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  1. They should have him run into Tom Cruise’s Ethan Hunt while in Russia. Maybe this can merge this series with Mission Impossible and create the next Fast Five.

  2. Willis is so good that it’s sort of a shame to see him going back to this well once again. I know Daniel Day Lewis and PSH are frequently thrown out as the top working actor. But in terms of non-showy everyman type performances there aren’t many I would take over Willis.

  3. This is the kind of guy the girl next door to Jeff was thinking about while making so much noise last night. (But the movie will be pretty awful because John Moore is directing. What was the studio thinking about?)

  4. @MooType: Fox think so little of the Die Hard series that they were actively looking for a worse director then Len Wiseman. They found one.

  5. I’ve heard people say that they actually like that “Yippe Ki-Yay Mother Russia” tagline. I think it’s stupifying. I can’t believe it got past the “let’s spitball some poster ideas” marketing stage. I think a Russian reading that might be mildly offended.

    Also, where did they get that picture of Bruce Willis circa 2001?

  6. Since the trailer has him saying Yippie Ki-Yay in the early part of the movie, wouldn’t be surprised if this was the actual phrase they went with to get the PG-13.

  7. Ohh yeah, Die Hard 4 was PG-13 too. Huh.

    The only time I remember Live Free or Die Hard exists is when Die Hard 5 news pops up.

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  9. its so sad what happened to die hard. first movie was great, second was lower-quality but entertaining, third was a rebound, and … jesus, live free was awful and this doesn’t look any better.

  10. Three things working against this movie: John Moore is a terrible director. Russia is boring. And the guy playing John McClane’s son looks like the dude from The Mummy.

    On the other hand, I’m one of the dozen or so people who enjoyed the last one, so this franchise is four-for-four with me, which makes me willing to give this one a chance.

    Also, really, Bruce Willis in this type of thing is just about the best you can get, and when he’s dead you’ll all be crying about how great he was, like people do now with Steve McQueen. I think Bruce Willis is just about as close to iconic as any working actor as we have these days, and I will appreciate him while he’s here and willing to do the kind of things I like to see.

    I mean, I remember when people were shitting on Clint Eastood’s last Dirty Harry movie, the Dead Pool. And while it wasn’t the best, I would have loved for him to squeeze in a couple more of those instead of The Rookie or White Hunter, Black Heart. It’s so easy to take these things for granted, is what I’m saying. Myself, when I see an aging action star taking another kick at the can I try to appreciate it, because you never know how much more you’re going to get from them.

    I mean, maybe I’m an easy lay ( I know I am for certain things–sue me) but Bruce Willis in a Die Hard movie is a good thing and a big deal. And I’m going to appreciate that I’m getting it until I actually sit my butt down in the theater and have John Moore disappoint me officially. But not a second before.

  11. Changing the ribbed cotton vest for a henley neck [in LIVE FREE... sad to see it again here] is a tiny detail, but still a symptom of the carelessness that’s wrecking McClane.

    Seriously.

  12. @Jeffmc2000 – You make an interesting argument regarding Eastwood/Dirty Harry and comparing it to Willis’ McClane.

    However, I would argue that plausibility destroys part of that. Eastwood’s Harry was a police officer, so his involvement with various criminals made some amount of sense in successive sequels.

    The DIE HARD films have become a joke because the primary conceit – average guy stumbles into a critical criminal situation – seems ridiculous after five movies. McClane apparently can’t take a shit in an outhouse without coming across a bunch of high-tech thieves/terrorists attempting to overthrow something. It’s laughable.

  13. Ray, I think that’s why the series had to change it’s tact as it went on, and sort of dropped the “wrong guy in the wrong place at the wrong time” schtick. From the third movie on, John McClane is a cop on a case. The case gets bigger than he could have anticipated, but he is still a police officer operating in an official capacity.

    If you notice, after the second movie, McClane takes on a new sidekick every story who gets to do the “what am I doing here?” stuff, while McClane gets to be the professional. Some people think that takes away the very concept of Die Hard—the whole Mclane-everyman-thing, but I think it’s the only way to make Die Hard work as a series without it becoming totally ridiculous. Which of course it still is, but not as much as if Bruce Willis was still acting like he can’t believe the shit he’s seeing for the fifth time.

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