

'80s Hair: Holly has a massive perm, and a few of the faux terrorists are rocking feathered mullets.The crooks are out to steal hundreds of millions of dollars in "Bearer Bonds", financial vouchers issued in the period redeemable for cash(eventually banned because of their use in money laundering and drug dealing).Holly's policeman." Lastly, there're the airport's ridiculously lax safety standards by modern standards: smoking is permitted in the airport proper, and John carries his gun on the plane itself. Takagi barely blinks when he catches Ellis snorting cocaine from Holly's desk, except for identifying John as "Holly's husband. Green, Magic Johnson, and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. When Theo first enters, he's describing a play involving four members of the remarkable late-eighties L.A. Powell stops for doughnuts - 74 cents for regular, 77 unleaded (and the existence of leaded gasoline at the station in the first place, as that hasn't been sold since the early nineties). The '80s: Can you say "smarmy, bearded, Gordon Gekko-type working for a company that has been bought out by the Japanese"? See also the price of gas when Sgt.13 Is Unlucky: There are 13 bad guys for John to contend with: Hans Gruber, Karl Vreski, Theo (computer expert and safecracker), Eddie (mans the desk at the front, distracts anyone going in), Heinrich (explosives expert), Franco, Fritz, Tony (Karl's brother, disables phone lines), Alexander (mans third floor with machine gun, uses rocket launcher), Marco, Uli (who likes candy bars), James, and Kristoff (Theo's assistant).
