Last night (Tuesday) I went with my friend Ayano to Oosaka to see Die Hard 4 before it is released to all other theaters in the area, which will occur on Saturday. I suppose last night was a premier showing, although it may have already opened in Tokyo? Regardless, Ayano had entered a contest and won two free tickets to see the movie in a theater in Oosaka, so off we went. Interestingly, neither of us had ever seen 1, 2, or 3, nor, if we were in the States, would we have planned to see 4. Yet free tickets and Oosaka are quite alluring.
This was the first movie that I have seen on the big screen in a long while. Because of my exams, I truly had not seen a movie in a long while. Moreover, daily life in Japan is more quiet, less intrusive, and more tame than life at home.
This movie was so loud, in your face, action-packed, violent, and crazy, I could not help but laugh and jump and shriek the whole movie through. What an experience! Normally, I would probably not really like this type of movie, but Die Hard 4, I loved! It was excellent.
However, I could not believe that all the Japanese people in the audience (Ayano and I were the only two people in the entire very large theater that were not from Japan) did not move a muscle the entire movie through. How they sat there ever-so-still while cars were flying through the air and blowing up helicopters, I will never know.
Moreover, after seeing this violent, action, end-of-the-world movie, I can only wonder what impression they must have of America.
If anyone has seen the movie, please let me know what you thought!
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