A Good Day to Die Hard

[Batty]

I'm good. Hack director, PG-13....kinda kills all interest for me.

Why doesn't that surprise me.

They are looking for anyone in show biz that is the correct age to play Wilis's son.

I think they are planning on passing the torch.

Shia LaBeouf?

 

[Butters]

The world definitely could do with another Die Hard movie... I wouldn't be interested if Bruce wasn't in it, though...

I got the blu-ray box set a while back for $20.

 

[CelticPredator]

Why doesn't that surprise me.
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It shouldn't. McClane loves to curse. And smoke. Let him curse and smoke.

 

[EVILFACE]

Loved Live Free. Look forward to this one.

 

[a-dev]

They are looking for anyone in show biz that is the correct age to play Wilis's son.

I think they are planning on passing the torch.

Whats this passing the torch crap? No one wants or needs to see Indy's son, or McClane's son or anyone's son or daughter continuing any given franchise! The original actor/character or GTFO.

 

[Mad Old Lu]

I'd be up for another DH, but I didn't like the fourth one. Beyond the action being OTT (although I liked the truck in the elevator scene), something just didn't work for me. I mean, even if it wasn't a DH movie I wouldn't have thought it was a good movie. The fact that it had John McClane was the only thing that interested me in it, even though the character didn't feel like himself.

I think the first one is unparalleled in the series and as an action movie. But I find myself going to #3 most often because the pacing, action and dialogue are just so damn fun and exhilarating. I kinda wish John McTiernan would come back and do #5.

A part that annoys me in 3, although I like most of the rest of the film, is the laughing he does when he climbs out of the train wreck. Realistically the man should have been himself a nervous wreck after that - plus I dunno, maybe concerned that a bunch of people could have been killed - but no, for some reason he finds the situation laughworthy. Things like that are what I'm talking about - the character knows hes going to survive and somehow that no one else died either. And 4 was full of ridiculousness like that.

I always took his laughing to be "Holy F--! I can't believe I'm alive! And look at this mess! How the F did I survive that?!?" Just a release of tension. Kinda like if you're goofing around with your buddies Jackass style, but the trick goes a little wrong. For a second you think "oh crap I'm really gonna die" but you regain yourself and just have to laugh at your luckiness to have gotten out of a stupid stunt unhurt.

 

[a-dev]

Yeah but imagine if you were the dad of some girl who got crushed by the derailed train - and then you see some guy having a good giggle as he climbs from the debris - you might be tempted to ___king kill him!

 

[CelticPredator]

That's called being in shock...and it's a very human reaction....

 

[a-dev]

No it wasn't. It wasn't written to be an expression of shock. It was written as an expression of the McClane character that they thought audiences were expecting, having him laughing off the incident and then going about his business like what just happened was an everyday occurence.

 

[karamazov80]

In other words--Hudson Hawk lite

[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zX_jCwNTKHU[/ame]

 

[jonny88]

I thought the 4th one was pretty crap to be honest. John McClane had truly become as invincible as The Terminator in that film....and if anything he should have been less able than he was in the previous films.

The first 3 are great, with the first one obviously being the best.

I would go see a 5th one though if I'm honest. I love sequels, if they're crap I simply disregard them. They don't ruin the good ones for me.

I agree, didn't care for the last either. Him fighting the get was fake all the way. This next one had better be rated R and not this PG 13 crap.

 

[Darth Caedus]

I really hope they make it rated 'R'.....a Die Hard movie without swearing makes me

Granted I liked the 4th film, it would have been SOOO much better if it was rated 'R'.

 

[a-dev]

I don't know that it'd have been 'better', but at least more consistent with the films before it. Did McClane make a New Years Resolution to give up using cursewords?

 

[Wor-Gar]

From the writer of "A Team"....



For the record, I liked 4, didn't love it, loved Maggie Q (and still do), hated Timothy.

 

[The Josh]

Dug the last one and will look forward to this.

 

[dragonsleeper]

It's Bruce Willis... will watch any film with Bruce on it.

 

[Batty]

From the writer of "A Team"....



For the record, I liked 4, didn't love it, loved Maggie Q (and still do), hated Timothy.

I thought the A Team was good too. It was fun.

 

[thenammagazine]

I thought the A Team was good too. It was fun.

Surprisingly so! :exactly.

If this actually get's made, I'll go into this like I did with A-Team, with low expectations. That way if it sucks, I won't be surprised, but if it's fun, I'll enjoy it.

 

[FLOSI]

I've never been able to get through DH4... Might be due to the Mac dude.

 

[Wor-Gar]

I thought the A Team was good too. It was fun.

I guess I shouldn't judge because I could never get thru the entire "A Team" experience so I don't really know how it is. Gunning from a falling tank gave me what I know of this movie.