 The original Die Hard from 1988 quite possibly the best action movie ever made. Hey what's up guys this is Josh here and today I want to do a little review on the original Die Hard from 1988 now. Die Hard with a vengeance, the third Die Hard movie is a movie that I grew up with, a movie that I've always loved. I've seen so many times on sitcoms there'll be dumb guys joking about yeah watch Die Hard together, watch Die Hard every Friday, Die Hard is my favorite movie. It's probably going to be like Rambo it's going to be like just a generic you know Jean-Claude Van Damme I like all those movies but it's just going to be another dumb guys movie and I couldn't be more wrong. There is something so special about the original Die Hard and it is so much more than just an action movie and once you see some of the worst sequels of Die Hard that feel much more like a normal action movie you appreciate just how good this original film is and it's over two hours and I don't think they wasted a second I actually even wanted even more than they gave us just because what they gave us was so perfect. This movie is so good that I don't know if I'm going to be able to list all the pros that I have in one video but I'm going to attempt so let's start off right here with the pros. It's pretty much a perfect action movie and when I was kind of comparing my other favorite action movies to this one there's just something special about the DNA about the style about just the way that they set this up that I think that I like this movie just the hair more than all the other action movies and the best way I could describe Bruce Willis in these movies is entertaining. Now I know pretty much every actor is trying to be entertaining but there's just something special about Bruce Willis in this movie in Die Hard with a vengeance and in my opinion in the last Boy Scout to where the movie is so good but with Bruce Willis in there and his just elevated entertainment value they're just more entertaining to me than any of the other movies and it is Bruce Willis but it is also all the little details that they do in this movie so another thing I really liked about this movie is the setting Nakatomi Plaza so I'm kind of weird with settings I really like when a movie takes me to another place or really makes me feel like I'm in the situation. I have a really good eye for green screens I can spot them like that and that will actually take me out of the situation but I mean you have so many shots of Jean McClain on a roof or 30 floors up looking down looking in all the lights I mean right when he arrives there's a little bit of a party going on and it's just a beautiful view of a sunset and the sunsetting the rest of the movie is going to be at night so you get this little glimpse of sun just a beautiful sunset I just can't describe enough how much I like Nakatomi Plaza as a setting and really opened my eyes to how much I like an action movie confined to a specific spot one of the best settings for a movie that I could possibly think of pretty much all the side characters here are memorable like the police cop that helps him the guy from Family Matters I like that guy you have Argyle which is his limo driver who pretty much is waiting for him the whole movie but when the bad guys take over the plaza he's kind of stuck in the underground area the side villains are memorable and I gotta say on first watch it's very easy to watch this movie as just like action scenes happening over and over but there's so much detail and especially on rewatch you really do get to feel all these individual characters it's not just random henchmen they do have their own personalities and styles that I appreciate and then on top of that you have the villain which is just one of the best villains in probably cinema action history this guy is just so entertaining to watch and there's just something about him that is really really good and authentic but is also very entertaining and I couldn't picture another actor even coming close to this performance in the villain another thing I liked about this movie was that it has a Christmas vibe throughout I don't know I do like movies with it with a specific theme I do like when a movie makes me feel a specific kind of tone or theme that they're going for always like that so on top of the Nakatomi plaza it just has so much stuff that's themed around Christmas you have Christmas music you have Christmas trees you have Christmas jokes when he sends the guy down on the elevator and writes ho ho ho on his jacket I actually like the Christmas vibe in this movie and it is a hundred percent something I would want to watch every Christmas because of how much I like this movie and how much I don't really have one specific movie to watch on Christmas so I really do like the Christmas theme here it's over a two hour movie and there's almost no wasted spaces I just watched another reviewer and he said that every single thing in the movie has a meaning and he pointed out a few things that I didn't even notice and upon rewatch there's little connections that I didn't notice the first time that's like wow like the level of detail here and how things just perfectly interweave I'm just really blown away it was paced so correctly like you have just enough of Bruce Willis getting there some good views meeting people you have just enough time when the villains take over but another thing I like about this movie is once the villains take over you don't really know a hundred percent what their plan is they let you know right away we have a lot of things planned here like we actually want the FBI to come here because it's part of our plan but you don't know what it is and so that helps the pacing so much more you see all this grand takeover of this building and you don't know exactly where it's going to go and I love the mystery aspect you know you're in store for something great and you don't know what it is so the pacing was just brilliant and on top of that I mean you think about an action movie what how long is an action movie an hour and a half maybe an hour and 40 minutes this is slightly over two hours and not one second was wasted and I feel like because it was two hours and it was perfect it was just like more goodness in one package and it makes this movie even better last bro that I have is all the different ideas for stunts for escapes for how John McLean is going to get a police to help him because he's stuck on this building how's he gonna fight people I just all the little ideas that they had throughout this movie just felt so unique and I've watched some of the other diehard movies kind of this happenstance thrown together thing but almost all the life or death situations Bruce Willis gets into it feels like he has to do it and he's not really exaggerating it to do this non-stop action over and over it almost feels necessary for him to survive blending crazy action with just the right amount of realism so I feel like I'm forgetting something in the pros here guys but I just love this movie from beginning to end I actually watched it twice and for some reason when I think about coming home at night after work want to put on some movie to relax like this is the movie that is so beyond perfect it has everything it's are rated it's so entertaining it's just a fun movie experience and I got to say it's probably my favorite action movie of all time I want to let that simmer for a little bit but I'm pretty sure that it is all right guys if I were to go into cons here there is almost none the only cons I could think of is it is dated this building has this really advanced computer software for the time and it looks really dated besides that nothing else is really dated in the movie and I did watch this in 4k so I don't know if this movie was just so much better because I watched it in 4k I don't know but I did notice that John McLean's stunt double was somewhat obvious it was far from the worst stunt double I've ever seen but it was also very obvious that the guy had a little bit more hair and his hair was a little bit darker I really really noticed stunt doubles and I really noticed green screens I think more than other people but that's literally the only two things I could say about it is that the technology was a little bit dated and that I could notice Bruce Willis' stunt double some of the time so besides that guys I really don't have any cons I love this movie it's turned into a feel good movie for me it's turned into something I could put on all the time something that just makes me feel okay and normal because I like it so much and it's just so entertaining to me so if I were to read this movie I'd probably give it a 9 out of 10 I rate perfect movies like a 9.5 so 9 is pretty much as close it might as well be a 9.5 because I don't have any I can't really say anything better about it buy try or pass I think this is 100% a buy when you compare it to the other diehard sequels there's all these crazy stunts but for some reason it just doesn't hit because it's just this crazy stunt after a crazy stunt and it doesn't have a good enough story there's just something special about this story I love it just go out and buy it it is my favorite action movie personally try to get the 4k if you can 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