Die Hard Rant.

Ok, so I've just put a list of some movies and books that I like down the left-hand side, you can view these at your leisure. In writing them down however, I'm reminded of a problem I've been encountering in relation to Die Hard. I have friends you see - nice guys, intelligent, snappy dressers with full time jobs - who insist that Die Hard 3 is the best movie in the series. Seeing as I have a blog now, I am able to have my rant about the deficiencies inherent in such an argument, what else is the internet good for, if not my ranting (or yours, but you can do that on your blog). Anyway, in my opinion Die Hard 3 had, coincidently, problems 3. They are as follows: 1)John McClane - Bruce might as well have been playing a different character from the first two movies, he might as well have been playing Joe Hallenbeck (nice name) from The Last Boy Scout than John McClane, so similar are Joe and John circa DH3. He was actually so unlikeable that after test audiences 'didn't respond to him', the studio went back and added a scene where John called his wife, connecting him once again to the original character and not the cariacture he was for the rest of the movie.
2) Samuel L. Jackson was relegated to a vague kind of angry comic sidekick. I have nothing against Sam, but I hardly felt any threat of furious anger.
3) Jeremy Irons. Thank god he turned out to be the brother of Alan Rickman's character because up until then he was not much more than a second rate rip off of Hans Gruber. Once again Jeremy Irons is a good actor, but Rickman spanked his faux German backside.
Try and convince me otherwise, I double dare ya.

The 'wow, I've got a blog' posting.

Blogging, it's all the rage, it's new, it's fun, it's easy. Well Blogging may be easy, but choosing the name was a mind-numbing chore. What to choose, how do I want to be remembered in my slide into obscurity? Something literary, a quote or a Latin phrase; apologia pro vita sua for example. A bit over the top, me thinks, a bit wanky for sure. Something cool and postmodern, like a T-shirt slogan that you soon get sick of (Vote for Pedro anyone?)? Some geeky and obscure film/TV reference (almost went with Magnificent Octopus, a geeky and obscure Blackadder reference which could have been disastrous)? Decided on something with a literary and filmic air and that was vaguely indicitave of adventure and excitement.