Lethal Weapon (1987) - Retrospective / Review
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Fun fact: Director Richard Donner frequentely told Mel Gibson and Garry Busey that the other kept eating the last waffle to add tension beetween the two characters.That's a true story.
That. Is. Hilarious.😂
woah. those two crazy bastards fighting over a waffle is a terrifying idea. they've only got crazier as the years have passed - I reckon it would end in tears if it happened today. My moneys on Mel.
Im 38. My dad who passed away in February, sat my brother and I down every Friday night when we were kids and hed have a stack of VHS tapes from the video store. I saw this and all the classics like that. Thanks for these Oliver, makes me think of my old man. I remember watching Full Metal Jacket with him when I was 9 . Lol
I’m 41, and I lost my dad in 2014. We had a similar ritual in our house. My old man would take me to the movies on a regular basis. The earliest experience was Wrath of Khan when I was just 2 years old, unfortunately he didn’t get to finish the movie because I got really really sick. I’m sorry for your loss, but it’s the good memories that were made watching movies with him that you can look back on.
I used to love the trip to Blockbusters on a Friday night with my parents, choosing a film and getting loads of goodies. The best times
You had a cool dad .
@@volusizeBusters needed a credit card, back then ❤❤🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
When Riggs asks murtaugh about why his friend says “you owe me” murtaugh says “1965 ia drang valley” he’s referring to the battle at lz xray. The interesting part is that Mel Gibson ended up starring in the movie about this exact battle made 15 years later in “we were soldiers”
Also in Lethal Weapon there is a mention of Air America which Mel Gibson starred in.
Just like Alien (1979) and Die Hard (1988), Lethal Weapon inspired a ton of copycat movies. LW will always be a cult classic. To be honest, I love all 4 films in this series. I re-watch them every single year
irina1296 I don’t know if a movie that made $120 million in 1987 can really be called a “cult” classic.
@@Eletheo It isn't. Just like Die Hard isn't either.
@@Eletheo by your definition ET should be more popular since it made more than Star Wars. Box Office doesn't mean that it is not a cult classic.
A great series of action movies.
@@ruban8135 *Die Hard* actually didn't make over $100 million domestically
This movie is legit the definitive buddy cop movie. It blends action with comedy so good, I literally can't breath at times because I'm laughing so hard.
I laughed my ass off at the scene when Riggs is on the roof of a building with a guy who has an Egon from Ghost busters looking hairstyle with the tall hair and who has a similar life style as he does with being suicidal, hurt and alone and Riggs just loses his shit later in the scene and grabs him by his shirt and says "DO U REALLY WANNA JUMP..DO YA WANNA..WELL THEN THAT'S FINE WITH ME!" Cracks me up everytime.
When Gibson is considering killing himself but puts the gun down and makes this hopeless, guttural moan because he knows he'll have to live with his pain is some of the finest acting I've ever seen.
Oh and the rapping too. "My name is Roger, a heeba hooba habba". That's fire right there.
EDIT: Oh, you mentioned the scene. Good on you. Great video as always.
Flayne009 fun fact about that scene there was an actual bullet in that gun Gibson wanted the scene to be as realistic as possible
@@matteckert7945 Now that's method acting.
You are so right. You really felt his anguish and pain. Gibbo might be mad in real life, but you can’t argue with his acting. I love his final line lines to Roger and Roger’s response at the door. A beautiful way to say they had come full circle with each other.
Lethal Weapon and Lethal Weapon 2 are classics.
As a kid, I liked the 3 as well but I watched it months ago and.... mmm, yeah, I was bored !
Samuel Martin I was the same way as a kid in 1990s I liked Lethal Weapon 3 and 4 but now think they are the most boring and definitely a big fan of the first 2 Lethal Weapon movies along with other 80s and 90’s action movies from the classic action stars like Stallone, Schwarzenegger, Willis and Gibson among others.
Lethal Weapon for sure. It’s a forgotten Christmas classic🎄I try to watch that every year instead of Die Hard. I tried watching part 2 not too long ago. It has its charm, but sometimes Riggs takes it too far with the jokes and craziness. Especially in the beginning, when it opens to Riggs just screaming like maniac all excited for nothing during a car chase. I always roll my eyes so hard at that scene 🙄
@@TheSolfilm I can see why u were bored with LW3 but it wasn't boring for me. Joe Pesci returning as Leo Getz with his loud mouth and the explosion in the first scene of the movie with Gibson debating about what color wire to cut and the armored car chase right after that scene...I mean come on...none of 3 bored me for a second and not even LW4 with Jet Li as the new and final main villain in the franchise.
I love all 4 films! I don't care how much people hate on either one of them or even a scene in either one...that's there opinion. I actually saw LW4 in theaters in 1998 and that was one of the best experiences ever! Jet Li as the main villian beating the shit out Gibson and Glover throughout the film kind of cracked me up in a way. I love the final fight scene when it's pouring rain and there both fighting him. Gibson needed help killing Jet Li where as he basically fought the main villian in the previous films himself. As the LW4 trailer says Jet Li is the new main villain causing them 4 times more trouble.
RIP Richard Donner. Not only he directed this brilliant buddy-cop film, he made us believe a man can fly with Superman.
His Superman is still the best . Still truest to the comic . I hope Mel Gibson sticks to Donner's style for #5 .
👍👍👍
Bit of trivia, the UFC famous family of the Gracies who brought to the fighting world the style of Brazilian Jujitsu were part of the choreographers of the end fight between Joshua and Riggs.
Yes sir!! Riggs defeated Mr. Joshua with a triangle choke !!
Thats cool! Always enjoyed that fight, it seemed so different to other movie fights. That will be the Gracie!
Being a martial artist myself, I always enjoyed seeing Riggs use Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu in the fight with Mr. Joshua. It is thrilling to see these techniques years before they gained popularity from Royce Gracie's UFC fights. Michael Kamen really hit a home run with his score for Lethal Weapon. I can see why he worked on so many other action movies following his work on this film.
Wow! I thought whilst watching this it looked like a jiu jitsu move. Didn't recognise it back in the day though!
That's really cool I never knew.
As a Christmas movie, Lethal Weapon is often compared to Die Hard, of course. And it makes some sense, they both feature Christmas and are set during Christmas. But it can be argued that Lethal Weapon is much better suited as a Christmas movie. Here's why:
Die Hard is an intense, very suspense-ful action thriller simply set in a Christmas setting. Lethal Weapon, on the other hand, feature themes of friendship, family, broken hearts and loneliness as prominently as the chase of the action itself. It's about broken people coming together and fixing and saving each other, while also alluding to other relationships of a romantic or familial nature for these 2 guys. If you want a movie about coming together without actually being a preachy, cheesy Christmas movie, Lethal Weapon is the one to go for.
Also, Merry Christmas to you all, my dudes!
Loved your comment.
Nothing like movies about friendship. Except for actual friendship, the real thing (if it exists, meh). Though you can't do "this shit" with your friends irl, usually 😏 we're too old(?) for this...
Merry quarantines!
With the MacCallister family in there, I like to think this is a shared universe with Home Alone.
They could afford that nice house with the millions the family made from heroin.
I smell a compelling fanedit ...
Best theory I have heard on Home Alone
There should be a movie where Mel Gibson acts as grumpy old cop and Macaulay Culkin is his new partner. They would investigate wetbandits who have killed one of the ghostbusters while raiding his house.
Joe pesci is the link.I like it twin brothers both involved in crime Leo geets aka Leo Lime the money launderer the much more intelligent twin brother of Harry lime unsuccessful house burgular.
@@markstiburski8924 That actually makes sense, since "Leo Getz" is an obvious alias. He could easily have changed it after getting out of prison and splitting with his brother after a burglary gone wrong.
Now I feel kind of sad for Harry really. Marv might be a substitute for the brother he never speaks to anymore :'(
I do love how they used the Sax for Murtaugh, and the guitar for Gibson.
The guitar sound explored Riggs' recklessness, and loneliness particularly in the attempted suicide scene in the trailer
Semiotics
0:56 If you wanna know how old Hollywood did that scene, simple, they just painted a canvas to look like cars from an overhead perspective and placed it on a safety mat. If you are lucky, you can catch the ONE frame where butt hits the canvas and it folds in.
Holy shit, never noticed that before. What other similar tricks do they use?
thAt is genius actually
the fact that we see her shadow on the painted car makes it
more realistic
Very cool. And I went and looked; you can see the canvas start to fold in on this video at 57 seconds on the hood and driver side door.
Cheers! Nice info.
Nice. Also notice how her shadow doesn't change when it moves onto the car.
Had gotten to watch this film back in early 2017, and fell in love with it, I wish I had gotten to watch it earlier in my life, this has become my favorite buddy cop film ever, great balance of character development, drama, and action. And I would love to read Shane Black's original script, just to read how insane the action would have been. But my hot-topic would be his original script for _LW2,_ that I would *_LOVE_* to read.
"A tanker truck full of cocaine explodes, raining down cocaine for the movie's climax"
Yep. That's Shane Black alright.
Apparently there was a Jeffrey Boam script for LW 4 which had neo-nazi domestic terrorists as the main villains, much darker in tone than the one we got. I'd like to read that
@@imcallingjapan2178 That would had been somewhat interesting, with a very different set of villains from the ones in the other films. I'm betting it was rejected for its dark tone, very much like Shane Black's original LW 2 script for similar reasons. And I also read at one point how *_Die Hard with a Vengeance_* - itself based on an original spec script titled *_Simon Says_* - was once briefly considered for LW 4 at one point.
@@DemonBoy3223 Yup, there would be flashbacks to Riggs' Vietnanm experiences in the Boam one, similar to Rambo or the Punisher. The LW4 we got was much lighter but did give a proper conclusion to Rigg's story and closure for his character, as well as good to see Jet Li as the villain. There was another script for 4 that had the Irish mob as villains, with Riggs' fighting a huge bareknuckle boxer at one point. I read that on IMDB but never found the script
This is one of my favourite movie series of all time. It's fun, it's dark, it's exciting, with visceral action and great musical scores, but most of all, it has memorable and likeable characters who, alongside their families, grow very realistically and organically over the course of the movies. These are personal classics of mine which I love to come back to every once in a while.
*LETHAL WEAPON (1987)* is a Fantastic 80s Action Film classic !!!
Wow, did not know that was Richard's house. Nice touch, dude didn't have to travel far that day to go home and sleep or wake up early to go to work.
The fight scene with Mel Gibson and Gary was choreographed by the Gracies of the UFC. Fun little fact
Interesting
That armbar to triangle choke finish was strangely good I was wondering why
Is this true? There wasn t even a ufc yet in 1987 was there?
Ruben Aerts yes sir, Royce and Rorion Gracie helped out. There was no UFC at this time but still cool that they helped out. Google Gracie Lethal Weapon, there’s pictures of them with Mel and Gary on set for that scene.
In my top 5 fight scenes behind They Live, The Quiet Man
Peter McCalister? So this is how Kevin's dad affords that huge house and the trip to Paris? :P
His brother Rob paid for the trip. Lol
I like the directors cut, it adds more to Riggs character.
Is the director cut good???.
@@erickmaldonado9283 It drags the movie a bit too much. Lethal Weapon always seemed to be on the verge of molasses anyways.
@@grandmasbowlofnuts9887 oh. okay.
Director’s cut really adds to it in my opinion. Sadly not available on Blu-ray hence I’ve held onto my dvd copy.
*Lethal Weapon 3* had the best Director's Cut IMO
This is an amazing film.. in my top 5 all of time greats, direction.. casting and musical score. 10/10
A little bit of trivia the film features Red Hot Chili Peppers Anthony Kiedis' father, hes one of the drug dealers with the Xmas trees and he's the absolute spit of his son too.
RighteousBrother He also played a role in the film point break with keanu reeves, he’s always one of the gang members to be shot first lmao
RighteousBrother your right Blackie Dammet was the one with red shirt and black hair
Is that the guy that Riggs headbutted in the face in that scene? Speaking of the headbutt...nobody can pull that move off in an action movie as well as Mel Gibson can. Danny Glover never headbutted and I think the best one is in LW4 when he headbutts Jet Li 3 times in a row during the final fight. U gotta admit the final fight at the end of LW4 was way bloodier than in the previous films with the main villain especially when Jet Li is choking the life out of Gibson and Glover stabs him in the back. One of the best movie theater experiences was going to see LW4.
Another fantastic review. lethal Weapon and Die Hard are two of the greatest Christmas movies ever.
Just noticed the movie theater in the background is showing The Lost Boys @2:13
Yes it’s also executive produced by Richard Donner who did Lethal Weapon as Director and was a producer
Didn't Danny Glover play in that one Predator movie, too? There's probably a half-cocked fan theory about the connection there somewhere.
I believe the theory works if we pretend that _Predator 2_ is the "alternate _Lethal Weapon 3"_ if _LW2_ had instead stuck with the alternate ending where Riggs did die at the end. After the tanker-ship battle and Riggs dies, Murtaugh decided to make an oath to stay in the LAPD in Riggs' honor.
I stole away from middle school in Chula Vista to the vogue theater to watch this back in the day. Worth the detention at school for me.
Die Hard is the better film (best action film ever made imo), but Lethal Weapon had the better sequels by far. The addition of Joe Pesci and Rene Russo was genius.
@ChiliContestWinner To me, Die Hard stands as the film that brought A-level film making to the action genre, a genre up until that moment considered as B movies. The directing, acting, cinematography, score, sound effects and visual effects are all absolute top tier. That is what I took with me, when watching this in theaters back in 88, when I was 15 years old.
@@thoso1973 I would say both die hard and lethal weapon brought A-level directing cinematography and acting to the action genre
@Kevin Cooper my thoughts exactly
The only movie in either series I don’t like is A Good Day to Die Hard. Haha
@@Cbriggs502 I agree with that, both Lethal Weapon (1987) and Die Hard (1988), and would add another one to that list, Predator (1987) directed by John McTiernan who also directed Die Hard (and the third installment). One could say Predator is sci-fi, but there is no question it's a full on action movie, which also has the great directing, cinematography, and acting we're talking about.
people forget this is a christmas movie aswell
While this movie is set around Christmas, it has none of it's themes like say, Die Hard which is all about Christmas in music, themes and how it resolves its conflict (such as the main character learning what family and fellowship means, fights off greed/Hans Gruber, overcomes his fears and learns to let go).
nolan palmer Far better explanation than I usually see. Still kind of generic scriptwriting, but I suppose we should be glad that it wasn’t handled in a saccharine manner, like in Home Alone and many others. Was there a similar fear of that for Willis (Moonlighting), a la Michael Keaton from Mr. Mom being cast as Batman?
Anyway, Die Hard 2 deserves more credit for its winter/Christmas themes, as the dangers are not only made part of the plot with the winter weather conditions, but gives us some creative kills, like the icicle to the eye...
@@drakenfist Die hard isn't a christmas movie either. Just beacuse they use christmas songs doesn't make it a christmas movie either. Just like Lethal weapon it's not a christmas themed movie. It could have taken place at any time.
@@basquat76 Did you not read my whole comment?. Everything in that film is about Christmas. You take away the setting and you take away the film. Why is there?. Because it is Christmas eve and he is there to see his wife who he hardly see's. They aren't on the best of terms. The entire plot of the film, terrorists trying steal bonds from the plaza. Is all about greed. Then there is cop that helps John and he has regrets over accidentally killing a kid. Through fighting greed, they both learn to overcome their problems, forgive others and celebrate christmas, free of their own burdens. All the themes are there. You take away christmas and it would make no sense. Die Hard is a christmas movie through and through.
Another option for Christmas is a lesser known movie called The Long Kiss Goodnight. While it is not a Christmas movie, it is as much as Lethal Weapon or Die Hard.
Lethal Weapon has always been on my "watch list" over the Christmas period, along with the usual movies, anyway great video as always Oliver and Merry Christmas.
Along with Die Hard and Die Hard 2
The fight with Riggs drunk in the bar is my favorite deleted scene. He knocks one out and snaps anothers arm in just a few seconds and asks "We done?"
Wish it had made the film.
Just watched this again. Such a great review. The 80’s were undoubtedly the best ever.
Black Rain Retrospective please
Directed by Riddley Scott, Starring Micheal Douglass, music by Han Zimmer
Edit: when the guy who did Blade Runner tries to make an 80's af movie in Japan
Robert Hipolito I remember that movie. Haven’t seen it in years. I remember it having some very interesting scenes with the motorcycle gang circling Douglas and chasing someone before he almost gets hit by a train. On the other hand, I remember it having a disappointing final act where they are just running around in a field or something.
But seriously the best reoccurring theme of the franchise is Roger's house constantly being under construction because it is always under siege.
@Oliver Harper:
This was one my late father's favorite film series, as he and I would often watch all 4 "Lethal Weapon" movies back-to-back before he passed (he died from cancer almost 13-years ago)
Perfect timing. Watched it this past weekend and still holds that excitement factor for me. Great review, Oliver. It never dawned on me at the time that the writer was Hawkins. Always a Xmas favorite
Great retrospective, Arthur. We share similar memories of the franchise. #2 has more memories; "Diplomatic Immunity." BAM! "It's just been revoked." It's one of those great, EXTREMELY rare, examples of a series that never turned out a bad installment despite surpassing the trilogy mark. Maybe Rocky (because some do enjoy Rocky V)?
As a child, I thought Lethal Weapon and Die Hard were part of one series, because Die Hard (difficult to translate into Czech) was called "Lethal Trap" in this country.
A lethal weapon retrospective?
Merry christmas to me
It took me a while to realize that 'Shadow Company' is basically this film's version of The French Connection scandal.
This is one of my all-time favorite christmas movies. And two haters got Triangle Choke by Riggs. Merry Christmas Oliver, hope you cover Lethal Weapon 2 sometime since it turns 30 next year.
Loved the first 2 LW..Riggs was lethal....less so in 3 and 4. Great script i do love Shane Blacks writing.
Well done. LW1 was a huge influence on me. I still get a thrill from seeing the filming locations (I work near the tower Amanda jumps from).
Last boy scout is my fav buddycop
That was also written by Shane Black.
Great movie
What a troubled production though 😨
A merry christmas to you!
Wow, great review. Would love to see more of these type of reviews from the 80’s
"In the search of the last action heroes" ! Aleluia! Love your work,man! Share the same nostalgia, hunger for truely COOL movies!!!
What a nice early Christmas present
The film starts with a bad continuity error. Amanda falls to her death and clearly hits the windshield of the car. Cut to the next edit and she's lying squarely on top of the car roof.
Don't forget that this film spawned lethal weapon 5 and 6 from its always sunny in Philadelphia
DAMN, I forgot all about that while watching this.
I just watched the TV series and as a Fan I'm definitely pleasantly surprised how much it carries the spirit of the film
I always like watching this film around the holidays.
Fantastic, thanks Oliver. I know this film inside out and watched it within the last week, you still managed to give me a few nuggets that I wasn't previously aware of.
Christmas has mentioned, a little bit, in the fourth, “Highlander,” movie.
At that point the guy should of realized like Hey my gift is with action movies let me just compose them even if I'm not a fan of them
Perfect excuse to ignore my family on Christmas Eve.
Back in the late '80s, Lethal Weapon was part of a Warner Bros. VHS Crime Collection which also included Cobra, I The Jury, The Protector (Jackie Chan) and The Glitter Dome.
My favourite action movie still to this day. I remember finding the video on my parents shelf when I was a kid and forever the film stayed with me.
Great as always Oliver. My Dad loves this movie. I never sat through it, but I will have to in the future, I too enjoyed the movie spoof "Loaded Weapon 1". I want to wish you a very Merry Christmas to you. 🎅☃🎄🎁
Watched this with my dad and we burst out laughing in several scenes. I’d seen bits of it but only just sat down and watched it tonight full way through. Danny Glover is capable and Gibson is magnetic. The jumper scene was possibly my favourite part, Riggs is an iconic character for good reason.
Dude thats a Christmas gift.:)
another smashing review Oliver!
+Oliver Harper Gosh, I know you're immensely busy, but in the coming year(s) I'd like to see retrospectives on 'Scanners' and 'Firestarter'.
Thanks for talking about the John Eric Alexander music, I really wish they would officially release it. It’s soooo catchy.
8:15 "....who is laundering money for Peter McCallister". So that is how the family in Home Alone got rich....
Lethal Weapon never die's and will alway's be a Gem in my film collection.
mel Gibson one of the best actors ever 👌
I just watched all 4 films today 2019 and it's the reason why I'm a filmmaker today
Gibson's mullet had a lot more dialogue in the original script but that was trimmed due to length. Thanks for a good review.
Gotta love the classic '80 gun sounds. 👍👍👍👍👍
Great job Oliver! You do much better research than The Nostalgia Critic! We don't need him!
I've got two words for you: GARY BUSEY!!
out of all the lethal weapons i have seen this only once and have seen 2, 3 and 4 the most times. Time to revisit the original.
Great Review. I love this film series. I'm still hoping for Lethal Weapon 5 to exist in some form. I love all of Richard Donner's films. And for all the film's he made I always wished he had made more, because I enjoy watching all of them. Lethal Weapon 2 is one of the best sequels out there.
Because Richard Donner never got to completely finish Superman II, Lethal Weapon 2 shows you how much fun his sequels can be.
Lethal Weapon 1 and 3 are my favourites.
Same here. For me it goes 1,3,2, then 4. I was surprised when I revisited Lethal Weapon 2, some of the improv between Gibson and Glover seemed a bit much, or more noticeable than I remembered, in particular in the opening sequence. But I still liked the second one. However the fourth one I was disappointed honestly, the whole plot and feel of the movie, and by the end it just felt like a big reunion, taking a group picture and then going into an end credit scrapbook sequence of all the films.
I thought I was watching one of your more retro reviews. Great, glad to see this on the day premiere. Been watching your stuff for but a few days and think it's utterly great. Love this movie.
When Gibson was a beloved super star in a movie saga that promotes sincere DIVERSITY and an anti-Racist message,when he showed his amazing directorial talents as TRUE MASTER CLASS DIRECTOR and won 2 Oscars for Braveheart(1995) even though he deserved at least a nom for Best Actor too that year ...He was a Hollywood King and a legendary icon(just like his production company lol) ..In that state in 2002 he made a fearless low budgeted art movie that turned out an event movie, a pop culture phenomenon film about Christ ,that smashed the Box office(still highest grossing R movie in the US) ,made criminals confess their crimes after watching it and the Pope cry,not just a movie but an experience as he often says, a movie that provoked some incredible hate from atheists&liberals and jews....
And then in 2006 the DUI incident happened ...For me he did nothing wrong,he just expressed his personal beliefs, nothing that serious to be ostracized from the mainstream Studio System , at least he did not commit criminal acts and felonies like Weinstein ,Polanski ,Brian Singer or Spacey...
Hollywood's vengeful hypocrites stopped his epic directorial career for 10 years after the amazing Apocalypto, which is the most innovative and unique movie of the 21st Century thus far, like a prehistoric Rambo or Predator with amazing action and some great historical &sociological commentary ...Hollywood Zionists were triggered by the Passion of the Christ(which simply shows what all the Gospels say) that's the truth ....and their fake news media tried to destroy him like Trump ,this was a character assassination only Robert Downey jr (who is half Jewish) stand by him cause of their true friendship(Mel helped him when he needed it the most in 2003 by giving him roles when nobody else did) and RDJ helped him return with his truly great War epic Hacksaw Ridge in 2016(that was robbed at the Oscars cause of disgusting Liberal virtue signaling )...ruclips.net/video/_AAJuynxnTQ/видео.html
One of my fave franchises. Even if the last one was disappointing.
Wonder if we will get a reboot but with the kids
Absolutely wonderful video this 👏 concise yet detailed. Interesting and very well articulated, best I've seen. Thanks a lot 😁
I'm stopping at 4:20 to say:
Oliver, you're the fuckin MAN for praising National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1! It's still in my personal top 5 movie spoofs of all time that is my go to recommendation if someone happens to ask me what my favorite parody is.
If they ever decided to do a Loaded Weapon 1 TV series, I wouldn't hesitate to at least check it out! Especially if it's a miniseries that actually brings back Samuel L. Jackson and Emilio Estevez!!💙🤯
I've been checking out your Retrospectives for a while and get the impression we'd be pretty awesome movie buddies!🤙🏾
"Do you want to hear about how sometimes I think about eating a bullet?! HAH?! Well I do, I even got a special one for the occasion with a hallowed point, make sure it blows the back of the Goddamn head out, do the job right." Say what you will about Mel Gibson but did he ever NAIL the role of Martin Riggs, the depressed lost soul who just doesn't even want to live anymore but still a ACE at his job. Amazing performance by Mel, especially in the first movie here
please review all the other lethal weapon films
Love your videos hunnie far more entertaining than the poor reviews on general tv....in fact better than tv itself..keep up the good work sending you hugs....genious xxxx
I never forget that classic Sax riff.....
Merry Christmas Oliver
The first one is a pretty dark movie. People forget that and only remember the later comedy packed outings.
"You guys are like fucking pluto, man! YOU'RE GONE!"
Dude you have got to do the sequels or at least part 2! A favorite right here!
Whenever i hear Jingle Bell Rock i think hot blonde stripper jumping to her death...Thanks Lethal Weapon!
It's funny. When you watch this film back, you really realise just how far Hollywood has slipped down the regurgitated corporate teeny-bop slope of PC quick buck flicks.
Today, Hollywood class Mutant Turtles, Transformers, & Spider-Bitch as "Action". I hate to sound cliché but CGI is so underwhelming. It's incredibly cheap looking, has no impact, & always feels fake.
And I am not the only adult male in the world who is SICK to his back teeth with American superhero films. They're convoluted, goofy, always protracted, the dialogue is sententious, the characters immaculately photoshopped, subserviently choreographed, & all vestige of realism is thrown out the window the moment the lights go dark.
These films here still hold their own because the effects, the way it was edited & the music do not SUCK just to be trendy like films have to be today.
How about Retrospective / Review of "Hard Rain" 1998. I'm curious about those flood scenes.
You missed Policenauts! You covered Snatcher when you reviewed Blade Runner. Hideo made another adventure game based on his favorite movies. Check it out, the main characters are Mel and Danny.
dude... is there any Retrospective / Review of WEIRD SCIENCE???!!! Cause it appears on the intro-poster but couldn´t find it on your channel. :( THANKS!!!!
Since when does using a mercury switch make it a professional hit? It's a kinda obvious and reliable way to make sure a car bomb doesn't go off until someone drives the car. 'Least it was when the movie was made, and you couldn't just buy an accelerometer on EBAY. But a mercury switch is stoll better, cus the circuit can be totally dead until activated, so the batteries will basically last their whole shelf life. I know this, and I'm not in special forces; I push buttons on rollercoasters. If I were researching a movie and needed a way to make it clear that the bomb was planted by a special forces guy, I'd not want to insult the audience's intelligence that way. It seems like one of those, "Well, it will sound like it makes sense to the audience, 'cus they're stupid" kind of things. Like: We need transparent aluminium in order to transport whales inside a spaceship...for some reason. Give them whales a view of the inside of the hull, that they coulda just swam right up to
I've only seen Part 4 and really enjoyed it when it came out. I feel like I'm doing myself a disservice though by not having seen the originals. After watching this retrospective, I may have to rectify that.
You know, I can think of two other 80s Christmas action movies. First Blood, and The Terminator.
I cannot believe it's a coincidence that the first installment of nearly every big 80s action franchise is also a Christmas movie.
3:58 It's hard to call *48 HRS.* a buddy-cop film (technically) because it has only ONE cop ☝ but nevertheless has the tone and feel of one and the chemistry of Nolte and Murphy is UNDENIABLE 👍👍 *Running Scared* is an often overlooked gem that needs WAY MORE respect (oh, please do a review of this one 🙏)
@Kevin Cooper Or a ex-cop turned bounty hunter and an embezzling accountant? 😆
Kevin Cooper also could be buddy cop relationship like in Tequila Sunrise with Mel Gibson as a drug dealer and Kurt Russell as a cop.
Besides that, in 48 hrs they hardly seem like buddies for most of the movie. They couldn't stand each other
@@socialwarsmiejercito5608 "I'm already sorry."
Michael Kamen also scored Die Hard. He was on a roll!
Lethal Weapon has the problem of the decline of Mel Gibson's reputation went south. It's harder to be an unalloyed fan when you have to follow up any praise for the film with a disclaimer that you know the actor is a piece of shit as a human being. It's like being a fan of any of Roman Polanski's films (and it used to be that way for Michael Jackson's music before he died). He in 2016 did an interview calling himself the victim of unscrupulous police officers (who released tapes of his anti-Semitic remarks) following his 2006 arrest and saying that if he were filled with the hate the media claimed there'd be evidence. (Which seems odd as there is also the voicemails from 2010 where he angrily tells his girlfriend that if she gets raped by a pack of n****s it will be her own fault for dressing provocatively, and that he won't put up with her dressing that way any more. He also said he would bury her body in their rose garden. Which all seems like he's got some issues with hate, so that seems to be additional evidence.)
Lethal weapon 1&3 r my absolute favorite 2&4 r ok
I heard there is talk about a 5th 1 but Richard Donner passed away in 2021. Will it happen??
One of the OG "cop buddy flicks" I view this as second only to the original 48 hours. Gibson and Glover were a great paring and tho every single sequel would be worse they were all at least fun. This original film however is a gem and still holds up terrific to this day and THANK GOD (at least so far has not been remade and no I am not counting the TV show)