tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4217427319662074458.post6791184872272287683..comments2024-03-18T15:46:07.295-05:00Comments on F This Movie!: Heavy Action: Lethal WeaponPatrick Bromleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00771837625286775607noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4217427319662074458.post-12501144909319268122013-02-26T22:55:48.083-06:002013-02-26T22:55:48.083-06:00I just watched this for the FIRST TIME tonight. Re...I just watched this for the FIRST TIME tonight. Really good. If it wasn't so late I would Die Hard marathon all of them. <br /><br />But...ugh...the front lawn karate fight, really? If Busey won, does he not go to jail? Adam Riskehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01165600746796326821noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4217427319662074458.post-39393798510136932892012-06-21T21:40:38.087-05:002012-06-21T21:40:38.087-05:00Nice column. The "Lethal Weapon" series...Nice column. The "Lethal Weapon" series does nothing for me (the first two are fun, the last two I've seen once each and that was enough) but it's easy to notice the steep-though-not-complete decline in quality from the first movie (clearly meant to be a one-off flick without franchise expectations) to the cartoony-and-OTT first sequel (which starts with a "Looney Tunes" musical riff right in the first couple of opening titles... not a coincidence!). <br /><br />Hope you eventually do a "Lethal Weapon 2" column because, even with Shane Black half-assing it in the script (which was clearly rushed into production after the unexpected box office smash the first turned out to be), it still has all the things we love in this type of movie: likable heroes (now with sidekick Joe Pesci), a ridiculously cute and smoking hot babe that gets naked (Patsy Kensit (.)(.)), bad-ass villains (Joss Ackland), ridiculously OTT action/shootouts/car chase scenes and, of course, memorable one-liners ("Diplomatic Immuuuuuunity"!). What more could a guy ask for? <br /><br />It's no "Lethal Weapon" (nothing is) but to me "2" is a lot more fun and rewatchable as an action flick than the other three "LW" movies; I've had a fear of someone slamming my head with a car door ever since I saw "2" that still haunts me (true story! :-P).J.M. Vargashttp://www.dvdverdict.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4217427319662074458.post-53948112729307082062012-06-21T11:32:49.701-05:002012-06-21T11:32:49.701-05:00Thanks, Joey! There is a refreshing lack of squabb...Thanks, Joey! There is a refreshing lack of squabbling in the movie. Even though the sequels had more of it, the series does a pretty good job of staying away from it altogether.<br /><br /><i>Face/Off</i> it is. Soon.Patrick Bromleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00771837625286775607noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4217427319662074458.post-51074490308472860442012-06-21T09:44:22.961-05:002012-06-21T09:44:22.961-05:00Well written, Mistah Bee, but from a dummy's p...Well written, Mistah Bee, but from a dummy's perspective, you can simply say that Lethal Weapon is good because it provides one lone good buddy cop movie criteria (well, my criteria, anyway) - no petty, sibbling-like, obnoxious bickering, which I guess many bad directors think what's bc comedies are all about (I'm looking at you, Brett Ratner). And what made it great is what you wrote back there.<br /><br />PS: "Face/Off", some time soon, pleeeeeeeeeaaaase!<DJoeynoreply@blogger.com