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Indiana Jones and The Kingdom of Unnnnghhh Oh God Yes
2008-02-15, 1:31 PM #41
The bad thing about Die Hard 2 was that they tried to do it like the first one again, all closed into one small space, quite claustrophobic, only they kept on treading into the more free roaming thing then realised, crap we're meant to be in one place and tried to go back to it.

It didn't know whether it was coming or going.
nope.
2008-02-15, 1:42 PM #42
Originally posted by Mort-Hog:
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.


It was an action movie that never intended to be anything more than it was. If you were willing to be objective you realize that the first movie is predictable too. Yes, setting the entire movie in a highrise building gave it some originality, but take that away and it would have been a run of the mill action movie.
Pissed Off?
2008-02-15, 3:46 PM #43
The reason people like Die Hard movies is because of the character John McClane. Rather than being some detached, awesome fighter, like James Bond or Batman, he was a regular guy who got pissed off and laughed when the bad guy got killed. He wasn't perfect. He got shot, beat up, and kicked. He had to fight hard and suffer for every win. He had a personality, likes, dislikes, and a sense of humor, which audiences are able to associate with.

That's also part of the allure of the Indiana Jones and Lethal Weapon films.
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