Bruce Willis movies have a tendency to be remembered more often and by more people, that the "Moonlighting" show, even though there are certainly a group of avid Moonlighting fans out there.
It wasn't until many years later, and after a string of hit Bruce Willis movies had already been released, that I put the past behind me, and decided to rent one on DVD. The movie was far better than I'd expected, and that led to a number of 'Bruce Willis weekends'.
Oddly enough, I didn't start with his biggest movie up to that date, 'Die Hard'. The very first of his films that I chose to watch was 'Look Who's Talking'; the comedy of talking babies never grows old. By that stage I was hooked, and was, probably, one of the few people around who didn't think that 'The Last Boy Scout' and 'Hudson Hawk' were below-par, studio driven, money spinning exercises, and that they didn't take the paying customer into account.
Over the years there have been many good Bruce Willis films i.e. 'Pulp Fiction', 'Twelve Monkeys', 'The Fifth Element', 'The Sixth Sense', and 'Cop Out'; as well as many that haven't been all that good i.e. 'Last Man Standing', and 'Armageddon'; actually, there have been too many in both categories to list, but, there's still his crowning glory...
'Over The Hedge' is the pinnacle of a long career. Actually; no, that should have read 'Die Hard', and 'Over the Hedge' is a very close fifth, or sixth, depending on when 'Die Hard' five arrives, and whether it can keep the franchise ticking along. Interestingly enough, and I use the term 'interestingly' in the loosest sense of the meaning, 'Die Hard' was based on a sequel to the book 'The Detective', and in the 1968 version of that film the lead character, 'Joe Leland', was played by Frank Sinatra.
The series has, so far, given us four movies, with a fifth due sometime in 2012; or 2013, you can never really tell with movie production; after all, just look at the way the latest 'James Bond' film was shelved, before finally getting the green light on production. So, for someone who wasn't overly taken by the TV series that Bruce Willis debuted in, it has been interesting to see how much my mind has been changed by the Bruce Willis movies that I've seen over the past 20-ish years.
You know, it is now possible that at some point in the future I am going to sit back with my feet up and watch an episode of Moonlighting, after all it couldn't be that bad! But before that happens, I am going to have to manage to sit through a Bruce Willis marathon; there is no doubt about that!
It wasn't until many years later, and after a string of hit Bruce Willis movies had already been released, that I put the past behind me, and decided to rent one on DVD. The movie was far better than I'd expected, and that led to a number of 'Bruce Willis weekends'.
Oddly enough, I didn't start with his biggest movie up to that date, 'Die Hard'. The very first of his films that I chose to watch was 'Look Who's Talking'; the comedy of talking babies never grows old. By that stage I was hooked, and was, probably, one of the few people around who didn't think that 'The Last Boy Scout' and 'Hudson Hawk' were below-par, studio driven, money spinning exercises, and that they didn't take the paying customer into account.
Over the years there have been many good Bruce Willis films i.e. 'Pulp Fiction', 'Twelve Monkeys', 'The Fifth Element', 'The Sixth Sense', and 'Cop Out'; as well as many that haven't been all that good i.e. 'Last Man Standing', and 'Armageddon'; actually, there have been too many in both categories to list, but, there's still his crowning glory...
'Over The Hedge' is the pinnacle of a long career. Actually; no, that should have read 'Die Hard', and 'Over the Hedge' is a very close fifth, or sixth, depending on when 'Die Hard' five arrives, and whether it can keep the franchise ticking along. Interestingly enough, and I use the term 'interestingly' in the loosest sense of the meaning, 'Die Hard' was based on a sequel to the book 'The Detective', and in the 1968 version of that film the lead character, 'Joe Leland', was played by Frank Sinatra.
The series has, so far, given us four movies, with a fifth due sometime in 2012; or 2013, you can never really tell with movie production; after all, just look at the way the latest 'James Bond' film was shelved, before finally getting the green light on production. So, for someone who wasn't overly taken by the TV series that Bruce Willis debuted in, it has been interesting to see how much my mind has been changed by the Bruce Willis movies that I've seen over the past 20-ish years.
You know, it is now possible that at some point in the future I am going to sit back with my feet up and watch an episode of Moonlighting, after all it couldn't be that bad! But before that happens, I am going to have to manage to sit through a Bruce Willis marathon; there is no doubt about that!
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