Actors: Mel Gibson, Danny Glover
Director: Richard Donner
I'm too old for this shit.
I figured I'd plug a hole in my leaky pop culture boat by taking in the quintessential buddy cop film. I saw someone somewhere refer to Lethal Weapon as the perfect script and in one sense it is; Lethal Weapon is brilliantly escapist. Featuring good guys and bad guys (the film even refers to them as such at one point), the good guys kill the bad guys, some bad guys kill good guys, etc. The Oresteia, this is not - it's kind of like if Road House were set in Los Angeles and didn't involve bouncers.
It'd be really difficult for me to pinpoint the reason why I like, say, Die Hard, and why I didn't particularly like this movie, but I suspect it's just because Die Hard got there first. Had I caught this film in my early adolescence, I'm sure I would have enjoyed its many thrills and pithy dialogue.
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not a fan of this movie at all. die hard kills it a thousand times over.
ReplyDeleteYeah, Die Hard is way better, but I like Lethal Weapon just fine.
ReplyDeleteAs for Road House, I may have said this here before, but the commentary on the DVD by Kevin Smith and some other guy is absolutely hilarious.