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.

Comments

[gnort.livejournal.com]

Hef...it's an action movie. Of course it's going to be hackneyed and cliche. You're supposed to just watch and enjoy as Willis beats up and kills people. Look at Predator, you don't watch that for it's high caliber acting or gripping story. You watch it cause dudes get skinned and then hung upside down and to see The Terminator and Apollo Creed battle an invisible alien villain.

[thehefner.livejournal.com]

Hey, don't talk down to me, boyo. Even action movies can have quality and freshness.

And hey, PREDATOR was miles above and beyond this movie in terms of story and characters! As were both TERMINATOR movies!

[gnort.livejournal.com]

I thought I was talkin down to action movies. At least that's what I was going for, sorry if it came off as patronizing. Twas not the intent. I am glad that you enjoyed Predator though, I had this fear that you were either going to say you didn't see it or thought 2 was better (which while scary is not that farfetched I know a person who thought Ghostbusters 2 was the better movie...I know!).

[thehefner.livejournal.com]

Yeah, sorry, tone and context gets lost in the midst of LJ and IM.

Yeah, no way in hell Ghostbusters 2 is the better movie (nor especially is Predator 2 better than 1), but GB2 is still very underrated. It's a strange, kinda fucked-up film.