Dear Danny Butterman: Your movies suck.

[annlarimer]

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

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[ide_cyan]

They were planning on blowing up all the hostages already to cover their tracks, but it'd have been a neater sort of carnage if they'd gotten away with it. I think maybe a couple fewer responding cops might have been killed overall.

I've seen Die Hard several times on TV; I think it's rewatchable, obviously, but I don't especially love it. It's overlong, the FBI stuff is just plain obnoxious, and all the good bits are scattered amid an unremarkable police/action drama. I don't think Alan Rickman is that interesting in it, either; Bruce Willis does better playing McClane's frazzled, improbably resourceful supercop. I haven't seen the second movie in the series all the way through. I might borrow it from the library one of these days, out of completism. And the fourth, most recent movie in the series is about three orders of magnitude [building or city to state to country] more bloated than the original: it throws the whole USA into chaos in order to have a series of localised hypertrophied action sequences centered on McClane & co

[nitasee]

Ah, Alan Rickman. How I love him when he chews the scenery. I figure Rickman knew he was in a dumbass movie and decided to enjoy himself - and his paycheck.

[annlarimer]

Plus it stops his teeth growing into his brain.

[goddessdster]

Oh...I thought that was in Robin Hood...

[annlarimer]

It's a pattern.

[annlarimer]

Or a lovely threesome with Bruce, Second Banana, and the driver. That limo's bar isn't going to drink itself.

[viedma]

And Bruce forgot he's taking antibiotics while he's having his 15th kalua and creme and his head pops off.

[teenygozer]

Someone much cleverer than me (Neil Gaiman, I think) said that Die Hard was an anti-feminist tract about the complete deconstruction of a woman's life as an independent working individual: her boss is killed, her office is destroyed, the building where she works is wrecked, until nothing is left but her life as a wife to this guy and mom to his kids. (Keep in mind he put it way more elegantly than I did.)

[annlarimer]

Now, that's just silly. Women aren't important enough to have movies made about them.

[tikistitch]

Wow. That's the first time that movie actually makes some kinda sense. Creepy reactionary sense, but sense.

(I can't really watch it now - except to fast forward to the Alan Rickman parts - the whole SHOULDER PADS YAY thing just kinda makes me wonder when Kip Winger and the rest of the band are eventually gonna show up and finish their video.)

[hawkmoth]

I've had a crush on James Shigeta for forty-something years now...

[annlarimer]

Oh HELLS yeah.

Also he was in The Questor Tapes, which makes me all happy 'n shit.

[hawkmoth]

Oh man, I'd forgotten he was in Questor! Oddly, he never appeared in an episode of M*A*S*H. But he did do a voice for Avatar:The Last Airbender.

I remember him firstly from The Outer Limits.

[annlarimer]

We should marry him.