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Summary: Definately a 5 star edition
Review: This movie is just plain awesome. Lots of violence, lots of humor, lots of explosions, what more could a guy ask for? Plot=YES, Good Acting=YES, Good Story=YES, and Great Characters=YES! This is the ultimate action flick, and if you like shoot em' up films, this is definately for you. This movie is about a group of terrorist that take over a building and hold hostages all for the purpose of stealing $600,000,000, except they didn't count on an NYPD being there to spoil the whole thing. This is a wonderful movie, and even now it can apply to us. Defineately a must SEE!!!
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Summary: Die Hard and Die Hard 2
Review: Die Hard began a subgenre in action films (as well as Bruce Willis' career as an action star)--that of the lone hero, a sort of cowboy for the modern era. Films like Under Siege ("Die Hard on a boat") and Passenger 57 ("Die Hard on a plane") are example of substandard entries that soon followed. What they missed is that Die Hard is a good film on its own. John McClane (Bruce Willis) is a New York cop transplanted to Los Angeles when his wife gets a job with the Nakatomi Corporation. When terrorists take over the building during a Christmas party, it's up to John to save the day. Alan Rickman gives an excellent performance as lead terrorist Hans Gruber but it's Willis that carries the film with his wisecracks, catchphrases, and charisma. Inevitably, there would be a sequel and we should consider ourselves lucky that it was Die Hard 2. Subtitled "Die Harder," it was actually based on an unrelated novel (58 Minutes by Walter Wager) that was then geared to fit the McClane character. Again, it's Christmas, and again Mrs. McClane is in danger. Her plane is flying over Washington, D.C., and is quickly running out of fuel. But more terrorists are attempting to fly in a drug lord and will have no planes landing until he arrives safely. Die Hard 2, although a lesser film than its predecessor, more than makes up for it in the fun factor. Self-referential remarks ("How can [this] happen to the same guy twice?") and a total lack of any coherent logic along with terrific effects (and a stunning high perspective shot) come together to make one of the best action sequels. A double feature is probably not in order, but either of these films make for fine escapist viewing. "Yippy-ki-yay, [melonfarmer]!"
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Summary: What a Good Role for Willis
Review: Bruce Willis has found a role that he can do well! I enjoyed this film very much, and found its orginality and cast refreshing. This film is action packed and entertaining through the end.
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Summary: One of the Best Ever Action Films on a Great DVD
Review: Die Hard was always one of my favorite action movies. It was funny, thrilling, and had a good plot that allowed for a lot of fancy special effects. So it seemed like it'd make the perfect DVD.
First off, the audio commentary is some of the best I've heard. Very iinteresting and imformative. I learned a lot about the filmmaking process just by listening to it.
There are hours of trailers, deleted scenes and television spots, all of which are expected now from DVD, but nonetheless, this is impressive.
Still, the one thing that made me purchase this DVD was the "Cutting Room" a feature that basically allowed you to direct your own scenes from the movie by picking from a number of camera angles that are offered. The one thing that disappointed me was that of the three or four scenes offered in this extra, none of them are action scenes, and that's what I was hoping to direct. A novel concept regardless.
The bottom line is that this is a film that was made for DVD.
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Summary: Un-improvable!
Review: Like "The Matrix", this movie divides the history of film into a "pre" and a "post" era. The action films of the post-"Die Hard" era are different than those before. It influences nearly every summer action blockbuster to this very day. Sorta like how elements of "The Matrix" infuse everything from commercials to cartoons.
All movies of this genre are elevated by their criminal. The better the bad guy, the better the film. Alan Rickman, as Hans Gruber, is on the short list of "best bad guys ever" . Every line is a high point, every glance or arched eye brow tells another piece of the story.
The music, deftly weaving Christmas motifs into exemplary Hollywood action fanfare, couldn't be any better. The sound design is spot on.
McTiernan's direction is precise and efficient. Everything is clearly and excitingly told, at a pace that leaves you breathless.
This DVD looks razor sharp...best transfer yet.
The extras aren't as neato-torpedo as I'd hoped...a documentary on such an influential flick seems a given...but they will occupy you for a while.
A final word about Bruce Willis. This is one of those films where a character and an actor are perfectly matched. As John McClane, he is most definitely perfect. Nobody could have done it better.
Yippee-ki-ay indeed.
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Summary: The Work Ethic Alone Rates Five Stars
Review: It's Christmas Eve in Los Angeles -- but at Nakatomi Plaza in Century City, none of the Nakatomi Corporation's dedicated employees have gone home to their families. Nope, they're all at the office, enjoying a lavish party courtesy of company funding, and breaking now and then for a little work. Every other business in town has knocked off for the night, that Special Night, but not so at Nakatomi. And when Bruce Willis shows up, his estranged wife Holly happens to be away in another room, "faxing some documents" -- presumably to the home office in Japan where, on the other side of the international date line, it's already Christmas morning... meaning that in Japan, somebody is at the office on Christmas morning awaiting Holly's fax from Los Angeles. Such industry !! This sort of Christmas Eve and Christmas Day work ethic is absolutely magnificent. If everyone in the world would devote that degree of dedication to his/her job, our planet would run in greased grooves !!
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Summary: Yippy-Ki-Yay, MoFo
Review: You know, I really like watching this bad-boy. Why do I enjoy it, you ask? Well, it's probably due to the fact that every time I watch it, I can visualize the subtle deconstruction of the Aristotelian view of socialism whilst citing Nietzsche and Kant and carefully considering the context and the implication of each word, the semiotics and symbolism, and realizing that there's no reconciliation between humanities empty cries for liberty and the illusions that most every culture has of maintaining security. Then again, it could just be because I get a kick outta viewing silly explosion-and-bullet-laden actioners featuring a slobby-yet-sexy cop trying to single-handedly rescue his wife and several hostages from some German-accented psycho and his minions that have holed themselves up in a big ol' office building, and then make up a pompous and pseudo-philosophical analysis of the film in a sad attempt to make up for my intellectual inadequacies, and then write an Amazon[.com]™ customer review about it using really long run-on sentences. In any case, Die Hard™ makes for a reasonably entertaining waste of two hours and twelve minutes if you're into those action-flick staples of pithy one-liners, meaty exit wounds, and arrogant, somewhat fem bad-guy henchmen who hail from Scandinavian countries... Whoops, I almost forgot about the extra features. Well, to tell the truth I was actually gonna rip off my description of another disc's special features in one of my previous reviews, slap it onto this one, and leave it at that. Why was I planning on doing this, you ask? Well, lemme put it to ya this way: no matter which special-edition movie DVD you pick up nowadays, the included extra features are pretty much the same: deleted scenes, trailers, teasers, behind-the-scenes documentaries, photos, storyboards, bloopers, interviews with the cast & crew, and the secondary commentary track featuring the director and/or producer and/or screenwriter discussing their original ideas for particular scenes that had to be altered to stay within the budget, the technical details of the special-effects scenes, and various anecdotes about the more whimsical moments on the set. And this particular release is no exception. So the way I see it, if the DVD extras aren't all that original, why should I have to be? Despite my less-than-enthusiastic reaction to most digital video bonus materials nowadays, however, I'll always be excited by one DVD special feature in particular: the ability to fast-forward through and/or skip past the legal warnings! Fortunately, Die Hard™ is set up with this wonderful feature! I can also blow by the adverts that follow the legal warnings! Now THAT's what advanced digital technology's all about: skippin' the fluff and gettin' to the good stuff! 'Late
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Summary: Second Favorite of DH1, 2 and 3
Review: This is a review of Die Hard 1, 2 and 3. My favorite would be DH2, but DH1 really set the mold and probably should win the award for best creativity. I prefer the winter airport and snowmobile scenes of DH2 to the city skyscraper scenes of DH1 ' it probably has a significant amount to do with where you grew up. Probably the same for the underground scenes of DH3, although I think DH3 was less well done from many perspectives (plot, acting, cinematography, sound). Through all of them, though, one cannot help but cheer on the good guy and be thrilled when he pulls another one off. Get all three and watch them some relaxing night.
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Summary: Exhilerating excitement...
Review: "Die Hard" is easily one of the best action movies ever made. It's up there with other action classics like "From Russia with Love," "Rocky," and "The Hunt for Red October." John McTiernan directed this thoroughly exciting film starring Bruce Willis as John McClane, NYPD cop who gets stuck in a hijacked building in LA. The bad guy is Hans (Alan Rickman), an evil terrorist whose primary goal is to open the vault of the Nakatomi building, where he will get 600 million dollars. But McClane is out to stop him. The action in this film is top-notch as well as the acting and pace of the film. It's a film of the highest calibre. Those looking for non-stop, relentless action and smooth one-liners, look no further! "Die Hard" is your choice.
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Summary: inapropriate
Review: I bought this for my three year old and was shocked to see how violent and filthy it was. The "F" word was used many times and there were many scenes with shooting and death and violence. Terible. By the way, I'm posting my name the way it is so nobody will know my E-mAil address.
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