MENDOZAAAAAAAAAAA!

[thehefner]

So I finally saw DIE HARD.

That was one of the dumbest fucking movies I've ever seen in my life. Or at least, it was the dumbest fucking movie that I saw which I was *expecting* to be excellent. It's up there with the SCARFACE remake.

Seriously, I was wondering where McBain was.

Y'know, if only it had just a teeny bit more ironic humor, it would have been brilliant. It just needed to be a teeny, weeny bit closer to, say, LAST BOY SCOUT or even SNAKES ON A PLANE levels of self-awareness to actually be awesome. And yet, it was just that one shade too straight-faced and serious. Shane Black would have done fucking wonders for this movie.

C'mon, even when this came out, it had to be ridiculously cliched. It just had to.

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[thehefner.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I was wondering how much this movie was the "first" of its kind in that respect, and I can respect that to a level. It's funny how some things that can inspire a long line of imitators can still hold up on their own even decades later, but even with that in mind, DIE HARD didn't, for me.

And while I loved Rickman being being Rickman, every time he said something about "You Americans, always playing the cowboy..." or when he did that quote about Alexander the Great weeping, I just groaned. I couldn't get my mind past it. At least he didn't quote Shakespeare.