Die Hard

GavRedKing

pah wrote: »

I watch this every December and probably once more during the year also.

Went to see it in the Omniplex Dec last year. Fukking Awesome

Omniplex are showing it again this December, seen the email the other week.

Even though I went last year with a few buddies, I'm tempted to go again. :pac:

silverharp

ipodrocker wrote: »

cost a bit right?

no idea, its the Stella, I was hoping for 1980's prices :pac:

FunLover18

It's great to see it on the big screen but from the my own experience I can say that because it's a classic and most of the people there will have seen it, all cinema etiquette goes out the window and it becomes an interactive experience with people whooping and cheering at their favourite bits. It wasn't for me and I don't think I'd do it again.

TheIrishGrover

Yeah, this came up in a thread before. The OP complained about people yelling back at the screen etc. Initially I thought it was a kind of "interactive" screening that promoted dressing up etc and was quite sniffy at the OP (Sorry OP). But yeah, I agree, as mush as I'd like to see it in the cinema again I don't want it to be like the US with people yelling at characters at the screen etc.

I'm lucky enough to have seen it originally in the cinema..... God I'm old. lol

ButtersSuki

I'm old enough to have seen it (underage I may add!) in the Screen on D'Olier Street on release - pre-hype and word of mouth. One thing I've always found as a counter to the "Die Hard is a Christmas movie" trope is if it was really a Christmas movie they wouldn't have released it when they did - it was a summer release in the US and didn't make it here until Feb/March of the following year (all you young kids out there this was the normal delay time for movies to get here!). It's become a Christmas movie for many (myself included), but this is more by accident than design. I've lost count of how many times I've seen it since at home, but only once since release have I seen it in a cinema. It was an interactive screening in the US, and the hootin' and hollerin' took a little bit away for me TBH. I'm not against these types of screenings. but feel they're more suited to musicals like Rocky Horror Picture Show or movies like The Room. Having said all of that, I was likely the only sober person at this screening too, so maybe with a drink or two it might have been better. Tempted by the Stella screening I have to admit........

BTW, I've never watched 4 or 5.


There's a movie pod I listen to that covered it relatively recently that was enjoyable, here's a link:
https://www.theringer.com/2018/8/1/17641364/die-hard-30th-anniversary-with-bill-simmons-chris-ryan-jason-concepcion-and-sean-fennessey

SnakePlissken

ButtersSuki wrote: »

BTW, I've never watched 4 or 5.

Oh how I envy you.

Keyzer

SimonTemplar wrote: »

There is a scene in DH2 where the villains makes a plane crash by recalibrating the airport's system's ground level. This always takes me out of the movie because airplanes have their own altimeter. It's pretty stupid.

Another stupid moment is when McClane fires a machine gun of blanks at the police captain with a load of police officers around him. They would have shot him the moment he fired the trigger and not just stood there dumbfounded.

I have a lot of nostalgia for DH2 though because I saw it a lot as a kid and it was back when Willis actually acted. Still prefer DH1 and DH3 though

Let me remind you, its a movie. Not a documentary.

JoeA3

I remember the very first time I saw it. I couldn't have been more than 11 years old! My Dad had already seen it and he was describing the basic plot to me like it was a real true life documentary ! So one day while my Mum and sisters were away, he rented the VHS video of it for me.... Yipeee Kai A! It sticks out as one of my childhood memories :pac:

I've probably seen it 500 times since lol.

FunLover18

SimonTemplar wrote: »

There is a scene in DH2 where the villains makes a plane crash by recalibrating the airport's system's ground level. This always takes me out of the movie because airplanes have their own altimeter. It's pretty stupid.

Another stupid moment is when McClane fires a machine gun of blanks at the police captain with a load of police officers around him. They would have shot him the moment he fired the trigger and not just stood there dumbfounded.

I have a lot of nostalgia for DH2 though because I saw it a lot as a kid and it was back when Willis actually acted. Still prefer DH1 and DH3 though

I'm pretty sure you can't light plane fuel on fire like McClane does at the end either.

punisher5112

FunLover18 wrote: »

I'm pretty sure you can't light plane fuel on fire like McClane does at the end either.

Shut the front door.....

ButtersSuki

SnakePlissken wrote: »

Oh how I envy you.

They're both been very deliberate decisions!

gmisk

TheIrishGrover wrote: »

Yeah, this came up in a thread before. The OP complained about people yelling back at the screen etc. Initially I thought it was a kind of "interactive" screening that promoted dressing up etc and was quite sniffy at the OP (Sorry OP). But yeah, I agree, as mush as I'd like to see it in the cinema again I don't want it to be like the US with people yelling at characters at the screen etc.

I'm lucky enough to have seen it originally in the cinema..... God I'm old. lol

Ha I think that was me.....no worries at all
It was also the first time my partner had ever seen the film (I know!) so kind of ruined it.



Yeah it was a normal screening in the lighthouse (so normally great crowd) not a themed one etc (which had been the week before).
This drunken tit was shouting at the screen the whole way through the film, he wasnt funny and people werent laughing.


I wont be going to see Die Hard again in the cinema I will be watching it at home this year, I am going to a non sing along muppets christmas carol screening.

MrStuffins

Just a quick one on going to see it in the cinema.

I go every year and I don't mind it being an "interactive" experience so much, as long as people aren't being drunk and belligerent.

However, this year I went during the week, on a Wednesday, and the atmosphere was completely different. Sure, there weren't as many people, but those who were there just sat and watched the movie

adox

It’s currently €4.99 to buy on iTunes for anyone interested. 4K too.

Smiles35

Scatches head. I was convined a man of Irish extraction wrote the book the film was based on.

TheIrishGrover

Well, it was floating around for so long in one version or other that, at one stage, Frank Sinatra was supposed to play the lead

BrookieD

Roderick Thorp's 1979 novel "Nothing Lasts Forever", the sequel to 1966's The Detective. The novel was adapted into a 1968 film of the same name starring Frank Sinatra - The studio was under contract to first offer the role to Frank, being to old he turned down the role

silverharp

Went to see it in the Stella, not cheap 20 euros a seat, but damn nice experience , they have really done the place up well. Good to see the movie in the big screen, might make it an annual

OU812

ButtersSuki wrote: »

I'm old enough to have seen it (underage I may add!) in the Screen on D'Olier Street on release - pre-hype and word of mouth. One thing I've always found as a counter to the "Die Hard is a Christmas movie" trope is if it was really a Christmas movie they wouldn't have released it when they did - it was a summer release in the US and didn't make it here until Feb/March of the following year (all you young kids out there this was the normal delay time for movies to get here!).

Better than National Lampoon's Xmas Vacation which was released here in the summer for some reason

_Kaiser_

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Wi28Vsi_ZU

Very well done! Plus, as it's from Fox themselves I guess that makes it official!

Sad Professor

I know airport security was a lot more lax in 1988, but somehow I don't think they would have let John McClane carry his gun on the plane.

OU812

Sad Professor wrote: »

I know airport security was a lot more lax in 1988, but somehow I don't think they would have let John McClane carry his gun on the plane.

Back in the 80s & 90s in the US, planes were like buses. You could walk whoever is travelling right into the plane. Guns wouldn’t even have been a thought except for international flights where you’d have to check it. Domestic flights were a case of anything goes.

SixtaWalthers

Watched "The Lovely Bones" recently and willing to watch any romantic Korean drama.

mloc123

Sad Professor wrote: »

I know airport security was a lot more lax in 1988, but somehow I don't think they would have let John McClane carry his gun on the plane.

Watching it a few weeks ago... brings his gun on the plane... gets off the plane and lights a cigarette in the terminal :eek:

mikhail

Sad Professor wrote: »

I know airport security was a lot more lax in 1988, but somehow I don't think they would have let John McClane carry his gun on the plane.

I don't know - it's an internal flight and he's a policeman. I doubt it was unthinkable, or they'd hardly have written it that way.

pah

mloc123 wrote: »

Watching it a few weeks ago... brings his gun on the plane... gets off the plane and lights a cigarette in the terminal :eek:

How old are you?

punisher5112

mloc123 wrote: »

Watching it a few weeks ago... brings his gun on the plane... gets off the plane and lights a cigarette in the terminal :eek:

I bring my gun on the plane all the time....

I don't smoke though is that a problem