I don't see a lobster harmonica in that photo, so in my estimation, he still lost.

Enjoy "Sack Lunch!"

I just saw Chain Reaction for the first time a few weeks ago. I think it was right after The Fugitive post in this column, actually. I knew it didn't do well critically or commercially and pretty quickly banished to the land of wind and ghosts. But I'd always been curious about it because I'm such a fan of Andrew…

Losersh alwaysh whine abut their besht. Winnersh go home and fahk the prom queen!

I agree with TGGP that M:I is the superior film, but I think your point is spot on. The first M:I at least tried to retain some familiar elements of the TV series, most if not all of which were discarded in the sequels in favor of more emphasis on action (I think maybe the IMF still exists in the sequels, but that's…

"Increase the Flash Gordon noise and put more science stuff around!"

Something else that didn't really hit me until I reading this article and they were listed is how MANY characters there are in this movie, and none of them really feels superfluous. Some of them fill stock character roles, sure (i.e. Atherton and Gleeson's characters), but they don't seem like stock characters for a…

"I must have missed 60 minutes… what are you saying?"

"Oops…. no bullets! What, do you think I'm fuckin' stupid, Hans?"

I can't remember exactly where I ready this - might've been the IMDB or Wikipedia notes on the film, so it might not be true, but that the genesis of that scene was that McTiernan realized Rickman could do such a great American accent that he wanted him to use it in the movie and the McClane / Gruber encounter sprung…

Generic is definitely how I would describe 4. It felt to me like the only things that made it a "Die Hard" movie were that the character's name was John McClane, and it had a few refrains of the score from the original film. If the character's name had been "Bill Smith" it would've been any old sorta half-decent…

"First I'm gonna kill ya! Then I'm gonna cook ya! Then I'm gonna eat ya!"