Strange Feeling about John Moore Directing Die Hard 5 Comes to Me – Indifference

John Moore appears to be a perfectly capable director.

From the clips I've seen, the dialogue syncs properly with the lip movement of the actors, it's color-corrected and there's camera movement giving something visual for our eyes to look at. The thing is, though, I've actually never sat through any of his films from beginning to end, nor have I ever made the effort to rent them or see them theatrically.

That's not a strike against him per say. There was never anything from his filmography that screamed, "You must see this once during your life!" I know of his work, that he's a stable at 20^th Century Fox and were it not for Brett Ratner, he would have been the first guy to follow in Bryan Singer's foot-steps directing X-Men: The Last Stand.

Which I suppose is why Bruce Willis and the studio hand-picked him to helm Die Hard 5, reports "TOLDJA."

When I say, "hand-picked," I mean they needed someone to fill the open spot left by the originally-hired Noam Murro who vacated that chair when voices from Warner Brothers and Zack Snyder (himself too busy on the re-return of Superman) led him astray to 300: Battle of Artemisia. After being on their short-lists every time a tentpole was in need of a director, I guess it was Moore's time.

Just don't ask me to be excited, or depressed for that matter.