2 is the only one that just repeated the formula without heightening it or twisting it up
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that said Die Hard 5's twist of putting John McClane in a "real" spy movie was a terrible idea
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as was making his foil this time be his son who's an actual spy
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like here's the Die Hard formula based on the first four movies:
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1) seemingly omniscient bad guys seize total control over (office building/airport/whole city/whole country)
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2) John McClane stumbles into this situation by accident, is in totally over his head
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3) John McClane has a buddy who is EVEN MORE in over his head but makes himself essential anyway
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there was actually a progression too, the bad guys kept getting more powerful and the buddy more feckless
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from Carl Winslow the beat cop to Samuel L Jackson the concerned citizen to "I'm a Mac"
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Things I like about Die Hard 4: 1) John gets a speech abt how much being a hero actually sucks
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2) Lucy is the best hostage ever and undoes a lot of the shitty gender messages from the first movie
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"Now there are only five of them"
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