"Live Free or Die Hard"...the reviews thread.
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"Live Free or Die Hard"...the reviews thread.
Well, Wednesday is the day and so far this one has stirred probably the most controversy of any summer movie this season with the whole 'PG-13' fiasco.
At first, I was really dead set on not seeing this as I think the franchise might now be saturated and watered-down, but i do have a very soft spot for John McClane with #1 being my all time favorite movie and i do have the summer off after this coming week so...
Anyway, not tracking at RT as yet (gulp), but thinking the reviews in this thread might sway me one way or the other...
At first, I was really dead set on not seeing this as I think the franchise might now be saturated and watered-down, but i do have a very soft spot for John McClane with #1 being my all time favorite movie and i do have the summer off after this coming week so...
Anyway, not tracking at RT as yet (gulp), but thinking the reviews in this thread might sway me one way or the other...
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I've got a bad feeling about this one. I just checked RT and it looks like they aren't pre-screening it for critics. It opens Wednesday and it doesn't have a rating. Not a good sign. Plus, I thought the trailer looked like crap.
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Yahoo has "The first 8 minutes" posted and there are some cool parts, but I don't know if I am very optimistic about this one, plus the whole PG-13 and not being screened for critics thing has me a bit wary
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I'll see this movie even if every person I talk to, every review I read, and every fan-boy post says that it sucks. It's gonna be pretty damn difficult for me not to enjoy a Die Hard film.
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I can't believe any fan of the original Die hard trilogy would go support this film in theatres considering this is just going to be a complete disgrace to the very idea of what "Die Hard" films are supposed to be..
To each his own though...
To each his own though...
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Plus, I thought the trailer looked like crap.
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Originally Posted by chris_sc77
I can't believe any fan of the original Die hard trilogy would go support this film in theatres considering this is just going to be a complete disgrace to the very idea of what "Die Hard" films are supposed to be..
Me? I'm going into this one with an open mind. If it's great - GREAT! If it's mediocre, well, then it's mediocre. Either way, I'm going to give it a chance.
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Originally Posted by dsa_shea
Why didn't they go for the gold and shoot for an R rating. What is the obsession with releasing PG-13 movies anyway? By making it PG-13 does it make it a movie suitable for teenagers?
Nope, it's just that teenagers nowadays have almost all of the disposable income of our society. Therefore, the industry more or less gears most of the products towards them. Should the movie be rated R, that's income that is going to another movie or medium that Fox cannot get, as a lot of theaters do require adult companions for the under 17(or 18 in some states) crowd and parents have better ways to spend two hours of their time. So logically, they make more PG-13/parents can just drop their kids off and leave them type movies, even ones that were rated R in their day.
Do I like it? No. But it is a business, and what happened was a business decision. However, I think they will shoot themselves in the foot this time around as everyone who made the old series a hit would most definitely be old enough to buy tickets for an R movie. Also, if this movie were shot under the impression that it would be R, which I have heard it was, then we will be getting a lot of awkward cuts and editing, which makes the movie look very inept in style.
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we should try to keep all the 'die hard lite' comments in the OTHER die hard 4 thread and probably keep this one to discussing reviews and come wednesday our own opinions on the actual flick... I think all the other points of discussion should be saved for the other pre-release thread.
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Originally Posted by MWB
And I can't believe they are butchering "Yippee ki yay motherfucker" like that. You either say the entire phrase, including the motherfucker, or you don't say it at all.
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If Fox decided to go for a PG-13 rating in order to market it to teens, then why the hell would they open it so close to Transformers? Making it a hard R would've at least been good counterprogramming.
Regardless, I won't pay money to see a pussified Die Hard flick. I caught some of Die Hard 2 on the Fox Movie Channel the other night(hosted by that idiot Tom Rothman) and it was unbelievable how many F-bombs and gory deaths that movie had. Cutting all of that out defeats the entire purpose of the franchise.
Regardless, I won't pay money to see a pussified Die Hard flick. I caught some of Die Hard 2 on the Fox Movie Channel the other night(hosted by that idiot Tom Rothman) and it was unbelievable how many F-bombs and gory deaths that movie had. Cutting all of that out defeats the entire purpose of the franchise.
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Well, those 8 minutes were pretty sweet. I felt bad for all the action figures that were harmed in the making of it though.
My sister works for Todd McFarlane, and she sent me that clip talking about how alot of those were his figures.
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Originally Posted by mdc3000
we should try to keep all the 'die hard lite' comments in the OTHER die hard 4 thread and probably keep this one to discussing reviews and come wednesday our own opinions on the actual flick... I think all the other points of discussion should be saved for the other pre-release thread.
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Well, Wednesday is the day and so far this one has stirred probably the most controversy of any summer movie this season with the whole 'PG-13' fiasco.
At first, I was really dead set on not seeing this as I think the franchise might now be saturated and watered-down, but i do have a very soft spot for John McClane with #1 being my all time favorite movie and i do have the summer off after this coming week so...
Anyway, not tracking at RT as yet (gulp), but thinking the reviews in this thread might sway me one way or the other...
At first, I was really dead set on not seeing this as I think the franchise might now be saturated and watered-down, but i do have a very soft spot for John McClane with #1 being my all time favorite movie and i do have the summer off after this coming week so...
Anyway, not tracking at RT as yet (gulp), but thinking the reviews in this thread might sway me one way or the other...
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Considering how many 13 year olds I see at most R-Rated movies, studios need to get with the program and realize that rating movies that are expected to be R-rated lower is going to hurt them in the long run.