What the corpus says about Die Hard 2 (1990)

The 53 lines php artisan corpus:ask hands a model, in the order it gets them, and nothing else. The model writes a clerk's answer from these and only these.

What was said about it (26)

[The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ · 0:15:44 · Chris Ryan (0.80)] Die Hard 2 ↔ Die Hard · lineage · Ryan says the first and third Die Hard are baked into their locations, while this one is more generic action movie-ish. · "the 1st Die Hard and the 3rd Die Hard are characterized by their, like, this is really baked in."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ · 0:18:01 · Bill Simmons (0.75)] Die Hard 2 ↔ Lethal Weapon 2 · lineage · It arrived in the run-it-back era of sequels like Lethal Weapon 2. · "it is right during the era of everybody looking at each other and going, let's just run it back."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ · 0:19:50 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] 58 Minutes ⇒ Die Hard 2 (the host's read) · lineage · The screenplay was adapted from Walter Wager's 1987 novel with a similar plot. · "Screenplay was adapted from Walter Wagers."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ · 0:22:49 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Die Hard 2 ↔ Indiana Jones series · theme · The critic grouped it with Indiana Jones as thrillers that leave your arm black and blue. · "this is one of those thrillers, like the Indiana Jones series that I categorized as bruised for our movies"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ · 0:41:35 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Die Hard 2 ↔ First Blood · theme · Franz's 'I taught him everything he knows' line is joked as Richard Crenna in First Blood. · "like Richard Crenna in 1st Blood."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ · 0:15:20 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] Die Hard 2 ↔ Fast & Furious · craft · McClane's crazier stunts here put the movie in the Fast and Furious camp. · "he has a couple of the craziest stunts, almost like in the Fast and Furious camp."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ · 0:36:48 · Bill Simmons (0.55)] Die Hard 2 ↔ Pulp Fiction · craft · Riffing on a re-edit channel, they joke Pulp Fiction could be cut down to Bruce going to get his watch. · "It'll just be Bruce going to get his watch."
[The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 1:10:10 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Presumed Innocent ↔ Die Hard 2 · people · Bonnie Bedelia is in both of Amanda's picks. · "that's 2 Bonnie Badelia movies for Amanda"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ · 0:21:39 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Die Hard 2 ↔ Home Alone · verdict · Die Hard 2 was eighth in 1990 behind Home Alone, Ghost, Dances with Wolves, Pretty Woman. · "Die Hard two, eighth."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ · 1:23:34 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Die Hard 2 ↔ The Rock · what-if · Ryan wants the Rock-style fix where the villain is stopped at the last second, with Ed Harris redirecting the rockets. · "when Ed Harris shoots the rockets at San Francisco and then he like redirects them at the last second."
[The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 1:08:23 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85)] Die Hard 2 ↔ Look Who's Talking Too · what-if · Taking Die Hard 2 meant Amanda did not have to take Look Who's Talking Too, her number two. · "I don't have to take look who's talking to, which was number 2 on my list"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ · 0:22:17 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Die Hard 2 ↔ Back to the Future Part III · year peers · Listed with other 1990 top-grossing movies Simmons saw in theaters. · "I'm 100% sure I saw 13 of them in the theater."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ · 0:41:02 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Die Hard 2 ↔ Total Recall · shared that-guy · Robert Costanzo is in both Die Hard 2 and Total Recall. · "He's in total recall, too."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ · 0:49:28 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Die Hard 2 ↔ Regarding Henry · unintentional comedy · Simmons jokes the lesson of Die Hard 2 might match Regarding Henry: get shot in the head and be nicer. · "Maybe that's what John McClain was saying."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ · 0:51:55 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Die Hard 2 ↔ The Hunt for Red October · scheduling conflict · McTiernan was supposed to direct but had committed to The Hunt for Red October. · "John McTiernan was supposed to direct this film, but he had committed to the hunt for Red October already"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ · 0:58:58 · Bill Simmons (0.75)] Die Hard 2 ↔ Commando · shared fictional country · Esperanza is a general of Val Verde, the fictional country from Commando; Commando is the true Val Verde Apex Mountain. · "Esperanza is actually a general in the country of Valverde, which is the same country used the fictional South American country used in commando."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ · 1:01:25 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Die Hard 2 ↔ The Living Daylights · snowmobile chase · For snowmobile chase Apex Mountain they cite The Living Daylights and Reindeer Games. · "There a great one in the living daylights."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ · 1:05:06 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Die Hard 2 ↔ Airplane! · airport movie · Set-in-an-airport Apex Mountain is either Die Hard 2 or Airplane, with Airport and Planes Trains aged or insufficient. · "It's either this or airplane, right?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ · 1:05:31 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Die Hard 2 ↔ Single White Female · eye stabbing · Icicle eye stab is good but Single White Female's heel is the number one eye stabbing. · "single white female, the heel and the high is the number one eye stabbing that I can remember."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ · 1:05:50 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Die Hard 2 ↔ X · eye stabbing · The horror movie X in theaters has a high-level eye stabbing. · "there's a horror movie in theaters right now called X that's got a high level eye stabbing in it."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ · 1:06:26 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Die Hard 2 ↔ Road House · nude Tai Chi · They propose a debate whether Sadler's fully nude Tai Chi beats Swayze's half-nude Tai Chi in Road House. · "whether Sadler's fully nude Tai Chi, tops Swayze's half nude Tai Chi in Roadhouse."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ · 1:11:36 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Die Hard 2 ↔ Die Hard with a Vengeance · villain charisma · Simmons asks if Die Hard 2 is worse because Esperanza lacks the charisma of Rickman or Jeremy Irons. · "it doesn't have an evil guy as a villain as charismatic as Rickman or John Jeremy Irons?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ · 1:15:36 · Bill Simmons (0.85)] Die Hard 2 ↔ National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation · Christmas movie test · Simmons says a real Christmas movie is Christmas Vacation, where Christmas is in every scene, unlike Die Hard 2. · "A Christmas movie is like National Lampoon's Christmas vacation."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ · 1:16:53 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Die Hard 2 ↔ The Hangover · taser comedy · Die Hard 2 may have pioneered comedic taser use but The Hangover is the taser Apex Mountain. · "Apex Mountain is a hangover."
[The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 1:08:20 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85)] Amanda Dobbins ↔ Die Hard 2 · programming · Pick 14 (round 5), category sequel: Takes it off the board and avoids Look Who's Talking Too. · "And I'm going to take Die Hard 2."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ · 0:20:16 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Manuel Noriega ⇒ Die Hard 2 (the maker said so: the screenwriter admitted it) · lineage · The writer admitted the script grabbed smoke from Iran-Contra and Manuel Noriega. · "there's definitely some Iran Contra, kind of, they're just grabbing smoke from that whole scandal and shoehorning into this with Manuel Noriega in real life."

Fun items about it (6)

[The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ · 0:17:06 · Chris Ryan (0.60)] Die Hard 2 · fun · Sadler did not realize the naked Tai Chi scene meant fully naked, asked to film it near the end of the shoot and trained for two months; the bureau is positioned to hide his package. · "He didn't realize he had to be naked, so the actor William Sadler was like, can we film this near the end?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ · 0:23:47 · Bill Simmons (0.85)] Die Hard 2 · fun · Most rewatchable scene: McClane fights two guys in a restricted baggage area, a cluttered multi-room fight setup nobody does anymore. · "John fights 2 guys in a security restricted baggage area."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ · 0:25:59 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Die Hard 2 · fun · Most rewatchable: Carmine Lorenzo meets McClane and is unimpressed by the Nakatomi hero; the hosts joke about the Sully equivalent. · "Yeah, we're not at the Nakatomi building anymore, McQueen."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ · 0:29:08 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Die Hard 2 · fun · The airport SWAT team fails to notice a group of terrorists painting down the hall; Robert Patrick is one of them. · "Should we should we study these 7 guys randomly painting over there?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ · 0:30:15 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Die Hard 2 · fun · The plane crash is the craziest, most horrifying scene in action movies and why the hosts hadn't done the movie; memorable, not rewatchable. · "I wouldn't call it rewatchable, more like memorable"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ · 0:31:45 · Bill Simmons (0.65)] Die Hard 2 · fun · Everyone at Dulles keeps drinking after a jet is blown up on the news; they would all go home in real life. · "everybody at Dulles just has another scotch and hangs out and waits."

One hop out: what recommends the films most often joined to it (14)

[The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ · 0:50:19 · Jimmy Kimmel (0.50)] Saturday Night Fever ⇒ Airplane! (the host's read) · lineage · Airplane! parodies this film's romance scene three years later with Robert Hays and Julie Hagerty. · "The airplane parody scene."
[The Rewatchables · 'Taken' · 0:10:08 · Shea Serrano (0.70)] Commando ⇒ Taken (the host's read) · theme · Taken returned to the basic Schwarzenegger/Stallone template, but with a real actor selling the lines. · "We're still going to have him do all of the same stuff that a Schwarzenegger or Stallone would do in commando or cobra, but now we've got a guy who, when he says things into the camera, when he gives the phone speech, you feel it."
[The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 1:00:42 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Die Hard ⇒ Resident Evil (the host's read) · lineage · The shoes-melting beat is called a Die Hard nod (walking on broken glass). · "You have that wonderful diehard nod where his shoes are starting to melt and he has to take his shoes off."
[The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 1:17:22 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Airplane! ↔ Leslie Nielsen · craft · Leslie Nielsen in Airplane is named for best line reading. · "Leslie Nielsen, an airplane."
[The Big Picture · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ · 0:31:50 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] A Nightmare on Elm Street 2 ↔ Commando · theme · The same question of unintended queer subtext could be asked of Commando. · "You say the same thing about commando, frankly?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing · 0:14:30 · David Sims (0.45)] The Detective ⇒ Die Hard (the host's read) · lineage · Sinatra's rights deal on The Detective gave him first refusal on follow-ups, so Die Hard had to be offered to him. · "something in the deal for when Sinatra had bought the rights to the detective, gave him right of 1st refusal on any of the follow-ups"
[The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 0:27:58 · Adam Nayman (0.85)] Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story ↔ Airplane! · craft · Walk Hard is modeled on Walk the Line the way Airplane! is modeled on Airport, then copies everything else. · "in the same way that airplane is modeled mostly after airport, and then it copies everything else."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory · 1:18:09 · unknown (0.35)] Predator ↔ Commando · theme · Predator and Commando are combat movies not war movies, like the Top Gun films that abstract the war away. · "Predator I think of is more of a combat movie than a war movie, you know, and like commando is the same"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ · 1:20:17 · unknown (0.50)] Working Girl ↔ Die Hard · theme · Another absurd-premise movie that works; used to defend Working Girl's far-fetched merger plot. · "So is Die Hard."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) · 0:58:14 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Panic Room ↔ Die Hard · theme · Bearer bonds as plot device: not since Die Hard has there been 25 minutes on bearer bonds. · "Not since Die Hard have we spent 25 minutes on bear bonds."
[The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 0:29:24 · Sean Fennessey (0.55)] Resident Evil ↔ Die Hard · theme · Abrams's Brian reminded the speaker of John McClane, with humor built from the experience; the elevator shoe-melting is a Die Hard nod. · "He's not as cool and he's not as accomplished with a gun, but he kind of reminded me a little John McClain at times."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory · 0:30:13 · Sarah Marshall (0.60)] Paths of Glory ↔ Die Hard · theme · The FBI men in Die Hard accept losing 25 percent of the hostages, the same numbers-game thinking as the generals. · "the FBI are like, yeah, we're going to lose 25% of the hostages, but like, that's pretty good for us."
[Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 2:45:06 · unknown (0.40)] Raiders of the Lost Ark ↔ Die Hard · craft · The hero who is capable but visibly working it out is what the imitators miss; same as John McClane. · "it's the same thing that works about John McLean in the 1st Die Hard."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ · 0:27:13 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Jan de Bont ↔ Die Hard · craft · De Bont as cool DP turned maker of accessible action films was a model of who filmmakers wanted to be. · "Cool ass DP that comes from doing that and makes these awesome, ridiculously accessible action films"

Who said it, by their latest sketch (4)

[speaker] Bill Simmons · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · Loves the Friday series as a communal, rental-era memory and tells childhood stories about the ads and theaters. Likes casting what-ifs and sports analogies for everything. Skeptical of horror at Christmas and of anything that wastes the premise. · stances: Friday the 13th is not the best entry but the origin story had to be told; Friday 2 is a leap over the original
[speaker] Chris Ryan · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · A franchise and genre scholar who likes Jason, the early sequels, and Manhattan; attention to trivia, tropes and critic reception. Treats slashers as a canon with tiers. · stances: Parts 1, 2, 4 and Manhattan are the good ones; The series finds its legs at 4
[speaker] Amanda Dobbins · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · Loves The Strangers' withholding craft and a good tense horror film without gore, but likes fun, communal movies like Mamma Mia. She dislikes supernatural or gory horror, which irritates her more than it scares her. She is a sucker for stars and for Googling a movie mid-recording. · stances: The Strangers is scary because of what it doesn't show or explain; Ending explanation weakens it; no answer would be better; Prefers 'withholding' filmmaking; Defends Mamma Mia as joyful and intentional
[speaker] Sean Fennessey · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · Loves gory, funny, fast genre movies with craft and confidence, especially 87-minute films that never overstay. Can't stand ponderous elevated horror that fills out its runtime with introspection and sad family history. A sucker for the Carpenter-era lineage, Die Hard homages, and directors who break studio dogma. · stances: Resident Evil is one of the best films of the year; Horror movies have become a drag; fun genre experiences are needed; Short running times are a virtue; Video-game films work best when great filmmakers get creative license

The shows' running bits (3)

[bits] The Big Picture: Drafts (Hosts and guests draft films in rounds; every pick is a recommendation with an argument); Hall of Fame (A star's or director's best, ranked and argued); Countdowns (Ranked lists, top five or top ten)
[bits] Blank Check: The box office game (Guessing the film's opening weekend and what it was up against); The sung theme ("Blank Check with Griffin and David", sung; the transcriber garbles it)
[bits] The Rewatchables: Apex Mountain (The moment a star peaks; where on the mountain a performance sits); Who Won the Movie (The hosts name the person who came out of the film best off); The Ebert review (Roger Ebert's original review and star rating read aloud. Ebert is cited, never on the show); Casting what-ifs (Who was almost cast, or who should have been); Most rewatchable scene (The scene each host would stop on while flipping channels); Aged best / aged worst (What holds up and what does not); Picking Nits (The little things in a film the hosts love that they don't think totally work: the nits); Double feature (The film each host would pair it with; a programming pick)

The whole prompt

As the model gets it, from app/Ai/Prompts/CorpusAsk.md

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished Die Hard 2 (1990) and wants to know what to watch next.

Below is what people who love movies said on three podcasts (Blank Check, The Rewatchables, The Big Picture) about Die Hard 2 (1990) and the films around it, one line each. Every line starts with where it came from, in brackets: [show · episode · time · speaker (how sure we are it was them)]. A [pairs] line says how often two films were put side by side. A [speaker] line says what that person likes. A [bits] line lists a show's running bits: a format, not an opinion.

[The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ · 0:15:44 · Chris Ryan (0.80)] Die Hard 2 ↔ Die Hard · lineage · Ryan says the first and third Die Hard are baked into their locations, while this one is more generic action movie-ish. · "the 1st Die Hard and the 3rd Die Hard are characterized by their, like, this is really baked in."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ · 0:18:01 · Bill Simmons (0.75)] Die Hard 2 ↔ Lethal Weapon 2 · lineage · It arrived in the run-it-back era of sequels like Lethal Weapon 2. · "it is right during the era of everybody looking at each other and going, let's just run it back."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ · 0:19:50 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] 58 Minutes ⇒ Die Hard 2 (the host's read) · lineage · The screenplay was adapted from Walter Wager's 1987 novel with a similar plot. · "Screenplay was adapted from Walter Wagers."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ · 0:22:49 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Die Hard 2 ↔ Indiana Jones series · theme · The critic grouped it with Indiana Jones as thrillers that leave your arm black and blue. · "this is one of those thrillers, like the Indiana Jones series that I categorized as bruised for our movies"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ · 0:41:35 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Die Hard 2 ↔ First Blood · theme · Franz's 'I taught him everything he knows' line is joked as Richard Crenna in First Blood. · "like Richard Crenna in 1st Blood."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ · 0:15:20 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] Die Hard 2 ↔ Fast & Furious · craft · McClane's crazier stunts here put the movie in the Fast and Furious camp. · "he has a couple of the craziest stunts, almost like in the Fast and Furious camp."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ · 0:36:48 · Bill Simmons (0.55)] Die Hard 2 ↔ Pulp Fiction · craft · Riffing on a re-edit channel, they joke Pulp Fiction could be cut down to Bruce going to get his watch. · "It'll just be Bruce going to get his watch."
[The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 1:10:10 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Presumed Innocent ↔ Die Hard 2 · people · Bonnie Bedelia is in both of Amanda's picks. · "that's 2 Bonnie Badelia movies for Amanda"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ · 0:21:39 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Die Hard 2 ↔ Home Alone · verdict · Die Hard 2 was eighth in 1990 behind Home Alone, Ghost, Dances with Wolves, Pretty Woman. · "Die Hard two, eighth."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ · 1:23:34 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Die Hard 2 ↔ The Rock · what-if · Ryan wants the Rock-style fix where the villain is stopped at the last second, with Ed Harris redirecting the rockets. · "when Ed Harris shoots the rockets at San Francisco and then he like redirects them at the last second."
[The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 1:08:23 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85)] Die Hard 2 ↔ Look Who's Talking Too · what-if · Taking Die Hard 2 meant Amanda did not have to take Look Who's Talking Too, her number two. · "I don't have to take look who's talking to, which was number 2 on my list"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ · 0:22:17 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Die Hard 2 ↔ Back to the Future Part III · year peers · Listed with other 1990 top-grossing movies Simmons saw in theaters. · "I'm 100% sure I saw 13 of them in the theater."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ · 0:41:02 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Die Hard 2 ↔ Total Recall · shared that-guy · Robert Costanzo is in both Die Hard 2 and Total Recall. · "He's in total recall, too."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ · 0:49:28 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Die Hard 2 ↔ Regarding Henry · unintentional comedy · Simmons jokes the lesson of Die Hard 2 might match Regarding Henry: get shot in the head and be nicer. · "Maybe that's what John McClain was saying."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ · 0:51:55 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Die Hard 2 ↔ The Hunt for Red October · scheduling conflict · McTiernan was supposed to direct but had committed to The Hunt for Red October. · "John McTiernan was supposed to direct this film, but he had committed to the hunt for Red October already"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ · 0:58:58 · Bill Simmons (0.75)] Die Hard 2 ↔ Commando · shared fictional country · Esperanza is a general of Val Verde, the fictional country from Commando; Commando is the true Val Verde Apex Mountain. · "Esperanza is actually a general in the country of Valverde, which is the same country used the fictional South American country used in commando."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ · 1:01:25 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Die Hard 2 ↔ The Living Daylights · snowmobile chase · For snowmobile chase Apex Mountain they cite The Living Daylights and Reindeer Games. · "There a great one in the living daylights."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ · 1:05:06 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Die Hard 2 ↔ Airplane! · airport movie · Set-in-an-airport Apex Mountain is either Die Hard 2 or Airplane, with Airport and Planes Trains aged or insufficient. · "It's either this or airplane, right?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ · 1:05:31 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Die Hard 2 ↔ Single White Female · eye stabbing · Icicle eye stab is good but Single White Female's heel is the number one eye stabbing. · "single white female, the heel and the high is the number one eye stabbing that I can remember."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ · 1:05:50 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Die Hard 2 ↔ X · eye stabbing · The horror movie X in theaters has a high-level eye stabbing. · "there's a horror movie in theaters right now called X that's got a high level eye stabbing in it."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ · 1:06:26 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Die Hard 2 ↔ Road House · nude Tai Chi · They propose a debate whether Sadler's fully nude Tai Chi beats Swayze's half-nude Tai Chi in Road House. · "whether Sadler's fully nude Tai Chi, tops Swayze's half nude Tai Chi in Roadhouse."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ · 1:11:36 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Die Hard 2 ↔ Die Hard with a Vengeance · villain charisma · Simmons asks if Die Hard 2 is worse because Esperanza lacks the charisma of Rickman or Jeremy Irons. · "it doesn't have an evil guy as a villain as charismatic as Rickman or John Jeremy Irons?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ · 1:15:36 · Bill Simmons (0.85)] Die Hard 2 ↔ National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation · Christmas movie test · Simmons says a real Christmas movie is Christmas Vacation, where Christmas is in every scene, unlike Die Hard 2. · "A Christmas movie is like National Lampoon's Christmas vacation."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ · 1:16:53 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Die Hard 2 ↔ The Hangover · taser comedy · Die Hard 2 may have pioneered comedic taser use but The Hangover is the taser Apex Mountain. · "Apex Mountain is a hangover."
[The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 1:08:20 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85)] Amanda Dobbins ↔ Die Hard 2 · programming · Pick 14 (round 5), category sequel: Takes it off the board and avoids Look Who's Talking Too. · "And I'm going to take Die Hard 2."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ · 0:20:16 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Manuel Noriega ⇒ Die Hard 2 (the maker said so: the screenwriter admitted it) · lineage · The writer admitted the script grabbed smoke from Iran-Contra and Manuel Noriega. · "there's definitely some Iran Contra, kind of, they're just grabbing smoke from that whole scandal and shoehorning into this with Manuel Noriega in real life."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ · 0:17:06 · Chris Ryan (0.60)] Die Hard 2 · fun · Sadler did not realize the naked Tai Chi scene meant fully naked, asked to film it near the end of the shoot and trained for two months; the bureau is positioned to hide his package. · "He didn't realize he had to be naked, so the actor William Sadler was like, can we film this near the end?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ · 0:23:47 · Bill Simmons (0.85)] Die Hard 2 · fun · Most rewatchable scene: McClane fights two guys in a restricted baggage area, a cluttered multi-room fight setup nobody does anymore. · "John fights 2 guys in a security restricted baggage area."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ · 0:25:59 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Die Hard 2 · fun · Most rewatchable: Carmine Lorenzo meets McClane and is unimpressed by the Nakatomi hero; the hosts joke about the Sully equivalent. · "Yeah, we're not at the Nakatomi building anymore, McQueen."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ · 0:29:08 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Die Hard 2 · fun · The airport SWAT team fails to notice a group of terrorists painting down the hall; Robert Patrick is one of them. · "Should we should we study these 7 guys randomly painting over there?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ · 0:30:15 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Die Hard 2 · fun · The plane crash is the craziest, most horrifying scene in action movies and why the hosts hadn't done the movie; memorable, not rewatchable. · "I wouldn't call it rewatchable, more like memorable"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ · 0:31:45 · Bill Simmons (0.65)] Die Hard 2 · fun · Everyone at Dulles keeps drinking after a jet is blown up on the news; they would all go home in real life. · "everybody at Dulles just has another scotch and hangs out and waits."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ · 0:50:19 · Jimmy Kimmel (0.50)] Saturday Night Fever ⇒ Airplane! (the host's read) · lineage · Airplane! parodies this film's romance scene three years later with Robert Hays and Julie Hagerty. · "The airplane parody scene."
[The Rewatchables · 'Taken' · 0:10:08 · Shea Serrano (0.70)] Commando ⇒ Taken (the host's read) · theme · Taken returned to the basic Schwarzenegger/Stallone template, but with a real actor selling the lines. · "We're still going to have him do all of the same stuff that a Schwarzenegger or Stallone would do in commando or cobra, but now we've got a guy who, when he says things into the camera, when he gives the phone speech, you feel it."
[The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 1:00:42 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Die Hard ⇒ Resident Evil (the host's read) · lineage · The shoes-melting beat is called a Die Hard nod (walking on broken glass). · "You have that wonderful diehard nod where his shoes are starting to melt and he has to take his shoes off."
[The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 1:17:22 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Airplane! ↔ Leslie Nielsen · craft · Leslie Nielsen in Airplane is named for best line reading. · "Leslie Nielsen, an airplane."
[The Big Picture · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ · 0:31:50 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] A Nightmare on Elm Street 2 ↔ Commando · theme · The same question of unintended queer subtext could be asked of Commando. · "You say the same thing about commando, frankly?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing · 0:14:30 · David Sims (0.45)] The Detective ⇒ Die Hard (the host's read) · lineage · Sinatra's rights deal on The Detective gave him first refusal on follow-ups, so Die Hard had to be offered to him. · "something in the deal for when Sinatra had bought the rights to the detective, gave him right of 1st refusal on any of the follow-ups"
[The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 0:27:58 · Adam Nayman (0.85)] Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story ↔ Airplane! · craft · Walk Hard is modeled on Walk the Line the way Airplane! is modeled on Airport, then copies everything else. · "in the same way that airplane is modeled mostly after airport, and then it copies everything else."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory · 1:18:09 · unknown (0.35)] Predator ↔ Commando · theme · Predator and Commando are combat movies not war movies, like the Top Gun films that abstract the war away. · "Predator I think of is more of a combat movie than a war movie, you know, and like commando is the same"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ · 1:20:17 · unknown (0.50)] Working Girl ↔ Die Hard · theme · Another absurd-premise movie that works; used to defend Working Girl's far-fetched merger plot. · "So is Die Hard."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) · 0:58:14 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Panic Room ↔ Die Hard · theme · Bearer bonds as plot device: not since Die Hard has there been 25 minutes on bearer bonds. · "Not since Die Hard have we spent 25 minutes on bear bonds."
[The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 0:29:24 · Sean Fennessey (0.55)] Resident Evil ↔ Die Hard · theme · Abrams's Brian reminded the speaker of John McClane, with humor built from the experience; the elevator shoe-melting is a Die Hard nod. · "He's not as cool and he's not as accomplished with a gun, but he kind of reminded me a little John McClain at times."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory · 0:30:13 · Sarah Marshall (0.60)] Paths of Glory ↔ Die Hard · theme · The FBI men in Die Hard accept losing 25 percent of the hostages, the same numbers-game thinking as the generals. · "the FBI are like, yeah, we're going to lose 25% of the hostages, but like, that's pretty good for us."
[Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 2:45:06 · unknown (0.40)] Raiders of the Lost Ark ↔ Die Hard · craft · The hero who is capable but visibly working it out is what the imitators miss; same as John McClane. · "it's the same thing that works about John McLean in the 1st Die Hard."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ · 0:27:13 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Jan de Bont ↔ Die Hard · craft · De Bont as cool DP turned maker of accessible action films was a model of who filmmakers wanted to be. · "Cool ass DP that comes from doing that and makes these awesome, ridiculously accessible action films"
[speaker] Bill Simmons · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · Loves the Friday series as a communal, rental-era memory and tells childhood stories about the ads and theaters. Likes casting what-ifs and sports analogies for everything. Skeptical of horror at Christmas and of anything that wastes the premise. · stances: Friday the 13th is not the best entry but the origin story had to be told; Friday 2 is a leap over the original
[speaker] Chris Ryan · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · A franchise and genre scholar who likes Jason, the early sequels, and Manhattan; attention to trivia, tropes and critic reception. Treats slashers as a canon with tiers. · stances: Parts 1, 2, 4 and Manhattan are the good ones; The series finds its legs at 4
[speaker] Amanda Dobbins · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · Loves The Strangers' withholding craft and a good tense horror film without gore, but likes fun, communal movies like Mamma Mia. She dislikes supernatural or gory horror, which irritates her more than it scares her. She is a sucker for stars and for Googling a movie mid-recording. · stances: The Strangers is scary because of what it doesn't show or explain; Ending explanation weakens it; no answer would be better; Prefers 'withholding' filmmaking; Defends Mamma Mia as joyful and intentional
[speaker] Sean Fennessey · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · Loves gory, funny, fast genre movies with craft and confidence, especially 87-minute films that never overstay. Can't stand ponderous elevated horror that fills out its runtime with introspection and sad family history. A sucker for the Carpenter-era lineage, Die Hard homages, and directors who break studio dogma. · stances: Resident Evil is one of the best films of the year; Horror movies have become a drag; fun genre experiences are needed; Short running times are a virtue; Video-game films work best when great filmmakers get creative license
[bits] The Big Picture: Drafts (Hosts and guests draft films in rounds; every pick is a recommendation with an argument); Hall of Fame (A star's or director's best, ranked and argued); Countdowns (Ranked lists, top five or top ten)
[bits] Blank Check: The box office game (Guessing the film's opening weekend and what it was up against); The sung theme ("Blank Check with Griffin and David", sung; the transcriber garbles it)
[bits] The Rewatchables: Apex Mountain (The moment a star peaks; where on the mountain a performance sits); Who Won the Movie (The hosts name the person who came out of the film best off); The Ebert review (Roger Ebert's original review and star rating read aloud. Ebert is cited, never on the show); Casting what-ifs (Who was almost cast, or who should have been); Most rewatchable scene (The scene each host would stop on while flipping channels); Aged best / aged worst (What holds up and what does not); Picking Nits (The little things in a film the hosts love that they don't think totally work: the nits); Double feature (The film each host would pair it with; a programming pick)

Recommend three to six films, and only films that appear in these lines. A series, a TV film, or a franchise counts too when a line recommends it or pairs it with Die Hard 2 (1990); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Die Hard 2 (1990) itself. For each one, give one short reason in your own words and say whose reason it is: the show, named exactly as the brackets name it, and the speaker when the line names one (an "unknown" speaker is just the show). If the lines are thin, say so plainly rather than stretching them.

Keep a contrast a contrast. When a line sets two films apart, the reason is how they differ; never turn it into a way they're alike. A line with ⇒ puts the source first and what drew on it second, and one marked "the maker said so" is still the host reporting it: say who said it, and never state an influence as fact.

You know only what's on these lines. Add no fact they don't state: not who directed a film, not what kind of film it is, not when it came out, unless a line says so. Say nothing about the store or how anything rents here.

Talk the way a clerk talks to a customer at the counter: plain text, titles written plainly with no asterisks or other markup, no headings, no lists of more than six, no JSON.