Unpopular Movie Opinions: Part III

[snipemonkey]

Originally Posted by AKORIS

guess you aren't interested in a potential 4k boxed set then.........

Nope. And, anyway, it's Warner, so there's no danger. If they ever DO release them they'll be done one at a time over a 25 year period. I probably won't live to see Part 4 get a UHD.

[moreorless]

Progressively less Shane Black involvement I suspect had a significant effect on the way Lethal Weapon went.

[Cardboard_killer]

Originally Posted by snipemonkey

Agree about the Lethal Weapon movies -- the only one that still works is the first one, because it plays things (mostly) straight. It's a pretty hard-hitting, violent thriller with great action. An '80s classic.

Part 2 is a schizophrenic jam-up of the dark tone of Part 1 with the new self-satisfied Looney Tunes hyperactivity everyone involved seemed to get high on and really annoys me now. It's like a f*cking slobbery dog that won't stop licking you in the face and begging for love. I can't stand it anymore.

Parts 3 and 4 are just... embarrassing. As in "Did these things even have screenplays or were they just improvised on-set?" bad. I have tried to forget them entirely.

I liked 3 and 4 best for the very reasons you state. It's schlock that doesn't really take itself seriously as opposed to schlock that does. But I would never buy any of them.

[ophone]

I've never watched a single Lethal Weapon movie...

[spider-neil]

Originally Posted by ophone

I've never watched a single Lethal Weapon movie...

Watch the first one. A pitch-perfect buddy cop movie.

[DR Herbert West]

Lethal Weapon 5 has a good chance at being the best sequel.

[dvining]

Originally Posted by DR Herbert West

Lethal Weapon 5 has a good chance at being the best sequel.

Such a low bar, though.

[Winslow Leach]

I think Lethal Weapon 2 is the best one in the series.

[Cinemaniac]

Originally Posted by DR Herbert West

Lethal Weapon 5 has a good chance at being the best sequel.

This would only be true if they cast Danny DeVito, Charlie Day, Glenn Howerton, Rob McElhenney, and Kaitlin Olson as a drug gang.

[Warm Gun]

Originally Posted by spider-neil

Watch the first one. A pitch-perfect buddy cop movie.

Better than Die Hard. No incompetent comic relief authorities and media hurting the pacing. No cheese about shooting a kid.

[Batman1980]

Originally Posted by Warm Gun

Better than Die Hard. No incompetent comic relief authorities and media hurting the pacing. No cheese about shooting a kid.

In no universe visited by Kirk or Spock is Lethal Weapon better than Die Hard.

[stvn1974]

Lethal Weason 1 and 2 are action classics. I don't even remember 3 and 4.

[drb999]

Originally Posted by stvn1974

Lethal Weason 1 and 2 are action classics. I don't even remember 3 and 4.

I remember Rene Russo

[russweiss1]

Originally Posted by stvn1974

Lethal Weason 1 and 2 are action classics. I don't even remember 3 and 4.

Originally Posted by drb999

I remember Rene Russo

I also remember Jet Li.

[BluBonnet]

Originally Posted by drb999

I remember Rene Russo

"Close is a lingerie shop without a front window"

[mscheaf]

I own a lot of 80s and 90s action, yet I have no Lethal Weapons or Die Hards. Although, Hans Gruber might be my spirit animal.

[ophone]

The first Die Hard rubs me the wrong way. They could've at least hired somebody who knows to speak correct German. For other movies Hollywood is totally capable of doing this, why not here?

[Cardboard_killer]

Originally Posted by ophone

The first Die Hard rubs me the wrong way. They could've at least hired somebody who knows to speak correct German. For other movies Hollywood is totally capable of doing this, why not here?

British actors make the best bad guys because you can't take them too seriously. Germans are too scary.

[spider-neil]

Unpopular opinion. I thought Alan Rickman's Hans Gruber was every bit as compelling as Heath Ledger's Joker

[mwynn]

Originally Posted by ophone

The first Die Hard rubs me the wrong way. They could've at least hired somebody who knows to speak correct German. For other movies Hollywood is totally capable of doing this, why not here?

I thought the point was that they were speaking gibberish to throw off the cops?