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Bruce, Jai, And Guns!! An Image From A GOOD DAY TO DIE HARD!!
EW has an official photo of Bruce Willis and Jai Courtney as John and John McClane, Jr (aka 'Jake') from A GOOD DAY TO DIE HARD, the upcoming fifth installment in the DIE HARD franchise. This one's from director John Moore (MAX PAYNE, BEHIND ENEMY LINES).
The film finds the McClane boys in Russia and, of course, getting into trouble. Not surprisingly, guns are involved.
Anyone craving an admittedly all-too-brief dose of good, old-fashioned, primal Willis whoop-ass should go see LOOPER. There's a moment towards the end of the film which'll strongly evoke the badassity immortalized by Willis in the early DIE HARD films...and it'll leave you craving more. Will this film give us more? We'll see when it releases Valentine's Day next year.
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Glen Oliver
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That is all.
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Good lord that makes me wanna puke.
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Bruce is still a great actor and super relevant, he doesn't need to be flogging this franchise anymore.
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...but I thought LIVE FREE OR DIE HARD was the best DIE HARD movie since the original DIE HARD. So, yeah, I'm curious to see where this one goes. I'd like to see some more from Bonnie Bedelia's Holly Genero McClane. Too bad Junior inherited his dad's hairline.
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I wish someone would teach actors how to how firearms properly. At least they're practicing proper trigger control! I have hopes that this won't suck, but I'm pretty sure it will.
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Need to have an edge to them. In Die Hard you never feel like Bruce has the upper hand. In Die Hard 2 the bad guys literally beat the shit out of him at every turn. Die Hard 3 he's constantly playing a game and can never really grab control. In Die Hard 4 he basically is always with the bad guys step by step. The villains never come off as very dangerous. The concept of geeks who hire French mercenaries isn't exactly very threatening. If this movie just has bad guys who are at least somewhat of a threat I'm sure I'll enjoy this.
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... nary a mention of Dredd.
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Oct. 3, 2012, 9:25 a.m. CST
Die Hard 4 villains was easily summed up by Bruce Willis
by shutupfanboy
"Timmy O. is playing him like a pussy." And thats all you need to know about Die Hard 4 and to some degree Justified.
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I have a VERY bad feeling about this one.
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I'm a big fan of Judge Dredd. Have been since I read a friend's first three collected editions when I was twelve years old (I'm 39 now). I didn't enjoy DREDD. It got many things "right" but it was a brainless, wit-less two hour gun-fight. I hate to say this: I think I enjoyed the Stallone one more. There. I said it.
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Are there film industry plants permanently assigned, 24-7, to AICN? Shilling orifice sucking BS opinions on the worst examples of retail films as near to the top of threads as possible? Control the first 10 posts and you control the discussion? Are they paid on commission? Anyway... Junior looks like a Euro-villain and bears not even a passing resemblance to his dad. Would have been cool if they had Joseph Gordon-Levitt in his Looper makeup play the part. Sorry. This cant support a serious discussion for me.
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Oct. 3, 2012, 9:36 a.m. CST
After the first three Die Hards, Bruce gets a lifetime pass to keep pumping these out
by I_Snake_Plissken
In truth, he had me at "Moonlighting."
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Any word on an R rating? And will MEW be back?
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Oct. 3, 2012, 9:51 a.m. CST
Get Bruce in here for a Stallone type lovefest chat...
by DidntPullOutInTimeCop
...oh wait...
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....You fuckin Yanks bitch n moan that there's not enough 'Hard R' rated action films. Then one comes along that's decent and you all fuckin ignore it! More Twilight and Hunger Games it is then Hollywood! Fuckety Bye!
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It ended with "A Vengeance" and will remain that way. Now they are just finding more ludicrous situations for the vested one. John Maclane must lead one fucked up life. Now he's roped his kids into it. From the director of "Max Payne" and "The Omen (2006)"...say no more.
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Oct. 3, 2012, 10:02 a.m. CST
chiefroberts...it's sad. nobody has the right to say "Hard R or Get The Fuck Out" anymore. If y'all supported Hard R, they'd make Hard R
by FreeBeer
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Oct. 3, 2012, 10:11 a.m. CST
Wait, the other guy's name is "Hi Courtney" pronounced phonetically?
by John Doe
Really?
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our local hard rock station does this "Under Pressure" game in the mornings where you have to be caller number X and then answer a three answer question in 5 seconds or less. I got through recently and it was "Name 3 of the actors who portrayed main villians in the Die Hard movies". I got Rickman and Irons. I couldn't pull Olyphant out of my rear for the third. Funny thing is that I've probably watched Die Hard 2 most out of the movies and that was the actor (Sadler) I had no clue on. I know the other character parts he has had, but not his name. I wonder if I'd won if I said John Amos?
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Oct. 3, 2012, 10:24 a.m. CST
Jake McClane - John's 'Bad Ass Son' FUCK OFF TOM ROTHMAN YOU TALENTLESS PRICK!
by 5secondfuse
The last Die Hard to Live Free or whatever weak bullshit it was called was an abomination. A lame PG13 pussy whipped no balls no blood pile of Len Wiseman shite. The plot was shit, the action scenes might have looked shiny but there was zero excitement or tension. It didn't even look like any of the previous movies which I still class as a trilogy. As for the villain..........devoid of anything that makes even an average villain. Shockingly piss poor. Now were supposed to swallow a Valentines Day Die Hard?.................. Are you fucking kidding me? Tom Rothman........Go FUCK YOURSELF you no talent suit brown nosing useless gimp.
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Oct. 3, 2012, 10:27 a.m. CST
That assault rifle will magically turn into a beretta every time McClane fires
by Christian Sylvain
It's a secret cop trick.
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Hopefully he will have to shoot his son dead in the first act or in any case, his son dies somehow leaving John OG to go it alone.
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Oct. 3, 2012, 10:38 a.m. CST
There's absolutely nothing that doesn't just scream mediocrity about this
by TheSeeker7
And that's really tough to reconcile, given John McClane might very well be my favorite film character of all time. It seems like they took the fact that DH4 just happened to have the biggest box office take of the franchise as a sign that they should strive to basically just repeat it. They give McClane a young sidekick (AGAIN), an actor I've never even heard of, and the very definition of a bland, studio for-hire director. ugh.
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Oct. 3, 2012, 11:28 a.m. CST
Loved the original Die Hard; will always look forward to sequels. But Valentine's Day?
by DadTimesTwo
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Who in their right mind allowed this fecking garbage spewing "director" behind a camera again?! This arsehole's from my country and even I can't stand his work. He's in the same lower class league as that turd Jonathan Mostow and is #2 only to Uwe Boll.
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I went and watched "Looper" it was not very good at all. It felt like a sci fy flick crossed with a wanna be Terence Mallick film. It "Tried Hard", but was boring. The pacing was just off. The acting was solid all around and the fx make-up on JGL was awesome.....but it failed. I mean come on....who would drive a 2009 Ford F-150 in the year 2044? They didn't have the budget to do an all out sci-fi so they just settled with a farm house. Bad. I love all the "Die Hards" in their own respected way. I am sure I will like this one, but after Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of shit father/so movie.......not sure I want to see this one. The only way this film will work for me is if John dies......yes I said it. Kill off Bruce and put character to rest. Give me more Bruce in more original content.
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Oct. 3, 2012, 11:53 a.m. CST
shutupfanboy - I could think of a few adjectives to call Olyphant's character on Justified, but pussy's not one of them.
by openthepodbaydoorshal
A bit pussy whipped, yes.
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no more Die Hards please, you can't get it right!
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Oct. 3, 2012, 12:02 p.m. CST
i_snake_plissken - Willis had me at Seagraaam's Wine Cooler
by openthepodbaydoorshal
.."it's wet and it's dry..my, my ,my ,my.." And one of the sneakiest product placements I've seen recently was in RED. When Willis visits Mirren, the vodka on her stand is Sobieski Vodka, the brand that Willis has a small share in.
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Oct. 3, 2012, 12:21 p.m. CST
I got the biggest smile when Bruce Willis got a machine gun in looper, some of his best work involves machine guns
by JackSlater4
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McClane is no longer the foul mouthed cigarette smoking blue collar NYPD cop thrown into an extraordinary situation. For me this franchise died with the 3rd film.
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Oct. 3, 2012, 12:44 p.m. CST
Twentieth Century Fox forget ancient chinese proverb
by kwisatzhaderach
Only John McTiernan make good Die Hard movies.
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and refuse to watch the rest on account of the fact that it's FUCKING SHAMEFUL and I like Walter and prefer to see him in things that aren't garbage.
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Perhaps there will be a scene where John and his "special" son play with water jugs in a big fountain.
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Oct. 3, 2012, 1:02 p.m. CST
What a stupid idea, with the son and all that. That son of his wasn't even a small part of any of the previous movies. Makes no sense.
by MariusXe
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would be 35 years old. I see vehicles from the late 70's on the road from time to time.
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I agree it couldn't decide what it wanted to be. It started out as an interesting, Blade Runner-ish mix of sci-fi and gangster noir, setup lofty expectations of time-loop mindfuckery, but didn't deliver on it, introduced a Twilight-Zone 'don't make me mad or I'll make you go away' kid but relied on some fleeting mentions of some phantom future crime boss to make him scary, which simply didn't work. I'm not scared of the Rainmaker, especially based on a single line telling me to be scared of the Rainmaker. And I guess I'm just spoiled by Primer, but when someone tells me a time travel movie is going to fuck my mind, I expect it to FUCK...MY....MIND. So it doesn't walk right the next day. The movie was overall fairly enjoyable, but ran a bit too long and lacked focus.
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Just because the buddy/tag-along concept worked in #3 doesn't mean that John needs a sidekick in every installment.
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Oct. 3, 2012, 3:04 p.m. CST
In the next sequel, McClane will team up with the nephew of his stepbrother
by Jack Black
and in the next after that, he will team up with his girl crush in High School.
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Oct. 3, 2012, 3:19 p.m. CST
At least the actor's name isn't Jai Kah Rahti. Kicks ass
by openthepodbaydoorshal
and smells great. Well, not so great.
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Please go check it out. There's no way it should be doing this poorly in theaters. Those of you yearning for a good old fashioned hard R movie, this is the ticket. Forget Expendables, Dredd delivered on nearly all levels.
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Oct. 3, 2012, 3:34 p.m. CST
Dredd and Looper were both meh..Die hard was "kilted" with the last piece of crap
by SlyWalker
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In the sense that they will probably hand the Die Hard franchise off to the son character as the new McClane. I'm betting the next one has Mary Elizabeth Winstead as McClane's daughter, getting married to the Apple Guy and some vengeful Russians from this film team up with another Gruber to kill John McClane and son at the daughter's wedding. Die Hard at a wedding.
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It's boring as hell. Sure, it's R rated but the story was too simple and the action wasn't very imaginative. I know Dredd is never supposed to take off his helmet but man, it's hard to care for the most character when he's just a walking one dimensional cardboard. Too cheesy. If you saw the trailer, that's pretty much the entire movie.
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Oct. 3, 2012, 4:45 p.m. CST
In my time, this movie is already available in the Best Buy bargain bin
by jp
I have seen.
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Oct. 3, 2012, 4:45 p.m. CST
Jai Courtney looks like a Ray Stevenson impersonator in that picture.
by Bill C.
That said...I still don't know about this one. Mainly for the screenwriter, Skip Woods ('Swordfish,' among others); maybe it'll surprise me, though...
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Oct. 3, 2012, 6:24 p.m. CST
These days, Bruce Willis is always making the constipated face. Always, always, always.
by ajit maholtra
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Always great to see you my friend.
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Oct. 3, 2012, 8:19 p.m. CST
Did Bruce Willis fuck a caveman? His son has a huge head!
by Fries Against
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Oct. 3, 2012, 10:23 p.m. CST
From the fucker who brought us shitty fucking Max Payne and shitty fucking Behind Enemy Lines comes another shitty fucking Die Hard Sequel!!!
by notcher
This movie just has bad written all over it. God I hope I'm wrong, but I doubt I am.
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Oct. 3, 2012, 10:23 p.m. CST
I adore the first 3 films...have a grudging tolerance for no. 4. Because its Die Hard, because its McClane...this is hard to resist BUT i do not have high hopes at all. They just don't seem to get his character anymore.
by Sean
Well...some of us do.
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He was funny during the end on the top of the tower. He's more Mcclane in that and Striking Distance, Last Boyscout and Pulp Fiction than in LFODH.
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Did you even see Dredd? The character development is purely about Anderson in the film. Dredd makes a statement at the start of the film then changes his mind at the end. That's his character development and if you know Dredd. Thats perfect! As for the action, I thought it blew most of the so-called 'blockbusters' we've had this summer out the water! The slo-mo sequences were beautifully conceived and shot. The trailer isn't the entire movie either. There's lots more happening and would of happened in sequels and I'm sure other 2000AD fans will be proud of this film, all acheived on a budget of $50M. Quite a feat by todays megabucks standards. The sad thing is I doubt we'll see another Judge Dredd film now ever after it's performance. i really wanted to see Chopper in a sequel and the Dark Judges would have been amazing!
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We didn't have Rambo Jr. running around, and where were the Terminator Nanos?
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Or old school balls-to-the-wall R-Rated McClane happiness? Well, I guess the former, so count me out.
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Oct. 4, 2012, 8:20 a.m. CST
John McClaine & Son...A bit like Godzilla & Godzuki or Scooby & Scrappy Doo
by cameron
Utter Shite
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Oct. 4, 2012, 11 a.m. CST
Why not give him a son? Superman had a kid too! Look how that worked out!
by Darth Macchio
The consensus is 100% correct: John MacLane never made it past the third film. To me, John died at the end. He used to be a modern day reluctant Indiana Jones (capable "everyman" guy getting in way over his head but managing to get through the batshit chaos surrounding him by the mere skin of his teeth) and now he's basically a superpowered ninja. He's also a belligerent dickhead to basically everybody who comes within hearing distance. That doesn't even bring up the giant clearly purposeful shit LFoDH took on geek culture (surprised more of you don't rail against it for that if nothing else). Fuck Kevin Smith for participating in his own mocking. Asshole. And WalterB came on this site...a GEEK movie website...to tell us it would "blow us through the back of the theater" blah blah blah. Willis didn't write the thing but still...I wonder if he could have stopped the complete tonal shift for his character? I wonder if he even noticed? Outside of the MacLane's history, in what way was he likeable in LFoDH? They went out of their way to make him come off like an arrogant douchebag and it worked perfectly. Congratulations asshats. You got me to hate the protagonist. Brilliant job. Just brilliant.
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most of these assclowns crying about pg-13 and lack of hard R completely skip out on Dredd, which is a great fucking movie. Sad. And what's up with the poster saying the Stallone one was better??? Holy shit.
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I don't know why you'd assume I didn't see the movie. I saw it, 3D and all. I just found it underwhelming. Some parts were just so cheesy. The movie felt confined and restricted. The only really good part was the corrupt Judges vs Dredd fights. Dredd is just too one dimensional to carry the film. So instead they gave us a very cliche rookie character - a girl who finds the beat to be too violent and gruesome, and in the end comes to terms with her true self. Not exactly creative. The action wasn't fresh at all. It played like one of the dozen videogames we get every year. Too much CGI all over the place. The only mildly cool sequences were with the slow-mo, but they overused it too much just to be "artsy". If you're going balls-deep with CGI then at least make sure the blood looks right. Mama was cool but she only had looked menacing. She didn't really wow me as some sort of grand villain. The black dude was sort of unique but it felt like we were forced to care about some very mediocre characters. Everyone else was forgettable. In Robocop even the henchmen all personalities. All of Mama's crew, minus the nerd and the black dude were extremely generic. It's hard to care when cardboards are getting blown up. I'm not saying Dredd was a bad movie. It was mildly entertaining but overall a bit of a borefest for me. It's not memorable and I don't have the urge to rewatch it. I don't think the issue with movies today is really about whether or not it's PG 13 or R. Some of the most universally praised action films didn't only get up there because of gore and blood. Giving free reign to a bad director won't fix a lousy story. Most of what worked in the past (i.e. T2, Alien/Aliens) had a good script with characters who we can identify. The director is responsible for the other half; he essentially builds on top of such a solid backbone. Dredd is missing quite a bit of both.
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Dredd3D has been my favourite film of 2012... It was confined, and terse. It captured the source character perfectly (anyone who complains about the helmet staying on is frankly a cunt who should die horribly.) Brutal - yet artfully shot. Not a pompous waste of budget AND actually used 3D in an interesting manner. Sadly I realised that most US film geeks fall in three categories 1.) Hipster douche girly man. Who claims to be enlightened but cannot see beyond the confines o his film studies class. 2.) Retard mouth breather COD Boy. Who cannot understand the fascist pisstake faceless character of Joe Dredd and yet pisses themselves with excitement whenever Act Of valour is mentioned. 3.) Blinkered Mindset, cheeto dust covered, medically obese fan boys who only like comics where the Heros wear spandex and smite oddly helmeted foes from the funny books of their American youth. So you can bemoan PG13 remakes of 1980's classics all you want. You lot bring this on yourselves. You'll be getting bloodless, weightless crap like Total Recall and Robocop 2013 for the foreseeable now... Btw my views are not indicative of all US film-goers I know a few I you guys who do have a decent grasp of irony and the world outside of marvel/DC/über budget snorefests ! Peace and Love motherfuckers
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