Follow-up: John McClane’s super powers actually not quite as super as was previously thought. »

Last month I speculated about the progression of John McClane’s abilities to face down increasingly insurmountable obstacles over the course of four Die Hard movies. What inspired my rant was a particularly ridiculous screenshot that I had grabbed from one of the theatrical trailers for this summer’s Live Free Or Die Hard.
That still, in which [...]

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When exactly was it that John McClane got super powers? »

I don’t know about you, but I was always a John McClane fan, right from the very beginning – the very day – when I left the theater in that hot July of 1988 in Upstate New York. I was hooked and forever changed. The seeds that Star Wars and Raiders had planted in me [...]

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Die Hard 2: The joking clean version, you mister-falcon rascals. »

Today The Watercooler blog is featuring the so-idiotic-it’s-both-hilarious-and-sad video below in which all of the censored language dubs from the televised version of Die Hard 2 have been edited together for your amusement. DVDGuy at Watercooler smartly points out that whoever has dubbed Bruce Willis’ dialogue in this version has likely 1) never attended an [...]

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Wow! Here’s the new Live Free or Die Hard teaser! »

Chud.com has your first outside-the-movie-theater look at the Live Free or Die Hard teaser that’s supposed to run this weekend in front of Eragon or some other such. Enough talk – start the blowing-shit-up part!(click the picture or here)
This is clearly an early teaser with temporary special effects and not much meat on the bone, [...]

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Watch the trailer for Halle Berry’s Perfect Stranger – and play “Choose Your Spoiler”®! »

Halle Berry adds another Hackneyed Movie Choice® to her resume in 2007 with the spring release of Perfect Stranger, an Internet Thriller® in which she investigates the death of her Perhaps Not So Innocent Friend® who disappeared soon after consorting with a Wealthy Controlling Sociopath® played by Bruce Willis. Cinematical points us in the direction [...]

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BIG NEWS! DIE HARD 4! Well, yeah, it’s not really any closer to getting made. »

If we’re to consider ourselves cinema junkies, then certainly sequels should be thought of as the crack-like monkey on our backs. We want, need, crave sequels, but in our dark heart of hearts, we know that – in most cases – they’re not very good for us.
So what are we to think when we see [...]

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