Die Hard is 30 years old

Kermit.de.frog

The movie that gave Bruce Willis and Éamon de Velera their break out roles.


https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/die-hard-at-30-how-bruce-willis-led-to-quentin-tarantino-george-clooney-and-jennifer-aniston-1.3568963

brevity

Yippee ki yay

Kermit.de.frog

Asian Dawn.

Chaos Tourist

In a word - inspirational. What one determined person can do killing German terrorists in a variety of gruesome and hilarious ways.

Drumpot

Hey hans, I’m not a method actor put the gun down.

I went to see this in lighthouse a Christmas or two ago... Superb still and even better on the big screen.

Filmer Paradise

30 years gone so fast!

I like the way Bruce casually smokes his way through the early scenes.

We all were that way back then.

'elf 'n sayfey & jobsworth brigade started to gain traction after this....

This was 'Peak Humanity'.

_Kaiser_

That's just depressing... I still remember the first time I watched it.

Sky Movies and Cablelink had a free weekend on and Die Hard was the big premiere. All went well until the part at the end when John and Holly come out of the building and meet Al. The picture scrambled! (obviously Cablelink had it on a timer and at least in those days the audio was unaffected). Came back a minute later, but not fast enough to see Karl get his comeuppance.

One of the best films ever made though and in my top 5 for sure (alongside Aliens, Goodfellas, Wall Street and Lord of War)

bazz26

They should have stopped after the third one. 4 and 5 were utterly terrible.

sabat

I never warmed to it in the way I did other 80s action flicks; maybe it's because Bruce Willis is a smarmy kunt.

AllForIt

_Kaiser_ wrote: »

One of the best films ever made though and in my top 5 for sure (alongside Aliens, Goodfellas, Wall Street and Lord of War)

Die Hard - tick. Aliens - tick, Goodfellas - tick, Wall Street - tick.



LORD OF WAR?


Never even heard of it!




P.S. Yes I know I can just go and google it but I prefer the old days when ppl would have to explain things to you.

WoollyRedHat

Bruce Willis came out during his roast to say it wasn’t a Christmas movie.. may he burn in hell.

antodeco

Great movie. "Get to the chopper". "I'm king of the world". Classic

Noveight

Hans Gruber.

WoollyRedHat

antodeco wrote: »

Great movie. "Get to the chopper". "I'm king of the world". Classic

Don’t forgot where he saves Christmas by gunning down the Grinch in ‘Die Hard with a Zeus’’.

TallGlass

Used to love it on the Playstation with the gun.

Mind you could never get out of the car park level :pac:

punisher5112

Now I have a machine gun!!!!
Ho! Ho! Hos I've got hos in many areas codes area codes......


Sorry last bit is off a rap song...


Hollie.....

Riddle101

Hans Gruber is one of my favorite villains of all time. Alan Rickman did a fantastic job in that movie.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ipagRxiCqM

Church on Tuesday

Marco: No more table! Where are you going to go now? Let me give you some advice: Next time you have the chance to kill someone, don't hesitate!
John McClane: (Kills him) Thanks for the advice.

take everything

Come out to the coast, we'll get together, have a few laughs...

pleas advice

Kermit.de.frog wrote: »

Asian Dawn.

I read about them in TIME magazine

Kermit.de.frog

pleas advice wrote: »

I read about them in TIME magazine

"New Provo Front" ftw :pac:

s7ryf3925pivug

antodeco wrote: »

Great movie. "Get to the chopper". "I'm king of the world". Classic

I'm getting too old for th!s sh!t

antodeco

Gannon Beautiful Milkman wrote: »

I'm getting too old for th!s sh!t

You'll never take our freedom is another one!

Kermit.de.frog

I'm just the fly in the ointment Hans, the monkey in the wrench, the pain in the ass...

Beanntraigheach

Strange to think that it was a Summer release.
Because of the time it's set I'd have assumed it came out around Christmas.

Beanntraigheach

bazz26 wrote: »

They should have stopped after the third one. 4 and 5 were utterly terrible.

4 was bad.
5 was so abysmal I've had to suppress all memory of it!

silverharp

Glass? Who gives a sht about glass? Who the fck is this?

DEFTLEFTHAND

Nearly the same age as myself.
I'm still 29 until September though.


Jaysus, becoming old.

rafatoni

_Kaiser_ wrote: »

That's just depressing... I still remember the first time I watched it.

Sky Movies and Cablelink had a free weekend on and Die Hard was the big premiere. All went well until the part at the end when John and Holly come out of the building and meet Al. The picture scrambled! (obviously Cablelink had it on a timer and at least in those days the audio was unaffected). Came back a minute later, but not fast enough to see Karl get his comeuppance.

One of the best films ever made though and in my top 5 for sure (alongside Aliens, Goodfellas, Wall Street and Lord of War)

Thats how we saw it too, the free wknd of sky movies on cablelink. I remwmber it well my mam went to see frank sinatra in the point with my aunties. The young wans wont know who Frank even is on here.

Class Movie.

Anyone ever get to a hotel after a long flight and rub their feet on the carpet? 😀

BrianD3

A good few of the actors are dead. The dead include those who played the following characters.

Hans
Dwayne T Robinson
Karl
Takagi
The female newsreader
The head of the Swat team

s7ryf3925pivug

Yippee kai yay kimosabe.

I saw it on ITV...

Omackeral

brevity wrote: »

Yippee ki yay

Pat Mustard wrote: »

Motha****a

Or Kemosabe if you watched on ITV before the watershed.

punisher5112

Welcome to the party pal!!!

I need back up now now good damit

Gunmonkey

....were gonna need some more FBI guys!

_Kaiser_

Pat Mustard wrote: »

Predator. That is all.

Ah damn. I can't believe I left out Predator... Oh and The Running Man.

I miss the 80s Give me a proper action movie like the above over any of the CGI -overload hypercam nonsense that's churned out these days.

biko

Wow, so older than my girlfriend







She's 15

_Kaiser_

AllForIt wrote: »

Die Hard - tick. Aliens - tick, Goodfellas - tick, Wall Street - tick.



LORD OF WAR?


Never even heard of it!




P.S. Yes I know I can just go and google it but I prefer the old days when ppl would have to explain things to you.

Lord of War is Nick Cage's best movie IMO (Face Off would be my second choice).

I mean, a movie that starts like this has to be great ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHn1zogeyO4

Definitely go check it out

Cleopatra_

Aww I'm 30 years old today too

stateofflux

Gunmonkey wrote: »

....were gonna need some more FBI guys!

Special agent Johnson ....no relation

_Kaiser_

stateofflux wrote: »

Special agent Johnson ....no relation

... No, the other one!

AckwelFoley

sabat wrote: »

I never warmed to it in the way I did other 80s action flicks; maybe it's because Bruce Willis is a smarmy kunt.

Or perhaps you have no soul.

You're and Alien wearing a human costume.

..or you're French?

the purple tin

That was the role that turned Willis into an action hero as well.

Remember Moonlighting with Cybill Sheppard, I wanted the Beemer so much.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaPcJkynVSo

Clareman

the purple tin wrote: »

That was the role that turned Willis into an action hero as well.

Remember Moonlighting with Cybill Sheppard, I wanted the Beemer so much.

I can't believe I watched that video just to see the car

the purple tin

Clareman wrote: »

I can't believe I watched that video just to see the car

and Ms. Sheppard as a bonus

Clareman

the purple tin wrote: »

and Ms. Sheppard as a bonus

I think her goto move was to turn her head and flick her hair with the odd putting on of sunglasses to mix things up.

JoeA3

Hans Gruber remains the greatest onscreen villain by a considerable distance IMO. It's impossible to imagine anyone other than Rickman in the role. Superb!

It's a very nice suit Mr. Tagaki. It would be a shame to ruin it.
I'm going to count to three, there will not be a four. Give me the code.
Alas, your Mr. Takagi did not see it that way... so he won't be joining us for the rest of his life.

I think the original has aged well and has huge re-watchability to this day. I see it at least once a year, generally around Christmas of course. I think the others have dated quite badly, particularly #2 in the Airport. Not helped by its ludicrous plot (why didn't the airplanes just divert elsewhere FFS?!!), cheesy dialogue and far inferior supporting cast (really hammy acting by the "bad guys") compared to the original.

Mint Sauce

bazz26 wrote: »

They should have stopped after the third one. 4 and 5 were utterly terrible.

Agreed, although 3 felt kinda odd as well, not being a Christmas movie.

Kyle More

Imagine if it was made today. I suspect that McClane would be and avid vaper and Hans Gruber and his merry men would be of middle eastern origin.

Road-Hog

Kyle More wrote: »

Imagine if it was made today. I suspect that McClane would be and avid vaper and Hans Gruber and his merry men would be of middle eastern origin.

Typical Hollywood cliched predictable rubbish
Of that era........😡😡

Kyle More

Road-Hog wrote: »

Typical Hollywood cliched predictable rubbish
Of that era........😡😡

Whoa, back the rig up. Are you saying you DIDN'T like Die Hard?

Corradobri

the purple tin wrote: »

That was the role that turned Willis into an action hero as well.

Remember Moonlighting with Cybill Sheppard, I wanted the Beemer so much.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaPcJkynVSo

Ha ha me too, shark nose 635 csi. loved it . I used to watch the programme a lot at the time , can't remember a thing about it now except for an episode where Bruce,s character deliberately wrecks the beemer in some fit of rage in an underground car park or something like that . I think I cried !!

https://youtu.be/ZjOr-UEQcaI