The 1-2-3 Killam
Mid-Card Championship Winner
Mitch brings the magic.
I bring the madness.
So today I got my Die Hard 25th Anniversary blu-ray set in the mail. I watched the first movie all the way through with commentary from John McTiernan. On the one hand, his perspective on that movie is fantastic. On the other, listening to him disabled me from properly watching Alan Rickman blow my mind.
I really dislike Die Hard 2, but I suppose I should watch it for the sake of continuity. I have never seen 3 or 4, so I figured this set would be the best way to experience the series, before I have to force myself through five to appease my obsessive need to finish a series. It can't be as bad as Twilight, and I sat through that shit.
So far, I like the set. My only real complaint is that 1-3 still haven't been remastered. They are the same BR copies from the original releases, which look better than VHS, but I hear when you see the fourth there's a canyon of difference. The packaging is really nice, its in traditional 5-disc book layout, and each page has really cool graphic work depicting scenes fromt he movie. Each disc, while still being the same video rip from the BR releases, has been slapped with a fresh cover so that all look sexy and uniform. I hate when releases just take the first discs from single release and throw them together in a box (fuck you Harry Potter).
There's a fifth disc called "Decoding Die Hard" which I haven't touched, and won't until I finish the series. I'll let you know when I get there. Special features are limited to what was on the original release, so most of them look old (because they ARE old). They range from commercial ads to HBO "first look" packages to being able to pick only the scenes you want to see, and play them out. Which is really fucking useless, because who just sits down and says "I want to watch the 8th, 23rd and 14th scene from Die Hard 3, in that order"?
I bring the madness.
So today I got my Die Hard 25th Anniversary blu-ray set in the mail. I watched the first movie all the way through with commentary from John McTiernan. On the one hand, his perspective on that movie is fantastic. On the other, listening to him disabled me from properly watching Alan Rickman blow my mind.
I really dislike Die Hard 2, but I suppose I should watch it for the sake of continuity. I have never seen 3 or 4, so I figured this set would be the best way to experience the series, before I have to force myself through five to appease my obsessive need to finish a series. It can't be as bad as Twilight, and I sat through that shit.
So far, I like the set. My only real complaint is that 1-3 still haven't been remastered. They are the same BR copies from the original releases, which look better than VHS, but I hear when you see the fourth there's a canyon of difference. The packaging is really nice, its in traditional 5-disc book layout, and each page has really cool graphic work depicting scenes fromt he movie. Each disc, while still being the same video rip from the BR releases, has been slapped with a fresh cover so that all look sexy and uniform. I hate when releases just take the first discs from single release and throw them together in a box (fuck you Harry Potter).
There's a fifth disc called "Decoding Die Hard" which I haven't touched, and won't until I finish the series. I'll let you know when I get there. Special features are limited to what was on the original release, so most of them look old (because they ARE old). They range from commercial ads to HBO "first look" packages to being able to pick only the scenes you want to see, and play them out. Which is really fucking useless, because who just sits down and says "I want to watch the 8th, 23rd and 14th scene from Die Hard 3, in that order"?
