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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: