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Old Jun 27, 2007 | 04:00 PM
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I'm not 12 anymore, dumb cliche hollywood action movies don't interest me.
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I'll probably end up renting it for a rainy day.
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Old Jun 27, 2007 | 04:02 PM
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I'll give it a chance :dunno:
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Old Jun 27, 2007 | 06:21 PM
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Originally Posted by Joe
Don't get me wrong, I love action movies. Doesn't mean I like them all.
If you don't like Die Hard, you don't like action movies.
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Old Jun 27, 2007 | 07:20 PM
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"You just killed a helicopter with a car!"
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Old Jun 27, 2007 | 07:45 PM
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Originally Posted by Black2KGSR
If you don't like Die Hard, you don't like action movies.
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My favorites in order:
Die Hard 1
Die Hard 3
Die Hard 2

Die Hard 4 placement to be determined.
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Old Jun 28, 2007 | 01:38 AM
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it was good, enjoyed it a lot actually. even with pg13 rating.. even the chick i was with who generally doesnt like action movies enjoyed it. i talked her out of oceans 13 cuz i had already seen it h:
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Old Jun 28, 2007 | 04:44 AM
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Saw this last night. It was pretty good. A little cheesy and overactioned out at times, but still good and very entertaining. They keep you interested in the movie the entire time.
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Old Jun 28, 2007 | 08:27 AM
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The way the movie was pieced together was great, each scene flowed and there was no question as to what was going on, everything was explained. Also, I appreciated the humor thrown into the movie (coming from Bruce Willis) as well as the limited language (that made it very enjoyable).
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Old Jun 28, 2007 | 11:34 AM
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It was fun but the plot holes got progressively more glaring as the movie went on.

[spoiler=plot holes]First the guy takes a cell phone and links up to "the satellite network," that not even the government is able to access, but there are these satellites up in the sky and active, accessible only to like 5 hackers on the planet. And any regular cell phone that you steal from some guy on the street can magically hook up to this hackers-only satellite network as long as you know what three buttons to push.

Then they steal the BMW. So, they whack a parked car with a trashcan and the airbags deploy? Then, even with all the telecommunications networks taken out by the bad guys, the BMW Assist somehow connects an operator to them who calmly starts the car remotely.

Then his daughter is caught in an elevator in Manhattan, and he's at Kevin Smith's house in Baltimore, and the bad guys snatch the daughter while he's still at the house. Yet somehow before before the good guys can drive down the street to another part of Baltimore, the bad guys manage to get the daughter all the way from Manhattan to Baltimore.

Then there's the whole "F-35" jet, and I'm sorry but if a movie has to make up an imaginary kind of plane just to serve as a plot device for an action set piece, then maaaybe that makes no sense. Like someone writing it was like, "dude it'd be AWESOME if we had a harrier jet try to take out a big rig truck on an elevated highway that goes in circles. Hey they have elevated highways in Baltimore, and uh, let's just make up our own sweet harrier jet!"[/spoiler]

I know, I know, it's a dumb action movie and this stuff doesn't really matter. But in dumb action movies I intentionally turn my brain off and just go for the ride, and all this stuff jumped right out at me.
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Old Jun 28, 2007 | 10:22 PM
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It was fawkin' awesome!

Didn't have the same feel as other Die Hards, the action was way more over the top...but Bruce Willis is still badass and hilarious.
I was annoyed at it being PG-13, though. There were some parts where they obviously dubbed over some language....not cool.

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