THE BORE
General => The Superdeep Borehole => Topic started by: Great Rumbler on February 13, 2013, 06:13:01 PM
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Generally speaking, the action elements aren't the problem here. They're certainly loud enough. It's the obligatory intra-family squabbling and preposterous plotting that threaten to derail this nonsensical sequel.
At 98 minutes, this is by far the shortest of the Die Hard films, the rest of which run more than two hours. But it ends not a moment too soon.
Frenetically directed by John Moore from a sketchy script by Skip Woods, A Good Day to Die Hard has the dubious distinction of making John McClane unlikeable. He's had some bad days in the past, but this one finally got him down.
A Good Day to Die Hard is pointless and joyless, a barrage of noise and chaos, an onslaught of destruction without the slightest mention of consequence.
If Harvard Business School wants to do a case study on how to debase a once-respected brand, they needn't look any further than the Die Hard movies.
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/a_good_day_to_die_hard/
25 reviews, 2 of them are positive. That's 8%, for those who failed math class. The average rating is 3.9 out of 10.
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Just fucking retire the series please.
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I think this will be good anyway
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Yikes, was hoping this would at least be better than #4
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I thought 4 was okay, maybe on par with 3 though certainly not as good as 1. Decent action movie that wasn't too hokey with the story that I couldn't enjoy it. That ended up with 81% and 6.8/10, by the way.
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I liked 4. Its not 1 or 3 but its not bad. This is sad.
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Passing on this for sure, looked like everything i hate
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4 was ok, but definitely a step down from the older ones. I actually thought the latest trailer for #5 looked pretty good (some great cinematography), so was hoping it'd be more akin to the original. Disappointed I am.
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I like 4 too. If 5 is as good I will be fine with it.
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4 was fucking TERRIBLE; there's absolutely no way this is worse than that. I refuse to believe it.
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Passing on this for sure, looked like everything i hate
Yep, I haven't even watched 4 and I'm a Kevin Smith mark
Always feel like 3 is under-rated.
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"the worst modern style of quick cuts and smeary, jittery photography"
yep, I'm passing on this. This is the main reason why most action moves these days completely suck
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ya, I hate that. Ruined the new bond movies for me
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I'm not a fan of 2 or 3, but they're waaaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyyyy better than 4 and more than likely 5.
Fortunately, none of them ruin the first one for me. Best Christmas movie ever.
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4 was fucking TERRIBLE; there's absolutely no way this is worse than that. I refuse to believe it.
I really think it could be worse.
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I laugh at people wasting their time tomorrow on this.
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I laugh at people wasting their time tomorrow on this.
what about the people who are going to the marathon?
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The marathon is pretty sick. Those people are cool and deserve lots of sex.
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Just pretend it's alternate universe Die-Hard or fan fiction
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i thought this came out already. the guy playing superman is in it.
but really, if this is as boring as the last one, the series is 2/5 for me. a couple more flops and it's entering Bond territory.
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Don't care, gonna see it.
:hyper :hyper :hyper
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1 and 3 (to a lesser extent) are the only ones that matter
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There is a new die hard?
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I knew this was gonna be bad after 4, but damn! I guess the complete lack of marketing should have been a tip off. I saw more commercials for Bullet to the Head than I did for this movie.
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at least the underappreciated Die Harder gets to look better next to parts 4 and 5.
how the fuck do you make a worse action movie to a PG-13 predecessor with an R rating?
Its opening against a Nicolas Sparks adaptation and a Twilight rip off and its reviewing worse then both of them as of present.
I mean, holy shit.
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Yeah I saw it. It sucks shit.
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Is the cute daughter in it much?
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Nah.
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4 was fucking TERRIBLE; there's absolutely no way this is worse than that. I refuse to believe it.
It's not worse than 4. The action is better, and Bruce Willis isn't asleep for the entire movie. Nowhere near as good as 1-3, but 4 was just so bad it is unwatchable.
I went to the Die Hard marathon yesterday and it was the first time I've seen 4 since it was out in theaters in 2007, and watching 5 after that makes 5 look like a masterpiece. It's still shit, but anyone who can possibly think that 4 with its "The Net" levels of computer stupidity and Bruce Willis acting tranquilized for the entire movie is better than the new one probably hasn't seen 4 in a while. 4 is like a made for TNT movie.
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The marathon is pretty sick. Those people are cool and deserve lots of sex.
Gonna make it clear that I did not go to the marathon now, since Manabyte just said he did.
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Die Hard is getting to be like Ben Stiller's action series in Tropic Thunder
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So basically just keep on watching Die Hard and Die Hard With A Vengeance and forget the other movies exist.
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I laugh at people wasting their time tomorrow on this.
FUCK YOU SHAKA
doesnt need to be said, but anyone who ever enjoyed a die hard should never waste their time on this p.o.s. not in the theater, not downloaded off the net, not even if its on t.v. and you're really bored that day.
i dunno wtf the manabutt is on but this is 1000x worse than any other die hard - worse than plenty of straight-to-video trash aside from the special effects budget. 4 wasn't a great movie but it was still better than 2 and it still felt like a fucking movie instead of the string of uninteresting action scenes and tired plot we got here. there's so little story that it can't even properly set up the next action scene! they never take the time to set up the story and let us know why bruce willis feels like risking his life and doing all sorts of crazy/dumb shit. and forget john mcclain being the wore-out cop trying to get through the fucked-up situation he's in while picking off crazy comicbook villains; this is pure 80's run-and-gun stupidity with none of the charm. the action scenes themselves are unexciting because there's no logic, coherency, tension, or fun in them.
this movie sucks ass in ways you could never imagine unless you experience it for yourself. DO NOT SEE IT
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4 is explosive diarrhea. 5 is just shit.
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4 is corny at worst. 5 has no reason to exist because it's so pointless.
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5 is corny and over the top. 4 is a PG-13 movie directed by Kate Beckinsale's braindead husband that's actually worse than anything else he's ever shat out. Even the shitty Total Recall remake is better than 4.
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FUCK YOU SHAKA
I was waiting for this. :teehee
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I figured it had to be shit if it was coming out in February like this
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Don't worry, as bad as it may be, the Internet will hail it as an underrated 'fun, dumb' movie in 5 years.
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Don't worry, as bad as it may be, the Internet will hail it as an underrated 'fun, dumb' movie in 5 years.
I saw a thing in the past --> the past is better than the present --> thing from the past is good
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I can already see the MAF thread.
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I saw it last night, it was fucking hilarious. If you didn't like, you didn't understand it.
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I saw it last night, it was fucking hilarious. If you didn't like, you didn't understand it.
:lol What?
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I'd love to see Tarantino write the next Die Hard. I'm sure they could get the budget for it, and I bet he'd like to write it. He's a huge fan of the original.
1 and 3 (to a lesser extent) are the only ones that matter
:dap
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Tarantino and Willis definitely need to get back together.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxTPEd_Skfc
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that sounded awesome to me for 5 seconds but then I realized that Tarantino would feel obliged to subvert expectations by devoting 45 mins of it to super-intense discussion of gluten-free baking products or something
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I saw it last night, it was fucking hilarious. If you didn't like, you didn't understand it.
Explain it to me, please.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxTPEd_Skfc
:lol about a half dozen times during this, thanks.
that sounded awesome to me for 5 seconds but then I realized that Tarantino would feel obliged to subvert expectations by devoting 45 mins of it to super-intense discussion of gluten-free baking products or something
So, considering your primal predilections, you don't like wank material in your action movies?