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A hero who has no issue with authority and discovers that the people above him are far from flawless can create great character development.
And it works because there is a conflict between reality and the hero's perception. When the hero is a maverick, there is no conflict between both: reality confirms the hero's perspective and he ends up being right all along.
However, I still enjoy McClane in Die Hard 1 & 2 on a purely cathartic & simplistic popcorn level.
The first Die Hard is great, but the original novel is better (mainly because the main character, John Leland, is far more complex than the maverick hero). The second movie is merely a repeat of the first, more a clone than a true sequel. But anyway, in the first McClane's everyman nature makes him more interesting than the usual maverick supercop he became and many other 80s action heroes.
Ripley did it so great that anybody else having a go is never going to top her.
-2 adults not being able, or afraid, for absolutly no reason, to admit to each other that they are in love, how many times have we seen that?
In the same vein, in romcoms: when the female lead leaves for whatever far away place to pursue her career because of a misunderstanding with her boyfriend and he is trying desperately to get to her before she goes on the train/bus/plane/boat that will lead her far away.
Such a thundering cliché.
It is, isn't it. ;)
At least it did not cause any problems, like when they switched OHMSS and YOLT.
Things I'm tired of seeing currently. Movies that are based on TV shows, being turned into an origin story. The TV Show didn't bother putting in an origin, we don't need to see it in movie form, Get to the good stuff, enough fluff.
Yeah especially in buddy team movies. Uh I hate you, I hate you too! Hey we survived this scary situation, Let's be friends! Okay! Ugh I hate you again...wanna be friends at the end? Same boring story.
I hate 'em too. Never liked them.
screaming children
use of colour filters
epilogues within or after the end titles
obvious endings just produced for being able to bring on a sequel
What was exciting when Christopher Reeve did it has now been reduced to the dullest spectacle known to man through being relentlessly flogged to death.
I get a kick out of these absolutely bombing at the box office. If they stop painting over classics with a fresh turd, maybe they won't lose so much money.
Oh yes, I also stalk IMDB message boards for these movies to see the mudslinging from those who won't watch it and those who will. It's very entertaining to say the least.