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Originally Posted by Boblobla
I have watched Live Free or Die Hard many times as well. Methinks you are forgetting how 'bad' the original movies were.
I really can't understand the movie snobbery in your post. God forbid people have different tastes.
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It is one of the few things I just can't bring myself to say "to each his own".
My post does come off as snobby, I know. I have friends that like the turn off your brain movies and it drives me crazy. I don't call them dumb per se but I do question their cinema tastes.
I don't expect everyone to think There Will Be Blood is the best movie of 2007, but it was. I think I have a pretty balanced taste in movies, my DVD cases have movies like Anchorman next to Apocalypse Now, but every once in a while action movies just get so bad I can't stand it.
But for every Bourne Ultimatum, Terminator 2 (maybe the best pure action movie ever), Jurassic Park, Dark Knight, V for Vendetta and the movies mentioned in my first post etc there is a Face/off, Wanted, Eagle Eye, Hitman, Max Payne, Live Free Die Hard, Transformers.
I know some are a fine line. 300 comes to mind. It could have been great but was ok. Same with the first two Spiderman movies and Xmen movies. I admit I'll be the first in line for Wolverine Origins when it comes out, same with Watchmen. And I did burn each and every movie I listed in the crap category above, except the new Die Hard, I turned it off 20 minutes in.
If I come across as a snob it is because I am. But you have to understand that my ability to enjoy movies has been severely limited because appealing to the lowest common denominator is so common that I only like one out of every 20 movies. That is not to say if you like them that you are simple or dumb or anything just I'd like it if for once a movie like Indy 4 or Spiderman 3 would flop and lose like $200 million because people would just say no and demand better products.