No Right Answer: Lethal Weapon Vs. Die Hard

[Saltyk]

No matter who won, we all won. Both of these were great action movies. The sequels... the originals were great!

Best argument of all was that Lethal Weapon has become real.

The debate is stupid. I consider all debates of this kind silly to be honest. They have to both rank very very extremely high in my favourite action movie lists and so I see no reason to have a favourite.

You do realize half the point of these is to be funny. You're not actually supposed to take them seriously.

 

[vxicepickxv]

Why did Chris get a point for "Gary Busey is officially to old for this shit"? That doesn't even mean anything!

Seriously, why does Chris ALWAYS win?

Today he won so Dan wouldn't have to sacrifice himself to Gary Busey.

 

[warfjm]

Die Hard. You can beat Sgt. Al Powell, AKA Carl Winslow from "Family Matters." The real actor's name is Reginald VelJohnson in case you were wondering. In Die Hard 1 & 2.

 

[the saint83]

I love both movies but Die hard is the better movie and you have to give credit to a movie that changed the way the action hero works. Before this the standard was the scharzenegger/stallone type hero who could murder an army without getting a scratch. If you look at John Mcclane how he looks at the start at the movie and how he ends up. He's pimp shirt goes from white to greenish over the course of this movie.I watch this movie every Christmas.

Die Hard and Die hard 3 is actually one of the few movies where i cheer for the villian just because of the brilliance of their scheme, especially Die Hard 3.

 

[Aureliano]

I haven't actually seen Lethal Weapon so I can't comment on whether or not it should have won, although I love the hell out of Die Hard.

What I can comment on however is the following: the term is 'Actoire'. 'Bee meuvie actoire' if we're being technical.

 

[Harbinger_]

Die Hard has alot more merit as iconic action films go than the Lethal Weapon series and you didn't really argue the fact that Die Hard has better villains, you just mentioned that Gary Busey is crazy. (Which is like saying water is wet.) Plus if you had to compare villain to villain through each movie. (1 to 1 2 to 2 3 to 3, etc.) Die Hard's villains are much more malicious and extreme in their goals.

 

[Headdrivehardscrew]

One word: Yippee ki-yay, melon farmer!

Die Hard mixed the smooth beginning (take off your shoes! make fists with your toes!) with good humour and lots of action, most of it being violence against greedy and evil criminal folks. If that's not good, clean fun, I don't know what is.

Lethal Weapon had great scenes and onion-munching, shoulder-dislocating freak Mel Gibson was a big asset in its appeal... but Die Hard was just perfect - and still is!

 

[])rStrangelove]

Die hard ftw i say.

I love movies that throw you into a harsh situation which gets worse as time passes, just like RealLife[tm] does. Rest of the movie just shows how a guy tries to deal with it so nobody gets hurt and the bad guys dont win.

 

[pearcinator]

Not even gonna watch the video cos Die Hard is the best action movie ever made!

 

[qwagor]

Foul play! Chris proposes the topic and then goes on to select Lethal Weapon knowing that Kyle would be happy to defend superior action flick... but he did some thinking beforehand, the sly bastard, coming up with devious arguments involving actors real life personalities. Well done mister Pranger, well done.

 

[Ubermetalhed]

How did Lethal Weapon win?

The movies are awfully forgetable and stuck in the era in which they were made where as the Diehard films even the not so good ones are still memorable and great to watch.

It's always an 'oh awesome Die Hard is on' reaction to seeing it on tv. Lethal weapon is a 'meh, maybe if I have nothing else to watch'.

Definitely a dumb result. The kyle guy needs to try harder and points need to be given for good points not just after someone finishes a sentence.

 

[DTWolfwood]

When you listed "Gary Busey may actually try to kill you in real life, Mel Gibson really did go crazy, and Danny Glover is now officially too old for this Shit" I agreed 100% with Dan for giving you a point for each of those very valid points!

Also hell'a funny XD

 

[RobCoxxy]

Die Hard is the right answer though.
And I love Lethal Weapon.

 

[KindlySpastic]

Lethal Weapon wins easily.

Mel Gibson chokes a guy to death with his feet while hanging from the ceiling by his arms. Enough said I think.

 

[Coop83]

This is why every Xmas, I dig out the boxed sets for Lethal Weapon and Die Hard - both are suited for Cmas, being originally set at that time of year and what could be better than some mayhem, involving blood all over the snow?

The reason I'd give it to Die Hard over Lethal Weapon - Bruce Willis is one star of the films on his own. Lethal Weapon would have been shit with just Mel Gibson or Danny Glover. After Mad Max set him up, Mel Gibson was made with the Lethal Weapon series and he blew it on that Passion of the Christ turd and his anti-Semitic rants. I don't want to tempt providence, by suggesting that Bruce Willis can do no wrong, but I've not heard that he wants to get into the director's chair.

With John McClane, any day is "A Good Day to Die Hard". I can't see any more Lethal Weapon movies coming, because:
a) Danny Glover is too old for this shit (65)
b) Mel Gibson pissed off the Jews
c) Rene Russo is too old for this shit (57)
d) Everyone seems to have moved on.

I don't put my head in my hands that Die Hard is coming back - I rejoice. If Lethal Weapon came back, I think I'd cry, because it would be a sad end to a series that can only progress by digging up the dead horse, flogging it, to try and milk some cash out of it and then burying it again after a lavish ceremony. They had their happy ever after.

Die hard, by a whisker.

 

[ForrestDeath]

John McClain Killed a Helicopter with a car.

Also Beat the theme song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTyw6cq86kY

 

[ZPowers]

I couldn't have asked for a better intro.

Now that I thinkg about it, having Alan Rickman as a second dad would be awesome. Also, I didn't know he was Jafar.

That's because he wasn't Jafar. Jonathan Freeman was Jafar.

Jeremy Irons of Die Hard 3 did play Scar in the Lion King, however.

 

[RTR]

I couldn't have asked for a better intro.

Now that I thinkg about it, having Alan Rickman as a second dad would be awesome. Also, I didn't know he was Jafar.

That's because he wasn't Jafar. Jonathan Freeman was Jafar.

Jeremy Irons of Die Hard 3 did play Scar in the Lion King, however.

As a matter of fact, I did know about Jeremy Irons. Thanks

 

[personion]

It's not that kyle isn't a good debater, it's that he's not as funny. Or, that the scoring system is sort of stupid. Dan got 3 points and he didn't even make a point. All you need to do is interrupt and talk the most and you'll get a bunch of points, they need a better system.

 

[Dreiko_v1legacy]

Anyone here play that ancient Diehard trilogy game for the PS1? It was one of my first games and I loved it. It had split the movies into 3 games, one was a time crisis style shootng game, the other was a driving game and the last one was a 3rd person shooter where you climbed a tower....ah...so much fun I had with that thing.