Film Summary DCCLXVI (Live Free or Die Hard)

 

Did you know that John McClane is the opposite of Samson. 

If you cut his hair off he becomes an invulnerable Superman who can do practically anything. 
And honestly I'd be fine with that as a later Die Hard movies if Bruce Willis just gave a damn. 
He's not even playing his old character anymore. 

I'll admit I don't know the background details. Bruce Willis doesn't seem that interested, he probably got a pretty good paycheck out of this movie. 
But really for what. 
An attempts to make a Bourne Identity film? Some sort of James Bond Thriller? Whatever it is it's certainly not die hard.

Is there anything lamer than early 2000s hacker criminals. 
Like sweet Jesus it ages so badly.
We get to ''enjoy'' Bruce Willis teaming up with Justin Timberlake (yeah I don't know what the actors name is and I don't care I'm just going to call Justin Timberlake). 
The Two of them have to stay alive as they're hunted down by a group of technocrat weirdos who install explosive devices into the computers of hackers they want dead. 

I don't understand why they use this ridiculous bomb method to kill the hackers. 
You have to trigger the explosion by making the hacker delete their own file on the computer. Why not just detonated remotely? 
Or better yet why bother with the bombs. They're a bunch of dorky early Millennium hackers. 
Just send out a free delivery of pizza pockets to every hacker house with a little arsenic sprayed on top. Your job is done for you.

I dislike this movie so very much. I hate the music cues, the bad acting, the kind of serious vibe they're trying to portray. 
The awful early 2000s energy, it's just miserable. 
Like in a lot of ways this movie is technically better than Death Wish 3. But I'd rather watch Death Wish 3 than ever since you this thing again.

There's a scene where they play Creedence on Bruce Willis's car radio and Justin Timberlake character talks about how much he hates it because he's a totally rad Gen X New Millennium type of dude or whatever. 
And it's just really stupid thing. 
This sarcastic idiot pretending like Creedence is this thousand year old music that no one listens to anymore and it's super obnoxious. 
And it makes me wonder. 
How much of this fake attitude made up in films from 20 years ago has affected the popular Consciousness today. 
We all wander around complaining about artificial things for 10 minutes as it's being amplified by posting sites and then we forget about it just as quickly as we got angry about it. 

I bring this start up because this made up sarcastic 'too-cool-for-school' attitude from the early 2000s feels like it might have carried over to today. 
Maybe I'm thinking too much about this. Maybe I'm just ignoring the film itself because I do anything else than finish watch this.

Who's the smart alec writer or Studio executive who decided that anytime there's no action on screen we have to have crappy dialogue between Bruce Willis and Justin Timberlake?

Oh no! 
I just looked behind me and it turns out it's Solomon and Gomorrah. 
Those supposed cities of 'sin'. 
And wouldn't you know it, God's obliterating them but I was dumb and I looked back. 
Now I'm a big pillar of salt. 


Salt salt salt salt sea salt.


Computers? 
How do those work!?
Must be Wizards. 
Let's dump salt on the computer. 

Salty salty salty salty!!

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