Die Hard 2 * FIRST TIME WATCHING * reaction & commentary * Millennial Movie Monday

[@ingibingi2000]

I have slid on a slide

[@awkwardashleigh]

I need the full story asap. was it for fun or because of emergency?

[@ingibingi2000]

@@awkwardashleigh I'm an aircraft mechanic, one was accidentally blown. Went out there to change it. But while it was still inflated I took a ride

[@Stevarooni]

@@ingibingi2000 how could you _not_ given the chance? 😁

[@ingibingi2000]

@@Stevarooni were not supposed to

[@feldegast]

Being able to 'test' a slide in a non emergency is the best time to do it!

[@tacituskilgore9803]

A few people here have said already, but I feel I need to add to it. The third Movie Die Hard With A Vengeance is such a good one! Easily on a level par with the first. Very excited for you to watch that 🙂

[@freddiegillespie_05]

Yesterday, we were an army without a country. Tomorrow, we must decide which country we want to buy!

[@Burt_Fuggin_Reynolds]

it's a MUST WATCH!

[@okeefe757]

I'm a huge fan of the first movie and find the 3rd movie to be really fun and pretty good. Not as well written as the first one though. The villain is fine. I am not a fan of this one. I think the main villain is a bore with little character and I love Al Powell, but he seems to be just added to this one like an afterthought. It's a pity since Al being such a great character from the original well acted by Reginald VelJohnson. I think the whole movie is a bit of a bore. Just my opinion.

[@tntkff9901]

One name: Samuel mother f**ker L. Jackson.

[@benjauron5873]

Die Hard is the best Christmas movie, but With a Vengeance is the best Die Hard movie.

[@PVTShell]

I was in this movie! I was 12 years old, and got $50 per day for 2 days of filming in the big crowd at the airport. Some of this was shot at the old Denver airport. I might be a little biased, but I love this movie!!

[@dramaticcleans2063]

That's is awsome!

[@jsc315]

That's ras

[@michellebarry1555]

That’s awesome!

[@jcarm185]

So cool!!! 😄

[@Muck006]

Sadly the plot is a bit weak, because airplanes always have alternate airports ... and if they dont get landing clearance at one airport they will go to another when they have enough fuel to reach that one. This makes all the "having planes run out of fuel" drama / threat unrealistic, and the "changing the ground level bit" is equally unrealistic, because the glide slope of the ILS is created by physical antennae ... which would have to be moved to change that. They COULD HAVE changed the plot by simply planting some explosives around the airport ... keeping everyone hostage. That would work easily but it is too similar to the first movie.

[@frugalseverin2282]

Because you've seen"Airplane!" you know how to get in crash position. I highly recommend watching Bruce in "RED" and "RED2". Both are fast-paced action films with a good degree of humor and stellar cast.

[@jaquesshugossen9398]

Both RED and RED 2 are very Good action flicks with a bit of giggles in them now and again. I thoroughly enjoy both of them. Bruce is great in both so think Ashleigh would enjoy them!

[@iDEATH]

@@jaquesshugossen9398 Has she seen John Malkovich or Helen Mirren in anything yet? Those two are always great, and where so much fun in the RED movies!

[@jaquesshugossen9398]

@@iDEATH can't recall that many movies with John, though he is amazing in RED movies. As for Helen, hopefully she won't look at the Caligula-version she is in, with Malcolm McDowell. Personally I like it but that may be because I enjoy Malcolm as an actor in pretty much all he has done. I don't know how many if any of Helen's or John's films she has seen.

[@iDEATH]

@@jaquesshugossen9398 Oh man, I totally forgot she was in Caligula! lol I haven't seen that (like so many things) in over 20 years, but I remember liking it. I also really like McDowell ("If..." still haunts me somehow). Even when whatever he's in is kinda crap, he's usually good.

[@pappajudas9267]

Hudson Hawk

[@Rikrik1138]

Die Hard with a Vengeance is easily my favorite in the series. It’s action packed all the way through and keeps you on the edge of your seat all the way to the end. Just really intense.

[@jmarx3943]

Sam Jackson, Jeremy Irons. Great cast, awesome action. It's the die hard I've rewatched the most. Love it!

[@nrkgalt]

That one is not set during Christmas, so she can watch it any time.

[@Kantami]

the first is the better film, but Vengeance is the best movie for sheer entertainment.

[@elizabethwallis4231]

I love Die Hard and Die Hard With a Vengeance equally. Die Hard 3 is the funnest of the 2 but there is something special about the first one. Ashley you have to watch the 3rd film definitely a good time.

[@mehlev]

Yeah that one ranks with #1 for me, so good.

[@tonycole9620]

I had a supervisor hand me a stack of about 50 papers and said fax these to our dealers. I looked at the papers and said, Bob, these are all the same. He said, yes. One for each dealer.

[@stealthimaster8583]

Oh poor Ashleigh will not understand just like your boss how fax machines work heeheeheehee.

[@Fast_Eddy_Magic]

Ask them to fax them back; they're the only copies I have. 😂

[@i.marchand4655]

I think there's a law (not legal but like Murphy's law) that says anybody not born into a world with a particular technology will never really understand or appreciate that technology. I'm thinking now that there might should be a corrolary that it works backwards, too (like if you were born when that tech was obsolete). Maybe it's not a law. More of a guideline (apologies to Bill Murray).

[@michaelwinkle4480]

Heck, anything that wasn't around when I was a kid is newfangled stuff I'll never understand. These fancy fax machines and pagers. Who needs them? And I still remember this article I read in 1978 calling those new Video Recorders the most ridiculous devices ever. What? are you going to record those precious episodes of "Dallas" and "Dukes of Hazzard" and watch them over and over forever?

[@Fast_Eddy_Magic]

I'm a little short on cash. Can you fax me a 20? 😂

[@ScientificallyStupid]

I LOVE THE SPACE BUNS!! A pager (a beeper) has an assigned phone number, people call the number and the pager beeps. Then you locate the nearest phone and call them back (it usually had a display on it that would show the number who called you). Older ones worked more like an answering service, where a person would call the beeper number, then you'd call that number and get the message or phone number of who was trying to reach you. They REALLY took off in the late 90s when ones with a big display came out and they were super cheap to use, everyone used them- you could not only put a phone number in but numbers that were coded, like "911" meant call me back right away, "1453" meant I love you, so forth.

[@canadianscratcher7834]

The main antagonist is William Sadler who was The Grim Reaper in "Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey"

[@trajan74]

Bill Sadler is an awesome character actor. Loved him as the calm, cold spy master in Star Trek. He's also the hero in Demon Knight.

[@joeday4293]

Heywood in "The Shawshank Redemption"!

[@walterrutherford8321]

I guessed a major plot point when I saw it at the theater with a friend who had already seen it. I asked Why do some of the guns have red and some blue? Then I answered myself, So they can tell which ones are blanks. 😆

[@Senefra]

Another great holiday themed action flick, coincidentally from the Renny Harlin, "Die Hard 2"'s director, is "The Long Kiss Goodnight" with Samuel L. Jackson & Geena Davis. Jackson appears in "Die Hard 3" which I hope Ashleigh gets a chance to react to.

[@weepingscorpion8739]

Die Hard 3 and The Long Kiss Goodnight for sure. Great flicks both of them.

[@amariebloom]

She will love long kiss!! Please watch for Christmas Ashleigh

[@richardfoster2435]

The actor that played one of the guys trying to shoot John and said a sitting duck is Robert Patrick! You didn’t recognize him but when you reacted to Terminator 2:Judgment Day He played the bad terminator that could turn in to liquid metal! MIND BLOWN!!!!

[@panowa8319]

Speaking of "Home Alone 2," Holly McClane, played by Bonnie Bedelia, is Macaulay Culkin's paternal aunt.

[@viclagina347]

Girl back in the day you memorized a bunch of numbers. Also you kept a list in your wallet or a address book in your briefcase/Purse.

[@joeblankenship377]

I still remember my childhood home number, my childhood best friend's number, and the Domino's number.

[@positivelynegative9149]

Yep. So many numbers memorized. Now I can't even remember my own number. 😄

[@JoeCool7835]

You saw the guy playing Major Grant (John Amos) in Coming To America. He was the manager of the burger place Akeem worked at.

[@J-S.P]

12:08 - the "sitting duck" guy is none other than Robert Patrick(the T-1000) who is one of the few actors to have been killed/destroyed onscreen by all the original owners of Planet Hollywood(Bruce Willis, Sylvester Stallone & Arnold Schwarzenegger)

[@matthewconner7800]

Okay, Gun Stuff Matt to answer your question about McClane’s description of the gun. This is a kind of famous Hollywood gun error in the gun community. There is no Glock 7 pistol (they were thinking of the Glock 17), the frame is made of a polymer (a form of plastic) not porcelain, and they do, in fact, show up on x-ray machines and are detected by metal detectors.

[@xraypunch5959]

You gotta do 'Die Hard with a Vengeance' after this, no spoilers but it acts as a direct sequel to the first film. After that you don't have to bother with the other sequels.

[@UltimateGamerCC]

this was a sequel too, the first three movies make a trilogy, after that is when it started going off the rails, so i second your notion.

[@Climinator-op6kh]

Yes I agree with the previous reply this is still a sequel to the original and a prequel to DHWAV. In DHWAV there's even a wry nod, of sorts, about Colonel Stuart and his men when Simon says "I'm a soldier. Not a monster."

[@michaelevans1193]

The actor who played the head of the Dulles Tower was Fred Thompson, who was US Senator from Tennessee from 1994 to 2003. He had several key roles in blockbuster movies before getting into politics. He also ran for the Republican nomination for president in 2008, leaving the race before the primaries started.

[@757optim]

The Willis line, "Just the fax. ma'am" is a play on the line "Just the facts. ma'am" spoken often by the very straight-laced Sgt. Joe Friday (portrayed by Jack Webb) from a popular TV police show (Dragnet) of the '50s and revived in the '60s. The concept spawned a spoof movie in 1987.

[@jean-mi1825]

When Bruce sais "just the FAX m'am" it's a direct reference to the old tv show Dragnet with its main character often stating to the witnesses "just the FACTS m'am"

[@christinadiridoni263]

I had a good laugh when you said "birds of a feather" because that's actually a line from the 3rd die hard movie.😂

[@whovianhistorybuff]

Birds of a feather, flock together As do pigs and swine Rats and mice have their chance As will I have mine. Why was the line busy? Who were you calling?

[@sspdirect02]

3:35 This was Renny Harlin's idea. He would later say that it was "an effective, but unusual, way to introduce a character".

[@camillecomeau6939]

Ashley predicting how all the bad guys are gonna die at 24:27 and then calling it on the fire on the runway being used to help the airplanes landing at 26:06. You have all my admiration!!

[@paulsparks771]

John Amos played Cleo McDowell in Coming to America. That is where you remember him from Ashleigh.

[@CorakYT]

Of course everyone loves the first Die Hard, and so do I, but my personal favourite is the third one (never really got that much into the second one, although it's still good). You want twists? The third one got twists and more twists and then some (which ironically is something I hear some people criticize). The interaction with the co-star (no spoilers) is priceless and the little connections to the first one are very welcome. All in all a great end to a great trilogy. Too bad that they NEVER MADE ANY MORE SEQUELS... (just some bad fanfiction that got worse and worse)

[@awkwardashleigh]

I DO LOVE TWISTS

[@ingibingi2000]

I actually like 4, 5 is hot garbage though

[@hatchhermit77]

@@ingibingi2000 I agree. 4 is okay. They made a 5th one?

[@adaddinsane]

Yup 4 is fine, I like it. (THERE IS NO FIFTH MOVIE.)

[@davidclough3951]

Yes, there is a 5th movie,,, watched it online,,, once. End of story. I kinda like the 4th one better than 2 and 3 for me.

[@donaldboudreaux5727]

The Army colonel you said looks familiar is John Amos. He played the dad in the tv show Good Times and Eddie Murphy's girlfriend's dad in the movie Coming To America.

[@stillaboveground2470]

"Die Hard with a Vengeance" is the third movie in the series. I liked it. Forget the other installments, "Live Free or Die Hard" and "A Good Day to Die Hard".

[@blacktronlego]

10:10 While some are circling the same beacon, when they are stacked they do do at different altitudes so they don't collide One of the pilots is Colm Meaney. He appears in all sorts of things, but is best known as Miles O'Brien in Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.

[@joeday4293]

He was fantastic in "Hell On Wheels."

[@joerogers9413]

I used to work at the airport, the baggage claim area was really cool. It's basically a giant warehouse with all kinds of overhead pipes and old equipment (so there might be a giant pressing machine.) And all these treadmills taking suitcases to and from the planes. And carts you can drive around because it's so big. In the movie, it's dark, but it was well-lit. This won't mean anything to you Ashleigh, but I imagine it's what the stardrive section of the Starship Enterprise looks like.

[@SayWHARadio]

Fun Fact: The actor who played T1000 Robert Patrick was the bad guy who says "A sitting duck" @12:09

[@RetroClassic66]

Fax machines were for quickly transmitting copies of documents from one person to another over telephone lines. “Quickly” is sort of a relative term; they were faster than a courier, FedEx, or USPS. Prior to email and the internet becoming ubiquitous and increasingly less expensive, fax machines were fairly common, especially in office environments. The quality of the received document was often less than stellar, but it improved in quality as the years passed. However, once personal computers, email, scanners, and the internet became more affordable and commonplace (late 90s/early 00s), fax machines became outdated and obsolete technology, and by the time the 00s were over they had disappeared from most offices. Pagers were still being used in the early 00s in corporate settings (they were especially popular with doctors as well), but as cellular technology advanced they had virtually disappeared by around 2005.

[@Jay-ln1co]

"by the time the 00s were over they had disappeared from most offices." Unless you're in Japan.

[@LogicalNiko]

Faxes are still semi common as a standard in legal and medical today. Although oddly enough many of the systems are built on email-to-fax services on both sides. Thus fairly redundant.

[@TarossBlackburn]

A Feudal Samurai could have sent a fax to President Lincoln.

[@sasskee]

Jokes on you, in Germany, Faxes are still the only allowed way to send documents in government offices and authorities. They pretend trying to change this, but imagine a chimpanzee sitting in front of a computer, that's how this is going for decades.

[@matsv201]

00tys? Around here they totally vanished in 1997 when the used phone market for old phone suddenly sprang to life. In 1995 a phone would have cost you over €1000. in 1996 you could get one for €500 and in 1997 you could get a used for under €100

[@ZeroOskul]

11:25 "Old Cape Cod" recorded by Patti Page and released in 1957 became a hit, went gold, is the unofficial anthem if Cape Cod. Lyric sampling: *If you like the taste of lobster stew* *Served by a window with an ocean view* *You're sure?* *You're sure to fall in love with old Cape Cod*

[@jacobcarlsonWGO]

Hi there, Ashleigh! Big fan of yours. I've been watching your channel since your Blazing Saddles reaction. I'm the one who recommended It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World to you. Your video about starting a KZbin channel is what motivated me to start my own channel and I thank you for that. Hope you're having a great day and keep up the good work. Love you!

[@TSIRKLAND]

The army guy you said looked familiar was John Amos. You probably recognize him as Mr. Cleo McDowell from "Coming to America." A certain generation know him as Kunta Kinte from the TV miniseries "Roots," and/or from the TV show "Good Times." The main bad guy was played by William Sadler; you may recognize as the stuttering Heywood from "Shawshank Redemption."

[@markplott4820]

Ashleigh - in the 80's cellphone were still rare. So, people had pagers, and there were phone booths everywhere. A pager acts like a IM or text message, before there were smartphone. simple beepers could only send numerical text, limiting what you could send, so they developed #text codes, like 911, or 411. but you still needed to use a pay phone to respond. soon , alpha text pager were developed, allowing 120 character, message.

[@jaquesshugossen9398]

Back in the 80's and 90's if you wanted a cellphone, to have with you or in the car, it was (at the beginning) pretty much a carbattery with a phone attacthed to it. You do see one in Lethal Weapon I , I believe when Murtaugh is on the bridge talking to the station., I think.

[@garyhall2770]

The main problem with Die Hard 2 is that there are several airports within minutes of Dulles. There is DCA (next to the Pentagon), BWI in Baltimore, Andrew's Air Force Base which is just southwest of DC, Philly isn't that far and neither is Richmond. With the amount of time the airplanes had they could have easily gotten one landing strip open for emergency landings in any one of those locations. Not to mention any of the airports designed specifically for goods around that area. Once you know that the terrorists threat doesn't really exist.

[@matsv201]

well i don´t quite know if i called it a main problem. All aircraft suppose to have an alternate airport. And if they can´t land at the first one... say of there is a terrorist attack, they suppose to land at Teneriffe airport and run into a other jumbo jet.. wopsi.. maybe i was a bit to specific this time around

[@jp3813]

Interestingly, respected critics Gene Siskel & Roger Ebert considered this to be the best in the franchise. The latter somehow didn't like the original, while the former ranked this sequel as the 6th best film of 1990 above the likes of Dances with Wolves and Godfather 3. Screen Junkies even did a couple of "Honest Action" videos for the series, and it was determined that McClane's chances of survival was actually at its most plausible in this film. It also has one of the greatest finales ever. Throughout the movie, the villains are always ahead of the protagonist. Even though McClane makes progress w/ each action scene, all of them (prior to the climax) ends w/ a trade-off of him losing: no one was left to interrogate after the baggage fight, the antenna array explodes and a plane is crashed after the skywalk shootout, Esperanza escapes after landing, and McClane ends up w/ blank ammunition in the snowmobile chase. All leading up to the plane fight where John loses against Stuart, and it seems that all hope is lost for Holly's plane. This is what Chris Stuckmann likes to call the "Breaking Point" moment, where the hero is at his lowest point in an action sequence and has to come up w/ a way to get out of that predicament. McClane does so after uttering his famous catchphrase and lighting the fuel trail left by the plane. With a single stroke, he finally defeats the bad guys and saves all of the hostages.

[@stillaboveground2470]

Bruce Willis is in my favorite movie "Nobody's Fool" with Paul Newman.

[@Ny-kelCameron]

I can't wait for your Die Hard 3 reaction!

[@bemasaberwyn55]

The icicle kill, the twist with Major Grant, Holy tazing Dick, "There's your F*CKIN landing lights", Chief Lorenzo.....I love this movie

[@Thespian6969]

Yes! Die Hard is a Christmas movie. It has all the hallmarks you need. It happens at Christmastime. It has a Christmas tree. It has Christmas music. But, beyond those simple trappings, it has a Christmas miracle, it has a snowfall (well, paper falling from the top of Nakatomi Plaza) and we are left feeling good at the end for the couple whose marriage has been saved thanks to the season. It's the all-time greatest Christmas movie.

[@scottb3034]

Just no. I disagree with you and Ashleigh on this one. Also the greatest chistmas movie is Christmas Vacation.

[@richruksenas5992]

Oh yea, all the killings and mayhem between the beginning Christmas tropes and the end makes this a "Christmas Movie." Christmas movies use Christmas as it's theme, NOT because it takes place at that time. Sheesh. "Hey kids, let's celebrate Christmas with terrorist scenes, bloodshed, kidnapping and cold blooded murder. Yay!!" Don't get me wrong, I love the Die Hard movies, but if you have to argue if these are Christmas movies are not, the argument proves that they are not. Sorry.

[@scottb3034]

@@richruksenas5992 Agreed.

[@Thespian6969]

@@richruksenas5992 You are certainly entitled to be wrong. 🙂

[@Thespian6969]

@@scottb3034 HAHAHAHAHAHAH. I barely tolerate Christmas Vacation. But, it is also a Christmas movie, even though I don't like it.

[@DrewG-wd8ql]

A little trivia for you Ashleigh... The naked man in the hotel room was also the dad of the two little girls in "The Green Mile", William Sadler..... Die Hard 2 was supposed to take place on a cruise ship, but before the script was ok'd, "Speed 2" with Sandra Bullock and Jason Patric (not Keanu Reeves) hit the theaters on a cruise ship and this version of Die Hard 2 was written.

[@bradpriebe9218]

Part 2 might not have had as many "twists" because you had a better feel for this type of movie now but still a fun watch with some nice one liners. The next two with Samuel L Jackson and Justin Long are pretty good as well and the supporting characters fun additions. If you want more Bruce, Once Upon A Time In Venice is fun but you HAVE to see The Last Boyscout!!

[@3Rayfire]

YESSSS! The Last Boy Scout is a MUST!

[@iChristyD]

Plus the one with Justin Long also has Kevin Smith in it as well!!

[@ianwestc]

@@iChristyD Unfortunately Justin Long and Kevin Smith could not save that movie. Die Hard 3 was the last "decent" Die Hard movie, but really since the first movie each subsequent movie has been not as good as the previous one.

[@iChristyD]

@@ianwestc Of course it’s not as good as the original, but I enjoyed it. I wouldn’t of casted Timothy Olyphant though. Kevin worked with him a few times and has said he was a huge egotistical asshole.

[@seriousissues2012]

What was the big twist in the first one? I don’t know what she meant when she said the first one had more/bigger twists. What twists? That they were gonna blow the roof and fake their own deaths? How is that bigger than the Army unit sent to stop the terrorists are really on the terrorists side?

[@MrDuneedon]

I just flew through Dulles last month, and the entire time I was there, I was thinking about the underbelly of the buildings, the duct work, the steam, that janitor with the record player, etc. LOL!

[@woodyg75]

Glad you continued the Die Hard series and watched 2. A decent sequel in my opinion but 3, Die Hard with a vengeance is arguably the best in the whole series. It won't disappoint you. Happy holidays to you, Hubben and Beans.

[@Burt_Fuggin_Reynolds]

MUST WATCH !

[@nicholascross3557]

Strictly speaking, Ashley is correct in her assesment of the army people being the "...worst ones to send to help." given they were on the bad guy's side!

[@brianstraight9308]

I remember as a kid when this came out seeing it in theaters (such a different, great, time) and really liking it. Hell, to this day I really like it. It pales to the 1st and 3rd but it's decent and has good action in it. I remember seeing a local news story talking about the increasing violence/death in movies and this movie had the highest on-screen death count that summer (largely due to the plane crash.)

[@davidburton7466]

"What does this position do for you in an air crash" ????...it lets you kiss ur ass goodbye.....🤣🤣🤣

[@worstcaseofcrabsever5510]

Nice reaction. Bruce Willis had achieved megastar status by this point and was one of the most sought after actors. Not bad for a comedic actor. These Die Hard films had sizable budgets so they had a lot of options. The physical action scenes were done quite well with excellent stunt work. Here are 3 film suggestions for you: #1 District 9 #2 Wildcats #3 Reindeer Games

[@iChristyD]

Yes to all 3!! I hate Reindeer Games gets shit on so much, I love that movie.

[@markadolph8715]

District 9 is a hell of a suggestion

[@Logan_Baron]

Yes, that's how pagers worked. It would just send you the number and you'd try to find a phone to call them from. And when it was someone you didn't want to talk to, it worked the same way it does now with cell phones. You just ignored it.

[@LogicalNiko]

Back in those days spam calls were pretty limited. And you only really have out your pager number to those important enough to have it. Plus you usually had their numbers memorized. Cell phones were not really practical until the late 90’s early 2000’s. Before that cell phones were as big as a brick and weighed 3-5 lbs and had very bad coverage areas. Pagers worked more like a twitter feed, you would call into a service and tell the number to page out. The pager would then “listen” for a message sent out usually within 1-3 mins and display the number sent. There wasn’t enough bandwidth and infrastructure to handle more complex messages. You would then go to your nearest land line and call the number back. In the late 90’s you got alphanumeric and two way paging, which eventually became SMS (text messaging). But by then non-smartphones where small enough and inexpensive enough for general business use.

[@lucky2213]

dont worry about flying at night, piolts see and land by radar so they know where they are relative to the ground based on radio signals, even when its a clear day they land by using an ILS program (instrument landing system) which basically lands the plane for them

[@gutz1981]

Yes, rigor mortis sets in quite fast. If we don't stick the pigs we slaughter for meat in the throat and pierce the heart quickly to bleed out, they go stiff in a matter of minutes.

[@AFMountaineer2000]

The more you know

[@jd-zr3vk]

No, rigor moris takes hours.

[@godmagnus]

I always get stiff AFTER sticking my meat in the throat.

[@awmperry]

In humans, full rigor takes about 12 hours or thereabouts to set in. In fairness, though, @gutz1981 has a very specific perspective on it that works on a different clock.

[@JohnMiller-zn9pf]

pager numbers were only given out to people who needed it, so if you received a page it was important. later models also had a respond to text feature

[@bustagutable]

Love your reactions Ashleigh!! Wanted to make a request. This is a switch in genre's but I rewatched a favorite movie the other day and my first thought was 'Ashleigh needs to see this'! A comedy called Too Wong Foo, Love Julie Newmar (1995). Patrick Swayze, Wesley Snipes and John Lequizamo play drag queens on a journey to a pageant in LA. Won't tell you much more. Don't want to spoil it. When you're in the mood to bust a gut, please watch. I'm doing extra sit ups to prepare myself for your reaction. 🤣👍

[@jacob4920]

"The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert," is a movie along those same lines, only it's done by Australian actors, and has more of that savage Aussie humor in it. I like "To Wong Foo," but Priscilla is a drag queen movie unto itself. The humor is just better, in my eyes, and it ain't watered down by Hollywood. Really can't recommend that one enough.

[@bustagutable]

@@jacob4920 Totally agree! Had forgotten that one. It's been a while since I've seen it. I'd love for Ashleigh to do both! 😁👍

[@xczechr]

Thanks For Everything!

[@stephensanders2104]

YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT A BEEPER IS EVERYBODY HAD A BEEPER IN THE 80's AND 90's IT IS A BIG THING BACK IN THE DAY

[@johnshull2454]

Die Hard is a Christmas Movie! It is perhaps the best Christmas movie. In my heart it is tied with Its a Wonderful Life and Lethal Weapon.

[@markp7262]

@15:53, the guy who you think looks really familiar is John Amos. He also played Cleo McDowell, the girl's father in Coming to America. (Not sure if anyone previously mentioned it, but a search of Amos, Coming and America turned up nothing in comments.)

[@8lackbeard791]

Die Hard with a Vengeance (3) is a MUST watch now you have seen 1 & 2 - It would be great to see your reaction to that. It's also not a Christmas movie, so we don't have to wait a year haha

[@misterprickly]

Fun fact: the Minion John kills on the moving side walk was played by Robert Patrick... Ya, John McClain killed the T-1000!

[@dahobdahob]

Faxes ran a bright light across the paper one line at a time and converted how much reflected light was returned into an electric signal, which it transmitted down a wire to a printer on the other end. It's a /really/ old tech, the first (very primitive) commercial ones being available in the mid 1800's. It dates back to telegraph times.

[@ericc8705]

Faxes were an interesting tech ... however, I doubt very much that a faxed copy of anyone's finger prints taken like it was shown in the film would've been clear enough to actually get ANY kind of positive ID (wouldn't have had enough detail - especially after being faxed)

[@davidmendez1694]

Speaking of Terminator 2, the bad guy who said "a sitting duck!" was Robert Patrick who played the T-1000.

[@sldawgs]

There is an old cop show named Dragnet. Sgt Friday would always say "Just the facts, Ma'am." Context jokes.

[@hylerj]

Pagers and beepers. Essentially it was a device that would alert you when signaled . If you ever gone to Applebee's and they have you a thing that would alert you when your table was ready, it's the same idea. If you have specific questions, I can answer them.

[@andrewhoward6946]

I'm here for the Barnes and Marvin appreciation. Compared to the other movies, I think I like the handy helpers in this one the most. Growing up Die Hard with a Vengeance was always my favorite (Die Hard 1 took the top spot as an adult). The chemistry between Bruce Willis and Samuel L Jackson is a ton of fun. It is definately the schlockiest of the first three movies though. Goes a little Saturday Morning Cartoon a few times. Great fun though. Not a Christmas movie. No rush to cover it, but if you ever get around to it, I'll be excited.

[@ComradeArthur]

10:55 Radio Shack? I saw a radio shack in Wyoming this year. I think there's one in NYC. that's about it.

[@Yama_1291]

You can think of a beeper like the missed call display on a modern smartphone. Just that it only showed the number and to call back you had to go to a landline and manually dial. Hope this helped :)

[@markplott4820]

Ashleigh - FAX machine works like a Document copyer, only smaller, it scans document, then uses phone to transmit to another FAX, then convert AUDIO back into text. prints the pages. still in use today.

[@c-puff]

Ashleigh you already have me in such a great mood poking fun with the roasting! 😭 I LIKE YOUR SPACE BUNS!!! Honestly being compared to John Candy is a COMPLIMENT! 😤Also hoping you'll eventually do Die hard 3 too since that one is FANTASTIC. Not as good as the first but then again what is?

[@jsc315]

All of those people/characters are comic geniuses. I see it as a massive compliment

[@americanfreedomlogistics9984]

the old music that Marvin was listening to in the basement was Old Cape Cod by Patti Page

[@timothymorris157]

I completely agree with you Ashleigh about Aliens and Terminator 2 being masterpieces and some of the best sequels ever but i also feel that way about Rocky II. Sure it’s not like the first movie in some respects and didn’t win any Oscars however it did really well at the box office in 1979 and is a well respected and endearing addition to the franchise especially by comparison to the other sequels. I like Die Hard 2 but I’ll only watch it if i happen to catch it on tv around this time of the year.

[@sharkdentures3247]

Yeah, I tend to adopt the philosophy of that guy from the Scream movies who said, "There ARE no good sequels.". (or was it, "Sequels are ALWAYS worse than the original"?) Obviously, Aliens & T2 are the (possible) EXCEPTIONS. But I DO still enjoy SOME (older) sequels, like Die Hard 2. (not as good as the original, but still enjoyable) But modern-day sequels near 100% SUCK! (Pretty much all are blatant "cash grabs"!) Also, every time Ashleigh busts out laughing, I'm like, "Remember, Bruce Willis was originally a 'Comedic Actor'.".

[@jacob4920]

I must be the only man in the world who likes Die Hard 2 better than the first movie. I think it's because of the whole "airport" thing, which just made the stakes higher, you know?

[@timothymorris157]

@@sharkdentures3247 It’s one of the only reasons i still enjoy watching Concrete Jungle…. i mean Predator 2 to this day. Sure it feels like you’re watching Lethal Weapon again but that’s only because of Danny Glover and Gary Busey but it has it’s moments where the movie is awesome and funny plus it’s one of my favorites from 1990 aside from Stephen King’s IT (mini series), Goodfellas, Total Recall, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

[@Blunt555]

In McMinnville oregon there's a water park with slides that come out of a 747 airplane really cool

[@richardb6260]

Die Hard 2 is even more of a Christmas movie.

[@AdhamOhm]

14:35 United Airlines 232 crashed while landing (there are videos of it) with no hydraulic controls. Hit the ground similar to this and exploded in a fireball, 111 people died and 184 survived.

[@shakawhenthewallsfell8570]

Pagers were just a device to let you know that someone wants to get in touch with you. In the time when cell phones were not readily available due to cost (device and plan), they were a much cheaper method. Alpha-numeric pagers later allowed to add a short message. FAX machine is just like e-mailing a photo, before e-mail. Scanner in the machine scans the page(s), converts it into data, than sends it to another FAX machine where the data is converted back to an image on a page through a printer. Like a photocopier, only over a long distance. You should also watch part 3 - Die Hard: With a Vengeance. Part 4 and 5... You won't miss much if you skip them.

[@1rexrex]

They also had pagers that could receive voice messages. Kid I played with (mid 80s) had one. We'd be playing and you hear his mother squawking (Get home now, You're missing dinner!) etc. Was annoying.

[@jonathanstempleton7864]

Batman Returns is another Christmas movie worth watching. McDonald's hated it which is why I love it 👍

[@XanArt21]

The third one is the best for me, might be my nostalgia goggles cause I saw that one in cinema, but the directing is so slick in that one and such good chemistry between Bruce Willis and Samuel L. Jackson. 3-1-2-4 for me... 5 you can skip 😄 jeesh that was rough. Bruce Willis is hot... I never got people who said he wasn't... even hot as Ernest in Death Becomes Her (in a deleted scene he went into a bar all wet from the pool he crashed in and he looks fineeee!)

[@feldegast]

1, 3, 4, 2, 5 for me, yes you can skip 5 easily...

[@jmarx3943]

It's my favorite as well. I can watch that movie any time. Love it!

[@matsv201]

Its the same for me. Seen both 3 and 4 in cinema. Still think 3 is amazing when watching it today. I would say its even more timeless than the first movie. The second movie aged really poorly with all the fax, beepers and tri jets.

[@Hollyisthedog]

4,3,2,1 is my preference and that's all the Die Hard films there are! Of course I am a massive Timothy Olyphant fan and that could have perverted my opinion!

[@XanArt21]

@@Hollyisthedog 4 should have been r-rated, Die Hard needs to feel raw (although it probably would have ended up being cgi'ish blood 🤢)... but I can still enjoy it. I saw it in cinema too. 3 has the amazing camera work... you feel really immersed... I really like that.

[@TerryAllenSwartos]

Re: 24:30 … When you shoot down a plane…it’s gotta come down somewhere. Potentially a neighborhood or a large building or in heavy traffic. Passenger jets are very big and contain a lot of flammable fuel.

[@feldegast]

Bruce Willis is in all 5 Die Hard movies, Samuel L Jackson and Jeremy Irons is in Die Hard 3 😍 I had a pager in the 90s, someone rings a service and the service then basically sends you a that message as a text...porcelain guns are mentioned in another movie but I forget which... Fax machines work similar to photo copiers or scanners, just slower and there is a phone line between the scanner and printer.... Those buns make you look like a kitty cat 😃 cute

[@matsv201]

".porcelain guns are mentioned" yea.. its a meme, because everything he sad was totally wrong, the xray, the porclain, the price, the number.. even the country (suppose to be Austria, not Germany). And i have a feeling that Die hard 3 will be exactly what Ashley likes. Its like here mix if stuff .. and.. well most people i supose

[@lawrencejones1517]

Okay, first thing about beepers is that the only people that have your number are those that you gave it to. You didn't get any cold calls, or robo calls or anything undesirable. And fax machines worked pretty much like a copy machine crossed with a computer printer. It scans the original at your end, and connects through the land line telephone. Every so often someone might get the wrong number, and when you answered, you would get this electronic noise which was a sending fax trying to handshake with another fax.

[@gjalie]

i still think the third Die Hard is my favourite one.

[@NorthshireGaming]

A little backstory on pagers: Pagers worked by having a landline that tied into your pager, someone could call that number, on the caller's end they'd be prompted to, similar to how voice-mail works now, to enter a callback number. You could also leave a voice-mail as a message. That call would then be shuffled off to a data transmission node, similar to a modern cellphone tower, but these transmission nodes were very different in how they worked, they required far fewer nodes to operate, and they used a higher power transmission to send data out. Periodically, the node would queue up pager messages, as constantly sending data would be less efficient, they would then send several pager messages out in a single broadcast, if you tuned into the frequency of these transmissions they sounded very much like a dialup modem, they would then carpet bomb the area with pager messages, your pager would "hear" its intended message, and your pager would beep and display a callback number. You would also be notified if they left a voice-mail message, and you could call your service provider and listen to the voice-mail messages, as well as have a log of what number called your pager and the time and date of even the messages were received. This was all one-way communication. The pagers couldn't send anything back, it could only receive information from the pager network. Pagers are an old invention, they date back to least the 1920s, perhaps even before then. Although, if memory serves me, these older systems didn't support voice-mail, only leaving a callback number. These old transmission systems have been in operation for decades, but are slated to be shut down here soon. Pagers are still used today, you'll see them used a lot in the medical community as a quick and easy way to notify doctors or nurses of emergencies or calls tl various rooms - although I'm going to venture a guess that they use a more localized version of the transmission towers, as they wouldn't require a nationwide network of transmission towers to operate. Anyways, that's pagers in a nutshell.

[@candicelitrenta8890]

Back then there were no cell phones like you have now and no-one could page you unless you physically gave them the number. If you were beeped it was someone you actually knew. My friend back then had one and she was an actress in L.A. at the time, 1990 so it was always her agent with roles to go audition for

[@jokerz7936]

Fun fact until Pay Phones started to disappear Beepers were still very popular with Drug dealers they made Wire Tapping almost impossible.

[@JDoe-gf5oz]

The bat signal is not a beeper.

[@ZeroOskul]

15:53 John Amos, actor who played Cleo McDowell in *Coming To America*.

[@donnaralph4413]

I love how you were sticking with John (. Bruce). Die Hard 3 is not a Christmas movie, summer time! Well worth the watch and just as exciting! I love all the Die Hard. So please continue ❤️❤️❤️

[@dallesamllhals9161]

"I love all the Die Hard" 4 - 5 too?

[@donnaralph4413]

@@dallesamllhals9161 what you don't like 3?😉

[@Uncultured_Barbarian465]

The cop you didn't like in this flick was played by Dennis Franz. He is a veteran who made a career out of playing cops on TV and in movies. The character he plays on NYPD Blue, Andy Sipowicz, has a great character arc. You start out hating him, then you love him by the end.

[@alexius23]

Ah, another Die Hard Christmas movie. There are several Die Hard movies. In my opinion the next in the series, Die Hard with a Vengeance, is ok because of Jeremy Irons presence, as the villain, makes it all worthwhile. Samuel L. Jackson always improves a film too.

[@matsv201]

7:57 A fax machine works exactly like a old tube TV. but in steed of a screen, it prints on a paper. It just sends how bright it will be like a normal analog signal over the telephone-network. the reason that it takes like a minute to send a fax is that the telephone-network only support 4kHz of sound, while TV signal is 6Mhz, 1500 times faster. Later model of fax used a digital method. They work totally different. When they first connect the machine does a "handshake" that determine who is the most modern fax and the one of them that need to hold back. A beeper just a really dumb bit of equipment that just listen to a special frequency until it find its call sign, and then listen to the full message. Its just one way. There was two way beepers in the works, but mobile phones become to cheap so they was never marketed. 8:20 Fun fact. the boss in the tower is a real person. Yes, he did work at that airport, and yes, he did carry that name, and yes he looked very similar to the actor and talked the same way... And.. yes.. the guy how did the script know him.. he just forgot to change the name of the character. They discovered it first at the premier.. and it was the actual guy, him self who discovered it

[@Xenotric]

The pagers you mostly see used are "receive only" pagers. They basically function like a text only cellphone but they work more like a radio. This allows them to work in area's cellphones cannot (such as hospital areas where x-rays are taken) and because they only have a basic display and dont need to send they have a very very long battery life allowing them to work during emergencies when you cannot charge phones etc. Overall they are the precursor to text messages on mobile phones but still have uses even today due to the reliability, coverage range and a few other aspects I think you are gonna have a hoot with Die Hard with a Vengeance, my favourite of the Die Hard trilogy and the last one before they stripped the franchise down to dumb pure action with silly plots that make no sense

[@ianwestc]

I have to admit I kindof miss my old pager. Almost never had to charge it, it was reliable, and I didn't have work nonsense on my personal phone. :-D

[@xczechr]

Cell phones don't work in hospitals because of x-rays? lol

[@Xenotric]

@@xczechr because of the shielding in those areas and such

[@martenhjelm4484]

The gun they are talking about being invisible in the x-ray is real. It is the glock 17, an Austrian made gun. Used by most police departments in the USA. However it is not made of porsilin but insted plastic and metal. It dose show up on the x-ray.

[@jhilal2385]

The actor playing the head air traffic control director, Fred Thompson, also played the Admiral in "The Hunt For Red October", appeared in lots of other 1980's and '90's action films, was a regular on the "Law & Order" TV series as District Attorney for Manhattan (and had a law degree in real life), and later was US Senator from Tennessee. 😉

[@LogicalNiko]

Fax machines generally used a scanning sensor gathering 203 lines per page of black and white information. Each line could consist of 96 or 198 dots of either black or white. This was converted into a number and then translated to sounds on a 300,600,1200, or 38400 bits per second modem by generating various tones. The other side just reconstructed that image. Fun fact the first name for a facsimile machine was “a mojo” machine.

[@itzakpoelzig330]

Wow, very thorough explanation. Thank you.

[@LogicalNiko]

@@itzakpoelzig330 used to be an old school phone tech back in the day. Started out with a fascination in low level signal analysis and protocols and being a wire monkey. Moved into end-user devices, to central office, to networking, to datacenter infrastructure; then my career turned to cloud scale architecture/cybersecurity/SRE.

[@j.m.marshall669]

Oh Ashleigh I hope you do Die Hard With A Vengeance as well, it really caps off the first three films. For me after that one they are never quite the same level, 4.0 I barely remember but it was about cyber terrorism more or less. It sounds like you've a full schedule until the end of the year, but maybe the third film from this series can be in January? Enjoyed your reaction as always 😃

[@matsv201]

The 4:th one wasn´t all that terrible. Just a bit bland and boring and to much CGI. The 5:th one is very much like the 5:th home alone... nobody knows it exist.. and its the best that way

[@j.m.marshall669]

@@matsv201 I think 5 was in Russia, and had Jai Courtney in it? (That alone is enough to put me off, don't rate him as an actor, same as Shia LaBeouf)

[@matsv201]

@@j.m.marshall669 I have seen zero movies featuring Shia LaBeouf. And i don´t know how Jai Courtney is.. öum.. yea... if they was made famous after 2000.. i don´t know how it is. But it was pretty horrible. Anyway.. for some reason Die hard 5 reminded me of hardcore Henry, that on the other side is a really good movie. I don´t know exactly why, but some of the scenes and plot points was a bit similar, and it was filmed in Russia as well. So... i guess. in steed of watching Die hard 5.. watch hardcore Henry... they are really not that similar... but well.. i just think its a good replacement.. yea its kind of stupid

[@bigtip8371]

Bruce and Samuel make a great team in the third one and Ashleigh would enjoy it for sure!

[@philipsnettleton]

Ash, before Smart Phones, we had Cell Phones, Pagers, Phone Booths (a really defunct technology now), Land Line Phones and very, very limited Dialup Internet. And that was just 20 years ago. A lot has changed. When I was a small boy, you could buy a bag full of candy for 5 cents.

[@Ghostfailure33object27]

If it hasn’t been said yet, only the first two Die Hards are really Christmas movies. All the ones after this I don’t think are even during the winter. Those are also good flicks but nowhere near as good as these two. Love your reactions.

[@richardrobbins387]

Guyz Nite :Die Hard music video is an excellent comedic breakdown, only 4 or so minutes long. Very entertaining wouldn't tell Ashleigh outright cause (Spoilers)

[@philadams175]

The Army major from the special team was the Mr McDowell in Coming to America, the bad guy who survived the luggage scene was also on Coming to America as the guy who recognized the prince when he was in line. Lastly the bad guy who shot the swat commander was the Terminator in Terminator 2. Then there was the tall bald guy in the tower in charge, thats Fred Thompson who later became a US Senator (Tennessee) and later ran for President in 2008.

[@iKvetch558]

LOL...Ashleigh cannot understand the concept of fax machines...does that mean she does not understand how an email or a web page or a photo is printed off of the internet, or how things are uploaded to the internet? LOL She just makes me laugh so often, I even love her blind spots. 😜✌😂

[@alexius23]

This film came out in 1990. At that point in time Beepers were the cutting edge of high tech

[@damongirls9528]

I’m glad Ashleigh had fun with this. I remember being super disappointed (partly my fault - my expectations were too high). I hope we get to the third one - it’s my favorite sequel! I think Ashleigh will love Samuel L. Jackson in that one 😎

[@DM-at-DnotDgames_Telegxm]

Congrats! Thanks for watching Send a message through the platform above . The package is yours!!!....

[@stroudboi]

Calling all patrons, subscribers, and followers: Let’s make sure she eventually sees Die Hard 3!

[@doblc943]

I really love the diehard franchise. Great to see you, Ashleigh!