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Die Hard 4...

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...grits must be slacking since this came out on Valentine's Day.

My wife and I got to the multiplex early on Saturday night to see Side Effects so we snuck in to see a little of this one.

We watched a car chase through (Moscow?) a Russian city where a van is chasing a huge military vehicle which is chasing another van across the city over freeway on-ramps and overpasses.

The large military vehicles just smashes through intersections and down narrow streets sending cars flying in every direction.

The chase goes on for what seemed like 15 minutes.

Afterward I told my wife I thought about 100 cars must have been destroyed in that scene.

Then a couple of hours later I read they actually destroyed 132 cars at a cost of $11 million for the scene.

From the little else I saw, the movie seemed to be missing a plot and just be a series of car crashes and shoot outs with machine guns.

Grits would like it.

Follow Ups:

Hmmm - E-Stat 17:19:01 02/25/13 (2)
"so we snuck in to see a little of this one."

You base your conclusion on a snippet and complain about lack of plot?

I'm not a Die Hard apologist, but that seems a bit unfair to base your conclusion without watching the film.
- So your conclusion was... - mkuller 17:40:20 02/25/13 (1)
  ...oh, you didn't see it.
  
  Ex-Mayor and ex-Assembly speaker Willie Brown writes a column in the Sunday SF Chronicle and always reviews a couple of movies.
  
  Yesterday his comment was that this one was ok if you were able to see it without paying.
  - RE: So your conclusion was... - E-Stat 17:55:10 02/25/13 (0)
    That's a different message from "we snuck in to see a little of it"
    
    I couldn't care less. Perhaps your post would have been more convincing using this information rather than your original comments.
    
    So how many minutes did you watch?
Is this about Bwucie's overdosing on Viagra? nt - tinear 08:26:23 02/21/13 (0)
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Can't wait fof Die Hard 12 - Daryl Zero 04:51:11 02/20/13 (0)
Die Hungry!
Too bad. Willis can do decent work. - free.ranger 15:29:31 02/19/13 (1)
The guy can rivet an audience like few others. Watching him in "The Jackal" was chilling -- just a cold-blooded, nuts, sociopathic, horrific monster.

Well done if he was acting.
- Seen previews of him... - mkuller 15:48:58 02/19/13 (0)
  ...appearing in the latest installment of GI Joe.
  
  Must just need a paycheck.
I was too embarassed to admit I saw it . . . - mr grits 14:57:53 02/19/13 (8)
Critics have slaughtered it...why? There was no plot or meaningful dialog just non-stop, incredible action sequences. What's to criticize?

tin's favorite line would be: "You know what everybody hates about Americans? Everything".

By now Bruce knows what sells: violence and car crashes. (He has his own universe of work via cable and Redbox unlike Ahnold and Sly.)
- Isn't that a first? (nt) - mkuller 15:01:07 02/19/13 (7)
  (nt)
  - Of course not. * - mr grits 15:37:19 02/19/13 (6)
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    - That's a very scary proposition then...(nt) - mkuller 15:49:35 02/19/13 (5)
      (nt)
      - Let's not forget who posted a review of it . . . * - mr grits 16:50:14 02/19/13 (4)
        
        In Reply to: RE: That's a very scary proposition then...(nt) posted by mkuller on February 19, 2013 at 15:49:35
        
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        But I didn't pay to see it...(nt) - mkuller 18:45:31 02/19/13 (3)
        
        In Reply to: RE: Let's not forget who posted a review of it . . . * posted by mr grits on February 19, 2013 at 16:50:14
        
        (nt)
        
        You paid with your time... - jamesgarvin 20:05:47 02/19/13 (1)
        
        In Reply to: RE: But I didn't pay to see it...(nt) posted by mkuller on February 19, 2013 at 18:45:31
        
        but then maybe that is not worth very much ;)
        
        True... - mkuller 20:29:04 02/19/13 (0)
        
        In Reply to: RE: You paid with your time... posted by jamesgarvin on February 19, 2013 at 20:05:47
        
        ...not too high a price since we had a few minutes to kill.
        
        I think we saw the best part of the movie.
        
        no, instead you defrauded a cineplex NT - Jazz Inmate 19:00:43 02/19/13 (0)
        
        In Reply to: RE: But I didn't pay to see it...(nt) posted by mkuller on February 19, 2013 at 18:45:31
        
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