A good movie to avoid.

With most films, you can tell whether you like them within fifteen minutes. Sometimes you can tell within five minutes if the camera work sucks or the the music is really annoying. But I saw a movie tonight that I knew was rotten from the moment it opened. The film was a Good Day to Die Hard. I figured, how bad could it be? Some of the earlier films in this franchise were great. The original was fabulous. The one with Jeremy Irons was the first loser, but even that wasn't that bad. But this one: A Good Day to Die Hard yelled loser from the moment it opened. Why? Because some idiot art director created titles that you could barely read. So I said to myself, If somebody got away with this kind of stupidity what can we expect from this film.  Once we got through the unreadable credits, the next disaster was the film was so dark. Every scene had you squinting to see what as going on.Then, voila, came the subtitles: translations of what the Russians were saying.  Now these subtitles were so small that I could barely read them on my seven-foot projection image. How could anyone read them on a 25" tv? Yup, this film was off to a very bad start. And it continued to that course. The script was non-existent. The situations unbelievable. The car chases endless. And, saddest of all, Bruce Willis looked old and puffy and his acting was weak. Why am I writing this?  Because I cannot understand how a group of professional people can spend millions of dollars on creating a movie, and nobody, but nobody says, "The credits are too unreadable," "The subtitles are too small," 'The script sucks," "There are too many car chases," and "Bruce Willis is a star, why aren't we showing him at his best." Why? Because the Die Hard franchise is considered critic-proof and while the critics felt this film was crap, it still did well at the box office. That's why movies are so bad today because the producers discovered that they don't have to be good.