People keep mentioning off hand today that Die Hard 4 was really really good. How is this possible? I mean... I liked the first one a lot, despite it probably not being the best of films. But two was so bad... and three was... worse, despite the SLJ and Jeremy Irons factors. I have this vision of the franchise being a flaming meteor of Bruckheimerian badness on a terminal collision course with a black hole of pure entertainment negation. I feel compelled to go home and replay the Die Hard 12 send-up from the old Ben Stiller show: "I don't know who you think you are, but I've got a hundred people out here, and they're covered in lettuce." "Vee vant zee christmas coupons."

Anyway, enough people whose opinions I trust have told me that it is good that I'll have to go see it now. But I swear if its bad, I will curse you all. With voodoo. And... hexology.