Incredible Director


John McTiernan has made so many great movies: Predator, Die Hard, The Hunt for Red October.
Too bad career was ruined by terrible Rollerball remake.

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Die Hard with a Vengeance wasn't bad either, altough I was initially disappointed with it because I compared it to the original movie. I've learned to appreciate it more later on.

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Easily one of my all-time favourite action films.

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Yeah, its a solid sequel to the masterpiece that the first movie is. I think they did the right thing pretending that Die Hard 2 never happened, it was never referenced in Die Hard 3. Die Hard and Die Hard with a Vengeance form together a nice and naturally flowing story and I see DH3 as a real sequel to the original movie.

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Absolutely. I didn't like Die Harder much at all, it's about as forgettable and bad to me as Die Hard 4.0 or whatever that fifth film is called.

The first and third film are just so amazing together and offer a very visceral action-oriented movie experience.

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John Mctiernan, James Cameron, Kathryn Bigalow, Dick Donner, Paul Verehoven and not forgetting Spielberg.

All old school names. I don't think I could add a younger directors name to the list

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Legends of the era for sure, from Point break to Aliens to Predator to Total Recall, that era of filmmaking represents a cornucopia of entertainment. The more time that passes the more I relish the quality of those films from that era.

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I SAW IT IN THE THEATER AS A CHILD AND LOVED IT...IT'S STILL MY FAVORITE DIEHARD AFTER THE FIRST ONE.

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Die Hard with a Vengeance is great. Jeremy Irons as ANOTHER Gruber. Great chemistry between Willis and Jackson.

I am also a big fan of The 13th Warrior

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Thomas Crown Affair? Don't think it was Rollerball that killed his career (although it was shit). Wasn't he in trouble with the FBI or something? I think he was a naughty boy.

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In a criminal-wiretapping case filed by the U.S. District Attorney for Los Angeles, John McTiernan plead guilty to lying to F.B.I. agents about requesting to have Anthony Pellicano investigate producer Charles Roven during production of Rollerball (2002). Sentenced to four months in federal prison on 09/24/07, plea was withdrawn and restated as innocent since statement had been given to FBI when McTiernan was admittedly suffering jet-lag and drunk after arriving in US from UK trip. Case was tried and US conviction was handed down on 10/4/2010 by US District Judge Dale Fischer with one-year sentence and $100,000 USD fine against McTiernan. McTiernan's attorneys announced intent to appeal and he is currently free on appeal.


On July 3, 2006, his former wife, film producer Donna Dubrow, filed suit against him for invasion of privacy and other claims arising from her belief that he hired Pellicano to wiretap her telephone during their divorce negotiations. The lawsuit continued over time, and was still pending as of October 2015.

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He tried to get someone killed over Rollerball. So not only he made a shit movie that bombed but he acted stupid about it. So yeah, it killed his career

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But that section he filmed in night vision....it was ground breaking!

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lol

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yeah I think he actually went to jail for a few years.

I always hoped he would direct a James Bond movie.

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Christopher McQuarrie seems to be his Modern comtemporary

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who? not really.

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