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[Lazer]

ARGH GOD SO AWESOMELY BADASS AND EPIC AND JESUS CHRIST SO MANY EXPLOSIONS.

My testicles were at LEAST twenty sizes larger when I left the theaters after seeing this. I mean for fucks sakes he rides a fucking jetplane. I could go on about all the awesome stuff that happens in this movie, but the list would be so long I don't think I could fit it in one post, so we'll just leave it at "wow that was rad."

So yes in other words this movie reached nigh perfection and completely blew the bar out of the water for what action movies should be. I was very relieved too, considering I'm a big fan of the old movies, I really didn't want this to suck shit.

SPOILERS BELOW:



SO SOMEONE PLEASE EXPLAIN why it being pg-13 doesn't stop them from dropping a guy into a bone grinder, but John McClain can't say Yippe Kai Yay Mother Fucker? ArkjahgkjHASF hate.

[Cartilage Head]

 If he doesn't say motherfucker then what does he say after Yipee-Kai-Yay?

[0bsessions]

Yipee-Kai-Yay-maternal-fornicator?

[Orbert]

Typical MPAA stupidity. You can shoot people, blow them up, basically kill them in all kinds of creative ways, but you can't swear too much or show boobs because that's only for grown-ups.

[Will]

Yippee-kai-yay, Mr. Falcon

[Blue Kitty]

wait, I thought he did actually say it when he killed the big baddy, or have I already started to forget about this awesome piece of Action Movie history?

fuck Terry Lawson, the local paper's reviewer, this movie rocked

[Mnementh]

I saw it last night.  It was fantastic. Good enough that I might see it again in theaters. It sort of slowly builds the level of incredulousness with some of the stunts/action and at the end it stretches disbelief a little, but I think overall that was fine. Besides I heard that John McClane once cold shot a man for hatin' on the movie.

Watch for a few homages to the earlier movies, especially the first.

Oh man oh man.

[Thy Dungeonman]

[Sythe]

I've been trying to see it for the past few days, but all of my friends had better things to do, BUT NOW I AM PISSED THE FUCK OFF. NO YIPPIE KI YAY! WHAT THE SHIT?!

[Hat]

Joe Dunns one line review of the movie is fucking fantastic.

[Lazer]

EDIT: SPOILER:

Actually the word fucker is masked out by the sound of John McClain shooting himself in the fucking chest to kill the badguy so I think that makes up for the PG-13 rating.

[Johnny C]

Oh for fuck's sake the spoiler rule is don't just give away the ending without using *SPOILER* tags or something. Jesus.

[Lazer]

...shhhh I knew that.

[Cenyu]

It's called "Die Hard 4.0" here. Meh.

[Kaktion]

The movie was fantastic. It's everything action flicks have been missing in the last few years - by which I mean, Bruce Willis taking down a chopper with a police car. Bruce Willis is fucking hardcore.

[xero]

WARNING: the following post is probably much less coherent than my normal posts. Chalk it up to extra testosterone.

Just an outrageous movie. Over the top action, lots of things that go kaboom, and his daughter was hot. And he was running around with The Mac the whole time. Justin Long is hilarious, even when he isn't trying to be. And Timothy Olyphant is an awesome villain. Props for fitting Silent Bob in there.

[Motherfirefly]

This movie was fucking awesome. I really liked Justin Long and Kevin Smith being in the movie. The movie had a great sense of humor while still having a very realistic and scary plot. The only thing NOT feasible are of course some of Willis' stunts, but hey, he's a FUCKING ACTION HERO.

I honestly think the French hamster guy gave the parkour champ in Casino Royale a good run for his money...

[Dimmukane]

I've seen those stunts done by amateur parkourists (what's the plural for that?), but I've seen maybe two people jump 80 feet off of a crane/building onto a building.

[Scandanavian War Machine]

the word youre looking for is "traceurs". that's what a "parkourist" is called.

[Scarychips]

Does the movie have something to do with the President of the United States?

[Faker]

It's called "Die Hard 4.0" here. Meh.

Apparently the U.S. title "Live Free or Die Hard" is based on the state motto of New Hampshire (Live Free or Die), but the distributors didn't think anyone outside America would get the referrence (Does anyone outside New Hampshire get the referrence?) so changed it to Die Hard 4.0 here in Europe, you know cause it's got computers in it and shit.

While not a big fan of either title, I've slowly begun to like Live Free or Die Hard.

[Faker]

Dublin 4.1?

So they would slightly change the look of the film, maybe by adding star wipes at every scene change, and close one minor plot hole whilst leaving the more major problems untouched?

[Scarychips]

Yeah, or just an alternate ending. Or easter egg patchups.

Or a cream pie fight

[StaedlerMars]

(Does anyone outside New Hampshire get the referrence?)

Nope. I just thought it was a catch title.

That's a pretty hard core state motto though.

makes me wonder what some of the others are.

[Bunnyman]

Ever watch a movie where the script was compiled from a Special Effects Department brainstorm meeting, and the only thread tying the package together was John McClane?

Yeah, and it was fucking awesome.

[Faker]

(Does anyone outside New Hampshire get the referrence?)

Nope. I just thought it was a catch title.

That's a pretty hard core state motto though.

makes me wonder what some of the others are.

Ask and you shall be answered... Pulled the following from wikipedia, but would be fairly confident about it accuracy, even if it does seem to indicate that New Hampshire is the most bad-ass of all states. Maybe whoever is working on that Bad Dudes script should have them originating from there!


Alabama: Audemus jura nostra defendere (Latin, "We dare to defend our rights")

Alaska: North to the future 

Arizona: Ditat Deus (Latin, "God enriches")

Arkansas: Regnat populus (Latin, "The people rule")

California: Eureka (Greek, "I have found it")

Colorado: Nil sine numine (Latin, "Nothing without Providence" or "Nothing without the Deity")

Connecticut: Qui transtulit sustinet (Latin, "He who transplanted sustains")

Delaware: Liberty and justice
 
Florida: In God we trust
 
Georgia: Wisdom, justice, and moderation 

Hawaii: Ua mau ke ea o ka ʻāina i ka pono (Hawaiian, "The life of the land is perpetuated in righteousness")

Idaho: Esto perpetua (Latin, "Let it be perpetual")

Illinois: State sovereignty, national union
 
Indiana: The crossroads of America
 
Iowa: Our liberties we prize and our rights we will maintain 

Kansas: Ad astra per aspera (Latin, "To the stars through adversity")
 
Kentucky: English United we stand, divided we fall Latin: Deo gratiam habeamus (Latin, "With gratitude to God"; adopted in 2002)

Louisiana: Union, justice, et confidence (French, "Union, justice, and confidence")

Maine: Dirigo (Latin, "I direct")

Maryland: Fatti maschi, parole femmine (Italian, "Manly deeds, womanly words")

Massachusetts: Ense petit placidam sub libertate quietem (Latin, "By the sword we seek peace, but peace only under liberty")

Michigan: Si quaeris peninsulam amoenam circumspice / Tuebor (Latin, "If you seek a pleasant peninsula, look about you") / (Latin, "I will be defended")

Minnesota: L'étoile du Nord (Official state motto) / Quae sursum volo videre (Territorial motto never repealed) (French, "The star of the North") / (Latin, "I long to see what is beyond")

Mississippi: Virtute et armis (Latin, "By valor and arms")

Missouri: Salus populi suprema lex esto (Latin, "The Welfare of the People is the Highest Law")

Montana: Oro y plata (Spanish, "Gold and silver")

Nebraska: Equality before the law 

Nevada: All for our country 

New Hampshire: Live free or die 

New Jersey: Liberty and prosperity 

New Mexico: Crescit eundo (Latin, "It grows as it goes")

New York: Excelsior (Latin, "Ever Upward!")

North Carolina: Esse quam videri (Latin, "To be rather than to seem")

North Dakota: Liberty and union, now and forever, one and inseparable / Strength from the soil Daniel Webster quote used on the Great Seal / motto used on the Coat of Arms

Ohio: With God, all things are possible 

Oklahoma: Labor omnia vincit (Latin, "Labor conquers all things")

Oregon: Alis volat propriis, and The Union (Latin, "She flies with her own wings")

Pennsylvania: Virtue, liberty, and independence 

Rhode Island: Hope 

South Carolina: Dum spiro spero (Latin, "While I breathe, I hope")

South Dakota: Under God the people rule 

Tennessee: Agriculture and commerce 

Texas: Friendship 

Utah: Industry 

Vermont: Freedom and Unity 

Virginia: Sic semper tyrannis (Latin, "Thus always to tyrants")
 
Washington: Al-ki (unofficial) (Chinook Jargon, "By and by")

West Virginia: Montani semper liberi (Latin, "Mountaineers are always free")

Wisconsin: Forward 

Wyoming: Equal rights

[0bsessions]

Wow...98% of all state mottoes are exceedingly lame. That's about the first time I've ever been proud to have grown up in New Hampshire.

[Johnny C]

Alaska: North to the future 

awesome

[Orbert]

Some standup comedian a while back made the observation that license plates are usually embossed with the state motto and hammered out by prison inmates, in which case the motto "Live Free or Die" takes on an interesting meaning.

[Mnementh]

I think Massachussets has a more hardcore motto than NH.  NH is all "we'd rather die than not be free" whereas massachusetts is saying "if you take away our liberty, we'll fucking kill you."

[Inlander]

I'm sorry, I didn't get as far as Massachusetts. I couldn't get past "Manly deeds, womanly words." Do you have a lot of cross-dressers in Maryland?

Actually, scratch that, look at the name of the damn state - I don't even have to ask!

[Dimmukane]

No, it's because our biggest city has the highest murder rate of all cities with populations of more than 250,000 people, as well as a big heroin/AIDS problem, while simultaneously being the hometown of John Waters.

[Inlander]

(I know, for the last couple of months I've been watching the complete series of Homicide: Life on the Street and my favourite show is the Wire.)

[thegreatbuddha]

Kentucky: 4 million people, 12 last names

fixed

[StaedlerMars]

I just saw this movie and holy crap, that was one of the most entertaining things in cinema I have seen in a while.

<spoiler>

HE JUMPS OFF A TRUCK WHICH IS FALLING OFF A BRIDGE ONTO A JET PLANE WHICH THEN CRASHES AND HE SLIDES DOWN A HUGE CONCRETE SLAB, GETS UP, RUNS INTO THE BAD PERSON PLACE SHOOTS 4 PEOPLE AND THEN SHOOTS HIMSELF TO SHOOT THE OTHER GUY!

OH MY GOD!

he also drives a car into a flying helicopter. that was pretty neat.

</spoiler>

Go see the movie or die hard people. It's so worth seeing it on the big screen.

[Washu]

"Die Hard 4.0" should be added to the thesaurus as a synonym for "orgasmic".

[SleeperCylon]

Meh.

I'm all for ridiculously over the top action sequences, but if they don't make it at least a little believable, you're just watching a really expensive cartoon.

Action movies are supposed to be far fetched and unrealistic.  But with this movie it was SO far fetched and SO unbelievable there was no point the movie even really held my attention.  None of the characters, good guys or bad guys, were even believable enough for an action flick.  They made 24 look as realistic as the producers claim it to be.  And everybody was completely incompetent except Bruce Willis.  I mean, come on.  How could a guy in a jet fighter fail to blow up a truck?

[Lotus]

That's exactly what the movie does, but it does it very well.  Combine the over-the-top action with excellent [camera] shots so that the audience has a clear awareness of what's going on and where, and you have a kick-ass summer blockbuster.  That's what it was meant for and I think it takes the title this year.

Certainly an argument for Transformers though...

[Merkava]

I hated Olyphant's performance. It was bland and ridiculously void of zest for an over-the-top action villain.

The movie was brilliant, though. Delivered everything it promised, and didn't go too far with self-parody, a balance which many old franchises fail to accomplish (the Simpsons).

"Just get me some god damn helicopters!"