Does anyone else think Die Hard 2 Is the Worst in the series!
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A-Town8814 — 12 years ago(July 18, 2013 03:27 PM)
Snowmobile scene ruins this film for me. I mean you have like 5 baddies standing there shooting at McClane from like 10 feet away, and they MISS! They might as well had just been throwing snowballs at him for christs sake!
This scene pisses me off because it is such an insult to basic viewer intelligence, especially since they wiped out that SWAT team earlier in the film. -
bleddrewsoe — 12 years ago(July 21, 2013 01:29 PM)
It was a disappointment after the awesome original, but I think you have to look at #2 in a more positive light now compared to the #4 & #5 sequels.
I would rank them like this:- Die Hard
- Die Hard with a Vengeance
- Die Hard 2
- Live Free or Die Hard
- A Good Day to Die Hard(Easily the worst!!!)
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m-slovak79 — 12 years ago(July 28, 2013 12:27 AM)
1.Die Hard With a Vengeance (1995) - 8/10
2.Live Free or Die Hard (2007)
3.Die Hard (1988) - 7.5-8/10
4.Die Hard 2 - 6.5-7/10
5.A Good Day to Die Hard (2013)
but ill have to see how Die Hard 5 holds up on a re-watch (eventually) as it might overtake Die Hard 2 for me overall as i just re-watched the first four films within the last week so my ratings are definitely accurate on the series now.My Vote History
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abraz1-1 — 11 years ago(May 23, 2014 10:36 PM)
For me, it's like this:
Die Hard- 8.5/10
Die Hard 2- 8/10
Die Hard with a Vengeance- 9/10
Live Free or Die Hard- 8/10
I've always really liked "Live Free or Die Hard", even if most people don't. Have not seen the last installment yet. -
GreenGoblinsOckVenom86 — 11 years ago(July 14, 2014 07:39 PM)
To me it's like this.
Die Hard 10/10
Die hard with a Vengeance-10/10
Live Free or Die hard the unrated version-8/10
Die Hard 2-7/10
Die Hard 5-7/10
Then again I tend to like things that most people hate. I liked the Pagemaster a lot as a kid and still do today but most people apparently think it's mediocre.
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hnt_dnl — 11 years ago(August 09, 2014 08:44 PM)
Agreed, although I haven't seen AGDTDH yet. Of the ones I've seen, my ranking:
Die Hard
-Perfect action movie. It does everything right. Tight scenes, suspense at every turn, great intimidating (and classy) villains, timely humor. Pulse-pounding from start to finish. In particular, there are several scenes of character interactions where they size each other up and the scenes are tension-filled (McClane-Hans, McClane-Karl, Hans-Holly, Hans-Ellis). These character interactions feel authentic and give the movie it's heart and help elevate it above the typical summer action movie.
Live Free or Die Hard
-Justin Long steals this movie with his great comic relief role. I find the action enjoyable for a PG-13 watered down era of action films. Movie's not great, but I enjoy more than the other sequels. It's kind of a default choice as best sequel.
Die Hard:With A Vengeance
-This movie tries something a little different and goes for the gritty New York setting, but stillcopies from the original, using Gruber's brother as the main villain, with the intimidating "Karl" second-in-command who has none of Karl's scariness. Then the unnecessary female love interest to complicate things. And then Sam Jackson playing the "angry black man" character. I still think Jackson peaked with
Pulp Fiction
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Die Hard 2
-I hate this movie! It basically references the first movie way too much. Too self-aware, almost like a parody. The dialogue is incredibly corny. The characters are one-dimensional. The villains are not as scary as in the first film. And I actually think this movie looks dated, while the original (made 2 years earlier) still looks pristine! Also, in the original film, the fight scenes feel more brutal and intense and I ALWAYS feared for McClane's life, while in this one, everything is just so generic, machine guns firing everywhere and nothing being hit (and not talking about the dummy rounds scene). The sense of dread and McClane ever being in any real danger was absent. -
Morbius_Fitzgerald — 11 years ago(August 28, 2014 02:28 AM)
I actually like the first two a lot more than the others. Die Hard 1 and 2 are really well done for what they are (even if 2 had a few too many problems in plot). These films have a declining history for me, as in they just get worse. I didn't hate 3 but it wasn't really amazing either. It's major problem is that it throws me off in terms of realism even for a Die Hard film (he literally survives a bomb explosion in the New York subway!). The 4th one feels a bit like beating a dead horse, to me. It's not awful but its not good either. Its a lot like Batman Forever in the sense that nothing is overly wrong with it in terms of dumb fun but with this as the new directionI'm smart enough to stay away from #5.
To this day, I haven't seen 5 not just because of what I said above, but because it was directed by John Moore, the guy that ass raped The Omen with a remake and the big screen adaptation of Max Payne. Sure, Renny Harlin could be considered worse but at least you can point to good movies in his career like Die Hard 2 and The Long Kiss Goodnight. John MooreI seriously can't name one. He's like Ireland's answer to Uwe Boll. Also looking at the plot, its just generic "I want to take over the world! I'm Russian!" that you could get in literally every Call Of Duty game ever made and with the son in the mix, I'm guessing they're gonna rip off Indiana Jones 3 with the father/son action star jokes.
Unless I am completely wrong, I wont see Die Hard 5.
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kmay144 — 11 years ago(March 02, 2015 12:47 PM)
Personally I don't even pay attention to any of the films after 3, they were just milking the franchise for money, you could tell. DH, DH2, and DHWAV should have been the only ones made, the rest are just garbage.
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T-eschberger — 10 years ago(August 08, 2015 07:04 AM)
Worst? No. DH5 is not only the worst of the series by a large marginI'd call it the worst of the modern franchise revival films. It's truly horrendous.
DH2 though, is the second worse.
I'll never get the ardent fanbase of DH2. It's like people can't let go of nostalgia. It has very bland, vanilla action. The only truly memorable action scene is the last fight on the wing of the plane. It also looks older and more dated than the first film, which boggles my mind. Seriously, it looks like it was shot in the early 80s while the first film could be mistaken for a 90s films. Was it the cinematography and lighting? Was it the film stock? I don't know, but it looks dated as hell compared to the first and third.
Also, it's a carbon copy of the first film, just in an airport.
We have Christmas.
We have Holly in danger.
We have Thornburg again, being a dick and whose magically on the shame plane as Holly.
We have a total jerk-wad goon of a police captain giving McClane a hard time.
It even repeats the same beat Holly and John being driven away by a sidekick with a Christmas song playing over the credits.
Now, all sequels copy some of the formula of the first film, even the best ones. But DH2 feels too much like a clone and it doesn't do enough to set itself apart.
McClane is a superhero in the film, which is something DH4 gets accused of doing when DH2 did it first. He's more beaten up and wounded in the third film, despite doing such things as surfing on a truck. He's hung-over, and Willis really sells his frustration and fatigue of the whole situation. By the time they get on the boat, McClane is just about dead on his feet. This makes up for some of the more OTT moments of the film, because we clearly see McClane suffering from it. It DH2 he just gets the required bloody brow and dirty face as he narrowly escapes again and again.
The dialogue often feels more like forced tough guy action movie talk than the more grounded stuff of the first and third film.
The villain, while good for what he is, is nothing but an Evil McBaddie with no real traits or quirks to speak of. He's just a psycho killer. Even DH4 managed to create a villain with a little more meat to him.
And on top of that, the pacing is wonky. After the luggage room fight, it's all a lot of talking talking talking and exposition exposition exposition without any real mounting tension or suspense. The first film is actually pretty lite on heavy action. It's more suspense than anything with short bursts of hardcore action.
And overall, it's just fairly forgettable. It's a class A example of sequel-itis. It's watchable, more so than DH5 for damn sure, but it's weak-sauce through and through.
