Fuck you, Live Free or Die Hard.
Honestly, I blame you. Yes, you, the guy who paid money to see Live Free or Die Hard, the PG-13 clusterfuck of a Die Hard film. By making that film a hit you’ve not only dragged this exhausted franchise out for another installment, you’ve probably made sure the next one is PG-13 as well.
Listen, we all make mistakes. It’s not too late to correct this last one, and it’ll be very easy for you to do so: don’t go see the next Die Hard movie. Talking at the press day for Cop Out Bruce Willis says there is another in the offing, which could shoot next year, but it’s really important that you just don’t go see it. Unless it’s rated R. I know it’s stupid to boycott a movie based on the rating, but I think Live Free or Die Hard truly showed that some films need to be R-rated. Otherwise you end up in silly cartoon territory like that last film.
But since the last movie did so well at a PG-13 I doubt the next will return to the good old swearing days of the John McClane of yore. And since Bruce Willis tells MTV that he would love to get Len Wiseman back again, I would expect the same kind of over the top, truly not Die Hard action in the next installment.
But what would McClane do now that he’s defeated the internet? “It’s got to go worldwide,” the actor said about the potential plotline. “That would be my contribution to it.”
Great! So jokes about crepes and English teeth, as John McClane battles a robotic version of the Eiffel Tower. Guh.
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You see, even with swearing that movie would have sucked. There was nothing remotely "Die Hard" about it, except for the lead character being named John McClane and being played by Bruce Willis. An R-rated version of that piece of crap still would have been a piece of crap.
At least you know it's stupid to boycott a movie based on the rating. You still did it, but at least you know. I personally have only seen the R-Rated version, and I liked it. So, no no no… fuck YOU.
The very end was Die Hard-y. Other than that … yeah. And it's not stupid to boycott a film based on its rating. A rating is often not something placed on a film once its been completed. Aiming for a rating is something that can influence a movie from its conception onward, and it's why I'm not seeing The Expendables.
"…but I think Live Free or Die Hard truly showed that some films need to be R-rated. Otherwise you end up in silly cartoon territory like that last film."
Because everyone knows that there's no such thing as a cartoonish R-rated film.
Does Alan Rickman have another brother in Europe looking for revenge?
Comment #5-Don't be surprised if there's a previously unrevealed sister or daughter or something (It's just like the original villain, but a GIRL!). Of course, it's something that wouldn't be revealed until like halfway through the movie or something, but it would all over the ads and interviews anyway. Uh oh, we should stop encouraging them…
The last one should have been titled "Die Hard with a Crystal Skull." Ugh! Maybe the next one could be "Die Hard, but Just Die, Already!"
I know I'll get hated for this, but I liked Die Hard 4 much more then Die Hard 3, even though Jeremy Irons made for a much better villain. The end of Die Hard 3 is the worst thing in the entire franchise.
No fanboy geeky types I know went and saw DH4 – but lots of regular people did. The Xmas after I had to sit through it twice on DVD because different branches of the family wanted to watch it.
actually blame the studio, not us. never blame the fans. whoever makes it is responsible. you hated avatar and i loved it so why would i care ? maybe you should hate us for seeing movies that didnt make money and deserved it, instead ? actually blame yourself because you are a douche. and you suck on G4
"Live Free Or Die Hard" did prove one thing: No matter how shitty the movie may be, Timothy Olyphant is fucking awesome in everything.
Seriously, what is wrong with you Devin? Should every franchise remain unchanged forever? How boring would that be. I actually liked the last die hard, and who gives a shit if there is cussing in it or not. I am glad that they had the sense to take the franchise in a new direction, it seemed refreshing. Not every action movie needs to be an eighties action movie clone. Please quit whining all the time. Guh.
I cant understand how anyone could even like live free or die hard, maybe if you never watched a single die hard movie in your life then it might be possible. I went on a date to see live free or die hard, sadly I became single during the movie because when I turned to look at the girl I was with her face melted off like she was stareing at the arc of the covenant or le fin absolute demont from cigarette burns. Luckily before everyone broke out to kill each other I managed to leave and get a refund for both of us.
I'm pretty sure we should be used to crappy Die Hard sequels by now.
You all better hope this is 3D, that is probably the only chance this movie has at a theatrical R rated run that will make the kind of money a PG-13 release would
fuck you devin. live free or die hard was a decent action movie. course, you could do better, but then again, all i see is your fat ass sitting here bitching. bring on die hard 5 if just to piss you bitch ass off. i dare you to leave this message on here without deleting it, you censoring prick. (what? you cuss all the time, even in this post, and i can't cuss, too?)
Never saw live free or die hard. Even if it's a solid action movie, if it isn't die hard, it isn't die hard. Probably full of geek humor for the internet geek virgins like me, not the brass iron ballsy films that the first 3 were, movies made when men made no apologies for being men and being a loud mouth jackass guaranteed you'd beat the snobby badguy… ah the good ol days.
Live free or die hard wasnt the best thing ever. So what. It was still a damn good action movie and a not bad die hard movie. I put it way ahead of die hard 2 but behind witha vengeance and obviously the original. The unrated dvd made it feel more like a die hard movie with alittle more blood and alot more fucks. Yes the pg-13 hurt it but i went in with low expectations and was pleasently suprised. As for people complaining it was unreal… Gimme a break. The man leaped off a building while tied to a firehouse in the first, had a fist fight on the wing of a plane while taking off in the second, and surfed a damn dumptruck through an aquaduct in the third. Riding the wing of A fighter jet was clearly the next logical step. Heres hoping in the next one McClane fights a T-Rex on top of the empire state building. And heres also hoping the villian is hans grubers step brother, jamal gruber, played by bill cosby.
Live Free or Die hard was an absolute fucking joke of a film.
to go from jumping out of a building with a fire hose around your waist to SURFING A FUCKING JET PLANE shows a massive massive jump in absolute horseshit. live free or die hard was absolute shit regardless of the rating. who gives a fuck about the rating JUST MAKE IT GOOD. there are bad R films there are good R films. there are bad pg13 films and there is live free and die hard. fuck the rating just make it good.
Live Free or Die Hard was ok, calm the fuck down you fucking geeks, no one listens to what you say anyway so just shut the fuck up and go back to jerking off to anime porn or in the case of Devin, act like you despise internet geeks while being the shining example of everything that is wrong with internet journalism. Remember, it's ok to be geeky about something in Devin's eyes as long as he likes it too, if not then you are just a sad pathetic child who needs to grow. I hope the next Die Hard is rated PG, is completely rendered in CGI and is a musical just so the fanboys can froth at their virginal mouths in impotent rage while realizing their opinion is beyond worthless.
Die Hard thru Die Hard With a Vengeance = Kick ass rock band
Live Free or Die Hard = Christian Cover Band
That's the only way I can describe what I saw.
Dude, without your love of Once, and seeing this movie on the same day Once left my town. I would not have met my girlfriend. So I will gladly take any heat from you about paying to see Live Free and Die Hard because it helped me find the woman I WANT TO BEAR MY CHILDREN!
the unrated version was fine, still the worst in the series but more than watchable
Hey, I still haven't seen Live Free or Die Hard, despite the fact that I love all the others and a lot of people tell me that it's actually pretty good! Really!
Die Hard 4 deserves every criticism it gets. Terrible movie. It's hard to take that criticism seriously when it comes from someone that gave GI Joe a slobbering 8.5/10 review for being a PG13 action cartoon with killing though.
i unabashedly love die hard 4. sure, it doesnt feel like a die hard movie, but its the kind of ludicrous action movie that michael bay stopped making after bad boys II. frankly, we need more of these, its just unfortunate that the only way to them made is to slap the die hard name on it.
FUCK DIE HARD! They'll continue to pump out PG-13 b.s. sequels from now on. I wanna see a follow-up to The Last Boy Scout. I wanna hear Willis spitting some of that filthy Shane Black, hard-boiled dialogue again.
The Last Boy Scout is Die Hard 4 in my house.
Live Free or Die Hard was a bad film. The ony thing worth watching in it was Maggie Q. Die Hard 3 started going into stupid territory (him being erupted by water while Sam drives by and see it?), but #4 was plain stupid. I mean, there's killing the chopper with the car, the elevator sequence, and the amazingly stupid jet sequence. Look – if it was an unrelated film I could digest it better. But Die Hard basically turned into McClane XXX in Die Hard 4.
All the Die Hard movies are good action flims. The only possible complaint is that McClane got too inhumanly invincible in parts 3 and 4. If you bitch beyond that, you're just a tool.
Give Me Liberty or Die Hard
I loved Die hard 4. However, I realized early on in the film that despite it's main character being called John McLane and the words "Die Hard" in the title, it wasn't really part of the 'franchise.' I thought Lensmen just made a fun, over the top action film. And if it was called "rogue cop," "The Baldinator" or something unrelated to The Die Hard series, I personally think it would have been accepted better.
Die Hard is like Indianna Jones – one classic film followed by a series of sequels that are set in a parallel dimension of cartoon physics. No, the sequls don't touch the original – but if you think the fourth entry was really all that much cheesier than the 2nd and 3rd, you are indulging in too much nostalgia.
I'd have preferred if you'd called for a Wolverine boycott after the X3 turd sandwich. Not to mention Fox trying to f*ck the Watchmen movie. Just sayin'.
If you trully want to boycott this movie….
STOP writing about it!
they should just stop where they are and end the series. they'll never make another GOOD die hard. so they should just move on and come up with something new and creative to entertain people. sadly sequels sell and they are in the biz to make money. so in the end we're screwed.
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