Best Die Hard film?

[T & P]

I was genuinely shocked at how bad the fifth one was. Truly awful...

 

[Shippou-Sensei]

1, 3, 2, white house down, 4.

5 isn't a die hard movie.

 

[blairsh]

The fist one is just out and out class come to think of it, "now i have a machinegun ho ho ho" (said in voice of hans gruber)

 

[slightlytouched]

2,1,3,4 and I didn't mind 5. But that might be cos I'm going to Chernobyl next year for a tour!

 

[thriller]

2,1,3,4 and I didn't mind 5. But that might be cos I'm going to Chernobyl next year for a tour!

like this. But I'd put 3 a head of 1. 5 is not a die hard film, more stand alone actioner. But I rather liked it tbh.

 

[Gingerman]

First 2 kicked serious ass,3rd one was'nt too bad,4th was a bit meh,last one was shite.

 

[Maurice Picarda]

Anybody defending A Good Day To Die Hard is deranged. It's without a doubt the worst action film ever made. I wouldn't have believed that it was possible to be so uninvolved with, so bored by, a car chase. Or by any of the other set pieces. No other film has ever made less effort to delineate its characters, but nor have TV shows, or any cartoons, or even any adverts.

 

[Maurice Picarda]

I note, in support of the case above, that one of the people who liked Die Hard V was Thriller.

 

[bi0boy]

5 is one of a handful of films that so miserably failed to meet my expectations of reasonableness that I couldn't quite bring myself to abandon watching them until after the half way point.

 

[Quartz]

With #4 I couldn't get rid of the suspicion that it was actually a spoof.

 

[weltweit]

Tell me about 5 then .. not sure I can place which one it is!!??

 

[T & P]

He goes to Moscow to rescue his son, who turns out to be his father's son, and both get shot at by a big bad Russian helicopter gunship in a hopelessly CGI-laden climatic scene. Shame there was not much of a story in between.

 

[Sprocket.]

First.

 

[5t3IIa]

Anybody defending A Good Day To Die Hard is deranged. It's without a doubt the worst action film ever made. I wouldn't have believed that it was possible to be so uninvolved with, so bored by, a car chase. Or by any of the other set pieces. No other film has ever made less effort to delineate its characters, but nor have TV shows, or any cartoons, or even any adverts.

It's shit, of course, but I don't hate it after a couple of watches. There's 4-6 mins of quality in 5 (son) but the correct order is 100% of 1, 100% of 2, three quarters of 3 (SLJ, not Irons), half of 4 after 4 views (the kid and ridic elevator action) and 4-6 minutes of 5.

I've read Nothing Lasts Forever.

Spoiler

It's his daughter, not his wife and she's allowed to die as she's schtupping Ellis, doing coke and raping the planet. Bit too much on what's-on-each-floor and CB radio.

 

[Maurice Picarda]

a couple of watches.

Frogbox.

 

[5t3IIa]

Frogbox.

Always. I was chanting along to 1 the other night. "I was in junior high, dickhead"

Edit: I've edited that post ^^ about 7 times in the last 10 minutes

 

[DaveCinzano]

5 is not a die hard film, more stand alone actioner

Actually, 5 is in some senses the only Die Hard film. The others were all heavily adapted from existing novels, magazine articles or unrelated spec scripts.

 

[5t3IIa]

Actually, 5 is in some senses the only Die Hard film. The others were all heavily adapted from existing novels, magazine articles or unrelated spec scripts.

Eh? How do you figure that Die Hard isn't a Die Hard film because it was inspired by a novel?

 

[DaveCinzano]

Eh? How do you figure that Die Hard isn't a Die Hard film because it was inspired by a novel?

As I said quite clearly, "in some senses".

The point I was making was that Die Hard was put into production as a "stand alone actioner", the next three were all adapted from "stand alone actioner" scripts themselves adapted from other works. And if anything, Die Hard was broken off from a mooted Sinatra franchise.

5 is the only original 'John McClane franchise' work, conceived of and developed as that.

 

[Balbi]

Die Hard, then With a Vengance. The others are alright, but not that great.

 

[5t3IIa]

As I said quite clearly, "in some senses".

The point I was making was that Die Hard was put into production as a "stand alone actioner", the next three were all adapted from "stand alone actioner" scripts themselves adapted from other works. And if anything, Die Hard was broken off from a mooted Sinatra franchise.

5 is the only original 'John McClane franchise' work, conceived of and developed as that.

I got a virus on my pc on Friday & it's being fixed so I can't argue now but I'll be back.

 

[DaveCinzano]

I'll be back.

WRONG ONE

 

[lolo]

i often say Die Hard when asked what my fave Christmas film is (Muppets Christmas Carol a close second and Scrooged 3rd)

 

[weltweit]

WRONG ONE

Get to the chopper!

 

[DaveCinzano]

Just the fax, ma'am, just the fax

 

[seeformiles]

I'd say the first one was my fave - although it was a bit of a shock to see him muscled up and foul-mouthed after getting used to him as David Addison in "Moonlighting"!

Probably number 3 next, then 2.

4 was ok but a bit too silly and, seeing the way the wind was blowing, never bothered with 5.

 

[Shippou-Sensei]

1, 3, 2, white house down, 4.

5 isn't a die hard movie.

I'm not really kidding about this too

white house down is far more a die hard movie than die hard 5 is

 

[Yata]

5 was so bad i've seen it but forgot that it even existed till i read this thread

thanks for reminding me...

and yeah white house down would have been pretty good as a die hard 5 actually

for me its 1,3,4,2. actually id put 1 and 3 on par with each other both classic films

 

[DaveCinzano]

and yeah white house down would have been pretty good as a die hard 5 actually

WHD was easily better than 4 and 5, more coherent than 3, and arguably more fun than 2.

The question is, if WHD was Die Hard, was Olympus Has Fallen its 2, 3, 4 or 5?

And is Passenger 57 better or worse than Under Siege?

 

[T & P]

WHD was easily better than 4 and 5, more coherent than 3, and arguably more fun than 2.

The question is, if WHD was Die Hard, was Olympus Has Fallen its 2, 3, 4 or 5?

And is Passenger 57 better or worse than Under Siege?

Haven't seen WHD, but watched Olympus Has Fallen the other day and the body count and level of gore makes Rambo feel like Mary Poppins

Passenger 57 was dire and utterly forgettable IMO. Under Siege does have its moments.