Comments | annlarimer: Dear Danny Butterman: Your movies suck.

annlarimer

Dear Danny Butterman: Your movies suck.

Oct 27, 2008 10:10

Watched Die Hard last night, in preparation for a story I'm theoretically writing. Apart from Alan Rickman's rather delightful scenery chewing (om nom nom), it was a tedious piece of bloated crap. I'm glad I didn't pay theater money to see it back in the day, since it would only have helped to kill my love of movies that much sooner. Also, hi there ( Read more... )

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swankyfunk October 27 2008, 15:25:00 UTC

You ain't seen Die Hard before??

annlarimer October 27 2008, 15:26:10 UTC

No.

swankyfunk October 27 2008, 15:27:03 UTC

I think you'll learn to love it.

annlarimer October 27 2008, 15:28:09 UTC

*cries*

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goddessdster October 27 2008, 15:54:41 UTC

All right, Nicholas, what else is on the list?

Though I do agree that Danny's taste in movies is tremendously terrible (Bad Boys II?), Die Hard has many fine qualities if you're willing to turn your brain off.

annlarimer October 27 2008, 15:56:28 UTC

...I don't know how. ;_;

swankyfunk October 27 2008, 15:58:32 UTC

This should help:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTyw6cq86kY

annlarimer October 27 2008, 16:05:26 UTC

(I have to wait 'til I get home to watch it.)

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ashenmote October 27 2008, 15:58:24 UTC

I saw it for the first time this year too!

I would like to add the disgruntled and incompetent presence of Mr. Vernham Paul Gleason to the list of plus sides to the movie, but maybe I am biased.

Much lower body count and less property damage.

See, you say that like it is a good thing.

annlarimer October 27 2008, 16:02:41 UTC

See, you say that like it is a good thing.

Ohhhhhhhh, right.

saskia139 October 27 2008, 16:01:24 UTC

Another small plus: Reggie Vel Johnson as the doughnut-loving cop, a character he essentially recreated in Family Matters. And Rickman is mighty elegant when he chews scenery.

annlarimer October 27 2008, 16:04:45 UTC

I...when he tearfully filled the Villain Who Just Won't Die full of lead, despite his Issues With Guns, I...I'm afraid I giggled.

saskia139 October 27 2008, 16:14:02 UTC

That's better than my reaction, which was to Feel Thoroughly Disgusted. Yeah, a man who can pump lead is a Real, Healthy Man!

annlarimer October 27 2008, 16:23:38 UTC

Well, there was that, too.

Somehow I imagine him eating his revolver under the Christmas tree the next morning.

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twigcollins October 27 2008, 16:56:26 UTC

it was a tedious piece of bloated crap.

D :

viedma October 27 2008, 21:32:13 UTC

Die Hard is only good if there's a decade between you and the viewing of it, imnsho.

swankyfunk October 28 2008, 02:46:49 UTC

Perhaps for some! But it was one of my absolute favorite movies when I was 12, the year it came out on video. I may have some issues.

viedma October 28 2008, 04:19:53 UTC

I loved Die Hard when it first came out, but it does not stand up to the Test o' Time, sadly. Ymmv, etc etc.