Live Free or Die Hard

[bobbledude25]

I heard plans for the 5th are in the making?

[danzig6767]

I thought it was entertaining if you were willing to let go completely of reality and be entertained by it. If you thought about the movie at all during or after, it was most definitely a mess.

 

I can't ever just completely let go of reality when watching a movie so all these over the top action thrillers like where one guy with a pistol manages to kill 14 guys with AK-47's,i just end up bored silly.

 

My friend wanted to go see this and when i said no,he offered to pay and i still passed.Some good action in a movie is good and i don't expect everything to be perfectly believable,but why so many of these movies have to make it one rediculously unbelievable scene after another is something i don't get.

 

They all follow the same formula.

 

Flimsy plot

Lots of explosions,chases,50 or more near death experiences avoided

One liners

Hero saves the day

 

Maybe i'm just getting old,but i actually prefer using my brain if i'm going to watch and enjoy a movie instead of leaving it in the car.

[BillScottCanRake]

I haven't seen this installment of the the Die Hard franchise, so my comment isn't directed towards this movie, tho it might apply.

 

There does seem to be a trend towards making movies that are more eye-candy than a story. There seems to be more interest in creating stunning visual scenes that are in the movie not because they fit a plot but rather because the technology exists to add the effect. I remember the original Star Wars movies (episode 4-6) as much for their story line as their effects, even tho the effects were revolutionary for their time.

 

There are still movies that are good stories, of course, but they seem to be less common than they used to be.

[Point Beer Is Best]

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There does seem to be a trend towards making movies that are more eye-candy than a story. There seems to be more interest in creating stunning visual scenes that are in the movie not because they fit a plot but rather because the technology exists to add the effect.

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My freshman English professor in college despised Bruce Willis and his genre of movies for that reason. I think she said something like, "They start out by giving you some ridiculous plot, blow something up, have crappy dialogue, blow something else up, then blow something bigger up, and when they finally run out of things to blow up, they mercifully end the movie." Except she used more colorful language we can't use here.

[MKE alz]

I'm with RobertR - Entertaining movie with a lot of problems. I hate how every action movie these days now HAS to have a stuntman that can jump around like he's from the Matrix.

 

If I had to rank the movies I'd go in this order:

1) Die Hard - by a long shot

2) Die Hard with a Vengeance - I liked Sam Jackson playing someone different than his typical role

3) Live Free or Die Hard - Entertaining if you don't think about it

Die Hard 2 - I'm not sure why but I really hated this one. For sure the ejector seat scene bugged the heck out of me.

 

I would have liked this movie better if the bad guy was the guy who plays PC in the Mac/PC commercials.