Talk:Die Hard 2

message: "Who ever keeps putting the error about the weapons please stop. Mp5's aren't gas operated. They don't need an adaptor to fire fully auto with blanks."
I beg to differ....even though an MP5 uses a rolling block mechanism, it still needs a blank adapter.  A simple google search will pull up plenty of these devices for sale. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Majorblud (talk • contribs) 11:22, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I Agree. The roller delayed locking of the MP5 and G3 is particular heavy, so you have to find a BFA in a real good condition to fire full auto with blanks. Filmmakers might use modified weapons with lighter locking mechanism and/ or partly "plugged" muzzels.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.20.3.206 (talk) 01:57, 6 July 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Blanks 

message: Okay, should the idea of this movie taking place in the '90s (based on a comment by Holly and the Simpsons episode) be under Trivia instead of Synopsis? The year alone is fine, but the ideas that back that up aren't really important to the story. I tried moving it but it was moved back by someone. Anyone care to step forward and explain why? Lemmy12 21:47, 8 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Takes Place In The '90s

message: Who ever put that John McClane's daughter's plane is going to run out of fuel is wrong. It was his wife's plane. So I changed it. 70.90.174.173 (talk) 03:33, 15 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  His daughter's plane? 

message: I have removed the following text:
"Furthermore, a potential solution to the communication problem is presented in the film itself, and yet nobody thinks to use it. At several points during the film, characters are able to use the air phones to make telephone calls between the plane and the ground; Thornburg, in fact, is able to narrate a lengthly news report using precisely this method. No explanation is offered as to why air traffic control simply don't call the air phones on the various planes in order to guide them down."
This isn't true - in the scene where Barnes and co think of using the outer marker beacon as a voice transmitter, they discuss the fact that there are only 5 planes with air phones aboard, and they could only get through to three of the aircraft to explain the situation on the ground.
fatbarry2000 (talk) 11:22, 2 February 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I am replying as part of an assignment but couldnt the idea of taking that reporters gear to be able to somehow get in contact with the air traffic base? couldnt that be part of the "potential solution to the communication problem" ?" XPatK (talk) 04:39, 11 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  'Production and Promotion' 

message: The "handy" links at the top of each Die Hard film page to other films in the series aren't necessary. They should be listed under "see also" at the bottom of the page. 
Please examine protocol for other film series. No other major film series is set up this way (Alien, Lethal Weapon, etc). What if the franchise went on for 10 or 12 installments? Would it be rational to take up space with links to all the other titles in this manner? 
I'm not going to get into a revert war over something so ludicrous, so whoever's insisting these links show up for the uninformed public's use can leave them there for all I care.PacificBoy 07:12, 22 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Links to other films in series 

message: Is this the right Don Harvey listed? The Wiki link is to Don Harvey that died in 1963, 27 years before Die Hard 2 came out. Norum (talk) 21:03, 21 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Don Harvey 

message: Per WP:NOT#PLOT, plot detail needs to be kept down and summarized, necessitating the removal of unimportant details.  I believe a paragraph devoted to this is unimportant detail, except for the one line, since it explains why the people at Dulles are panicked.  But that is the only effect on the plot and it can be summarized in one sentence. hbdragon88 (talk) 04:53, 4 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Thornberg report 

message: Hasn't anyone noticed that this movie is an action movie where McClane is playing out the Iran-Contra affair in a fictional aftermath? PokeHomsar (talk) 01:16, 25 September 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Have any reliable sources stated this? If not, it is inappropriate for inconclusion regardless of whether it's true. Doniago (talk) 13:19, 27 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Iran-Contra 

message: Just for clarification as I know John's character is a NYPD detective and not LAPD.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.190.2.153 (talk) 00:21, 17 October 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: It's inconsistent in the series. In the first movie he's stated to be an NYPD detective and in the second film they refer several times to his "Los Angeles badge."--76.27.236.13 (talk) 10:54, 20 January 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't believe that's inconsistent; I believe we're supposed to assume that after the events of the first film John moved to LA, but by the events of the third film he's living in NYC again. Could be wrong though, I'm not an expert on the series. Doniago (talk) 13:32, 20 January 2011 (UTC)

text: This is correct. In the opening scene of the film, McClane shows the airport police his LAPD badge, stating he moved to Los Angeles because his wife Holly got a job there. The third film in the series, "Die Hard With a Vengeance" (1995), whether for creative, logistical or financial reasons, is set in New York. So that (arguably minor) plot point of his transfer to LA is completely ignored - indeed, McClane actually states that their marriage suffered due to Holly working in LA and he still being a cop in New York.   — Preceding unsigned comment added by Huffy1968 (talk • contribs) 03:14, 20 November 2020 (UTC)

text: There were other errors in this movie, in contrast to the first part which was produced in a more convincing way. They even took the liberty to portray the TV Reporters as dumb (mislocating Helsinki to Sweden). In the second part McLane states the Glock pistol, he took from the first terrorist in the luggage department to be made in Germany (Austria was correct). Later he complained about the crime scene not being sealed of from public, while the luggage department, where he surprized the first two terrorists actually was a sealed area. Strangely enough nobody was really intersted, what those two were actually doing in the luggage department, maybe they were setting up a bomb. Also, the airport control tower seems to be accessible by anyone, even the caracters in this movie considdered that weird. And finally after witnessing a red alert situation in the tower, which might cause a major panic (as the flight director feared). So the two witnesses are thrown out of the tower back into the crowd so they can tell everybody about the red alert instead of isolating them (e.g. holding them for questioning). Tho whole plot of blackmailing the airport has a great weakness. What if the flight director just calls over to Langley or to the FBI, the State Trooper, the Texas Rangers, the Army, Navy, Marines, the national Boyscouts or all of them. At least any terrorist/mercenary should know, that letting a plane actually crash will cause a chase on them after which they are surely no rich mercenarys but most likely very dead ones. This overkill threat only works out, if the evil can keep the hand on the trigger until he got away or if the evil does not want to surwive at all.--77.20.3.206 (talk) 03:39, 6 July 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  LAPD or NYPD? 

message: Saying without source that a murdering terrorist is "clearly based" upon a living individual never connected to such acts is a textbook BLP violation, so I have deleted the claim.205.206.130.93 (talk) 14:07, 6 March 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: [[WP: BLP]] violation removed

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message: Is there a reason for that? Jim Michael (talk) 00:33, 20 March 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Released in July; set in December 

message: John McClane says to Lorenzo that Glocks are made in Germany but Glocks are Austrian.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.161.8.90 (talk) 00:24, 6 March 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Error