I'm your host, Ryan.
Original introduction wording
- I'm your host, Ryan Sansone.
← Movie nights
Movie reverse-watch
A Good Day to Pod Hard Part 2
IN THE ROOM
RyanCurtisVitaliyGuest appearance: Vitaliy
NO COMMON DENOMINATOR
Movie verdicts.
Ryan and Curtis: thumbs up. Vitaliy: thumbs down.
Original rating systems, exactly as represented in the archive. These scales are not interchangeable.
By way of introduction.
and joining me as always is the man whose go-to question is, where is the police? It's Curtis. I wasted all of today, and so I'm excited to waste some more of it with you.
Original introduction wording
- and joining me as always is the man whose go-to question is, where is the police? It's Curtis Sheck. I wasted all of today, and so I'm excited to waste some more of it with you.
We also have our Russian-speaking and Russian-hating co-host. It's Vitaliy. Hey, hey. I wouldn't say Russian-hating, but...
Original introduction wording
- We also have our Russian-speaking and Russian-hating co-host. It's Vitaly Steer. Hey, hey. I wouldn't say Russian-hating, but...
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Welcome to another special edition of Reverse Psychology. The summer movie marathon continues. From now to the rest of the year, we will set Fraser aside to jump into the high-octane world of action. Tonight is the second part of the fifth installment of the Die Hard franchise, A Good Day to Die Hard. This is Reverse Psychology Presents Die Hard. I'm your host, Ryan Sansone, and joining me as always is the man whose go-to question is, where is the police? It's Curtis Sheck. I wasted all of today, and so I'm excited to waste some more of it with you. We also have our Russian-speaking and Russian-hating co-host. It's Vitaly Steer. Hey, hey. I wouldn't say Russian-hating, but...
Someone brought rules.
The games, the premises, and what everyone brought to the table.
Game / activity
Pitch Die Hard 6 ↗
How this one works
How it works
- Installment: diehard six; Characters: the guys we created last week; Resolution: ultimately greenlight
- Method: participants select a pitch to greenlight; Self selection: excluded
RESULT STATUS
A winner is actually on the record.
Winner: Vitaliy
What was recorded
What everyone brought to the table · 1 recorded exchange
RECORDED EXCHANGE
Participant cited: Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 56:11
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Prompt
Question / challenge
Let's hear the pitch for; the next classic; installment of this; franchise.
CLAIM & ADJUDICATION
Jim wins
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- Winner statement: Good win.
- Final adjudication: jim pitch
Follow the round structure (1)
Three pitches and the green-light selection
Source excerpt ↗ 56:25Opportunity domain: present the prepared successor pitches; Result domain: choose among those pitches for one greenlight
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 56:27
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- Response context: Name: Jim; Appearance: bald; jeans; t-shirt; sneakers; Attitude: Takes no shits.; Skill: fly an Apache helicopter
WHAT THEY BROUGHT
trailer pitch
Protagonist: Jim; Location: the Maldives; Occasion: the eve of the first day of Hanukkah; Missing relative: cousin Jose; Opposition: Maldivian mafia; Abu Bakura; Abu Bakuru
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- Submission type: trailer pitch
- Important beats: Transport: Apache helicopter; Battle: Apache versus Apache; Escape equipment: parachute; Cousin location: back room
- Ending or payoff: Will Jim be able to; defeat Abu Bakuru; and save his cousin?
- Notable references: Jim; Dwayne The Rock Johnson; Jose; Wilmer; Val Derrama; Abu Bakuru; Michael B. Jordan
- No movie title was supplied.
RECORDED EXCHANGE
Participant cited: Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 58:03
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Prompt
Question / challenge
Alternatives: most of the movie; the first five minutes; Subject: the narrated rescue and finding the cousin
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 58:14
I think it was over; the course of the; whole movie,; leaving out all the; boring shit.
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 57:55
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- Adjudication: I love that your; trailer is like,; I'm going to explain; everything but the; last 20 minutes of; the film.
- Response context: Suggestion: put exposition in the trailer and omit it from the film; Cast clarification: Michael B. Jordan; Abu Bukuru; Wilmer Valderrama; Jose; the cousin
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 59:57
Recorded conversation
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- Response context: Name: Jonathan Mclynn; Hair: wig; Dress: modern pirate; Comparison: modern Jack Sparrow; Attitude: indifference; nonchalance; Premise: vacation where he thought something was going down, but it was not
WHAT THEY BROUGHT
It's only the good; die hard.
Protagonist: Jonathan Mclynn; Vacation: cruise to Bermuda; Trigger: passenger confession; Obstacles: passengers; corrupt maritime crew; Pursuit: justice for America; Qualification: international waters
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- Submission type: performed trailer pitch
- Notable references: Direct to streaming; on Tubi.
CLAIM & ADJUDICATION
Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 1:01:44
Remark
Apparent crime: misunderstood; Apparent bad guys: completely innocent; Hero behavior: same carnage that John McClane does
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- Ending or payoff: Agent: Jonathan; Action: kills; Patient: the quoted passenger
- Notable references: Frazier
- Response context: Reported voices: Curtis; Jonathan; one passenger
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
Recorded conversation
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- Response context: Name: smoke; Clothes: hoodie with no sleeves; Type: reluctant hero; Fireproof qualification: we're pretty sure; Hair: Big, big, big hair.
- Part of the handwritten note could not be read.
WHAT THEY BROUGHT
Die Hard 6: Get rich or die hard trying
Prisoner: 50 Cent; Curtis Jackson; Trigger: botched deal with the Saudis; Requester: the president; First choice: John McClain; First choice unavailable: on vacation; Replacement: smoke
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- Submission type: trailer pitch
- Important beats: nothing is safe.; Not malls,; not waterfalls,; not even waterfalls; in malls.
- Ending or payoff: Will smoke save; Curtis Jackson or; will Middle East; have a little feast?
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 1:03:57
Recorded conversation
Alternate title: Dubai Hard; Status: not chosen
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- Claim: I didn't put a title; in there.
RECORDED EXCHANGE
Participant cited: Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 1:04:15
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Prompt
Question / challenge
We do have to pick which; one we're going to; ultimately greenlight.
RECORDED EXCHANGE
Participant cited: VitaliySource excerpt ↗ 1:04:28
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Get rich or die hard trying
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Participant cited: CurtisSource excerpt ↗ 1:04:33
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jim pitch
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- Answer qualification: opportunity to watch; an entire 90 minute; film of just pure; action like that.
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Participant cited: RyanSource excerpt ↗ 1:05:23
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jim pitch
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- Answer qualification: because I don't; have a tiebreaker; sequence and I; don't know what we; would possibly do.
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 1:04:21
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- Answer qualification: Yeah, which is not; the name of it, but; yeah.
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- Adjudication method: Method: participants select a pitch to greenlight; Self selection: excluded
Comic bits and episode moments.
Conversation excerpt
Opening conversation ↗
Conversation excerpt
What makes a Die Hard movie? ↗
So, with all your expertise, why don't you go ahead and tell us what you think makes a Die Hard movie?
See how they answered
What everyone brought to the table · 21 recorded exchanges
WHAT THEY BROUGHT
Recorded conversation
Number one, a Die Hard movie doesn't have any of this spy shit.; Another thing, you know, always got that tough, stoic, good guy murdering as many innocent people as necessary to get the scumbags.; Third is action is at the forefront.; I think that McClane never has any kind of coherent reason for how or why he's caught up in what he's doing.
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- Answer qualification: This is, like, the exception in this movie.; Like, we all know McClane is, Bruce Willis is the guy.; I don't think we're going to get a plot.; I don't think we're going to get any characters.; These are dangerous criminal enterprises that just kind of show up around him and he fights back.
- Adjudication: I mean, that's a decent list.
RECORDED EXCHANGE
Participant cited: Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 02:54
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Prompt
Question / challenge
Sorry, are you saying a tough, stoic, good guy, or are you saying this tough, stoic, good guy?
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
Like, we all know McClane is, Bruce Willis is the guy.
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Participant cited: Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 03:20
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Prompt
Question / challenge
How many innocents do you think he kills per movie?
RECORDED EXCHANGE
Participant cited: Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 03:24
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Prompt
Question / challenge
How do you think he kills the most innocents?
CLAIM & ADJUDICATION
Remark
He killed at least a thousand people.
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
It's just that chasing is so crazy, where he's running around driving on top of cars, clearly killing everybody inside them.; But I'm going to say this is only the second most.; He's going to do something fucking loony that is going to result in tons of death.
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- Answer qualification: Yeah, I think that's an easier question, because it would be really hard for me to quantify the number of deaths he's responsible for in even this movie.
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Participant cited: Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 04:10
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Prompt
Question / challenge
You have a prediction which movie it is?
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 04:12
I think the fourth one is where everything completely ramps up.
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- Answer qualification: So I'm going to say that this one was them toning it back down.
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Participant cited: Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 05:02
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Prompt
Question / challenge
Do you think this will be the weakest plot we get or do you think they'll all sort of be in that same vein of lack of plot?
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 05:08
So I think the second one will be very plot heavy.; But I think all the rest are going to be very light.
RECORDED EXCHANGE
Participant cited: Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 05:42
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Prompt
Question / challenge
You think they're planning to make a third or fourth or fifth?
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 05:44
And I don't think they ever had any grand plans to make it a coherent like series.
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Participant cited: Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 06:16
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Prompt
Question / challenge
How many do you think they all have helicopter scenes or anything?
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 06:21
I don't think we're getting any more Apaches.; There will definitely be more helicopters.
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- Response context: And that movie, I remember there being a big helicopter clip in the trailer.
RECORDED EXCHANGE
Participant cited: Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 06:52
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Prompt
Question / challenge
I guess the last thing I have is, do you think all the bad guys are going to be Russian?
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 07:02
I want that to be true, but I have a feeling it's not.
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Participant cited: Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 07:19
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Prompt
Question / challenge
I mean, do you think there's like some sort of connective thread between the bad guys or; any shot there?
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 07:24
No, I think the bad guys die in the end and a new one takes their place in the next one.
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 07:30
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- Answer qualification: Yeah, he's not on a specific mission.; He just finds himself surrounded by baddies.; There will be helicopters and then they probably all won't be Russian.
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Participant cited: Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 07:51
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Prompt
Question / challenge
Do we think John McClane has to be part of a Die Hard movie despite what we did last episode?
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- This proposed requirement remains unsettled.
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 07:57
Recorded conversation
So I would love if like the third Die Hard is just a complete non sequitur from the rest of the series.; If we accept that John McClane probably has to be part of it.; I think we can have headcanon, right?; So I think we can say they are.
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Recorded conversation ↗
Time to get back to the action.
Source details
- Activity description: But this is a part two of our Die Hard 5 breakdown.
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next summer,; Reverse Psychology presents; the Pokemon movies.; Oh, we couldn't do it.
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Whole-film thumbs verdicts ↗
Subject: this movie; Response options: thumbs up; thumbs down
What was recorded
What everyone brought to the table · 4 recorded exchanges
RECORDED EXCHANGE
Participant cited: Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 50:42
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Prompt
Question / challenge
Did you like this movie?
RECORDED EXCHANGE
Participant cited: Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 50:52
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Prompt
Question / challenge
Tell me about some of; the reasons it's getting; the thumbs down.
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 50:55
One, too much talking.; Way too much talking.; A lot of things this movie; also didn't make sense.
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Participant cited: CurtisSource excerpt ↗ 52:26
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Prompt
Question / challenge
So Curtis, how about you?
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- Result qualification: Curtis's going to; be the deciding factor; on whether or not you; watch this movie.
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 50:59
Recorded conversation
Source details
- Method: First address: Vin; Deferred until last: Curtis; Last vote framing: deciding factor on whether or not you watch this movie
Conversation excerpt
Predict the earlier movies ↗
Task: predict the past; Film: Live Free or Die Hard; Installment: 4
What was recorded
What everyone brought to the table · 13 recorded exchanges
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
Recalled actor: Justin Long; Predicted role: John McClane Jr.; Sequel explanation: recast for an action star
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- Answer qualification: which doesn't; sound right when I say; it out loud, but I; think that might be; true.
RECORDED EXCHANGE
Participant cited: Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 1:06:09
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Prompt
Question / challenge
Do you think that's; Jack?
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Participant cited: Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 1:06:31
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Prompt
Question / challenge
Initial wording: Justin Long; Clarified subject: his character in Die Hard 4; Requested value: age
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Participant cited: Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 1:06:41
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Prompt
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Yeah, but how, like; specifically how old and; how old do you think; Jack was in this movie?; What do you think the; age gap is?
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 1:06:38
Initial age category: teenager; Specified fourth film age: 16; Stated release gap: six or seven years; Assumed fifth film age: 33
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
Fourth film prediction: John McClane dies at the end; Fifth film explanation: sequel ignores the death; Status: prediction, not established film fact
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- Adjudication: I think that's insane.; It's definitely in play.
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Participant cited: Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 1:07:47
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So you think they; earnestly kill him.
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Participant cited: Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 1:07:49
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But you do think that; Die Hard 5 is a sequel and; they just ignore the fact; that they killed him.
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Participant cited: Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 1:08:02
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Prompt
Question / challenge
Do you think we're going to; get Jack in Die Hard 4?
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 1:08:04
Yeah.; It's Justin Long.
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Participant cited: Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 1:08:06
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Question / challenge
Is it a teenage?
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Participant cited: Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 1:08:07
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Prompt
Question / challenge
Do you think we're going to; get the girl whose name I; didn't take down?
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 1:08:12
He doesn't have a daughter; in Die Hard 4.
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- Answer qualification: prediction
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i get so confused i don't even know how to work my phone