Die Hard Boxed Set (Special Edition) [VHS]
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Movie Review: pure bloody awesome
Summary: 5 Stars
me, im a Die Hard fan baby and I love Bruce Willlis in all three. the first one is Willis visiting his wife(Bonnie Bedlelia) in the Nakatomi Plaza in L.A. and then terroists lead by the evil Hans Gruber(Alan Rickman) come and try to steal the money and Willis has to stop them. the 2nd one is when Willis is stuck in a National Airport and then terroists seize up the place as they try to bring back a leader from another country to safety and Willis has to stop them. the 3rd one is when Willis is playing hoops all around New York with Simon Gruber(Jeremy Irons) the brother of Hans Gruber(Aland Rickman in #1), and Willis has a partner Zeus(Samuel L. Jackson) along for the ride a they try not to kill each other. all three deliver grandstandly action packed, well action. the 1st one is great, the 2nd one is good and the third one is heartstopping. hang on for the rides of your lifeMovie Review: the ultimate die hard pack
Summary: 5 Stars
This is the best dvd collection to own. If you don't this pack you need to because it will keep entertaining you again and again.Movie Review: encouragement
Summary: 3 Stars
i just want to encourage you in all you are doing. and i pray the almighty to continue to strenthen you,asyou press forward.am enjoying your movies,but i will love to have your official magazine.
Movie Review: A terrific Action movie series for action movie lovers
Summary: 5 Stars
I just have to say this, WOW!!!!! The die hard series is one of the best i have seen and the picture and sound quallity are exellexnt ( especially in DTS). The explosions are Astounding you can hear the slightest sound in DTS. There is one review that said the first 15 min of the first one are not very good, but i Didnt notice anything. ( I read the review before i ordered the series and when i read it before i see it i tend to notice the things they say are wrong but i noticed NOTHING wrong). The picture is all 3 of them is VERY crisp and clear, and like i said before the sound quallity is EXELLENT!!!. Well i have nothing more to say aside from BUY THE SERIES. You Will not regret it.Movie Review: GET READY FOR THE ACTION MOVIE THAT STARTED IT ALL
Summary: 4 Stars
The early 1980s were a hotbed of activity in the action/adventure genre. Mel Gibson did "Lethal Weapon", Arnold, "The Terminator" and "Conan" and Eddie Murphy indulged us with "Beverly Hills Cop". At about the same time relative unknown, Bruce Willis had made a considerable splash on the small screen, opposite Cybil Shepard in television's "Moonlighting". The show, successful and sophisticated, brought Willis to the attention of director, John McTiernan, enough to convince 20th Century Fox to take a chance on them both for a new kind of vigilante thriller - "Die Hard".
Willis is John McClane, a New York cop who keeps running up against terrorists - in a high rise (part one), at the airport (part two) and in New York City (part three) - the latter having an ominous ring of d?j? vu since 9-11. McClane is a bitterly esoteric man on the verge of divorcing his wife, Holly (Bonnie Bedelia). It seems that Holly's career meant more to her than her marriage. Moving to LA she's become quite successful working for a multi-billion dollar corporation that, unfortunately, becomes the target of a group of terrorists on Christmas Eve. These men are fronted by Hans Gruber (Alan Rickman).
The original "Die Hard" was shot on location at Fox's new Century City corporate offices, a venue that provided the film with its iconic poster art of a high rise in peril. The phenomenal box office receipts generated guaranteed a sequel. Unfortunately, for all concerned, McTiernan was unable to commit to a second outing, leaving Renny Harlin in the driver's seat.
Harlin's heavy handed direction and an almost carbon copy plot - except that terrorists have now taken an airport instead of a high rise hostage - make "Die Hard 2" a rather pass? film experience. Thankfully, McTiernan returned for Part III, an ominously true-to-life scenario in which terrorists fronted by the diabolical brother of Hans, Simon (Jeremy Irons) hold the city of New York hostage with the threat of a nuclear holocaust. Early on, Part III cleverly chose to infuse comic relief in the embodiment of Zeus Carver (Samuel L. Jackson), an unwilling participant in McClane's rescue efforts, whose racial bias toward whites is actually rather endearing in an odd sort of way.
Viewing these films in retrospect "Die Hard 3" is also more of an ensemble acting piece than the first two films. Willis' character - once the corner stone of the series, is merely the pretext, rather than the catalyst that propels the film's familiar storyline to its predictable conclusion.
After the really shaky initial release of these movies on DVD, which were among the worst transfers ever conceived for the digital market, Fox went back to the drawing board to completely remaster theses films for deluxe special editions. The results are nothing short of miraculous.
In the case of all three movies: color separation is superb. Contrast, shadow delineation, fine detail and black levels are solid and deep. Aliasing, shimmering and edge enhancement still exist but are at a bare minimum and do not distract from your viewing experience. All three movies have had their soundtracks cleaned up. The results are explosive. You may need seatbelts on your couch before suiting up for part III.
Individually, Part One continues to have its opening fifteen minutes suffer from an orangy haze that tends to render the entire image soft. Although scenes taking place in the limo are quite accurately rendered, those in which McClane first encounters the terrorists in Nakatomi Plaza are out of focus with a color scheme that is muddy at best. The good news is that after those initial fifteen minutes you will be treated to one of the best DVD transfers of a vintage 80s film. Part Two is the most accurately and consistently rendered DVD in the three pack. There's really nothing to complain about here except a hint of edge enhancement and some minor color bleeding (red) in the scenes that take place inside the control tower. Part Three: The youngest of these movies is also the one most inconsistently rendered on DVD. The initial release of Part III on DVD was an embarrassment, so excessively marred by edge enhancement, aliasing and shimmering of fine details and digital grain that one wondered just how blind the person behind the remastering console was. Though this subsequent remastering improves on all of the above mentioned problems, there is still a considerable amount of film grain present. The picture, while not a strain on the eyes, is nevertheless a very intense visual experience. The harsh characteristic is unflattering, though again, not to the extreme levels as before.
Extras include several documentaries, audio commentaries, deleted scenes, stills and theatrical trailers for each movie. Fox calls the first movie a 2-disc "Five Star" edition but when compared to parts two and three, labeled as mere "Special Editions" (also 2-disc) there is very little to differentiate the discs by way of their extra features.