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  A Good Day to Die Hard 2013

  ★★ Rewatched 17 Mar 2025

  It's just not a Die Hard film.

  I couldn't remember a single thing about this other than he had a young sidekick again, and I realize why that is now. It's an utterly forgettable movie, ugly to look at with an uninspired plot, bad pacing, and paper thin characters. It's like cargo cult John McClane, a hollow imitation run through the prism of cheap action hero clichés, ignoring all the fallibility and genuine painful emotion the character endured through the…

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  Live Free or Die Hard 2007

  ★★★½ Rewatched 15 Mar 2025

  Still fun, but it teeters too much on the edge between the usual Die Hard action and over the top dumb schlock until it just goes off the rails at the jet sequence. It also has enough of that post 9/11 dread mixed in with the ominous techno terrorism of the time that drains a bit of the fun out of the experience.

Popular reviews

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  Wishmaster 1997

  ★★★½ Rewatched 24 Oct 2024

  The Djinn looks like he's having a great time and I love that for him.

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  Wishmaster 2: Evil Never Dies 1999

  ★★ Watched 24 Oct 2024 3

  "Some people don't like it, others do. And, you know, it was also a sequel to a movie that I thought wasn't a good movie at all."
  -Director/Writer Jack Sholder

  Brother, you wish this was Wishmaster 1.

  It just painfully lacks the energy, cleverness, and mirthfulness of the first. Divoff is still fun but his direction feels listless. The pacing and story structure are a mess, and we have to sit through the lead surfing the net for our mythology…