Since it’s Christmas time that means it’s time for some Die Hard. And since I woke up at 3 am this morning and couldn’t leave for work until 6 what better time to watch?
I have a question that I just can’t seem to figure out. There are two guys on the bottom floor, the guy who looks like Huey Lewis and the Asian guy with the mustache. Both of these guys are shooting at the cops coming in when John drops the C4 and blows the shit out of the bottom of the building. Yet later on they are both upstairs helping with the money. How the hell did they get up there and not get blown up? I must have missed something, I just don’t know what.
This is still one of the best Christmas movies ever. Ever. And I wish I could find a copy of the book cheap.
I’m still peeved about that dispatcher woman who basically blows McCain off-you mean they aren’t trained to recognize gunfire when they hear something which sounds like it over the phone-and is fucking loud enough to make them reflexively take off their headphones? But no, we’ll just send in the overweight desk jockey who is at the end of a shift.
Yeah, he did look like Huey Lewis, didn’t he? I was curious (and pretty sure it wasn’t Huey Lewis), so google is my friend: This guy was “Huey” in the film, although he no longer looks like Huey Lewis. Then again, neither does the real Huey Lewis.
Well, they found some stairwell that was intact, unlikely perhaps, but handwaveable.
My biggest peeve is why the hell didn’t McClain stash the detonators or throw them out the window or something so they couldn’t be recovered if he was taken.
Well, I’m sure that’s what he’s thinking, and clearly he does use them, but it’s still a way bad tactical decision. Render all their plastic explosive useless, or carry the detonators around in case you need them and hope you don’t get caught.
That’s correct. IIRC, he sent the elevator down to floor N, then dropped the bomb on top of the elevator to take out floor N+1. He didn’t want to kill the SWAT team, after all.
Well it sure looked like the whole bottom of the building got blown up. He doesn’t send the elevators down, they were turned off, they may have been on the bottom, but the lobby was huge and more then one elevator tall. I finished watching it tonight and Huey was the next to last guy to get killed, and the Asian guy got popped on the roof.
It seems that the novel Nothing Lasts Forever, has different names and some other minor details. But Wiki says that a lot of the plot and dialog is similar or the same.
I just wish I could find the book for less then $40.
