Let’s worship the obunga meme drinker

Bought your first book and I’m a planning on buying the next! Good read sir!

What a classic, probably my favourite action film. Your new book arrived the other day. Looking forward to getting stuck into it with a drink or ten. ;)

Do season 4 of MR Robot the whole season is a Xmas special.

Bruce Willis said recently that the first 2 die hard films were not Christmas films... really.. that kept me laughing for a while...

It’s a movie set at Xmas same as Gremlins

@@SecretOfMonkeyIsland784

You are wrong. It's a movie about firearm safety. Need proof? Christmas is only in the first two movies, firearms are in every single one. Checkmate, mate.

@@kalash_nikov I dont know why you would think you are the authority on what makes something Xmas

@@SecretOfMonkeyIsland784 because I am. Don't ask me why, it's like asking why water is wet. Btw, love the series, I intend on playing The Course of Monkey Island this Christmas. This, and Discworld 2 will forever be my "Christmas games".

One of the greatest movies, ever made

@DJexs I'll leave this here for you imgur.com/gallery/B9m9UrY

@DJexs Main actor?

@DJexs I mean if the universe time is Chinese New year's and it's mentioned, an argument can be made 🥴

And suddenly, Deck the halls with boughs of Holly, sounds a bit darker.

Fun fact: the actor who plays that terrorist is also one of the bad guys in the Bond film The Living Daylights.

@@MrJohnlennon007 the long haired blonde guy plays the clock maker in the runestone

@@jagar5580 That long haired blonde guy was Alexander Godunov, a famous Russian ballet dancer for the Bolshoi Ballet. He defected to the west in 1979. He was also in “Witness” and several other films.

@@MsAppassionata yeah I loved him in rune stone but couldn't remember his name

@@jagar5580 And he was Max, the musician trying to seduce Shelley Long in The Money Pit.

And the prequel to saw

try "Deadly Games" aka Dial Code Santa Claus.

U sure home alone is for children if you ask me home alone is more hardcore than die hard

@@paulnathanmullock6214 The original Mad Max is the prequel to saw. Watch what Mel Gibson does to the last bad guy.

I guess I'll ignore the fact that I happily watched Die Hard while I was a child.

F

AMEN

Isnt the one who rick rolls?

"Now I have a machine gun. Ho, ho, ho."

Always

It's Die Hard with the Rock.

@@kintsuki99 Not to be confused with "The Rock". Die Hard with Nicholas Cage.

(Die Hard + Towering Inferno) - 50% of the entertainment value

That's the Anna Nicole movie, right?

@@Grimwear Not to be confused with "The Wicker Man" remake, Die Hard with bees.

I have that shirt too! Love it!

I WANT THAT SHIRT!!

@@beanman2206 well it’s mine, and I can’t even promise it would fit you, so you’ll just have to buy your own!

Well done, Joe the sensei! Sincerely, Clay. Bill Clay

That. Is awesome.

I will see your quote and raise you with "We're gonna need some more FBI guys, I guess".

@@RealBadMike 🤣🤣🤣 Love that moment!!!

" I'M BUSTER BUNNY " " I'M BABS BUNNY " " NO RELATION "

Well, technically, he is correct. You don't *HAVE* to. But why wouldn't you? lol

I just worked a gun show during Covid. In motherfuckin' Texas. People had to be medically vetted. There were still hundreds of buyers.

Amen to that.

I like to think he was being a bit ironical. Why on Earth of all people would JOHN MCLAIN pack heat on a plane!! OF COURSE JOHN MCLAIN IS GONNA PACK HEAT ON A PLANE!! He's JOHN FUCKING MCLAIN!

I'm sorry I thought this was AMERICA. Die Hard 1, you can argue that. 2 and followups... "John, why aren't you carrying a suitcase nuke instead of a pistol?"

You're assuming she would use a gun, a phallic extension of the patriarchy, and not just weakly Krav Maga her way through every armed man who would, in turn, sell it like they had been hit by a combination of Muhammad Ali and Bruce Lee to make her look strong.

A perfect role for the plank of wood, Brie Larson

Yeah but she would have used a bow and arrows. The former weapon of choice for women.

This movie would never ever be made in 2020. Neither Commando, Cobra and Lethal Weapon.

You are all so right. What a sad empty vehicle for woke hollywood has become

The way he says F....B.....I.....is perfectly executed. The subtle facial expressions by Rickman are criminally underrated.

I turned and told my girlfriend "Drinker is definitely European" the moment he said that. I literally have a toilet gun; a gun I keep in my bathroom near the toilet in case someone breaks in when I'm using it. I've known 2 other Americans in my life who do this too.

Got a 10mm on the nightstand and a loaded AR in a wall mount..

Literally any non-American: "How many guns could you possibly need?" American: "How many rooms do you have?"

I have a hallway gun, veranda gun, nursery gun...

The one time you don't have one might be the one time you need one. I keep one on me or near me at all times.

Sounds like a nice story. True? Well, maybe.

@@tarico4436 It is true, there's videos on here of people asking Alan Rickman about it. Seems he was sore about it for many years after lol

@@tarico4436 it is true. It’s talked about on the show “the movies that made us.” Die hard is one of those movies they have an episode on. I believe it may still be on Netflix.

Actors get sore when they're tricked into revealing genuine emotion captured on film

That’s so meaaaan lol

Cringe, people did only be allowed on planes with a gun

Armed Off Duty Brazilian cops could have stopped 9/11. :)

Retired Police too.

@@Kenfren cringe is being terrified of guns and not mentally ill criminals back on the street immediately after being arrested for violent crimes. Particularly on planes when it would have only taken four off duty officers on four planes to save the world a whole lotta trouble back in 2001.

@@bot_Est1989 I was so confused seeing this notification after a year I posted my comment. But I'm very much in favour of guns

"Hans bubby"

“You have two options , you can walk or be carried out of here. So, decide now, each of you. And have no illusions, we are in charge. “

@jester26uk I thought he only had two. But rumour has it Arafat buys his there.....

This is the best line in the film. Hahahahaha.

Yep, most directors/artists have their short sweet spot where they could do no wrong and that was his.

@Anthony Swiss Lets make it 2 of the best 4, dont forget Aliens and T2. T2 is probably THE GOAT.

@@mkocel Such a tough choice for #1, but these are definitely the top 4 GOAT candidates.

And then calms down to gift us Hunt for Red October. Not bad.

@@chefskiss6179 which is still bloody awesome!

Agreed and anybody who's been a cop or related to a cop will know that the cop will justify having their side arm on them at all times...(Remember, this is pre 9-11-2001)

Even the Tell exposition is solid and doesn't feel too contrived in its delivery. The conversation between Argyle and John and the one between Holly and the daughter and housekeeper both feel very natural in the information they provide.

@@kentonkruger8333 and that's where the master class truly happened. In showing how the oft vilified 'Tell' part can be done effectively.

I remember Louis CK talking about the set up of this film being perfect

To me one of the few flaws of the movie does come in the finding of Holly using her maiden name on touchscreen. It's Christmas eve the receptionist is like just type in her name. Then says everyone that is left in the building is all on one floor for the party. As in there was literally no point to showing John the touchscreen at all. Everyone in the building is sitting one floor for the party where he is then directed to.

The 13th Warrior is unfairly maligned. I love that movie.

They don't make them like they used to! Action films these days are all shaky-cam CGI- filled shitfests.

He also directed The Thomas Crown Affair.......In my opinion, one of the few times a remake improves on the original.

Renee Russo on the beach... mmmmm

@@charmawow I love to see the critical drinker give his opinion on that film magnificent piece of work... Still extremely watchable and Rene Russo on the Dance Floor just brings back shivers

Go another year of this covid crap and we'll be talking about the good days when the average IQ was _double-digit_ (because you gotta get oxygen to your brain and facemasks ..."don't help" with that basic human need).

@@MelanCholy2001 With a single digit IQ, we'll probably just drool about the good ol' days 🙄

Oh boy another person that doesn’t understand the basics of a semi permeable barrier, your iq is already in the singles then

@Sauli Luolajan-Mikkola but all of my friends on social media have 120+ IQs, it says so right in their bios.... 🤔🤔🤔

@Sauli Luolajan-Mikkola fun fact: the average iq in the US is 98. In belgium it is 100, and in the netherlands it is 102.

The good ol days

I was in Phuket about 10 years ago just flying domestically to the mainland then after we boarded a few security guards come on the plane and ask a Chinese guy to get his bag down and open it, inside was like a mini hand held cross bow with bolts lol couldn't believe it they confiscate it and left him on the plane really bizarre like if they knew he had it why not take it before he got on the plane. I kept my eye on him the whole flight.

Not like post-9/11 shouldn't make it common sense for both cops and average folk to maintain the right to bear arms.

@@jairoukagiri2488 Nobody has the right to bear arms. Killing bears just for their arms is cruel, man.

Actually it wasn’t uncommon for off duty police to get approval to carry their firearms in those days.

There is nothing wrong with CGI, but this movie proves that CGI isn't what makes a movie successful for great. But this is (was) also a contemporary movie. Kinda hard to imagine a space sci-fi movie without CGI.

Yeah they don't make them like they use too ;(

Alien.

@@benc3475 Aliens yes, Alien no. Alien wasn't really an action movie, it was a suspense/horror movie. The fact that Cameron was able to create a great action movie based on it was amazing.

You and me both! I'm convinced it was the U.S.'s best decade.

Anton chigurh??

If he wasn't such a cold blooded murderer, you almost want him to pull it off.

No Gruber. No McLane. No Box Office Success.

Hans can even calculate your taxes for you.

I agree with you there. Without Alan Rickman's take on Gruber, this movie would've been forgettable. I watched an old interview with Rickman some months back where he described the version of Gruber originally envisioned. He took a look at it, decided it was garbage, and got the director to let him do Gruber his way. I believe the original conception of Gruber was some form of cardboard cutout stereotypical Hollywood "terrorist". Just imagine the trope and that's what they wanted.

Or just no feet

For keeping your shoes on

That stuck with since seeing it as a kid when it came out.

I keep yelling at my kids when they take off their shoes, even inside the house! - " go ahead, take off your shoes, but when the terrorists come in and you have to walk barefoot on glass to save your life, don't come crying to me!! Idiots!"

To this day, if I'm anywhere other than home, I keep my shoes within grabbing distance. If asked about it, I just say "Remember Die Hard?".

I can hear that comment in the voice of R.Lee Ermey.

Whet the f*** did I put my mulled wine?

"James Reeves here..."

Brought a smile to my face

Yes. I have heard that before. But do not understand it.

My favorite!

Got the sweatshirt for this Christmas!! (That’ll make an interesting Zoom call)

“You’re most troublesome for a security guard”

@Anthony Swiss they are available right on scamazon!

i got the t-shirt. love it. its my go-to Christmas shirt to piss off the family.

and the way Gruber reads it from the note is perfect, when he reads "Ho ho ho" it's like.. perfectly abbreviated, and I don't even know the right word to describe it. Man I miss Alan Rickman being alive :(.

“ Do you think they'll even try to do it?” “Who cares?”

@@TK42100 Hahah so many great moments :)

yeah, his false demands and diversion games, I laughed at that scene. one low budget action flick in the 90s '' Skyscraper '' try to mimic the same stunt.

Even here in Finland, where people are more "reserved", there was a lot of clapping in the end. I miss those days.

And rightly so. greetings from germany :-)

Wish I had been old enough to see this film in theaters. At least I was alive when it came out lol

@@casedistorted Oh, this Christmas there'll surely be many drive-in cinemas showing DIE HARD. 😊

Probably aging myself a little bit. I had just turned 11. People lost their shit. I also snuck out of Snow White during a summer camp field trip and saw Robo Cop instead. I was yelling “I’d buy that for a dollar!” for a week afterwards.

Not just his best movie role, his very first. Amazing.

By Grabthar's Hammer!

Not to forget his bad guy role in Quigley Down Under.

RICKMAN was da bomb! Who can forget him in Prince of Thieves! He took roles he was born to play (in fact, J.K. Rowling wanted RICKMAN HIMSELF to play the character of Severus Snape in the Harry Potter series) . RIP

Fucking amazing Rickman. I hope him and Bowie are chill af on the planet Elon's car is heading to

Exactly! I use this quote when someone has a realisation of something. Then they look at me funny and I have to say ‘Its from Die Hard’. Then they get the reference. Then I get to say it again

Yippee ki ay!

the second one had a few good moments, but was a bit over the top overall. but I really liked the third just as much as the first one, because Willis had great chemistry with Samuel L. Jackson and Jeremy Irons was a great villain.

yeah by the 4th Die Hard movie McClane was riding the wing of a fighter jet like a surfboard... Really Hollywood??? But I don't have a problem with the hero being special forces highly trained badass as it can also be done effectively like in The Bourne movies BUT I feel personally prefer a CONSISTENCY in the character, plot, action etc... so if you tell me that IRON MAN can withstand a punch from Thor's hammer but later he gets hit by a missile that knocks him down OR our here is in a car without a seatbelt on which overturns 8 times downhill and he walks away without a scratch it is beyond suspension of disbelief. They should establish rules, stick to them and then have charcters do amazing stuff within those rules.

@@ArmyWolves When McClane got hurt, he stayed hurt. He hobbled the entire film after cutting up his feet. His arm stayed disabled. Everything that happened to him didn't get plotted away.

@@justtime6736 yes that's my point... the first Die Hard was great because it had that consistency, his bleeding foot, his aching body even by the end when he limps his was to save his wife and kill Hans Gruber you even wonder how the hell he will take them out with just two bullets left... AND THEN HE DOES making him more awesome, remarkable and a true hero in the eyes of the viewer. they didn't giving him some last minute supernatural energy boost. Now by DIe Hard 4 Hollywood missed this and he was superhuman and even surfing on a fighter jet and not understanding what made McClane a true hero in the first place.

Agreed. The character appealed because he WASN'T an action hero although I admit I still love 2 and 3. Part 3 would have been a good send off. It put him back where he started, in NY estranged from his wife - and of course, there's Jeremy Irons as Peter Gruber.

Agreed. It is an aspect of films which, when not done properly, is glaringly obvious and jarring.

Top Tier Directing.

Something that has gone missing from most movies since first the advent of MTV quick-cut musicals, then shaky-cam obscuring everything, then fighting in the dark, then the rise of the cryptic fight scene like in the first Christian Bale Batman, where the fighting was awesome because ... it was quick-cut shaky cam in the dark, then the Transformers where you just gave up completely on trying to understand what was going on onscreen because, "Ooooh, shiny!".

"I shot a kid."

" It was dark I couldn't see very well" .... John... "so he wasnt white?"

Galaxy Quest... Another great flick.

By grabthars hammer, what a movie....

Just rewatched galaxy quest today, brill movie

But that logic, he should also do Quigly Down Under!

Galaxy Quest parodied everything about Star Trek: the show, the characters, the plots, the behind the scenes drama, and the fandom and managed to do it in such a way that the more you love TOS, the more you love Galaxy Quest. The best part is that everything they made fun of got flipped into a truly heroic moment.

The story behind it is that they were going to release him after a count of three, but when they actually did it they released him early, so his expression is actually him being surprised

The police have themselves an RV

Little things like his lines and the shooters snacking on candy while waiting for the SWAT team to raid them really made them out to be the scary professionals. You really believed these guys were badass bank robbers

...and the 13th Warrior, a criminally underrated movie.

Brilliant film

Yep

@@willbo6017 damn guy did all the great movies, I had no idea.

I am wondering wtf happened to him. He is a legend, come on PREDATOR, DIE HARD 1 & 3 and HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER

My constitutional carry also had a good chuckle.

Also, there was a day before 9/11. In fact, loads of them. Cops used to be able to carry everywhere…even on planes.

Deutsch 101 with Herr Grüber

""Schieß auf das Fenster." "Shoot the Window" not the glass :-)

I thought scheisse means shit.

@@dannybailey666 That's right, if you want to say "Shit the window", you have to say "Scheiss auf das Fenster"... You're welcome. :D

@@THEREALZENFORCE I remember looking it up way back and always laughed about the translation being a little off 😂

Is Gremlins

@@vonfaustien3957 correct

@@vonfaustien3957 Could this be the next movie on the Drinkers list 🤔😄

Terminator 2

@@lightningbolt4451 nah that is still God tier action film true action films are the high stakes normal guy films

Thank God

It was a good review but I'm kind of upset over his "you don't have to take your gun everywhere" comment. That is racist against Americans ;-)

@@micfail2 Americans aren’t a race we’re a country.

And off duty cops are typically armed irl. Back then, even on a plane.

Now, The Drinker needs to review Die Hard's sassy sister film, Working Girl.

I legit LOLed at that one.

Best bad guy ever!

Best good guy too

a talent that can *NEVER* be replaced... R.I.P Rickman.

He was a great Sheriff of Nottingham.

He gets into an argument with his wife, then when she storms of, chides himself for doing it. Things like that make a character real, little details that don't have anything to do with the film, just give you the impression the characters exist outside the frame of the camera. His wife's gasp of dismay when she sees him at the end, bloodied but unbowed.

That amorous couple is a perfect staple of 80s action films. Gratuitous tit shot for no reason. Well until your comment anyway 😁

@@abbaszaidi8371 No tit shot is ever gratuitous!

Attention to detail is something most writers can't seem to manage sadly. What elevates a movie to true greatness is getting all the little details correct, not the big effects and explosions.

agree 100%. And even I see this movie the 100th time, you can find sooo many details in it I love the scene after they execute Takagi and you can see, that the bad guys made a bet, if they get the password from him :D

Does it work tho? Never been on a plane myself.

@@BADWOLF-cs6ow dunno mate. Never tried it myself. I find alcohol works lol

Even though they're not actual terrorists.

@@luismarioguerrerosanchez4747 Even though they're not actual terrorists.

@@marcusrat4466 Even though they're not actual terrorists.

@@raminybhatti5740 Even though they're actually not terrorists.

Added note: He took off his shoes to destress himself. Guess he was wrong.

Fists with your toes.

See this is what happens when writers have talent and aren't hired for diversity or representation. I have zero problem with diverse people nor identity, but when hiring decisions are first and foremost based on race & identity instead of talent and experience things go badly. And then those writers go on to base their stories on race & identity...

I like the way John MaClain is written. He's a regular cop; not an special elite, or top militar officer, or super agent, who wants to reconciliate with his family and cope with the fact his wife is growing her career faster than he is. The concept of him being barefoot in the movie is carefully stablished in the opening when he is talking with the guy on the plane and later, having him walk through broken glass with no shoes to protect his feet makes him feel more human and relatable.

@@luismarioguerrerosanchez4747 Yeah, its brilliant writing, directing and acting. There are places for stories about the elite (007 is pretty cool) but many/most stories work best when they are about average people placed in unusual circumstances.

His last meal.

Recently watched this movie with my niece (her first time) she finally understood what me and my sister have been referencing all these years. One time years ago we were at the back wing of a theatre complex and they had an empty concession kiosk, I hopped on the other side and tossed my candy in then rein acted the scene. Sister peed herself laughing my niece just thought I was weird.

Perfect 😊

Do you have a Hans Gruber ornament for your Christmas tree? Don't disappoint us with the wrong answer.

@@och70 no. Not yet.

A little of column A, a little of column B.

Its my number two, after Its A Wonderful Life. Honestly, I don't like Christmas very much, but even so, I can appreciate Wonderful very much.

What about "A Christmas Story"?

Joven C Amen. Got to see it.

It’s a wonderful life, Die Hard , Lethal Weapon and the long kiss goodnight, great Xmas movies lol 😂

You forgot Gremlins

He did Last Action Hero? That movie was gold. "To be or not to be *lights cigar* not to be."

I liked The 13th Warrior but it seems most people haven't seen it.

Don't forget the stylish remake of 'The Thomas Crown Affair' which is not any way inferior to the original one with Steve McQueen.

I love both die hard 1 & 3.

Heh. The only other Die Hard movie at all worth watching. In my head there are only those two.

@@tanstaafl1301 "How colourful..." Die Hard with a Vengence also has some pretty good banter between Samuel L Jackson and Willis.

@@Jackaljkljkl "Are you aiming for those people?!"

@@richardrichard688 Well, maybe that mime...

@@tanstaafl1301 Die hard 2 was good enough! But last said about the others the better!

They used to be able to do that back when they staged some action to shoot.

Late 60s, 70s, 80s, and 90s were the golden age

@Chris_Wooden_Eye well most people from Europe dont know what a gun is.

American Express? Do you write for the Hitchhiker's Guide?

Every cop I know carries a gun when off duty. My best friends dad is a deputy sheriff and he said he feels naked without it.

Anybody know what the actual rules were for cops taking guns on planes in 1987? Airline security wasn't always as obsessive as it is now.

@@stevenscott2136 yes, up until prior to 9/11 many officers would be allowed to carry their weapon on the plane as a passenger with the permission of the Captain of the flight. After 9/11, the only officers allowed to fly armed are either Federal Agents or officers on an actual on-duty assignment. Otherwise, you can bring your gun with you on vacation so long as it is in checked through luggage screened / inspected by TSA with appropriate paperwork filled out.

gremlins is playing this week at my theater. i'm going tomorrow. next week its national lampoons christmas

@@MrSGL21 Lucky you! Theatres where I live have closed again due to a covid resurgence.