назад

3:20 Now I really want to see a Mr. No Legs reboot starring Rutger Hauer, thank you very much.

@noneofyourbusiness4616 Год назад

The 3 Ninjas series became a refuge for the South Korean filmmaker Shin Sang-ok after he and his wife escaped years of abduction by North Korea. He couldn't return to his former career in South Korea because many thought he had willingly defected to North Korea.

@PowerGlove79 Год назад

I love Toy Soldiers, and I even have a soft spot for Masterminds even though it’s a poor imitation. Please don’t judge me lol. I love this channel

@silvervalleystudios2486 Год назад

Toy Soldiers was awesome.

@jonothanthrace1530 9 месяцев назад

I remember watching the end of White House Down with my mom a while back and being extremely confused by their choice of "Street Fighting Man" for the end credits song.

@RonniMenziesStirling 10 месяцев назад

31:02 and his reaction! Never laughed so HARD in my life! 😆

@TheDivotking1 Год назад

Brilliant sir! TY

@martyburgess341 11 месяцев назад

As an aussie I am almost ashamed every time you mention Richard Norton. Nut Vernon Wells(part 1 of this series) was the redeemer.

@JeddtheJedi Год назад

I just discovered your channel and you're doing really good work! I think I've become disillusioned with movie review/retrospective channels that are over-indulgent with the snark, which you aren't at all. Going to check out your Jaws knockoffs video after this! Ringo Lam's Sky on Fire, starring Daniel Wu, is Die Hard in a High-Tech Hospital.

@TheBadMovieBible Год назад

Thanks, man! Damn, I didn't know Sky on Fire and it looks bang on for this video, thanks for the tip.

@JeddtheJedi Год назад

@@TheBadMovieBible You're welcome; I hope you enjoy it! I wish it focused the action more in the hospital tower but I think it still fits the bill.

@jamesdominguez7685 Год назад

Deep Rising is a better Die Hard than Speed 2. Treat Williams is a charismatic everyman who is certainly a badass, but not a superhero-level one. Gruber is a native American for a change (and Wes Studi is always great) and he has an unfeasibly multi-national crew, with one Aussie, one Kiwi, one Brit, one African (poor Djimon Hounsou deserved to be in it for longer, but at least he goes out memorably), and a couple of diverse Americans. If anything, it's Die Hard On A Boat But The Hijackers Themselves Get Hijacked By A Sea Monster. God I love that movie. I'm probably due for a rewatch...

@LiamPennington 10 месяцев назад

Love this two partner. For quite a lot of things, though chief amongst them is how often you had to say "Eric Roberts is......"

@Panwere36 Год назад

Sir.. you are devoted to this and I salute you sir.

@gantz22ify 7 месяцев назад

I’m convinced that for No Contest Andrew Dice Clay wasn’t at all acting: those women were really scared when he smashed those bottles with a gun.

@grid212 8 месяцев назад

This was brilliant.

@punchfisttop Год назад

GREAT JOB!

@theeflake Год назад

I do wonder how many times Albert Pyun movies have appeared in your videos. That guy can be so hit and miss but damn his movies have given me some baked entertainment.

@xtremejay2000 Год назад

Not sure if there are enough movies in the genre for a long form video but if anyone can find them it's you. What about Karate Kid knockoffs? Obviously the main trope has to be a bullied teenager that gets trained in martial arts, preferably buy an older Asian man but it could just be any teacher. Maybe they HAVE to be taught in unorthodox ways. The first MAJOR knockoff would have to be Sidekicks with Jonathan Brandis as Daniel and the amazing MAKO as the Mr. Miyagi trope. Another I saw back in the 90's on cable is called Showdown with Billy Blanks as the school janitor that teaches a bullied teenager martial arts. I guess the original 3 ninjas would also count though it might not have ENOUGH of The Karate Kid tropes.

@jefferysummers830 Год назад

LOL!!,these were great,...but the bad ones?,...jewels. 👍👍👍👍😁😁😂😂,..entertainment, man.😁😂😂😁🤘🤘🤘

@charadeyouare322 Год назад

Smart and entertaining! (What a concept.)

@Jabber-ig3iw 11 месяцев назад

The jingoism in most American films is hilarious to non Americans but scarily Americans see no humour in it, they are deadly serious, which is actually more hilarious than the jingoism itself. They really are all brainwashed. It’s genuinely disappointing when there isn’t a cheesy salute at the end of an action film, it’s just too funny.

@stevenscholl7383 Месяц назад

Outstanding. Can't believe I missed so many of those. I will throw my 2 cents in about the final days of Bruce Willis career; my father continued to want to work in his previous profession - shoe design -as his condition worsened. (He would scribble designs on paper, sometimes hundreds per day.) I suppose it connected him to memory and reality in some way that was meaningful to him. Bruce Willis, I'm guessing had some similar thing going on, as it's doubtful he needed the money.