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Good Morning readers and fans of this fine blog. I am sure by now you have woken up and gotten ready for work, grabbed that first cup of coffee and sat down in front of the computer ready to start your day. You decided to check out Quality Start because you need to know all of the happenings of last night’s sporting events given with some “expert” analysis by a true sports fan like yourself. But alas you found this instead. Normally, I wait up and watch the end of the games and try to get you, the reader, a little taste of the pageantry that is professional and college sports but last night I got derailed. Die Hard was on. Now, I have seen Die Hard 8000 times give or take a 1000 but that never stops me from watching again. Die Hard is not my favorite movie of all time (that would be Goodfellas) but it is one of the more enjoyable ones.
Officer John McClane is a trusted friend. I know his quirks. I know his bad jokes. I know his love/hate relationship with his wife. I know that he will always do what is right, even with a bad hangover. I always root for Officer John McClane of the NYPD (or LAPD in Die Hard 2). When it comes down to my love for the trilogy, John McClane makes it real for me. But I love Die Hard itself, because of Alan Rickman’s portrayal of Hans Gruber. Gruber is one of those complex criminals I never hated. I completely understood why he was robbing the Nakatomi Corporation. He was screwed around by an oppressive government, took the training they gave him and then went out and became a super criminal. I am captivated how he was one step ahead of the cops, FBI and even his own men. But Gruber’s downfall in Die Hard, besides McClain McClane , was his massive Ego. His overconfidence did him in. He always felt that he was going to prevail and let McClain McClane run loose. He even wound up with McClain McClane and never did his best to take him out, until, of course, he got outsmarted by McClain McClane and tried to shoot him with the gun with the empty clip. He never listened to Karl, who wanted to go after McClain McClane but Hans was too worried about making sure the robbery went off smoothly that he preached patience until it was too late.
Gruber’s ego even hurt him in the robbery. He was too quick to kill Takagi when asking for the safe code. I would have shot him in an appendage first with the hopes he would talk. I mean Theo was a competent safe cracker but it was a waste of time and resources. He was even arrogant about his team. He trusted Karl but he should never had Karl’s brother on the team. Once he died, Karl’s mind was off the goal. You can never have nepotism as part of a solid, well run organization. Gruber should know this. He read Forbes. He buys his suits at the same place Arafat did. Overall, I respect Hans Gruber but he was too flawed a criminal for such a smart man. His inability to streamline and manage a smart robbery does not make him go down in history as the “exceptional thief’ he claimed to be. But if he did make off with the loot, Die Hard would have sucked as a movie.
Here are last night’s scores:
Pistons 96 Cavaliers 89 - Clearly AI> LeBron but seriously Rasheed Wallace pwned this fucking game with a 21pt 15 rebound effort. The Great Cavs ain’t winning shit without an inside presence. I read that in TIm Duncan’s Guide to Power Forwarding and Winning Championships.
Raptors 101 Heat 95 - Knicks 2010 Plans B and C met up in this mid level Eastern Conference match up. Plan B (Chris Bosh) only had 15 and 11while Plan C (Dwayne Wade) had 40 pts and 11 assists. I love D Wade but I think you will get more mileage out of Bosh with that 2010 contract. Not that it matters since that money will be spent elsewhere.
Bruins 7 Sabers 4 - Phil Kessel had a goal and an assist in this game for Boston. I just finished reading his profile in last week’s Sports Illustrated. Great story. Another Boston athlete survives cancer. But will he survive cancer the way Jon Lester has? We shall learn.
Canucks 6 Rangers 3 - There was a time in my life where a Ranger loss was truly a great event. Now it just makes me chuckle and move on. Since of course, the Islanders blow and will most likely be moving to Toronto in 3 years.
Ball State 31 Central Michigan 24 - Ball State keeps their miniscule BCS hopes alive by staying undefeated. They still have to contend with Utah and Boise State, both of whom play in better conferences, for what is essentially one spot. Which is sort of lame since who the hell wants to see an 11-2 Ohio State team get blown out by 30 in the Fiesta Bowl? Not me. Maybe a few of the mid-major conferences can show up and do some damage. It has happened before. And I am not refereing to Hawaii’s gayness last year.
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from the Department of Redundancy Department
Texas sucks.
Cavs = Frauds
texas is corrupt. they beat up Donald Driver’s dad there for no reason. that is a terrible place to live.
http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/standings
Scoreboard.
Roman your analysis of Die Hard reads like a elementary school book report.
Die hard with a vengeance > Die Hard
Did anyone happen to see the Intern Bill projections post from yesterday?
theo wasn’t a waste of time, he had to crack the first 6 locks before the power getting shut off released the final one.
sparty…suck nuts.
Is it McClane or McClain?
so is it McClaine or McClane?
tampa…don’t be spreading that manure around here. the original die hard is the greatest action movie without arnold in it. of all time.
damn, rek.
that would be “Standings”. a scoreboard looks a little more like this
Pistons were a 2nd place team in their own division when they one their last NBA title.
/stigs’d
Rek I think its McClane. My Xbox gamertag is JOHN McCLANE 187
Ahh fuck me…first off it reads like a 9th grade book report…secondly…it is McClane which I actually had to look up and lazily not fix half way through
nick, i skimmed it. it wasn’t really about projections at all. it was more about pointing out some idiot predicted Cory Lidle’s stats next year. i laughed when i saw the graphic.
it’s McClane.
it’s McClane.
FIXED!!!!!
MCCLANE!!!!!!
Spencer Die hard with a Vengeance had just about the same amount of action and had Samuel L. Jackson not faggot ass Carl Winslow. Sure Die Hard was fucking bad ass but Vengeance was a overall better movie.
RWH-i think you should change the Pistons write up to say, Sucky Cavaliers.
So it is McClane…good to know.
Tampa, you have much to learn, grasshopper. Die Hard was groundbreaking.
My original thought was to write this about Theo since I found it fitting that Die Hard was ahead of it’s time putting a Black man in such an intelligent role but in reality they had a smart Black guy using his smartness for evil instead of good keeping up with any and all stereotypes but essentially that is all the words I could come up with on the subject
.it’s McClane.
Roman the role of Theo is still ahead of its time. Black people still don’t know how to use computers. It’s ahead of the 22nd century. It’s groundbreaking.
“theo” was a fraud as a ranger. he always needed Walker, Texas Ranger to save his ass.
oh yeah….forgot
/SAS’d
Yippie kai yay, Mr. Falcon!
/USA version’d
Way to recycle jokes, Hef. That’s why I hate you.
/SG
My favorite dub is in Major League. Top of the ninth…Dorn walks over to Ricky…”I only got one thing to say to you Vaghn….strike this [moving lips] Guy [moving lips] out.”
Brilliance abounds.
Clown sure it was a groundbreaking movie but so was “Tron”.
Damn you Tampa…Tron does not hold up…Die Hard holds up…I love all three of those movies (I will never acknowledge Live Free or Die Hard as part of this) can’t we just love them all
Tron > Die Hard with a Vengeance
Argyle >* Theo
*smarter
“That’s what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps, Larry.”
/Lebowski
Ball State’s most famous Alum.
Original Die Hard poops on the rest.
Is there anything more difficult than trying to find a decent appartment to rent? Especially with 2 dogs? This is a pain in the ass!
You may Run like Mays but you hit like spit
/USA’d
I have never seen it and really don’t have a desire to. Am I missing anything?
Not many apartments will let you move in with a woolly mammoth, ill.
Tampa..you are not…I actually got up and did something else when I watched it with my wife….I was so pissed off…that Justin Long guy pisses me off. Timothy Olyphant was just terrible and I like him as an actor…Bruce Willis didn’t mail it in but the script was bad, the acting was piss poor and the concept was totally off the wall…which is saying something
Clown, but they let you move in a 2 bedroom with 15 cousins?
/racist
2 bedroom?! Ha, I wish! Do I look like
a RockerfellerArte Moreno?Ah, so that’s why the Angels suck.
No love for The Incredibles?
/Fetch
Is fetch on punishment?
He gonzo’d himself.
did I hear right about a tron sequel?
Stigs I found this when I looked at boom goes the dynamite
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gV-vWrU27Go
“That’s what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps, Larry.”
stigs, I’ve seen this version, but I’ve also seen a version (I think on USA), that went, “This is what happens when you feed a stranger scrambled eggs!”
Die Hard 3 was the best one.
listen, i don’t care what die hard you think is better as long as it isn’t the 2nd one.
the most recent one was pretty badass if you ask me.
id rank em : 1, 4, 3, 2.
4 was good but went to insane levels beyond ridiculousness.
Tony Romo took clown to see Role Models, although apparently clown goes by Doc in his non-internet life.
http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=3714369
Die Harder is good for when Cleo McDowell cuts that n00b’s throat. Not Good Times, eh?
/Thanks, I’ll be here all week.
cbh…maybe it did…maybe it did. but it was still 2 hours of adrenaline pumping fun.
spencer…you severely disappoint me…go to your room
Tony Romo ain’t nothing…we took in a homeless guy here too..CRM thanks us for that everyday
What action movie doesn’t? Occasionally, my wife and I will watch something and nitpick the really out there scenes. Remember the Mission Impossible where the helicopter explodes and propels Tom Cruise onto the train? Yeah, that.
how do i disappoint you?
You know what movie I saw and Liked this weekend “Raw Deal” with Schwarzenegger. Bad Azz.
schwarzenegger is the best actor of all time. there isn’t a human on earth who could fill those roles as well as he did.
i want to get a little mini-DVD player and have a 24/7 loop of Commando playing in my house at all times.
Ok Roman, but did you change anyone’s tire, huh, did you?
CBH- It left out the part about Doc giving Romo a hand job with popcorn butter.
Spencer…Die Hard 4..please…Like Fredo you are no longer my brother….when you visit our mother I need 24 hours notice so I can be out of the house
I already settled this debate on the sequels post. Tampa wins, hands down.
p.s one of the worst acting jobs ever is in Die Hard when Mclain shoots the guy in the elevator a bunch of times, then you see hime open his eyes and move
roman…die hard 4 wasn’t all that bad. yea, it was beyond being outrageously ridiculous, but so what? name another movie with a smoking hot asian chick getting hit by a car, run through a cement wall, not being paralyzed and coming to in time to fight on a dangling car in an elevator shaft?
youll get over it.
i couldn’t agree more. when i was a freshman, i was walking through the dorms, and saw a guy with a Commando VHS and DVD on a shelf because his door was open. i knocked, saw he had a Commando poster on his wall. i introduced myself, and told him how much I respect his love of Commando, and he has been one of my best friends ever since. we bond over our love for that movie. it’s a beautiful thing.
commando is the movie equivalent of pure, uncut cocaine. when you don’t want any bullshit like story line or acting, just the rush and seeing arnold kill hundreds like it was nothing. if predator wasn’t so fucking awesome, it’d be my favorite movie of all time.
Spencer…you are back in the family…It you like really shaky plot lines and three bewbs..I am always Partial to Total Recall
GET YOU ASS BACK TO MARS!!!!!!!!!!!! GRAWHNL!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ha. you know my thoughts on how awesome Predator is. what are your thoughts on Congo?
congo? the one based off the michael chrichton book? pretty solid, underrated, for sure.
i wish they did as good of a job on Lost World cuz that book was tits.
Is that the diamond and gorrilla movie? Meh.
Rick’s top 3
1. True Romance
2. Karate Kid
3. Lost Boys
yea, that’s the one Rick. good call with True Romance. great movie.
i must be the only person who hated karate kid.
1. commando/predator
2. forrest gump
3. slapshot
Spencers a communist
1.Forest Gump
2. Malcolm X
3. Heat
communist?
heat fuckin rocked.
Any hater of karate kid = un-American, therefore communist
/
Palin’d via Rick
in soviet russia, kid karate’s you!
I dont even remember seeing the Kirate Kid. I only watch 80s action movies anything that involves Charles Bronson is good. Ralph Machio is a fagot.
DEATH WISH!!!!
3 was my favorite.
Yes Sir. Death Wish was 3 was the shit. My favorite part is when that latin dude steal that purse and Bronson pulls out that gun with the 3 foot long barrel. Fucking Awesome.
i like how in the death wish movies, bronson can avoid bullets when in open space without cover, simply by crouching slightly.
Bronson was bad ass. Chuck Norris couldn’t do shit like that.
it’s not on par with the other movies mentioned, but i saw The Last Dragon for the first time in 10 years on Sunday. i forgot how bad ass that movie was.
Crocodile Dundee 2.
Game over, party people.
Berry Gordy’s The Last Dragon, if you would please
Yes clown you need to point that out. DETROIT’S own Berry Gordy.