{"id":23452,"date":"2013-06-24T12:55:34","date_gmt":"2013-06-24T17:55:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hmmagazine.com\/dvanpelt\/?p=23452"},"modified":"2013-06-24T12:55:35","modified_gmt":"2013-06-24T17:55:35","slug":"dvd-review-a-good-day-to-die-hard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hmmagazine.com\/dvanpelt\/dvd-review-a-good-day-to-die-hard\/","title":{"rendered":"DVD Review: A Good Day To Die Hard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>A Good Day To Die Hard<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><i>Extra, Extra. Read All About It.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>This is the ultimate Father\u2019s Day movie, so it\u2019s no coincidence that it hit Blu-ray and DVD a couple weeks before the holiday. It\u2019s a great father and son tale, where John McClane (played by Bruce Willis, of course) heads over to post-Soviet Russia to \u201crescue\u201d his estranged son, Jack McClane (Jai Courtney), who is knee-deep in poop with some nuclear weapons theft action that might lead to the end of the world. What\u2019s new?<\/p>\n<p>The story compels us with \u201cwho\u2019s the real good guy?\u201d mystery and intrigue, a beautiful warrior of a daughter sent to rescue a Russian ex-patriot and the action is intense, riveting and fast-paced. Car scenes. Trucks jumping onto trucks off overpasses, guns, bullets and diving out of windows&#8230; It lives up to the Die Hard series without succumbing to clich\u00e9.<\/p>\n<p>The two discs (and digital High-Def version for portable devices) are loaded with extras. \u201cMaximum McLane\u201d is a pretty fun montage of lines and action from the previous four films in this series. \u201cVFX Sequences\u201d help this reviewer now doubt everything in movies \u2013 thanks to the CGI educational material provided. The \u201cPre-Vis\u201d extra is also educational, with its animation-only sequences. [Fox Home Video] Doug Van Pelt<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t have a son, but went to go see this with my oldest daughter &#8230; and it was a good bonding moment for us, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Good Day To Die Hard Extra, Extra. Read All About It. This is the ultimate Father\u2019s Day movie, so it\u2019s no coincidence that it hit Blu-ray and DVD a couple weeks before the holiday. It\u2019s a great father and son tale, where John McClane (played by Bruce Willis, of course) heads over to post-Soviet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":23453,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[3576,492,897,959,3577],"class_list":["post-23452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-blu-ray","tag-bruce-willis","tag-die-hard","tag-dvd","tag-john-mcclane"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hmmagazine.com\/dvanpelt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hmmagazine.com\/dvanpelt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hmmagazine.com\/dvanpelt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hmmagazine.com\/dvanpelt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hmmagazine.com\/dvanpelt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23452"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/hmmagazine.com\/dvanpelt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23468,"href":"https:\/\/hmmagazine.com\/dvanpelt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23452\/revisions\/23468"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hmmagazine.com\/dvanpelt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hmmagazine.com\/dvanpelt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hmmagazine.com\/dvanpelt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hmmagazine.com\/dvanpelt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}