6. John McClane Needs To Prove A Point; Open Fires On Police Captain - Die Hard 2
Die Hard 2 is probably best explained as "the first one, but with an airport," because that's precisely what it is. A bunch of terrorists hold an entire airport hostage, and - quite conveniently - our hero John McClane is around to save the day. What are the odds of that happening, you wonder? I'm not sure, but I'm going to guess "very small." Anyway, it later turns out that the terrorists are using blank-firing guns (it's a twist), and - upon discovering this - John McClane decides he needs to tell a few people so they can team up and thwart the bad guys. The best way to do this, of course, would have been for McClane to simply have taken out the blank firing cartridge (which he does anyway) and shown it to the police captain. But this is a Die Hard movie, where such things are apparently considered too "normal" for the big screen - McClane, instead, open fires at the police captain in order to convince him the terrorists are using blanks. Don't worry that there are a dozen cops behind you who should have shot you in the head, John. This was supposed to be badass, I guess, but it just came across as dickish.