Comments on: Live Free Or Die Hard http://www.melindasnodgrass.com/musings/2007/07/04/live-free-or-die-hard/ Rational Life Sun, 07 Sep 2008 19:39:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1.2 By: Ty http://www.melindasnodgrass.com/musings/2007/07/04/live-free-or-die-hard/#comment-531 Ty Wed, 04 Jul 2007 18:12:52 +0000 http://www.melindasnodgrass.com/musings/2007/07/04/live-free-or-die-hard/#comment-531 Can I admit that I have absolutely no interest in watching this movie? And that I am a huge Die Hard fan? I mean, I was already skeptical when it was first announced, but after I read about how it was Bowdlerized in a cynical move by the studio to re-edit it down to a PG13, I knew I'd never see it. Die Hard is grown up, R rated fun. Not some lame ass Michael Bay wannabe PG13 crap. Call it "Die Limp, with a sellout" Can I admit that I have absolutely no interest in watching this movie? And that I am a huge Die Hard fan?

I mean, I was already skeptical when it was first announced, but after I read about how it was Bowdlerized in a cynical move by the studio to re-edit it down to a PG13, I knew I’d never see it.

Die Hard is grown up, R rated fun. Not some lame ass Michael Bay wannabe PG13 crap.

Call it “Die Limp, with a sellout”

]]> By: Gabriele Campbell http://www.melindasnodgrass.com/musings/2007/07/04/live-free-or-die-hard/#comment-533 Gabriele Campbell Wed, 04 Jul 2007 18:48:19 +0000 http://www.melindasnodgrass.com/musings/2007/07/04/live-free-or-die-hard/#comment-533 I'm not going to start the Anita series (despite the first books obvioulsy being good) because I know I will give up on it. I've given up on series* several times, but at least I didn't know in advance that I would. Auel, halfway during book 4: Ayla and Jondalar walk. A and J have sex, A and J meet new people, A and J have sex .... and badly written sex, imho. ;) Gabaldon, also book 4.: She got bogged down in details; everything interesting she read had to go into the books, and there was too much sex that didn't do anything for the characterization or plot. To mention just two. I'm not going to write series with the same characters over several books. I know I'll get bored of them at some point. And then I'd just start blowing things up. :D I’m not going to start the Anita series (despite the first books obvioulsy being good) because I know I will give up on it. I’ve given up on series* several times, but at least I didn’t know in advance that I would.

Auel, halfway during book 4: Ayla and Jondalar walk. A and J have sex, A and J meet new people, A and J have sex …. and badly written sex, imho. ;)
Gabaldon, also book 4.: She got bogged down in details; everything interesting she read had to go into the books, and there was too much sex that didn’t do anything for the characterization or plot.
To mention just two.

I’m not going to write series with the same characters over several books. I know I’ll get bored of them at some point. And then I’d just start blowing things up. :D

]]> By: Jason Powell http://www.melindasnodgrass.com/musings/2007/07/04/live-free-or-die-hard/#comment-534 Jason Powell Thu, 05 Jul 2007 03:22:11 +0000 http://www.melindasnodgrass.com/musings/2007/07/04/live-free-or-die-hard/#comment-534 My ex-girlfriend once told me that she doesn't like action movies because they have a ridiculous need to top themselves even over the course of a single film, so that the final sequence -- or set-piece -- gets crazily loud and manic. The logic obviously (in the filmmakers' minds) is that louder and more manic translates to a viewer being more excited, but, as you say, it really just makes a viewer check out. At a certain point, it becomes tedious. Ever since she said that, I've never been able to look at action movies the same way, and am always VERY appreciative of the ones that are able to avoid this trap. (And I get very annoyed when even something like Batman Begins -- which was SO careful throughout its first 2 hours to build the story logically and naturalistically -- ends with a big, loud, un-Batman-like sequence involving an elevated train exploding right before it can crash into a huge skyscraper.) My ex-girlfriend once told me that she doesn’t like action movies because they have a ridiculous need to top themselves even over the course of a single film, so that the final sequence — or set-piece — gets crazily loud and manic. The logic obviously (in the filmmakers’ minds) is that louder and more manic translates to a viewer being more excited, but, as you say, it really just makes a viewer check out. At a certain point, it becomes tedious.

Ever since she said that, I’ve never been able to look at action movies the same way, and am always VERY appreciative of the ones that are able to avoid this trap. (And I get very annoyed when even something like Batman Begins — which was SO careful throughout its first 2 hours to build the story logically and naturalistically — ends with a big, loud, un-Batman-like sequence involving an elevated train exploding right before it can crash into a huge skyscraper.)

]]> By: Gabriele Campbell http://www.melindasnodgrass.com/musings/2007/07/04/live-free-or-die-hard/#comment-535 Gabriele Campbell Thu, 05 Jul 2007 16:36:35 +0000 http://www.melindasnodgrass.com/musings/2007/07/04/live-free-or-die-hard/#comment-535 On an unrelated note, there's a fun little meme going round, the <a href="http://lostfort.blogspot.com/2007/07/i-rock.html" rel="nofollow">Rockin' Girl Blogger</a> awards. I gave you one, because yes, you rock :) and if you like, you can spread the love and nominate 5 others. On an unrelated note, there’s a fun little meme going round, the Rockin’ Girl Blogger awards. I gave you one, because yes, you rock :) and if you like, you can spread the love and nominate 5 others.

]]> By: Steve Stirling http://www.melindasnodgrass.com/musings/2007/07/04/live-free-or-die-hard/#comment-538 Steve Stirling Sat, 07 Jul 2007 06:30:45 +0000 http://www.melindasnodgrass.com/musings/2007/07/04/live-free-or-die-hard/#comment-538 I agree with Melinda; the first 2/3 was not bad at all, the last 1/3 was ho-hum giant explosions. I agree with Melinda; the first 2/3 was not bad at all, the last 1/3 was ho-hum giant explosions.

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