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Urban Pluvial and Coincidental Flooding

Cedo Maksimovic and Adrian Saul

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Pluvial flooding is defined as flooding that results from rainfall-generated overland flow, before...

Architectural Detailing: Function, Constructibility, Aesthetics

Edward Allen and Patrick J. Rand

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The industry-standard guide to designing well-performing buildings Architectural Detailing...

Will Africa Feed China?

Deborah Brautigam

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Is China building a new empire in rural Africa? Over the past decade, China's meteoric rise on the...

The Witchfinder's Sister

Beth Underdown

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'VIVID AND TERRIFYING' Paula Hawkins, author of The Girl on the Train 'At once a feminist parable...

Emma @ The Movies (1786 KP) rated Die Hard: With a Vengeance (1995) in Movies

Sep 25, 2019

John McClane, permanently hungover and on suspension, is called back to work when a terrorist blows up a building and requests his presence for a few minor tasks.

I love McClane's banter in this one, he's really upped his game. Which is apt as Simon is fond of his games.

Some incredible stunt driving... I'm not sure how that taxi managed to sail out into traffic and survive, but it was impressive. Then they find another car to drive off the side of a bridge... that yet again survives?! It's a solid year for car manufacture.

I think the reason I liked this one the most for so long is that John and Zeus make a great double act. Zeus is logical and sarcastic while John is a little bit gung-ho and... well, also sarcastic.

Cue me yelling at the screen... Fill the 3 and pour it into the 5. Fill the 3 again and pour it into the 5. You'll have 1 left in the 3. Empty the 5 and pour the 1 from the 3 into it. Fill the 3 again and pour it into the 5... you now have 4.

My only dislike of this film is that you can't play vest roulette. It stays particularly white most of the way through. Oh sorry, and the terrible effects they use for the water in the tunnel, but I do love that Zeus manages to see McClane pop out of the access port in the spout of water.

I brought the blu-ray box set to replace my aging DVDs... and that is how I discovered there is an alternative ending to the film. I can't say I'm a fan of it. It takes McClane's character through the film, opens a window and throws it all out. It turns him into a rather cruel version of himself, and there would have been no coming back from that.