yippee-ki-yay

The Tung is Confused.....

Why on earth is noone excited about the new John McClain Movie??????

He is only the baddest action hero ever!!!!!!

I'm kinda ashamed to say I have been following the hype (or lack of), but its okay, its not like this is "snakes on a plane", this is frigging Die Hard!!!!!!! This is not about Dying Hard, Dying Harder, or Dying Hard With a Vengeance, This is all about Dying Hard or living free*.

I'd put money to say that when people in Zim say "Mu Hard!", they are talking about John McClain and the Die hard Movies....

The only other action hero who is not a Super hero, who's name I actually know is John Rambo (but we heard all about that scandal), and commando (but that isn’t even a real name), I guess Dirty Harry too, but I don’t even know his last name off hand. .... Well actually now that I think about it I guess Indiana Jones is a hero who's name I know so is Han Solo**, and Jack Ryan, but that's only cus Harrison Ford is a bad ass Mofo.

People like Luke SkyWalker, Neo, Bilbo Baggins, etc do not count cus that is sci-fi fantasy**. For me after the September 11 bombings, I felt like the events sounded like a John McClain story gone bad, actually I’m lying cus same sort of thing happened in a Jack Ryan Story so I was thinking about that too.

I think I just have a thing for the character (McClane), he is not necessarily one of the good guys, he is probably the most flawed protagonist I have ever come across, well at least on the big screen. Kinda like most people.

so "yippee-ki-yay" and now that I have managed to waste a good twenty minutes of your time reading this dribble*** In McClain We trust, and I wanna see how the dude that introduced the concept of terrorists on American soil to me, does in this post 9/11 world.

I have heard people say that all the games people play and movies we watch are really just helping to condition us, so that people-crashing-planes into buildings doesn’t seem so preposterous. Maybe I am just interested because I live in a city where things that happened in these movies (terrorist threats) are a little more than just something from a writers imagination, thus the heightened interest, then again maybe its just a childhood thing.

The concepts and plots in these movies that where seemingly far fetched back in the late 80's and 90's, seem a whole lot more plausible in today's world. There are so many movies and Tv shows (like 24), in today's world, so i may yawn. When I watch this movie, but hey I grew up on John McClane!

* Tj, this is not a blog post about dying your hair blonde...

** If you are thinking Han Solo, is from a sci-fi world you are mistaken, Han Solo is just a bad ass mofo!

*** I know you guys that read this blog, read really really slow, and mouth out the words.....