Die Hard 5 / Die Hard 24/7 / 5 Die 5 Hard

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joe cornish! so obvious, can't believe they passed him over for the others

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He lives in South London with his long-term ladypartner, Annabel.

joe cornish directing die hard v is so the kid in the year below you at school becoming a pop star

seldom has a westminster alumnus been so patronized

Surely Bruce Willis is too old for this shit?

If anything this list has a distinct whiff of trying to stoke blogger interest by putting some hyped names down as candidates. Will these guys take a meeting? Sure—it’s an opportunity to make your face known with movers and shakers and it’s the meeting you don’t turn down, so yeah, some studio suits and these helmers will break bread over a Cobb salad. But if we were betting men—and given the track record of the ‘Die Hard’ helmers so far—we’d guess Lin or the meat and potatoes Moore (or someone in that vein) winds up getting the job.

way to get wrapped up in the hype, hm

trade publications using the word 'helmer' :/

don't know who those guys are, at first i was like 'wow those are some nerdy nonthreatening-looking dudes vying for the alan rickman die hard villain spot'

the villain in Die Hard 4 was pretty nerdy ... i too thought these were villain runner-ups.

can't they just bring back jeremy irons? they don't even have to give me a plausible explanation.

wait kevin smith wasn't the villain, was he? live free or die hard is all a blur

the sidekick and the villainous computer nerd looked kinda alike?

oh wait the villain was timothy olyphant! not exactly a pushover

Only good bit about DH4 was the ransom speech made up of US presidential soundbites. The rest was dumb and dickheaded.

well, it didn't go to joe cornish

moore was the least interesting candidate, which is how i knew he'd get the job

Joe Cornish needs to go in the 'men that look like old lesbians' thread.

remember when Willis did an art film every couple of years? and you all went, right?

blake edwards made 'art films'?

remember when Willis did an art film every couple of years?

no?

THE FIFTH ELEMENT

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Morbius-beloved art films like Grindhouse, Alpha Dog, Fast Food Nation, Sin City and Breakfast of Champions

i think morbs is really saying

-bruce willis is shit
-even when he tried to do quasi-non-mainstream stuff it was shit
-but you liked it

"and you all went, right?" didn't seem sincere

god i love hudson hawk

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seems hard to disagree that willis used to make more interesting choices though. of course the real problem with his career is that he just stopped caring and stonefaces his way through every movie now - its hard to imagine him giving a performance like he did in the first Die Hard today

"Surrogates" was a quirky movie and he gave a pretty vintage Willis perf in it

Pete Baran's review here -

http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2009/11/robotic-midsomers-murders/

and my comment on it:

To my mind, you hire Bruce Willis for one facial expression, the slightly bug-eyed one that says “This destruction is absurdly amusing”. Tarantino knew this and gave him a couple of great scenes in which to deploy it – finding the machine gun on the kitchen counter, and looking through the weaponry at the pawn shop before settling on a Samurai sword. Die Hard is full of it. And we get it here just once, when he’s driving like gangbusters after a hijacked surrogate who at one point manages to clamp herself onto his speeding car. And there it is, the bug eyes, the concealed WTFness – the Willis Look is a descendant of that line in The Thing, “You gotta be fucking kidding me.”

didnt see it. i did enjoy him a lot in Fast Food Nation

yeah he's definitely been almost stubbornly dull in later roles, like something like Red might've actually been fun if he wasn't such a drag. but i feel like he had pretty ruthless commercial instincts from the beginning, even his more niche early movies seemed to be aiming for bigger box office than they got. it seems like the mid-'90s after Pulp Fiction was the only time interesting (or 'interesting') projects intersected w/ his interests.

hah, that bug-eyed look is exactly what i was thinking of when i mentioned the first Die Hard. it's so essential to humanizing him instead of letting him be mr. pursed-mouth-squinty-eyed-shaved-head badass all the time

Plan your Valentine's Day 2013 accordingly.

I hear President Cain will order everyone to watch it to learn about foreign policy.

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Perhaps today is a good day to die hard.

A+

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I'm sure this will be a blast but that is a teal and orange nightmare.

February?

more like teal and ownage

there are none more teal than that trailer.

live free or die hard kind of worked willis' tribute to the searchers, dude was so "been there done that" hateful, i don't even know what attitude he can cop here

ok just saw this is from the director of the omen remake and max payne, i will likely not be seeing this

dh4 was by an even worse director and it was somewhat watchable, and this looks better frankly

please let this be rated R, i want brains on the wall. no cgi blood. did mr takagi die for nothing?

h4a otm

i haven't seen the underworld movies but i have to assume they're more fun than max payne if they got to have sequels

Things You Just Don't Care About

mary elizabeth winstead! she is cuet.

3 is a lot better than 2 btw.

I would've originally ranked them 1>>>2>>>3>>>>>>>>>>>>>>4, but now I think 3 is far above 4 and seriously underrated as a great action film only bc the first die hard is arguably the best action film of all time. 3 is maybe the best pure action film ever set in NYC. Said it before but it's a pelham 123 for the 1990s.

everyone is fantastic in 3 too. Feels like a real lived in movie, like the first. Mctiernan was always great at grounding his action pics, similar to peak era Andrew Davis.

4 just feels to the OG die hards (1 and 3 espesh) to be a fanboys dream of a die hard movie and the originals feel like they were made by actual adults and featuring real people in particularly outlandish scenarios.

the first die hard is arguably the best action film of all time.

It won the ILX poll. That makes it so.

I saw 3 a long time ago and meant to watch after the WORLD'S BEST ACTION MOVIE POLL OF ALL TIME but I forgot. So I shall add that to this weekend's viewing.

can we do that action poll again? i have such fond memories.

seems to create a poll sequel so quickly after the first would be unnecessary but then again it is the action movies poll.

!!!!!!!!

lol someone should just re-rollout the results once a month like TNT does with Shawshank Redemption.

would watch

it would have to be pan-and-scan and interrupted with frequent commercials though.

also we'd have to re-dub all the foul words.

and edit out the boobs

i enjoy doing polls but between work and kid i've got zero time. i'm retired. that was my last poll. nothing could make me do it again. i'm going to enjoy a quiet life in a remote cabin off the grid.

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maybe someone could do a poll of action movie sequels

3 is the one where Bruce Willis teams up with Samuel Jackson, right? I'm sort of confused here with some people ranking 4 above it, I thought maybe i had remembered a completely different movie...

3 is basically a Mr. Bill movie with the role of Mr. Hands played by the City of New York.

die hard prequel

so apparently this movie is fucking terrible

metacritic - 29
RT - 13%

hard to believe i could be left pining for the surehanded directorial touch of len wiseman, but here i am

Beyond dire.

everything about this film strikes me less as a case of sequelitis and more about hollywood basically making their marketable properties as safely generic as possible. i mean when you look at DH2 it was kind of generic as well storywise but harlin is a great action director and the mcclane character was still blue-collar and the supporting cast was a group of lived-in similarly working class types, and then DHWAV was just a weird, '70s-style NYC action film w/a mctiernan-level budget. i kinda hate on DH4 but this seems worse.

i hate that whole let's have him team up with his son, as though no-one would see a Die Hard movie without some dickbag 20 something to hook us

fuck you just give me John McClane kicking ass with explosions and a car chase or two and we'll pay to see your fucking movie

assholes

anytime a franchise pulls the http://media.comicvine.com/uploads/3/38780/1010904-poochie_icon.gif move it's going to be inherently shitty

everything about this film the last 35 years of popular cinema strikes me less as a case of sequelitis and more about hollywood basically making their marketable properties as safely generic as possible

Based on the trailer, I wouldn't be at all surprised to learn that this was just some generic action movie starring Bruce Willis and that someone dubbed a "John McClane" over every utterance of his actual character's name.

Ha ha ha. I was imagining it as a really shitty, "end of Poochie"-esque dub!

John McClane naps in the back of a van while his young son takes on Russian terrorists

DIE HARD GOES BOOM

I would've originally ranked them 1>>>2>>>3>>>>>>>>>>>>>>4, but now I think 3 is far above 4 and seriously underrated as a great action film only bc the first die hard is arguably the best action film of all time. 3 is maybe the best pure action film ever set in NYC. Said it before but it's a pelham 123 for the 1990s.

― sug ones (omar little), Friday, November 2, 2012 1:28 AM (3 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

everyone is fantastic in 3 too. Feels like a real lived in movie, like the first. Mctiernan was always great at grounding his action pics, similar to peak era Andrew Davis.

― sug ones (omar little), Friday, November 2, 2012 1:31 AM (3 months ago) Bookmark

one of the best things mctiernan does in 1 & 3 is give even the most minor characters a noticeable personality. everyone is a recognizable 'type' with some real character to them, instead of generic reporter, generic henchman, generic fbi guy, etc. in DHWAV even the 911 operator is memorable. pelham comparison otm, especially with the parallel of having colorful municipal workers banding together to foil a heist

die hard 2 is made in the same spirit and has a terrific cast, it's just that the script seems a bit lazier and more reliant on cliches and excessive callbacks to the first movie

For the life of me, I have no idea if this opened or not. This weekend? I could have sworn it was playing when I was at the movies last night, or maybe that's because ... it's always been playing.

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as far as essential diehardness goes, 1 > 3 > 2 > ...

As far as essential Die Hards go ..... 1.

i genuinely don't think the new die hard is worse than die hard 2? die hard 2 is insanely boring, this one at least has a fuckton of explosions.

is al leong in this??

the boy playing the son has those arms that are so overdeveloped he has to wear tshirts with flared sleeves

This was crap.

Die Hard 6: Dying Hard, or Hardly Dying?

Die Hard 7: The Harder They Come, The Harder They DIE

Based on the trailer, I wouldn't be at all surprised to learn that this was just some generic action movie starring Bruce Willis and that someone dubbed a "John McClane" over every utterance of his actual character's name.

― Charles Drangus (Old Lunch), Thursday, February 14, 2013 3:53 PM (5 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

It really does play this way, yes.

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proposed sequel pitched in hollywood reporter as a full page ad

that might just be crazy eno--

nah.

ugh god stop

fuck everyone involved in this piece of shite, I just wasted a precious evening semi-watching this