Quietly the elevator scene is one of my favorites. McLean enters the quiet, seemingly normal bank and slowly you can see him pick up on the subtle abmormailities. The guard getting the “raining cats and dogs” euphemism wrong. The looks, the accents, the badges.
Yusssss. This movie is my most rewatched of the Die Hard series. The elevator scene was genius.
Those subtle hints (if we never saw the scenes beforehand) would have been picked up by the audience as well. We saw McClain’s cogwheels picking up pace.
Yes, all the stuff that's just two strong characters with great chemistry tooling around New York doing action shit. It's well paced and exciting. And you feel right in the thick of it.
The original ending they had planned was going to be quite a bit different. Simon gets away and McClane tracks him down to play a deadly game of Russian roulette mixed with "McClane says". I think if they had pulled it off, the movie would have been much stronger. You can see a rough cut of it online: https://youtu.be/l-GqY-M5fE4
Damn I’ve seen DH with a Vengeance at least 50 times and never knew of this alternate. I can see why they scrapped it because it makes John look more vigilante than hero but the dialogue works and harkens back to some of his scenes with Hans in the first one. Too bad it couldn’t have been some kind of interrogation scene after Simon was captured. Thanks for sharing!
Fun fact: this wasn’t originally supposed to be a Die Hard movie. It was going to be a movie called Simon Says that got incorporated into a Die Hard movie. That may be why it doesn’t feel like the first two movies. Personally, I loved it.
I think that happened for every movie after 2. Almost positive Live Free or Die Hard was short story or novel or something turned into a Die Hard movie.
In a sort of related note, Chinatown’s sequel, The Two Jakes also had a sequel about a scheme to destroy the LA street car system to build expressways. It became Who Framed Roger Rabbit
After 2? The first Die Hard was like three different projects before it was Die Hard. It’s why they had to offer Frank Sinatra the lead role before anyone else.
The first Die Hard was based off a book, Sinatra played the same character in a previous film and they were contractually required to give him right of first refusal.
WOW... that was quite a journey.
*The script ultimately used was intended for a film entitled Simon Says, originally positioned as a Brandon Lee vehicle and the character of Zeus was written with an actress in mind. Warner Bros. bought the script and rewrote it as a Lethal Weapon sequel. Warner Bros. later put the script in turnaround, only to be purchased by 20th Century Fox and rewritten as a Die Hard film.*
This was the full story (from the writer): [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2NShtfNns0&t=1463s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2NShtfNns0&t=1463s)
Also interestingly Richard Donner wanted to offer a role to Brandon Lee in Lethal Weapon as well.
The second movie was also adapted from a novel to be a Die Hard movie.
And I only recently learned that the first Die Hard movie was offered to Frank Sinatra because the character was in some way a character Sinatra had played decades earlier and he had a conceptual right of first refusal for any sequels. Frank said No considering he was in his 70s at the time.
Bullet train has been my favorite movie for the past year. Have seen it more times than I have any other movie in recent years. Love movies where you can just watch it over and over again. They don’t make enough movies like that anymore.
This movie is awesome. So is the score. It was a wonderful romp through nyc and the chemistry between Bruce Willis and Samuel l Jackson was chefs kiss of buddy cop action. The Hans brother storyline with the heist was great. The buildup of the storyline. Hans bro coming in for vengeance and of course a wonderfully planned heist. Riddles, gold, and written with wonderfully colorful dialogue. Def my second fav after the original. But in the scope of third acts, it's as close to a tie as you can get for me to the original and feels necessary somehow.
The best part is that Sam isnt even a cop just a Samaritan. He plays the role so well of someone just tagging along and with out pandering. Like he isnt amazingly ripped or a young kid that is oddly attractor a shop owner, he doesn’t have tag lines, doesn’t know how to use a gun and isn’t some hero out of nowhere. He even has the bad guy dead to rights at the end but didn’t arm the gun because he told McClane he knew how to use it. Brilliant IMO because that’s the scenario that would play out for any of us in real life…well I dunno how many of us would survive that bridge jump or even attempt it haha
That’s actually a film goof. before that scene…when Bruce hands him the gun..he cocks it and arms it. But then when Sam pulled the trigger it needed to be recocked. Kind of a goof they left in
I know me neither and I look it up every time and it makes complete sense. I think the way to do it is, so fill the 5 gallon jug and then pour it into the 3 gallon jug leaving 2 gallons left in the 5 gallon jug. Empty the 3 gallon jug completely and then pour the 2 gallons remaining in the 5 gallon jug into the 3 gallon jug. Leaving you with 2 gallons in a 3 gallon jug. Fill up the 5 gallon jug again empty 1 gallon into the 3 gallon jug, which would fill that one up because you already have 2 gallons in there. Leaving you with 4 gallons Exactly in the 5 gallon jug. Holy shit it makes sense but doesn’t. But the problem is when they cut back to that scene. They’ve already gone through a few of the steps so we don’t know how it really measured out from the beginning.
Could also:
Fill 3, dump into 5 (3 - 0g 5 - 3g)
Fill 3, dump into 5 (leaves 1 gallon in the 3 gallon jug) (3 - 1g 5 - 5g)
Dump 5 (3 - 1g 5 - 0g)
Empty 3 into 5 (3 - 0g 5 - 1g)
Fill 3, dump into 5 (3 - 0g 5 - 4g)
EDIT: To compare steps
Fill 5, dump into 3 (3 - 3g 5 - 2g)
Dump 3 (3 - 0g 5 - 2g)
Dump 5 into 3 (3 - 2g 5 - 0g)
Fill 5, pour into 3 (3 - 3g 5 - 4g)
I had an extra step, but without the risk of losing water from the 5 gallon jug to spillage trying to stop the pour after 1 gallon. I'm always holding a jug until it empties :P
EDIT EDIT: Except for my second step. I may be a moron.
Fill up 3L, dump it into 5L
Fill up 3L again, fill up 5L to the top, you'll have 1L left in your 3L bottle
Dump out the whole 5L, put the 1L from the 3L jug into the 5L
Fill up the 3L again, dump it in the 5L jug with the 1L still in it, 4L perfectly
I think it is the unevenness of the acts. Act one is kinda short, two is really long, and three starts fast and ends twice. The bad guys get away and the pacing slows down after the ship is blown up. It had to go from 0-100 in the last 10 min and it just feels jarring. It’s probably the fakeout being solved by the audience before McClain that makes things feel strange. He should have figured out where they were headed before he tries to make the call to Holly and been “we need to go now,” as soon as he got out of the water. Probably could have used some social commentary too and used the Harlem reconstruction as part of the way Simon was going to hide the gold, just to loop things back together from the beginning.
People always qualify their enjoyment of this one by saying it’s their second favorite, right behind the first movie.
Nah. The first movie is great of course, but DHWAV to me is superior, and it isn’t even close. If you sat me down and made me choose between the first and third movies, I’d choose the third one 9 times out of 10. It is absolutely the best of the series.
“Just calm down, Jesús, I’m a cop and I’ll make sure you’re ok, just keep pressure on that cut”
“Dammit you have any idea what those kids are doing to me shop right now?!”
“Easy Jesús, we’re on our way to station and then—“
“Why do you keep calling me Jesús?!”
“The kids back there key calling you Jesús, I’m trying to talking to you and use your name”
“My name isn’t Jesús, those kids were yelling Hey Zeus”
“Zeus?”
“Yes my name is Zeus! As in father of Hercules, ruler of mount olympus, don’t mess with me or I will bust a lightning bolt up yo ass, ZEUS”
“…nice to meet ya”
I like this movie a lot. The third act sort of fell apart and fizzled out.
Solid 8/10 for me though.
Incidentally:
Die Hard 10/10
Die hard 2 6/10
And we’ll just ignore the other ones
This would have been perfect if the ending was better otherwise this is a really good action movie. The action was top notch and the ticking time bomb moments were intense.
That elevator scene is still wild
Can’t beat the first one IMO, but this one is great. It was a welcome relief after the mediocrity of 2. Time for a rewatch!
I hate Totten Tomatoes, it’s rankings are wildly inaccurate and usually skew way too far positive or negative. Metacritic is wayyy better but they look smarter and don’t have a cartoon tomato with a simple binary yes or no fresh/rotten scheme, so of course the masses picked the inferior one.
It’s interesting because the hook of the original “Die Hard” was that all the action took place in the skyscraper. All the other “Die Hard” copies (Speed, Under Siege, Executive Decision, Sudden Death, etc.) followed a similar model of confining the action to a building/vehicle and having the hero be a lone man, trapped inside.
“Vengeance” instead had John McClain running around all over NYC with a sidekick and a whole team of NYPD buddies assisting. It was a pretty big change of pace.
Also, McClain being a New Yorker was a plot point of the previous Die Hard movies (with the original having a lot of LA/NYC culture clash humor), but this is the first that actually takes place in New York.
The NYC location filming is great, they show so many different neighborhoods of the city and the cinematography really makes you feel the grime and sweat of a hot NYC day. It’s not on the level of Dog Day Afternoon or The French Connection, but the NYC of Vengeance feels as real and as lived-in as those films.
The racial stuff (and there’s a *lot of it*) is *interesting*; you have McClain being forced to wear a sign with a racial slur in a black neighborhood (presumably so he’ll get severely beaten up; but then how is he supposed to do all those other challenges Simon has set up?), you have Sam Jackson’s Zeus being a cynical dude whose racial resentment has led him to pretty much write off white people (something he says explicitly and McClain even accuses him of reverse-racism during their big racial blow-up where Zeus says McClain was about to call him the N-word before catching himself). I mean, on one hand it’s fairly realistic, but on the other hand it feels off-brand to me. The first Die Hard, you had Willis working with Reginald Vel Johnson and it was more like a class-solidarity thing, with two lower-ranking cops working around their bosses who were screwing the operation up.
It's easily second best behind the original IMO. Willis and Jackson had such great chemistry, and of course Irons hammed it up like usual, but then turning vicious on a dime.
Zeus: "Didn't I hear you say you didn't even **like** your brother?"
Hans: "There's a difference, don't you know, between not **liking** one's brother, and not **caring** when some dumb Irish flatfoot drops him out of a window."
Who cares about some silly score in a stupid website? If you enjoy it, that’s what matters. And I for one really enjoy this movie if I may say so myself.
I am moved by the scene when they're in the school with the fake bomb and the bomb disarming goes badly and those police officers cover the kids thinking this is the end.
I'm 37, and I *think* that I saw this one first as a kid, kinda hazy. This and the first one are amazing, but #3 holds a more special place in my heart.
Does everyone already know that the writer was investigated by the FBI after this came out because the heist plot might have actually worked?
I'd say it's the best Die Hard, but obviously the first one has to be respected.
Same thing with Tom Clancy. FBI thought someone was feeding him classified material, he brought them to the library of congress and showed him where he got his data.
“Yeah..well you can stick your well laid plans up your well laid ass…”😆 peak Sam Jackson imo and great NY comedy in this movie, def my favorite of the franchise.
Easily in my top favorite action movies of that era and HIGHLY rewatchable.
Bruce Willis and Samuel L. Jackson always had great energy together on-screen.
This is the best diehard in my opinion. I watch this one whenever it’s on. I don’t watch the first two and I don’t acknowledge the other ones after this one ha ha. I think him and Samuel L Jackson were a great team. Also, Jeremy Irons is so hot. He was great. Oh oh! And the riddles were fun! Even though I read all the time, the one about the 4 gallons. I always forget it, and I have to read it again because to me in the movie, the explanation was only partial because they didn’t show them figuring it out all the way. So I never understood it.
I thought that, too. Until I saw Die Hard 4 and 5, those films made Die Hard 2 an action movie masterpiece, in comparison. I always thought 4 and 5 made better sequels to another Bruce Willis flick, Mercury Rising. The character he plays in there could easily be switched out for McClaine without much rewriting.
I watched all three back to back a while ago, and my biggest takeaway from 3 is it’s a little too long. If they edited out a good 20 minutes, it would have been a much better movie.
I hated it, it was like watching a hangover (probably since his character was hung over the duration of the movie). None of the charm of the first two.
It’s unforgivable that McClain flys a helicopter in the end. They totally overlook his fear of flying, which is well established in the first two films.
The one part that always gets me is when they totally screw up the 3 and 5 gallon jug riddle. It makes absolutely 0 sense how they came up with the answer. Other than that, decent movie.
This was actually the first Die Hard movie I saw as a kid. I remember cracking up when he gets blasted into the air from the rushing water lol. Such a great gag.
I didn't mind it but had two issues:
* It didnt really have any real lengthy action scenes.
* They overused "Johnny Comes Marching Home Theme" WAY TOO MUCH!
You explained why it's less rated. What made Die Hard 1 and 2 great are the "wrong guy at the wrong place" and tight single location.
3 onwards are generic urban action movies that get worse and worse the less hair is on Bruce's head.
Like others have said, it just sorta falls apart to come together in the third act. I’d love to see some sort of recut that ties the movie together more cause this is the only Die Hard sequel worth its salt
It didn't age well when you consider it's probably predictive programming for 9/11 (and it was right after the wtc bombing in the early 90s)... This was out in 95. Plus it shows a white man and a black man getting along without some busty tagalong.
Fuck RT lol. I've personally noticed that the movies I usually like the most are usually rated between a 40-70 on RT. Obviously, I do like movies that are higher rated, but for my personal preference, I seem to like the movies around 50-70 or so the most for some reason.
My Die Hard rankings:
*Die Hard*
*Die Hard with a Vengeance*
*Live Free or Die Hard*
*Die Hard 2*
That's all. There are no more Die Hard films. Don't @ me.
I got yelled at by a production assistant when I was walking out of my office near the US treasury office in downtown NYC because they wanted a clean shot when McClain was crawling out of rubble of the gold vault.
Am I the only one who thinks Die Hard II is the best? I put it up there with T2. I mean it's got so much great action and a great twist and it's a Xmas movie!
Die Hard - building
Die Hard 2 - big complex of buildings
Die Hard 3 - a whole city
Die Hard 4 - the whole country
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The 5th one, which i wish I'd forgotten about, takes place abroad. But this one's utter garbage.
Weirdly enough its also beyond the most plausible of the Die Hards.
Probaby urban legend but I thought i had heard that the FBI actually investigated members of crew/writing staff etc because the way they went about robbing that facility was so accurate that they needed to know more etc
I remember my grandma took me to see this at the theater. I was 11 and it was awesome! Funny thing, she was zonked out through the whole thing. Even slept through the explosions. I couldn't believe it. Man, I miss her.
This one deserves a rewatch. I will say - Bruce showing up in Harlem and having to wear that sandwich board makes me laugh every time. I hope that’s not bad - it’s funny I swear.
I think the movie would’ve been better if they hadn’t made it all about race. That is why it’s my least favorite of the series. However I did like Jeremy Irons villain a lot.
It does a lot of amazing things you probably won't see in a movie anymore. Realistic car chase (NYC is packed with cars and the movie uses this as a plot point).
It's my favorite. The set-pieces are top notch.
It's just fucking awesome. I don'g get the hate for it. 1 & 2 are good but this one was actual peak Die Hard and no movie will ever touch it.
The lift and the ‘raining dogs and cats’ were giveaways no doubt, but mcclaines only overt look of ‘something’s off here’ was when he saw the East German all stars (4 , over 6’3” dudes ) getting on board …then he sees Ricky’s badge number :(
We didn’t stress through two horrific events in the McLanes’ wedded life only to see them separated in this one, which is just a discarded & retooled Lethal Weapon script.
Not terribly surprising, since its competition isn't the bazillion other action flicks to date but rather its 2 older siblings; both of them are easily in the 10 best action films of their respective decades while the 1988 original is one of those iconic & trendsetting genre movies like Mad Max 1&2, 48 Hrs, Terminator 1&2, Beverly Hills Cop, Rambo FBPII, Top Gun, and RoboCop & Predator & Lethal Weapon in 1987 alone [in the '80s we practically got one of those exemplars per year, but the '90s kicked off with Total Recall & 3 sequels (part 2s of DH, RoboCop & Predator) then branched off to megabudget spectaculars w/T2 & serial killer thrillers w/Silence of the Lambs; Point Break was of equal quality but it had to fight for attention. The Fugitive in '93 is classic, as is Jurassic Park for those so inclined, but it was the DH-derivative Speed in '94 that brought fresh inspiration to the modern action pic]. WAV is the DH I've tried repeatedly to love, or at least to like, but it just won't take. While acknowledging the love that's obviously out there for WAV (these things are personal & subjective, but it's not like WAV was a flop in '95) as well as its great cast, interesting premise, terrific villain & returning champ director McTiernan (to think, director Danny Cannon turned down WAV to do Judge Dredd - talk about being stuck between a rock & a hard place in terms of superstars to deal with), I ask all those who love or even just enjoy WAV: are you sure that doesn't it feel like less than the sum of its parts? It's by no means a bad film & it's definitely worthy of the series, but it lacks the intensity as well as that special something - and the night setting, come to think of it - that helped 1&2 work so well. Likewise, and in all fairness, it was time for the franchise to try something...else, if not new; objecting to that in principle would be as silly as, say, disliking Pulp Fiction just because it's not another Reservoir Dogs. In any case, make sure to check out the original ending, either in the DVD/Blu-ray extras or the novelization, in which McClane makes Simon riddle him a few things.
Doesn't get mentioned much, but Gruber's girlfriend was terrifying. That scene where she spins and lays that guard's throat open, zero emotion on her face.
Scary, and weirdly hot.
Despite a semi-sloppy third act, this is the one I tend to rewatch the most.
Quietly the elevator scene is one of my favorites. McLean enters the quiet, seemingly normal bank and slowly you can see him pick up on the subtle abmormailities. The guard getting the “raining cats and dogs” euphemism wrong. The looks, the accents, the badges.
He also calls the elevator “the lift”
Say quiet again.
Also calls the elevator “the lift”
Just watched this recently, and was thinking to myself… did Captain America pull a John McClane in Winter Soldier? Great scenes.
Yup pretty much - I'm pretty sure it inspired the winter soldier scene
Yes. Yes he did!
I was thinking about this today, randomly. “Hey what was the lottery number last night?”
Yusssss. This movie is my most rewatched of the Die Hard series. The elevator scene was genius. Those subtle hints (if we never saw the scenes beforehand) would have been picked up by the audience as well. We saw McClain’s cogwheels picking up pace.
Second best elevator scene to captain america WS
Yup the elevator scene is epic and has been imitated a few times since
Yes, all the stuff that's just two strong characters with great chemistry tooling around New York doing action shit. It's well paced and exciting. And you feel right in the thick of it.
Their camaraderie was perfect / Bruce and Sam jax carried and elevated what could've been a formulaic sequel
The original ending they had planned was going to be quite a bit different. Simon gets away and McClane tracks him down to play a deadly game of Russian roulette mixed with "McClane says". I think if they had pulled it off, the movie would have been much stronger. You can see a rough cut of it online: https://youtu.be/l-GqY-M5fE4
Damn I’ve seen DH with a Vengeance at least 50 times and never knew of this alternate. I can see why they scrapped it because it makes John look more vigilante than hero but the dialogue works and harkens back to some of his scenes with Hans in the first one. Too bad it couldn’t have been some kind of interrogation scene after Simon was captured. Thanks for sharing!
Damn, that feels more like something you'd see in all the revenge based action flicks everyone and their mother does these days.
Yeah it's a bit out of place tonally with the rest of the film
I watched it - That was awesome.
Holy shit that is fucking amazing, thanks for sharing.
This footage *looks* like a deleted scene from The Sixth Sense.
Imagine a ghost coming back with a rocket launcher to screw with you.
Same here I actually think it's the best sequel and had the second best villain of the franchise
Fun fact: this wasn’t originally supposed to be a Die Hard movie. It was going to be a movie called Simon Says that got incorporated into a Die Hard movie. That may be why it doesn’t feel like the first two movies. Personally, I loved it.
That would have been a terrible title for the movie lol
Yeah, I’d have called it “One Bad Day” or “Die Hardest” clearly the only choices.
"A bad fucking hangover"
I would have gone with Yippee Ki-Yay
Oh dont worry, hollywood still insisted on using the title for a movie that starred dennis rodman.
It was spelled “Simon Sez”.
They ended up making a movie called “Simon Sez” starring acclaimed hairstyle affeccionado Dennis Rodman.
I sometimes wonder if Die Hard had been a flop if everyone would think Die Hard is a terrible name for a movie.
I think that happened for every movie after 2. Almost positive Live Free or Die Hard was short story or novel or something turned into a Die Hard movie. In a sort of related note, Chinatown’s sequel, The Two Jakes also had a sequel about a scheme to destroy the LA street car system to build expressways. It became Who Framed Roger Rabbit
After 2? The first Die Hard was like three different projects before it was Die Hard. It’s why they had to offer Frank Sinatra the lead role before anyone else.
The first Die Hard was based off a book, Sinatra played the same character in a previous film and they were contractually required to give him right of first refusal.
It was also going to be a Commando sequel at one point.
WOW... that was quite a journey. *The script ultimately used was intended for a film entitled Simon Says, originally positioned as a Brandon Lee vehicle and the character of Zeus was written with an actress in mind. Warner Bros. bought the script and rewrote it as a Lethal Weapon sequel. Warner Bros. later put the script in turnaround, only to be purchased by 20th Century Fox and rewritten as a Die Hard film.*
This was the full story (from the writer): [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2NShtfNns0&t=1463s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2NShtfNns0&t=1463s) Also interestingly Richard Donner wanted to offer a role to Brandon Lee in Lethal Weapon as well.
That was awesome. This guy has quite the interesting resume.
The second movie was also adapted from a novel to be a Die Hard movie. And I only recently learned that the first Die Hard movie was offered to Frank Sinatra because the character was in some way a character Sinatra had played decades earlier and he had a conceptual right of first refusal for any sequels. Frank said No considering he was in his 70s at the time.
Each of the first three Die Hard movies have source material with no connection to the other two.
This movie is fucking great. Was actually the first die hard movie I saw back when it first came out. Miss good action movies like this.
Bullet train was close to this, if not over the top. The Nice Guys was a really great throwback to old action movies.
Bullet train has been my favorite movie for the past year. Have seen it more times than I have any other movie in recent years. Love movies where you can just watch it over and over again. They don’t make enough movies like that anymore.
This movie is awesome. So is the score. It was a wonderful romp through nyc and the chemistry between Bruce Willis and Samuel l Jackson was chefs kiss of buddy cop action. The Hans brother storyline with the heist was great. The buildup of the storyline. Hans bro coming in for vengeance and of course a wonderfully planned heist. Riddles, gold, and written with wonderfully colorful dialogue. Def my second fav after the original. But in the scope of third acts, it's as close to a tie as you can get for me to the original and feels necessary somehow.
The best part is that Sam isnt even a cop just a Samaritan. He plays the role so well of someone just tagging along and with out pandering. Like he isnt amazingly ripped or a young kid that is oddly attractor a shop owner, he doesn’t have tag lines, doesn’t know how to use a gun and isn’t some hero out of nowhere. He even has the bad guy dead to rights at the end but didn’t arm the gun because he told McClane he knew how to use it. Brilliant IMO because that’s the scenario that would play out for any of us in real life…well I dunno how many of us would survive that bridge jump or even attempt it haha
That’s actually a film goof. before that scene…when Bruce hands him the gun..he cocks it and arms it. But then when Sam pulled the trigger it needed to be recocked. Kind of a goof they left in
No way!! That’s an awesome fact
yea watch that part again, when he first gives him the gun
They gave him a tag line for the cable edit: “White melon farmer”.
I've had it with these melon farming snakes on this melon farming plane!
His name is Zeus! As in father of Apollo? Mt. Olympus? Don't f\*\*\* with me or I'll shove a lightning bolt up your ass.
Watched it a ton growing up, still hum the Ants go marching and remember that Chester A. Arthur was the 21st president.
To this day, I still can’t figure out the water bottle fountain puzzle. Everyone in that park would have died that day if it were up to me.
I know me neither and I look it up every time and it makes complete sense. I think the way to do it is, so fill the 5 gallon jug and then pour it into the 3 gallon jug leaving 2 gallons left in the 5 gallon jug. Empty the 3 gallon jug completely and then pour the 2 gallons remaining in the 5 gallon jug into the 3 gallon jug. Leaving you with 2 gallons in a 3 gallon jug. Fill up the 5 gallon jug again empty 1 gallon into the 3 gallon jug, which would fill that one up because you already have 2 gallons in there. Leaving you with 4 gallons Exactly in the 5 gallon jug. Holy shit it makes sense but doesn’t. But the problem is when they cut back to that scene. They’ve already gone through a few of the steps so we don’t know how it really measured out from the beginning.
Could also: Fill 3, dump into 5 (3 - 0g 5 - 3g) Fill 3, dump into 5 (leaves 1 gallon in the 3 gallon jug) (3 - 1g 5 - 5g) Dump 5 (3 - 1g 5 - 0g) Empty 3 into 5 (3 - 0g 5 - 1g) Fill 3, dump into 5 (3 - 0g 5 - 4g) EDIT: To compare steps Fill 5, dump into 3 (3 - 3g 5 - 2g) Dump 3 (3 - 0g 5 - 2g) Dump 5 into 3 (3 - 2g 5 - 0g) Fill 5, pour into 3 (3 - 3g 5 - 4g) I had an extra step, but without the risk of losing water from the 5 gallon jug to spillage trying to stop the pour after 1 gallon. I'm always holding a jug until it empties :P EDIT EDIT: Except for my second step. I may be a moron.
He didn’t say Simon says…
I’m sorry that’s that non compliance, goodbye
Fill up 3L, dump it into 5L Fill up 3L again, fill up 5L to the top, you'll have 1L left in your 3L bottle Dump out the whole 5L, put the 1L from the 3L jug into the 5L Fill up the 3L again, dump it in the 5L jug with the 1L still in it, 4L perfectly
Yeah I would’ve just eyeballed it.
I thought it was a fairly clever action movie with good acting. Had some real memorable moments.
Falls apart a bit in at the very end otherwise an excellent movie.
I think it is the unevenness of the acts. Act one is kinda short, two is really long, and three starts fast and ends twice. The bad guys get away and the pacing slows down after the ship is blown up. It had to go from 0-100 in the last 10 min and it just feels jarring. It’s probably the fakeout being solved by the audience before McClain that makes things feel strange. He should have figured out where they were headed before he tries to make the call to Holly and been “we need to go now,” as soon as he got out of the water. Probably could have used some social commentary too and used the Harlem reconstruction as part of the way Simon was going to hide the gold, just to loop things back together from the beginning.
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Right? He *obviously* should’ve gone to the IMDB top 200.
Fantastic movie, probably the best of the entire series
People always qualify their enjoyment of this one by saying it’s their second favorite, right behind the first movie. Nah. The first movie is great of course, but DHWAV to me is superior, and it isn’t even close. If you sat me down and made me choose between the first and third movies, I’d choose the third one 9 times out of 10. It is absolutely the best of the series.
Second best imo, but only by a tiny margin.
Fantastic movie, probably the best of the entire series
“Just calm down, Jesús, I’m a cop and I’ll make sure you’re ok, just keep pressure on that cut” “Dammit you have any idea what those kids are doing to me shop right now?!” “Easy Jesús, we’re on our way to station and then—“ “Why do you keep calling me Jesús?!” “The kids back there key calling you Jesús, I’m trying to talking to you and use your name” “My name isn’t Jesús, those kids were yelling Hey Zeus” “Zeus?” “Yes my name is Zeus! As in father of Hercules, ruler of mount olympus, don’t mess with me or I will bust a lightning bolt up yo ass, ZEUS” “…nice to meet ya”
I like this movie a lot. The third act sort of fell apart and fizzled out. Solid 8/10 for me though. Incidentally: Die Hard 10/10 Die hard 2 6/10 And we’ll just ignore the other ones
The movie where Dave from Wendy’s makes a cameo…
This would have been perfect if the ending was better otherwise this is a really good action movie. The action was top notch and the ticking time bomb moments were intense. That elevator scene is still wild
Can’t beat the first one IMO, but this one is great. It was a welcome relief after the mediocrity of 2. Time for a rewatch! I hate Totten Tomatoes, it’s rankings are wildly inaccurate and usually skew way too far positive or negative. Metacritic is wayyy better but they look smarter and don’t have a cartoon tomato with a simple binary yes or no fresh/rotten scheme, so of course the masses picked the inferior one.
It’s interesting because the hook of the original “Die Hard” was that all the action took place in the skyscraper. All the other “Die Hard” copies (Speed, Under Siege, Executive Decision, Sudden Death, etc.) followed a similar model of confining the action to a building/vehicle and having the hero be a lone man, trapped inside. “Vengeance” instead had John McClain running around all over NYC with a sidekick and a whole team of NYPD buddies assisting. It was a pretty big change of pace. Also, McClain being a New Yorker was a plot point of the previous Die Hard movies (with the original having a lot of LA/NYC culture clash humor), but this is the first that actually takes place in New York. The NYC location filming is great, they show so many different neighborhoods of the city and the cinematography really makes you feel the grime and sweat of a hot NYC day. It’s not on the level of Dog Day Afternoon or The French Connection, but the NYC of Vengeance feels as real and as lived-in as those films. The racial stuff (and there’s a *lot of it*) is *interesting*; you have McClain being forced to wear a sign with a racial slur in a black neighborhood (presumably so he’ll get severely beaten up; but then how is he supposed to do all those other challenges Simon has set up?), you have Sam Jackson’s Zeus being a cynical dude whose racial resentment has led him to pretty much write off white people (something he says explicitly and McClain even accuses him of reverse-racism during their big racial blow-up where Zeus says McClain was about to call him the N-word before catching himself). I mean, on one hand it’s fairly realistic, but on the other hand it feels off-brand to me. The first Die Hard, you had Willis working with Reginald Vel Johnson and it was more like a class-solidarity thing, with two lower-ranking cops working around their bosses who were screwing the operation up.
"Do I look Puerto Rican to you?!?"
It's easily second best behind the original IMO. Willis and Jackson had such great chemistry, and of course Irons hammed it up like usual, but then turning vicious on a dime. Zeus: "Didn't I hear you say you didn't even **like** your brother?" Hans: "There's a difference, don't you know, between not **liking** one's brother, and not **caring** when some dumb Irish flatfoot drops him out of a window."
Greatest nyc movie ever made
Cause rotten tomato reviews are a joke.
Who cares about some silly score in a stupid website? If you enjoy it, that’s what matters. And I for one really enjoy this movie if I may say so myself.
Best Die Hard of them all imo. Jeremy Irons played a great villain and Sam Jackson played really well against Willis.
I remember my dad making me figure out the water jug puzzle.
One of my fav childhood movies
Great first 30 minutes but the last act gets a bit weird
I am moved by the scene when they're in the school with the fake bomb and the bomb disarming goes badly and those police officers cover the kids thinking this is the end.
Best delivery of "what the fuck" in any movie ever
Ratings mean nothing. You enjoy what you like.
Because rotten tomatoes is trash. Movie critics as a whole are usually useless.
"It STINKS!"
Jay Sherman is the only critic I trust.
I'm 37, and I *think* that I saw this one first as a kid, kinda hazy. This and the first one are amazing, but #3 holds a more special place in my heart.
Because rotten tomatoes is a clown show
Does everyone already know that the writer was investigated by the FBI after this came out because the heist plot might have actually worked? I'd say it's the best Die Hard, but obviously the first one has to be respected.
Same thing with Tom Clancy. FBI thought someone was feeding him classified material, he brought them to the library of congress and showed him where he got his data.
“Yeah..well you can stick your well laid plans up your well laid ass…”😆 peak Sam Jackson imo and great NY comedy in this movie, def my favorite of the franchise.
Easily in my top favorite action movies of that era and HIGHLY rewatchable. Bruce Willis and Samuel L. Jackson always had great energy together on-screen.
This is actually my first die hard movie. Watched it in theatre as a kid. Loved every minute of it. Can’t make it today though.
This is the best diehard in my opinion. I watch this one whenever it’s on. I don’t watch the first two and I don’t acknowledge the other ones after this one ha ha. I think him and Samuel L Jackson were a great team. Also, Jeremy Irons is so hot. He was great. Oh oh! And the riddles were fun! Even though I read all the time, the one about the 4 gallons. I always forget it, and I have to read it again because to me in the movie, the explanation was only partial because they didn’t show them figuring it out all the way. So I never understood it.
It is the best die hard in opinion
The 2nd die hard should be banned. It is absolutely terrible
I thought that, too. Until I saw Die Hard 4 and 5, those films made Die Hard 2 an action movie masterpiece, in comparison. I always thought 4 and 5 made better sequels to another Bruce Willis flick, Mercury Rising. The character he plays in there could easily be switched out for McClaine without much rewriting.
It was rated so low because it just plain stunk.
It's great (definitely the second best of the series), but it's not as good as the first. The first is legit a top 5 action movie ever.
It’s definitely my favorite
The best Die Hard followed by the first one
Same here! One of my all time favourite movies. The best of the die hards too.
My fav one..
This, Terminator 2 and the John Wick movies are the greatest action movies of all time!!!!!!
Solid movie.
I watched all three back to back a while ago, and my biggest takeaway from 3 is it’s a little too long. If they edited out a good 20 minutes, it would have been a much better movie.
2nd best in the series after 1
I hated it, it was like watching a hangover (probably since his character was hung over the duration of the movie). None of the charm of the first two.
It’s unforgivable that McClain flys a helicopter in the end. They totally overlook his fear of flying, which is well established in the first two films.
The one part that always gets me is when they totally screw up the 3 and 5 gallon jug riddle. It makes absolutely 0 sense how they came up with the answer. Other than that, decent movie.
It’s a perfect movie. I’m not saying greatest cinematic achievement or anything, just that what it does it does perfectly.
The name is Zues.
Just looked it up. RT has it at 58%. Seems very fair. It’s not a great movie, IMO. Very watchable though.
The best of the die hards, imo!!
This one is my favorite. I don't care about a rating lol.
Yeah 4 real, a great movie. It was unexpectedly good.
>why is this movie rated so low on RT Stop coveting RT. Think for yourself.
If I had to rate them I’d say the original is number 1 then this one then live free or die hard then the second and I don’t acknowledge the rest
Definitely the second best of the series, after the original.
One of the best openings of any movie. Straight to the point
“Hot town, summer in the city Back of my neck getting dirty and gritty Been down, isn't it a pity?”
love this one! way better than 2
First hour or so is classic. After that it gets a little slow
This was actually the first Die Hard movie I saw as a kid. I remember cracking up when he gets blasted into the air from the rushing water lol. Such a great gag.
1 and vengeance are the only ones worth watching, and fuck if I don't rewatch the hell out of them.
I didn't mind it but had two issues: * It didnt really have any real lengthy action scenes. * They overused "Johnny Comes Marching Home Theme" WAY TOO MUCH!
1 & 3 are the only good Die Hard movies.
Die Hard 3 is fantastic. IDC if the reviews are mixed. It's one of my very favorite action movies of all time.
You explained why it's less rated. What made Die Hard 1 and 2 great are the "wrong guy at the wrong place" and tight single location. 3 onwards are generic urban action movies that get worse and worse the less hair is on Bruce's head.
IMDB has it at a 7.6 which feel more accurate.
Yeah I totally agree. This one was my favorite.
I love this movie. I think rotten tomatoes is a useless site. Use IMDb instead
Like others have said, it just sorta falls apart to come together in the third act. I’d love to see some sort of recut that ties the movie together more cause this is the only Die Hard sequel worth its salt
It didn't age well when you consider it's probably predictive programming for 9/11 (and it was right after the wtc bombing in the early 90s)... This was out in 95. Plus it shows a white man and a black man getting along without some busty tagalong.
The wild goose chase plot was borrowed from a dirty harry movie
Definitely the second best of the series.
Because it’s only a Die Hard in name. It’s actually a Lethal Weapon sequel script where they just changed character names after it was rejected.
I can watch this over and over. Love this movie
This is my fav of them all. Samuel l Jackson really makes it for me
Fuck RT lol. I've personally noticed that the movies I usually like the most are usually rated between a 40-70 on RT. Obviously, I do like movies that are higher rated, but for my personal preference, I seem to like the movies around 50-70 or so the most for some reason.
Because Rotten Tomatoes is clown shoes and unreliable.
I definitely like it more than the second as that was just rehash of the first. But first is still my favorite.
My Die Hard rankings: *Die Hard* *Die Hard with a Vengeance* *Live Free or Die Hard* *Die Hard 2* That's all. There are no more Die Hard films. Don't @ me.
I got yelled at by a production assistant when I was walking out of my office near the US treasury office in downtown NYC because they wanted a clean shot when McClain was crawling out of rubble of the gold vault.
I love this one! I think this one actually recharged the series. The second one was just a recreation of the first in a different location.
Idk but its the best 1 2 and 3.
Am I the only one who thinks Die Hard II is the best? I put it up there with T2. I mean it's got so much great action and a great twist and it's a Xmas movie!
Die Hard - building Die Hard 2 - big complex of buildings Die Hard 3 - a whole city Die Hard 4 - the whole country . . . . . . . The 5th one, which i wish I'd forgotten about, takes place abroad. But this one's utter garbage.
I love this movie. 1 is my favorite and 2 is ok.
Weirdly enough its also beyond the most plausible of the Die Hards. Probaby urban legend but I thought i had heard that the FBI actually investigated members of crew/writing staff etc because the way they went about robbing that facility was so accurate that they needed to know more etc
Wait. People like die hard 2? I’m not even vaguely familiar with it because I thought it was terrible.
My personal favorite Die Hard movie
My favorite one of the original 3. I love cat and mouse kinda action movies, and sam Jackson is an excellent partner with bruce.
I remember my grandma took me to see this at the theater. I was 11 and it was awesome! Funny thing, she was zonked out through the whole thing. Even slept through the explosions. I couldn't believe it. Man, I miss her.
This one deserves a rewatch. I will say - Bruce showing up in Harlem and having to wear that sandwich board makes me laugh every time. I hope that’s not bad - it’s funny I swear.
I think the movie would’ve been better if they hadn’t made it all about race. That is why it’s my least favorite of the series. However I did like Jeremy Irons villain a lot.
It’s probably because of the sign he wears that says “I hate n*****s”
Jeremy Irons was epic and Samuel L Jackson stole the spotlight from Bruce
My favorite DH too.
It does a lot of amazing things you probably won't see in a movie anymore. Realistic car chase (NYC is packed with cars and the movie uses this as a plot point). It's my favorite. The set-pieces are top notch. It's just fucking awesome. I don'g get the hate for it. 1 & 2 are good but this one was actual peak Die Hard and no movie will ever touch it.
I thought this one was better than the 2nd film.
The lift and the ‘raining dogs and cats’ were giveaways no doubt, but mcclaines only overt look of ‘something’s off here’ was when he saw the East German all stars (4 , over 6’3” dudes ) getting on board …then he sees Ricky’s badge number :(
Great sequel.
1 and 3. 2 was ok. They didn't make anything after 3.
We didn’t stress through two horrific events in the McLanes’ wedded life only to see them separated in this one, which is just a discarded & retooled Lethal Weapon script.
Not terribly surprising, since its competition isn't the bazillion other action flicks to date but rather its 2 older siblings; both of them are easily in the 10 best action films of their respective decades while the 1988 original is one of those iconic & trendsetting genre movies like Mad Max 1&2, 48 Hrs, Terminator 1&2, Beverly Hills Cop, Rambo FBPII, Top Gun, and RoboCop & Predator & Lethal Weapon in 1987 alone [in the '80s we practically got one of those exemplars per year, but the '90s kicked off with Total Recall & 3 sequels (part 2s of DH, RoboCop & Predator) then branched off to megabudget spectaculars w/T2 & serial killer thrillers w/Silence of the Lambs; Point Break was of equal quality but it had to fight for attention. The Fugitive in '93 is classic, as is Jurassic Park for those so inclined, but it was the DH-derivative Speed in '94 that brought fresh inspiration to the modern action pic]. WAV is the DH I've tried repeatedly to love, or at least to like, but it just won't take. While acknowledging the love that's obviously out there for WAV (these things are personal & subjective, but it's not like WAV was a flop in '95) as well as its great cast, interesting premise, terrific villain & returning champ director McTiernan (to think, director Danny Cannon turned down WAV to do Judge Dredd - talk about being stuck between a rock & a hard place in terms of superstars to deal with), I ask all those who love or even just enjoy WAV: are you sure that doesn't it feel like less than the sum of its parts? It's by no means a bad film & it's definitely worthy of the series, but it lacks the intensity as well as that special something - and the night setting, come to think of it - that helped 1&2 work so well. Likewise, and in all fairness, it was time for the franchise to try something...else, if not new; objecting to that in principle would be as silly as, say, disliking Pulp Fiction just because it's not another Reservoir Dogs. In any case, make sure to check out the original ending, either in the DVD/Blu-ray extras or the novelization, in which McClane makes Simon riddle him a few things.
Doesn't get mentioned much, but Gruber's girlfriend was terrifying. That scene where she spins and lays that guard's throat open, zero emotion on her face. Scary, and weirdly hot.
1324
The chemistry and constant banter between Jackson and Willis makes this for me.
Because it wasn't a Christmas movie
Some people don't have good taste? Lol Ok for real .I think it's good I like it. Besides I never agree with rotten tomatoes