Taking Ridiculousness To the Next Level: Live Free or Die Hard (Die Hard 4)

Just take a minute to watch this trailer. I watched it about 20 times just to let it all sink in, the total ridiculousness of this entire movie. You got guys shooting submachine guns out of car windows while drift racing, giant concrete pillars exploding for no reason, Bruce Willis firing a machine gun out of his pant leg, and to top everything off, Bruce Willis driving a police car up a concrete ramp for a head-on collision with a helicopter. I'm pretty sure there are easier ways to take down helicopters, but for some reason the writers of this movie thought up of every conceivable way cars can be tossed around, stacked on top of each other like legos, and used as anti aircraft devices. Obviously someone was playing too much GTA. Watching this trailer, I wouldn't be surprised if Bruce Willis performs open-heart surgery by driving a mac truck into the operating room.

The trailer is smart to give absolutely no hints as to what the plot is except that Bruce Willis is PISSED OFF. And that "The choice is finally clear. Live free or die hard." Actually, there really doesn't seem to be much debate over that choice, I'd much rather live free than....die hard. Whatever dying hard means. Ironically, Willis takes the hidden 3rd choice, which is to drive a fucking car up a concrete ramp to blow up a helicopter.

Following the theme of previous Die Hards, Willis has a sidekick, this time a whiney skinny rookie sidekick. I would have preferred the great Samuel L. Jackson again, as SLJ would never ask "Have you done this sort of thing before?" No shit, sherlock, it's fucking Bruce Willis. He once blew up a cargo plane by lighiting its falling trail of jetfuel, all with shards of glass in his feet. Then he went to Mars and killed aliens in search of the 5th element.

While it may seem like I'm ragging on this movie, I'm actually very excited to see it and I encourage everyone to watch it. I like actors like Bruce Willis, because he's just like Arnold Schwartzenegger. No matter how ridiculous the role or plot is, he will take it, and look bad ass doing it. And doing a quadrilogy just makes it better. Movies like this are the best of its kind. Also, there's a surprise ending where it is revealed that Bruce Willis was actually a ghost the entire time.