“Call a SPADE, a SPADE; and a TRANNY, a TRANNY, or an IT!!!”.
"THAT'S SOME BAD
SHIT
,
HARRY
!".

I can't believe all the love for this movie
This is the only place you'll find enthusiasm for it. Go on the Film General board on here and praise this movie over, say, the other die hard sequels, and you'll get a load of butt hurt nerds up in arms telling you how bad this sequel is (even though it's the only die hard sequel that matches the look and tone of the original).
The Die Hard 2 board is rightly a sanctuary for praise of this unique action movie.
There's only one man who'd DARE give me the raspberry

Fair enough, but you have to at least admit it is riddled with bad writing right?

All the love? Maybe or maybe not on this board, but outside this board sadly and unfortunately there's a lot more hate than love. This IS the best of the Die Hards, and I do LOVE IT!
I'll let you know when I come-up with a new signature,
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I can't believe all the love for this movie. I admit I enjoy it as an action movie, but it is littered with problems and a ton of plot holes. I would have preferred this movie be a standalone action movie as opposed to being a sequel to Die Hard. The sequel should have been Die Hard: With A Vengeance seeing as how they directly tie in with each other.

There is police bias in this one though. The head of the airport police refused to have his men fingerprint the guy who died and insisted that he and the other guy McClaine fought/killed were just punks stealing luggage. Also the cop at the beginning (who happens' to be the chief's brother) is also a complete jerk who hates anyone who isn't from around where he lives.
Green Goblin is great!

4 (Live Free or Die Hard) is actually a good watchbetter than the 3rd movie IMO. Don't waste your time with 5.

!!!!
I agree with all those who prefer this over the original and this is way-better than the crap snooze-fest of
Die Hard with a Vengeance
!! I have never seen four or five and have no plans to
Truly, one of the BEST action-flicks of ALL-TIME.
Well, most people are idiots with bad tasteso there!

“Call a SPADE, a SPADE; and a TRANNY, a TRANNY, or an IT!!!”.
"THAT'S SOME BAD
SHIT
,
HARRY
!".

While the original is great, I prefer Die Hard 2 as well.
Wait a minute who am I here?

Easily the best EDITED Die Hard, and I'd have to say the best edited movie I've seen. The voiceovers are great and make the movie a real gutbuster. Yippee Ki Yay has to be the best edited line ever.

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That's a great summary.
Also Renny Harlin was actually way better than McTiernan in orchestrating the action. I remember being blown away by the way DH2 was shot, it felt like something new and yet when I look at it now - it still has that classic look, just innovated. Die Hard looked good, but Die Hard 2 was a fu*king balls-to-the-wall SPECTACLE. In my opinion it was the peak of the 80s/90s action cinema, it went downhill from then and ended probably with Cliffhanger. Later you had Die Hard 3 with the shaky cam and Michael Bay with his chaotic editing and it just wasn't the same.

! It's my FAVORITE action-flick of ALL-TIME!!!
“Call a SPADE, a SPADE; and a TRANNY, a TRANNY, or an IT!!!”.
"THAT'S SOME BAD
SHIT
,
HARRY
!".

Thanks, man. Die Hard 2 is a passion. A movie for the true action fanatics. It's got everything and more.
The cheese is old and moldy. Where is the bathroom?

that is the most precise explanation of die hard 2's superiority to the original you will ever read
bravo winnebago!

I prefer it to the original for a few reasons

• The villains look more convincing in DH2. The guys in the original were kinda ragtag and too eurotrash for me but Colonel Stuart, General Esperanza and Major Grant were all great villains played by great actors. The rest of the ex-special ops gang were really cool and stylish as well. That scene where they emerge from their hotel rooms in clockwork precision nails their bad assness. You
  do not
  want to f-k with these guys.
• The major airport setting is more interesting & original than a skyscraper. A few films had been set in a high rise, namely Towering Inferno, but an action movie set solely in an airport had never been seen before. The amount of cool action scenes you can get just makes it awesome. The runways, skywalks, terminals, hangers, ejector seats, tunnels, tower, wings, cockpits - everything aviation themed gets in on the action and it's great.
• The script, penned by the same writer as the first Die Hard as well as Commando and Running Man, is full of great lines like:
  "Hey Lorenzo! What sets off the metal detectors first? The lead in your ass or the beep in your brains?"
  "Stack em, pack em and rack em"
  "the line starts at the Mississippi and they better start taking numbers"
  "Who I am is unimportant. What I wantwell if you don't want those planes to start splashing into the Potomac cause they run out of fuel, what I want is very important."
• Bruce Willis is in peak physical condition and pulls off all the action scenes better than any other of his movies.
• Holly looks way better in this
• Better ending. Die Hard 2's conclusion with the 747 beats Die Hard's every day of the week (which has a weak ending). Jumping down onto the wing of a moving 747 from a chopper, then having a punch up with the bad guys on said wing (knocking one goon into the engine in the process) and then McLane getting kicked off but still having time to ignite the fuel trail with a zippo while the flame shoots down the runway after the plane and blows it to kingdom come just as it takes off - arguably the most spectacular & original scene in the action genre.
  I am Djour Djilios. could you spell that please? I don't think so. Try it with a "D".

While I like Die Hard 2, I felt that it was a bit too rushed. The acting wasn't as good and neither was the writing.