I finally watched Die Hard this weekend

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deangelashante

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Yeah, I pretty much was expecting a lot of over the top effects but what really killed it for me was when Maggie Q (she's delicious btw) was SMASHED from a SUV going well over 40 - 50mph, SMASHED through multiple partitions and finally PINNED inside a elevator shaft.

And lives?
 
It was entertaining, but it eventually got to a point where it was just way too over the top to be close to believable. His daughter was damn fine though.
 
The Die hard movies are dull...except the third one. Haven't seen the fourth(point one-th)), but they're all standard-Hollywood action with nothing to get them noticed among the other 100 billion badly made action movies, Hollywood or not.
 
Its die hard, your not meant to think too hard, your just meant to enjoy seeing things blow up, and an ordinary looking guy beating the shit out of people, rather than some pumped up muscleman or martial arts expert most of us wont ever be.
 
No, the original "Die Hard" was the genre producing movie, it was the first of its type, the original prototype.

There are acceptable levels of belief which audiences exhibit and then there are not. It's called 'entertainment' and so long as the Kansas City Shuffle works, it's acceptable.

Perhaps action movies aren't your cup of tea. Dramas may be your better suite. But when movies are made all through CGI, will you find that acceptable? Was "300" merely acceptable, dribble or great?
 
He already had a hole there from being shot through the shoulder a few minutes earlier, he shot the bad guy though the same hole.
 
At first I was thinking the same thing... but then again, how believable are any of them? If you honestly look at them, they are all way, way, way out there... only difference is when you saw the other ones you were probably between 7 and a young teen.
 
One of the few movies that 'took me out of the film' was 'Terminator 3' where the woman cyborg causes a current model car to shift gears by infecting the car cpu - since cars still have mechanical links. Once I saw that the shift gear shifted by itself...

If I want realism I'll watch the news. I go to movies to suspend my belief system. 'Die Harder' did a good job of that, as it served to make the conspiracy paranoid even more paranoid. No, no GPS for me, thank you. At the very least it laid bare the underbelly of our dependence on technology. So, did he ever get his pension back? (That's what back up tapes are for.)
 
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