On Call With Bruce Willis
The stars have aligned, the planets have converged, and the Ouija has spoken. This is the week that I’m on call. If the sh*t goes down at work, I’m the one that gets called at 3am to fix the problem. Lucky me.
To celebrate this monumental week I’ve decided to celebrate with a late night blu-ray viewing of Live Free Or Die Hard. And, while suspending my disbelief in the impossible, I cheered as Bruce Willis drove a van through a high-security building and into an elevator shaft where he had a kung-fu battle to the death while precariously dangling over a deep, dark concrete abyss, then survives a multitude of shockingly excessive explosions without losing his hearing, launches an exploding car into a hovering helicopter, then highjacks a semi and battles a freakin’ military jet as he dodges the shattering debris of a collapsing freeway bridge system, I have to wonder how the producers might top something like this for a potential Die Hard 5. The mind reels…
If you do have the blu-ray version of this movie, there’s a nifty extra called “Yippie Kay Yay Motherfu*%er” where Kevin Smith interviews Bruce Willis about the Die Hard franchise. If you have an extra 22 minutes it’s well worth the viewing.
If I had to be honest for a second here, I’d have to admit that the second Die Hard was crap. I feel embarrassed for Bruce Willis whenever I’m exposed to it.
And in case you missed it, the Scrabble word of the day a few days ago was a bit…unusual.
Hey man, don’t look at me. This was all Hasbro’s doing. I just report it as I see it…
