Tony: You know you can die from that, right?
Hans: [smoking a cigarette] That’s the point.
Simon: [drinking alcohol] We’re trying to speed this up.
Karl: [Eating raw cookie dough and nodding]
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I am shamelessly objectifying him and I don't plan on stopping.
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Continuing the Die Hard watchathon:
Die Hard 3: the one with Samuel L. Jackson. watched in two parts because I used up that day's spare time/energy bleaching my hair.
Sam Jackson makes for a fantastic addition as the Everyman drawn into the chaos and rightfully wary of white police. The banter has not aged well because Zeus is 100% right and shouldn't have to explain but the chemistry is impeccable and brings freshness to the franchise.
Die Hard 4: the one with Justin Long. whose agent must have had so much dirt on Hollywood to get him all those juicy roles. I'm not saying he's bad, i've actually sought out some of his work. It's just quite something that, for about five years there, a non-jacked more comedic-leaning actor most known as the trekkie from Galaxy Quest managed to get 'it guy' status for a while. This one's got a bunch of h4rdc0re cyber-crimes with green/blue filter and hackers using blackberry-like devices (rule of thumb for y2k writing about tech: flash drive for raw files, clunky laptop if you want any processing power). I did appreciate that the power station's system looked like a windows 3.11 program: that tracks. Seeing Kevin Smith made me go "oh nice, I hope we get some real behind-the-scenes commentary".
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So here my spicy take on the Die Hard franchise:
I didn't really enjoy the way the first one ended, I enjoyed 2 (airport edition) just as much as 3 (Wall Street) and 4 (cyber).
2, 3 and 4 are all *equally* silly and fun. Stealing Wall Street with gold bars or haxxored financial records from a super duper special vault seemed equally stupid to me. The one motive that did make sense was that Jeremy Irons' crew were partly sponsored to create chaos on the global markets.
The suspension of disbelief required to accept you can survive explosions in tunnels and car wrecks is the same as fighter jets hovering under bridges and throwing a car at a helicopter IMHO.
It was harder to believe Maggie Q would ever quietly take orders from Timothy Olyphant (he looks rough without facial hair).
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Fun fact: it wasn't called Die Hard in France until the fourth film. The first 3 were known as the John McClane saga:
Crystal trap,
58 minutes to live,
A day in hell (Walk or snuff it in Quebec)
Die Hard 4: Return to hell. (Live hard or snuff it in Quebec)
Die Hard 5: Beautiful day to die (Beautiful day to snuff it in Quebec)
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currently watching die hard 3 with my family and scrolling on tumblr/poshmark
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Let's be real
In Die Hard 3, Charlie was the MVP
Stayed until the last second in front of a ticking bomb without loosing his nerves
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Simon: Hi mom, remember when I said me and Johannes were going to have a calm and normal outing for once?
Mrs.Gruber: Yes....?
Simon: Well, we're in jail now.
Mrs.Gruber: *hangs up*
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