Die Hard 4

[philyhamann]

It was a good film, just didn't feel right. Like, not a Die Hard film, felt more like The Transporter 3 or something like that. Maybe because McClane is bald, I dunno.

[NelCarra]

Its not out yet

[Kobayashi Maru]

It was a good film, just didn't feel right. Like, not a Die Hard film, felt more like The Transporter 3 or something like that. Maybe because McClane is bald, I dunno.

 

Exactly my thoughts after I'd seen it. Probably the weakest of the 4 imo.

[Ezekiel 25:17]

Lookin forward to it myself, watched that many bad movies lately im hoping for a change. LIke Fantastic 4 two which I seen last night, Popcorn "great follow up" Empire "well worth the wait" Ezekiel 25:17 "if you like Anal rape you'll love this".

[Sut]

Lookin forward to it myself, watched that many bad movies lately im hoping for a change. LIke Fantastic 4 two which I seen last night, Popcorn "great follow up" Empire "well worth the wait" Ezekiel 25:17 "if you like Anal rape you'll love this".

 

Film Magazines are shite. FACT. (Aside from the now defunct Neon and the rather excellent LittleWhiteLies.)

[Ezekiel 25:17]

Ezekiel has taken the time to sift through all the fake and poor copies of this and can now bring you a link to a decent one vid 8/10 sound 8/10 Willis Manliness 10/10 anyway heres the link, not many people seeding at the mo so might take a while but is well worth it

 

http://www.torrentspy.com/torrent/1692326/Live_Free_or_Die_Hard_TELESYNC_XViD_PUKKA

 

 

screen shot.

[philyhamann]

Still didn't feel like a Die Hard to me.

[Monkeywool]

It wasn't claustrophobiccy enough, is why it didn't feel like Die Hard.

 

Die Hard 1: Trapped in a tower with terrorists,

Die Hard 2: Trapped in an airport with terrorists

Die Hard 3: Trapped running around New York playing games with Terrorists

Die Hard 4: Babysitting a geek, terrorists just happen to show up. He isn't trapped, he can walk away if he wanted too, its only at the end, in the final 30 minutes it started feeling like Die Hard as he had no choice but to be involved.

[Paul]

May be the greatest thing that has ever happened in the history of the world. I may be in post screening euphoria, but I think that's the best action screenplay ever written.

 

Perfect tightly-written mix of bombastic over the top action, humour, whit and tension. Add into the mix a nice piece of tongue in cheek political commentary on America's bumbling defense systems and failure to react during 9/11 and indeed after 9/11.

 

The perfect Willis vehicle and the perfect end to the franchise that I've only recently become a fan of. Better ending than Rocky Balboa I reckon. I'd gladly go back in there and watch it all over again, right now.

 

All that without a mention of your man Kev? I too thought it was brilliant.

[theghost]

All that without a mention of your man Kev? I too thought it was brilliant.

 

Kevin Smith's part was what sealed it for me. Absolutely brilliant piece of casting.

[philyhamann]

Kevin Smith is my nigga, I gave him a hug once and talk to him about BStarG.

[hamstrung]

[Spy Bee]

So it's pretty actiony?

[RedBrian84]

I liked it. It didn't try to be like the old Die Hards, which made it better- like it's already been said here, they would have looked dated and well out of place post Matrix and Bourne.

 

Still, Willis clearly wasnt taking himself or the film seriously (riding on the tail of a fighter jet, anyone??), which made it enjoyable. And the scene where he knocks shit out of that asian bird is hilarious. ("Had enough of this kung-fu crap")

 

Overall it was never goin to change the course of cinema was it? I thought it was dead enjoyable and well worth the money. Roll on number 5! :-)

[Special K]

You could totally tell that Smith had written that scene too. It was awesome.

 

 

"You dig the Fett?"

 

It was an enjoyable action movie but nowhere near as good as the previous 3. As has been said, it just didn't feel like a Die Hard fil, more like a generic actioner.

 

The final plane sequence was straight out of True Lies.

[NelCarra]

Thought it was really good meself...if a little cheesy

[Section_31]

It was a good film, just didn't feel right. Like, not a Die Hard film, felt more like The Transporter 3 or something like that. Maybe because McClane is bald, I dunno.

 

Yeah that's what I thought.

 

A bit 80's really, hard man with lots of guns hanging off the wing-top of fighter planes and not batting an eyelid.

 

The thing which made the originals so ace was that he was 'just a bloke' he was always on the back foot, not especially bright but relying on his instincts, he had his feet covered in bandages and used to get his arse royally kicked. He was about as far from Arnie or Van Damme as you could get.

 

 

Worth a watch, couldn't be arsed buying it though.

[RJ Fan club]

I liked it.

 

I thought it was better than 2 and 3 anyway.

 

Bruce looks a bit old and podgy round the mid rif to be doing all the action stuff, also a few cheesy moments/lines (which i suppose you get in those action films anyway). It didn't ruin it though.

[BENIRL]

One of the worst films I have ever watched. Why did they even bother with it.

 

Up there with Footloose. Just pish!

[BENIRL]

Wow, can't believe there's someone out there who didn't love it. You're hereby shunned.

 

I hated it. I sat thinking, why did the bother? I was hoping that Officer McClane was going to get a bullet in the end.

[ATXRED]

It was fun as hell, since when are action movies supposed to be anything but exactly that. It was pure testosterone, even down to the hot ass ladies kicking some ass as well. It's better than anything else that came out this year, and I'm including Transformers in this as well (loved that too though).

 

edit: Actually I thought 300 was better, but that's it.

[Fink]

Best film of 2007 for me. Fucking sweet as hell. There have been so many disappointments this year but here's a film that exceeded expectations, and then some. Brilliant in every way, a perfect modern exposition of the action genre. I couldn't pick a single fault in it.

 

Except its shite. The fact that they seem to have transcribed his unkillable character from unbreakable takes away any notion of tension because there is no way he is going to die. By the end of it, I was kind of wishing that Klaus had ganked him in the first one.

 

Absolute bollocks. probably a 5 out of 10 at best.

 

I came home and watched pans labyrinth again - 10 times better.

[Fink]

Not to mention the F35 incident which is right up there with Batman and Robin in crimes against cinema

[aikido]

Obviously Pan's Labyrinth is a better film within the context of what makes a great movie. Like anyone is going to argue that. It's one of the most enchanting films I've ever seen anyway and I saw it three times at the cinema.

 

But in terms of meeting a remit, in terms of being everything that film could possibly be, in terms of entertaining a built in audience and moving with the times of the genre... Die Hard 4.0 was immense. Faultless.

 

And did you really think, going into that movie that there was any possibility that John McLeane was going to die? How naive is it possible to be?

 

I agree, for sheer enjoyment Die Hard 4 was the best movie I've seen this year, followed extremely closely by 300, which also comes out on DVD tomorrow over here.

[Fink]

Obviously Pan's Labyrinth is a better film within the context of what makes a great movie. Like anyone is going to argue that. It's one of the most enchanting films I've ever seen anyway and I saw it three times at the cinema.

 

But in terms of meeting a remit, in terms of being everything that film could possibly be, in terms of entertaining a built in audience and moving with the times of the genre... Die Hard 4.0 was immense. Faultless.

 

And did you really think, going into that movie that there was any possibility that John McLeane was going to die? How naive is it possible to be?

 

Nope, but I went in expecting tension and empathy for a situation and that was sadly lacking. By the end of it I was angry and how much a film director thinks he can take the piss out of his audience.