Did ya guys hear, apparently there's gonna be a new Die Hard?
And it will be titled A Good Day to Die Hard and is aiming for a Valentine's Day 2013 release date. Max Payne director John Moore is currently signed to direct it...which doesn't sound good if you ask me. Why does Fox insist on being cheap? Can't they hire a real director? Not necessary bring back John McTiernan, but at least a good action films veteran. Someone that could get an award or something, not another one of those noobs that is on his 1st/3rd film only....
I quote:
The film is said to involve John McClane and his son heading to Russia.
Okay... We'll see how this turns out, at least it sounds better (even if cliché) than the mess of a plot of the 4th one... (cyber-hackers taking over Washington...really?... -sigh-)
Anyways, here's the fantastic epic song by Guyz Nite that brought my love for the series back despite what the 4th movie did to me after its theater release! (need I repeat the above paragraph??)
Rockin' Hard, John McLane style! Yipee ki yay motherf****r!!
Update! (since this honestly doesn't require a new post) Here's a first pic of the upcoming Die Hard 5 aka A Good Day to Die Hard:
It's Jai Courtney as John McClane’s Son, John Jr.!
Here's another installment of my music trivia! With the kind of blog updates, I hope, you can keep for later when you have time to enjoy...And listen to, calmly sometime, be it at work (well,that is if you have the kind of work where you can listen to music, or while working on homeworks...) or while reading, etc..
Come out to the coast, we'll get together, have a few laughs..
Today's topic, as you can guess, Die Hard!
I'm a huge fan of Die Hard! It's a great action/cop franchise, one of the more fun entries to the genre, specially for hollywood blockbusters! (which tend to be too similar or too cliché)
One of my favorite parts of these movies, alongside Bruce Willis' fantastic character, is perhaps the music itself! Briliant, epic and pretty intense for all 4 current entries!
I specially love how all the Die Hard flicks starts off with mostly the same kind of overture. Let's simply dig into the original Die Hard's opening theme:
Wow! Just wow! This is a fantastic opening! The theme is a lil' ambiguous. The movie start, but something's quite not right... problems arising in the distance... The three original Die Hard were scored by the amazing composer Michael Kamen.
When the sequel, which I love, hit the screens, it was great to hear the same kind of overture open the title screen with:
Die Harder, while not using the exact same theme, opens on a similar tune.
As soon as it starts...we're following the bad guys... they're scheming some plot...which will end up badly... And John McLane will have to kick the bad guy's ass as usual... It's a very nice throw back to the first movie and a great way to open a new chapter of "John McLane's Classic Xmas Holidays".
Die Hard With A Vengreance then starts as well using the same motif. By this time, you know where there's John McLane, there's trouble. I like how iconic this opening became by this third film.
For as much I don't like Die Hard 4, for reason I won't discuss in this article, I'm Marco Beltrami was chosen to succeed after Michael Kamen. Well, I would have prefered Kamen to come back to the franchise (maybe having him out of the movie was a sign for how...the movie would turn out...), but Marco Beltrami's a great composer as well. I'm glad he kept all the themes and the same kind of composition for the movie.
Live Free Or Die Hard starts out exactly like Die Hard 1, but things get a bit more epic this time, so does the score a second after the initial ambiguous note plays out~
All in all, the four Die Hard movies sound very similar and keep all this great tension and suspenseful atmosphere. Of course, we didn't hear everything here, this was a mere "overview" of the series, from a musical point of view.
I'll leave you now with this kickass tribute to Die Hard:
