Live Free or Die Hard

[Aurora]

Some reviews I have seen, say he and Bruce have great on-screen chemistry.

They do actually. I was quite impressed with him.

THIS MOVIE FREAKING ROCKS!

Dshai managed to convince his boss that since the movie is about cyber-terrorism, that it should be a team building exercise and they should go see it for work. (Yup, he's that good.)

 

[Mark Chance]

But there is almost no swearing in it; thus the PG13 rating.

There's constant swearing throughout. There are an assortment of damns and numerous uses of a little four letter word starting with "sh" and ending with a "t". Ass by itself and with different prefixes or suffixes is frequent. So is a hard-consonant-ending slang term for penis. John's catchphrase ("Yippee-ki-yay, mother--") is more or less rendered just as typed it. The last two syllables are inaudible due to sound effects.

The movie got its PG13 rating largely because of the language. The violence, as close to nonstop as it is, is largely bloodless. No sadistic beat downs. No chunks of flesh flying from bullet wounds. No charred bodies.

 

[RangerWickett]

Despite my track record of b****ing about many movies that people have loved this year, I'm with the cool crowd this time. I thought it was great.

A little too patriotic for overseas audiences, perhaps (since the action occurs around Independence Day), and it doesn't feel so much like a sequel to the first Die Hard, but rather 'part four in the continuing saga of everyman hero John McClain,' but if it hadn't been called Die Hard, it would've been remembered as a great movie anyways.

There were some logical holes, and a few small things I would've changed, but I came out of the theater happy.

Not as happy as after Grindhouse, though.

 

[Michael Dean]

I really enjoyed the movie also. It's funny, though: the theatre I saw it at had the marquee for it (the one behind the cashiers that lists the showtimes) listing it as an R rated movie. I guess the makers of the movie, or whoever sent the promo picture, must have thought it would get an R, because it looked like it was integral to the picture and not added by the theatre.

 

[Morrus]

It was fun.

John McLane isn't an "everyman" in the wrong place at the wrong time now, though, which is one of the original couple of movies' drawing points for me. He's a veritable Action Hero - Die Hard has morphed into a different type of movie.

The F35 jet bit - let's just say the whole audience was giggling, and they weren't laughing with the movie. John Mclane surfs on a jet fighter!

 

[Mustrum_Ridcully]

Oh, I don't think it was too patriotic - as an "oversea-er", I completely missed the importance of the Independence Day, even though it was mentioned in the movie. Didn't affect the plot much.

The F35 bit might have been a bit to much over the top, but it didn't bother me.
In many ways, the movie was as expected, and as thus, it was a great movie. (not all movies that fulfill expectation can say that from themselves )

 

[Welverin]

Good movie, more enjoyable than others I saw recently, haven't seen Ratatouille yet though.

BUT if you show big gory wounds it is not.

And that is exactly what's missing from the movie, the gory after shots, and if you haven't seen the original movies unedited for a long time you won't notice the difference.

Oh, I don't think it was too patriotic - as an "oversea-er", I completely missed the importance of the Independence Day, even though it was mentioned in the movie. Didn't affect the plot much.

That ended up not being terribly significant, I even forgot all about it.

The F35 bit might have been a bit to much over the top, but it didn't bother me.

Of all the bits in trailers that filled me with trepidation, that's the only one that was actually a problem and not a very big one at that.

John on the jet isn't a problem, but the jet flying around like a helicopter and the pilot causing such devastation in the middle of a city I don't buy.

 

[Krug]

I quite enjoyed it, and liked it more than Transformers. Willis still has more charisma than a bundle of CGI. I agree that the plane bit was a bit too much, but thought some of the action scenes (particularly when Willis and co mangle Maggie Q's operation) and stuntwork was great.

 

[Pants]

I quite enjoyed it, and liked it more than Transformers.

Ditto.

Live Free or Die Hard was great. It was improbable, it was over-the-top, it was a return to the 80's and early 90's style of action movies. It had some great comedic moments, good character chemistry, and lots of cool action.

I didn't expect much, but it delivered. It was just all around fun to watch and while it doesn't hold a candle to the original (not complaining) it's still a damn good piece of entertaining cinema.

As for it being PG-13 rather than R, yeah sometimes I could tell, but most of the time it didn't seem to matter. Sure Willis wasn't dropping f-bombs every 30 seconds and he wasn't caked in blood by the end, I still don't think that it detracted all that much from the movie, at least not enough to inhibit my enjoyment.

 

[Slife]

Great movie, despite the wrost techknowbabbla ebar. It doesn't even deserve to be spelled correctly.