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AsMoral Wrote:...Click Here
Eh...doesn't look all that appealing to me.
Just a lot of car crashes. I need more than that, though I'm a HUGE fan of "Die Hard" and enjoyed the sequels to a lesser degree.
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Well, for years I was smart.
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AsMoral Wrote:...Click HereOoh! A bunch of stuff crashin' and 'splodin'!
Eh...doesn't look all that appealing to me.
I'll have to get more info on this one. But I'll probably inevitably see it anyway.
The original is still, imo, the best action movie.... EVER! The second one is good. When I saw the third, I liked it, but it doesn't stand up to repeated viewings. Maybe it would have made a better Lethal Weapon movie as was originally intended.
The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. ... The piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.
~ Howard Phillips Lovecraft
AsMoral Wrote:...Click Here
Eh...doesn't look all that appealing to me.
John McClane's back!!! I got satisfaction.
jimbow8 Wrote:Ooh! A bunch of stuff crashin' and 'splodin'!
I'll have to get more info on this one. But I'll probably inevitably see it anyway.
The original is still, imo, the best action movie.... EVER! The second one is good. When I saw the third, I liked it, but it doesn't stand up to repeated viewings. Maybe it would have made a better Lethal Weapon movie as was originally intended.
"Probably inevitably", Jim?
Now where does that good "die hard!" phrase come from? I thought a British officer shouted it to his men during the Indian Mutiny, but a google search ain't backing me up.
Bluesman Mike Lindner Wrote:"Probably inevitably", Jim?
it was XXX-star John Holmes final words!
Then out spoke brave Horatius, the Captain of the Gate: "To every man upon this earth, death cometh soon or late; And how can man die better than facing fearful odds, For the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods,"
"Well, John Henry said to the Cap'n, "A man ain't nuthin' but a man. But, before I let that steam drill beat me, gonna die with my hammer in my hand, Lawd, Lawd, gonna die with my hammer in my hand."
NewYorkjoe Wrote:it was XXX-star John Holmes final words!
Well, I never confessed to the gang, Joe...but I was Holmes' body-double.
It wasn't a great gig, though. People in the porn industry are utter slimeballs. Stupid when not utterly cynical, drug-addled, no class, no culture. Real dregs.
This post was last modified: 12-18-2006, 02:18 PM by Bluesman Mike Lindner.
I'll most likely wait for this one on DVD, even though the 'splodin' things would look better on a big screen. The best plot summary I can find is this:
"The story centers on an attack on the U.S.' computer infrastructure that begins to shut the country down. The mysterious figure behind the scheme has figured out every digital angle but never counts on an old-fashioned, "analog" McClane."
There are so many ways this plot could go so very wrong. Yeah, I'll wait.
"The story centers on an attack on the U.S.' computer infrastructure that begins to shut the country down. The mysterious figure behind the scheme has figured out every digital angle but never counts on an old-fashioned, "analog" McClane."
There are so many ways this plot could go so very wrong. Yeah, I'll wait.
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webby Wrote:I'll most likely wait for this one on DVD, even though the 'splodin' things would look better on a big screen. The best plot summary I can find is this:
"The story centers on an attack on the U.S.' computer infrastructure that begins to shut the country down. The mysterious figure behind the scheme has figured out every digital angle but never counts on an old-fashioned, "analog" McClane."
There are so many ways this plot could go so very wrong. Yeah, I'll wait.
The ah-dear of an attack on our computers is frightening, isn't it? But a computer ignoramus like meself likes to comfort himself with the belief that our computer guys and gals are the best in the world...people come from strange, faraway lands to join us...and the bad guys had best fear =our= silicon wrath!
Bluesman Mike Lindner Wrote:The ah-dear of an attack on our computers is frightening, isn't it? But a computer ignoramus like meself likes to comfort himself with the belief that our computer guys and gals are the best in the world...people come from strange, faraway lands to join us...and the bad guys had best fear =our= silicon wrath!
I think when you have things happening in a movie that involves something you know a lot about . . . if it's not done very accurately it's very annoying. For example, in Independence Day . . . Ok, it was easy to accept the aliens, blah blah blah but when Jeff Goldblum uploads a virus to the mothership via his laptop and a "USB to UFO" cable . . . I mean come on. Well maybe it was a serial cable to UFO cable instead but still . . . I think this would be the equivalent of how Ken V. feels when he's watching a western and they're using a rifle from the wrong decade.
I'm guessing Webby's concerns are somewhere along those lines. Maybe not.
I'm guessing Webby's concerns are somewhere along those lines. Maybe not.