How The Die Hard Movies Changed 

Georg Rockall-Schmidt . I don't drink. but its just as fun as a toke game. cheers. and light em up folks. dig the lava lamp ☯

Do you think that pacing in movies in general became much better? It's sometimes very hard to watch movies from the 80's now, and I'm not even talking about the 60's. But maybe that's just me

24 minute video about one of my favourite movie series with the glorious lava lamp? dont mind if i do!

Georg Rockall-Schmidt you just killed me sir. i hope youre happy

I can't find you on Twitter.

But just think of all that money!!!

GTAfan421 there seems to be a good idea for a die hard year one foalting around..the author even took out an ad in varairty

Why do a prequel Willis was young and good looking at the time I wish I touched him

He was a cop, so presumably _something_ happened to him before Die Hard.

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Yeah, I agree with you. Powell and McClane share some emotional scenes that give the film more heart. Padding are scenes you could cut out and they wouldn't hurt the movie. Taking these scenes out would have hurt the character or the film.

Anders Enggaard i agree completely, not only aren't they padding, but the are essential to the movie in so many ways. First it provides for pauses in the action, while still being focused on McClain, next it helps show the passage of time, and how the situation wears on McClain. Add ti this the fact that they give McClain more if a story than just being Super Cop, and allows the audience to grow more attached to McClain himself, as opposed to just some random person in an action movie. Without these scenes I don't think the movie would have done nearly as well as the audiences wouldn't have been invested in McClain not to mention the movie would feel rushed.

Exactly! The end scene where McClain finally meets Powell, hugs him, and completely breaks down is one of my favorite movie scenes of all time. You can hear the sheer relief and anguish in McClain's voice, and it makes you realize just how important that human connection on the other end of the walkie-talkie was for keeping him sane. Without those earlier scenes between Powell and McClain, a lot would be missing from the movie. The ending definitely wouldn't have been as strong, imo.

I completely agree. The scenes with Powell and McClane are probably my favorite scenes in the entire film.

I ship it

It would be like a worse Charles Bronson in the death wish movies. Potential schlock gold. Interestingly, or not so much. But Willis went on to do that death wish remake.. Probably not a good sign

Well, the character in the book it's based on is older, like ag least in his 60's so it could have worked but would have been a very different movie..

@@Elazam and the previous novel was adopted into a movie staring Frank Sinatra

I somewhere heard that Bruce Willis played as a crowd actor in The Detective

He could have at least played the chairman of the board.

TheGoldenCaulk I dont know who Michael Scott is, but that's a great quote.

Michael Scott is the name of Steve Carrell's character in The American version of The Office.

Skooma Joe He's the main character in The US Office. You should check it out. It's very, very funny.

I don't agree with that. People exaggerate the extent to which John McClane does impressive things in the fourth movie. He doesn't come off as invincible unless - because it's the fourth film - you've given up entirely on suspension of disbelief.

none of the sequels really get that right.

And a great way to start his film career

His role as the bad guy in "Quigley Down Under" was just as memorable.

100% agree.

An exceptional thief

Yea he was played by Clarence Gilyard Jr who was in Top Gun in 1986 and was in the Chuck Norris tv show Walker Texas Ranger in the 1990s as Ranger Trivette

The quarterback is TOAST!!

Who ??

The police have themselves an RV.

@@lordmoncef5494 Theo, Christmas miracles, quarterback is toast

There is no such thing as a fifth Die Hard lol. Just like there's only 3 Indiana Jones movies.

Also "Unbreakable" is just John McClane with more superpowers than in Die Hard with a Vengeance

Absolutely! A few tweaks here and there and "Last Boy Scout" could have easily been a Die Hard movie without any problem.

Absolutely

Its so distracting... Sometimes I just stare at the lava lamp and forget what is being said. Then I rewind and repeat.

RIP Lava lamp :(

Its like hypnotoadddddddddddd mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm huh what?

Grey, The Mad King They announced Lava Lamp 3: The Lamp of Lava Can't wait.

They're apparently going to do a breif hiatus after 3 to avoid over saturation, but then they'll come back stronger with Lava Lamp 4: The Last New Lamp Awakens

Grey, The Mad King Lava lamp 3: Silence of the lava-lamps

After that, Mad Lava: Lava Road

Then, Zero Cool, after another hiatus, comes the announcement of a prequel: Lava--Dawn of the Lamp.

Third is my favorite. I like the buddy cop sort of formula with Willis and jackson

Get off the damn phone lady Police business!😂🤦🏽‍♂️ It was great! 1&3 where the best of the series. I felt his pain when he forgot the gold bar in the back seat.

1, 2 and 3 in that order.

Don't you know that every Slavic nation is simply Russia?

*Muffled* *Hardbass* *Plays* *in* *the* *background*

*squatting intensifies*

Cheeki Breeki iv damke! This S.T.A.L.K.E.R. is right opaa! People outside of the Zone just don't know anything.

Yes, but at that time no American knew any former soviet state apart from Russia. They played to their main market's ignorance.

Tell EVERYONE! Let's build Georg's subscription base. His stuff deserves a yuge audience.

I'm surrised his channel hasn't appeared in my feed and searches before, I've been gawping at movie stuff for more than long enough. Just shows how broken the YT system is in many ways. He reminds me a bit of the moviedrome intro guy on BBC2 waaay back, just talking about movies in an interesting an thought provoking manner, what ordinary TV used to be able to do 20 years ago. Georg, if you get censored, remember minds.com and vid.me.

I have more time on my hands now to watch

Markus Nävergård ROFL!

Losing. LOSING. Jesus fucking christ, spell it right!

@@Zancb Zan, Zan the man, what's the plan? why hurt the man? why give a damn? He spelled it wrong and that is right. But let it be and, be alright. The pain you bring to his poor soul, has lost to his humor, ten, ten fold. Zan the man, you see so clear, that you're the one who's Losing, LOSING here. I got your back Markus

@@Zancb if enough of us spell it wrong, the spelling will change and we wont have to learn.

@@Zancb Get. Laid.

Jesús

There's more of us than you think.

Funn Nugget : Same here, the best trait that "3" has, is that if someone hasn't seen the movies before, "halfway" into the series makes an excellent place to start - as it goes back to the original, without harming the series.

Anthony Lewis....Good point. 3 is fun and you get the back story within the first 10/15 minutes. It's a laugh riot but still with jeopardy.

3 really showed how you could take a franchise, keep it believable, change the formula, and it still be "exactly what it always has been" but evolved. It doesn't counteract, contradict, or retcon anything. There's the whole revenge plot of a man related to Hans that takes over a crazy chase of trying to stay alive and keep others from dying. It was the first one that "buddied" John McClane up with somebody (which would be done in the next 2 sequels), and it changed up the formula. Yes, John was in the city Simon wanted to hit, that's about it. Otherwise, he is a total (and very useful) distraction to what Simon is really after, and by all means, John deserves to live if he made it through all that craziness Simon put him through, but also by all means, he really shouldn't have. It wasn't just "wrong place wrong time" or "guy he has to save" even. Zeus (samuel jackson) didn't even have to hang around-he meant NOTHING to Simon, but he got involved and thus became another distraction.

it’s not nearly as good but it is still really good and easily the second best. maybe if it had an R rating it could have had a chance to top 1.

@Christopher Marlowe Well-known fact: they were way more respected than the likes of you.

@@shiranuiaensland1442 Fucking relax. Were you lovers of Siskel and Ebert? Jesus.

@@ShadeDraws How about you and Christopher Marlowe get a room? Hypocrisy at its finest.

@@ShadeDraws Perhaps start w/ the first guy who replied b/c all I did was inform people of what two famous critics thought instead of referring to how good or bad they were at their jobs.

@@shiranuiaensland1442 Critics are pompous hacks. Their opinions on movies should be considered worthless.

His parents don't get shot in an alley, I hope?

@@dreamquesttv no, but Holly's inexplicably a hooker.

not you I too think die hard 4 is underrated.. Its better than 2 in my book

Compare Die Hard 4 to the previous film and you have a perfect example of what's happened to movie making since the mid 90s. Not saying it's terrible - and it is underrated - but DH4 has that pre-cooked, marketing friendly look and feel that the suits want you to see. There's less risk to providing a product that is familiar in as many ways as possible. Die Hard With a Vengeance is pretty much at the apex of film craft used for 100 years. It never broke and people will still talk about the first 3 Die Hards, and any other action movie made before software replaced hardware. Who really remembers cgi characters jumping off cgi planes with fondness?

DH4 isn't god awful, but it is meh.

Johnny J you put into words my thoughts on 4. I enjoy 4 immensely but it certainly seems washed out and "kid friendly" and it has more satire about the franchise itself than the law and police system like in the earlier films so there's a focal shift. I thought that the sidekick and villain+minions were greatly realised though and feel charismatic and relatable. But it was definitely a step towards the "big audience big cash" mentality, not to mention the unbelievable action cgi that could've survived without. Then 5 just crash-landed with no soul.

DH4 would undoubtably be hailed in much higher regard if it were not attached to the DH universe. I saw it again not to long ago and was shocked at how much I enjoyed it.

Die Hard 6: Attack of the Clones

Have Jai Courtney play a time traveler who travels back in time to save his parents marriage. This will work since I'm fairly certain the real McClain was killed off and replaced with a Terminator somewhere between diehard 3 and 4. The franchise jumped the shark with diehard 4.

boringweek2 it might have jumped the shark with 4 but it nuked the fridge with 5.

I guess a remake of 'The Detective' would count as a 'Die Hard' prequel.

@@runningcommentary2125 so maclane Solves a murder in the gay beach front community?

You watched Scott Pilgrim?

Mary Elizabeth Winstead was perfectly cast as McClane`s daughter in Die Hard 4. She was totally worthy of your crush!

She's so hot I'd eat the corn out of her shit.

@@ktom5262 and she shows her ass in Fargo. 😍

BLASPHEMY!!! BLASPHEMY, I SAY!!! AND THRICE!!! *BLASPHEMY!!!!*

A passenger jet would never run out of fuel and crash circling the airport. They would divert to the alternate landing location

That's what it was called in most of the world

nor 4

No, I like 4 and 5. The one I think is the worst in the series is 3.

Porfle Popnecker Wrong

The first one was great the second and 3rd WERE acceptable part 4 getting alitte far fetched AND part 5 sucked 2 me not a die HARD movie!!!

totally. I have no idea how, it was actually the only one originally being written as a script to be a sequel to die hard, and just somehow ends up feeling like a decent bruce willis led action-film. Meanwhile Live Free or Die Hard was based off an article now far less famous than the actual film, Die Hard with a Vengeance was a seperate film called "Simon Says," and Die Hard 2 was an adaptation of another book from a different series from the same author that original die hard was based on. Also, they cast Jai Courtney, and couldn't even get the location of chernobyl right.

Oh fuck off you big lamp.

but we never ever got Die Hardest!

If it does get taken down I'll put it back up with alterations, but please download away!

I think the movie doesn't even know what's happening... it's a bit of a jump-scare-happy, gore-porn mess.

jeff peake I have my own opinion, I would just like to hear his take on it.

you are better off checking Good Bad Flicks channel for those kind of movies

Gerald Darden Hellraiser in Space.

Brilliant film, cult clsasic. Just really hoping the directors cut will finally see the light of day.

And the mafia killed Kennedy, and the moon is made out of cheese etc etc

There weren't any armed planes on standby, the jets sent up were without cannon ammunition or missiles.

i love lamp

+A Hutch: I wish I'd said that. Now I have to hate you.

Tom !!! Holly for the win! "Everyone is dead Dave. Dave, everyone is dead. Oh, smeg it."

Well, you're in luck, check his back catalogue.

But then it wouldn't have a groovy lava lamp!

thank you!

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Anyone need touching ?

I L L U M I N A T I ?

jermaine tobin I'm sure some consistency theorist will some how link it to 911

Didn't he also have a cameo in Home Alone 2?

🤷‍♂️ I think you (@Person Place) are just making links where there aren’t

​@@saschamayer4050 Trump has had cameo's in several films and series, mostly in the 90's. It was a requirement in exchange for allowing a scene to be filmed inside one of his buildings