From Iwatchstuff, "Speaking at the Cannes Film Festival, Bruce Willis announced another sequel to the popular Die Hard was ready to start shooting and is poised to be in theaters by next summer."We're as close as we've ever got to getting Die Hard 4 started. It won't be called Die Hard 4 but that will be the story. Hopefully it will be out next summer."
Honestly, how many times can he be in the wrong place at the wrong time so that he stops a group of terrorists? There's only so many times it's feasible. At least for the Home Alone series, they switched kids after two of them. I'll believe there are several negligent parents of children capable of inventing elaborate traps, but there's no way John McClane is catching more terrorists. At his current age, it might be a better idea to literally make it about him dying. To show he's "dying hard," he can keep slapping the doctor's hand away from turning off his life support machine. And he'd make wisecracks about it."
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I understand that you're quoting those chimpanzees over at AICN, but still, I'm constrained to point out that in the third one the terrorists came after HIM, specifically and deliberateley. His presence was requested by name; he was part of the criminal scheme. (In other words, the filmmakers UNDERSTOOD THE PROBLEM and fixed it, but Harry Knowles was too busy spraying whipped cream directly into his own mouth to notice.) Also, they were only "terrorists" once (DH2) and that time ironically the terrorists were Americans. Sorry for being like this but I don't like it when people bust on the Die Hard movies, especially the third one.
I love the third Die Hard flick! I thought it was a lot better than the second one. There's something about part 3 of a franchise that's just fun. It's almost as if the directors say, "Okay, we've established the backstory, let's just go wild with action." I liked Jurrasic 3 and most recently MI3, which turned out to be a non-stop adrenaline rush.
I snuck into it because I didn't want Tom to get any of my money.
You're quoting "I Watch Stuff"; I get it
I always find Part III to be my favorite. Do you remember the music at the beginning of Back to the Future Part III?
No, what was the music in part 3?
How did Lethal Weapon 3 hold up compared to the rest of the films?
Lethal 3 is a good movie. It's different from the other two, but it continued the tradition of 1) keeping the production values super-high (Jan De Bont was the photographer for Lethal 3 as well as Die Hard, right before he directed Speed) and 2) keeping it loose.
What's cool about the Lethal series is that the sidekicks accumulate: Joe Pesci is great in 2, and, while Rene Russo is great in 3, Joe Pesci is still around, which is hilarious. Then in 4 Chris Rock is introduced (as would happen with any series; bring in the "funny" character eventually) but Rene Russo is still around, and, not only that, Joe Pesci is still around, which is just funny on the face of it.
I'll talk about BTTF3 in a second
BTTF3 begins by showing the climax of BTTF1 again (which is also the climax of BTTF2; the exact same shot of Doc Brown is in both movies but in Part II the shot CONTINUES so we can see what happened right after Marty went back to the future (another Marty showed up instantly and Doc Brown fainted).
So we re=play the frenzied climax of the other two movies...and then come in on Doc Brown's 1950s house, in the rain, in a vistaglide montage that takes us through to morning. And right here, we hear a brand new, slow romantic theme. This will be the "Doc Brown falls in love" theme later, but for right now, in the opening credits, it's like Zemekis is saying, "Slow down. Everyone just slow down and relax..." because the tone of Part III is so different from anything we've seen before. We have to go to the old west, deep into the town's history, deep into the past, to resolve the story. It's got that elegiac, romantic "Part III" vibe you were discussing.
That's true about the Lethal series. I think that was probably Chris Rock's shining moment. It's a bit surprising to me that he has never reached his comedic potential since. Here's what he's been up to since Lethal Weapon 4.
Madagascar (2005)
The Longest Yard (2005)
Paparazzi (2004)
Head of State (2003)
Bad Company (2002)
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001)
Osmosis Jones (2001)
Artificial Intelligence: AI (2001) Down to Earth (2001
Nurse Betty (2000)
Dogma (1999)
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