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Yup. pretty sure they took a cast photo with it.

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Just the fact that this is a franchise at all is awkward.

With Die Hard 2, they tried keeping it the same, and it was a major stretch of the imagination. Even McClane quipped how this could happen to the same guy twice. This was fun enough so you can accept it. But it would get even sillier to have John stumble into a terrorist situation with Holly as a hostage every Christmas.

(BTWDie Harder was never in the actual movie so I don't count it)

So to break the formula, we get Die Hard with a Vengeance. Now I freaking love this movie, but outside of the Gruber connection, it's not a Die Hard movie. In fact it was a solo action script that they basically changed the hero's name to McClane and the villain to Gruber and poof you've got a Die Hard entry. Fortunately this got John McTeirnan back in the director's chair and we still got a damned good movie.

Live Free or Die Hard - Now there's just nothing to connect it to the franchise. It's just an action movie. I thought it was a fun action movie, but nothing special.


It doesn't help that Bruce Willis doesn't have much of an acting range. He's basically got John McClane who he usually plays in fun action flicks. Then he's got "sad guy" in stuff like The Sixth Sense or Twelve Monkeys. At this point, what's seperating a Die Hard movie from most of the action garbage that Willis regularly phones in?

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-rolleyes-

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I just can't wait until it releases so that you can come on here and call it 'swill'.

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Yeah, the first one while having it's stretches in how much can happen to one guy in a day kind of thing...it really paints McClane as an average guy who was a cop. He bitches about glass in his foot, bleeds and bitches, does some stupid stuff at times, gets angry like a real person, annoyances, fear, etc. DH3 kind of changed it all. I don't remember DH2 so I can't say wtf it did to his character. LFDH was an action movie w/ Bruce Willis. It had good action...otherwise..very meh.

I'll see this and hope it's good but i do hope it reels down the character to be a guy that bruises and is hurt. If it doesn't...well...I do hope it's a good movie either way.

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Typical phlebotomist apologist...

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Oh crap. He whipped out the rolleyes. Everyone drop your weapons and back away slowly... :lol:

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Hope they bring back the swearing.
I watched Speed the other day and that had more swearing then Live Free.

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Die Hard in Russia?

Этот фильм делает мой пенис трудно.

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I would consider the original Die Hard an example of the world's greatest cinema. No joke. The sequels have their moments but the fourth had none. Also, expected more from a DVDTalk reviewer than just rolleyes.

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I made my initial observation in post 127. The eyeroll was in response to the "mental midget" comment.

I am a huge fan of the first Die Hard, and while the followups stretched the premise I still loved them. Fun, entertaining action films. Absurd? Sure. Far-fetched? Yes. Believable? No.

And as much as I hold Die Hard in high regard to put it on the pedestal of "world's greatest cinema" is a bit of a leap, imo.
"World's greatest action movie"? Perhaps.

Plus I came into this thread to remark that I'm looking forward to the new one. I'm not the hater here...

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For what it's worth I wasn't calling 12thmonkey (or anyone else here) a mental fucking midget; rather I was just stressing that we should have reasonable standards that don't get a pass because "it's a popcorn movie/it's just entertainment".

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I say potato, you say potato. Hmm, that phrase doesn't really work typed out.:p For me, world's greatest action movie definitely qualifies it for world's greatest cinema. Also, I think he was responding to the argument that action movies should be mindless, dumb fun. We should expect more from a movie than just explosion, explosion, explosion because then we might as well just look at fucking fireworks. Although, maybe you guys have some history. I don't know.

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:banana: :grouphug:

Agreed, to a point. In my view the action genre has well-made "popcorn" and insult-my-intelligence "popcorn". Titles are irrelevant because everyone has different opinions. I consider the Die Hard series well-made, and I didn't even dislike the 4th one as much as most did.

The plague of Die Hard clones/knockoffs that came after - many of those were crap, simply following some checklist of action movie staple sequences with no heart.

This DH franchise will never be able to exceed the pure thrill of the first one, no matter how polished or big-budget. But I still will go opening weekend when GDTDH opens....

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The title of the next movie should be "Eat Shit and Die Hard"

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Agreed.


Sounds great to me. :thumbsup:


:lol:

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However, he is always able to resolve his issues within 24 hours.

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http://i425.photobucket.com/albums/p...-trailer-0.jpg

Looks good!

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For anyone interested her name is Julia Snigir and a Google search yields good results.

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"Good" is quite the understatement.

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A Good Search to Get Hard

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I'll take that as a compliment!

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rotfl

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lol! Funny stuff right there.

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One that confirms that Foreign Maxim is better than Domestic Maxim.