Die Harderer Again Some More

Hi, my name is Peter, and I like Big Dumb Action Movies.

Still, Live Free or Die Hard, the awesomely-titled fourth sequel to the ultimate 80s action series, starts with some serious weights on its ankles: the director is Len Wiseman, the hack who did the Underworld movies; Bruce Willis' costar is Justin Long, the irritating indie-yuppie from the new Mac ads; and the movie is set in Washington, but was filmed in Baltimore--a total slight to my home city.

But despite all that, I have to say: I like this trailer. There's basically no dialog, no suggestion as to what the story might be (though earlier reports suggest it's got something to do with computer hackers)--in fact there's really nothing at all except stuff going boom real good. And I'm okay with that, because that's what the Die Hard movies are about, and this trailer, it seems to me, is declaring from the outset that Die Hard 4 is gonna kick it old school, shamelessly and spectacularly blowing the crap out of everything in sight. Even better is that it's coming out July 4th weekend opposite Michael Bay's sure-to-be-insanely-ridiculous Transformers movie. In other words, an entire generation of mid-20's males will be tripping on megasized action and 80's nostalgia next year (with the Ninja Turtles movie as warm up), and you can bet I'll be one of them.