Escape to the Movies: A Good Day to Die Hard

[John the Gamer]

The Fifth Element is one of my favorite movies. They should do another one of those, but with Bruce in a supporting role as, I don't know, the Terran president or something.

On second thought, scrap that. I don't want that movie screwed up.

 

[Markunator]

The fact that you keep doing these quicky deconstructions in almost every review comes off as pretentious and it gets old after a while.

Why? Because he goes into the history of the franchise and why it was successful? You're most likely just using the word "pretentious" because you don't like people being smarter and/or more knowledgeable than you are.

Fans of the series don't need a deconstruction telling them why it's good. It gets annoying, and there's this air of "I like this movie for all these smart people reasons, rather than enjoying it for the simple reasons".

What the hell are you even talking about? I think you're just desperately digging for reasons to harp on Bob. And smart people often tend to enjoy films for smart people reasons - not that you would know anything about that ...

You know what is definitely not a sign of intelligence. Calling people idiots just because they have a different opinion than you.

It is my opinion that Bob comes across as pretentious for the reasons I mentioned and besides most smart people can enjoy things for simple reasons (see porn and the 3 Stooges).

I'm sorry, but I just cannot fathom how it can be pretentious to go into detail about a certain franchise? Bob does this in lots of his reviews, what's so different about this one?

 

[Cpt. Slow]

No Bob, most action films get the stab of death from bourgeois critics. Even if they were pretty damn good. And your review has no credibility at all because you painted Chernobyl as 'something Russian' but most well informed people know that it's not in Russia, it's in the Ukraine as most people above me already mentioned. I enjoyed and took Die Hard 5 for what it is: a silly over-the-top action film which can be enjoyed with popcorn and a soda to wash it down with. And if people gave the first 3 Die Hard films more credit then they actually deserved, well, at least the first two had some good plot turns and twists but in after part two, you could guess what was going to happen in the third one.

 

[Farther than stars]

Chernobyl isn't Russian

I was about to mention that as well. (^-^)

Yeah, that's something that everyone should have noticed. I mean, I have no problem with a small factual error, but you should never talk about a city or region you don't know anything about, especially because regional sovereignty can be such a sensitive issue. I mean, this is on par with saying that Sri Lanka is Indian or that Sydney is the capital of Australia.

 

[Miral]

The Fifth Element is one of my favorite movies. They should do another one of those, but with Bruce in a supporting role as, I don't know, the Terran president or something.

On second thought, scrap that. I don't want that movie screwed up.

QFT, on both points.

I think I've seen about three quarters of those movies. (Also: Hudson Hawk = awesome.)

And I agree with the ranking at the end too (though I haven't seen 5 yet). But as another poster already said, it's the only ranking that makes sense.

 

[Slowking]

Chernobyl isn't Russian

Yep. On that note, did they explain how the McClanes got to Chernobyl? The borders between Russia and the Ukrain aren't exactly closed but casual travel also isn't exactly easy either, afaik.

 

[Redlin5_v1legacy]

Honestly Bob, I walked into 5 struggling to remember what happened in 4. I know 1 through 3 but 4 and now 5 are lost to me.

 

[Dukeoftacos]

Just saw it last night, and I couldn't agree more. At least Live Free or Die Hard had a new digital age villan to put up against aging McLane, but this one did nothing with the whole he's in a different country thing at all.