Die Hard Movie Details
Die Hard taglines:It will blow you through the back wall of the theater!
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| Directors: John McTiernan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| IMDB Rating: 8.3/10 out of 164,371 votes |
“Die Hard” 1988 by John McTiernan – Movie Goofs
“Die Hard” Plot Summary
New York cop John McClane gives terrorists a dose of their own medicine as they hold hostages in an LA office building.
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“Die Hard” Goofs List
- Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): When the SWAT team is trying to break into the front door of the tower they first try picking the lock to no avail. Then we see a SWAT team member carrying a metal cutting torch attempting to cut through the lock. The SWAT team would have just broken the glass to get in and not waste time using a metal cutting torch to cut the door lock. The glass is obviously breakable as shown in the same scene when the terrorists fire upon the SWAT team.
- Continuity: There is clearly no ambulance in the truck when the terrorists first arrive, but Theo drives an ambulance out of the truck near the end of the movie (error acknowledged by moviemakers).
- Continuity: The bloody wound on officer Al’s head disappears completely, shortly after the terrorist shoots at his police car.
- Continuity: SPOILER: In the battle scene with the police, Alexander’s first shot with the anti-tank gun breaks the glass. However, the second shot also breaks the same pane of glass.
- Continuity: SPOILER: Several times over the course of the film, it is demonstrated that the windows of the Nakatomi building all contain safety glass – glass that is coated with a polymer that: A) like the windshield of an automobile, will break into tiny fragments or rounded beads, and B) will remain a continuous sheet due to its special coating, even though the glass within is shattered. Near the end of the movie when Hans is shot, however, the window he breaks and falls through, unlike all the other previous windows, shatters as a normal untreated pane would do – breaking into large dangerous shards instead of the normal safety glass fragments.
- Revealing mistakes: The eyes of the dead terrorist in the elevator close just before Gruber touches his face.
- Continuity: The Christmas tree on the table that Karl hides behind is lying down before it gets knocked over by McClane later.
- Continuity: The first and second rocket attacks both blow out the same window on the APC.
- Continuity: McClane swings through the window on the hose and lands on his back. In the next shot, he’s on his chest.
- Continuity: In the first close up where Hans is hanging from Holly’s wrist, there is blood on Holly’s face from John’s arm. In the second close up this blood is missing.
- Revealing mistakes: Obvious stunt double for McClane (missing a tattoo on the shoulder) during the fight with Karl.
- Revealing mistakes: Obvious stunt double for John McClane during the fight with Tony.
- Incorrectly regarded as goofs: John’s vest is white when he enters the vent system and brown when he exits. It got dirty. This is actually a part of a deleted scene where McClane opens up a vent in the duct, where it was dusty and dirty.
- Continuity: When McClane is having a gun fight on the roof of the building he slides down a slide with his machine gun in the right hand; the next shot he has the gun in the left hand.
- Revealing mistakes: Squibs are visible on the metal door that McClane goes through when Karl shoots at him during their final fight.
- Continuity: Early in the film, shortly after the terrorists have launched their assault, McClane glances out a window and sees a woman in the building across the street. However, previous and subsequent long shots of the building he’s in show that there are no other buildings close by.
- Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): On the ambulance used for the escape near the end, “Department” in “Fire Department” is misspelled “Deparment”. But, it isn’t a real ambulance, and furthermore, it was painted by people who don’t speak English.
- Continuity: When McClane goes to the roof to get the hostages off, he is not wearing his undershirt, but in the view from the helicopter when he is firing into the air, you can see him wearing a white undershirt.
- Factual errors: Several times during transmissions with the two-way radios, characters interrupt each other, which would be impossible given the type of radios they were using.
- Revealing mistakes: When jumping off the roof at Nakatomi Plaza just before it explodes, you can clearly see John McClane’s “rubber shoes” that were used to protect his feet. While the people are being held hostage, he is supposed to be barefoot. His support wire is also visible in addition to the fire hose.
- Boom mic visible: Just after we are first introduced to Johnson and Johnson, Hans is seen walking on the top floor in, looking up and shining his flashlight. In the Forward Tracking Shot, just before he climbs the wall, the shadow of the boom mic is visible just above his shadow on the far right of the screen in the widescreen version of the film.
- Continuity: Al’s patrol car has had the spotlights removed, but in the overhead shot of Marco’s body crashing through the windscreen, there are dual spotlights visible.
- Continuity: Holly’s maiden name is Gennero. This is misspelled in the credits as “Gennaro”, and also on the Nakatomi computer that McClane uses at the start of the film. Furthermore, when he hits the touch screen button with her name, it suddenly changes from “Gennaro” to the correct “Gennero”.
- Continuity: Trim on the rear doors of Al’s patrol car disappears and changes style.
- Continuity: John’s tank top changes from white to gray in various scenes.
- Continuity: When John is first hanging from the hose from the roof, he ends up right next to a band of stone between floors, in the next shot he is directly in front of a window.
- Continuity: When Karl steps out of the elevator after Hans and John’s conversation, he appears on the right, then left, then right side of the hall.
- Continuity: In the fight between John and Karl, John jumps onto Karl’s back and knocks him onto his stomach on the rolling cart. In the next shot, however, Karl is lying on his back.
- Continuity: When Karl’s brother comes to apprehend John, we see a close-up of his weapon when he flicks the light switch. The charging handle is forward (the bolt is closed). In the next shot, however, it’s back, and the bolt is open. We later see him slap the handle forward.
- Crew or equipment visible: Near the end of the movie, when McClane walks through the large hall (where the hostages had been held captive earlier), you can see a shadow of someone behind the Christmas tree just after the tree falls.
- Revealing mistakes: Right after John states his name as John and is told to hold tight, the drill on the safe is restarted and the sparks start coming out before the drill starts moving. Also the sound of the drill is at a way higher RPM than the drill itself is moving once it does start moving.
- Crew or equipment visible: In the shots that we see of John McClane when he asks the hostages where his wife has been taken to by the terrorists, you can see the pyrotechnic charges taped to the roof that are about to be used. When the helicopter swings overhead and a soldier uses his machine gun, you can see the charges detonating and the fact that they are charges being used to simulate M-60 bullets hitting the roof.
- Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): After the terrorists blow the roof up, and the hostages are running down the stairs, one of the hostages gets hit in the head with a softball-sized rock and it doesn’t faze him.
- Audio/visual unsynchronized: When John is first chased by a terrorist, up on the floor still under construction, he turns on and off a radial arm saw. The very distinct sound of the blade running against either a kerf in the fence or a kerf in the table can be heard. However, when the terrorist finds the saw, it can be clearly seen that the blade is running free.
- Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): When Hans reads “Now I have a machine gun, ho…ho…ho,” and then rolls the dead guys head, you see him blink.
- Audio/visual unsynchronized: When the swat team is trying to enter the building and they fail to pick the lock, a swat team member clearly lights a cutting torch to burn the lock. A few scenes later you can clearly hear a grinding sound indicating a drill or grinder is being used to try to break the lock.
- Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): When Theo updates Hans on the police activity, he reports that “the four assholes [are] coming in the rear in standard two-by-two cover formation.” The SWAT team members are not in ‘2×2 cover’, they’re all running together single file (more or less).
- Audio/visual unsynchronized: When Argyle first learns of the Nakatomi take
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