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.

Re: Die Hard 5 >> Bruce Willis (tentative 2011)
 

Too bad it was horribly edited, constantly rewritten on the set, and a generally crappy movie.

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...

Re: Die Hard 5 >> Bruce Willis (tentative 2011)
 

Three is awesome. Simon says you shut the hell up!

Re: Die Hard 5 >> Bruce Willis (tentative 2011)
 

Simon says "The Juwes are the men who won't be blamed for nothing." And isn't that all we need to know about Simon? The answer, surprisingly, may surprise you! Somehow!

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.

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.

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?

Re: Die Hard 5 >> Bruce Willis (tentative 2011)
 

It can't possibly be any worse than Live Free or Die Hard, right?!? Because that would be a stunning achievement.

Re: Die Hard 5 >> Bruce Willis (tentative 2011)
 

Plenty of movies every year are worse than Live Free or Die Hard.

Re: Die Hard 5 >> Bruce Willis (tentative 2011)
 

Live Free or Die Hard > Die Hard 2

Re: Die Hard 5 >> Bruce Willis (tentative 2011)
 

Whoah....lemme take a puff of that ganja man!

Re: Die Hard 5 >> Bruce Willis (tentative 2011)
 

Agreed.

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

Re: Die Hard 5 >> Bruce Willis (tentative 2011)
 

So what? I was referencing the new sequel.

Re: Die Hard 5 >> Bruce Willis (tentative 2011)
 

If Hollywood would show some balls and make the terrorists Arab then you'll have a movie.
TRUE LIES, DELTA FORCE had good Arab bad guys.

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

Re: Die Hard 5 >> Bruce Willis (tentative 2011)
 

To badly paraphrase Kim Novak, I could eat a can of film and shit a better movie than Live Free or Die Hard.

Re: Die Hard 5 >> Bruce Willis (tentative 2011)
 

It's true

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...

Re: Die Hard 5 >> Bruce Willis (tentative 2011)
 

Please get rid of 1 and 2. You don't deserve to own them.

Re: Die Hard 5 >> Bruce Willis (tentative 2011)
 

100% exactly how mine looks, 2 is garbage and I pretend they never made it.

Re: Die Hard 5 >> Bruce Willis (tentative 2011)
 

I'd love to see Die Hard 5 with middle-eastern terrorists.

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.

Re: Die Hard 5 >> Bruce Willis (tentative 2011)
 

I love Die Hard and Die Hard 2. 3 was pretty good...4 less so.

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.