Caffeinated Clint
Online rumour states the new film may be PG-13
You know that list of mine on last week’s Caffeinated Clint? The one where I’m talking about the five or six films I wanna see this year?
If this news is true, you can scratch one off the list.
“Live Free or Die Hard”, or as its ridiculously been renamed here “Die Hard 4.0”, has been ‘pussy-fied’.
Aint it Cool has the lowdown, but in short, Bruce Willis has basically come out saying that he’s a little bummed that Fox are trying to garner the ‘Night at the Museum’ and ‘Wild Hogs’ audience by making a PG-13 “Die Hard” film. He apparently signed up to do a hardcore sequel… something like Johnny McTiernan’s original.
Here’s what good ol’ Vern at AICN has to say about the matter, “And before you pull some kind of cheap “yeah, but GRINDHOUSE was Rated-R and it lost money” bullshit, remember this: BRUCE WILLIS WAS IN GRINDHOUSE. What are you gonna do, cut him out of LIVE FREE OR DIE FRAIL just to be safe? Come on, people.
“Best case scenario, moneywise: you make a ton of money on it. But everybody feels ripped off. Your precious franchise is dead forever. The shine on an American classic gets a little less bright. Everybody starts associating the real DIE HARD with this horse shit and thinking it’s not as good as they remembered it. You sell less copies when the old, actual genuine made-for-adults good DIE HARD movies come out on HD-DVD, BLU-RAY and whatever other futuristic formats come into existence. Nobody will even consider making a new sequel or video game or downloadable ringtone or Happy Meal toy. When you die, you will realize that in the long run you could’ve made more money on this DIE HARD thing, and without having to shame an entire country to do it. You could’ve held your head proud instead of saying, “yeah, but this is a business, we are not here to do good things for the world and humanity, we are here to steal their money and then rationalize it by saying that ultimately it is a business.”
Right on Vern.
I’m with those guys, don’t fairy-floss the fourth “Die Hard” film…. We want it sick as fuck… brimming with Yippee-Ki-Yay’s…. drowning in grit, blood and stained tank-tops…
