<![CDATA[Great movie, why all the hate??]]>Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Live Free or Die Hard

adamejaz91 — 10 years ago(January 31, 2016 02:50 AM)

This has been one of my favorite movies since the first time I saw it. Great actors (Willis, Winstead, Long, Olyphant). One thing I don't understand is why so many people hate it?
I've seen this movie several times and never get tired of watching it. To me this is the perfect Die Hard film. The duo of Justin Long and Bruce Willis was awesome, really wanted to see what concluded with Matt Farrell and Lucy McClane after having the 'hots' for each other at the end haha. Timothy also did a great job playing the villain. His work in Scream 2 was good, but this took it to another level. "Good Day to Die Hard" freaking SUCKED. They could of done a sequel to this with a much better storyline and ect. I watched it once, and wanted to turn it off 20 minutes in. Kind of wished they did a sequel with just Willis, Winstead and Long again.
I don't really mind their pre-quel movie they plan on makingbut I'm not sure what their going to do to make it a 'Die Hard' film. Since John McClane doesn't run into true danger until the first Die Hard.

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Why all the hate?
Let me explain…
https://www.filmboards.com/board/p/5309022/permalink/#p5309022

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Yeah, I actually also liked "
LIVE FREE OR DIE HARD
" as well.
I also really liked Timothy Olyphant as the Main Villain in it.

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Weak villain and sidekick. Badly directed. No memorable action sequences or decent humor. No decent supporting characters like in the first three etc etc

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I just watched the first 4 DHs, 4 nights in a row.
DH1: Re-defined action flicks, not a lot to fault it with, with the usual action-flick suspension of belief, of course. Well done, all pre-CGI, yes?
DH2: I don't think I ever need to see this one again. There were a couple of clever turns, but since I've seen it at least twice before, 3 times is all it warrants for me.
DH3: Returned to DH1 formula, not done nearly as well, lot's of scenes that even "the usual action-flick suspension of belief" doesn't excuse, but one thing is for sure: it beats the crap out of DH2. But there's a reason why this film is included in the list of "worst CGI films of the '90s".
DH4: This is the only one of the 4 I'd not seen before. The main thing this impressed upon me is that it finally got going with the production values of more modern day action films (Bourne, MI, etc.). Also, they did a better job of covering up the "WTF" moments of DH3, and the story was was fairly tense. Also, the tech scenes didn't make me wince too much. So it is at least tied with DH3.
So I rate them like this:
DH1
DH4
DH3
DH2
PS: Some of you might be wondering, "Yo, hey, where's DH5 in this line up"? I usually don't let ratings/critics decide a film's fate for me, but I'm thinking that few will fault me for skipping this one. Let's hope DH6 ends up being decent.
Brevity is the soul of wit.

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movie kicks ass.
Better than part 2

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It's only disliked here on IMDb message boards, just ignore it. Just about everyone else likes this flick. Seriously, ask people in the real world what they think of it and the worst response you get is 'yeah it wasn't bad', but going by the responses around here you'd think it was the worst movie ever.
Honestly I think it's better than DH2, which is almost unwatchable. And compared to the 5th it's Oscar worthy.

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Just watched it for the 1st time and seemed OK to me, not great and perhaps the weakest of the franchise but watchable.

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