Virtual Illusions

I saw Live Free or Die Hard, the latest installment of the Die Hard series over the weekend and it was awesome. Awesome in the sense that it had plot holes big enough for the 18 wheeler being chased by jet fighter to easily fit through but thoroughly entertaining. I usually don’t go in for the purely action movies and so threw it in while I was doing other stuff figuring occasional explosion in the background would keep me entertained.

I completely failed to do any of the other things I was intending. It was a quality rollercoaster ride. Keep in mind that I’m a computer person and they bent tech over and did some unseemly things things to it to create their story and I still enjoyed it greatly.

I’ve been reading Spirit of the Century in preparation to possibly running it and I think Live Free or Die Hard has a lot of similarities to the pulps which the game were based. You have your two fisted hero doing increasingly improbable things. You had jeopardy to his loved ones and quite a number of ticking clocks. More property damage than you can shake a stick at and generally awesome fun.

The only thing that was missing, that I thought really should have been there was one of the times the Big Bad declared McCLane dead his hostage daughter needed to at least once say something to the effect of, “you don’t know him very well, do you?” It wouldn’t have matter if she believed it or was just saying it for bravado, it was a missing trope.

I sort of thought that there was bit of footage involving the daughter that got left on the cutting room floor. But since I thought the movie was great for what it was perhaps I shouldn’t question that decision.

If you’re looking for an action move Live Free or Die Hard delivers.

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