For this month’s next review for Genre Grandeur – Reluctant Hero Movies, here’s a review of Die Hard (1988) by DJ Valentine of Simplistic Reviews.
In case you missed any of the reviews, here’s a recap:
- The Prince of Egypt (1998) – Rob
- The Big Clock (1948) – David
- Being a Superhero Ain’t All It’s Cracked Up To Be – Quiggy
- Nightfall (1948) – David
- Airplane (1980) – J-Dub
- Angel on My Shoulder (1946) – Tiffany
- Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018) – Rob
- The Woman in the Window (1944) – David
- Die Hard 2 (1990) – Darren
- The Reckless Moment (1949) – David
- The Adventures of Captain Zoom in Outer Space (1995) – Quiggy
- Detour (1945) – David
- Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016) – Rob
- Children of Men (2006) – Vinnie
- Ministry of Fear (1948) – David
- Captain Sabertooth and the Treasure of Lama Rama (2014) – Sally
- Shoot the Pianist (1960) – David
- Die Hard (1988) – Darren
- Die Hard (1988) – Rob
- Die Hard (1988) – DJ
In addition, I watched and reviewed 7 movies for my companion series Genre Guesstimation. Unfortunately, only one of them will now be considered among my favorites of the genre.
- Hero (1992)
- John Carter (2012)
- Dune (1984)
- *Children of Men (2006)
- John Wick (2014)
- John Wick: Chapter 2 (2017)
- John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum (2019)
Thanks again to DJ Valentine of Simplistic Reviews for choosing this month’s genre.
Next month’s genre has been chosen by Paul of Silver Screen Classics and we will be reviewing our favorite New York Films of the 70’s.
Please get me your submissions by the 25th of Jun by sending them to NYC70spaul@movierob.net
Try to think out of the box! Great choice Paul!
Let’s see what DJ thought of this movie:
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That budget wasting/cgi wasting/oxygen wasting Michael Bay has proven to us that anyone can do an action film. However, not just anyone can do it well. There is one action film that ALL other action films are judged to when it comes to greatest ever. And that is the QUINTESSENTIAL action film Die Hard. No, there wasn’t some racial stereotype of a robot blowing up random things under the shadow of the American flag while some Victoria’s Secret runway model struggles to put words together in an attempt to get the director’s d*ck hard. (I hate Transformers if that wasn’t clear)