Die Hard Director: John McTiernan Cast: Bruce Willis, Alan Rickman, Bonnie Bedelia, Alexander Godunov
DVD - 2 Disc Set - Wide Screen / DTS Learn more
BUY THIS ITEM
Enter a zip code
- DVD Release Date: 09/23/2008
- Original Release: 1988
- Rating:
- Sales Rank: 42,053
| More Formats | |
|---|---|
| DVD - Wide Screen / Cardboard sleeve | $14.99 |
| DVD - Wide Screen | $14.99 |
| DVD - Wide Screen / 2-Disc Edition | $22.99 |
| Blu-ray - Wide Screen / DTS | $23.99 |
Customers who bought this also bought
Scenes
Features
Closed Caption; Commentary by director John McTiernan and production designer Jackson DeGovia; Scene-specific commentary by special effects supervisor Richard Edlund; Subtitle commentary by various cast and crew; Branching version with the extended power shutdown scene cut back in
Full Product DetailsScene Index
Disc #1 -- Die Hard
1. Landing in L.A. [:22]
2. Festival Night [:07]
3. McClane Residence [1:18]
4. Argyle [:09]
5. The Limo [:24]
6. Nakatomi Plaza [1:36]
7. Takagi & Ellis [1:14]
8. Reunited [:57]
9. Uninvited Guests [1:41]
10. Separation Anxiety [1:10]
11. Hostile Takeover [2:57]
12. Disconnected Parties [1:19]
13. Party Crashers [:45]
14. Meet Hans Gruber [:15]
15. Industrialization and Men's Fashions [2:39]
16. Fill in the Blanks [4:02]
17. The Vault [1:41]
18. False Alarms [1:19]
19. I Promise I Won't Hurt You [:51]
20. No No No [1:57]
21. Blood Lust [1:59]
22. Mayday [2:33]
23. Twinkie Patrol [2:00]
24. The Shaft [:44]
25. Not a Creature Stirring [1:17]
26. Welcome to the Party, Pal [2:52]
27. Dick Thornburg [:44]
28. Mr. Mystery Guest [3:29]
29. KFLW News [:50]
30. Missing Detonators [1:54]
31. L.A.'s Finest [:42]
32. Going In [1:58]
33. LAPD RV [2:44]
34. Chair Bomb [1:54]
35. Contract Negotiations [4:09]
36. Issuing Demands [:53]
37. Hostage Terrorist, Terrorist Hostage [:12]
38. Johnson & Johnson [:43]
39. Cat and Mouse [2:10]
40. Shoot the Glass [:49]
41. Powell's Confession [2:39]
42. Merry Christmas From the FBI [3:25]
43. McClane's Confession [3:43]
44. Nightly News [1:28]
45. Vendetta [2:22]
46. Meeting Mrs. McClane [3:04]
47. Choppers up the Ass [:50]
48. The Roof [6:05]
49. Escape Plan Foiled [:50]
50. Showdown [2:39]
51. Happy Trails, Hans [:37]
52. Partner's Meet [:39]
53. Powell's Comeback [2:33]
54. Let It Snow [3:03]
55. End Credits [2:39]
Editorial Reviews
John McTiernan's Die Hard introduced a type of character that hadn't been seen much in big-budget action films of the 1980s: the working class hero. Apart from Sylvester Stallone's Rambo movies and some of the cruder, decidedly low-budgeted, martial-arts movies starring Chuck Norris, there wasn't a precedent for Bruce Willis's gruff John McClane. In contrast to its predecessors, Die Hard was such a high-profile production that Willis was suddenly elevated to the status of cultural icon, not unlike Sean Connery and his alter ego James Bond. Willis and McTiernan can take credit for bringing back the kind of distinctly American, masculine swagger John Wayne used to bring to his roles, albeit with a dirtier lexicon of catch-phrases than Wayne ever would've used on camera. The director and his crew of special effects experts could also take credit for a series of explosions that rivaled the combined fire-power and energy expended in Wayne's The Hellfighters, Back To Bataan, The Sands of Iwo Jima, Chisum, and The Longest Day combined. It's a testament to Willis' star power that his work in this vein is still taken seriously at the box-office, as evidenced by Die Hard: With a Vengeance, and not yet an object of excessive burlesque or parody -- something that cannot be said of Stallone's 1990s action pictures. Bruce Eder Barnes & Noble
More reviews and recommendations
Loading...
© 2009 All Media Guide, LLC