Author Topic: Quiz Hard (Read 5012 times)

Limey · « **on:** July 16, 2013, 10:02:03 am »

...not.

Here's a silly time-waster: 20 questions about the Die Hard franchise. I scored 19 out of 20, and it turns out that I'd fat-fingered the one I missed.

MusicMan · « **Reply #1 on:** July 16, 2013, 10:07:22 am »

19/20, missed the daughter's name. And there were entirely too many questions about 4.0, which is the Crystal Skull of the franchise.

Limey · « **Reply #2 on:** July 16, 2013, 10:16:49 am »

Quote from: MusicMan on July 16, 2013, 10:07:22 am

19/20, missed the daughter's name. And there were entirely too many questions about 4.0, which is the Crystal Skull of the franchise.

I thought they might hit on DH2 more, which is the Phantom Menace of the franchise (awful and totally dispensable), to catch people out.

FWIW, the only really notable/memorable thing about AGDTDH was this.

NeilT · « **Reply #3 on:** July 16, 2013, 10:21:13 am »

I missed 4. There was never a better Christmas movie than Die Hard I.

HudsonHawk · « **Reply #4 on:** July 16, 2013, 10:30:36 am »

16 out of 20 and I never saw Die Hard 2 or Die Hard With A Vengeance.

chuck · « **Reply #5 on:** July 16, 2013, 10:34:33 am »

Quote from: HudsonHawk on July 16, 2013, 10:30:36 am

16 out of 20 and I never saw Die Hard 2 or Die Hard With A Vengeance.

I scored 9 out of 20 and I haven't seen any of them.

subnuclear · « **Reply #6 on:** July 16, 2013, 10:38:52 am »

11 out of 20 and I only saw the first one when it was in the movie theaters.

Ron Brand · « **Reply #7 on:** July 16, 2013, 10:39:47 am »

Quote from: chuck on July 16, 2013, 10:34:33 am

I scored 9 out of 20 and I haven't seen any of them.

I never saw any of them until the first one was on tv last year and for some reason I sat there and watched it. I thought it was a pretty middle of the pack 80s flick. I don't get the attraction.

MusicMan · « **Reply #8 on:** July 16, 2013, 10:46:39 am »

Quote from: Ron Brand on July 16, 2013, 10:39:47 am

I never saw any of them until the first one was on tv last year and for some reason I sat there and watched it. I thought it was a pretty middle of the pack 80s flick. I don't get the attraction.

Are you now, or have you ever been, a member of the Communist Party?

JimR · « **Reply #9 on:** July 16, 2013, 10:47:34 am »

Quote from: MusicMan on July 16, 2013, 10:46:39 am

Are you now, or have you ever been, a member of the Communist Party?

he has. I hold the proof in my hand.

MusicMan · « **Reply #10 on:** July 16, 2013, 10:53:28 am »

Quote from: JimR on July 16, 2013, 10:47:34 am

he has. I hold the proof in my hand.

Even now - have you no decency, sir?

NeilT · « **Reply #11 on:** July 16, 2013, 10:53:43 am »

Quote from: Ron Brand on July 16, 2013, 10:39:47 am

I never saw any of them until the first one was on tv last year and for some reason I sat there and watched it. I thought it was a pretty middle of the pack 80s flick. I don't get the attraction.

Alan Rickman. Rickman is just spectacularly evil.

Limey · « **Reply #12 on:** July 16, 2013, 10:55:32 am »

Quote from: HudsonHawk on July 16, 2013, 10:30:36 am

16 out of 20 and I never saw Die Hard 2 or Die Hard With A Vengeance.

Vengeance is fun - if for no other reason than you'll enjoy trying to figure out the missed step in the water jug puzzle. Don't bother with 2 - it's a remake of 1 without the charm.

Machete Order for Die Hard = 1, 3, 4 and, if you feel like it, 5.

MusicMan · « **Reply #13 on:** July 16, 2013, 10:58:29 am »

There's no reason to watch anything but 1 and 3.

Limey · « **Reply #14 on:** July 16, 2013, 10:58:37 am »

Quote from: Ron Brand on July 16, 2013, 10:39:47 am

I never saw any of them until the first one was on tv last year and for some reason I sat there and watched it. I thought it was a pretty middle of the pack 80s flick. I don't get the attraction.

Outside of ~~John Cusak movies~~ the teen angst genre, this is perhaps the 80's movie...IMHO.

MusicMan · « **Reply #15 on:** July 16, 2013, 10:59:44 am »

Quote from: Limey on July 16, 2013, 10:58:37 am

Outside of ~~John Cusak movies~~ the teen angst genre, this is perhaps the 80's movie...IMHO.

Well, I'd actually put Top Gun in that slot.

Limey · « **Reply #16 on:** July 16, 2013, 10:59:58 am »

Quote from: MusicMan on July 16, 2013, 10:58:29 am

There's no reason to watch anything but 1 and 3.

I enjoyed 4, and have watched it a couple of times.

Limey · « **Reply #17 on:** July 16, 2013, 11:00:45 am »

Quote from: MusicMan on July 16, 2013, 10:59:44 am

Well, I'd actually put Top Gun in that slot.

I fucking knew that someone was going to trump me...

Well played, sir. Well played.

subnuclear · « **Reply #18 on:** July 16, 2013, 11:06:16 am »

Quote from: Limey on July 16, 2013, 10:58:37 am

Outside of ~~John Cusak movies~~ the teen angst genre, this is perhaps the 80's movie...IMHO.

There is a weird split in movies about 1985 or so.

Pre-1985 action movies : Empire Strikes Back, Star Trek II, Back to the Future, Raiders of the Lost Ark
Post-1985 action movies : Die Hard, Lethal Weapon, Predator

MusicMan · « **Reply #19 on:** July 16, 2013, 11:09:22 am »

Die Hard redefined the action genre.

Empire and Raiders are THE perfect adventure movies.

And I have no idea why you're calling BTTF an action movie.

NeilT · « **Reply #20 on:** July 16, 2013, 11:15:51 am »

Quote from: MusicMan on July 16, 2013, 11:09:22 am

And I have no idea why you're calling BTTF an action movie.

Because it had a DeLorean that reached 88 mph.

MusicMan · « **Reply #21 on:** July 16, 2013, 11:16:16 am »

Quote from: NeilT on July 16, 2013, 11:15:51 am

Because it had a DeLorean that reached 88 mph.

That's some serious shit, but not exactly action.

Limey · « **Reply #22 on:** July 16, 2013, 11:17:21 am »

Quote from: subnuclear on July 16, 2013, 11:06:16 am

Pre-1985 action movies : Empire Strikes Back, Star Trek II, Back to the Future, Raiders of the Lost Ark
Post-1985 action movies : Die Hard, Lethal Weapon, Predator

Fuck! Lethal Weapon.

I must remember to engage my memory before making sweeping statements.

Limey · « **Reply #23 on:** July 16, 2013, 11:21:06 am »

Quote from: NeilT on July 16, 2013, 11:15:51 am

Because it had a DeLorean that reached 88 mph.

FWIW, in the UK, getting a car up to 88mph was deemed a laughably slow threshold.

Sometime during the 80s, I got my 1974 Triumph Spitfire up to 105mph. Well, I think I did. My eyeballs were rattling so much in their sockets it was hard to read the speedo.

geezerdonk · « **Reply #24 on:** July 16, 2013, 11:25:10 am »

Raging Bull, The Shining, This is Spinal Tap and Raising Arizona were pretty good.

Ebby Calvin · « **Reply #25 on:** July 16, 2013, 11:36:09 am »

Howard the Duck helped me through many a hard time in the 80s.

NeilT · « **Reply #26 on:** July 16, 2013, 11:41:05 am »

The top speed of a US DeLorean was 86. It only had 130 horsepower under all that stainless steel. It did 0-60 in a blistering 10+ seconds.

I'd just point out that Bull Durham was the best movie made in the 80s, other than Henry V and Ran.

GreatBagwellsBeard · « **Reply #27 on:** July 16, 2013, 11:45:29 am »

Quote from: Ebby Calvin on July 16, 2013, 11:36:09 am

~~Howard the Duck~~ Lea Thompson helped me through many a hard time in the 80s.

FIFY

MusicMan · « **Reply #28 on:** July 16, 2013, 11:49:15 am »

Quote from: GreatBagwellsBeard on July 16, 2013, 11:45:29 am

FIFY

Much better.

subnuclear · « **Reply #29 on:** July 16, 2013, 12:02:07 pm »

Quote from: MusicMan on July 16, 2013, 11:09:22 am

And I have no idea why you're calling BTTF an action movie.

Do you need guns for it to be an action movie? Maybe. Its been a while since I've seen that, too.

Ron Brand · « **Reply #30 on:** July 16, 2013, 01:20:52 pm »

Quote from: Limey on July 16, 2013, 10:58:37 am

Outside of ~~John Cusak movies~~ the teen angst genre, this is perhaps the 80's movie...IMHO.

Quote from: MusicMan on July 16, 2013, 10:59:44 am

Well, I'd actually put Top Gun in that slot.

Quote from: MusicMan on July 16, 2013, 11:09:22 am

Die Hard redefined the action genre.

Really? What the FUCK? Even leaving out what has been mentioned before:

Action Movies - Full Metal Jacket, Blade Runner, The Terminator, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, Platoon, Escape from New York, hell - even Highlander and They Live are better movies. I don't see how Die Hard redefined the genre at all other than selling tickets.

And as for the 80's movie, what about Ferris Bueller's Day Off, The Princess Bride, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Fatal Attraction, Do the Right Thing, Color of Money, A Christmas Story...

This is why I'm a poor barometer. There's scads of hugely successful movies that I haven't seen, have walked out on or will never see. I just don't get it.

Limey · « **Reply #31 on:** July 16, 2013, 01:38:07 pm »

Quote from: GreatBagwellsBeard on July 16, 2013, 11:45:29 am

Lea Thompson ~~helped~~ gave me ~~through~~ many a hard time in the 80s.

FIFY

Bench · « **Reply #32 on:** July 16, 2013, 03:12:13 pm »

Quote from: Limey on July 16, 2013, 10:55:32 am

Vengeance is fun - if for no other reason than you'll enjoy trying to figure out the missed step in the water jug puzzle. Don't bother with 2 - it's a remake of 1 without the charm.

Machete Order for Die Hard = 1, 3, 4 and, if you feel like it, 5.

The fifth one wasn't in the quiz, which is how I got 20/20 as I haven't seen the most recent one.

Limey · « **Reply #33 on:** July 16, 2013, 03:45:02 pm »

Quote from: NeilT on July 16, 2013, 11:41:05 am

The top speed of a US DeLorean was 86. It only had 130 horsepower under all that stainless steel. It did 0-60 in a blistering 10+ seconds.

I never knew that the performance was so shitty. Also, from Wikipedia, I found out that there's a guy in Humble who owns all the rights to the DeLorean Motor Company, and is making new ones from a combination of original and re-manufactured parts. No mention of if they go any faster and/or if any have survived their first merge onto 59.

T. J. · « **Reply #34 on:** July 16, 2013, 03:47:32 pm »

Quote from: Ron Brand on July 16, 2013, 01:20:52 pm

And as for the 80's movie... Fast Times at Ridgemont High...

Phoebe Cates is 50 today. 50.

NeilT · « **Reply #35 on:** July 16, 2013, 04:21:52 pm »

Quote from: T. J. on July 16, 2013, 03:47:32 pm

Phoebe Cates is 50 today. 50.

Damn, you Abbie Hoffman or Jack Weinberg or something? She gonna turn into a pumpkin at midnight?

MusicMan · « **Reply #36 on:** July 16, 2013, 04:27:10 pm »

Quote from: T. J. on July 16, 2013, 03:47:32 pm

Phoebe Cates is 50 today. 50.

Doesn't Father Time knock any more???

PCOL2000 · « **Reply #37 on:** July 16, 2013, 05:04:40 pm »

15/20 i guess something about walter peck is ok. i watched howard the duck at work a while back and it wasnt nearly as good as i remember it being when i was twelve or so. but whats her ass was still pretty hot. had to be her in her panties that did it for me. i was a kid, i was pretty much balls on legs

austro · « **Reply #38 on:** July 16, 2013, 06:15:19 pm »

Quote from: T. J. on July 16, 2013, 03:47:32 pm

Phoebe Cates is 50 today. 50.

This does not make me feel better.

chuck · « **Reply #39 on:** July 16, 2013, 07:24:21 pm »

I had a roommate in college whose father was (and still is, as far as I know) married to John DeLorean's ex-wife, his wife at the time of the trial. That's pretty much all I have to add here.

Although my two favorite 80's movies are Roger and Me and Sherman's March.

Ebby Calvin · « **Reply #40 on:** July 16, 2013, 09:29:37 pm »

Quote from: chuck on July 16, 2013, 07:24:21 pm

Although my two favorite 80's movies are Roger and Me and Sherman's March.

Roger and Me was the one with Bobcat Goldthwait, right?

drew corleone · « **Reply #41 on:** July 17, 2013, 12:02:11 am »

Hope this doesn't make me the Phillip Humber of life, but... perfect.

Limey · « **Reply #42 on:** July 17, 2013, 09:33:19 am »

Quote from: chuck on July 16, 2013, 07:24:21 pm

I had a roommate in college whose father was (and still is, as far as I know) married to John DeLorean's ex-wife, his wife at the time of the trial. That's pretty much all I have to add here.

Cristina Ferrare. Google away.

Bench · « **Reply #43 on:** July 17, 2013, 10:01:27 am »

Quote from: Ebby Calvin on July 16, 2013, 09:29:37 pm

Roger and Me was the one with Bobcat Goldthwait, right?

He has an underrated oeuvre. Hot to Trot and Shakes the Clown were both comedic masterpieces. And how he didn't get nominated for a best supporting Oscar for his work on the Police Academy series, I'll never know. Twelve year old me was a big fan.

94CougarGrad · « **Reply #44 on:** August 02, 2013, 08:15:19 am »

Quote from: JimR on July 16, 2013, 10:47:34 am

he has. I hold the proof in my hand.

Foul! Have you no respect for lawyer-client confidentiality?!?