A Few Words About A few words about…™ Die Hard — in 4k UHD Blu-ray (1 Viewer)

[Scott Merryfield]

All this talk got me to order the UHD. Now I will have to watch the film before Christmas! I'm blaming everyone in this thread!

 

[George_W_K]

Even though I wish this had an immersive track, I picked up the disc anyway because Die Hard is FLIPPIN' AWESOME!

 

[Adam Lenhardt]

Same as before.

The digital code also does not redeem in 4K.

That's a bummer. Do you know if the HDX stream is a downscale of the UHD stream, or is it the same HDX stream it was six months ago?

Too late for you but it's down to $17.99 at wally world.

Thank you for the heads up on this! I was going to hold off and wait for a better price, but I don't see it getting much better than this for a while now. And it had dropped 3 cents in price since you posted this.

I have HD copies of 2 through 4 but I never upgraded my "Five Star Collection" DVD of the first one from 2001. So even though I don't have a 4K setup yet, this future proofs me and still represents an upgrade from a 17-year-old DVD.

I rewatched the first four and saw for the first time the fifth Die Hard this Winter. I was impressed at how well the original aged: still an exceptional and genre-shifting movie. I was disappointed at how badly 2 and 3 aged for me. But the fourth, with Justin Long, was still really good, and even more relevant today (despite the overly ridiculous Harrier sequence). And the fifth...ugh.

The fourth one is my second favorite after the original, too -- especially the R-rated cut that restored the blood and foul language. Then the third one, with the second one bringing up the rear. We won't talk about the dreadful fifth one at all.

 

[DaveF]

I want to like #3. The villain and plot are all good. But the ‘90s race politics and reverse racism schtick don’t work for me in 2018. YMMV.

But #4 is still aces. It feels die hard through and through. So much, that I wanted a Justin Long and Elizabeth Olson spinoff.

 

[Tino]

HDX stream Is the same.

 

[Tino]

I would rate the DH films as follows by the way.

Die Hard
Die Hard 2
Die Hard 4
Die Hard 3
Die Hard 5

 

[Carlo_M]

Saw 45 minutes of this yesterday and was very impressed with the transfer.

Full disclosure: only checked into this thread because I thought the 20th Century Fox logo looked horizontally stretched. Glad I did. Question answered.

 

[George_W_K]

The image on the front page with the link to this thread is from Die Hard 5 which is heresy of the highest order.

 

[Carlo_M]

Haha, I never saw 5, but I did wonder why it clearly wasn't a picture from the original film.

 

[Vincent_P]

Weird little audio mixing anomaly I noticed at 46:07- when Reginald VelJohnson slams his police car door which is on screen-right, the sound of the car door slamming comes from the left, on both the 5.1 and 2.0 tracks. The wonders of stereophonic sound!

Vincent

 

[Joe Bernardi]

Thanks to your review, I have purchased the 4K. As I have several earlier releases, my wife thinks I am crazy.

 

[ArnoldLayne]

So was I, but with the current pricing down to $19.99, I used some bonus points to get it down to $16.19 after sales tax.

Most UHD reissues are ending up at $14.95 e.g., A Few Good Men now at Amazon.

 

[Robert Crawford]

Most UHD reissues are ending up at $14.95 e.g., A Few Good Men now at Amazon.

It depends on the studio. You won't find many Warner or Disney titles that low. Sony, Lionsgate and at times, Fox have been that low.

 

[JWC1969]

One of the greatest Christmas films of all time.

It's close, but you're right, Mr. Harris: https://wp.me/p5FuJY-1dq

 

[DanH1972]

Another half baked catalog title by Fox in the sense that they again failed to add a Dolby Atmos track that was already completed. They did this with Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, and The Revenant too.

 

[Lord Dalek]

Another half baked catalog title by Fox in the sense that they again failed to add a Dolby Atmos track that was already completed. They did this with Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, and The Revenant too.

Exactly. Its like the faction here who refuse to buy certain UHDs of older movies because the sound wasn't remixed to full-blown Atmos.

What? The stems don't even exist for a lot of these to do such a thing and all they have are mixdowns? Nope. No Atmos? No Sale!

Gentlemen, The State rests.

 

[Malcolm R]

Hey! I paid for all those speakers and I want them all to be used, even if it's a silent movie! (to paraphrase an argument by the full-screen, anti-black bars contingent of old).

 

[TonyD]

I don’t have a 4K tv yet but most of the 4K movies I’ve watched still work very well on my 4K player and old fashioned 1080p tv.

Die Hard isn’t one of them though.
Very dark and over saturated.
Well guess I have to wait until I get the new tv someday.

Oh and I forgot, it’s been so long since I’ve watched the movie I forgot that Huey Lewis was in this.

 

[Tino]

I don’t have a 4K tv yet but most of the 4K movies I’ve watched still work very well on my 4K player and old fashioned 1080p tv.

Die Hard isn’t one of them though.
Very dark and over saturated.
Well guess I have to wait until I get the new tv someday.

Oh and I forgot, it’s been so long since I’ve watched the movie I forgot that Huey Lewis was in this.

Ha. THat guy does looks A little like Huey.

 

[TravisR]

Oh and I forgot, it’s been so long since I’ve watched the movie I forgot that Huey Lewis was in this.

Great, I'm going to go to my grave seeing that guy as Huey Lewis now.