YIPPIE KI YAY

[fahye]

Guess what comes out in Australia tomorrow?

That's right. Live Free or Die Hard. It's probably telling that the only other person I know who would even consider going to see this on the big screen is my father, so I'm dragging him along with me some time this weekend. Father-daughter bonding. It's going to be AWESOME. (And apt, considering that I first discovered my love of mindless action films full of snarking heroes and sassy girls and guns and villains (Alan Rickman! Jeremy Irons! Hello.) and ultimatums and mindgames and broken glass and THINGS EXPLODING ALL THE TIME through watching the other three Die Hard films on TV with him.)

...no, seriously, there is very little that I like better than an action film seen on the big screen. I made really embarrassing noises of joy and anticipation when I first saw the trailer for this one. He BLOWS UP A HELICOPTER WITH A FUCKING CAR, YOU GUYS. A CAR. Oh, John McClane.

In celebration, I present to you a video that I have watched five times straight, entranced. IT'S BEAUTIFUL.

There's another version, too, with a fourth verse, but I am not watching it in the interests of being genuinely surprised by some of the explosions when I see them this weekend. Oh, be quiet.


I will admit that my excitement is also partly due to svilleficrecs, who came out of the blue with "Hey, look at this! I've written 11,000 words of Die Hard slash!" and I thought this was such a fascinating idea that I clicked on it. Seriously, it's just like the films, by which I mean: a really hot, deliciously twisted and dubiously moral trainwreck. And very well-written.

The Walking Wounded - John McClane/Matthew Farrell. No, really.

...

And now that I've lowered your opinion of me as an Intellectual Individual With Good Taste In Shit by at least ten points, I'm off to make coffee and study the tracts of the spinal cord for a while.

Comments

[minna.livejournal.com]

NO NO DUDE I'M LINKING IT EVERYWHERE

Die Hard is fucking *awesome* D:!!!!!

[fahye.livejournal.com]

I just grabbed my dad and forced him to stand in front of the screen and watch that music video.

Me: EVEN THOUGH IT WAAAASN'T CHRISTMAS! (<-- best line)
Him: *amused*

[foreverdirt.livejournal.com]

That is beautiful. Truly beautiful. *wipes tear from eye* Thank you so much for improving the quality of my life with that vid.

[fahye.livejournal.com]

You're very welcome :D I keep changing my mind as to my favourite moment. Currently it's And the terrorists were overzealous/But it was sweet when they killed Ellis.

[foreverdirt.livejournal.com]

Oh, I love that one! For me it's a tie between that and And there was no way McClane could know / That Hans Gruber was Simon's bro -- there's something so wonderful about the way you can feel the rhyme coming up, but you can't do anything to stop it. *grins*

[hobviously.livejournal.com]

QUESTION, and this isn't me trying to subtly correct you, I'm genuinely curious and will tell you why after you answer, is Live Free Die Hard written so because

a) you accidentally left the "or" out
b) you didn't realize there's an "or" in the title
c) there is not in fact an "or" in the title of the Australian release?

Do tell, sweet Fahye!

[fahye.livejournal.com]

That would be a strange hybrid of a) and b), I think!

*changes*

[schiarire.livejournal.com]

You . . . cowboy noises . . . universe . . . collapsing . . .

[fahye.livejournal.com]

Totally justified if one is quoting John McClane!

[svilleficrecs.livejournal.com]

*g* Thank you for the rec! And I had to rec that video on my LJ because it made me smile SO HARD! OMG!

[fahye.livejournal.com]

*cracks up*

You know, I think there is some kind of virus attached to this vid that makes everyone who links it misspell my LJ name.

[svilleficrecs.livejournal.com]

D'oh! (fixes)

(is still earwormed for yipeekiyaaaaaaaaaaaay, motherfucker)