Die Hard with a Vengeance (1995) β¦ Full-Length Watchalong Reaction
Added 2024-03-08 22:45:01 +0000 UTCYippee-ki-yay, it's FRIDAY! π₯³ Please enjoy watching the third Die Hard movie with me. I can see why so many people call this one their favourite! I loved having NYC as the location in this one too. Looking forward to your comments! And thank you so much for watching and for being here. [Direct link here.]
β¦ KL
Comments
I love Die Hard but With a Vengeance feels more fun and I think that's all thanks to Sam Jackson. The tie-in with the first just made me smile so much when it was revealed. "Yeah, Zeus! As in, father of Apollo? Mt. Olympus? Don't fuck with me or I'll shove a lightning bolt up your ass? Zeus!" is my favorite line. Glad you enjoyed, thanks for a fun video.
Julian Calzada
2024-03-09 23:22:11 +0000 UTCI think I mentioned this on Die Hard 2, but all three of the first Die Hard movies quote a song with their score. The original Die Hard quotes "Ode to Joy," the second Die Hard quotes the tone poem "Finlandia" by Jean Sibelius, and of course this one quotes "When Johnny Comes Marching Home" (also thought of by many as "The Ants Go Marching."
Tyler Foster
2024-03-09 19:08:42 +0000 UTCThe March playing is called βWhen Johnny Comes Marching Homeβ written during the U.S. Civil War. I love the way it is used in this movie as a theme throughout. John has finally come marching home to New York.
CheshireKat528
2024-03-09 11:06:15 +0000 UTCβNOT EVEN GOD KNOWS WHAT YOUβRE DOING!β -Zeus β€οΈπβ€οΈ βI think heβs dead my Dear.β -Simon β€οΈπ₯΅β€οΈ
CheshireKat528
2024-03-09 10:03:55 +0000 UTCIn the summer of 1994 I went with my family to see The Lion King in theaters. By the end of the movie, 13 year old me was completely obsessed with Scar and his suave, sarcastic, villainous attitude and that voice π₯΅ As always, my Mom proved to be a fountain of movie information and we set out to the video store to rent a few of Mr. Ironsβs previous works. Seeing the man behind that iconic voice in the flesh did not disappoint. Fast forward to 1995, it had been advertised in the trailer that Jeremy Irons would be starring in the newest installment of the Die Hard franchise. The film was set to release in May, which also happens to be my birth month! It was an awesome birthday that year. My Mom and I went out for lunch, and then headed to the theater to watch Jeremy terrorize Bruce, Sam, and the city of New York for a couple of hours! I think Die Hard is a better film from a technical standpoint, but I have such a strong sentimental connection to this oneβ¦both films star one of my all time favorite actors portraying a smart, sophisticated, super sexy villain, with a voice that could make you turn to a life of crime. I couldnβt possibly pick between the two π Iβm very happy you enjoyed this one, good times, excellent movies, and great memories!!!
CheshireKat528
2024-03-09 09:57:31 +0000 UTCBruce Willis and Samuel L. Jackson became friends around this time. Although they don't really share any scenes with each other in the movie, they both previously appeared together in Pulp Fiction, which they would've made right before this one, as that was 1994 and this one is 1995. Sam Jackson was a big fan of the original Die Hard, so he was thrilled to get the call to work on this, especially with the director of the original Die Hard, John McTiernan, returning after Renny Harlin directed the second movie. They would ultimately appear in five movies together, although one of those is another Pulp Fiction scenario where they don't share any scenes. (It's probably unavoidable, but I'd be wary of comments relating to Willis and Jackson working together as there is a high likelihood of a spoiler -- although even trying to allude to it would be incredibly complicated. Still, just FYI!) As mentioned in the reply above this one, I like Live Free or Die Hard, even though it has plenty of small problems. I certainly think it's better than Die Hard 2, which I have mixed-negative feelings about. Frankly, I think you would gave gotten more people pushing back against Live Free or Die Hard before they made A Good Day to Die Hard, the last film in the series, which is so widely disliked that I think some of the people who weren't big fans of Live Free or Die Hard reconsidered their opinion of it. Willis said at some point, around 2010 or so, that he hoped to make a total of six Die Hard movies and each one would tackle something bigger: the first one takes place in a building, the second one in an airport, the third one in a city, etc. They had loose plans for one, with the director of Live Free or Die Hard, Len Wiseman, returning to direct the sixth and final movie, but of course, it's too late for them to make it now.
Tyler Foster
2024-03-09 06:30:22 +0000 UTCPeople say this, and of course they may prefer the Unrated version just because it gives them the sense that it's more like the R-rated other movies, but the dubbing issue is not resolved by the alternate cut. I think when the movie was in theaters, people assumed the occasional obvious dubbing was because the movie was rated PG-13, but the #1 scene picked on for its weird dubbing is unchanged in the Unrated version, and actually, it seems very likely that it was the Unrated cut that was largely done after the fact. Almost all of the additional language occurs when John's mouth is obscured or off screen, the blood is largely computer generated, and there is only one brief alternate take and one notably extended/alternate scene that would've gotten the movie an R-rating. (On the commentary, they mention that the MPAA would give them an R-rating for things like bullet hits on walls, if there were enough of them, like the aggregate act of destroying a room with machine guns was enough of a form of "violence" to bother them.) The real question is, if KL subjects herself to Die Hard 5 -- which I as a Die Hard 4 defender do not recommend! -- that one's a little more baffling. There's a whole character that only exists in one cut of the movie, and neither version is notably better or worse than the other, so I don't really know what to recommend (although Canadian availability may resolve that issue).
Tyler Foster
2024-03-09 06:18:45 +0000 UTCIt's easily my fav as well.
William
2024-03-09 04:31:06 +0000 UTCPart 4, Live Free or Die Hard, seems to be mostly liked IF it's the Unrated Cut. For whatever reason, the theatrical cut is cut strangely because of the PG-13 rating. Number 5, A Good Day to Die Hard, is the one everyone hates although I think the Unrated Cut made it tolerable.
Nathan Jasper, the Artist Formerly Known as Primary
2024-03-09 04:20:15 +0000 UTCI fucking love this one...the first one is still my favorite, if only because it was the first truly great shoot-em-up action movie I saw in my formative years (and Alan Rickman was the goddamn man); but the chemistry between Bruce Willis and Samuel L. Jackson in this one catapults off the screen, and I love that John McClane isn't invincible again...he gets really bloody and ugly. For me it goes the first one, this one, the fourth one, and then the second one (the fifth one...there is no fifth one...shhhh...it never happened).
Steve Mercier
2024-03-09 03:53:49 +0000 UTCThis might be blasphemy but Die Hard: With a Vengeance is my favorite in the series π
Future_Boy85
2024-03-09 01:44:28 +0000 UTC
