Mort-Hog
If moral relativism is wrong, I don't wanna be right.
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what. Die Hard 4 was awful.
The flimsy, predictable and generally fairly silly 'cyber-terrorism' storyline served only as a semi-necessary background for a series of generic action scenes. Yeah, killing a helicopter with a car was pretty damn cool but the scene on the highway with the fighter plane was just absurd.
The thing that made the Die Hard movies a classic franchise was the borderline-believable action scenes. Bruce Willis running barefoot across a floor covered in broken glass ends up being the most exciting and heart pounding scene.
Die Hard is a classic 80s franchise, and it's still great fun to watch and heark back to a time when bad guys were bad guys, good guys were good guys, action ensued and somehow a great movie emerged in the end.
Dragging classics kicking and screaming into the 21st century simply doesn't work. The CGI just made everything a little ridiculous, and the 'computer hacking' scenes just made everything awfully ridiculous (though pretty much every movie ever that involves anyone doing anything on a computer suffers this absurdity, Die Hard is not the worst offender by far).
The only reason Die Hard 4 made money was because the main character was called 'John McLane' and the movie had 'Die Hard' in the title. Yes, I'm as guilty of this as anyone else, I went to see it for precisely this reason too. I wasn't expecting much, and I wasn't dissapointed.
If the same movie was called 'Generic Goodguy saves day from one-dimensional bad guy 4.0!' with Bruce Willis playing 'Johnny McJohnjohn', it would served as a parody of the Die Hard trilogy, much like Die Hard 4 was, and failed miserably.
I expect Indiana Jones to be precisely the same.
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