Lethal Weapon Franchise Review

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network of podcasts Hello and welcome to the

59th episode of the M wire movie we can review

I am TF to Mike and joining me is Kevin optimus

solo Thompson from behind the voice actors comm

hello, sir How is it going? It's going? How are

you? I'm lethal Uh, speak? No, actually no. Today

we will be covering the Lethal Weapon franchise.

All four films in one single episode. Holy cow!

Now, on MWIRE, I've kinda gotten away from doing

this, but... I don't want to have to spread these

films out over four episodes. And we have other

things in the schedule to get to, so... We figured

one big giant explosion of jamboree of guns and

fire and flamethrowers and fires in the hole

and what else, what else, what else? Toilet explosions.

Pool diving. Yeah, pool diving. Hook snorting,

all that stuff. Yeah, oh god, yeah. Electric

shock therapy. Oh, yep. So what have you been

up to, sir? Oh, goodness gracious. I don't know.

My head's a whirlwind. Everything's been going

on. Let's see. I've been doing some stuff outside

in my house, staining some landscaping timbers

and stuff like that. I've had my grandpa, who's

about 93, was down this week, and I was playing

cards with him three different days. I'm doing

stuff at BehindTheVoiceActors .com, doing stuff

with friends. It just seems like there's a lot

going on that's crazy. I know you're a teacher

and all, but just hire a damn Mexican to do your

housework, to do your garden. You'll be done

with it. Yeah, true. Oh, and big news, I guess.

Well, big news for us at BehindTheVoiceActors

.com. The commercial section is finally up there.

Oh, awesome. You can actually view... Who is

the voice of certain commercial characters that

you like? I mean, we have about 37 different

commercial brands or products up there so far,

so about 40, 45 different commercial characters,

so that's kind of cool. I'm going to be severely

disappointed if you guys don't have the Christmas

Coca -Cola polar bears. Not yet, not yet. What

the hell is wrong with you fuckers? I basically

went through all the cereal brands and all the

food brands to start things with. We'll be getting

more trust me I did we just wanted a good a good

variety to start so we have all you can't have

a commercial section without the Coca -Cola but

we'll have them we'll have them right now it's

all the the like Count Chocula and the tricks

rabbit and all the McDonald's characters and

you know the toucan Sam and all those guys yes

Let's see, what have I been up to? Not much.

It's funny, I've said this before. I don't know

if I've said it on this show or if I've said

it on other shows. Sometimes I love buying DVDs

because I love having a DVD collection and just

being able to go back and watch something because,

let's face it, TV today kind of sucks. Sometimes

I will buy movies just to have them. Just to

have them in the closet. Like, I'll buy like

a, I don't know, three or four, like, I don't

know, like, I don't have this yet, but like,

say, the Matrix trilogy set that they have out

that's like $70. I don't know, it's this big

four or five disc box set of all the Matrix films

and the animatrix. Like, I'll buy crap like that.

like the lethal weapon complete series four pack

and I'll just buy it because it's films that

I remember watching as a kid and I'll just buy

it to have it and I won't ever watch them. So

that's the good thing about this show is I'm

forcing myself to watch all my movies again.

This is probably the first series ever that I

own the entire collection of but I didn't buy

it in box set because it wasn't available at

the time. I basically got them for Christmas.

I don't know if it was spread out over a couple

years or all at once, but I have all four individual

ones, but I don't have it as a box set, but it

was probably the first collection I ever owned.

Yeah, the box set, I mean, it's pretty much the

individual DVDs that were already released just

put into a box set. Are they in the silverish

color? No, it's black. Oh, okay. Even the individual

DVD cases? Lethal is black, lethal two, no lethal

is silver, lethal two is black, lethal three

is white, and lethal four is red. Oh, okay. Yeah,

all mine are silver, basically. One's a little

bit more silverish reddish, but all mine are

in the silver. And it's not even the only thing

I disliked about them is they're not in the good

cases. They're in the DVD cases that have like

the little... Like tab that you kind of pop out

instead of the actual yeah, that's that's the

way all mine are as to as well That's the only

thing I don't like about them because they're

makes them a little bit more flimsy and I've

put them through so much use I mean in college

we basically watched one Lethal Weapon film a

week probably for four years. Yeah We watched

it so many times I mean one of my roommates just

loved them. Yes I'm just doing the podcasting

thing and you know, I'm trying to figure out

new ways to Record and all that crap, which it's

not really working. I had a big PC friggin meltdown

No long story short cuz I'm sure Steve and I'll

record a headshot about this but long story short

As of this recording two and a half nights ago

We, for some strange reason, lost power in my

building. I don't know if somebody blew a fuse.

I don't know what it was. Tire building blacked

out for about ten minutes. And I was just sitting

here. I think I was watching a movie or I was

looking at a website. I mean, I wasn't doing

anything major when I was sitting here with the

computer on and everything else. All of a sudden,

boom, flash. It's gone. power comes back on get

it up and get it running lower right hand corner

says Windows 7 build 7600 this copy of Windows

is not genuine and I'm thinking yes it is fucking

genuine because I bought it from Best Buy and

it came pre -installed on this tower I seriously

doubt HP or Microsoft allows anybody to put unlicensed

or non -genuine copies of stuff on on PCs. So

I called Microsoft first because I figured it's

a Windows issue. It's a Windows problem. It's

saying that it's not genuine. spent forty five

minutes on the phone with them to only find out

they won't do anything for me or help me unless

i buy some sort of protection plan for fifty

nine dollars month or a year or whatever the

fuck it was fifty nine dollars for something

i said no sorry that's if you are going to help

me for free for a computer that i've only had

a month and a half then and that there's something

wrong with them i hung up on the bastards fuck

you microsoft uh... i call ht Go through the

whole thing same thing giving them the serial

number giving them the the the Windows ID number

thing and whatever else and They say well make

sure your files are backed up. We have to walk

you through system recovery Like okay fine. I'll

have to call you guys back so about an hour and

a half after that The next time I called I gave

them the reference number and they walked me

through taking the the system Back to factory

settings, which means I lose all my programs

I lose everything I've downloaded as far as like

tweet deck and Skype and iTunes and all that

other bullshit So in the past two days I've been

Thank God I have this one terabyte external hard

drive I would be lost without that but thank

God I have that as a backup So I've been in the

process of transferring all my files back which

documents and pictures. It's taken no time at

all those are already done iTunes It's taken.

It's got an hour left, and I started it like

48 hours ago Yeah, so That's hmm, that's weird

No for some strange reason I don't know what

that was I Don't know what No, we're not experiencing

technical difficulties in record. I just you

know do you use Windows 7 or have you ever used

it? Yeah on Windows 7 they have Icons on the

taskbar instead of tabs now right like well like

Mac Yeah And if you scroll over a tab, it'll

pull up little mini windows. And then you scroll

that over, and it takes everything off the desktop

and shows you just that. When I scrolled over

my solution bar here of copying the iTunes files,

it did something weird to the screen. But we're

OK. Anyways, so what else have you been doing?

Nothing really? Other than K -Stuff and Housework?

Yep, that's it. That's my life right now. Housework

and BTBA. I'm telling you, just go find a couple

of drunk Mexicans. They work for two. I don't

mind doing it. I get some exercise out of it.

It just takes a long time. And it's been so freaking

hot. Exactly. See, that's what I'm saying. If

you go find a bunch of drunk Mexicans, give them

some beer, tell them to do the work, and they'll

work out in the heat and you can stay inside.

There we go. We're an equal opportunity. No,

I'm just kidding. Drunk Mexicans, drunk. Cubans,

it doesn't matter. Take this off everybody, don't

worry about us. You know. We like to offend all

groups, equal opportunity offenders. You know,

drunk purple aliens, I mean, Christ. That's right,

and smurf people. Okay. Alright, so with that,

we are going to get started with this episode,

and we will be back after the first trailer for

Lethal Weapon. The criminal's worst nightmare.

A cop who enjoys the danger. No guns, no jiu

-jitsu, just bring him down. Do you really wanna

jump? Well, then that's fine with me. Come on.

Wait, what do you mean? Wait a minute. What the...

He was ready to retire. Now, he's gonna wish

he had. Gun! Raj, meet your new partner. New

partner. But these guys can just stand each other.

What you got in there? Boy and Smith? A lot of

old timers carry those. The bad guys don't stand

a chance. Don't kill anybody. Don't kill anybody.

I'm too old for this. Are you as good as you

say you are? Nobody can touch me. Suppose we

better register you as a lethal weapon. First

up today is Lethal Weapon, which is a 1987 action

comedy film, the first in the Lethal Weapon series

of films. all directed by Richard Donner and

starring Mel Gibson and Danny Glover as a mismatched

pair of LAPD detectives who are hell -bent on

protecting and serving despite their differences.

And Gary Busey as their primary adversary. The

series after the first film falls into an action

comedy and thriller genres is generally considered

to typify the buddy cop plot device. The first

lethal weapon along with Die Hard is credited

with setting new standards for urban action films.

When did you first see this? That's a darn good

question. I must have seen this on TV at some

point first is what I'm guessing. It's a little

different than Die Hard for me. I remember being

really little and I have a brother who's about

10 years older than me. I remember being really

little at one point in my brother and a bunch

of his friends being in our basement watching

Die Hard And I wasn't supposed to be down there,

but I snuck down behind the couch and watched

it from behind the couch Which was awesome, but

I don't remember them watching lethal weapon

But I had to have seen it around that at a later

date since I wasn't allowed to watch that stuff

when I was really little So I must have seen

it either on made for TV But I had seen it at

some point before I owned it on DVD because I

remember One of the first DVDs I ever asked for

for Christmas were the four lethal weapons or

the three the lethal weapon films I think it

was before I remember it was before the fourth

one came out or not Yeah, I when I first saw

this I had to have been anywhere from 10 to 13

Right and it came out when I was about six, but

I know I didn't see it for that first You know

four or five six years that I was yeah, and I

knew Knew it, you know this came out in 87 so

I was seven then I knew I didn't see this one

that when it first came out obviously these films

are rated R so but but I remember I Remember

seeing and I would say between 10 and 12 Yeah

with my mom or you know somebody I might might

have been on TV TV We might have had the VHS

is my uncle could have Recorded it off of HBO.

I don't remember. I'm pretty sure I was junior

high age when I saw it first but I immediately

fell in love with the whole series basically.

The nice part about that was that some of the

other ones were already out by that point, so

you didn't have to wait for them to be released

like people did when they were watching them

for the first time when they actually came out.

So, getting into the plot for the first film

here. It is set in December in Los Angeles. LAPD

Detective Roger Murtaugh, played by Danny Glover,

is worried about getting old. Having recently

celebrated his 50th birthday, he receives a message

from Michael Hunsacker, played by Tom Adkins,

an old war buddy from his time served during

the Vietnam War, whom Murtaugh realizes he has

not seen in 12 years. Before he can meet him,

he is called to investigate his suicide and is

horrified to find the victim is Amanda Hunsaker,

daughter of Michael. Elsewhere, a younger LAPD

detective, Martin Riggs, played by Mel Gibson,

who is suicidal, following the recent death of

his wife in a traffic accident, nearly kills...

A disarmed suspect after entering a psychotic

rage during a drug bust, weary of his behavior,

Riggs' superiors transfer him to Murtaugh's unit,

making them very reluctant partners. a midlife

crisis to a point, even though he's past midlife,

basically. But he's just great for that part.

Mel Gibson's great for the crazy part. And right

from the beginning, you can see these completely

different characters that are 180 degrees different

from each other. And you also have the setup

with this old friend that he knows, the daughter

who's naked out on the balcony or wherever she

was found, I think. Yeah, she jumped to her death,

supposedly. So basically, it was a great first

scene. I think they set it up well. You had a

lot of action. You had a little bit of craziness.

You had everything right from the beginning that

sucked you in. like when Mel goes crazy a little

bit later on in two and three I thought that

was a little bit more funny because he's a little

bit more stable in this one he is just like this

really like I said he's a suicidal character

but the reason I like it though in this one is

because you don't really know if it's the first

time watching how crazy is this guy yeah You

know, I like that part of it. Yeah, I think all

his crazy moments throughout, all four are awesome

and some of them get progressively better. But

I think the unique part about this one in particular

is you're thinking to yourself as you're watching

it, is this guy really insane or what's going

on here? And they call that into question. Is

he psycho or is he just trying to draw the psycho

pension? Right. And that's the perfect thing

to do in the movie because it directly goes with

what's going on in the viewer's mind because

that's what they're thinking anyway. And you

kind of get, you don't know the whole story,

but you kind of get with the scene in his trailer

when he's about to eat the bullet. Because he's

holding the picture of him, and it's either him

and his wife, his dead wife, or it's just a picture

of her. So I mean, you get that that's why he's

suicidal, you just don't know... What happened

the extent of it and we'll get to that actually

later when we get to lethal weapon 2 because

that comes back I'm surprised that was one thing

I was because I I haven't watched these films

in a good 10 years It's not that I don't I love

these films It's just I just haven't had a itch

to get the DVDs out and watch them, right? I

don't know. I just been too busy with like It's

been a few years for me, but there was a good

time from about 2000 to 2005 where I probably

watched all four of them 20 times. But since

then, I haven't watched them a lot. Since I watched

them so much, I kind of got not necessarily burned

out, but I just went on to watch another things

for a while. But yeah, it was a great intro to

the movie there, especially for what will be

a series of movies. It's that key. First scene

or first set of scenes in the very first movie

is very crucial to the whole success of the of

what you're hoping to be well a franchise You

know whether they had ideas of how long many

movies they would make or not, you know The first

little bit of you know the very first lethal

weapon the first little bit of the very first

die -hard or the first little bit of the you

know Matrix or dress of park or any of these

movies is very crucial to the success of the

I think the entire range of movies and oh, yeah

You know, this one sucks again, so it does a

good job of that. Yeah, I mean, there isn't a

single part in this movie where I wanted to fast

-forward or skip or whatever. Right. I was just

going to say, basically, moving on with the plot

part, you know, it's during her autopsy that

they get the connection with her and drugs, so

it's not a suicide. You know, they basically

find out that this girl, this, you know, his

old friend's daughter is, you know, a drug user

into the pornography business. So they start

to get suspicious. This isn't just a case of

someone jumping off a balcony. This is something

that goes deeper. I love the pool scene. The

pool scene is excellent. I love the pool scene

because they go to this, they find out that they

find out the pimp and they go there. and the

pimp has a shotgun and then they they call me

as another gun and rick shoots and ends up in

the pool and the pool had a cover -up which they're

in l .a. it's summer so i'd even though it's

december i mean l .a. never gets snow it's hot

there year -round as far as i know so i don't

know why the hell the damn pool had a cover on

it but pool has to keep crap out of it they're

dead bodies but the pool has a cover on it and

they get into the scuffle and blah blah blah

get out of the thing, and the two of them, Riggs

and Murtaugh, get to the edge of the pool and

goes, have you ever met anyone that you didn't

kill yet? I haven't killed you yet. Yeah, that's

just a great line, and basically that sets up

something that will follow Riggs throughout all

four films. This whole thing that he just, whether

on accident, on purpose, or whatever, it just

seems like every guy he comes into contact with,

that's an adversary he kills. Yup. Let's see

here. So yeah, there's the pool scene. They found

the drugs, Pimp's dead, Murtaugh assumes the

case is closed, but Riggs finds it suspicious

that only witness to Amanda's suicide was a prostitute

named Dixie, who was working away from her usual

location. The next morning, Riggs and Murtaugh

go to Dixie's home to question her, but her house

explodes as they arrive. Investigating the site,

Riggs, who during the Vietnam War served as a

U .S. Army Special Forces, finds part of the

bomb, a mercury switch. Knowing only professionals

would use such a device, a neighborhood child

also remembers seeing a man at Dixie's earlier

in the day who had special forces tattoos similar

to Riggs's own. Seeing the connection, they decide

that Michael Hunsager knows more than he is admitted,

and Murtaugh confronts him at Amanda's visitation.

Oh, that's what... See, I thought they were in

the bank that Hunsager works for. I didn't realize

they were at her visitation. They did make it

look a lot like it was business and they just

had his... at his work. I don't think most people

would have got that that was a visitation. I

don't think you're alone in that. But the scene

switched though. Yeah. The scene switched because

at first it makes it look like that they're in

a bank and then it switches to like his private

office or something and then because you see

Riggs out on the lawn and then there's like this

crest of a wall and then there's the ocean so

that you know they're at his house. Yeah, but

yeah, it takes a while to figure that out it

definitely appears at the beginning that they're

at a bank or they're at his job or you know Something

like that. It doesn't appear that it's a visitation

until you kind of see more and put it together.

Yeah What it boils down to as far as this whole

scene is He had Hunsacker admits. He was involved

in herring smuggling with Peter General Peter

Ricalister played by Mitchell Ryan and Mr. Joshua

played by Gary Busey, which this is probably

the only film abuses that I've ever seen. Really?

I think so. I don't have to go back and look

through his IMDb, but I'm pretty sure this is

one of the only films of his that I've ever seen.

Well, then you basically have seen all his films

then, because he basically has a very narrow

range of characters that he can portray. Yeah,

exactly. And this is pretty much it. If you've

seen this one, you've seen his range of acting.

Yeah, pretty much. So yeah, basically he's, you

know... Hunstacker is bad. He's not the good

guy that he appears to be and it sets it up basically

that we have now this Mr. Joshua and Peter McAllister

now Heads, you know head -to -head against Riggs

and Murtaugh basically pretty much. Yeah Basically

there obviously Riggs and Murtaugh are still

trying to investigate trying to figure out all

the connections and whatnot, but The members

of the Shadow Company basically are becoming

involved now in attempting to kill Riggs. Oh

yeah. They attempted it and they succeeded because

they wanted them to succeed. I think that's what

they had planned all along. Right. Because he

says, you know, Raj, we've got the upper hand

now. They think I'm dead. Let's run with it.

That's just a great plot device too. I know it's

been used since then. I don't know how many times

it was used before then, but it's always good

that when you have a good character who appears

to be dead or everyone thinks they're dead because

like you said, that's a great advantage for them

and it leads to so many different options for

you as a filmmaker, as a writer or whatever to

have a cool way to bring that character back

and to surprise the bad guys. We have to go back

a scene though because I forgot to mention the

gun range. Have a nice day Oh, yeah, the do do

do do do do don't want when they're showing off

at the gun range and all I thought that was friggin

hilarious It's just another great Mel Gibson

scene. Oh, yeah. Yeah, he shows and basically

yeah, he makes the design and shows up Murtaugh

Yes So as Riggs and Murtaugh attempt to... Okay,

I think we're gonna... Yeah, we're basically

at the point where Riggs is supposedly dead and

the Shadow Company have kidnapped Murtaugh's

daughter, Rianne, or however you say her name.

Yeah, Rianne, you got it right. So yeah, that

electroshock therapy, boy, I wouldn't want to

go through that. No, no, no. Yikes. Yeah, that

was pretty bad. And you've got to admit, I know

Mel Gibson was an awesome actor in his day nowadays.

I don't know so much of how he's kept up. But

back then, Jesus Christ, those screams, holy

crap. Mel Gibson, I don't care what people say

about him now. I don't care how many fake telephone

messages we hear about him and whatnot. I'm sorry,

but they're all doctored up. Anyway, I don't

care how many tirades he goes on against whoever.

whatever group he's lashing out on. To me, people

never give him enough credit for the range of

acting that he can do. And what I'm talking about

is you can have Mel Gibson be this fricking stud

of a war character in The Patriot, like in...

Braveheart, obviously. You can have him be this

crazy guy like he is in Lethal Weapon and Conspiracy

Theory. You can have him be this romantic dude

like in What Women Want. People don't know about

his Shakespeare movies as much, but he was in

Hamlet doing Shakespeare and stuff like that.

This guy can do just about anything. What we're

seeing in Lethal Weapons is him, basically in

my opinion, from a physical standpoint. of acting

at his prime. Now I think he's even better of

an actor in a few years obviously when you get

to Braveheart and that type of stuff, but physically

he's at his prime in the Lethal Weapon series.

Oh yeah, I completely agree. But yeah, that scene

is just disturbing when they're shocking him

with the electric whatever you want to call it.

The thing looks like a loofah is what it looks

like. Yeah, it's the worst loofah ever. Talk

about tearing your skin up, geez. Yeah. So the

pair then fight their way free of their prison,

finding themselves in a downtown LA nightclub.

Riggs chases Joshua onto the street and attempts

to cut him off on the freeway. Though Joshua

ultimately escapes, Murtaugh finds McAllister

trying to flee in his car. Taking out McAllister's

driver, Murtaugh watches as the car crashes on

Hollywood Boulevard and is blown up by a live

hand grenade along with the heroin shipment.

First of all When I first saw these films like

back in that when I first saw this like not not

even when I was 10 or 11 at the time but like

when I was a little bit older like 15 16 when

I saw it again, I Really paid no attention to

the character of McAllister at all until I Think

I was like 20 or 21 And I saw him, I saw the

actor, Mitchell Ryan, in the TV show, Dharma

and Greg, as Greg's dad. And I went back and

I watched this one, I'm like, what the hell is

Greg's dad doing in Lethal Weapon? Nice, I didn't

know that. So yeah, so he took out McAllister's

car and he exploded himself. Riggs and Murtaugh

then head to Murtaugh's home, knowing Joshua

will be heading there to attack Murtaugh's family,

who are absent. While Joshua is arrested and

led away without incident, Riggs wanting revenge,

proposes a shot at the title. the entire decade

of the eighties and oh yeah I mean we've had

some crazy fight scenes and shit since then because

we got crazy you know graphic and visual effects

ability obviously you know matrix and even the

fights in Sherlock Holmes are incredible but

but this as far as like eighties go this is probably

my favorite fight scene yeah Sanctioned by Murtaugh,

Riggs engages Joshua in hand -to -hand combat

on Murtaugh's front lawn. In a brutal fight,

Riggs locks Joshua in the triangle choke hold.

Riggs releases the pressure and says, you're

not worth it. Riggs is the victor. Being arrested,

Joshua overpowers two officers and attempts to

shoot Riggs. Riggs and Murtaugh both draw and

fire, killing Joshua. Which fits with the fact

that nobody survives Which fits the whole thing

that rigs never leave someone not dead. Yeah,

that's that's true Um, yeah, just just wait till

we get to lethal weapon too. Wow, it gets you

Oh, yeah, yeah, but this is just a great scene

the fight, you know, you're either out in the

lawn It's our camera. It's you know, they're

they're all wet yeah because it's raining or

something yeah it's raining and it seems like

there's a sprinkler directly hitting them but

they're you know they're soaking wet he they're

they're laying out punches that it's like punches

that when you throw the punch so hard that you

knock yourself over almost oh yeah they're just

knocking the crap out of each other then he catches

him in that in that chokehold and it's just like

holy cow it's just a great scene Merta and Riggs

are now solid friends and Riggs spends Christmas

Day at the Merta home with Roger's family. Riggs

brings his dog Sam to be a friend to the Merta

family cat Burbank, which proves to be disastrous.

Riggs also gives Merta a symbolic gift, the unfired

bullet which he had been saving to commit suicide

as he does not need it anymore. Like the line

I wrote some stuff now we've kind of talked about

some of it, but I Like the line when like after

he's escaped the torture thing and he's just

going on a rampage He comes in who's fucking

next? Yeah And you know, there's a lot of things

obviously that are done in this movie that that

are basically set up to be repeated We've talked

about the fact that rigs is always gonna kill

someone you know he always kills everybody he

deals with You know another thing that you had

written down basically the whole Murtaugh line

where he's you know in every movie He basically

says something about I'm too old for this. Oh,

yeah. Yeah, this is the the first Right obviously

since the first film series, but I mean the first

ever I'm too old for this shit line. Yeah, and

it's just a great line from him because it just

fits his character so well. Oh yeah. Some of

the themes that the movies and just overall the

entire series has. In this one, because Riggs

is described by Murtaugh as a lethal weapon,

the former special forces soldier has been reduced

to suicidal killing machine. After the death

of his wife, the main story arc of the entire

series is about the redemption and recovery of

Martin Riggs and how Murtaugh and his family

are running a focus around which Riggs can rebuild

his shattered life. The running gag about Murtaugh's

forever delayed retirement is crucial, not only

to the longevity of the series, but also to the

gradual healing of Riggs. By the fourth installment,

which we'll get to, Riggs has rebuilt his life

and no longer needs the constant support of Murtaugh.

Murtaugh thus earns more than a long overdue

retirement. He also earns a friend for life.

Action and comedy. Yeah There has been very few

films that have done this so well Usually it's

either it goes too far to the comedic standpoint

where you can't take the film seriously Because

you just are viewing it as a straight comedy

or it's such an action film that the attempts

at comedy are just not You know believable or

not, you know, it's just kind of like side effect

type things Yeah, this one this one has neither.

It's you you view this Movie as an action movie,

but the comedy is done so well that you know

It's just kind of like a byproduct like you get

done watching it You're like yeah, I just watched

a kick -ass like beat him up shoot him up awesome

action movie, but I also laughed my ass off oh

yeah, and it's just a perfect blend and and they

just like and this kind of I Think your your

hatred of sequels is only two Disney films But

if I'm wrong in that correct me because I get

to tell you the comedy just keeps getting better

with these as this series progresses i think

because all through two three and four i was

laughing my ass off at certain parts yeah my

hatred i automatically hate a disney sequel i

sequels to live action movies i automatically

will give a chance i might hate it after i watch

it but i'll at least watch it where i won't watch

Disney sequel. Well, you will be watching Disney

sequels for Tooncast. I mean, I won't do it for

my own pleasure. Well, then sure. I might do

it for other purposes, but... But yeah, these,

I don't know, I watch all of these. They could

make four more of these and I would watch them.

We'll get to that. We'll talk about the potential

sequel when we get down to the fourth film, because

I don't want to jump the gun on that or make...

speculations just yet. We'll do that once we

get to the fourth film. What did you think of

the music in this? Honestly, I mean, I'm not

saying anything bad about the music, but there's

so much going on during the movie that it's very

easy to not even notice the music. I mean, you

notice the music because when you hear it, it's

like classic 80s slash, especially if you've

seen the movies already, whenever you hear this

type of music, you think, Lethal weapon or you

think of this type of movie, but I think when

you first watch the movie For me at least there's

so much that I'm paying attention to and there's

so much good stuff going on that I don't even

think about the music the first time Well, you

know, it's kind of hard to miss Jingle Bell Rock

opening the film, right? No, no And yeah, it's

pretty hard to hear that song now and not think

of Lethal Weapon. And that's what I'm saying.

If you hear the music later, you automatically

think of the movie. But when you're watching

the movie, you don't necessarily think of the

music. I guess for me. Yeah, and that's cool.

I love the little theme that Michael. came in,

because he had completed work on Highlander,

and then composed the score for Lethal Weapon.

The guitar part of Riggs's theme was performed

by Eric Clapton, which I think, again, that is,

like you said, that's pretty much classic 80s.

I mean, Eric Clapton was one of the best guitar

players, if not of all time, but especially in

the 80s. And that's just... A great thing. As

far as the reception goes, it was released on

March 6, 1987. Lethal Weapon was number one in

the box office for three weeks before Blind Date

overtook it. Oh God. Never even heard of that

movie. Look it up in IMDB. Oh, thanks. You'll

be ranting and raving. Oh my god. Fucking blind

date. I can't believe that. It grossed 120 million

worldwide and was nominated for an Academy Award

for sound. And for sound effects, editing. The

former was won by the last emperor. Oh, Jesus.

And the latter was won by Robocop. Well, that's

not so bad. Right. It is widely considered to

be one of the best buddy cop films of all time,

influencing numerous buddy cop films such as

Tango and Cash, Bad Boys, and the Rush Hour series.

It's better than all of those. Now, I do have

to... Those aren't bad. I'm not saying those

are bad, but this is better than all of those.

I agree, but I did like Tango and Cash. Not better

than these, but I like that film on its own merits

because that's just... Some that's really wouldn't

normally see this in my opinion though This is

one of the best buddy cat films ever and and

it has been tried and tried and tried again In

the last 20 years to be duplicated without success

Yeah and Critic Richard Rodger Ebert particularly

enjoyed the film, giving it 4 out of 4 stars,

saying director Richard Donner tops himself.

reportedly decided to offer Mel Gibson on the

role of Hamlet after seeing his suicide contemplation

scene in this film. In 2007, Entertainment Weekly

named it number 24 on their list of the greatest

action movies of all time. It scores a 90 % rating

at Rotten Tomatoes. Yeah, I recently not recently

I guess I guess it was a couple months ago. I

made a list of the What was that the best 50

movies of the 80s? and I'm trying to think of

where I put lethal weapon it better be in the

top 10 damn it I'll get it for you in a second

as we go through I'll think of it, but all he's

doing Matt I Did not know that there were alternate

alternative versions of this film An alternate

opening and ending were both filmed and are available

on the Lethal Weapon 4 DVD. The alternate opening

features Martin Riggs drinking alone in a bar

where he is accosted by a couple of hookers who

want his money. Riggs claims all of his is in

the bank and tells the thugs not to fuck with

him. The thugs attack him, but Riggs easily subdues

them. He is then allowed to take a free bottle

of booze from the bar in exchange for never returning.

Director Richard Donner felt the movie should

open with a brighter look at Riggs and film the

scene with Riggs awakening in his trailer to

replace it. The alternate ending features Riggs

and Murtaugh saying goodbye to one another. Murtaugh

tells Riggs he is thinking of retiring, but Riggs

tells him not to. In addition to the theatrical

release of the film, An extended director's cut

version was released later on DVD. The director's

cut version is longer 117 minutes than the original

theatrical release version of 110 minutes and

features additional scenes. One notable extended

scene includes Riggs dispatching a sniper who

had been firing at children in a playground.

Those scenes are on the director's cut of the

movie. They're also on my version of the fourth

movie. My version of Lethal Weapon 4, unless

you might have said this, basically has all the

deleted scenes from all the movies. Let me pull

it out of the set here. Mine has the deleted

scenes from 1, 2, and 3 on the one for Lethal

Weapon 4. I know that seems weird, but that must

be... Yeah, it does. Yep. So you can see that.

I'm assuming that's one of them. I haven't watched

the deleted scenes yet. Yeah, I didn't watch

the deleted scenes. But I'm assuming if you have

the fourth movie, you have this deleted stuff,

these seven minutes that are missing. Yeah. And

for the record, I rated this as the number one

movie of 1987 and the number ninth movie of the

entire decade. At least it made the top ten.

Made the top ten, safely. As far as home video

releases, Lethal Weapon has been released on

VHS and DVD numerous times, along with a singular

Blu -ray release. The first DVD was released

in 1997, featured the theatrical version of the

film. The director's cut was released in 2000.

Since then, numerous sets have been released

that contain all four films in the series featuring

the same DVDs. The theatrical version was also

released on Blu -ray in 2006. Being an early

release, the Blu -ray features are lackluster

audio and video quality and is not recommended

for fans to pick up. I seriously hope... Even

though I have to get a separate cable to actually

view Blu -ray on my fucking computer which I

think is stupid and that's all other rant I'm

not gonna get into I seriously hope if some sort

of anniversary of this is coming up I think the

next anniversary is 2017 I would assume by then

they would put out some sort of Whether they

re -release the DVDs, make two disc editions,

make Blu -ray editions and go back and talk to

all the original cast of all four films or do

something. I'm hoping for something big because

I at one point want to get these all in a singular

box set. Yeah, I mean the one that I have, the

complete series, I don't even know how much I

paid for it. I got it at Best Buy and it's nice

because they're all in one thing but it's pretty

much the same individual DVDs that have been

released out over the years. just put into a

set but it's nice to have them all in one place

overall this first film you get to see how the

two of them even though Riggs and Murtaugh are

pretty much forced together as partners and Riggs

he doesn't care Murtaugh doesn't really you know

he's reluctant but he'll you know he'll go along

with it I guess but it's really great to see

them you know come together as friends and really

learn about each other, like the scene in the

parking garage, what do you carry, what do you

carry? A lot of full timers carry those. Yeah,

it's just so great. You fall in love with both

of these characters basically, not obviously

in an actual love way, but you instantly are

drawn to these two characters and the end of

the first film leaves you wanting a sequel. Oh

yeah, so much more. Yeah, you you're like I want

to see at least one one to ten more movies with

these two Do we have any final thoughts on the

first film here? Anything else you want to talk

about? Freaking fantastic. Yeah, one of my favorite

films of all time. I agree and now the trailer

for lethal weapon 2 Danny Glover No, get ready

for something lethal. I'm surprised you haven't

heard about me You know that I got a bad reputation

and sometimes I just go nuts like now because

the magic Right, man? Yeah, I'm okay. Where were

you, man? You my partner or what? Why didn't

you follow me down? Yeah, why didn't you follow

him down? Shut up! I'm seven floors up! You go

first, I'm really chill for this shit. You go

first, I'll cover you. Good police work, officer.

Come on. No. Back to my place. Hey, I'll even

cook. You're lucky. I have to live with that.

You're not gonna make it. Alright, so, Lethal

Weapon 2... It's a 1989 action comedy film directed

by Richard Donner and starring Mel Gibson, Danny

Glover, Petsy Kinzant, Joe Pesci, Derek O 'Connor,

and Joss Acklin. It is the first sequel to the

1987 film Lethal Weapon, and it is part of the

Lethal Weapon film series. Gibson and Glover

respectively reprise their roles as LAPD officers

Martin Riggs and Roger Murtaugh, who this time

have to protect an irritating federal witness

played by Pesci, while taking on a gang of South

African drug dealers who are hiding behind diplomatic

immunity. When did you first see this one? Right

after I first saw the first one. Like I said

before, basically I did not watch these. Obviously

I wasn't allowed to watch these when I was six

and this one I would have been eight. So I wasn't

allowed to watch them when they came out, nor

was I allowed to watch them for a few years,

but when I was in junior high, I saw the first

one for the first time and immediately got the

second one. I don't know if I rented it or if

they were doing like having them both on TV or

something, but I watched these two basically

like back -to -back days or back -to -back viewings.

Yeah, again, I would have to say that I watched

these somewhere. I watched this one somewhere,

maybe 1992. Yeah, that sounds about right for

me. Somewhere between 92 and 93, 94, somewhere

there. Well, the third one came out in 93. OK,

I probably saw it in 92 then. Oh, yeah. But the

funny thing is, you hear that, the plot description

we just read, you would think this movie is some

type of ridiculous, like... Stupid plot like

stupid like there's no way anyone could take

this movie seriously like are you serious? You're

like these two officers are you know? Protecting

irritating federal witness while taking on a

gang of South African drug dealers like what?

And that's what I love about the lethal films

after the first one they bring you in I mean

like the first one brought you in because it

kind of prefaced it, but the problem with original

films Especially, and this isn't, I'm not really

trying to get off on a tangent here, especially

with superhero films. You have to have an origin

story. With this film series, you had to have

an origin story. You had to have the two of them

meet. You had to look introspectively into both

of their lives with the first film. With this

one, you have the characters established. Go.

Right that that's pretty much all it is Just

funny it's like if you would have just given

someone just the plot and not telling them not

told them It was lethal weapon not told them

It was you know Mel Gibson and Danny Glover or

Joe Pesci involved you would have just read that

like we're gonna have two cops protecting a very

annoying federal witness while taking on a gang

of South African drug dealers you'd be like What

are we is this crocodile Dundee like what? Wow,

but it worked I like crocodile dundee, but I'm

just saying damn it It would have sounded more

like something just weird and obscure like that

Why is it every time I talk to people on this

damn podcast that they bring up movies that I

don't have on the fucking schedule And I have

to add the damn schedule. I'm on that show damn

it All right, but it sounds more like something

just completely off the cuff like something bizarre

like you would have in like this You know like

you know like a crocodile Dundee setting tech

thing you're like what but no it's lethal weapon

It's Mel Gibson hits Danny Glover. It's Joe Pesci

awesomeness ensues. Oh Yes, very much so So getting

into the plot of lethal weapon 2 the story opens

up with LAPD sergeants Martin Riggs and Roger

Murtaugh engaged in a car chase where they read

BMW e24 After it crashes, they move in to arrest

the driver but find he has escaped. Searching

the car, they discover the trunk is full of South

African Krugerrands, gold coins which are illegal

in the U .S. due to sanctions against the South

African apartheid regime. Later that night, Murtaugh

and Trish are attacked tied up to their bed and

gagged at his home by thugs dressed in black

hoods who warn him to cease the investigation

around the Krugerrands. When Marta still doesn't

relent, they later resort to wiring a bomb to

his toilet seat and set it to go off. When he

stands up again, Riggs is able to save his partner

from the precarious predicament. Through the

bathroom, his narrowly suffers for it. This is

one of my favorite Lethal Weapons scenes of all

time. Oh god. And that description doesn't do

it justice. No it doesn't because, and again,

I've said this before, Just for general purposes

getting stuff out of the way I get all the information

from wiki and sometimes people who write articles

or write shit on wiki don't Really write, you

know long on out. I mean that that's pretty much

like the first I'd say 45 minutes to an hour

of the film Yeah, and basically you have Danny

Glover sitting on a toilet with his pants down

around his ankles You know and and realizing

it's a bomb and then you have you know It's part

of the probably one of the best parts of the

scene is that you know he's trying to do this

all kind of like quietly he gets you know Riggs

attention or whoever it is and you know yeah

Riggs and he you know he's like please don't

tell anybody blah blah blah and and of course

Riggs brings in like the full force of everybody

he could possibly call to come in while this

guy's got his pants around his ankles and and

the way they get out of it is basically they

they they suit up with bulletproof vests and

they uh Propelled themselves into the bathtub

which is you know whatever it's made out of which

is gonna somehow protect them I think the I think

the bomb squad guy said it's it's a good old

cast iron tub so it'll protect you but I gotta

bring up something about the scene because it

probably didn't happen when I first watched it

because I remember the first time I watched it

it was either on TV you know like on HBO or something

like that or it was a like a rental or something

like that but when I got it on DVD and watched

it the first time I watched it by myself I was

watching this scene and for the first time in

the explosion you basically have the toilet blow

up they jump in the tub and then you it cuts

to an outside scene in their lawn and the toilet

lands. When I saw that on the DVD all of a sudden

I was like wait a second I swear to God when

that toilet landed I could just see inside the

bowl As gross as this is I'm like, I swear to

god it was covered in you know, what shit? Yeah,

and I got up and went back and I was watching

it seen by like frame frame by frame And and

I swear to god still it looks exactly like I

don't know if they did that on purpose or what

they did But it looks like they're shit in the

bowl when it lands in the yard it doesn't just

land in the yard, it lands on a car oh yeah that's

true, that's true i was like that is so disgusting

well i mean seriously if you've been stuck on

a toilet for you know what is it like almost

a long time stuck there like almost two days

i mean seriously of course you're gonna shit

it just seemed funny that they actually thought

to make it look like that or maybe it was unintentional

but great job by them it was unintentional i

don't know Oh, goodness. That basically, you

know, segues into the next part of the movie,

which is the introduction of our annoying federal

witness Leo Getz. Yeah, here we go. Whatever

Leo wants, Leo Getz. Yeah, no. So basically,

they have been reassigned to protecting federal

witness Leo Getz, played by Joe Pesci, a crooked,

loud -mouthed accountant who, after feeling his

life was in danger, decided to blow the whistle

on his money laundering clients. Mere moments

after arriving at Getz's hotel room, an assassin

posing as a room service enters the room and

tries to kill Getz. Riggs and Murtaugh subsequently

discover Getz has been laundering funds for the

same drug smugglers and he leads them to their

base of operations, a house on stilts. I love

the house on stilts. I love the house on stilts

when it's attached to a truck and... Yeah, well,

yeah, we'll get to that. We'll get to that. I

love the destruction of the house on stilts.

This is basically one of my favorite Joe Pesci

roles, though. Comedic -wise. Obviously, you

know, he has some serious performances that are

pretty kick -ass, too, but this is one of my

favorite comedic Joe Pesci roles ever. Yeah.

I'm just thinking now of all the other crap that

he's played in as far as comedic stuff and the

first thing that comes to mind is two youths.

Gotta add my cousin Vinny to the schedule. Okay,

so Roger's like, no, no, not out the window.

Splash. Boom, splash. So we've got two pool shots

in two films. Exactly. What did you think of

that? Did you expect that? I mean, seriously.

I mean, okay, they're going to go out the window,

but did you expect them to land in a pool? No,

not at all. Not at all. It's just a great introduction

of a new character. You automatically know what

this character's about. You get it. You don't

need any more backstory on him. And now you've

got three characters and you're good to go with

them. So getting back to the house on stilts

here. Riggs recognizes one of the men in the

house as the assassin from the hotel. The assassin

tries to make an escape by stealing a tow truck

parked outside the house. Riggs jumps onto the

back of the tow truck and Marta and Getz chase

after it. Riggs and the suspect later that day.

Riggs and Marta return to the house on stilts

with full backup of detectives and uniformed

officers. Attempting to arrest the gang, Riggs

and Marta are confronted by Arjun Rudd, played

by Joss Ackland, the Minister of Affairs for

the South African Consulate. indignantly invokes

diplomatic immunity on behalf of himself and

his quote -unquote staff and threatens to report

rigs and march on to the state department for

violating south african soil it was a great scene

because it was like the first it was you know

one of those times where rigs had to basically

back down which is so out of his character you

can just tell how much is eating up inside and

it's such a good um way to set up you know him

unleashing his anger later on Oh yeah. Oh yeah.

You know, it's great when Riggs can't do something

or is stopped or is muffled from, you know, expressing

his, you know, his true feelings because you

know it's going to be even bigger and badder

when he finally does. I think it's hilarious

after that scene what Riggs starts to do. Like,

every five minutes in the movie after that scene

you see the The red guy going to different places

boom races there boom. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah When

he's holding the like the the protest sign or

whatever. Oh, yeah Or he's driving, you know

by yep. Yeah, it's just great. No Okay I'm trying

to see if the I don't think it is. Oh, okay,

yeah, they don't go into the... They don't go

into the full scene, but... So Riggs can get

into the consulate office where Rudd shot the

guy that failed him earlier on plastic paper

or plaster or whatever the hell. Looked like

a paint tarp, but anyway. So in order to get

Riggs in there, Murtaugh and Getz go to distract.

the council of cards and uh... uh... guess is

like i want you to convince my friend that it's

not a good thing to go to go back to south africa

and i think that's hilarious how they have self

white south african drug dealers and yet murtaugh

is black Oh god, they basically go back and forth,

back and forth, and he's like, oh sure, I wanna

go back to South Africa, I wanna go back to my

brothers, you know. But sir, you're, yes we know,

he's black. or however as he said it. Oh god,

I can't believe that they put a line like that

in a movie. Oh jeez. Yeah, it was a very, very

comedic scene, which basically the only purpose

it serves for the plot is, you know, them getting

this name. You get Riggs in there. Riggs gets

in there and gets that name of Alba Bardon, you

know. So it's a good way to have a bunch of comedic

stuff to basically only serve one purpose, you

know, very... Minor plot detail at the time,

you know, obviously it'll be bigger later But

you know, that was the whole purpose for that

whole scene Yes, and then Riggs has a romance

with Rudd's secretary Rika Vanden Haas Who strongly

dislikes both her boss and her country's policies?

Riggs invites her to dinner at his trailer and

they end up sleeping together because Riggs is

a poop Yep. Well hell we already saw his butt

in the first film now we get to see it's in this

one. That's true And then, basically, meanwhile,

Rudd has decided to deal with his police problems

once and for all. And he orders Peter Vorstead,

his chief enforcer, who is played by Derek O

'Connor, to begin a campaign of violence against

the LAPD. And this is kind of a crazy set of

scenes, basically, too, where we just see cop

after cop being brutally murdered. Yeah. I don't

know how plausible. OK, you know, I get that.

force that's you know breaking into the the black

out uh... what was his name crap uh... i can't

really but there's another black cop any breaks

into his apartment or whatever he's lifting weight

so i mean that's plausible uh... one with a card

game or something you know the card game saying

that's that's plausible because they're inside

the house and which but but again the cops they

should hear somebody wrong you know If you're

gonna roll around under your house, they should

hear somebody doing that. The one that's not

really plausible to me is the pool one with the

female. That was good. It was good. I'm not saying

it wasn't good, but... Actually, that scene right

there actually shocked me the first time I saw

it. I was like, holy shit! I was like, wow! I

love that scene. Even if it's not plausible,

it's a great scene. Oh yeah. So while guarding

gets, Murtaugh views an old family video and

finally remembers that Alba Vartan is the name

of a South African ship currently at the docks.

We should, not to interrupt you, but we should

get in there because we haven't said it yet and

those that don't know, Murtaugh is a ship lover.

He basically has his own ship and he's big into

ships, so that's why he recognizes it. Is it

this movie? Not as much as I think it's... I'm

trying to think which movie was the nail gun.

That's this one. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He had a boat

and, you know, okay, yeah. So he's a boat aficionado,

so that's why he recognized this name. Yeah,

exactly. So he suddenly realizes that Rudd is

planning to use the ship to smuggle his billions

of drug money. To Cape Town. He is then attacked

by two of Worsted's men, but manages to thwart

them with a nail gun. There we go I love that

nail gun of doom. That was awesome. It's another

great scene It's just another totally unexpected

way that they bring in, you know They the reason

this is better than most buddy Cat films or most

films anything like this is because they don't

just kill people They come up with damn creative

ways to kill people Every time someone dies,

it's like a new shocker, like a new, like, unique

way, and you're just like, holy cow. Yep. Yep.

At the same time, Leo is kidnapped while sitting

unguarded in Marta's car. While in bed with Rico,

Riggs is warned by his barking dog on an impending

attack by Rudd's men into a Eurocopter AS -350s.

Riggs manages to escape after counterattacking

using the machine gun out of one of the attackers.

However, when he returns Rika to her house, he

is knocked out and captured by Vorstead. As Vorstead

prepares to drop the trust up Riggs into the

Los Angeles harbor, he taunts him about the death

of his wife. Vorstead reveals that Riggs, then

a narcotics officer in Long Beach, California,

had been costing the gang too much money. Therefore,

Rudd had ordered Vorstead to run Riggs's car

off the road. but inadvertently killed Mrs. Riggs

instead. Coldly mocking his bad luck with women,

Vorstead drops the now enraged Riggs off the

docks in a straitjacket and leaves him to drown.

Now we gotta go back because we didn't, and this

is one of the reasons why I hate Wiki, but I'm

too much of a lazy geek to write up my own damn

plot synopsises. They didn't even mention, as

far as I know, The scene in the police station

with the straight jacket and the old shoulder

injury. Oh my God, that was a great scene too.

I almost forgot about it. Yeah. Well, the only

reason why I remember it is because of him being

in the water and I should have remembered. It's

a super important plot point too. Oh yeah. Yeah,

but they show him. The whole point of these films,

like when they're in the police station, is they

take bets on or Riggs will put up something about

Murtaugh. I think it's the third film that it's

the condom commercial with Murtaugh's daughter.

There's basically always office hijinks going

on. Yeah, there's always hijinks and everything

else. And, you know, he's sitting there in the

office in the straightjacket and they're all

putting, you know, putting bets down and money

down if he can get out of it or not. And he basically

dislocates his shoulder. Oh my goodness, that's

a horrible scene to watch. Dislocates his shoulder.

He just like twitches out of it, dislocates it.

Well, no, he frickin' slammed his arm against

the wall. No, no, no, wait. No, that's to get

it back into place. I'm talking about when he's

actually getting out of the straight jacket.

He's twisting and turning his shoulder and it

dislocates itself and he gets out within like

five seconds. And then he goes, oh, it's an old

shoulder injury. The only problem about it is

getting it back into place. And he goes up next

to the wall and goes, bam! And you can hear the

crack, but the first you hear is his scream.

Yeah, you're just like, oh my goodness, that

sounds like you know how much that would hurt

gotta hurt So basically, you know, that's a very

important because obviously now when he's yeah

now he's gonna get out of it the same way. Yeah,

he He dislocates his shoulder, but he finds Rika

nearby, drowned. Although Vorstead has already

left, Riggs brutally beats the other two South

Africans to death. Seething with hatred, he calls

Murtagh and announces he is going after Vorstead

and Rudd to avenge the deaths of his wife, Rika,

and the rest of their squad. Now, when I watched

Lethal Weapon 2 the other night, one of the guards

that he killed after he got out of the water,

I had to actually look This is one of those scenes

though where it's just like... When he sees the

dead, you know, his new girl being dead and drowning

in the water or whatever, you just know it's

like they just pissed the wrong person off. It's

like just one of those moments in a film where

you're like, shouldn't have done that. Yeah,

exactly. Murtaugh reminds Riggs that they have

no authority. Riggs simply replies, I'm not a

cop tonight. It's personal. Leaving his own badge

at the station, Murtaugh leaves to help him kill

Vorstet and Rudd. Meeting at Rudd's stilt house,

Murtaugh heads inside to rescue Leo. Meanwhile,

Riggs uses his truck to dislocate the stilts,

causing the house to collapse just as Getz and

Murtaugh escape. After sending Getz back to the

precinct, Murtaugh and Riggs go to the dock where

the Alba Vartan is, moored. They enter the cargo

container that is sitting on the dock to discover

it's filled with millions of Arjun Rudds. and

Peter Vorstead's drug money, but their presence

is discovered, and the cargo container is sealed,

lifted with a crane. An intent for them to suffocate,

however, they use the Mercedes within the container

to bust their way out, causing all the money

to blow out of the container into the Los Angeles

bay. Riggs and Murtaugh rappel down the ropes

and onto the deck of the Alba Vartan, where they

have final conversation with Rudd and Vorstead.

Um, wow. We're just starting with the truck.

I mean, this is just basic badass right here.

I'm gonna hook my truck up to your house And

I'm gonna fucking bring your house down Like

I do that I don't think it was but I wonder if

it was a Ford F -Series. Oh god alright, but

What was Ford's slogan a few years ago Ford built

tough Whatever it was because they showed all

these weird commercials of them pushing and pulling

stuff That's the first thing I thought of when

I saw this like holy crap and and the best line

in this whole scene is like This is uh, oh Riggs.

What's your signal gonna be? You'll know it when

you see it. I'm pretty sure I have a feeling

I will yeah It's just a great scene. That's I

love this house on stilts coming down and then

of course them coming out of the Cargo container

with you know Mercedes or whatever it is and

my question is and I'm not trying to really overanalyze

it because I know it is a film and I and it's

one of my favorite films, but Why do these villains

put their favorite fucking cars in these containers

with their other merchandise that makes no sense

to me? Right There was another movie that's...

What the hell was it? Was it Indy 3? Yeah, Last

Crusade. Yeah, Last Crusade, because they had

a... There was some film, maybe not Last Crusade,

I don't know. There was some film where there

was a carniv... There's been a car in a plane

that drives out of it. Yeah I don't know if there's

been other things, but I know there's been a

plane situation where the guys get in the back

of a car That's in the plane and drive out of

it. Yeah, and there's stuff. Oh, I know I know

what it was. I know what it was. It was um Fucking

oh Jesus. It's with Charlie Sheen. Damn it terminal

more than once terminal velocity. Yeah It's happened

to MacGyver a few times, too. Oh, MacGyver. Don't

ever say that again. What? I'm not saying anything

bad about it. I said everything happens to that

guy. And then you have basically the final confrontation.

Yeah, basically the final confrontation. Eventually,

Vorstead and Riggs engage in brutal hand -to

-hand showdown. Riggs eventually stabs Vorstead

with his own knife and leaves him for dead. However,

Vorstead pulls out a gun. Incident rigs his back

in the nick of time race completes His revenge

by pressing a button and dropping a cargo container

on force dead all right now. That's awesome There's

no question whether he allows him to live or

this isn't like Gary Busey Killed my wife you

asshole click Suddenly, Rudd appears behind Riggs

and shoots him with a Mauser C96. Outraged, Murtaugh

draws his gun and attempts to arrest the diplomat.

Rudd holds up his ID and gloats, diplomatic immunity.

Murtaugh shoots him in the head and replies,

it's just been revoked. Appeasing the general

public or whatever. Yes Yeah As the film closes

running to his partner Murtaugh finds that although

critically wounded Riggs is still alive The two

buddies laugh and joke as the sirens come for

them in the background Some of the notes I've

I've got down here. Oh, man Let's say I'm just

gonna go from beginning to end cuz I take my

taking notes on so Looney Tunes -esque intro

music, that was awesome. You do know what I'm

talking about, right? Yeah, I know what you're

talking about. At the very beginning for the

WB logo, part of it is like a Looney Tunes or

a Mary Melody. I said already, I love how this

one starts out, bam, they're in the middle of

action with a dual car chase. Anybody up for

a swim? Yeah, I got that theme. Continuing to

run throughout the movie. Yep. Toilet bomb, tell

me I'm not fucked. He's fucked. Eenie, meenie,

miney, hey mo! Nya, nya. That's something that

I want to bring up. Mel apparently loves The

Three Stooges. Yeah. And it came out in this

movie, and wow. Yeah, that was just awesome.

I already said this one. Nail gun of doom. Okay,

and then the continuity as far as What we find

out I mean we we kind of found out in the first

one that she got in a car accident But it wasn't

it didn't really give it anything and I like

how this one they give this more continuity So

it's like oh, yeah, they give the characters

more continuity like before Riggs and Murtaugh

even met Riggs was a very good cop doing this

thing along, you know on the drug enforcement

thing or whatever he was a part of LAPD in Long

Beach or whatever but I really enjoyed that.

My favorite two scenes are by far the toilet

scene and the last scene where he says, you know,

it's just been revoked. Those two for this film

stick with me the most. I don't know, for some

strange reason, Nail Gun of Doom, that kind of

gets you. That's pretty good too. I mean that's...

It's full of good moments. Yeah, very, very awesome.

You know, we kind of mentioned music for the

first film. I really didn't. Outside of the Looney

Tunes thing, I didn't really notice a lot of

the music in this one. Yeah. I love Bob Dylan

and so the whole knocking on heaven's door thing.

Yeah. I would know that. But, you know, again,

you have Michael Kamen and also Eric Clapton

involved in this. So, I mean, you have a lot

of David Sanborn was involved in both movies.

So you got some very, you know, good music people

involved. I love this. The movie was, going into

the reception, was third most successful movie

of 1989 in North America, after Batman and Indiana

Jones and the Last Crusade. I don't know. In

my opinion, it is better than Batman. Alright,

but... Better than Batman, but I would not put

it ahead of Crusade. I don't know why. You wouldn't

put it ahead of Crusade, or you would? I would

put... I think I put Indiana Jones slightly ahead

of it. They're both so awesome, but I think I

would put Crusade just a tiny tiny... Just because

Crusade is the best Indiana Jones movie, and

in my opinion, Lethal Weapon 2 is not the best

of the four Lethal Weapon movies. It's awesome,

but I wouldn't put it as the number one lethal

weapon movie. Right, right. So that's the only

reason why I would put Crusade just barely above

it. Yeah. Well, and again, the reception stuff,

it's based on box office stuff. So in, you know,

1989, Batman was the number one film. Oh, yeah.

There's no argument. Anyone who wants to argue

that with me, you can email me, tfguinmikeatgmail

.com. There is no arguing the fact that Batman

was the number one film. of the last year of

the eighties decade in 1989 and there's no arguing

that. Right, but in retrospect, I would put both

movies ahead of Batman. Yeah. Just because of

the newer Batmans that are just way better than

the other ones. Well, yeah, yeah. Earning nearly

150 million domestically and 80 .6 million overseas,

the movie received mostly positive reviews, although

not as many as the original. Generated an 82

% from Rotten Tomatoes. Currently holds 82 %

as I just said Let's see despite being an overtly

anti -apartheid film and being dismissed by the

then South African Council general in Los Angeles

as an awful film Lethal weapon 2 was released

uncut in South Africa and was a box office success

though greeted with amusement Hmm interesting

Let's see Next part's interesting. Yeah, very

interesting. I don't know why that is, but Mel

Gibson, Danny Glover, and Richard Donner have

all stated that this is their favorite film of

the Lethal Weapons series. I can see it in a

way because for them as actors, there probably

wasn't as much pressure on them as there was

on the first one. So the first one for them might

not have been as fun to make because they were

still wanting it to be successful. They didn't

know what the reception was going to be. They

didn't know how people were going to view it.

Whereas after the success of the first one, you

kind of have fun with the second one as actors.

So I can see how maybe that was like their favorite

one because maybe they felt a little less pressure

on it. Yeah. And and that's the whole thing with

with two, you know, Mel. Wanted to take it, you

know, you couldn't have another film with Riggs

being the suicidal person. Yeah, I mean, yeah,

it's still there, but he's as I read in the first.

He's getting better. He's getting better and

he gets better throughout all four films. And,

you know, they wanted to show he wanted to show

his comedic side because I believe I don't remember

where I saw Reddit or heard about it, you know.

He loves The Three Stooges, he loved watching

The Three Stooges, and he loved imitating The

Three Stooges, especially Curly, when he goes,

Eeny, meeny, miny, hey, mo. And he uses the hey,

mo line several times throughout the rest of

the films. And I just think it's a much better

way to go about your characters than just keeping

them the same character. I mean, Roger is pretty

much the same. He's got some growth. But not

as much as rigs, obviously. Not as much as rigs.

And again, they're basically both growing in

opposite ways, too. I mean, rigs is becoming

more stable, whereas Roger is becoming more loose

and more able to let his guard down. Yeah. So

you have them basically both growing in opposite

directions based on each other. They're both

coming more towards the middle. Yeah. Yeah, I'd

agree with that. There have been several home

video releases, as I said before. It's pretty

much the same for all three or all four films

There's been numerous releases, but they can

all be found in box sets now So and there is

deleted scenes obviously for this one. Yeah,

and they're on the lethal for DVD Do you have

any other thoughts you want to do on Just in

my opinion this one this one was maybe one of

the more fun like for me Just like one crazy

scene after another crazy scene, and it was just

kind of more fun than all than the first one

in a way, but I did like the first one better,

but they're both spectacular movies. This one's

still in my top 50 in the decade. Uh -huh, and

now you're gonna hear the trailer for Lethal

Weapon 3. I have a cappuccino. I'm cutting the

red wire, okay? Help! Oh! What? A minute ago

you said, blow up! Nearly a catastrophe, huh?

I'm cutting the wire. See? All done. Roger. Grab

the cat. Grab the cat! Lethal Weapon 3 I want

you to see something, but she has a gift. Watch

this. Hey, you okay, honey? Hey, Riggs, there's

five of them, man. Yeah, I know. My girl. I never

met her with another sergeant before. Hello?

Alright, so now we've approached 1992 with Lethal

Weapon 3, the buddy cop action comedy film directed

by Richard Donner, starring Mel Gibson, Danny

Glover, Joe Pesci, Ray Russo, and Stuart Wilson.

It is a sequel to Lethal Weapon 1 and 2. as part

of the Lethal Weapon film series. The movie is

set in 1992, six years after Riggs and Murtaugh

originally met and the pair are joined by their

companion of three years ago, Leo Getz, as well

as beautiful but aggressive internal affairs

sergeant, Lorna Cole, played by Russo. This time

the villain is an intelligent but ruthless former

LAPD lieutenant, Jack Edward Travis. When did

you first see this one? You know, like I said,

I don't have the dates completely consistent

here, but I know I saw the first three right

in a row. I didn't see any of them in the theater.

I saw them all three in a row, I think as rentals.

So it had to be a little bit after this one.

So I want to say I saw the first one in, you

know, 92 -ish, and I probably saw this one when

it came out, you know, in 93 or something like

that. Yeah. And I mean when I say came out came

out on like a rental version in 93 I I didn't

see this one when it like when it was first out

obviously I didn't see it in theaters, but I

Remembering that my mom was pretty lax in what

she let me watch Because I remember seeing the

first two films and then wanting to go see this

because my mom and at the time her Then boyfriend

and my cousin Heather who had just gotten out

of the hospital over some I think it was a car

accident I'm not sure what what was going on

with Heather, but she had she was in a wheelchair

because I remember because mom always told me

that they went to go see this and I had to sit

in the back of the theater with a wheelchair

access and and I always wanted to see this film

when I was when I was you know that that age

when it came out Obviously I didn't I think I

saw like two or three years later So basically

the plot for this one starts with the happenstance

busting of an armored car robbery leads LAPD

sergeants Martin Riggs and Roger Marta to stumble

upon an internal affairs investigation. A rogue

AWOL cop Jack Travis is stealing weapons from

impound and selling them on the black market.

Riggs and Marta must work with internal affairs

sergeant Lorna Cole. To investigate, this is

complicated when Murtaugh kills a friend of his

son's, Darryl, after being fired at with a fully

automated gun, a Mach 10, acquired through Travis.

In addition, Travis is distributing armor -piercing

bullets, or cop killers, placing the officers

of the force in further peril. Marta must get

over the shock of killing his son's friend and

Riggs and Cole must learn to get along in order

to put a stop to Travis' operation. Isn't there

like trees or Christmas trees or is that the

different one? Where rigs is basically undercover

as they're acting like he's undercover and trying

to buy Drugs from them and then they all sudden

they like pull guns and he There's a shooting

involved. No, that's the first one. That is the

first one. I don't know that was yeah the in

the first film when we first meet rigs he says

well here, why don't you why don't you give me

this for like a hundred and I'll even throw in

a tree for free and So rigs comes out and starts

counting 20 40 and the guy slams it. No, that's

100 ,000 I know but yeah, that's what that is

Yes That opening scene with the armored car chase,

oh god. The opening scenes for these... The opening

scene for the first film was good. Wasn't the

best, it didn't drag you in, but again, as I've

said in this episode of M -Wire, it was that

thing where it was an origin movie. You had set

everything up. Jesus Christ this these scenes

in two three and four they just take you in because

holy crap They get busted down to patrol and

they They catch a guy for jaywalking And they

start going back and forth back and forth and

eventually rages good they they make a joke about

rigged shooting everybody Or every every criminal

that he catches it And that's just hilarious

then all of a sudden um rig sees this armored

car deal going down and they end up on that and

oh jeez and then poor roger he's got deloris

after him deloris is this let's say pleasingly

plump black woman uh who is driving the armored

car And to catch up with the armored car that

Riggs is hanging off of. And eventually Riggs

gets in the armored car, and he moves over the

guy to the passenger seat. And why this strikes

me is odd, but Riggs actually puts his seatbelt

on. And the next thing we know, he's slamming

on the brakes, and the other guy goes head first

through the windshield. And I love the line.

I wrote it down. Where is it? You have the right

to remain unconscious anything you say ain't

gonna be much We've lost you lost me no no I'm

still here. I'm just Something I don't know.

You went unconscious and you ain't gonna say

much. Yeah, pretty much. Basically, you know,

just getting back to the plot a little. Subplot

of the film obviously is Murtaugh's impending

retirement. We kind of mentioned when we were

talking about the first one a little bit. The

film begins eight days before he is to retire.

and basically ends on the intended day of his

retirement. So that's going on in the backdrop

of this whole thing. And Leo Getz, Joe Pesci,

who has gone straight, is now a real estate salesman

and is helping sell Murtaugh's house. He also

provides some assistance in the Travis investigation

since Travis's legitimate cover operation is

an under construction ex -urban housing development.

And as he helps Murtaugh get over killing, Darryl

Riggs airs out his own frustrations over the

impending end of their partnership So this whole

you know the end of their partnership and merch

are retiring is basically a major plot device

in this film Yes, yes more so than it has been

in any of the other. Oh, yeah Yeah, it's um it

puts it all out there Yeah And basically that

kind of goes into something that I know you have

as one of your notes. I know the first film had

a lot of character development because it's introducing

you to all the character development, but it

kind of goes without saying that it's going to

be in the first one. Other than that, this one

probably has the most character development out

of the second, third, and fourth. They spent

a lot of time developing the relationships between

the characters, and you might even say that this

one is I wouldn't necessarily call it the slowest

of the four, but spends more time on dialogue

between the main characters than any of the other

ones. Yeah, and you have probably one of the

more ingenious love scenes I have ever seen in

an actual radar film. Comparing bullet wounds.

Yeah. Rene Russo and Mel Gibson comparing bullet

wounds. And of course, it also has this theme

of another brings in another girl into the relationship

with Mel Gibson, which if you've been a fan of

the film, you have to expect then that something

bad is gonna happen to her, so that kind of adds

to the suspense of this film. Oh yeah. Because

you're expecting something bad to happen to her,

because first we had the wife, then we had the

South African chick, and the second one, and

now you have the cop. But the thing is... She

can take care of herself. She can gas Obviously

and that's one other awesome thing about this

Back in this time here. You didn't have a lot

of instances in movie action movies where I mean

obviously since then we have with Kill Bill and

all these other different movies But this this

to the time, you know, you didn't see a lot of

female kick -ass scenes back in the 80s action

I know this is not early 90s action movie. So

it's kind of a unique thing So ultimately Riggs

and Lorna fall in love and they and Murtaugh

find the link between Daryl's gun and Travis

They get together to bust Travis at his desert

housing development They light the development

on fire, which I'll bring that up in a minute.

I gotta wait on my last note for that. Light

development on fire, and though Cole is wounded,

Riggs ultimately kills Travis using Daryl's gun

and Travis's own cop killer bullets. In the end,

Murtad decides not to retire after all, preserving

his partnership with Riggs. Let's talk about

Riggs's bad habits. Well, first of all, smoking.

And then he's got a dog biscuit problem. At the

end of the film, he has to have a cigarette to

get over his dog biscuit problem. But in the

scene where they're at the desert housing development,

I never understood why. Why he did this. It looks

just like some sort of gasoline pump. Why would

you rip the hose off, put it in your mouth, and

spit it out? And he goes, ah, pooey, Exxon. When

he did that, I laughed so hard earlier today.

Oh, god. Oh, my god. Oh, jeez. and for a little

as much as i really didn't care for leo in any

of these fact the fourth of my kind of the fourth

film i can kind of stomach in a little bit better

because he's is a little bit more funny and but

the two and three i really didn't care for leo

whatsoever joe pescius side i just didn't care

for the character so i love leo i mean i love

all the other characters more but i still love

leo i'll take my car then no you're not yes i

am bang i got a spare in the trunk Bang! How

could you do that? The reason I like Leo is because

it gave, it provided an opportunity for Riggs

and Murtaugh to actually show some camaraderie

and like cohesiveness in picking on and pulling

the pranks on someone else. Because before it

was always either Murtaugh playing off of Riggs

or vice versa. Usually Riggs playing off of Murtaugh.

And this time, you know, introducing this Leo

character got them the opportunity to team up

against somebody else. And I kind of like that.

Oh yeah. Yeah, I completely agree on that one.

Let's see here. For the promotion of the film,

theater lobbies featured a 3D cutout of the movie

poster of Riggs and Murtaugh posing with their

guns, and Leo gets peeking from the background.

On the display, there was a motor which helped

Leo's head bob up and down from behind them.

It currently holds a 59 % approval on Rotten

Tomatoes The reaction the 35 million dollar movie

was a big box office success earning 145 million

Although slightly less from the 150 million domestic

gross of the first sequel it was nevertheless

the second most successful stunner movie or summer

movie sorry of 1992 after Batman returns. Oh,

thank oh Damn it. It didn't be bad man. Damn

it and the fifth most profitable film of the

year as well as the highest grossing in the series

worldwide with 320 million worldwide. Wow. The

movie... I'm surprised at that. You are? Yeah,

I'm very surprised that out of all four of them,

it made the most. What? Worldwide. To me, it's

the worst of the four. I think they're all four

fantastic, but for me, out of the four, this

is the lowest. No, I love this one. I love all

three of them. I love all four of them, but I

think one, two, and four are leagues above this

one. No. In my opinion. No, no, no, no. You're

wrong. Just go with it. No, that's my opinion.

You can't be wrong. You can't be wrong with an

opinion. One's the best, and two is second best,

four is third best, and three is fourth best.

The movie featured songs, It's Probably Me, performed

by Sting, and Runaway Train, performed by Alton

John and Eric Clapton. Home video releases, we've

been over that. There is a video game for this

one, did you know that? Did not know that. Several

versions of a lethal weapon video game were released

in conjunction with this sequel's release appearing

on the SNES Game Boy, Amiga, Atari ST, and Commodore

64 platform. Also released was Lethal Weapon

3 Pinball. I can't believe this was on the Super

Nintendo. I can't believe there was a game for

the Super Nintendo. I should have known that.

Yeah, you should have. See? I like this one for

a lot of the comedy bits. I like the fact that

they added Rene Russo to the mix because each

film they're adding characters, like they added

Leo in the second one, they bring him back in

this one, but yet they add Russo. I like in this

one how they actually did something with Murphy,

the captain, instead of just having him in the

police station at his desk the whole time that

all this shit's going on. I mean, I like the

fact that And that's the whole point of this

one. You have a rogue cop in Jack Travis being

the villain. And you have him able to get access

to all this other stuff. And he's like, when

he goes in to kill the suspect, he's like, hi,

Billy. Bye, Billy. And the desk sergeant or whatever

the hell it was, when he goes out, he goes, do

you find what you're looking for? Nah, it's kind

of a dead issue. And I'm thinking, these are

cops. They should know. Yeah. Oh, god. To me,

I don't know. To me, you know, just kind of my

final thoughts on this one. Well, first of all,

you said the introduction of all the characters.

I do like how they introduced a new character

in each one, although I will say that Renee Russo

was my least favorite of all the main Lethal

Weapon characters. Why? Just because I'm not

a big Renee Russo fan. I think she did fantastic,

and you know, it was good. But I like Chris Rock

and Joe Pesci a little bit better. But I'm just

saying, I can't say anything bad about any of

the four of these films. These are four of my

favorite films of all time. But like I said before,

this is, if I had to rank them in order, this

would be my least favorite out of the four movies.

Nah. This and Four are like one and two for me.

I don't know which is one and which is two, but

Three and Four are the opposite. Huh? One and

Two are by far my favorites. No. I love One and

Two, and then Three and Four are just good because

they're lethal energy films, but not as good

as One and Two. Anyways, next you will hear the

trailer for Lethal Weapon 4 promoting it. Captain

Reeves. Captain Virta. Better reload. Think you

can stay off the streets and out of trouble?

Yeah, absolutely. And take aim. Because your

number is... And finally up today is Lethal Weapon

4, which is a 1998 action comedy film directed

by Richard Donner and starring Mel Gibson, Danny

Glover, Joe Pesci, Rene Russo, Chris Rock, and

Jet Li. It is the third sequel in the Lethal

Weapon series of films. When did you first see

this one? I saw this one in theaters. Did you

really? Yes, I did. I was in high school. and

me and one of my friends were just huge in The

Lethal Weapon after I'd seen them now, you know,

probably about six years, five years before I'd

seen them all on, you know, rental or whatever

and I loved them and we'd watched them multiple

times since then so me and him went and saw this

in high school together and I was definitely

looking forward to it and, you know, at the time

Chris Rock was, you know, one of the most famous

comedians out there, you know. Not up and comer,

but he was kind of the thing right then. And

so we were like, oh, this is kind of an interesting

combination. So we saw this in theater and, you

know, I was not disappointed. I will say, though,

you know, since we're going to be getting the

plot in a second, though, to me, this is the.

And it doesn't really matter in lethal what the

plot doesn't is kind of inconsequential in the

lethal weapon films for the most part, like I

care less what the plot is. This is the most

far out plot out of all four movies. Really?

The second one was. The second one was kind of

far out with the whole South African thing but

this one with the Chinese slave laborers and

being in a dinghy and all this other stuff and

I mean this one, the plot is way out there for

me. It still works and it's good but it's just

like who was thinking of this stuff? Well, you

know. The first one, the first one and the third

one are typical cop stories. You know, the first

one is, you have a typical, you know, you have

this suicide that's not a suicide, it's a drug

deal, you know, you have your bad guys, drug

dealers, whatever. That's like, prototypical

cop action movie. Your third one, similar, they

kind of bring in the whole new thing because

it's a cop thing that's gone bad and you have

the armor piercing bullets and whatnot. Still

kind of a cop movie. The second and the fourth

one, you bring in these like, first one someone

had the idea, let's bring in a bunch of South

Africans and have it like a... Diplomatic community

and stuff which is a clever idea But it's just

kind of out there for a cop movie at the time

and this one bringing in the whole Chinese angle

It just seemed like it was a weird thing at the

time. I mean they all worked and I love them

all It just seems like those two were not your

traditional cop plots. Holy crap What I'm looking

at the at the DVD here And I'm looking at the

little credits that they always put on the back

of DVDs as far as like You know how you have

the credits like on a movie trailer like really

really small lettering and I'm looking at these

you have Alfred Goff and Myles Millar have credits

in this film The guys that started smallville

But the reason why I got the DVD out to look

for it is because on the commentary for this

film there is And it just credits Donner on here,

but on the actual DVD it's like Donner, one other

person, and Jeff Johns of all people. And I'm

assuming it's the famous comic writer Jeff Johns.

So that could be why you have a strange... Yeah,

I mean, I'm not saying they're bad plots. It

just seems strange. And I think that the plot

for this one fits it, because you have... You

have Riggs and Murtaugh. you know, getting into

their usual pre -movie situation, this time with

a guy with a flamethrower playing Van Halen music.

I love that song. I actually downloaded that

song from iTunes just because of this movie.

But, you know, you have them. this one it's something

different than all the other previous films they're

each hiding something from one another the fact

that Danny's gonna be or not Danny Roger is gonna

be a grandfather and Riggs is gonna be a father

right and that was a good thing like I said you

know that's awesome that's a great plot device

it's something we haven't seen as far as their

relationships to go together so you know I agree

with you on that yeah Um... So, getting into

the plot here. Riggs and Murtaugh and Butters,

with some assistance from Leo Getz, who is now

a private detective, investigate a Chinese immigrant

smuggling ring after they come across a vessel

with cargo hold of Chinese slave laborers. In

the course of the events, Roger's boat is sunk,

Murtaugh finds a dinghy alongside with Chinese

family whom he provides shelter for at his house,

claiming to be freeing slaves. I can see Murtaugh's

point. It's just hilarious though. Who sat down

and wrote for this movie and said, I know we're

going to have Chinese slave laborers living at

Murtaugh's house. And then someone else was like,

yes, that's a great idea. But the whole boat

scene, oh Jesus. Oh God. This movie could have

been very bad for... as far as being, you know,

making comments about different races if it wanted

to. Well, alright, that's true, but put that

aside, okay? Put that aside for a second. I absolutely

love the boat scene. Because, again, it goes

back to their character, the two of them, the

character development. Well, I mean, really,

if you want to look at it, the three of them,

but I mean, the two of them, Merton Riggs, it

goes back to their character development because

they're having a talk. Well they send Leo off

to find something to subdue the shark that he

caught with, which... God. Catching a fucking

shark. Oh my God. And then Leo comes back up

and he's like, you did say aft, right? A -F -T.

And that's a fucking word, right? Aft, aft on

the... on the bottom of the boat on the right

side of the back of the boat on the right side.

Why didn't you say that? I hate all you people

coming on, you know, as soon as you get on water,

everything's fucking nautical. Yeah. I just,

I love, I love Pesci in that scene. And this

is what I was saying earlier about Lethal Weapon

3. I didn't care for him in Tour 3. I like Pesci

in this because Pesci also gets character development

and we'll get to that a little bit later. But

Riggs is like, do you want Leo to shoot the shark?

Do you want Leo to shoot? No, I don't want Leo

to shoot the shark. You put a hole in my boat.

And then you have this giant freighter coming

next to them, which actually rams the side of

their boat. I don't know how smart it was for

Murtaugh to get on the radio, though. Yeah, that's

true. because the people in the freighter found

out and again it just goes to show you how good

a shot Riggs is I mean on the water middle of

the night with a searchlight on you and he still

hit those guys plus he took out the searchlight

he's great yeah excellent shot that's just just

hilarious and I love his gun in this movie with

the laser sight oh god that was so fucking hilarious

he ducks down uses the laser sight to find the

guy's ass shoots him in the ass the guy jumps

up and he shoots him twice in the chest and kills

him yeah oh god that's it's just so fucking awesome

just is just is um so let's see here information

about a crime boss named Benny Chen, aka Uncle

Benny, leads them to Chinatown, where they are

introduced to a high -ranking try -and -negotiator

named Wa Sing Ku, played by Jet Li. I think this

is the first film I ever saw Jet Li in. Yeah,

this is the first time I really became aware

of him. Benny forces the three cops out of the

restaurant without providing information on what

his and the other Triads' plans are. Outside,

the cops encounter the captain of the ship and

chase him and another suspect. The other suspect

turns out to be a restaurant waiter and is freed.

Ku later kills the captain for letting the cops

know about their secret plans. The way they exited.

Yeah. Break the mirror. Oh, one thing we're glossing

over here is the department has lost its insurance

carrier. They can't fire Riggs and Marta, so

they're promoting them. And they're like, oh,

lieutenant, but there's no open lieutenant spot,

so the chief is using a special privilege and

he's making you captains. And it's like all this

captain captain my captain bullshit and everything

else that this just hilarious Right. Yeah, that's

a good thing. You know in Riggs's defense he

does I think it was before this whole scene where

they go to the where they go to the the restaurant,

but You know one thing we've kind of glossed

over the other three films is the scenes with

Stephanie what's -her -name the doctor chick?

Yeah, there's always this psychologist that's

trying to get to the bottom of what's... Yeah.

And get Riggs fired basically. Yeah. And, you

know, in this one he comes to her with a problem

that's very serious. And she just thinks because

he's joked around with her in the past before

that it's some sort of ploy to get a rise out

of her. And I just love Riggs's comeback. He's

like Stephanie. I can't go out with you. I'm

in a committed relationship I'm sure you'll find

someone to love you someday not in this department,

but but someday and she's like What is wrong

with all of you? So getting back to the plot

here This is basically where we have Riggs and

Murtaugh hire Leo to follow Benny around, but

after Hong, the father of the Chinese family,

Murtaugh rescued, contacts his uncle, they come

home to find Ku and his men holding Lorna and

Murtaugh's family hostage and that Hong and his

family are taken away. Basically, after a brief

fight, the house is set on fire with everyone

tied up inside. Ping, one of the Hong children,

however, frees them. Having eluded captivity,

Murtaugh and Riggs chase down two of the Triad

members down a freeway, but both men are killed

in collision with a traffic. without giving any

information on the Hong's whereabouts. So it's

always at Murtaugh's house, so. Yeah, that poor

house, man. I mean, that house has been through

every... What had happened in the... I know something...

Oh, the toilet... The toilet blowing up, and

the house on fire, and yeah. No, but there was

a car that ran... Yeah, they ran a car into it

in the first film. And then there's a fight outside

well the fight outside Yeah, but I mean that

that was the whole thing about the car in the

front window At the end of the first movie, then

you have the the toilet in the second one What

was in the third one that happened? I don't remember

anything happening in the third one. Oh Leo was

kept trying to sell it. That's really what happened

Yeah, so it wasn't necessarily destroyed. Yeah

But this time it is. Yeah, pretty much. It pretty

much is, unfortunately. I wrote down, I said,

before we get to them hiring Leo, I put this

on Twitter. I put it line for line because I

love it so much. Leo Getz, private investigator.

This is right before this he and Chris Rock are

going back and forth about cell phones. And he

goes, Leo Getz, private investigator. Yes, Mr.

Getz, I'd like you to investigate my privates.

Yo, what? My privates, you stupid shit. Shut

the fuck up. I love the... As much as I'm not

really a fan of television edits, I love the

edit on this movie because in the edit, when

they edit Riggs's line of stupid shit, they go...

Same line, but they go... He goes, my privates,

you stupid simp. And then the rest of the line

is, you're pretty tough when you're on the telephone,

aren't you? Yeah, that's right, telephone tough

guy. Why am I talking to you on the phone? Get

out of here, Leo. Yeah, some great comedic scenes

with Chris Rock and Joe Pesci going in this movie.

Yeah, like when he was... When Leo was tailing

them at first, oh my god. He's like, Riggs, who's

the perp? Oh! You see a black guy in the back

of a police car, you want anything on a perp?

Look at the suit! Look at the tie! Look at the

badge, bitch! Look at the gun! Oh god. Getting

back to the plot a little bit. Koo and the other

men visit a Chinese base. holding cell being

run by a corrupt Chinese general who is holding

four triad overlords known as the Four Fathers,

one of whom is Ku's brother, and basically demanding

a huge payoff from the triads for their release.

After Riggs and Murtaugh return to Murtaugh's

home, Leo informs them that and butters that

Benny has seen his dentist and using Leo to distract

the dentist, the three cops use nitrous oxide

to extract information from Benny. Riggs inadvertently

reveals that butters is Rhian's husband and the

father of her baby because they had accidentally

exposed themselves to the laughing gas as well.

They misunderstood the information Penny provided

them, which initially leads to some complications

in their investigation. This scene is awesome.

They're all basically got laughing gas Benny

is Uncle Benny's hilarious, and then it just

goes it just gets completely out of control.

I'm sleeping with my wife's two sisters. Oh That's

good. Uncle Benny not so good when my wife find

out Yeah, it's just one thing after another and

it's just hilarious. Yeah That guy oh, what's

his name? Damn it or is it The guy that plays

uncle Benny Kim Kim Chan he is I'm not sure if

he's still alive, but he was an amazing Actor

the next time I saw him after this film was in

1999's Now and again on CBS. It was a series

with Dennis Haysbert and Eric close Only it only

had a short limited run and it's never been released

on DVD unfortunately, but Kim Chan played the

villain of like the first like the the two -part

plot a pilot opener and Just wow was just amazing

So yeah, let's see here Ku brings the Hongs to

the Triads hideout where it is revealed that

the Triads plan to give the corrupt general counterfeit

Chinese money for the forefathers. The collective

artist working on the printing plates is the

elder uncle to Hong and agreed to do the job

in exchange for his family's safe passage to

the United States. Ku kills Hong in order to

secure his uncle's... cooperation. With the printing

plates completed, he and Benny are also killed

for exposing the operation to protect the forgery.

Detective Ning? I thought it was Ang? I don't

know. Who is familiar with Chinese society, corrects

Murtaugh and the other officers on the information

Benny provided earlier and explains why the Triads

torched Murtaugh's home. After Riggs picks up

Heng and Lorna, the officers locate the hideout

and only the dead man and some of the counterfeit

Chinese money inside. Heng once again helps them

piece the entire operation together. At the meeting

between Ku and the corrupt general, Riggs, Murtaugh,

Butters, and other detectives expose the counterfeit

money. As a result, the general kills three of

the four fathers. Koo's henchmen kill the general

and the firefight breaks out between the cops

and the triads and the general's private army

butters his shot in the back while protecting

Marta and Marta kills Koo's brother while aiming

for Koo. In revenge, Koo starts a major fight

with Riggs and Marta. on the pier, Murtaugh is

knocked out after impaling Coo on a piece of

rebar. While Riggs and Coo fall into the water,

when the pier collapses, Riggs struggles with

Coo underwater, shoots him to death with an AK

-47, but a slab of concrete from the pier falls

and impins Riggs underwater, until Murtaugh wakes

up, jumps in, and saves him. Wow. That's a lot

of plot to go through there. I'm sorry, if somebody

stabs you with a pipe or rebar through and through,

you're dead. You're fucking dead. First of all,

you know, that's first of all. Second of all,

firing an AK -47 underwater. Really? Yeah, sure.

Well, let's go underwater. No, I I Love this

movie, but just let me know I'm just doing like

little nitpicking things here about it But I

mean I thought that the guy should have been

dead with the rebar I mean, it's you know, it's

stuck like right through his front and it comes

right out his back. He should be dead Yeah, I

agree with him that I mean Honestly, it's stuff

like that that kind of knocks the fourth movie

down a little bit But then I think the comedic

parts of Joe Pesci and Chris Rock bring it back

up So I can I can get past them. Yeah so after

Hearing nothing about it in the third film rig

rigs visits his dead wife's grave and asks her

for advice about his impending marriage with

Lorna about which He is still doubts. He is interrupted

by the arrival of Leo who tells a story from

his childhood that makes Riggs see the idea of

remarrying in a new light. Riggs's pager goes

off indicating that Lorna is giving birth and

the two rush to the hospital. Riggs and Lorna

are emotionally or ceremonially married by a

rabbi just before their and Rhian's babies are

born. Murtagh accepts Butters as his son -in

-law and Hong's family is granted asylum. Now,

the ending here, oh god. Why does it smell like

pee? I was on my way to the bathroom when she

grabbed me. Leo, find a priest, find somebody.

Here's Rabbi Tuckman, or whatever the hell the

rabbi's name was, I don't even remember. A rabbi.

anything you just said anything and then the

rabbi starts going to do it in Jewish and everything

else and there's like this half -assed thing

of you know rigs to you Lorna to you blah blah

blah blah blah and then Pesci that's over to

this old black guy and takes the urine sample

from it you bastard come back here it took me

an hour to fill that up yeah You gotta do this,

just crush the thing. Oh, fine. You asshole,

get back here. That poor black guy. Oh, man.

And then the end, I just, I love the end, because

you have pretty much everybody there except the

Aang character. You know, the captain comes in

with gift bags, you got pretty much the entire

Myrtaw family, you got Pesci, and you got...

Riggs and Lorna. I think Ping is there too, isn't

there? No, maybe he's not. I don't think Ping

was there. I don't remember. There's pretty much

the whole, like, cast over the four films. And,

you know, they pass the camera on to the doctor

and he goes, he goes, are you all friends? No,

we're family. And the picture snaps and the movie

ends. Right. The only real note that I had for

this one which makes I don't know maybe it was

alcohol I'm not sure but my note was wait a damn

minute in the scene where the bad guys set Roger's

house on fire one of the henchmen drinks from

From either a bottle of water or alcohol and

then sprays it everywhere like it's gasoline.

What the fuck? I was gonna say I'm assuming it

was alcohol because I seriously doubt They would

drink a bottle of gasoline do you think they

make bottles of gasoline but yeah definitely

the biggest cast out of all the movies but getting

into the reaction basically although the film

grossed 130 million domestically it was not considered

a runaway financial success as the previous three

films have been basically it almost cost as much

to make as it grossed which was the kind of a

first for the Lethal Weapon movies. This made

the fourth movie the most expensive entry of

the Lethal Weapon franchise. Its profit margin

was saved in part due to the combined foreign

box office sales, making the film gross approximately

285 million worldwide. Still, like its predecessors,

Lethal Weapon 4 was among the top ten grossing

movies of its release year. You know, critical

reaction to Lethal Weapon 4 was mixed. I agree

with Rotten Tomatoes. It holds a 52 % Rotten

Tomatoes. The third one and the fourth one were

both in the 50s for Rotten Tomatoes, which actually

is a very good teller of what movies are good

and what movies aren't. It's way better than

Roger Ebert or IMDB or IGN or anything like that.

But the fourth and third one both were in the

50%. The second one was an 82, and the first

one was like a 90%. So it agrees with me, the

first two were the best two. James Baradinelli

gave the film three stars out of four writing

given the expectations that constraint lethal

weapon four is probably the best motion picture

that could possibly result from another teaming

of rigs and Murtaugh The series has lost a lot

of seems since the first two entries and all

of the fourth movie ratchets up the energy Level

from the more bound state of the disappointing

lethal weapon three There's no sense of spontaneity

and Roger Ebert gave lethal weapon four two stars

out of four right? Has all the technical skill

of the first three movies in the series but lacks

a secret weapon, which is conviction. See I disagree

with that because this film gives you continuity

of the entire rest of the series. Riggs is still

having trouble as far as settling down, but his

life is settled. He's not suicidal. He has friends

in in Murtagh and his family. I mean that he

even says that in this film I think you know,

it's he's the Murtagh's are his family much like

Pesci is you know, you know a best friend to

him as well So, you know, I I don't care what

anybody says lethal weapon for this, you know

say what you want about The Chinese smuggling

part of it the other aspects with the characters

that we've seen over the last three films It

fits in with the last three films I agree that

it fits in but I also agree with them to the

point where It just seems to be missing that

special something that the first couple had I

think it all fits in. I think all four of them

are great. I really can't say technically that

I don't think anything bad about any of them.

But if we're comparing one film from the other,

to me the first two just had something special

about them. And I think what it is is, I know

you can't do this with movies that are so connected

to each other, but if you were to take each one

and pretend that it was made standalone by itself

without any other ones ever being made, the first

one would have been successful even if nothing

came after it obviously. I think the second one

even could have stood alone a great movie without

it the first or the the last two I don't think

if it was just the third one or if it was just

the fourth one it would have been just your typical

action movie without that special something that

makes the lethal weapon for movies so great and

that's that's to me I think the first two are

more standalone great movies whereas a third

and fourth one you have to have the first two

in order for them to be good Well, yeah. In my

opinion. Well, yeah. And I somewhat agree. But,

I mean, that's the whole point of having a film

franchise. Oh, right. Right, right, right. You

know, I can't look at these films. I can't look

at most films that are in a film series as individual

films. I mean, that's like trying to look at

More Than Meets the Eye parts one, two, and three

as separate non -continuity episodes of Transformers.

See for some reason I like to do that. I like

to compare the different ones and rate them I

do it for Star Wars I do it for back to the future

for Jurassic Park for die -hard for Lord of the

Rings for all of them So Getting into the sequel

here. There has been talk of a fifth Lethal Weapon

film, although both Mel Gibson and Danny Glover

have expressed disinterest. In 2007, moviehole

.net received word from sources that Warner Brothers

are in the early stages of trying to relaunch

the Lethal Weapon series sometime in 2009 or

later. A spec script treatment has been written

by Shane Black, leading to rumors that the sequel

was on fast -track by Warner Bros. with Black

in the director's chair. Actor Columbus Short

said that he was being considered for the role

of Murtaugh's son. Director Richard Donner is

not involved with these plans, but he has his

own ideas for Lethal Weapon 5. According to the

LA Times, Gibson has refused to reprise his role

as Martin Riggs for the fifth time. which Donner

thinks is out of personal loyalty because Donner

is not involved. Joel Silver later confirmed

that Gibson's lack of interest in the project,

we talked about it, but it was something that

Mel didn't want to do now. He explained it doesn't

mean that he doesn't want to do it ever, but

as of right now he just doesn't. On Australian

website, What's Playing, an insider said, they're

talking again. Mel probably needs Joel not to

mention a lethal weapon now more than ever. so

I wouldn't at all be surprised if it comes off

this time. And it could be a good movie that's

a mighty big brand name and it probably would

help Gibson professionally speaking. Me personally,

I think I'm not a fan of remakes if you're going

to use different actors than the original. And

I know that's the whole point of a remake is

to try to update it. I hope to God they don't

remake this. I think that the fourth film ties

everything up nice and neat in a little bow.

And it doesn't leave anything open -ended. You

have Riggs, Lorna, and their kid. You have Rhianne

Butters and their kid. You have Roger and Trish,

and their other two kids that are in college,

Nick and... What the hell is the little girl's

name? Whatever it was. I don't remember. I guess

I agree and disagree with that. I agree because

I think there's too many chances that they would

be done wrong. Yeah. Number two, it cannot be

made without Mel Gibson. There is no lethal weapon

without Mel Gibson. There's no lethal weapon

without either one of them. Well, I know, but

especially Mel Gibson, you cannot replace him.

Yeah, I guess, but the whole point is you have

to have the Mel Gibson and Danny Glover. Oh,

yeah. There's only one. condition that I would

probably buy into a fifth movie and that is as

bad as this sounds it has to obviously it has

to involve Glover and Gibson but it also has

to go back to the roots and Mel Gibson's now

wife would have to die in the movie no Yep, she

would know died you always had you had his first

wife died you had the girlfriend in the second

one You didn't you went away from that in the

third and the fourth one you have to get back

to the roots You have to have something traumatic

happen to one of the family members and to me

the obvious choice is Rene Russo And that's all

you're always saying that because you don't like

Rene Russo No, I like I like Rene Russo in this

movie. I'm not a big fan of hers overall I like

her character in this movie But it has to go

back to having some type of traumatic event happen

to one of the families and I think that's the

most easy choice her diet. They would never do

that. I would love it if they did, because then

you'd have Mel Gibson and his kid and he could

bond with that, but you'd have to go back to

the roots. No. Yup. I would be a fan if that's

what they were going to do. See, I don't think

a fifth one or a remake or anything of that should

be made, just like I don't think a fourth. It's

too fairytale to leave it as everybody's happily

ever after. I hate that. I kind of hate the way

that it tied everything up in a bow and see I

like it because it gives you closure It does

but it's too it's too not real Movies aren't

real dude. I mean come on cartoons aren't real.

That's the whole point The Geekcast Radio Network

and We Week in Review are not responsible for

Kevin Thompson's opinions on this podcast. But

seriously though, if you look, and like I read

off earlier about the themes of the different

movies, if you look at these from one to four,

you have Mel and his Worst, And gradually you

have him getting better and you have both of

them growing, as I've said throughout this entire

episode. And by the fourth film, he's content.

They're still getting to cops. I'm sure they'll

still have adventures. But I forgot how much

time went between the third and the fourth film.

I thought four was made like 95, 96. I forgot

there was six years. between three and four so

you know that's what i'm saying though is that

the overall themes that have been going through

these four are finished they've been completed

so if you're gonna do a remake you have to break

that up somehow you can't keep going to stale

if you keep going with he's even he can't get

more stable than he is right now and it would

you know what it would be so boring to listen

to to have him be a stable cop now which is what

he was becoming at the end of the fourth you

know what i just thought of if they're gonna

remake this i don't want to have their son and

Rhian and Chris's daughter be a married cop couple.

You know, you could have that too, but you have

to have something that throws off the norm. Either

one of the kids has to be, you know, turn bad

or be involved in some type of underhand dealings

where it kind of pits the dad somehow against

their own kid. or you have to have one of the

family members in trouble or die. You have to

have something that breaks it up because otherwise

there's nowhere to go with this. They're all

fine at the end of the fourth one. And that's

why I like it. They're all fine. It leaves the

film series off on a good note. That's what I'm

saying. If it ends there, I'm fine with that.

But if you're going to do a new one, you have

to shake it up. Yeah. And I kind of agree with

that. But see, that's the thing. I don't want

them to do a new one. Just like I don't want

their... Right, right. No, then I'm with you.

I agree with you then. If you don't want it,

you know, it either ends... which is fine, everything

is tied up and good, which I agree with you,

but if you're gonna do one, that's the only way

I'll accept it, is if you shake it up. There

are three film franchises right now that I do

not wanna see a fourth or a fifth film. This,

I don't wanna see of Lethal Weapon 5. Back to

the Future 4, I never wanna see that. And what

was the other one? Beverly Hills Cop 4, never.

Never, never, never. I agree with you on two

of them. I don't want to see another lethal weapon

and I don't want to see another Beverly Hills

cop. I would be fine. I take that back. I don't

want to see another back to the future only because

you couldn't have Michael J. Fox in it. Well,

yeah, but still. If you could, I would be fine.

And it also goes to whatever these act, especially

Gibson. I mean, honestly, seriously, do you think,

with what Gibson's done in the last 10 years,

that he's going to come back to this character?

I seriously doubt it. I think he could, though.

Don't know I think I think it's I think it's

like riding a bike for him This is like this

is one of his this is one of the easiest roles

for him to play because it's so natural for him

He is kind of crazy, and you know so I think

he could snap back into it But I don't know if

you'd be willing to yeah, I don't think you would

either Unless he gets desperate and then it might

not be good. Yeah So I think up next you're gonna

hear some scenes maybe from all four films. There

are so many good comedy bits In these movies,

I'm not sure what I'm going to have Steve put

into these, so we will be back after this. Hey,

what the fuck? Bullshit! Shut up! I'm too old

for this shit. Fucking son of a bitch! You're

doing 65 now! 65? Oh shit! Get your goddamn foot

out the hell or you're killing my goddamn foot!

God damn it, you were right, you know? Yeah,

there wasn't enough room. Crazy motherfucker

who don't give a fuck with fuck -fuck. Son of

a bitch, fuck! Could you please shut the fuck

up? Hey, you guys are supposed to take care of

me! Shut up! Goddamn! I don't give a fuck. They

fucked you at the drive -thru, okay? They fucked

you at the drive -thru! Fuck! Who gets fucked?

Oh, Leo, yes! Okay, sure! I don't give a fuck!

I'm not eating this tuna, okay? Shut up! Fucked.

One man, one vote? One man, one vote. Free South

Africa, you dumb son of a bitch! You dumb son

of a bitch? You'll fuck, fuck you. Brumping asshole!

You son of a bitch. Me and someone don't get

the fuck outta here. That's right. Shit. Oops.

Right. Oops. Shut up, son of a bitch. Thank you,

Leo. Son of a bitch. Shit. Bullshit. Right now

it's fucking asshole. Son of a bitch. You son

of a bitch. Are you stupid motherfuckers or something?

Fucking for a friend of yours named Travis. I

never heard of him. Wrong answer, wrong answer.

Fuck. Fuck off. Fuck you. That's great, thank

you. Well, you know what I say? They fuck you

in the hospital. First they drug you, then they

fuck you. And when they're done fucking you,

along comes the insurance company and fucks you

some more! Ten dollars for a fucking ass for

you! You motherfucker! Holy shit! Fucking, fucking,

pump your fucking ass! Alright, alright, Leo.

Ah, shit. Shit! Fucking shit. God damn. Look

at my suit! Look at my tie. What do I look like,

the fucking Crips accountant? Look at this badge,

bitch. Check out the gun. The license, registration.

Put the gun down, put the gun down. License,

registration, urine sample. Hey, I got a badge

too, okay? Hey, German Jews didn't have it any

easier when we were kids. I'll tell you, I'm

great, you know? Yeah, yeah, yeah. We're gonna

work together. As soon as I open up a cereal

shop, you fucking leprechaun. Hey, I didn't call

you any names, you fuckface. Don't start that,

okay? I'm fooling around, fooling my fucking

ear. I tell you, I didn't do it. License, no,

you're all mine. You're mine. Whatever. We're

not too old for this shit. Yeah, we're not too

old for this shit. I'm not gonna buy a hemorrhoid

cushion. We're not too old for this shit. I'm

not gonna get corns. Yeah, I got corns. I'm not

wearing a suit. What's wrong with wearing a suit?

Shit. Fucking phones, man. They fuck you with

cell phones. That's what it is. They're fucking

you with the cell phones. When you call back,

which they know you're gonna do, they charge

you for that fucking first minute again at that

high rate. If you're lucky enough to be able

to call back because the three -hour battery

you got only lasts for 20... What if you're behind

a fucking hill and it's gone? Oh, you're going

through a damn tunnel or some shit, man? And

they keep making it smaller. You know why they

make them this small? So you can lose them. Somebody

took my number and called Afghanistan. Afghanistan!

I don't know what fucking Afghanistan looked

like. And even if I did, I would not talk to

that Afghan ass for three hours. I won't talk

to my daddy for three hours. They fuck you, they

fuck you, they fuck you with their cell phones.

Hey, you know what happens when you go to a drive

-thru? They get you a... Hold on. Hold on. Why

am I talking? Hold on. Bill Getz, private investigator.

Private investigator? Yeah. Yeah, Mr. Getz, I

was wondering if you would be willing to investigate

my privates. Investigate what? My privates, you

stupid shit. Shut the fuck up. Oh, very funny,

Riggs. You're costing me a lot of money here.

Yeah, at least three bucks. Three dollars to

answer a fucking call. They're fucking me with

their cell phones. Now you're fucking me. You're

pretty tough when you're on the phone, aren't

you, little fella? That's right. Telephone tough

guy. Why am I talking to you on the phone? Get

the fuck out of here. Go home. What happened

to your face? so it's time for our final thoughts

and overall sir what is your vote for the lethal

weapon franchise on a whole not individual movies

the lethal weapon franchise as a whole is probably

my outside of Star Wars is probably my favorite

film franchise of all time and that's saying

something because it's not like one of the I

usually like like these more like fantastical

like sci -fi or fantasy type things like Star

Wars and Lord of the Rings and stuff like that

but but this one I mean I put it ahead of so

many other franchises and I love a lot of these.

I love Die Hard movies, I love Back to the Future

movies, I love the first two Jurassic Park movies,

you know, I love Bond movies, and I love a lot

of different franchise movies, but for some reason,

I just connect with this one so much. I'm a huge

Mel Gibson fan, so other than Star Wars, this

is my favorite film franchise of all time. Yeah,

I agree. I don't know what else Mel and renee

have starred in together outside of ransom but

when i saw them team up again in ransom between

three and four because i think ransom came out

in 95 i was like wow i mean these these two need

to work together i mean these two are are awesome

together in whatever roles that people come up

for them with because And again, ransom is again

probably something I have to add to the MWIRE

schedule, but wow. Just the chemistry between

the two of them is just awesome. So yeah. I think

that's going to do it for us, so thank you for

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