Episode #711: Die Hard 2
Added 2023-12-05 05:00:04 +0000 UTC“Like most motion pictures, this needed way more Reginald VelJohnson” - Andrew
On this week’s episode, we’re chatting about the high body count/low IQ, Christmas-set sequel, Die Hard 2! Why couldn’t they have developed a script where now-LAPD detective John McClane has some adventure on the streets of Los Angeles instead of a boring D.C. airport? How amazingly scuzzy and inept is Dennis Franz’s Carmine Lorenzo? Did they really need to go the sequelitis route of just repeating famous beats from the first film? And has there been a better villain introduction than William Sadler’s totally nude Colonel Stuart? PLUS: Dennis Franz storms out of a screening of the film Her!
Die Hard 2 stars Bruce Willis, Bonnie Bedelia, William Sadler, Franco Nero, John Amos, Reginald VelJohnson, William Atherton, Art Evans, Fred Thompson, Tom Bower, Sheila McCarthy, and Dennis Franz as Carmine Lorenzo; directed by Renny Harlin.
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Comments
I never seen the film. My only experience with it was the teaser trailer on The Abyss VHS (link below) which made it sound really fucking awesome so interesting to hear it's not that great lol. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iH7S5NHSnI
Daniel Hood
2024-02-05 18:25:24 +0000 UTCI’m friends with Ryan O’Neal’s granddaughter. She said the family used to call him “Beast,” if that tells ya something about his reputation…
luxmeansbucks
2023-12-29 21:19:10 +0000 UTCRyan O’Neal another WHM RIP. Haha
chris pike
2023-12-15 00:01:38 +0000 UTCBig Blocky Looking Things is the best name for "monitor" I've ever heard in my life. I want Chris to describe other office equipment in a similar style
Matt
2023-12-12 19:33:59 +0000 UTCOne yes for Sheen month please.
Nathan Lemire
2023-12-12 16:28:15 +0000 UTCRyan O’Neal got called out for being a fuck on a Monday Night, stewed on it, and let it kill him by Friday lmaooooo
Jacob Curry
2023-12-10 08:21:00 +0000 UTCDo NOT worry about Ryan O'Neal..
Kemper
2023-12-09 15:43:04 +0000 UTCLove to see a Charlie Sheen month as well. So much stuff to choose from.
Ed Harris
2023-12-08 21:49:22 +0000 UTCOk so funny thing reg Johnson is my best friends granduncle and lives with them so if you ever were interested in talking to mister veljohnson for real, he’s mentioned “I don’t know, do I have to leave me house for this”…so that’s something. It’s not everyday you find an ardent RVJ fan so it rarely comes up
Lil John of Twerkshire
2023-12-08 19:34:48 +0000 UTCWhen Robert Bresson talked of "not beautiful images, but necessary ones," he was referring in fact to Dennis Franz's bare ass.
Z
2023-12-08 08:39:56 +0000 UTCYou could do Sheentember and have one of the Hot Shots the week of 9/11
Lance Flexington
2023-12-08 01:55:52 +0000 UTCYes to Sheen Month. The Wraith has Clint Howard and Randy Quaid, classic
Wade Gum
2023-12-07 22:17:56 +0000 UTCOh yeah man, add my voice to the chorus on Sheenuary. This was a good ep, but after that discussion it was all I could think about. You'd probably have enough material for two months of top shelf eps if you wanted.
johnny stocker
2023-12-07 17:30:18 +0000 UTCYes please to Sheen-uary
April
2023-12-07 14:09:24 +0000 UTCI wear the badge with pride. - Andrew
We Hate Movies
2023-12-06 22:05:14 +0000 UTCWhen they talk about the nude Karate scene, it dawned on me that Andrew’s love of physical 4K media makes him the honorary butthole inspector of WHM.
Jason
2023-12-06 19:40:06 +0000 UTCSHEEN! SHEEN! SHEEN!
David Anderson
2023-12-06 17:26:16 +0000 UTCYou may be correct, aligning more wit the consensus. I love all those movies/shows you mentioned, and felt Gone Girl got some public love. But you’re certainly right about him not having the public attention any longer
RJ Cunningham
2023-12-06 16:47:44 +0000 UTCYou Gotta Do It
Smaug
2023-12-06 16:39:03 +0000 UTCThe show ever review The Killer? Also, is it just me or did Fincher get taken off the “must-see” list? He certainly not on that tier with Nolan, QT, Gerwig, when shouldn’t he be? Or, was I overrating how respected he was. I know doing Netflix killed his name value, to a degree I’m sure he did not expect, but damn, give the same script to every director in the world and I feel like he would be most likely to make it the most watchable. But also late 90s teen angst may have made Fincher lab-made for my sensibilities Also yes to Sheen month. Would love to revisit Men at Work. “In the glove compartemente.”
RJ Cunningham
2023-12-06 16:36:12 +0000 UTC1000 percent behind a Sheen month!
Richard Buttry
2023-12-06 16:35:06 +0000 UTCVery much loving all the Sheenuary interest! Hmm.... - Andrew
We Hate Movies
2023-12-06 15:25:36 +0000 UTCAnother pro-Sheenuary vote here. I just watched the first half of The Arrival last night, lol at that construction paper alien knee bend. I'm 1,3,4,2 on these Die Hards, I watched 2 for the ep for the first time in many years. It's kinda dull and and the airport is the worst location of the franchise. I agree with Eric's spaces in between spaces assessment
Smaug
2023-12-06 14:56:07 +0000 UTCPlease don’t let your airport experience sour you on returning to Milwaukee. Especially since I was moving the day of the show and could not attend.
andy
2023-12-06 01:48:51 +0000 UTCMAJOR LEAGUE for Sheenuary WLM
Christian Waters
2023-12-06 01:40:00 +0000 UTCsheenuary needs to have No man's land, got sheen with an added randy quad and db sweeney. The fast and furious is a copy of this amazing movie.
Cooper87
2023-12-05 22:51:29 +0000 UTCBig thumbs up for a future episode on The Arrival. A film from 1996 making global warming a central plot point is buck wild considering that it was barely a blip in the public consciousness at the time.
John Edwards
2023-12-05 22:26:14 +0000 UTCHot Shots part Deux should be the WLM.
Efren Valenzuela Jr
2023-12-05 22:12:10 +0000 UTCThe Wraith deserves so much attention! Loved that movie.
Efren Valenzuela Jr
2023-12-05 22:11:45 +0000 UTCThis Patreon is worth it. Every single time. 🙌🏾
Jessie Drew (Forks)
2023-12-05 21:10:47 +0000 UTCYes on Sheen month. I recently watched The Rookie for the first time and was planning to call it in for Listener Request month.
Darryl Bowen
2023-12-05 20:36:47 +0000 UTCHope The Wraith makes an appearance during Sheenuary. Ghost cars, Nick Cassavetes and Clint Howard with an afro.
Hard To Gwil
2023-12-05 20:31:46 +0000 UTCGiven the growth of DC-metro sprawl, I don't think you'd find an isolated farmhouse on the outskirts of Dulles Airport anymore.
Adam Lewis
2023-12-05 19:58:16 +0000 UTCOh God no, not ... Norman Mailer!
Adam Lewis
2023-12-05 19:56:51 +0000 UTCYou guys brought up a few Ryan O'Neal movies but not one of my top wishes for a WHM episode: TOUGH GUYS DON'T DANCE
Felipe Sobreiro
2023-12-05 19:26:03 +0000 UTCCrap, I had managed to completely purge Trash Humpers from my memory, and now, it's back. 🙃
Justine Prudhomme
2023-12-05 19:13:34 +0000 UTCI'd you do a Sheensuary, you have to do 1990s Cadence. It's got Charlie and Martin so it's a double does of that Sheeny goodness
Les Whinen
2023-12-05 17:54:03 +0000 UTCI know the guys don’t care at all but I still really love Die Hard 2 haha. Maybe I saw it at the right age (or wrong one since I was 7) but the action really holds up for me. I still love the formula of McClane stuck in a bad situation and nobody believes him. And that icicle still haunts me
Brandon Cranford
2023-12-05 16:06:25 +0000 UTCHow I feel about Rocky III.
MarkNM
2023-12-05 13:58:11 +0000 UTCNot gonna lie, waggling my wedding ring dismissively at an attractive stranger who's hitting on me is on the bucket list, and will likely remain unchecked.
MarkNM
2023-12-05 13:47:58 +0000 UTCPlease sheenuary in Jan or February 2024
MKEJay11
2023-12-05 13:16:13 +0000 UTCAlways knew Steve was a fan of Cubism.
Jason
2023-12-05 11:31:15 +0000 UTCWhile objectively DH 1 is better, DH2 might be my fave. Has my fave sequence with the seat ejection scene...the line about "another basement, another elevator, how can the same shit happen to the same guy twice"...and you could argue it helped establish Yippy Ki Yay...as the final fuck you to the bad guy in the series.
Frank Grimes
2023-12-05 09:28:38 +0000 UTCI cannot wait for Sheenuary.
David
2023-12-05 09:15:12 +0000 UTCI kinda like the film in spite of it basically doing the same film over again. My third favorite of the series (big gap between that and my four and five picks, the fourth is okay and the fifth is hot garbage). Still pissed I bothered to see it in theaters.
Ed Harris
2023-12-05 08:51:30 +0000 UTCBanger of an episode!!! Thanks guys
Josh
2023-12-05 08:28:36 +0000 UTCLove getting these notifications. Makes the late night work go so much faster. Thanks guys.
TheRottenAgenda
2023-12-05 05:46:57 +0000 UTC"Steve's got the ice cubes out" Oh this is gonna be a good one
poopstink
2023-12-05 05:06:12 +0000 UTC
