Die Hard 2: Die Harder
Added 2024-03-11 04:00:05 +0000 UTCIn our first of two McTiernan-related bonus eps Griffin, David and Ben discuss Die Hard but at an airport this time with Die Hard 2 (or as some people like to call it Die Harder). Topics include: Is it Die Harder?, missing McTiernan, and a very special Dauphin-Addendum.
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I love the outro music is trying to end the episode because Griffin’s mom doesn’t text him back
Will Pottorff
2024-10-31 14:38:32 +0000 UTCUltimate version of this as background/hangout movie: me giving birth with it on the hospital tv in the background! 😆
Janine
2024-09-18 16:25:15 +0000 UTCWhat is it going to take to get the boys to split a joint and watch The Adventures of Ford Fairlane together?
Patrick Mexal
2024-08-25 22:40:03 +0000 UTCRE: Live Free of Die Hard. I hold to the idea that movie is like a drunk John McClane re-telling one of his crazy adventures to a buncha cop friends while they close out a bar at 4am. Hence action is over exaggerated and he comes off as way “cooler” than he is in reality. Not an excuse for the movie, it’s just become my head canon
Rich Wojcicki
2024-06-09 19:31:04 +0000 UTCPunch up on Scum Friends title... Scum BUDS? Nod to scumbum?
John Blood
2024-05-28 17:55:26 +0000 UTCYoure not a snob.
John Blood
2024-05-28 17:54:19 +0000 UTCI have always felt like a crazy person for liking this movie. I have never agreed with most of the criticisms. Obviously, nowhere near as good as the original but I have fun with this movie.
Mark
2024-04-26 22:17:22 +0000 UTCI am very late to this ep, but I would like to offer up Australian kids classic ‘The Ferals’ for inspiration for Ben’s tv show: https://youtu.be/NSC4pZBYcsg?si=Pfiy-XDiFavfZ6Hu
Caitlin Bull
2024-04-21 14:30:33 +0000 UTCHey guys Art Evans serves a pivotal role in the plot but judging his acting I was not impressed. None of his lines landed for me.
Jake Wolfsuck
2024-03-23 02:08:05 +0000 UTCThe ending with your mom is so good. That needs to be a recurring bit.
Marty McFly Route
2024-03-19 17:39:56 +0000 UTCThank you x
Timothy M Walker
2024-03-17 20:04:29 +0000 UTCCheck out Cutthroat Island, it’s a fistful of tasty ham
caitlin taylor
2024-03-16 00:05:37 +0000 UTCPerfect
Jon Ryves
2024-03-15 13:20:18 +0000 UTCDulles is not only not a hot airport, it’s the most despised airport of the DC area. It’s deep into Virginia (by DMV standards), a hellish maze, one of the worst places on earth. They should have picked literally anywhere else.
Matt L.
2024-03-14 14:11:45 +0000 UTCSigh I’ve been in love with Griffin since the first episode I heard (honestly the only reason I listened to the podcast for a while) and I always think he can’t get more perfect and then y’all post a nice conversation with this adorable little Jew and his mother. It is cruel to present this man as so desirable 😒
Savannah
2024-03-13 06:29:42 +0000 UTCAnnoyed dad David is my very favorite version of David. “Enough 😑” 🤣🤣🤣
Savannah
2024-03-13 06:21:44 +0000 UTCScum Friend$
Tom Lowery
2024-03-13 05:45:06 +0000 UTCGriffin calling his mom needs to be a regular segment. What a delight.
Roxanne Harvey
2024-03-13 03:13:23 +0000 UTCcrazy how much griffin's mom sounds like romily.
Sean Elliott
2024-03-13 02:58:53 +0000 UTCGriffin’s mom sounds just like Romily
Jenny Potter
2024-03-13 02:47:10 +0000 UTCProbably wont get read, but griff, your mother was revelation. Absolutely delightful conversation, insightful, pleasant and unexpected. She was absolutely lovely and I can't wait for her to have a full episode. 10/10.
Joseph Johnson
2024-03-13 02:07:33 +0000 UTCDie Hard 2 makes Die Hard 3 look like Die Hard 1
Joseph Dakin
2024-03-12 23:35:50 +0000 UTCHoly Shit Scum Friends fuck yes
Erik Opland
2024-03-12 18:32:41 +0000 UTCPrison is absolutely worth seeing. It's bonkers and has a young Vigo!
Garod Wayman
2024-03-12 18:15:24 +0000 UTCA perfect conversation: “Do you remember who the villain is in die hard one?” “Who?” “Allen Rickman” “Oh, good.”
ryan mcgrath
2024-03-12 17:24:57 +0000 UTCBruce IS briefly on a plane in the first Die Hard, so Griffin’s mom technically isn’t wrong there
Charlie Kessler
2024-03-12 15:50:07 +0000 UTCAh someone, do the whole Die Hard series…although the criticism that the films become more and more like the films McTernan didn’t want to make is fair.
Jonathan cronin
2024-03-12 15:34:46 +0000 UTCWhile I don’t think Cutthroat Island is a secret masterpiece, it’s a kind of bizarre messy movie that has some cool big set pieces and some fun sequences (and some less fun ones). Gina Davis’ presences massively increases it’s watchability and she has a monkey side kick which is delightful. A fascinating obscenely expensive object that is probably fun watch with pals and pizza
Cairo Dye
2024-03-12 14:43:04 +0000 UTCGet mom on main feed now. Every time you throw a Kevin Smith episode at me I demand a Griffin’s mom chaser
Susan Hill
2024-03-12 12:03:04 +0000 UTCSpoilers but I think I would listen to a whole ASMR podcast of Griffin’s mom talking about literally anything, while Griffin types on his keyboard
Ray Goldberg
2024-03-12 05:35:12 +0000 UTCThe idea that that hasn't actually been discussed in the zillions of minutes of TC discussion on this show is kinda shocking but I think it never has
Rad Rodge
2024-03-12 04:39:43 +0000 UTCThe most enduring thing lodged in my mind from HDTGM is definitely from their Deep Blue Sea episode, it's the voice of Paul F. Tompkins brightly saying "Stellar Skateboard"
Rad Rodge
2024-03-12 04:38:02 +0000 UTCBut did he burst through the wall like kool aid man?
Bee
2024-03-12 04:33:33 +0000 UTCGriffy baby what’s your mums Letterboxd?
Michael Aslin
2024-03-12 03:53:18 +0000 UTCGriffin's mom eating on mic #heredity
Calculon IV
2024-03-12 03:43:17 +0000 UTCGriffin calling his mom at the end is an absolute delight
Stephen David Miller
2024-03-12 03:42:56 +0000 UTCI think David was *thisclose* to explaining that there was an actual racing guy named “Dick Trickle”…we missed out on some choice reactions. 😂
Joanna Patterson
2024-03-12 01:49:05 +0000 UTCYippie Kai Yay, Mr. Falcon for all my fellow Blankies who watched the edited for tv version back in the day.
Harry Russ
2024-03-12 01:21:05 +0000 UTCSome of John Moore’s choices in “A Good Day to Die Hard” are worth discussing .
“Scoop”
2024-03-12 01:06:54 +0000 UTCGriffin patiently, calmly explaining the plot of the first Die Hard. Great
DJV
2024-03-11 23:19:33 +0000 UTCGotta say LL is pretty damn good in In Too Deep
Chauncey Telese
2024-03-11 23:03:39 +0000 UTCAir Kill is a pretty good title tbf
“chris”
2024-03-11 22:37:00 +0000 UTCI won't stand for this Brain Smasher: a Love story erasure. There were 2 Dice Clay vehicles damnit.
Fred Mercado
2024-03-11 22:07:57 +0000 UTCUnrelated: does anyone else want to hear Griffin sing the “Goodbye So Soon” from The Great Mouse Detective? But, like, played back in old timey radio 📻?
Tyler Duggan
2024-03-11 21:28:46 +0000 UTCCrushing on Griffin's mom now.
Kurt Farschman
2024-03-11 21:22:49 +0000 UTCAntonia Dauphin https://images.app.goo.gl/WtecQQsxrqRnHCMU9
Kurt Farschman
2024-03-11 21:20:35 +0000 UTCCutthroat island is genuinely boring and bad.
Ralph
2024-03-11 21:18:56 +0000 UTCGreat ep but the ending is fantastic, great to have Griffin's mom on the show finally. I voted for Celine Sciamma to damnit.
Johannes Wiberg
2024-03-11 21:05:20 +0000 UTCMy son loves the Cars movies because they're movies...about cars
Scott G Sowers
2024-03-11 20:14:48 +0000 UTCThe bit at the end with griffin talking to his mom over the phone reminds me of listening to CBC’s Wiretap very lovely voice
Joon Kim
2024-03-11 19:10:20 +0000 UTCI was a little let down that you refused to talk about the movie... but oh man the end paid out. What a great lady.
Devon Wenger
2024-03-11 18:49:54 +0000 UTCI hate to correct Producer Ben, but LL Cool James actually compares his HAT to a sharks fin, not his head. It makes all the sense in the world.
Teddy K
2024-03-11 17:53:04 +0000 UTCThe conversation with Griffin's mother is superb.
Charles Muller
2024-03-11 17:46:22 +0000 UTCListening to Griffin talk to his mom is a) delightful and b) explains a lot about his personality
Begemott
2024-03-11 17:29:09 +0000 UTCHis dad was on a whole episode! Swimming to Cambodia for the Demme miniseries, it's on this very feed.
Begemott
2024-03-11 17:28:25 +0000 UTCEveryone call your mom
Pat Vamos
2024-03-11 16:57:32 +0000 UTCHow do we get Griffin’s mom before his dad on this show? Truly, though this is my favorite ending to an episode ever
Thomas Rude
2024-03-11 16:57:18 +0000 UTCI continue to prefer Live Free or Die Hard to Die Harder. Of course, they’re both a deep drop from the two McTiernans. (And they’re both well above the pathetic lump of nothing that is A Good Day to Die Hard.)
Donald W Pratt
2024-03-11 16:43:11 +0000 UTCFord Fairlane is quite sexist, and a whole bunch of other -ist, but I like to get high and laugh at it. I think it's funny, but I wouldn't defend it. Cliffhanger is easily the best of the bunch. My favorite Stallone actioner. Looks amazing, has great set pieces, a fantastic score. Cutthroat Island is not as a bad as its rep suggests. The narrative is flat, the pacing is off, there's no chemistry between the leads. But again, it looks great (looks like a fucking movie), and the action delivers. Seriously, the end-of-act-one chase is incredible. I saw this movie for the first time two years ago, and I was floored. The Long Kiss Goodnight is one of my favorites. Not perfect, but incredibly solid. Davis is incredible in it, the movie stands and falls with her. And Deep Blue Sea, hell yeah, that's big-budget creature trash, of which the 90s were full of. Remember The Relic, Anaconda, Mimic, or Deep Rising? This is my shit!
FrancescoTakesItEasy
2024-03-11 16:29:33 +0000 UTCGood ep.
Ross
2024-03-11 16:13:23 +0000 UTCIn the hospital, this episode is keeping me sane. Thanks!
Drew!
2024-03-11 16:09:09 +0000 UTCI LOVED Bump in the Night and it has one of the best theme songs for a 90s children’s show
Laura Bee
2024-03-11 16:07:04 +0000 UTCIs there a picture of Griff’s mom?
Dick Sneak
2024-03-11 15:37:12 +0000 UTCLong Kiss Goodnight is a personal guilty fav and I've always wanted an excuse to see Cutthroat Island. If no Renny Harlin series, maybe a pirate movie mini series for next year's march madness?
Daniel Jacobs
2024-03-11 13:31:25 +0000 UTCMy parents love Cutthroat Island and think it’s a lot better then Pirates of The Caribbean.
David Kirk
2024-03-11 12:52:42 +0000 UTCI mean it’s between that and Vengeance, no doubt. I’m more for the latter, but I don’t blame you for preferring 2. I also don’t hate Live Free or Die Hard (😬), but A Good Day to Die Hard is a trash can fire of a movie (not in a good way).
Pete
2024-03-11 10:28:40 +0000 UTCThey’ll never make a sixth in the series now but I would have liked to have seen As I Lay Dying Hard.
BestowalDonkey8
2024-03-11 09:50:37 +0000 UTCHayao “Disney Has Contempt for the Audience” Miyazaki
Jon Holt
2024-03-11 09:02:02 +0000 UTCGriffins phone call with his mom where she lucidly explains that she was indeed somehow a fan of Die Hard 2 while also quietly confirming he saw Jungle Book as a 1 year old was like the end of Big Fish where you realize the crazy bastard was telling the truth the whole time.
Deren Ney
2024-03-11 08:25:45 +0000 UTCTorille.
Sami Pöyry
2024-03-11 08:12:52 +0000 UTCSon of The Mask was the 'Days of Thunder' for the talking baby genre
Henry Jai
2024-03-11 07:38:26 +0000 UTCThe Bruce Willis impressions 😂😂😂
Steven Ray Morris
2024-03-11 06:59:36 +0000 UTCembarrassed that it took me this long to realise that 'Clod' was meant to be a play on 'Claude'
Henry Jai
2024-03-11 06:56:26 +0000 UTCSaying ephemeral like that forever now
Danny K
2024-03-11 05:46:58 +0000 UTCThese are nice gentleman doing the Lord's work.
Brian Boylan
2024-03-11 04:46:27 +0000 UTCThis is actually the second best Die Hard film. (fight me, but nicely lol)
Chuck Emmett
2024-03-11 04:28:22 +0000 UTCDAMN!!! I was hoping for a commentary. Lol no worries let me go watch die hard 2 now 😒😂
Ancient alien
2024-03-11 04:18:03 +0000 UTCDON’T YOU PUT THAT EVIL ON ME LIGHTNING MCQUEEN!
Fred Skull
2024-03-11 04:11:32 +0000 UTCThe prelude to the Renny Harlin series
Garod Wayman
2024-03-11 04:06:22 +0000 UTC
