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omggggg!
So, I bought the Die Hard 4.0 (yes, that's what they call it here, here being Anywhere-Outside-USA) the other day. Tonight I watched some of the extras. The gag reel itself was totally glorious (wheely-chair races with weeping at the finish line and impassioned speeches of victory! and spontaneous Brokeback Mountain re-enactments! Bruce Willis singing a home-made Die Hard 4.0 theme song about assassination!), but the real gem was the music video.
From the notes on the DVD sleeve, it looks as dire as any 90s blockbuster that tried to reel the boys in with explosions and the girls in with sappy tie-in pop songs by boy bands. The tie-in song for Die Hard 4.0 is by a band called "Guyz Nite".
Cackling over this alone, Karen and I decide to watch it. It turns out Guyz Nite is not a boy band. Guyz Nite is a garage band, a bunch of American dudes machoing it up (totally self-consciously - "I'm the lead singer, Guy Manley." "I'm the lead bassist, Bear Woods." "I'm the lead drummer, Tony Alpine."). They wrote a filk song about the Die Hard films and how much they love John McClane. They then make what is essentially a songvid to it. And this filk/vid is on the Die Hard 4.0 DVD.
There's also a "behind the scenes with Guyz Nite" extra, where the band - in character - talk about their friend John McClane and these documentaries and how they wrote a song about him. (Now I totally need to write fic about John McClane hanging out with his utterly dismal band friends.) From that I could gather that they put the filk/vid up, Fox told them to take it down, then turned about and asked them to write a fourth verse for it, so they could use it in their viral marketing campaign (looks like it popped up on youtube in April 2007).
Anyway, it's an absolutely hilarious package altogether, and a most excellent filk. If you've seen the Die Hard films and like them - watch this.
I've embedded it from youtube here:
From the notes on the DVD sleeve, it looks as dire as any 90s blockbuster that tried to reel the boys in with explosions and the girls in with sappy tie-in pop songs by boy bands. The tie-in song for Die Hard 4.0 is by a band called "Guyz Nite".
Cackling over this alone, Karen and I decide to watch it. It turns out Guyz Nite is not a boy band. Guyz Nite is a garage band, a bunch of American dudes machoing it up (totally self-consciously - "I'm the lead singer, Guy Manley." "I'm the lead bassist, Bear Woods." "I'm the lead drummer, Tony Alpine."). They wrote a filk song about the Die Hard films and how much they love John McClane. They then make what is essentially a songvid to it. And this filk/vid is on the Die Hard 4.0 DVD.
There's also a "behind the scenes with Guyz Nite" extra, where the band - in character - talk about their friend John McClane and these documentaries and how they wrote a song about him. (Now I totally need to write fic about John McClane hanging out with his utterly dismal band friends.) From that I could gather that they put the filk/vid up, Fox told them to take it down, then turned about and asked them to write a fourth verse for it, so they could use it in their viral marketing campaign (looks like it popped up on youtube in April 2007).
Anyway, it's an absolutely hilarious package altogether, and a most excellent filk. If you've seen the Die Hard films and like them - watch this.
I've embedded it from youtube here:
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damn you work, damn you uni, taking my movie time away!
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I look forward to hearing what your students think of it!!
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*REWATCHES!*
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Thanx for the hint though.
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Start simple instead of complicated with your search phrases. Eg. if you search for live free or die hard, it'll try and find results that contain all 5 of those words in your results. Which could cut out all the people who are calling it die hard 4.0. The reverse is also true.
Of course searching for both won't help, because it'll just try searching for results that contain all the words: live free or die hard 4.0, which you have *less* of a chance with.
So if you search just for die hard, then you'll get all the results that contain those two words - so, people who use either title.
The same principles apply for pretty much any search engine you're using.
eg. if you search google for die, you'll come up with millions of hits, probably irrelevant. if you search for die hard, i'll be narrowed down a bit to pages that contain the words die and hard (anywhere on the page). if you put them together in quotation marks, it'll search for the phrase within them, eg. "die hard" as a single phrase/the words must be next to each other.
then you can narrow down further if you wish - eg "die hard" "dvd extras" "gag reel" will search for all of those phrases. You may explore some links from your results and be able to narrow down further. maybe your phrasing is too restrictive (eg "nakatomi explosion" might not turn up results as a phrase, but nakatomi and explosion or nakatomi and terrorist might have better results).
(Only prob is this kind of searching doesn't seem to work with youtube, whose search engine is sadly lacking. just stick with as few/simple terms as possible with youtube search (eg. die hard instead of die hard dvd gag reel extra), you can always browse/hone down. )
Anyhoo! Sorry for the lecture ;)
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I got a giant voucher for my fave local DVD store for my birthday, I'm still making my way through it! So that's how I could my copy up ASAP :D
I hope you like the film. it's totally, ridiculously awesome.
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Bruce's little song at then end, that was kind of a Hudson Hawk moment. Am I the only person who liked that movie?