Die Hard Collection (Die Hard / Die Hard 2 - Die Harder / Die Hard with a Vengeance / Bonus Disc)
by John McTiernan, Renny Harlin
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Actor: Alan Rickman, Bruce Willis, Jeremy Irons, Samuel L. Jackson, William AthertonDirector: John McTiernan, Renny Harlin
Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
Writer: Doug Richardson
Writer: Jeb Stuart
Writer: Jonathan Hensleigh
Writer: Roderick Thorp
Writer: Steven E. de Souza
Writer: Walter Wager
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; German (Original Language); Italian (Original Language); Spanish (Original Language); English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled)
Format: Box set, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 387 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-06-19
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: 20th Century Fox
DVD Reviews of Die Hard Collection (Die Hard / Die Hard 2 - Die Harder / Die Hard with a Vengeance / Bonus Disc)
DVD Review: Good collection of the defining movies of Bruce Willis' career
Summary: 4 Stars
I found this box set of the first three Die Hard movies to be not great, but good overall. I bought these with the newest Die Hard film, Live Free or Die Hard. I believe that the first three are better than the newest installment and this set is a good way to see the films that skyrocketed Bruce Willis' career, bringing him up from a soap opera star to an action film star.DVD Review: Die hard collection
Summary: 5 Stars
I loved the die hard collection. The movie was great. I loved the interaction with the seller.
DVD Review: Die Hard Collection
Summary: 5 Stars
I am a Bruce Willis fan and all of the Die Hard movies are excellent action movies I truly enjoy.DVD Review: What a Deal!
Summary: 5 Stars
Great price, fast shipping, great movies = Satisfied Customer. Other than the cheap cases this is a great product. Great conversion to DVD for an old movie as well :)DVD Review: Amazing Trilogy!
Summary: 5 Stars
I first saw the original Die Hard when I was in middle school. It was being broadcast on USA that week. I remember watching it over and over every time they showed it. This movie is an amazingly suspenful action thriller. Bruce Willis has undoubtedly his best performance as an actor. His character, John McClane, is a raw, determined cop out to save his wife and the other hostages in the film. Although it's not his specialty, Alan Rickman's villian, Hans Gruber, was superb. This was one of the better roles of his career. The original is still the best in the series by far.
Die Harder, the second movie in the series, was a bit disappointing. The plot of the movie wasn't well written and unsuccessfully tried to repeat some of the things that made the first film so great. The general coincidences overused are that it's Christmas and his wife is in danger. They even squeezed the same cop into the film even though that was a bit of a stretch. At times, the movie took too much focus away from John McClane, which would have been alright except for the fact that the characters and storylines that they focused on were not very good. Overall, it's still a pretty good action movie, but not near the same quality as the original.
Die Hard With a Vengeance, the third movie, was a very fun addition to the series. It took a much needed different turn at the John McClane Saves The Day saga. This movie showed John McClane drastically different at the beginning. His issues are not only noticeable, but you can see how they have negatively affected his life. He is forced to try and get his act together to try and prevent a terrorist from doing more damage. Samuel L. Jackson was a perfect cast for McClane's partner in this movie. His performance was funny and well done. This movie brought more laughs than the other two and still had a great deal of action and suspense. Another great villian performance is by Jeremy Irons. This was a great addition to the series!
These three movies, 1 & 3 especially, are great action thriller movies with great suspense, storylines, and performances by the actors. I own all of these and watch them a few times a year.
"Yippee kay yah mother f***er!!!"
Description of Die Hard Collection (Die Hard / Die Hard 2 - Die Harder / Die Hard with a Vengeance / Bonus Disc)
Disc 1: **"Die Hard" Widescreen Feature with optional Commentary by director John McTiernan and production designer Jackson DeGovia **Additional scene-specific commentary by special effects supervisor Richard Edlund **Subtitled commentary by various cast and crew **Branching version with the extended power shutdown scene **DVD-ROM - script-to- screen comparisonDisc 2: **"Die Harder" Widescreen Feature **Directors commentary
Disc 3: **"Die Hard with a Vengeance" Widescreen Feature **Directors commentary
Disc 4 Bonus Disc: **Inside Look: LIVE FREE OR DIE HARD **Wrong Guy, Wrong Place, Wrong Time: A Look Back At Die Hard **The Continuing Adventures of John McClane
Die Hard is the movie franchise that made a movie star out of TV star Bruce Willis, and created an entire action-movie genre of its own. In the original 1988 film, Willis plays wisecracking New York cop John McClane, who arrives at the Nakatomi Plaza in Los Angeles to meet up with his estranged wife, Holly (Bonny Bedelia), at her office Christmas party. As luck would have it, the company ends up in the middle of a terrorist plot led by Hans Gruber (Alan Rickman) and his gang of expert killers, and with little help coming from outside, McClane has to pick off his enemies one by one. Thus was born the "Die Hard genre," epitomized by such films as Under Siege ("Die Hard on a ship"), Passenger 57 ("Die Hard on a plane"), Speed ("Die Hard on a bus"), and Cliffhanger ("Die Hard on a mountain"). But few measure up to the explosive brilliance of Die Hard. Director John McTiernan develops the action at a fast and furious pace, culminating in some fantastic set-pieces on the top of the building, in the elevator shaft, and in the building's outer plaza. Jeb Stuart and Steven E. de Souza's script, based on Roderick Thorp's novel Nothing Lasts Forever, is smart, funny, and full of memorable lines (among them "Welcome to the party, pal!" and of course "Yippee ki-ay, motherf*****"), and the cast is perfection, especially Rickman as the cunningly evil villain, and Willis, whose McClane character--bloodied, beaten, bruised, and barely breathing, as he battles both bad guys and bureaucrats--is someone audiences could genuinely cheer for.
Directed by Renny Harlin, the 1990 sequel, Die Hard 2 (unofficially referred to as Die Harder), doesn't match the level of the original, but it's still an exciting thrill ride with some terrific action sequences. One year after the Nakatomi incident, McClane (Willis) is awaiting his wife's (Bedelia) plane to arrive at Dulles Airport when he stumbles onto a plot to paralyze the entire airport, including all the planes trying to land. It's up to McClane to take on the cadre of bad guys despite all the bureaucrats standing in his way, and before the planes run out of fuel and crash to the ground. The cast includes William Sadler as rogue military man Col. Stuart, Dennis Franz as the latest bureaucratic cop to get in McClane's way, Richard Thornburg as the annoying reporter from the original movie, John Amos as a special-forces commander, early-in-their-career John Leguizamo and Robert Patrick as terrorists, and future politician and Law and Order actor Fred Thompson as the head of air traffic control.
The third film in the series, Die Hard with a Vengeance (1995), was again directed by John McTiernan and uses a different concept. The villain (played by Jeremy Irons) claims to have planted bombs all over New York City and gives John McClane (Willis), now alchoholic and separated, a series of clues to try to track them down. Along the way, he's aided by, and eventually teams up with, a Harlem shopkeeper named Zeus Carver (Samuel L. Jackson). The interplay between Willis and Jackson is engaging, but better suited to the Lethal Weapon franchise it was previously considered for, and not till the end does the movie return to the familiar McClane-vs.-villains-showdown format.
The 2007 Die Hard Collection is a four-disc set that comes up short when compared to the previous six-disc Ultimate Collection , which is now out of print. That 2001 set had two discs for each film (plus, Die Hard was a Five Star Collection release). This set does away with all of the second discs, though it retains the features that were on the movie-only discs, including director commentaries and the seamlessly branched version of the first film with a scene added back in. There's also a brand-new fourth disc, but it's pretty minor. "Wrong Guy, Wrong Place, Wrong Time" is a 40-minute retrospective of the original movie. Wide-ranging but rather dull, it collects interviews with director John McTiernan, cinematographer Jan De Bont, screenwriters Jeb Stuart and Steven E. De Souza, other crew, and actors Reginald Veljohnson, Hart Bochner, and William Atherton. Also from 2007, "The Continuing Adventures of John McClane" looks at the second and third movies in the series. It's a mere 13 minutes and only interviews the two directors, Renny Harlin and (in new and old footage) John McTiernan. Last, three trailers for the 2007 film, Live Free or Die Hard, make this set look like something that was released merely to have something on the shelves while the new film was in theaters. --David Horiuchi
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