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Die Hard, basically?
posted by RickersSTAFFMOD on July 4, 2018 at 9:54 PM
Bad remake?
Bad remake?
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Reply by Marr 🇳🇱
on July 5, 2018 at 2:27 AM
Rofl. Not everything is a remake.
Reply by AlienFanatic
on July 5, 2018 at 9:25 AM
Marr, it's clearly a remake of the Anna Nicole Smith movie from 1996. I'll admit, though, that when it comes to topless scenes I prefer Anna to Dwayne. Sorry.
Reply by Rickers
on July 7, 2018 at 6:35 AM
Yeah, I just watched the trailer. Looks nothing like Die Hard.
Reply by tmdb82469342
on July 14, 2018 at 11:51 AM
Die Hardly
Reply by DanDare
on July 14, 2018 at 9:03 PM
It looks like it is dying hard at the box office.
Reply by Rickers
on July 15, 2018 at 1:33 AM
Yeah, it's not good.
Reply by olliethecat
on July 17, 2018 at 11:40 AM
I thought it was a very poor combination of 'die hard' meets 'towering inferno'.
With maybe a tiny tiny bit of 'robocop'.
Reply by thebarnman
on July 17, 2018 at 9:36 PM
I was going to say almost exactly the same. It's a cross between Towering Inferno and Die Hard.
Reply by Philippe LeMarchand
on July 19, 2018 at 4:22 AM
I imagine the pitch meeting went like this:
So, it's Die Hard
Pass
...in The Towering Inferno
No
...with a high tech homage to Enter the Dragon
Get out of my office!
...we've got a great product placement deal with Duct Tape!
I'm calling security!
The Rock has signed on as the lead.
How much money do you want?
I actually quite enjoyed the film. It's ridiculous but fun and somehow makes you worry that the characters might not make it even though you know they will.
Reply by thebarnman
on July 19, 2018 at 4:28 AM
I LOVE that pitch!
The part about Duct Tape! HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!!!
Reply by DanDare
on July 21, 2018 at 1:52 PM
If only it had an Alan Rickman type.
Reply by simian_ninja
on August 13, 2018 at 7:52 AM
No, not at all.
Die Hard was interesting, had a neat enough concept and had great actors and action.
This was incredibly bland, while it had action - it had nothing to make you feel that you had to root for as despite their being a family involved, the stakes still didn't feel like they were high enough. Not only that but it went on and on, it literally felt like it was going on forever.
Reply by aholejones
on August 21, 2018 at 2:04 PM
Maybe it's just me, but I don't think the kids and Neve Campbell really added anything to the movie. The movie probably would've worked equally well (or badly) if they had cut them out all together and, for example, made that chinese guy a part of the Rock's SWAT team in the beginning and then made out he was one of his old friends and he now has to save the chinese guy out of the tower.
Speaking of product placement, am I the only one who got a hankering for a sweet refreshing delicious Pepsi everytime they showed that round logo on top the skyscraper.
Reply by RobPatelli
on August 23, 2018 at 8:05 AM
Reply by thebarnman
on August 23, 2018 at 6:07 PM
I'm thirsty for Anna Nicole Smith's Skyscraper!