Five Things Needed To Fix Die Hard
3) Acknowledge The Fact That It’s Die Hard
The people who have taken over this series have alienated fans. Big time. They have removed the idioms, the music, the cast and theme of the original trilogy. You know why Rambo 4 was a success and Die Hard 4 wasn’t? Because Sylvester Stallone is in touch with fans, or at least was at the time. Stallone knew people weren’t out for Shakespeare or 15 CGI blocks of a city exploding, he knew that fans of a retro update wanted – funnily enough – retro shit.
Die Hard needs its old DNA back – starting with John McClane. I don’t know who that guy was in DHINO, but it wasn’t the wisecracking New Yorker from ‘That thing in L.A.’. It was more the Bruce Willis from The Sixth Sense than the one from Die Hard. On top of that, get the old score back. The music in DHINO was stinking generic crap. Get McClane’s wife back. Get Al Powell back. And maybe we want to see Argyle the limo driver.
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