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This week, on Orchestrated Looney Tunes:
Celebrate the season with the second best Christmas movie, where parking tickets are a slippery slope to fighting terrorists. Die Hard 2 confirms John McClane only fights crime on holidays, and it has everything you could possibly need: A great (constantly yelling) cast, bad guys and good guys who don’t want John McClane around, a brief one-on-one with someone named Telford, louder than normal gunshots, and a brand new game called Borrow, Steal, Kill. Do you want to see 47 shots of snowmobiles? We have great news for you. Were you hoping for some kind of grunt/whimper acting? You’re in luck. Do you miss movies edited for TBS? We’ve got you.
So grab elderly woman’s taser, head over to the skywalk annex, and get ready to party with Mister Falcon in an adventure that will blow you sky high.
Greg and Joe remember how Bruce Willis could do no wrong in their eyes back in the day, answer important questions, create new drinking games, and somehow find a weird excuse to add another Limp Bizkit song to our playlist. We don’t feel great about it.
Joe’s Back of the Box
It’s Christmas and all the McClanes want to do is enjoy the holiday with family. Unfortunately terrorists have a different idea, as they shut down the DC airport. As the snow storm bears down on the airport, John McClane (Bruce Willis) must navigate untrustworthy allies and a platoon of terrorists to save his wife’s plane as it runs out of fuel. Stack ’em, pack ’em and rack ’em in this must-see action packed sequel, Die Harder will make your heart grow three times its size in what will be an instant Christmas classic.
The REAL Back of the Box
Boy, action movies in the late 80’s and early 90’s were a different kind of masculine. The men all scream at each other. They also scream at the women. If there were children in this movie they would have been screamed at as well. This is a decent sequel to the near perfect Die Hard, if a bit humorless. Bruce Willis is in his element as the everyman hero thrust into an extreme situation. Renny Harlin amps up the action and the explosions for a 2 hour snow filled romp.