Thursday, August 2, 2007

The story of McClane's life


Die Hard starring: Bruce Willis, Alan Rickman, Reginald VelJohnson, Bonnie Bedelia, Alexander Godunov, Paul Gleason, William Atherton, and De'voreaux White.


The one that start it all. This movie is a blast. With explosions and gunfires all around. Oh, and Bruce Willis still got hair.
This movie first came out in 1988. In this movie John McClane (Bruce Willis), a NYPD police officer, is in LA to meet up with his wife for Christmas at her Christmas party in Nakatomi Plaza. That is where his wife, Holly Gennero McClane (Bonnie Bedelia), works. While everybody is having a great time in the party, a group of terrorist lead by Hans Gruber (Alan Rickman) is taking their position in the building.
So 12 terrorists are taking over the building and all the hostages have is McClane.
This may look like a typical Hollywood action movie, but Bruce Willis makes it more interesting. A sempoi guy with a foul mouth. Sounds typical right? Not if he's barefooted in the whole movie. But seriously. Mamat nih susah mati.


Die Harder starring: Bruce Willis, William Sadler, Reginald VelJohnson, Bonnie Bedelia, Dennis Franz, and John Amos


2 years after the Nakatomi Plaza incident, McClane is now stuck at the airport which is taken over by a group of terrorist. And this time the terrorists are ex-armies. He has to take care of the terrorist or his wife will crash after her plane flying around the air, waiting for the order to land. This time the actions and the suspense is better than the first movie, both plot wise and cinematography wise are better.
Based from the novel 58 minutes by Walter Wager which in the novel the policeman needs to stop the terrorist within 58 minutes. The movie version is rather different. Instead of 58 minutes, McClane needs to do it within 2 hours.
It's Yippie-Ki-Yay, all over again!

Die Hard With A Vengeance starring: Bruce Willis, Samuel Jackson, Jeremy Irons, Larry Bryggman, Graham Greene, and Colleen Camp.


The year is 1995 and this time McClane is being called by a terrorist by the name Simon Gruber (Jeremy Irons), younger brother of Hans Gruber from the first movie. Everything started with a bang and McClane was called in by a person who calls himself Simon. Simon gives tasks and puzzles to McClane in order to reduce more explosions threatened by Simon. And through the first task, McClane met Zeus Carver (Samuel L. Jackson) where he helped McClane from being beat up by a group of niggers. After that, they have to team up to go against Simon which is actually planning something more than just blowing stuff.

These all 3 movies are fun to watch back-to-back. Just like I did. The tense is so worth it and Bruce Willis did a tremendous job being John McClane.

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