> John Reilly » Movies http://johnreilly.me is awesome. Mon, 03 May 2010 13:40:32 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 Die Hard 2 in HD is hilarious http://johnreilly.me/2009/12/die-hard-2-in-hd-is-hilarious/ http://johnreilly.me/2009/12/die-hard-2-in-hd-is-hilarious/#comments Tue, 08 Dec 2009 02:08:42 +0000 jreilly http://johnreilly.me/?p=15 Not only does HD make new movies and shows better, it makes older movies from the pre-HD era even more awesome. Case in point, one of my favorites: Die Hard 2. Director Renny Harlin probably never expected that this scene would be seen in such clarity. These images are from a 30 second sequence where a terrorist on top of some scaffolding falls and is crushed by said scaffold. A tense and brutal scene when viewed in standard definition turns into something else when viewed in HD:

Actor

Actor

Stuntman (with gray hair!)

Stuntman with gray hair

Actor, again

Actor, again

Hilariously fake dummy

What the... seriously?

And this is just one example. The movie is packed full of action-scenes-turned-comedy when seen in HD.

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