Poll: Looking to watch a movie tonight... can't decide.
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Die Hard represented a major shift in the action movie paradigm. Part of the reason it may come across as dated is because every action movie that came along after Die Hard was trying to be Die Hard. Some still are [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2302755/].Full Metal Bolshevik said:
Before Die Hard, 80s action heroes were live-action cartoon characters. Guys like Schwarzenegger and Stallone came across as larger-than-life supermen who dispensed death with no remorse and witty one-liners. I love a lot of these movies, but this is what most of them were. Sadly, this is also what the Die Hard franchise would become by the time of the 4th installment.
Die Hard took an actor better known for romantic comedy, and made him a blue-collar regular guy with real-life problems (his marriage is failing, his wife moved their kids across the country) who develops authentic relationships with other guys he can relate to and authentic antagonisms with other believable characters. John McLane isn't some kind of super-soldier who's the only one who can stop a great evil threat--he's the Only Sane Man trying to get the vainglorious institutions that surround him (the LAPD leadership, the FBI, the news media) to understand what he's trying to tell them about a situation he has first-hand knowledge of. When they don't listen, he has to improvise his own solutions using his wits, because he's outnumbered, outgunned, and unlike Rambo he feels pain.
The villains are also pretty damn clever, led by Alan Rickman in his breakthrough role as Hans Gruber, and they're not quite what they appear to be. Unlike most previous action films, McLane and Gruber have an excellent back-and-forth for most of the film. Most of the dialogue is pretty great, not just a bunch of one-liners, and the acting was well above average for an action film of the time. And I think it mostly holds up. I highly recommend giving it a chance!
What the hell is this? No one mentioned Nightmare Before Christmas? I am dissapoint
Not the best song in the movie, but the other ones would spoil stuff. This song starts playing like a minute and a half into the movie. I dare say this is a better christmas movie than Die Hard, the main reason being Danny Mother****ing Elfman!
But do watch Die Hard too, before or after Nightmare Before Christmas.
Not the best song in the movie, but the other ones would spoil stuff. This song starts playing like a minute and a half into the movie. I dare say this is a better christmas movie than Die Hard, the main reason being Danny Mother****ing Elfman!
But do watch Die Hard too, before or after Nightmare Before Christmas.
Those are all shit, go watch Tucker & Dale Vs. Evil instead or the Big Lebowski.
Disclaimer: Has only seen Cloudy with a chance of Meatballs and Puss in Boots from that list.
Disclaimer: Has only seen Cloudy with a chance of Meatballs and Puss in Boots from that list.