Die Hard 4.0

Saturday night went to the movies down at Glenelg with Dad to watch Die Hard 4.0. A few thoughts on the experience:

1. Whoever designed the Glenelg cinema did a terrible job. The main theatre is a giant room with all of the seats in the back half, then a flat floor that takes up the entire front half of the room that is unusable. Then a screen up front that is about half as big as it could/should be. No wonder they're knocking this place down.

2. Phil Smyth and his wife sat right behind us. It's strange seeing someone who is almost a celebrity, but not quite. He looked taller than I thought he would too.

3. The movie was pretty good - much more implausible and ridiculous than any of the other Die Hards, with some awesome stunts, and suitably ridiculous dialogue. Timothy Olyphant was a great bad guy too.

4. Bruce Willis is ageless. I guess he's in his fifties, but it seems like he could make these movies for another 20 years. Its certainly not like Stallone and his surgically and chemically enhanced body doing Rocky at 60.

5. Bruce Willis' sidekick in this movie looks like Justin Mok.

6. I'm a little bit sceptical when it comes to the depiction of technology in films like this. I pointed this out on Friday night watching "The Bourne Identity" with Wheelie - I doubt that someone sitting in a room on a desktop PC can track one person's movements across a city, bring up schematics to buildings in real time, control traffic lights etc. Like Justin Mok said in this film - it took FEMA five days to get water to New Orleans following the flooding there - I really don't think the Government is that efficient (also I work for one, so I should know).