When I feel heavy metal…

I generally have fond memories of them too, but what I find hilarious now is they all had catchphrases that they were trying to make happen:

Yeah, that's pretty fantastic.

A company created by a screenwriter who's never actually worked in a white-collar environment, natch.

I also like the whole sequence leading up to the reveal that there's no bomb in the school, coinciding exactly with McClane realizing the same when he sees the bomb is on the boat.

Nuh-uh. The filmed ending is pretty lame, but that rocket-launcher-Russian-roulette thing is dumb. It isn't even suspenseful; why should we be afraid that the hero will die by his own ironically clever gambit?

I hate to defend Die Hard 2, but: snowstorm.

The fire hose bungee jump is pretty over-the-top, but what mitigates it is McClane almost weeping with terror as he does it.

But when all is said and done…

Good point about Die Hard 2 being a lot more mean-spirited than any of the other sequels. Also, one of the pilots on that British plane that crashed was Colm Meaney. YOU DON'T FUCKING DO THAT TO COLM MEANEY.

While you're watching it, put it to the "okay, if this actually happened to me, what would I do? And by that barometer, does the hero's actions make sense?" test.

Starring Isabella Rossellini's tits covered only by a bunch of necklaces. 

Not that I think Lucas came anywhere close to pulling it off, but thinking about the fun fairy tale nature of the original trilogy has led me to a greater appreciation of how hard it was to do the prequels. Yes, the originals are essentially for kids. Dashing heroes versus dastardly villains that inevitably end in the…

Why is it so hard to find a good, unabridged copy of the Necronomicon? I can't be the only Abdul Alhazred fan out there!

Kira and Sisko double-teaming Quark occurs in "Business as Usual." And it is beautiful.

I don't think Empire was tragic. I think by the time we saw Luke and Leia on the medical frigate watching Lando fly off in the Falcon to rescue Han, we knew that there'd be a third movie to cap everything off. We knew what we were seeing was a 2nd act to which there'd be a 3rd. Everything bad that happened to our…

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I looked up common phrases that contain the word "die." I find it curious that "never say die" did not become a title to a Die Hard sequel before these two.

Die Hard - Genre classic. If you don't like it, that means you don't like action movies. Period. You monster.

She has a steady job on Parenthood, actually.