Die Hard

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Summary: A Classic !!
Review: OK. First of all, if you don't own this DVD yet, hold on to your purchase as in July 2001 Fox will again reissue this as a double disc special edition. Fans will buy it again. Bummer. But this original release still is a good DVD. Great sounding Dolby 5.1 and good picture quality as this is a THX DVD. YOu should know the story by now, Bruce Willis is a NY cop who is in the wrong place at the wrong time ( a robbery is taking place). Great action, funny one liner. Alan Rickman is excellent as the bad guy. Somebody should hire him as the next James Bond's villain. One last note to Fox, rather than releasing the same movie twice, why don't you release other titles that yet to surface on DVD like you know the famous trilogy.

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Summary: Die Hard in anamorphic format - ABOUT TIME !
Review: It's about time this movie is done justice with an anamorphic-format release! Never heard of "Five Star Collection" series, but from reviewing the specs on this DVD, it sure looks loaded with tons of bonus features - just too cool.

Can't wait till I get my hands on this DVD version on July 10th. Now, if only Armageddon gets released on anamorphic format, I'll be happy as a lark.

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Summary: One of the best action movie ever.
Review: I guess you have already seen this movie atleast once. If you haven't watch it, any action lover should be pleased the way the sequences are handled. The director John Mctiernan also directed "Predator" ... to me another class action movie. Both Predator and Die hard are very tight and pacy. Action here is slick, intelligent and at the same time hard-boiled. Bruce Willis looks cool as the "trying my best" cop, and he continued it in the next two parts of Die Hard. Die Hard 2 and D.H. With vengeance are actually very good, but comparing them with the first part makes them fell shorter. So I would say if you are looking to add a slick action movie to your collection, buy this one (or The matrix or Broken Arrow).

I can give you one assurance you can watch it over and over again. I have seen it 5-6 times, and never got bored with it. After all Bruce Willis look super cool in white vest and trouser.

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Summary: Here are the EXTRAS!
Review: WOO HOO! One of the greatest action movies of all time in a collector's edition dvd!

Amazon fails to tell you exactly what will be included on this dvd ... here ya go!

Audio commentary with director John McTiernan and production designer Jackson DeGovia
Audio commentary with special effects supervisor Richard Edlund
"Subtitle Commentary" with cast and crew
Original making-of featurette
Deleted scenes
Gag reel
Original newscast footage seen in the film
"Editing Suite and Sound Mixing Studio" interactive feature
3 interactive magazine articles
Still gallery
DVD-ROM features, including game demos and full screenplay with scene access
3 trailers
7 TV spots.

Not to mention THX DTS SOUND! This one is gonna blow out your windows!

Can't wait?? NEITHER CAN I !

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Summary: Action Classic
Review: This is one of my favourite all time action movies. Die Hard is what made Bruce Willis a big star. And he makes one extremly violent hero. It is filled with over the top action and some really good performances, especially by Alan Rickman as the terrorist leader Hans Gruber. Only a year before the director John McCtiernan made Predator and with this sat a new standard for action movies. Bruce Willis plays NY cop John McClane who is on his way to Los Angeles to spend the Christmas Holiday with his family. He is invited to the Nakatomi Office building where his wife is working. Before anybody realises it a small but deadly group of terrorist has taken over the building. Everyone except for McClane is taken hostage. McClane now has to fight the terrorists, survive the police and FBI assaults and save his wife. An action classic, no doubt about it.

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Summary: a great start to the series
Review: I think what makes Die Hard rise above other action films of the 80s is that the hero is just a regular guy. At the time, Willis was known mainly for comedy films, so having him be an action hero let the audience actually wonder if he would make it out, unlike Stallone and Arnold's indestructible, muscle bound supermen. When McClane gets hurt, he has the injury for the rest of the film. Another thing that makes this film great is the claustrophobia. Even though it's a big building, you can't help but notice the chances of McClane and a terrorist happening upon each other are significantly increased. Also, unlike its sequels, which are also very good in their own right, there is no gaping hole in the bad guys' plan. The plot, as far as I can tell, is airtight. You'll be guarenteed a good time with Die Hard.

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Summary: Riveting!
Review: Brilliantly written, wonderfully acted, and superbly directed action film that is believable in many aspects. One wonders if the terrorists' actions are over-the-top, but for $640 million...? I think it's definitely in-line!

Alan Rickman plays his villainy wonderfully off of Willis' sardonic bravado. Our business weasel who tries to "negotitate" his way out is also superb.

It's a rollercoaster ride with enough humor thrown in by our idiot Police Chief to keep it entertaining. I remember seeing it when it first came out and it had me gripping the edge of my seat. "There are rules for policemen...," yet our hero does what is necessary to get the job done.

Bravo! Unfortunately, it's followed by a mirror-opposite sequel that makes me want to cry (see my review there).

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Summary: Can't be beat, Greatest action flick ever!
Review: With heart pounding action and enough Bruce Willis to clog an artery this film can't be beat. Die hard revolutionized the action genre. Don't miss this tremendous flick! Want the full specs on the Die Hard: Five Star Collection disc? Sure ya do. Here's the goods: audio commentary with director John McTiernan and production designer Jackson DeGovia; audio commentary with special effects supervisor Richard Edlund; "Subtitle Commentary" with cast and crew; original making-of featurette; deleted scenes; gag reel; original newscast footage seen in the film; "Editing Suite and Sound Mixing Studio" interactive feature; three interactive magazine articles; still gallery; DVD-ROM including game demos and full screenplay with scene access; 3 trailers; 7 TV spots. Whew.

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Summary: A Great Action Film- A Breakthrough Film For Bruce Willis
Review: This new DVD edition is a new Five Star Collection release, as a two disc set. It comes with two commentaries, one from the director John Mctiernan, and one with some cast members. It also includes other features, that make up this two disc set.

Die Hard was a breakthrough action movie for actor Bruce Willis and director John Mctiernan, making them household names in their professions. Bruce Willis plays a NY cop, visiting his estranged wife in LA in a huge office building, Nocktomi. Terrorists take ahold of the building trying to crack the safe inside. John must fight the terrorists with his trust 9 MM hand gun, and save his wife, from the head terrorists, Hans Gruber.

The other two Die Hard movie, worthy predecessors, also are being released as new special editions with many more features than the original DVD editions.

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Summary: The BEST Action Movie EVER made!
Review: First of all,... Zeus is not a dry cleaner, Simon is not Russian. And to all those... that said the second Die Hard (Die Harder) was a good movie, they need to be locked up and forced to watched Die Harder until they have a phsycotic episode.... Remember, there are only small scripts, not small actors. Now about the first Die Hard. I have faith in my review because I have watched Die Hard no less then 75 times, possibly more, over a period of time. Some may say that some movie points are physically impossible. One such point is the problem of how McClane (Willis) supplies his 9MM pistol with the seemingly endless amount of ammunition that he uses to kill the majority of the terrorists. If you know anything about guns/ammo, you'll know that the gun all but two of the terrorists use is a 9MM MP5 sub-machine gun. That means it fires pistol bullets at an automatic rate. Simply put, that means when McClane wants to drop the bulky sub-machine gun, he can just empty the ammo from the MP5 magizines into the clip of the pistol he always has. A lot of the reviews I read mention the "extra" characters (mainly Dwane Robinson) that don't belong in movie. Gene Siskel himself said this. I know that I don't know more about giving movies a quality rating then Gene Siskel does, but I belive Dwane Robinson and any other "extras" help move the plot along, and provide a deeper storyline. A scene I CAN agree is cheesy and very impossible is the one where the last terrorist gets killed. I thing I learned while reading reviews is not to spoil major plot points, but I will say that that paticular terrorist could not possibly still be alive to get shot again. I may be being partial, but by the time that part in the movie comes, if you're an action fan like they come, you'll be so hyped that you'll need to watch it as many times as I did to notice that it's not possible. In fact, you probably won't even care! The whole last 15 minutes is extriemly exiting.