David Crooks 🏳️🌈I’m on holiday! For a week! I need a holiday movie.
And what says the holidays more than … DIE HARD 2.
Of course I need to note that the bear that Jack Ryan takes home at the end of Red October is the same one used at the beginning of Die Hard.
The synchronised bad guys leaving their hotel rooms
After a short break we continue.
Fred Thompson as the airport manager!
Oh no - the powers down in the main Dulles terminal!?
Oh the Annex Skywalk you say? I perceive no problems.
This film does hit a little different after years of air travel.
Robert Patrick is in this - just a year before he became synonymous as the T-1000 #yippeekiyay #dieharder
Colm Meaney playing an English accent doesn’t feel right.
Also Chief O’Brien would have sorted this out with a tricorder and a Jeffries tube.
William Atherton is *really good* at playing a complete asshole.
While we move into the next act - the Special Forces team! - let’s acknowledge the second highest billed player in this movie: Finlandia.
Playing it in orchestras, did I picture Die Hard as I did so? Yes. Yes I did.
The most nineties things about this movie is the weird-ass headphones they used to provide on airplanes.
FINLANDIA INTENSIFIES
Folks: this is a good movie.
Tomorrow, we present: THE FIFTH ELEMENT
Guy on the run