I’m excited for the fourth Die Hard movie coming June 27th: Live Free or Die Hard. I wonder what New Hampshire thinks of that title. Could the writers not convince the MPAA to let them call the movie “Live Free or Die Hard: Yippee-ki-yay, motherfucker!”? I’m sure if they made an offer to shorten it to “Live Free or Die Hard, Motherfucker” it wouldn’t go over well either. (New Hampshire’s license plates tout their motto “Live free or die”. My theory is that “Live free or die, fuck you” was too long for the license plate.)
I have a special soft spot in my heart for action movies with big explosions. Die Hard is right up there with Lethal Weapon for me. I love movies where the good guys are crazy and win anyway I guess.
The original Die Hard movie was released in 1988. Bruce Willis is 57 now so we’ll see if he prooves he’s not too old for awesome action flicks. In the Live Free or Die Hard trailer, there are a couple of moments when Willis definitely looks like he’s feeling his pain. I hope for his sake that it’s in-character pain rather than real pain but I suspect it’s both. He’s certainly not too old to look the part of John McClane. Some of the movie stills on IMDB do make him look like he’s escaping from a prison in an Eastern Block country though. But overall, I think Willis will pull off this fourth transformation from clean, dapper and attractive at the beginning of the movie to dirty, bruised, broken and “are those really the same clothes he had on 2 hours ago” by the end of the movie.
So in anticipation of next month’s new Die Hard movie, here’s a retrospective, including clips from the preview for the 4th movie, set to music by Guyz Nite. I’d never heard of them either, but the song is totally fun (and not entirely work safe due to a fabulous chorus of “Yippee-ki-yay, motherfucker!”… then again if you’re watching music videos at work, that chorus probably won’t matter).
tags: bruce willis, die hard, guyz nite, live free or die harder, movies, previews
