10 Directors Who Knew Their Movies Were Ridiculous

10. John McTiernan - Die Hard With A Vengeance

Die Hard with a Vengeance is the third film in the Die Hard franchise that stars Bruce Willis as NYPD detective John McClane. The film was released five years after its predecessor. It stars Samuel L. Jackson alongside Willis as the second lead being directed by the original film's director, John McTiernan.

McTiernan returned to the franchise after skipping out on directing Die Hard 2, a job that fell to Renny Harlin. The plot of Die Hard with a Vengeance finds McClane pulled into a large plot of death and destruction, and this time, it's personal!

The main villain's ties to the first film's big bad offered up a nice connection between the installment, but there were a lot of elements that departed the formula that made the first movie a peerless masterpiece. McTiernan may have realized this, as he came out and acknowledged that the plot wasn't as serious as it could have been.

McTiernan even went so far as to call the plot ridiculous, but in a way that suggested he still considered his film to be well made. Of the movie, McTiernan said the plot was "frail and outrageous. I hope people enjoy its ridiculousness."