Probably Unanswerable Questions
McClane's fame; a Netflix series; Christmas-movie status; recreational taser origin; post-crash calm; the towed car; alternative McClanes
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- Earmarked as an unanswerable question: whether McClane would have become famous after Nakatomi in the pre-internet era, with talk shows, Saturday Night Live cameos and commercials.
- Could it be remade as a 10-episode Netflix show is raised as a probable unanswerable question.
- Is Die Hard 2 a Christmas movie: one view holds that neither Die Hard nor Home Alone is a Christmas movie and neither is this sequel.
- The opposing view insists it is, since it captures holiday travel anxiety and ends with a Christmas song; the skeptic calls the Christmas setting shoehorned and says negative reactions only strengthen the take.
- Did this movie invent the recreational taser? No earlier comedic taser use is recalled.
- Would the airport crowd really stay calm after a massive crash, and should the ending be more somber?
- Why McClane's car is towed: he left it at the curb expecting a quick pickup before the flight was delayed.
- Could anyone else have been McClane: Treat Williams lacks the humor, Jeff Bridges is plausible though he never did the everyman thing apart from Blown Away, and Dana Wheeler-Nicholson is a joke.