DIE HARD 2....DIE HARDER LOL

[Phoenix Dark]

Watched it an hour ago. I must say...wow. I thought the first was fucking amazing, and the third was a fun action movie. This one was more of a dumb action movie. Everything was bigger and louder than the first. The cursing was so over the top it got annoying. The action scenes are absolutely ludicrous lol. THIS is where XXX got inspiration from.

Now this wasn't nearly as horrible as XXX. In fact, it wasn't a terrible movie at all. It just seemed like all the over the top action and cursing were meant to distract the viewer from the fact that this is a very, very average movie.

McClane is still a god damn badass of course, but so much is missing. The witty, funny one liners are replaced with recycled cliches and painful dialogue. McClane's hilarious reactions to situations are thrown out for rather dumb superhero moments. And the Al is only in the movie for 5min, replaced by some dumbass black guy with the most annoying voice I've heard this year.

The plot was good for most of the movie, but eventually it made little sense. Once the terrorists had the drug dealer on the snow speeders...why weren't police sent to meet them at their destination? At that point there wasn't anything the terrorists could do lol.

Oh well. It was entertaining at parts, and sometimes funny, but overall meh.

5.5/10

[CajoleJuice]

Another PD review I agree with. 

[Phoenix Dark]

If anything it made me appreciate the first one more. Very few action movies stand toe to toe with Die Hard imo, and I'd put it up there with T2. But alas, why aren't these movies made anymore? Part of the reason seems to be that there simply aren't any real action stars anymore. Everyone is too busy being a pretty boy and appealing to the ladies. Bruce Willis is fucking amazing in an everyday/everyman kind of way. Ford was the man every man (starting with Lucas and Spielberg) wished they could be. Arnold was just Arnold, and good at it. Clint Eastwood will go down in history as the coolest man to ever live. John Wayne is the original king of the witty one liner.

Buy today? Brad Pitt? Leo? DMX? ghgfkdgfg...

 

[Shuri]

Die Hard was suposed to be the sequel to Commando 

[futami]

i enjoyed this more than die hard 3.

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I'm going to watch this now.  I've only seen bits and pieces of it on TV 

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btw, remember when Fox (and other companies) used to put out badass DVDs like the Die Hard discs?



2-disc SEs, DD & DTS, documentaries, featurettes, and contained in those oh so lovely double Alpha cases?  It made you really feel like you were getting something for your money.  The fun in DVD collecting is totally gone nowadays.

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Haha, well, it was an okay movie.  Not great, but not terrible either.  It was decent for a big, dumb, action film.  Nowhere near the first, though.  I have to say, I might have enjoyed Die Harder more than Vengeance.  And a lot of that has to do with the atmosphere of it.  At least the first and second films were set around Christmas.  It just feels like that's how a Die Hard movie should be.

A couple of scenes really bugged me though.  For one, I hate it when the filmmakers do no research on the weapons.  A Glock seven?  No such thing.  Made out of porcelain?  LOL NO.  Undetectable by metal detectors?  Bzzzz.  Sorry, that's plain wrong as well.  And the scene with the grenades being thrown into the cockpit that apparently had like twenty second timers on them... Please!   

I did get a big laugh out of the part where McClane goes flying through the air on the snowmobile, over a truck, and then his snowmobile blows up, hahahaha.  That was pure comedy.