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Die Hard is 30 years old

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  • #32
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 32,956 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    brevity wrote: »
    Yippee ki yay
    Pat Mustard wrote: »
    Motha****a

    Or Kemosabe if you watched on ITV before the watershed.


  • #33
    punisher5112
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,519 ✭✭✭✭punisher5112


    Welcome to the party pal!!!

    I need back up now now good damit


  • #34
    Gunmonkey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,067 ✭✭✭Gunmonkey


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


  • #35
    _Kaiser_
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 29,966 ✭✭✭✭_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.


  • #36
    biko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,060 ✭✭✭✭biko


    Wow, so older than my girlfriend







    She's 15


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  • #37
    _Kaiser_
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 29,966 ✭✭✭✭_Kaiser_


    AllForIt wrote: »
    Die Hard - tick. Aliens - tick, Goodfellas - tick, Wall Street - tick.



    LORD OF WAR?:confused:


    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 :)


  • #38
    Cleopatra_
    Closed Accounts Posts: 812 ✭✭✭Cleopatra_


    Aww I'm 30 years old today too :D


  • #39
    stateofflux
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,563 ✭✭✭stateofflux


    Gunmonkey wrote: »
    ....were gonna need some more FBI guys!

    Special agent Johnson ....no relation


  • #40
    _Kaiser_
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 29,966 ✭✭✭✭_Kaiser_


    stateofflux wrote: »
    Special agent Johnson ....no relation

    ... No, the other one!


  • #41
    AckwelFoley
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,556 ✭✭✭✭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?


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  • #42
    the purple tin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,943 ✭✭✭✭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


  • #43
    Clareman
    Moderators, Sports Moderators, Regional Midwest Moderators Posts: 24,074 Mod ✭✭✭✭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


  • #44
    the purple tin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,943 ✭✭✭✭the purple tin


    Clareman wrote: »
    I can't believe I watched that video just to see the car
    and Ms. Sheppard as a bonus ;)


  • #45
    Clareman
    Moderators, Sports Moderators, Regional Midwest Moderators Posts: 24,074 Mod ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #46
    JoeA3
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,617 ✭✭✭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.


  • #47
    Mint Sauce
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,293 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #48
    Kyle More
    Closed Accounts Posts: 276 ✭✭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.


  • #49
    Road-Hog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,412 ✭✭✭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........😡😡


  • #50
    Kyle More
    Closed Accounts Posts: 276 ✭✭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?


  • #51
    Corradobri
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34 ✭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


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  • #52
    Kermit.de.frog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,372 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog


    Who else is dead from the film?


  • #53
    Blazer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,540 ✭✭✭✭Blazer


    I actually still enjoy 2 and 3 as well. 4 is not too bad but 5 =meh.

    If you like Die Hard watch the Last Boy scout..another one of his awesome films.


  • #54
    razorblunt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,300 ✭✭✭✭razorblunt


    I learned the benefits of taking off your shoes and socks and running your toes through a sheepskin rug.


  • #55
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 9,106 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Fk off it’s not Christmas yet.


    Come back at Christmas and do this thread :(


  • #56
    oneilla
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,179 ✭✭✭oneilla


    Lethal Weapon > Die Hard.


  • #57
    The Pheasant2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,699 ✭✭✭The Pheasant2


    TallGlass wrote: »
    Used to love it on the Playstation with the gun.

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

    **** yes. Nostalgia overload - still have the PS1 disc but it's scratched to hell...*opens amazon*

    Yippee Ki yay!


  • #58
    Ol' Donie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,779 ✭✭✭✭Ol' Donie


    take everything wrote: »
    Come out to the coast, we'll get together, have a few laughs...

    F*ckin California


  • #59
    Autecher
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,960 ✭✭✭Autecher


    Kermit.de.frog wrote: »
    Who else is dead from the film?
    Bruce Willis's career


  • #60
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 4,229 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


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


    What sort of people were at it?


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  • #61
    Autecher
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,960 ✭✭✭Autecher


    Also it would have been great to have this as an alternative ending, Hans Gruber jumping UP the Nakatomi Plaza to kill John McClane.


    https://imgur.com/SQGqzz3


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