After the disaster that was A Good Day To Die Hard, this one can only be better or worse, as the case may be. :wink:
Despite how much I enjoyed the first three movies I can't help thinking its long past time they left this franchise alone.
Maybe it should have been DIE HARD! DIE HARD! MY DARLING!
or
The porn version: DIE HARDER THAN HARD
Quote from: Dark Alex on October 13, 2015, 02:30:45 AM
Despite how much I enjoyed the first three movies I can't help thinking its long past time they left this franchise alone.
Agreed: the series went downhill when #4 started: #5 was terrible IMO.
I also can't believe how old and tired Bruce Willis looks in #4.
Quote from: retrorussell on October 13, 2015, 03:13:21 AM
Maybe it should have been DIE HARD! DIE HARD! MY DARLING!
or
The porn version: DIE HARDER THAN HARD
:teddyr: :teddyr:
Wasn't there a French version called Do Not Die Too Hard? :teddyr:
Bruce Willis just doesn't seem that interested in them now. He did an interview in the UK for A Good Day To Die Hard, where he turned up in a house coat and half way through interupted the interviewer to complain about how stupid the title was, and what the hell did it mean anyway?
A big part of the appeal of the first movie to me was that it was an ordinary police officer caught up in things. He panic's, he gets injured. When I watched Die Hard 4.0 I just didn't recognise it as part of the same series.
Quote from: Dark Alex on October 14, 2015, 03:08:39 AM
Bruce Willis just doesn't seem that interested in them now. He did an interview in the UK for A Good Day To Die Hard, where he turned up in a house coat and half way through interupted the interviewer to complain about how stupid the title was, and what the hell did it mean anyway?
Colleagues of mine in the industry here worked with the director of
A Good Day To Die Hard on the remake of
Flight of the Phoenix and all they had to say about that experience was
(http://www.freesmileys.org/smileys/smiley-scared007.gif)
Quote from: Trevor on October 14, 2015, 04:33:04 AM
Quote from: Dark Alex on October 14, 2015, 03:08:39 AM
Bruce Willis just doesn't seem that interested in them now. He did an interview in the UK for A Good Day To Die Hard, where he turned up in a house coat and half way through interupted the interviewer to complain about how stupid the title was, and what the hell did it mean anyway?
Colleagues of mine in the industry here worked with the director of A Good Day To Die Hard on the remake of Flight of the Phoenix and all they had to say about that experience was
(http://www.freesmileys.org/smileys/smiley-scared007.gif)
Yeah, he's a pretty mediocre (at best) workman-like director. He does what the studio says, the bare minimum, and nothing more. He has no flair or particular talent, but he'll get the movie done on time and within the budget. Why he is directing $100 million blockbuster, I have no clue. Maybe because they think it's a guaranteed hit if it checks the boxes, so let's get someone who won't rock the boat? I guess it worked, as the fifth film did make some money, even if it did worse than the last two.
Bruce Willis was so bored in the last one, I'm not even sure he could bother to speak his own dialogue. Mom and Dad actually asked me, after they saw it, if I thought an impersonator was dubbing his lines.
Quote from: Jim H on October 14, 2015, 05:50:30 PM
Yeah, he's a pretty mediocre (at best) workman-like director. He does what the studio says, the bare minimum, and nothing more. He has no flair or particular talent, but he'll get the movie done on time and within the budget.
If you want to know exactly how John Moore works, watch the 'making of' feature on the DVD of
Flight of the Phoenix :buggedout: :buggedout:
i was joking about this, thinking there isn't a part 6 but :buggedout: :buggedout:
http://www.denofgeek.com/movies/die-hard/37364/die-hard-6-to-be-both-origin-story-and-sequel (http://www.denofgeek.com/movies/die-hard/37364/die-hard-6-to-be-both-origin-story-and-sequel)
Someone kill me now. :thumbdown:
Quote from: Trevor on October 15, 2015, 08:02:00 AM
i was joking about this, thinking there isn't a part 6 but :buggedout: :buggedout:
http://www.denofgeek.com/movies/die-hard/37364/die-hard-6-to-be-both-origin-story-and-sequel (http://www.denofgeek.com/movies/die-hard/37364/die-hard-6-to-be-both-origin-story-and-sequel)
Someone kill me now. :thumbdown:
I am quoting myself from elsewhere:
This is actually maybe the worst major action movie character to do an origin of. We know exactly enough, and his reactions to the events of the first film indicate it was an extraordinary event in his life. So, the first film should be small scale in comparison, and Die Hard is already smallish by modern blockbuster standards. Is Hollywood going to make a small police procedural with John McClane? No. So, they're going to make a movie using the name and nostalgia to sell it, already with no respect and bad continuity for the existing entries. This means they have minimal incentive to make a genuinely good film, as they are banking on other factors to sell it.
It's almost guaranteed to suck.
The one thing I will say is Len Wiseman is at least a better director than John Moore. I don't think he's a GREAT director, but he at least has some ability. I think Live Free or Die Hard is fun, if slight, and Underworld is enjoyable.
Quote
If you want to know exactly how John Moore works, watch the 'making of' feature on the DVD of Flight of the Phoenix
I'm really curious now. Don't own it, but if I ever get around to it it'll check it out.
Let me save you some money: check out the reader reviews here - :buggedout: :buggedout:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0438323/ (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0438323/)
Quote from: Trevor on October 20, 2015, 02:27:29 AM
Let me save you some money: check out the reader reviews here - :buggedout: :buggedout:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0438323/ (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0438323/)
Crazy, swearing, threatening his crew, and throwing tantrums. Sounds like Jim Cameron, minus the talent. :teddyr:
Quote from: Jim H on October 21, 2015, 10:58:17 PM
Quote from: Trevor on October 20, 2015, 02:27:29 AM
Let me save you some money: check out the reader reviews here - :buggedout: :buggedout:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0438323/ (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0438323/)
Crazy, swearing, threatening his crew, and throwing tantrums. Sounds like Jim Cameron, minus the talent. :teddyr:
True: at one point, he had a tantrum over the fact that there wasn't enough scaffolding available to place around the aeroplane for close shots so he just kicked down the scaffolding already erected. :buggedout: :buggedout:
One of my favorite movie critics, Chris Stuckmann, had this to say about the latest Die Hard film:
http://youtu.be/1mJqDiCu6eA (http://youtu.be/1mJqDiCu6eA)
This won't end well. Not with a bang, but the proverbial whimper.
The original Die Hard movie was tremendously cool, and the concept spawned dozens of derivative movies. Under Siege was Die Hard on a battleship. Under Siege 2 was Die Hard on a train. There was an article in Impact magazine (?) that listed at least ten movies that were 'Die Hard in a X'.
Last Christmas Eve, a friend and I watched Die Hard together, in different states, by pressing play on the DVD at the same time. We lined up pizza and drinks and texted each other throughout. It was surprisingly cool.
I remember hearing somewhere that Die Hard 3 was originally supposed to happen on a ship, but was changed when Under Seige came out as the plots were too similar.