{"id":409,"date":"2007-12-04T09:21:02","date_gmt":"2007-12-04T14:21:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hyperthinking.us\/weblog\/2007\/12\/04\/lfordh-2007\/"},"modified":"2007-12-04T09:30:04","modified_gmt":"2007-12-04T14:30:04","slug":"lfordh-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hyperthinking.us\/weblog\/2007\/12\/04\/lfordh-2007\/","title":{"rendered":"LForDH (2007)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last night we went to Blockbuster (something we don’t often do anymore) and rented a bunch of DVD’s. One of them was the newest Die Hard … Live Free or Die Hard<\/em>. We hadn’t seen it yet.<\/p>\n

We have seen the first three Die Hard movies several times. We are the kind of folk that actually like this genre flick. So we put the DVD in last night and cranked the speakers and had a very enjoyable … however long it was. We both agree, the new Die Hard fits in and works, it has the hard hitting violence that is met with the grumpy John M. doing what he does best, doing what he has to do. With eye rolling sarcasm and good humour, getting the young guy through the day alive, and finding that the young computer-savvy-geek isn’t as wimpy as they both had thought.<\/p>\n

It is something that is different from the earlier incarnations of Die Hard, it’s a successful addendum with what could have been a total flop, but it really honed in on what would work, a cyber story of what could be devastating to a society –with our dependence on computers for so much of our daily living needs– and it boils down to the same old angst … it’s not about that, not really, nope, the same old green greed is behind it all.<\/p>\n

Now bothering me is the villain in the movie. I’ve seen him in something before, but haven’t seen anything else that he has credits in. On a wikipedia page though he is said to have had an uncredited role in Wedding Crashers. We saw that on DVD when it came out. It was a mess of a movie, but maybe that’s where I remember him from. I don’t know for sure, and have no desire to see that movie again to figure it out for myself. Anyway, he was a good villain for McClain to go after. It worked.<\/p>\n

The special effects were good, many things too fantastic\/fake to be believed, but that’s the fun of the fantastic Die Hard movies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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