
I thought it was time to try a top ten. I like top tens - reading them and writing them - but I want to try to keep a fresh outlook on them. I thought I’d try my favourite hardcore action films full of blood and gore . This rules out kidde action movies like Pirates seiries and most of the superhero movies which are for the family audiences (but they’re movies that I still like.) Here we go On! 10. Die Hard (and the rest of the lot but nothing beats the original) Starring Bruce Willis as detective John McClane, this movie was released in 1988. It has terrorists, explosions, and a full building full of people that McClane has to mow his way through. Some movies are good. Some movies are not. Whatever you want to say about Die Hard, it has certainly been influential. With the basic concept of a lone “good guy” trapped in a situation fighting alone against overwhelming odds, Die Hard has been remade countless numbers of times since its release in 1988 (see Air Force One and Under Siege.) ...