Pun Salad

Random thoughts:

• If you're going to have the "I'm a Mac" guy be John McClane's sidekick in a Die Hard movie, shouldn't you also get the "… and I'm a PC" guy to be a henchman of the evil mastermind? Thoughts like these explain why I'm a university computer geek instead of a Hollywod casting director.

• In my post about Apocalypto the other day, I wrote that the hero was "made to endure physical abuse that would send a normal person into a quivering mercy-begging fetal position." So I can't really write the same thing here, much as I'd like to.

• Most common line: "Hang on!," shouted approximately ninety-three times from Bruce Willis to Justin Long.

• Viewed as a progression over all four Die Hard movies, the bad guys' plots seem to make less and less sense, but do allow for more chase scenes and bigger explosions. Roughly consistent is their marksmanship when shooting at McClane, which remains, fortunately, low.

• Speaking of which, I liked the vital correction appended to the NYT's review:

  Because of a transmission error, a film review yesterday about "Live Free or Die Hard" misstated the critic's description of the plot. It should have been described as "logic-defying," not "logic-defined."

  Indeed.

• It really is a lot of fun.