Thursday, February 21, 2002
This post is covered in monofilament wire. |12:01 PM|
I saw "Die Hard" a little ways back, after not having seen if for years. I'd seen the sequels relatively recently, and they muddied my recollection of the first one. There is a reason this movie was a genre maker, and it made all the other movies described as "Die hard on a boat" or "Die Hard in space" or "Die Hard on a Zeppelin" really shallow and weak by comparison. Those movies were all crappilly executed in my opinion, the hero seemed invincible and there wasn't any humor. Who cares if the bad guys are re-grouping so that a dozen are running at Steven Van Damme Segal, he's just going to kill them with his death ray eyes again. Die Hard's hero was very much mortal, and there was a fair amount of humor despite all the bullets flying into crotches and knees.
The reason I was considering all this was I trying to remember a movie that was strictly action that came close to being as impressive that has come out in the last several years. Yes Tombstone was incredible, as was Braveheart or Gladiator, but those were westerns and historical movies respectively, I'm trying to stick to strictly action. Best answers so far have been "The Fugitive" and "The Matrix", but I can't come up with any myself.
I guess I still feel guilty for enjoying the animated movie "Spriggan" as much as I did. It's certainly a movie that could be appreciated by those who are not total anime dorks, and it would give them enough background on the standard anime archetypes where they could view other movies without being totally lost.
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