I am beginning to develop a serious allergy to the phrase "to make it more accessible to today's audience."
I think that's because it seems to actually be code for: "Today's audiences are congenitally retarded."
On a sort of similar subject -- I actually got a little excited about Live Free or Die Hard when I saw the trailer for it last night on the TV,
except....
Well, one, the title. And two, I liked Die Hard and Die Hard With A Vengeance, but those were the two directed by John McTiernan.
Live Free or Die Hard (what an awful name)? Is directed by Len "Underworld" Wiseman
Well, one, the title. And two, I liked Die Hard and Die Hard With A Vengeance, but those were the two directed by John McTiernan.
The second one wasn't? Ah, Renny Harlin. Of
Deep Blue Sea
fame, woo!
Sean, the trailer looked pretty damn cool to me too. But the title is pretty dumb indeed.
I'm going to go see it anyway, for completist reasons -- I'm hooked on the continuing story of poor terrorist-beset John McClain -- but I won't expect too much from it.
Who knows, maybe I'll be pleasantly surprised.
I think we have our first suggested titles for Movies 6.
I'm hooked on the continuing story of poor terrorist-beset John McClain
What is this story, exactly? I was trying to think of what makes the
Die Hard
movies different from your Typical Action Movie, what makes John McClain specifically a good hero to be running around dodging explosions rather than another Everyman.
I was trying to think of what makes the Die Hard movies different from your Typical Action Movie.
It isn't different. It's the prototypical action movie; it came first.
John McClain was also the first action hero to cry/show suffering on-screen.
It's the prototypical action movie; it came first.
Really? There were no action movies before
Die Hard
? I know that every movie
after
it is basically "Die Hard [preposition] [noun]!" but surely there were action movies before it. So it's the template for the modern action flick, and it happens to be damn good in its own right.
John McClain was also the first action hero to cry/show suffering on-screen.
I can buy that. Hm.
Really? There were no action movies before Die Hard ?
As a distinct genre? Rambo, I guess.
