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Alright to begin sorry for the horrific pun in the title I was trying to be clever to start but it did fail. I would like to keep it just because I thought it was good at the time and hell maybe I am wrong.
LIVE FREE DIE HARD (MORE F**K MORE FUN)
I have seen many a action movies in my day and some are great(i.e the first Die Hard) and some are miserable (AvP, XXX state of the union Smoking Aces etc...) They are usually separated by a key factor, and that is that they either have something to say or just wanted to cash in on the fact that people will see just about anything now-a-days.
This movie tries to say something, or at least I think it did. It was meant to show the vulnerability of American life and how we rely so much on the technology that could come back and bite us in the ass. The movie dumbs this down as much as possible and beats us over the head with it over and over. The movie focuses on "Hackers", and does it so stupidly I almost wanted to scream. I am not a hacker, and I don't plan on being on but the way that they showed hacking as basically tapping wilding on a keyboard and waiting for S**T to download. Now I didn't want to see 2 hours of binary code but if your gonna have something play as key a part in a plot as it does here then you can at least make it look like these people aren't one step above hitting the computer with a wrench.
Now I know this was meant to be a popcorn movie because it is obvious by the fact that it was PG-13 which is one of my biggest pet-peeves ever. The Unrated DVD( which is the first PG-13 to unrated DVD that ever lived up to the Unrated Bulls**t) did much better by tossing a bunch of F bombs where they should have been. The action is very good in some places and is very thrilling but its the stuff in between that really just had me wanting to fast forward through it. At times I thought I was watching a kick ass action movie and at others I thought i was watching crappy reruns of 24. The drama is very superficial and I didn't think for one second that anything bad would ever happen in the end, and I was right.
The acting is good at parts and terrible at others Willis does a good job but Justin Long really didn't feel right for me. As much as I love Kevin Smith I didn't feel him in this movie.
There is definitely a decent action flick here and if you aren't looking for it you can look past the flaws in between some very interesting action sequences. The story has some decent twists but really is just for show but if you are thirsty for some action then give this one a shot
Rating: Rent it
More coming soon here is a list of what I should have up within the week
Walk Hard
Hard Candy
Hatchet
Sweeney Todd
Superbad
Hopefully this is not too ambitious and I will try to spend a little more time on these movies then I did on this. It was kind of mediocre in my opinion so it wasn't really at the top of my list despite being the first movie I have reviewed here
LIVE FREE DIE HARD (MORE F**K MORE FUN)
I have seen many a action movies in my day and some are great(i.e the first Die Hard) and some are miserable (AvP, XXX state of the union Smoking Aces etc...) They are usually separated by a key factor, and that is that they either have something to say or just wanted to cash in on the fact that people will see just about anything now-a-days.
This movie tries to say something, or at least I think it did. It was meant to show the vulnerability of American life and how we rely so much on the technology that could come back and bite us in the ass. The movie dumbs this down as much as possible and beats us over the head with it over and over. The movie focuses on "Hackers", and does it so stupidly I almost wanted to scream. I am not a hacker, and I don't plan on being on but the way that they showed hacking as basically tapping wilding on a keyboard and waiting for S**T to download. Now I didn't want to see 2 hours of binary code but if your gonna have something play as key a part in a plot as it does here then you can at least make it look like these people aren't one step above hitting the computer with a wrench.
Now I know this was meant to be a popcorn movie because it is obvious by the fact that it was PG-13 which is one of my biggest pet-peeves ever. The Unrated DVD( which is the first PG-13 to unrated DVD that ever lived up to the Unrated Bulls**t) did much better by tossing a bunch of F bombs where they should have been. The action is very good in some places and is very thrilling but its the stuff in between that really just had me wanting to fast forward through it. At times I thought I was watching a kick ass action movie and at others I thought i was watching crappy reruns of 24. The drama is very superficial and I didn't think for one second that anything bad would ever happen in the end, and I was right.
The acting is good at parts and terrible at others Willis does a good job but Justin Long really didn't feel right for me. As much as I love Kevin Smith I didn't feel him in this movie.
There is definitely a decent action flick here and if you aren't looking for it you can look past the flaws in between some very interesting action sequences. The story has some decent twists but really is just for show but if you are thirsty for some action then give this one a shot
Rating: Rent it
More coming soon here is a list of what I should have up within the week
Walk Hard
Hard Candy
Hatchet
Sweeney Todd
Superbad
Hopefully this is not too ambitious and I will try to spend a little more time on these movies then I did on this. It was kind of mediocre in my opinion so it wasn't really at the top of my list despite being the first movie I have reviewed here