A Good Day To Die Hard
02-12-11, 12:44 PM
#126
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Re: Die Hard 5 >> Bruce Willis (tentative 2011)
Well, every director needs a start... I'd rather see em take a chance with someone than go with a standard, boring director that's just taking a paycheck.
02-12-11, 05:57 PM
#127
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Re: Die Hard 5 >> Bruce Willis (tentative 2011)
Bring back the artistic risk (yea, fuck you) that I saw in Die Hard 3. It was very quotable. For it's time, the 'racist' stuff was very biting. The stunts were great (as they were in all four Die Hards). The camerawork and timing was fucking great. John McTiernan knew what was up.
There's only the first one. 2 is a retread, 3 is a mess, 4 is fucking awful... and now 5... for fuck's sake...
02-12-11, 06:22 PM
#129
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Re: Die Hard 5 >> Bruce Willis (tentative 2011)
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02-12-11, 08:20 PM
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Re: Die Hard 5 >> Bruce Willis (tentative 2011)
as a kid...3 was my favorite. I still enjoy it now...but that 3rd act loses it for me a bit. The whole bomb in the boat and etc etc...
Believe it or not, it was Jeremy Irons that made me like this film a lot as a kid. He was pretty freaking cool to me as a kid. And he's still awesome now. He's the one thing that pulls this movie through for me....the thing that makes this a bit more watchable. Otherwise....I wouldn't like it.
Believe it or not, it was Jeremy Irons that made me like this film a lot as a kid. He was pretty freaking cool to me as a kid. And he's still awesome now. He's the one thing that pulls this movie through for me....the thing that makes this a bit more watchable. Otherwise....I wouldn't like it.
02-12-11, 09:42 PM
#131
Re: Die Hard 5 >> Bruce Willis (tentative 2011)
I think the bit with the tunnel and the trucks bogs the movie down but everything else was pretty good. And yeah Jeremy Irons is what makes the movie with Sam Jackson number 2 and McClane third.
02-12-11, 09:47 PM
#132
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Re: Die Hard 5 >> Bruce Willis (tentative 2011)
Die Hard With A Vengeance is still leagues ahead of Live Free or Die Hard, so let's aim our hate appropriately, okay?
02-13-11, 01:01 AM
#138
Re: Die Hard 5 >> Bruce Willis (tentative 2011)
I like to pretend the second one doesn't even exist. That's why I'm glad they titled the films the way they did and released them individually on Blu-ray.
The Die Hard film series looks like this on my shelf:
1) Die Hard
2) Die Hard With a Vengeance
3) Live Free or Die Hard
The Die Hard film series looks like this on my shelf:
1) Die Hard
2) Die Hard With a Vengeance
3) Live Free or Die Hard
02-13-11, 01:56 AM
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02-13-11, 03:12 AM
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Re: Die Hard 5 >> Bruce Willis (tentative 2011)
My preference:
1.) Die Hard
2.) Live Free Or Die Hard
3.) Die Hard 2: Die Harder
4.) Die Hard With A Vengeance
1.) Die Hard
2.) Live Free Or Die Hard
3.) Die Hard 2: Die Harder
4.) Die Hard With A Vengeance
02-13-11, 11:05 AM
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Re: Die Hard 5 >> Bruce Willis (tentative 2011)
The only thing that was missing from the irredeemably awful "Live Free Or Die Hard" was an anvil falling on John McClane's head after being pushed off a cliff, and him opening up an umbrella over his head, turning to the camera, and waving bye-bye as it landed on him with a loud BOINGGGGGGG...
02-13-11, 11:18 AM
#145
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Re: Die Hard 5 >> Bruce Willis (tentative 2011)
I like to pretend the second one doesn't even exist. That's why I'm glad they titled the films the way they did and released them individually on Blu-ray.
The Die Hard film series looks like this on my shelf:
1) Die Hard
2) Die Hard With a Vengeance
3) Live Free or Die Hard
The Die Hard film series looks like this on my shelf:
1) Die Hard
2) Die Hard With a Vengeance
3) Live Free or Die Hard
02-13-11, 12:40 PM
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Re: Die Hard 5 >> Bruce Willis (tentative 2011)
I like to pretend the second one doesn't even exist. That's why I'm glad they titled the films the way they did and released them individually on Blu-ray.
The Die Hard film series looks like this on my shelf:
1) Die Hard
2) Die Hard With a Vengeance
3) Live Free or Die Hard
The Die Hard film series looks like this on my shelf:
1) Die Hard
2) Die Hard With a Vengeance
3) Live Free or Die Hard
02-13-11, 01:13 PM
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02-13-11, 05:27 PM
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Re: Die Hard 5 >> Bruce Willis (tentative 2011)
2 was pretty cool but none of Renny Harlins action scenes are up to the first film. McClane is still McClane, he loves his wife, Sgt Powell drops by for a cameo, and anything Fred Thompson is in benefits just because of his presence. If the first film never existed I think this would be thought of more fondly.
3 is a disjointed mess and one of the biggest dissapointmens I've ever had in a movie theater. Out of 2 hours and twenty minutes, about 45 seconds displays that classic John McTiernan awesomeness, the elevator scene and the steering-wheel gag from freeway car chase.
4 is a Len Wiseman film.
3 is a disjointed mess and one of the biggest dissapointmens I've ever had in a movie theater. Out of 2 hours and twenty minutes, about 45 seconds displays that classic John McTiernan awesomeness, the elevator scene and the steering-wheel gag from freeway car chase.
4 is a Len Wiseman film.
02-13-11, 05:50 PM
#149
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Re: Die Hard 5 >> Bruce Willis (tentative 2011)
I love Die Hard and Die Hard 2. 3 was pretty good...4 less so.
02-13-11, 07:18 PM
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Re: Die Hard 5 >> Bruce Willis (tentative 2011)
Not sure what there is to defend about DH2. By all accounts, even the franchise itself pretends like it doesn't exist. When the third one begins, McClane is once again a broken-down loser cop in NYC and separated from his wife, completely erasing the events of the prior film. (And the omission of a "3" in the title seems deliberate to me.)
DH2 depicting him as an upstanding L.A. cop (after the great first impression he made with the police chief in the first movie!) seems very out of place. And Holly once again becoming a hostage in a terrorist plot on Christmas Eve with the same news reporter on board the plane really stretches suspension of disbelief.
The fact that the movie would have been over in 5 minutes if all the planes were diverted to another airport makes me think McClane had a booze-induced dream.
DH2 depicting him as an upstanding L.A. cop (after the great first impression he made with the police chief in the first movie!) seems very out of place. And Holly once again becoming a hostage in a terrorist plot on Christmas Eve with the same news reporter on board the plane really stretches suspension of disbelief.
The fact that the movie would have been over in 5 minutes if all the planes were diverted to another airport makes me think McClane had a booze-induced dream.
Last edited by rennervision; 02-13-11 at 07:25 PM.