POLL: What is the best Die Hard sequel?

What is the best Die Hard sequel?

  • Die Hard II: Die Harder

    Votes: 48 39.3%
  • Die Hard with a Vengeance

    Votes: 61 50.0%
  • Live Free or Die Hard

    Votes: 11 9.0%
  • A Good Day to Die Hard

    Votes: 2 1.6%

  • Total voters
    122

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What is the best Die Hard sequel and how do you rank them?





4. A Good Day to Die Hard


3. Die Hard with a Vengeance
2. Die Hard II: Die Harder
1. Live Free or Die Hard
 
Die Hard with a Vengeance is one of my favorite childhood movies. Outside of Die Hard it's easily the best.

Not sure I'd even classify the first and the third movie of the same genre. Three was massive in scope and a really interesting time in NYC to capture.
 
Lay off the crack. Was it the naked kata that did it for you?

No, it was the layered tiers of big boss villains, the way the script worked in the characters from the first one with a pretty deft hand, the excellent recapturing of the claustrophobia of the first one while raising the stakes and respecting the characters, etc. John Amos was the 3rd level big boss in the movie and he was better than any villain in any of the subsequent sequels. I could go on.
 
No, it was the three tiers of big boss villains, the way the script worked in the characters from the first one with a pretty deft hand, the excellent recapturing of the claustrophobia of the first one while raising the stakes and respecting the characters, etc. John Amos was the 3rd level big boss in the movie and he was better than any villain in any of the sequels. I could go on.

I haven't seen them in a decade at least and I'm sure you could put an objective list together but just no, absolutely not.

One movie was well made and the other was a classic popcorn flick.
 
No, it was the layered tiers of big boss villains, the way the script worked in the characters from the first one with a pretty deft hand, the excellent recapturing of the claustrophobia of the first one while raising the stakes and respecting the characters, etc. John Amos was the 3rd level big boss in the movie and he was better than any villain in any of the sequels. I could go on.
Yeah, we have had this discussion at least a couple times before. The Die Hard sequel that is most like the original is 2. It has many of the same elements. It has a lot of good action sequences and similar humor. The reason it gets trashed is because it lives in the shadow of the original. It does have some legit flaws, but that is probably because they rushed production (it only took them about a year to make).

That said, I still like Live Free or Die Hard best among the sequels though. It did have some glaring flaws, but it also had the best story and writing of all the sequels.
 
I haven't seen them in a decade at least and I'm sure you could put an objective list together but just no, absolutely not.

One movie was well made and the other was a classic popcorn flick.

I wouldn't call Die Hard 3 that well made. Better put, I would call it not that well written. What was written was reasonably well made into a movie, but its flaws take root in the script and limit everything else about the movie.

Simon Gruber's mad libs and SAT questions are silly and tiresome. McClane is better off as a lone wolf, not with a full time buddy alongside him. And how convenient that Samuel L. just loves to do SAT questions in his spare time. What a great guy to run into! Hey, just like that sewer worker that just happens to be a part time city historian and scholar of old blueprints hey, for no reason, other than it gets McClane out of another jam.

Why write him into a problem if bumping fortuitously into an expert is how you write him out of it? McClane keeps running into people that solve his crap for him. Aside from that, hey the SAT questions were all for no reason...the criminal plot version of "it was all a dream" and so on. Really...Hans Gruber's brother with a grudge creating problems for John McClane but no he actually doesn't care about his brother at all...

Aside from that, check out the deleted scene ending where John McClane turns into James Bond. Kind of shows how they were in the wrong headspace at the outset.
 
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Die Hard with a Vengeance is one of my favorite childhood movies. Outside of Die Hard it's easily the best.

Not sure I'd even classify the first and the third movie of the same genre. Three was massive in scope and a really interesting time in NYC to capture.

Yeah, Die Hard With a Vengeance was a great action movie, but moving it out of the tightly enclosed spaces of the first two changed things considerably. I thought the later sequels took it too far, and we can probably blame Speed for the direction the franchise took starting with entry 3, but With a Vengeance succeeded with strong cast, particularly the pairing of Samuel L Jackson with Bruce Willis.
 
I never watched that franchise. Sue me.
Then you missed the opportunity to run around your house yelling:
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2332 (2 & 3 are equal IMO)
After that I'd say part 9 is best
 
I've never seen any Die Hard movies. Should I even bother at this point?

Yeah man, 1&2 are two of the best action films ever made. And as is evident, plenty of people think highly of #3 as well. #4 is fairly respectable at least.

#5 is an irredeemable bowl of runny dog feces.
 
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Yeah man, 1&2 are two of the best action films ever made. And as is evident, plenty of people think highly of #3 as well. #4 is fairly respectable at least.

#5 is an irredeemable bowl if runny dog feces.
All the way to 4 while remaining decent is indeed something. I'll make a point of watching part one before the year is up, I'm just not watching anything at the moment, having a hard time focusing.
 
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