Dear Danny Butterman: Your movies suck.
Oct. 27th, 2008 10:10 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
phosfateWatched Die Hard last night, in preparation for a story I'm theoretically writing. Apart from Alan Rickman's rather delightful scenery chewing (om nom nom), it was a tedious piece of bloated crap. I'm glad I didn't pay theater money to see it back in the day, since it would only have helped to kill my love of movies that much sooner. Also, hi there James Shigeta, you are always awesome.
I did like the bit where Bruce, Alan, and stupid exec are all on the phone, and Bruce is trying to save exec's life and exec is too stupid to figure it out.
I can't help but thinking that if Bruce hadn't been there, the robbers would have stolen their crap, blown up some shit, and left. Much lower body count and less property damage.
Still, a more watchable holiday movie than The Christmas Shoes.
I did like the bit where Bruce, Alan, and stupid exec are all on the phone, and Bruce is trying to save exec's life and exec is too stupid to figure it out.
I can't help but thinking that if Bruce hadn't been there, the robbers would have stolen their crap, blown up some shit, and left. Much lower body count and less property damage.
Still, a more watchable holiday movie than The Christmas Shoes.
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Date: 2008-10-27 03:54 pm (UTC)Though I do agree that Danny's taste in movies is tremendously terrible (Bad Boys II?), Die Hard has many fine qualities if you're willing to turn your brain off.
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Date: 2008-10-27 03:56 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-10-27 03:58 pm (UTC)I would like to add the disgruntled and incompetent presence of
Mr. VernhamPaul Gleason to the list of plus sides to the movie, but maybe I am biased.Much lower body count and less property damage.
See, you say that like it is a good thing.
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Date: 2008-10-27 03:58 pm (UTC)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTyw6cq86kY
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Date: 2008-10-27 04:02 pm (UTC)Ohhhhhhhh, right.
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Date: 2008-10-27 04:23 pm (UTC)Somehow I imagine him eating his revolver under the Christmas tree the next morning.
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Date: 2008-10-27 04:40 pm (UTC)(and pretty much all you need to watch, in lieu of the movies themselves)
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Date: 2008-10-27 04:56 pm (UTC)D :
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Date: 2008-10-27 05:16 pm (UTC)I've seen Die Hard several times on TV; I think it's rewatchable, obviously, but I don't especially love it. It's overlong, the FBI stuff is just plain obnoxious, and all the good bits are scattered amid an unremarkable police/action drama. I don't think Alan Rickman is that interesting in it, either; Bruce Willis does better playing McClane's frazzled, improbably resourceful supercop. I haven't seen the second movie in the series all the way through. I might borrow it from the library one of these days, out of completism. And the fourth, most recent movie in the series is about three orders of magnitude [building or city to state to country] more bloated than the original: it throws the whole USA into chaos in order to have a series of localised hypertrophied action sequences centered on McClane & co.
I really love the third Die Hard (With A Vengeance), though. It's got problems (like, really, making it a point of attacking the black guy's prejudices against white people?) and it's quite (sometimes ridiculously) contrived, but it's pretty nearly only full of the fun bits. And Jeremy Irons is a more flamboyant villain, and he gets undressed down to a shoulder-baring camisole too.
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Date: 2008-10-27 07:51 pm (UTC)Also, who has a Xmas party on Dec. 24? That above anything else is the most unrealistic thing.