"Best Die Hard Movie?" Topic

Which of the Die Hard movies would you recommend to your fellow wargamers?

I recommend that you go to bed,Bill.

And I'm about to take my own advice.

2. Best Christmas movie ever

Curious how it often airs in the UK just before I take a flight to Dulles :)

Ummmm.

None of them?

John T

All of them, though I'm partial to the first one the most, I suspect.

2 was very good as well.

None of them, sorry!

the first one

Never seen them.

The first one

1st – best action film ever. Often copied, never equalled.

The first one.

Die Hard is one of the best films ever, ever tire of seeing it.

I am pretty sure that it is illegal in 37 countries to use the words "best" and "Die Hard movie" in the same sentence.

Since all but the first one stink it would have to be the first one. Yippie…

The original of course.
OFM's guide to movies: "Whenever a studio decides that a one off film needs to have a sequel, those that follow hardly ever compare to the originality of the first. This is particularly true if the film is followed by a tv show."

Yes, I am particularly including Star Wars, the Godfather and MASH.

But not the Odd Couple, as regarding movie to tv. But it does include any "sequel" tv series.

The original.

Number One, without doubt.

The first one. It was the only one that was any good.

The first one, like most originals, was best….the others were ok. Yippie ki yay!

DH the original, but DH2 and DH4 (Live Free or Die Hard) are pretty close. DH3 (DH with a Vengeance) is okay not great, and the most recent entry, DH5 (A Good Day to DH) is atrocious.

Hopefully DH doesn't get another sequel and is put to rest for good.

The first one.

For whatever reason, I really enjoyed 4 – Live Free or Die Hard.

Best thing about 5 was the catchphrase: "Yippie Ki-Yay Mother Russia"

Maybe the first one. Maybe.

They are barely adequate movies, so I would vote none of them are "best".

The only reason the sequels exist is because Hollywood has no imagination.
The first was a fun silly movie. The rest are poor imitations.

The first one.

first one, because it's the first one and Beethoven's 9th hummed throughout.

but really, they were all very forgettable movies.

'Die Hard' was so influential that not only did it spawn four sequels of its own but became a template for a slew of copycat knock-offs that are nothing more than variations (slight tweaks really) on the same lone wolf-against-the-odds theme. One such knock-off, Steven Seagal's 'Under Siege,' even had its own sequel.

The possibilities are virtually endless. You can have 'Die Hard' in any setting, like on a ship ('Under Siege'), a plane ('Passenger 57' and 'Air Force One'), in the desert ('Broken Arrow'), at the White House ('Olympus has Fallen' and 'White House Down') and even in a hockey stadium ('Sudden Death').

In descending order:

DH 1 The classic.
DH 4 Old and young vs. the computer world. New twist to an old theme. Slightly over the top, but in DH style.
DH 3 Black and white against evil. Nice idea about the quiz.

The bad ones:
DH 2 Nothing but a sequel. Everything worse than the original.
DH 5 The dumb muscle as the son. I still fear they planed to make a restart with Jay Courtney.

Irrelevant anecdote:
In DH there is IMO the seldom thing, that something was made better with the syncronisation. In the german versions "Yipi a yeah mother…" is made to "Yipi a yeah Schweinebacke". That translates to pork cheek, what is absolutely silly. But in german it works and is much more sophisticated.

There's also DH in London (London has Fallen), onboard a space staion/prison complex (Lockout) and in a dystopian hab complex (Dredd).

Of course, you might say that DH itself is derivative of the one-man army type movies from the 80's like 'Rambo,' 'Missing in Action' and 'Commando.'

The first one.