Great movie anthology for one low price! Awesome!
Added 1/10/2010
Not much more to say other than this set should be in your collection! It is a must have! Action packed, funny and thrilling! May seem like a little dated, but it was good then and good now. I would consider this a classic! Buy it now!
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Great Blu-ray collection
Added 1/7/2010
This is actually 4 individual blu-ray disk. When I looked up details it said 2 double sided disks. I was surprised and please that it was 4 separate disks. My family watched them all over the holidays. The picture was very clear much better then those TV marathons that are supposed to be HD broadcasts. Was well worth the money I spent on the collection.
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Am I the only one with no DTS-HD audio for Die Hard 2?
Added 12/28/2009
Am I the only one with no DTS-HD audio for Die Hard 2? I just recieved a replacement for this set because the first one had no DTS-HD audio for Die Hard 2. All the other discs are fine. Its as if the disc does not have it because when you select it from the menu no sound comes out but other audio options work correctly.
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Nice Transfers, one GLARING omission...
Added 12/16/2009
The first three are the same romps they've always been, only they look tremendous in a very nice BluRay HiDef transfer. This is a great buy on those merits alone, however, I dropped two of my stars for a very aggravating omission from the set. In hindsight, I did it to myself by not reading deeper into the product description.
I own the previous DVD collection which includes both a theatrical AND unrated version of Live Free of Die Hard. The unrated has been completely sapped from the BluRay treatment. As a lifelong fan of these movies I found that Live Free was actually a good time, and really in the same spirit as the others while in it's unrated form. This was the McLane we've known all along, not watered down to appeal to (and be accessible to) a younger (PG-13) crowd.
Why was my option to watch the REAL McLane in Live Free taken away for this set? Now it ensures that I have to retain an inferior DVD for my shelf instead of allowing these BluRays to condense my collection.
Bad move Fox. Bad, bad move.
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die hard collection
Added 12/15/2009
This took a very long time to get from Amazon, 27 or 28 days. It's very difficult to get something replaced by amazon when it is lost in the mail, they wait a very long time. We still never got the first shipment but good luck to you if you have something lost in the mail, what a hassle!
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New York cop John McClane flies to Los Angeles on Christmas eve to spend the holidays with his family. He arrives at the Nakatomi corp. building for his wife's office party. International terrorists take over the building and hold every one as hostage to steel $600 million of bonds from the vaults of the building. Now its up to McCLane to face the terrorists and save his wife and the other hostages. "Die Hard" is a terrific example of what happens when all the pieces of a movie fall together perfectly. The perfect modern action movie.
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yippee-ki-yay, ************
Added 1/13/2010
I just saw "Die Hard" for the very first time a few months ago and enjoyed every second of it. After watching this movie I became a huge Bruce Willis fan because he's amazing in this movie. The man does all of his own stunts and is a 1-guy arsenal of power and strength. The movie is total action from the moment it starts until the second it ends. Bruce plays his signature character John McClane, a New York cop who comes home to LA to visit his estranged wife for Christmas. When he stops by her office to surprise her little does he know that the entire building is about to get sky-jacked courtesy of a gang of money-hungry German terrorists. What I enjoyed the most about Bruce Willis in this film is that he never gives up and he never backs down to the enemy. Even when everyone else is against him and thinks he is a nut he still doesn't give up. If you have any interest in action pictures you must see "Die Hard" because it truly is the very best. I have since seen all of the other "Die Hard" sequels and enjoyed them all immensely because Bruce Willis stayed true to his character throughout every single picture.
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It's Easier to Drive a HumVee through the Camel's Eye ...
Added 1/5/2010
... than for anyone ranking above Sergeant to qualify as 'heroic' in an American action film. "Die Hard" is a prime example; the two 'good guys' -- one the unkillable New York cop played by Bruce Willis and the other the overweight African-American desk cop -- are more resourceful, more decent, and a lot more intelligent than the snippy, snooty stupid deputy chief, not to mention the two egomaniacs from the FBI. It begins to seem that the old 'law' about rising to the level of one's incompetence is no longer sufficient. In American films, everyone tends to rise to the level of his/her insufferability.
Action films tend to bore me. The bare implausibility of most of them distracts me from whatever gut-level animal response I'm supposed to have to technicolor explosions and perfect bullet holes in bad dudes' foreheads. When Willis fell down the elevator shaft two stories and then caught himself by his fingertips on a metal edge, the film lost me. Seriously, American film fans and patriots, do you really get your rocks off watching your own FBI muck up and get blown to smithereens in mid-air? And by the way, wouldn't there have been falling debris whacking a few innocent bystanders? I.e. collateral damage?
"Yeah yeah," I hear, "so why did you watch it?" I watched it to share time with my teenage son, and for the even better reason that the only available alternative on a hotel-room TV that night was Harry Potter.
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