Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3218 in DVD
• Released on: 2004-10-25
• Rating: Suitable for 18 years and over
• Format: PAL
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 6

DVD Description
All 3 classic Die Hard movies are in this highly collectable boxset in their special edition formats. The 6 disc set has hours of special features such as director's commentaries, deleted scenes, featurettes, trailers and much much more. It also includes a collector's booklet.

DIE HARD Disc One: * Die Hard Movie with DTS Audio * Audio commentary with director John McTiernan and production designer Jackson DeGovia * Scene specific commentary with visualeffects producer Richard Edlund. * Text commentary - learn about the making of the film from these detailed comments from cast and crew. * Special branching version - view the film with a deleted scene re-inserted. Disc Two: * The Cutting Room. Scene-editing workshop: choose shots from different scenes within the film and re-edit to create your own unique scene. * Audio mixing: manipulate the dialogue, music and sound effects. Multi-camera shooting. * 'Why Letterbox?' featurette. * Multi-Camera Angle Shooting * Outtakes with various audio streams - a mixture of short, deleted scenes, outtakes/ alternate takes. * Deleted Scene: 'Turning off the Power'. * The newcasts - original footage of news reports which appear in film, including extended and alternate takes. * Magazine articles. * Theatrical trailers. * Entire shooting script. * Interactive slide show with 94 publicity and behind-the-scenes stills.

DIE HARD 2 Disc One: * Die Hard 2 Movie with DTS Audio * Audio commentary by Renny Harlin. Disc Two: * Making of Featurette * Deleted scenes * Renny Harlin interview * Villain's Profile featurette * Behind the scenes storyboards featurette * Side by side comparisons * Visual effects sequences * 4 trailers

DIE HARD 3 * Die Hard With A Vengeance Movie with Dolby Digital 5.1 Audio * Audio commentary Disc Two: * Behind the scenes featurette * 'A Night To Die For/McClane Is Back'featurette * Die Hard 3featurette * 4 behind the scenes featurettes * Alternative ending * Interview with Bruce Willis * Villain's profile featurette * 7 visual effects sequence * Theatrical trailers * Easter egg gag reel

Synopsis
A boxed set featuring the adventures of cop John McClane in DIE HARD, DIE HARD 2, and DIE HARD WITH A VENGEANCE, as he battles terrorists intent on destroying office buildings, airports, and Manhattan. This special edition features the two-disc versions of each film, as well as a collector's booklet and a numbered limited edition 'Senitype' reproduction film cell.

Customer Reviews

Yippee-ki-yay, motherf**ker
A Great Tilogy of films that i had only seen since watching Die Hard 4.0 or Live Free, Die Hard depending on what you think the title is.

and i have so far yet to watch DH2: Die Harder and DH3: Die Hard with a Vengeance. but judging from Die Hard - I won't be dissapointed.

Anyway hoping to get Die Hard 4.0 soon and have a Die Hard Marathon.

You'll "Die Hard" with this action-lover's action movie
One could claim that 1988's "Die Hard" is one of the most influential action movies ever made because it basically revolutionized one of the most copied (but never matched, at least in terms of quality) formulas: a loner, by some unique twist of fate, battles it out with an "x" number of terrorists in an enclosed environment.

By the time that "Die Hard" was released, the action movies were most often dominated by the likes of Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sylvester Stallone, and Chuck Norris. Star Bruce Willis, whose only notable credits at the time were television's "Moonlighting" and 1987's "Blind Date," which was released the year before, was the unlikeliest of them all.

Willis was a wild card - an unlikely choice for the role of our hero "John McClane" - since he didn't have any action credits on his resume' and let's face it: Bruce Willis just didn't have the bulging biceps required for a role like this. But that's the beauty of his performance in this movie: he's an everyday guy, caught in a not-so-everyday situation.

On Christmas, McClane's estranged wife Holly (Bonnie Bedelia) invites him from New York all the way out to Los Angeles to spend the holidays with the family. But it requires him to make a stop at the Nakatomi offices, which is having an after-hours Christmas party. Riding for the first time in a limo, he's introduced to the suave driver, Argyle (De'voreaux White), who gives him some pretty useful advice on trying to win over the wife.

At Nakatomi, things of course get off to a rough start for McClane, as he gets into an argument with the wife and is left to wallow in his misery. However, those problems are about to take a backseat to the real "party" - twelve terrorists, led by Hans Gruber (all-purpose bad guy Alan Rickman, perfectly cast) - seize control of the building and proceed to rob the Nakatomi building of its assets, most of which include negotiable bonds and other valuables. But they didn't count on the "fly in the ointment" (pain in the a**) to make things hell for these so-called party crashers.

Certainly one of the best known action movies ever, "Die Hard" did receive the scorn of critics upon its 1988 summer release, but the audiences sung a completely different tune.

The film was most often praised for the production, with the brand-new Fox Plaza office tower serving as the fictional Nakatomi building. It was also praised for the energetic and skillful direction of John McTiernan, whose most notable credit was the action-sci-fi thriller "Predator," which was released the year before and starred Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Bruce Willis was the perfect actor for this performance, since he brings the wit and vulnerability to a role like this one. If Stallone or Schwarzenegger were in this movie, I'm sure the effect would have been a lot different.

Personally, I think "Die Hard" is one of the greatest action movies ever, up there close to my favorite action movie of all time, "Raiders of the Lost Ark." Like Indiana Jones in that film, "Die Hard" had an Everyman cast in the role; McClane, like Indiana Jones, wasn't a larger-than-life musclebound grotesque: he was a real guy that you cared about, who got hurt, and had real feelings.

That's why I think both of these movies have sort of stood the test of time as becoming what they are best known for today: action classics, and they're here to stay, ladies and gentlemen.

10/10

Buy It Now
The 'Die Hard' films are the best films that I have ever seen. Bruce Willis never ceases to amaze me with his brilliant acting as thr reluctant LAPD and NYPD police officer. This film series is simply something that you must watch beore you die. You simply have to press the orange "buy it now" button at the top-right hand corner of your screen NOW!