Awards: Nominated for four Academy Awards: Best sound Effects Editing, Best Film Editing, Best Sound and Best Visual Effects.
Rating: Rotten Tomatoes shows an approval rating of 93% and an average rating of 8.5/10 for this movie. It's also been ranked in the top five Christmas movies (more on that later) for Digital Spy, Entertainment Weekly and Forbes, and sits on the number one spot with Empire. Quite the claim.
You haven't seen this either? Here's a plot summary. Our hero John McClane (Bruce Willis) is a New York cop visiting his estranged wife for Christmas. He turns up to her work Christmas party and within minutes of arrival, the party goes up the proverbial creek when Hans Gruber (a youthful Alan Rickman) and his gang of baddies hold everyone hostage while they try to rob the company vault of bearer bonds – a notoriously dodgy way of holding securities to be honest.
I got so much grief when I said I was watching this movie for The Late Late Review. People really love this film and apparently take it quite personally when they find out you haven't seen it. Also, we have got to talk about this being a "Christmas Film". I'm not having it. Yes, the story happens at Christmas and the end credits start with a Christmas song, but it is not a Christmas film. I love Miracle on 34th Street, but it would be weird to watch it in April. You can literally watch this any time of year and not worry about feeling too festive afterwards.
Other than that, don't look to me for any disagreement about how great this film is. Honestly, I was tired when I started watching the movie, the lights were turned off and I was on a sofa – I honestly thought I'd have to watch it in two sittings, but it had me right from the beginning. It's far-fetched enough to be incredibly entertaining, but not so bonkers as to make you scoff the entire way through it; to be clear, it is bonkers – but wonderfully so!
John McClane – or Roy, to his new friend Al – is a capable character (whose white vest gets dirty really quickly). He's the grown-up version of the Home Alone kid, setting traps for the bad guys and causing them all kinds of hassle. The action is brilliant and there are plenty of edge-of-your-seat moments, not least the use of a gun and a fire hose respectively as makeshift grappling hooks for abseiling, explosions galore, and the bit with the glass (if you know, you know).
The characterisation overall is great and Alan Rickman is, as ever, amazing. There's no denying that the man does a great villain. This was actually the first big Hollywood movie for both Alan Rickman and Bruce Willis, and you can totally see why they ended up with the careers they did.
This is the first movie so far that I really wish I'd seen sooner. It's the quintessential '80s action movie with a happy ending.
But seriously – Bearer Bonds? Really? Look at them raining down. What a nightmare.


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Well this certainly warrants monitoring as it affects all Carnival brands.
As a Carnival stockholder, that does not seem to be something to look forward to!
Thats what happens when you get caught dumping oil and trash in the ocean. I think they are lucky they only got probation, whoever ordered the dumping should be in jail.
The Judge will hear the case again in June. Does anyone know the date in June? We have cruise on HAL's Oosterdam departing Seattle on June 2, 2019.
I hope they clean up their act, sounds pretty serious.
They will not be stopping any ship from docking..... trust me.
Thousands upon thousands of US citizens trapped at sea, indefinitely!
I hope Carnival and all the Cruise lines follow the rules. I have a hard time believing any judge is going to try and destroy their own state by not allowing the largest cruise line in the world to dock.
I am sure I will be taken to task for saying it here, and if they did something wrong, they should be punished, but really..... did you see my post on Antigua backing down?
Ouch. Dirty laundry water made public.
This IS our society today, we LIVE for dirty laundry in all aspects of life.
There will be notice given. The cruises won't depart if the ban goes into effect on or after the disembark date. Nobody will be trapped at sea.
Tell me again how every water bottle gets recycled?
No chance in hell that they stop running their ship operations. They will pay a fine and move on.
The statements about the actual and alleged illegal dumping was quite alarming to read.
Not to panic people. But it's just one of several possible rulings if Carnival Corp doesn't mend ways. They'll pay the freight versus risking millions more with cancellations and related charges. Also, port authorities may argue against that stiff of a sentence fro the actions of a couple of Princess ships. Either way the ambulance chasers and sue-the-pants-off-them bottom feeders will get their payday while the rest of us cough up the bucks. And in the end the world will go on.
Read the articles in The Advocate (New Orleans--a reprint of the Miami Herald article).
Curious as to why C-Levels not taking this seriously. They are very conscious of the Carnival image. I would think they would respond personally.
Could be that they are trying to get all the facts before they say anything to limit them spreading misinformation or making a false claim.
I am sure their legal team is all over this, though.
It does seem in their response they said that some of the facts are being misrepresented.
I am curious to know what those are.
Off the top of my head, I would assume the part about making pre-audit rushes to make sure a ship doesn't have anything that would fail the audit.
But that doesn't seem suspicious to me, that seems prudent.
Anyone who knows an audit or test is coming is going to make sure things are ship-shape (pun intended).
Unless the audits are supposed to be surprise audits, which would mean someone in the third party is leaking the information to Carnival.
Also, doesn't seem as though Carnival as a brand is as guilty of these things as their subsidiaries (Princess, etc.) which makes me wonder if it is a corporate-wide failing or something specific to whoever is managing those brands.
In their defense, about two tons of suntan oil is dumped along each of a dozen cruise stop beaches every day. In Grand Turk last year there was a slick out to the horizon halfway to Nassau!
Please see the pinned post on this topic and thank you in advance for keeping this thread respectful.
So the straws and pens were just virtue signaling? Boeing and Carnival are demonstrating how to create an unnecessary train wreck, without a train.
BS. This is such a bluff.
The US economy benefits so much from the cruise industry. They won't stop Carnival from docking here.
Sure, they might get financial penalties but that's it.
The US can, has, and could prevent ships from docking. Following US maritime law is serious. Cruises back for hawaii, have to stop in Mexico, to redock in the USA. Even aid to Puerto Rico, had to follow rules after the Hurricane.
It can happen. The judge can wield a lot of power. They were found to have lied. I have been following this before now. It is pretty serious. The judge is livid. The next appeals court might be more harsh. They are very strict on lying an polluting. They are in the Southern District of NY.
Could be a good time to buy more stock - I'm watching it closely.


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