You will agree with me or I'll come up with 10 reasons why you're wrong

My little shop of movie based rants, where I force out 10 reasons why you should agree with my opinion when I've usually only got 2 but hide it well.

Monday, 9 September 2013

Why Bruce Willis should give up acting

  1. Die Hard 5 (sorry, A Good Day to Die Hard) - no single thing sums up better my feelings for Bruce Willis at this point. It was lazy, arthritic and tired.
  2. RED 2 Press Tour - Now I didn't mind RED 2 as a movie. In terms of what he's been churning out lately, it's passable. But his attitude during his press tour? Man alive. I don't have a problem with having a laugh with the press, especially those working for non-film publications who churn out the same ridiculous questions ("What's it like being the worlds biggest action star?" Sorry, who? Bruce Willis? Are you in 1990?), but when you're just being plain out rude to everyone who talks to you, you need to shut up and go home. This press tour is helping to pay for your frankly ridiculous paycheck. Yes RIDICULOUS considering you're practically phoning in performances these days.
  3. Straight to DVD - No self respecting action star does Straight to DVD unless they are having money issues. Wesley Snipes - Mr Tax Dodger - understood. Steven Seagal - old man who probably needs a new hip - understood. But the man who did Die Hard? Doing so many DVD "hits" it drowns out what few decent films he still does? No thanks.
  4. Movies where he's not the lead - I don't want to see Bruce Willis' face/name on the cover of the movie unless he stars in it. This is very close to #3. It's just cheap when you go "oh look, Bruce Willis" and it turns out he's in it for 5 minutes and he's AWFUL and so is the film.
  5. Other people are better than him - RED was a great movie. Bruce wasn't too bad. But Karl Urban was very good. Karl Urban then did Dredd. Vin Diesel. Love him or loathe him you wouldn't want anyone else in F&F movies. The Rock - dammit he was in GI Joe 2 with Bruce and did more than him. Bruce Willis played a guy who was retired. NO!
  6. He only has one emotion - it's "smarmy bored arse". It worked for him in "The Jackal" (a film I strangely like). Now he's old and bald, it does not work. At all.
  7. He wouldn't even do Expendables 3 - So, the film that lets you still rock it with the action guys, and you decide to be all "I'm too good for this" and DEMAND MORE MONEY? Bruce, see #3 - you're raking it in through doing awful movies - at least pay us the courtesy of appearing in some good ones. And yes, the fact I now have to call EX3 "a good one" says SO MUCH about your career right now.
  8. Josh Duhamel - Sorry Josh, but you're movie career kryptonite, and Bruce did a "movie" with you (Fire with Fire). People who star in movies with Josh Duhamel go on to wonder where their careers went. See Katherine "What no more romcoms?" Heigl after "Life as we know it", or anyone after Transformers.
  9. Your agent clearly has no time for you - Bruce has just announced he's doing a movie called "The Prince" where he doesn't play the lead... and he's a bad guy... and he's not going to be in it very... oh come on. AGAIN?
  10. Die Hard 6 - We barely needed the fourth one, the fifth one I've talked about, so there is NOWAY ON GOD'S GREEN EARTH WE NEED A SIXTH.