Die Hard 2 (1990) Yippee Ki-Yay! | Reaction | First Time Watching

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[@VerowakReacts]

What is your favourite Die Hard movie? So far, mine is the first one 🤩 Patreon (full length & polls): www.patreon.com/verowak Buy me a Ko-fi (or lemonade): ko-fi.com/verowak Subscribe to the channel: kzbin.info Follow me on Twitter and Instagram for stuff and selfies: twitter.com/verowak instagram.com/verowak/

[@bmw128racer]

The first one is the best one by far.

[@MaxiWolf88]

First one for me too!

[@chaddubois8164]

First but third is really good. One of the best third movies ever.

[@clarkmichaels822]

My order from best to worst is 1, 4, 3, 2 and didn't even finish 5.

[@nedzed3663]

The third movie, Die Hard with a Vegetable. Though it was missing the titular second in command, henchman who looked exactly like Huey Lewis we saw in the first movie and was pretty much every 80's era action movie staple.

[@jkhoover]

"I forgot which side I'm on." I don't think I've ever seen a reactor say that during a Die Hard movie.

[@VerowakReacts]

My tendency to root for the villain showed through 😂

[@GhorestFoul]

More trivia: Renny Harlin, the Finnish-born director, actually used a piece by a Finnish classical composer, Jean Sibelius, at the end scene with Holly's plane landing. "Finlandia" is arguably more well-known than the national anthem of Finland. Trivia over.

[@80smoviesfan]

List of favorite die Hard movies 1. Die Hard 2. Die Hard with a vengeance 3 3. Die Hard 2 4. Die Hard 4 5. Die Hard 5

[@dallesamllhals9161]

This is thé one(if no 4 & 5) 😛

[@GeorgeTropicana]

Ok

[@jameskellis3122]

Fred Thompson, the actor that played the tall guy in charge in the tower, became a US Senator from Tennessee and ran for President in the 2008 election.

[@mistajay885]

As a Washington DC native, i gotta say.. any airplane with mire than 20 min of fuel trying to land at Dulles can be rerouted to Reagan Airport, BWI, and/or st. Andrews air force base...

[@sodiumcrush]

lolol the "Now it's Christmas" tag at the end... Perfect

[@VerowakReacts]

I've learned that it's not Christmas until that scene, so might as well kick things off 😂

[@joshuacampbell7493]

Now, Die Hard with a Vengeance. It's not a Christmas movie but it's still worth it to see 👌.

[@dallesamllhals9161]

...and 4 - 5?

[@joshuacampbell7493]

@@dallesamllhals9161 Yes.

[@CoastalNomad]

Great Reaction..... Timeline Note: "Die Hard: With a Vengance" actually happens between 1 & 2...... Also it is not at Christmas time...... Over-Looked Joke/Nod..... When John is Sending/Receiving the Fingerprints.... He replies "Just the Fax...".... This is nod to the 1960's TV Show Dragnet.... where the Detective Main Character's catch phrase when interviewing witnesses is.... "Just the Facts, Ma'am/Sir...."

[@Solar-td4fj]

Fun fact. The first Die Hard movie was based on a story that Hollywood had been trying to make into a movie for a while. Eventually the movie script got rewritten specifically for Arnold Schwarzenegger as a sequel to his movie "Commando" (hence the multiple one-liners with limited dialogue, which was Arnold's bread and butter). When Arnold decided to pass on it, they gave the role to Bruce Willis and it became his breakout role. Another fun fact, the fictional South American country of Val Verde, where Esperanza is supposed to be from, is also the country where the bad guys in Commando were trying to have a Dictator installed by forcing Arnold to kill the President. All these three movies were written by the same screen writer, Steven E de Souza.

[@davecondreay]

The best part, you dont have to wait til Christmas to watch the third one. (with a vengeance) It takes place in the summer. Die hard with a vengeance may be my favorite. very close with the first one.

[@joshuacampbell7493]

William Atherton (Thornburg) is also in Ghostbusters. You should watch that movie too.

[@dallesamllhals9161]

Peck?

[@joshuacampbell7493]

@@dallesamllhals9161 Yes.

[@dallesamllhals9161]

@@joshuacampbell7493 Richard?

[@joshuacampbell7493]

@@dallesamllhals9161 Yes.

[@dallesamllhals9161]

@@joshuacampbell7493 Penis?

[@goodshipkaraboudjan]

There are so many aviation plot holes but it's such a fun movie. Still holds up imo. Blowing up the baddies 747 has to be the coolest cop story ever for McLain.

[@georgee406]

"Our escape flight will be ready in 30 min. " "Oh, that's terrible planning." Haha!

[@VerowakReacts]

Rookie mistake for sure!

[@aTofuJunkie]

Looking back at the first Die Hard, it's hard to believe not only did John McClane take off his shoes, but I find it hard to believe he hid his shoes away and didn't take it with him when he went on a Rampage. 😂

[@Yezhanium]

I would like to suggest a 1998 Soldier with Kurt Russell. About a man taken from birth to become a warrior. While marketed as an action film (and has some fun action for sure), it's more of a character study on people with PTSD, who cannot fully readjust to civillian life. Kurt has barely over 100 words throughout the film but most of his acting is eyes and slight facial changes. Also written by the same guy who did Bladerunner, noting that this is a side-quel to BR. There are some direct easter eggs, and implying of 'replacers' being new type of replicants. I saw maybe one person react to it, not really understanding the subtext.

[@DrewG-wd8ql]

I am so proud of you. You are the first to point out the color difference in the wraps on the clips. I noticed it when I saw this in the theater and not one reactor saw it until you. Great reaction. The next two are summer time issues for John with number 4 probably my favorite of the sequels.

[@SnabbKassa]

BLue is BLank. Red is dead

[@alexcroft1486]

That Guns and Roses joke tho 🤣 and a perfectly timed reference right before the T1000 shows up 🤣 Great reaction as always, enjoying the Christmas run

[@VerowakReacts]

The timing was too perfect!! 😂

[@javix2013]

The violence in the movies of the big studios in the 90s were brutal, I think we owe it to Paul Verhoeven, director of Robocop, Total Recall and Starship Troopers, he generated a style of violence that was copied by several directors of that time, even in this director of Die Hard 2, was Renny Harlin, I highly recommend CLIFFHANGER, the other good movie of this director, and it is with Silvester Stallone.

[@ThistleAndSea]

Fun one, Verowak! Thanks for sharing it. 🙂

[@totterdell]

hans is the best die hard villain without question BUT Colonel Stuart is supremely underrated

[@michaelbaumert9533]

I love the fact the slides were an Australian invention.

[@MarcoMM1]

Great reaction like always. Did you know that Black & Decker sued the producers over a product placement scene that was cut from the film, is commonplace in Hollywood, a chunk of Die Hard 2’s budget came from product placement. Power tool manufacturer Black & Decker paid to have their new cordless drill used in the film by Bruce Willis himself. However, once the theatrical cut of Die Hard 2 finally made it to screens, the scene in question was not included. Considering the money they had paid for their tool to be shown on camera, the top brass at Black & Decker were naturally very unhappy at being snubbed. The company proceeded to sue Die Hard 2’s producers for $150,000, marking the first occasion that a lawsuit had been taken out in relation to product placement. The edited for TV version features McClane saying “Yippee ki-yay, Mr Falcon” lol, Air traffic controllers have pointed out a major plot hole: the planes would have changed course. The terrorists’ plan is to force all the planes set to land to stay in the air, putting them at risk of running out of fuel and crashing. However, when a group of air traffic controllers fact-checked the film, they were quick to point out a big plot hole: the planes would have immediately changed course and flown to the next nearest airport. Air traffic controller Dan Mooney explains, “Without even being told, all of those other flights would have redirected themselves to another airport. The pilots would wait about 20 minutes at most without communication, and then they’d go off to another airport. Bruce Willis has called it his least favourite Die Hard film (its my least favourite too). Keep up the good work.

[@GeorgeTropicana]

Christ the people that copy and paste the imdb trivia page into these comments are so fucking CRINGE

[@jkhoover]

That is NOT a mere mortal. That's John McClane!

[@rccraig7580]

In answer to your question, Colonel Stweart and his henchmen were using very special Hollywood plot grenades. They only explode after the protagonist in this case Maclaine has safely moved out of the blast radius. Although I'm not an aeronautics engineer, I would have to believe that a full-grown adult being sucked into an active 747 engine would result in some kind of significant engine damage. But then again, the maybe they used that special Hollywood plane that had damage proof engines. LOL!

[@alexspindler1]

While Die hard 2 isn't in the same league as the original (or the third one) it did lead to the amazing TV edit lines of "Yippie-ki-yay Mister Falcon" and "if you'd have moved your fat feet we wouldn't be hip deep in snow right now". : )

[@tomw324]

Why does this keep happening to us? Die Hard 2 was ok, but nothing can top the first one. Went back in your play list and watched your reaction to Die Hard 1, good stuff.

[@FRACTUREDVISIONmusic]

Someone help me with this please. So, the scene in the airport cafe, where John sees the bad guys pass a package to each other under the table. What was in that box? What part of anything they were planning required them to meet in the open in the airport cafe and pass a box to each other? Also, why did the bad guys go into the back end of the baggage moving system? Certainly there wasn't any circuitry, or hardware or... whatever...to help them with their mission, so what the heck were they doing in there? Also, do luggage conveyors have big overhead rollers that brutally crush luggage that pass under them if they're as thick or thicker than a human head? Trivia - the explosion of the jet with the bad guys taking off, the plane was a model fx shot, of course. The pyrotechnic crew went a little overkill for that fantastic explosion of the plane, which took place around 10 or more miles from any towns or civilization - the nearest town was not very happy to see just above the horizon a huge fireball explosion and then tremendous explosion sounds they had no idea what it was. That includes the emergency services, who didn't know beforehand about the shoot and big boom until the production sorted it all out afterwards. Definitely a case of "It's better to ask for forgiveness, than to ask for permission."! More trivia - the final overhead shot of the landed planes, emergency vehicles and people is mostly, a matte painting. Only some of the people and a few other elements are live elements. In the scene we're close in with the actors, but then the camera pulls back and booms up as we see more and more of the scene with all the landed planes on the runway - if you look closely and or freeze frame that pull-out, you'll be able to tell it's a painting... a great one, looks so real, but nope, it's mostly paint with areas left blank for the live action plates. Last trivia - the actor who plays the boss in the tower, Fred Thompson, was at the time also a US Senator. He was in quite a few movies of the time such as 'The Hunt for Red October', check out his IMDB, it's quite extensive for anyone, let alone one who's day job was US Congressman. Oh, and yes, that's the T-1000, Robert Patrick, who called the one guy who asked what he looked like, "A dead duck!".

[@mikebrown7799]

Hi Miss Verowak!😊 The first three Die Hard films are definitely the best in the series. You guessed correctly that those guys might be working for Colonel Stuart.😉 Good call! Great reactions to your second Die hard film, Miss Verowack!!!!🎬👏👏👏👏

[@janiilola5810]

I like Die Hard 2 a lot (although I might be a bit partial because the director is a Finn, like me) but there are two peeves for me, 1) the grenades that were thrown into the cockpit and took like 13 minutes to detonate and 2) the blue-red ammo thing. Although it works in the story, in reality automatic guns don't work like that. You can't alternate between blanks and live rounds. Automatics need either an external device in the muzzle OR internal modification to work as automatics with blank rounds. Without it you'd only get 1 round to go off and then you'd need to manually cycle the action. Everyone who has deeper knowledge about guns knows this. Even Bruce Willis knew it and complained about it but they didn't want to change the script because it works storywise. But it's still a great sequel. Part 3 ie. Die Hard with a Vengeance is even better IMO and I'm looking forward for your reaction to it. And that one is not a Christmas movie. :)

[@sutej72]

My favorite quote: How can the same shit happen to the same guy twice.

[@VerowakReacts]

I'm hoping it happens more often 😂

[@MrMice...]

They used a similar angle in marketing, "look who's back at the wrong place at the right time"

[@ronfehr7899]

Marvin has a couple of my favorite lines in the movie. "Man knows how to bargain." "I'll be damned if I'm cleaning up this mess."

[@steveg5933]

Definitely need to see Diehard 3. Nice call backs.

[@user-hx7wd7wt5v]

Yeah it was William Sadler he was the father of the two little girls in The Green Mile. I haven't read all the comments so it's probably already been brought up before but anyway it's my two cents.

[@hayatotheninja]

Fun fact, ignition point for jet fuel is higher than that of a match or lighter! (I was a Jet Fuel employee, during 9/11 no less). Third Die Hard is just as good as the first. I feel like part 2 was very much a product of its time, the super over the top action era.

[@toodlescae]

Yeah my dad hauled both gas and jet fuel and he always said that the fumes were more dangerous than the fuel itself.

[@VerowakReacts]

With the tagline "Die Harder", it does set it up to be over the top lol

[@BillO964]

Verowak, you have a beautiful smile and sense of humor.

[@long-timesci-fienthusiast9626]

Hi Verowak, great to see you enjoying this one too. I look forward to your next venture into Die Hard, whenever you manage it. :)

[@georgewaterman1925]

I think i prefer this one to the first. I admit the villain of the first is so much better than this one. Glad you watched this.

[@shainewhite2781]

More darker and more violent than the first film, but a lot of fun to watch!

[@VerowakReacts]

The darker the better 😇

[@javix2013]

The violence in the movies of the big studios in the 90s were brutal, I think we owe it to Paul Verhoeven, director of Robocop, Total Recall and Starship Troopers, he generated a style of violence that was copied by several directors of that time.

[@javix2013]

Nowadays, a director like Paul Verhoeven would have no place in Hollywood, that's why he doesn't film there anymore, they don't use so much violence in today's blockbusters, because it reduces the audience. and Paul was always a politically incorrect director, he did what he wanted.

[@nathanr.494]

the guy that got the icicle is experiencing major brain freeze. btw my favs are DH-1,3 and 4.

[@user-hx7wd7wt5v]

Fred Dalton the control tower boss man former Tennessee governor also played the commander of the aircraft carrier in The Hunt for Red October.

[@aranerem5569]

This movie is awesome

[@aTofuJunkie]

Watch "Mercury Rising" (1998) with Bruce Willis and Alec Baldwin. It's a very underrated Bruce Willis film.

[@pmr1049]

I hope you go thru all 5 movies your reaction is really funny and i liked this as much as watching the movies like ive done like 9 times just this year XD

[@darkforestcinema]

Die Hard with Vengeance, Live Free and Die Hard, and It's a Good Day to Die Hard all are different from the first 2, not Holiday films. Still a good watch though. Enjoy the journey. -Sage

[@VerowakReacts]

I'm glad they're not holiday films 😁

[@phj223]

I just realized, if you know there's a plane full of bad guys trying to escape, wouldn't you just send up a fighter jet to intercept it and blow it out of the sky once they're over the ocean? o.O Instead we get John McClane jumping on to the wing and trying to fist fight the villains.. heh.

[@jecouterai]

Yes, Robert Patrick was cast as T-1000 thanks to this movie

[@dallesamllhals9161]

JUST 'cause of this one. You 100% sure?

[@VerowakReacts]

For some reason I thought this came out after Terminator 2, clearly not! :D

[@jecouterai]

@@dallesamllhals9161 As far as I know James Cameron saw his performance in this and was impressed

[@jecouterai]

@@dallesamllhals9161 As far as I know, James Cameron saw his performance in this and was impressed

[@peterlenham3180]

​​@@dallesamllhals9161Yes its true. Jim Cameron saw him in this, and thought he had the right look for T2. He auditioned him, and he got the role. Dont forget, this came out in 1990, a year before T2 in 1991, so it lines up.

[@logann7942]

I love how overly British the BA plane is. They’re like “Pip pip cheerio tea and crumpets petrol fumes the loo isn’t working”

[@danielreid3476]

To me, this was the most entertaining one in the series. It was also the most ridiculous as far as reality goes.

[@VerowakReacts]

It really was ridiculous lol. It has a certain charm

[@blakewalker84120]

25:40 "How delayed are these grenades?" You are correct. Grenades have a short fuse time because nobody wants the enemy to pick them up and throw them back. These grenades took more than 30 seconds to detonate which is, really, at least 30 seconds too long. IMO, this is by far the worst moment in the franchise in terms of writing. There are a few other doozies in all the movies, but this one has top billing for being both a) extremely obviously wrong and b) super easy to write the same scene so it works. I mean, all they had to do was have John already in the pilot's seat instead of on the floor, then when he hears Col. Stuart tell his men to use grenades, he straps himself in right at that moment. As the first grenade hits, he ejects. Just as easy to film, and it would be reasonable rather than having these grenades take 10x too long to detonate.

[@-iIIiiiiiIiiiiIIIiiIi-]

2:44 Psycho Alert!

[@asterix7842]

Another great reaction from a great reactor. About the last comment you made- I use to watch a sitcom in the 90s called Mad About You and in one episode, the main character a film maker, made a comment about the latest Die Hard movie being filmed, called "Just Die Already!" 🤣 The next film takes place in the summer, so you don't have to wait til next Christmas to watch it. It follows a very different format than the first two.

[@letitiabeausoleil4025]

Hi Wak. Nicel to see you again.

[@chaddubois8164]

I think Verowak the Ravenclaw is going to enjoy the situations of Diehard with a Vengeance. I can't wait.

[@VerowakReacts]

I have no idea what to expect except a non Christmas theme, and John McClane is in it 😁 It'll be fun!

[@niftymagic]

Excellent reaction, looking forward to seeing your reaction to Taking Chance with Kevin Bacon, it’s a realistic way the military escort KIA back home and Something the lord made with Alan Rickman (prof snape) another true story about the very first blue baby surgery.

[@didiersmets819]

58 minutes pour vivre, seen it at the cinema, in french (Belgium) it was so good, so fun !!! David Addison rules !!!

[@didiersmets819]

You should watch Moonlighting

[@VerowakReacts]

I would be curious to give it a try, though older TV shows are sometimes hard to find

[@alexhale2696]

"Phock" and "You". 2 words I tell family members on the holidays when they always ask me for something......especially for money. 😑

[@phj223]

Please react to Under Siege (1992) starring the ever green Steven Seagal, I think you'd get a kick out of it. Also with Tommy Lee Jones and Gary Busey. :) It shares some theme with the Die Hard movie (the orginal one), but no spoilers obviously. If you're only gonna watch one action movie with Steven Seagal, this would be it. xD

[@hamilton9479]

The third one was pretty good as well. I liked that one a shade more than this one.

[@71jdanziger]

Just a comment on something you said at the end, nothing to do with the movie though. Goldeneye was one of my favorite games of all time on the N64 lol. Damn I feel old

[@positivelynegative9149]

🎅 👍

[@NestorCaster]

33:36 I appreciate the momentary blood lust towards the baddie here that you exhibit… makes me feel less alone when rooting for John McClane to give the and guys what they deserve! Lol

[@UKMessi1]

ALL die hard movies still good, even die hard 4.0

[@mrmusic73]

The third is my favorite. After that, they are worthless

[@shawnbridges8703]

No Moose PJ’s? Scandalous I tell you, scandalous!!

[@OldMan_PJ]

The last great Die Hard movie, the third is okay and the rest are a poor attempt at trying to pass the torch.

[@SnabbKassa]

I would have just let the drug kingpin land and then hundreds of people would still be alive, but that's the war on drugs for you. We can "thank" Nixon for every terrible consequence.

[@user-yy5ql5mh3z]

My list Would be DIE HARD DIE HARD with a VENGEANCE DIE HARD 4.0 & Don't EVEN Bother With The Last One, The Script Is SO BAD even Steven Seagal Would Have Turned It Down 😃😆

[@traydevon]

The franchise effectively ENDED with this movie. Don’t expect a “theme” if you watch another one.

[@ronfehr7899]

I'm sure others are going to encourage you to keep watching the sequels, but I stopped after the second one.

[@Obeliiix]

DH2 is silly copy and paste, the third one is MUCH better.

[@Xenotric]

rest of them aren't christmas movies :< and tbh the third is the last "good" one, after that it becomes kinda brainless action movies

[@VerowakReacts]

I'm looking forward to the third one, especially because it's not set during Christmas 😂

[@user-ih8qm5dy3l]

I'd love to be your boyfriend your BEAUTIFUL and HOT ♥️♥️♥️ Subbed and this is my favourite Die Hard movie

[@neilfleming2787]

this one is not my favourite, I do like number 3, number 4 is even more far fetched than this one