Nelson Au
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That was funny! I had not seen that extra on the Blu ray. Thanks for posting it!
That line always makes me laugh. I also love Hans reading the "Now I have a machine gun. Ho. Ho. Ho." shirt.Originally Posted by RobertR
One of my two favorite lines from the original, along with "no shit lady, do I sound like I'm ordering a pizza?"
I remember that Bond stunt well. Remember, GoldenEye came out after six years of no Bond preceded by two very dour Dalton pictures (License to Kill was a great action flick, but it wasn't close to a Bond picture). Sean Connery said later that they left out the humor in both of them. Anyway, when the plane went off the cliff, followed by Bond sky-diving after it, I could feel the whole audience relax and say to themselves, "All right! Our guy is back!"Originally Posted by Luisito34
Sorry, I know this is a Die Hard thread but I have to mention one particular stunt in another movie that, to this day still boggles my mind. Like I said earlier, I don't let impossible scenarios ruin my enjoyment of popcorn flicks but this sequence had me in disbelief for a good 15 minutes after it was over. I all kept thinking was, no, uh-uh, no, wtf?. Its the prologue in Goldeneye where Brosnan careens off the cliff while on a motorcycle and "flies" toward the plunging airplane, gets into the cockpit and manages to pull it up out of the abyss and back into the air, averting a sure death! Or maybe what bothered me more was the time it took the plane to descend and not hit the canyon floor. This must have been one of the deepest canyons on Earth!
That's actually a really good idea. While it's hard to picture John McClane in Europe, that's part of what would make it interesting. The first two movies had a great fish out of water feel about them, something that was lost when things moved into McClane's own territory. And an excuse to put Mary Elizabeth Winstead in a movie is never a bad thing.Originally Posted by Will_B
Adam, I had the same thought -- McClaine in Europe. Maybe saving his daughter's honeymoon city from being destroyed. Working against that though is that McClaine seems like the kind of guy who would never leave the United States, not even for a vacation. Ultimately it will come down to whether Willis wants to sight-see or not.
All of those are stylistic choices and none of them are anamorphic dependent. The first film in particular used older, obsolete lenses to give it that look.Live Free or Die Hard said:films need to be four things, they need to be violent, they need to be loud, they need wall-to-wall obscenities and, the thing that bothered me most about LFODH, they need to be shot in Panavision anamorphic and not this Super 35 crap!
Well, okay, calling Super 35 crap might be pushing it but Panavision is what gave the earlier DH film's their steely big-screen sheen with bold lens flares, soft backgrounds and sharp foregrounds...all of that was sorely missing from LFODH which gave it a very hum drum TV movie of the week appearance.
I'm with you on this all the way, Hammer! The classic Panavision look to the first three films was so defining that yes, it was pretty much a character on its own. How do you take a movie series with such a distinctive look and just trash it? I understand that Super 35 can be beneficial, but there's no substitute for the cinematic feel of Panavision.they need to be shot in Panavision anamorphic and not this Super 35 crap!
Well, okay, calling Super 35 crap might be pushing it but Panavision is what gave the earlier DH film's their steely big-screen sheen with bold lens flares, soft backgrounds and sharp foregrounds...all of that was sorely missing from LFODH which gave it a very hum drum TV movie of the week appearance.
Originally Posted by Inspector Hammer!
I've grown to really hate Holly lol, ungrateful bitch left him even though he risked his life twice to save her.
But the tagline for the first one said "He's an easy guy to like, and a hard man to kill." /img/vbsmilies/htf/laugh.gifOriginally Posted by Adam Lenhardt
To be fair, most of what we learn about John in the sequels signals that he's a most unpleasant person to be around when he isn't saving the world. He's definitely a mouthy pain in the ass.
Since Michael Kamen is permanently unavailable, who would be your choice?Originally Posted by Inspector Hammer!
Lastly, keep Marco Beltrami away from this movie! His music just, well, sucked in the last one, a poor poor replacement for the brilliance that was Michael Kamen and his thunderous and bold orchestrations.