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LETHAL WEAPON 5?!?!
Merrick here...
A password protected industry tracking site called trackingb.com says that Shane Black is at work on a fifth LETHAL WEAPON project. It's currently unclear whether he's developed a full spec script, or has only handed in a treatment.
We are now hearing that Shane Black may have only handed in a detailed treatment to Joel Silver and that they are taking two old scripts and mashing them together to make LETHAL WEAPON 5… Also hearing that Silver is after Columbus Short for a role
...says the article, which you can find HERE.
Trackingb says Gibson and Glover are interested in reprising their roles. No other details are given, except that 1) franchise producer Joel Silver has already been contacted by Black, and 2) the storyline would deal with an about-to-retire Riggs coaxing an already retired Murtaugh out for a "ride off into the sunset" case/adventure.
I love what the LETHAL WEAPON films reprensent in terms of energy and attitude, although I found myself quite tired of the whole shebang by the time #4 rolled around. If this project fleshes out, Silver. & Co. would presumably go after Donner to direct. Let's hope Joel and Dick put the screws to the studio (Warners, I guess) and don't settle for a diluted PG-13 rating. The others were hard 'R'...respect that & leave it there. It's tough enough to imagine more of this shtick, but having the same shtick watered down?
It should be noted that LETHAL 5 rumors have been in the wind for a while now - most visibly in the slipstream of Gibson's...incident...when it was claimed Mel wanted LETHAL 5 as a way to regain his footing.
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And by shit I mean long dead franchises that need to just fade away.
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i'm back
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WHAT HAVE YOU DONE?
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A reboot! Aw hell, no.
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The Israeli mafia kidnaps Riggs and spends two hours torturing him to death in the most horrifying ways possible but Riggs succumbs to his wounds.
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Who will be the bad guy this time! The last one really was enough! What will Joe Pesci says screw him this time.
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Getthafuckouttaheeer
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...if you really are interested in THIS and not MAD MAX, then you are indeed an ass, sir.
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ALWAYS!
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Danny Glover's Dickblood will be pleased. Bring on Predator 3!!!
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If not, leave it alone. Hopefully they'll ditch the over-the-top cutesiness of Part 4.
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I'm just saying
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Or, will Shane Black be directing this? I liked Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang... but Donner leaves me out in the cold. He didn't have the guts to kill Riggs, but maybe Black would. I want to see Riggs die, he was supposed to in 2, 3 & 4, wasn't he?
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"In Lethal Weapon 5, Mel "Sugartits" Gibson tries to convince Danny Glover about which group makes all the trouble in the world. Danny "Kan't Katcha Kab" Glover uses his dickblood to fuel up Mad Max's car, and makes a clean getaway".
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Fuck'n thing SUCKS!!!
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swore off Lethal Weapon. It sounds like someone is a little hard up for some mulla. After raking in record profits from A Long Kiss Goodnight and The Last Boyscout, how could this guy be hard up for cash?
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Any other attempt at reviving the franchise after the last couple of lame episodes would have been preposterous. But Shane Black putting back his spin to the characters he created before the franchise went downhill is on the same ballpark than Rambo IV. Could be a damn fine "back to the roots" sequel. <p> Or it might suck, but watching Kiss Kiss Bang Bang kind of keep doubts away as far as I'm concerned. Shane Black is still the man.
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...then give us another flippin' Mad Max movie already! Hey, if Indy, Rocky, Rambo and McClane can do it...so can Mad Max!
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I'd rather see Clint Eastwood go forward with "Callahan". Where Harry is long retired, but the mob boss who he put in prison in Sudden Impact just got out and makes a decision to send some fresh goons after Harry, who in turn decides to dust of the old .44 and take care of bidness.
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did anyone catch the shout-out that Judd Apatow gave him when he was on "Conan" a few nights ago?
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I am currently holding a cigarette lighter to my arm struggling not to cry out hateful tirades against this soulless cash grab...ohhh I better have Endo take a look at that.
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Rene Russo is killed in the first act and Gibson is back to the crazed, suicidal character of the first movie. Plus, Joe Pesci dies before the movie begins, and Danny Glover dies in the final act. For real. Like a snuff video.
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I celebrate all the Lethal Weapon movies.
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Whats wrong with this movie? It was funny.
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I heard the decline of the "Lethal weapon" series described somewhere a few years back, thusly: "Lethal Weapon" was a really mean-spirited movie with a few comic elements thrown in. Each installment moved gradually toward comedy with fewer mean-spirited moments. (II was still pretty hard in my book, but by 4, it was just another action-comedy).
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You crazy Riggs
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We've already been scolded about those.
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but I still dug it. And it introduced Jet Li to a whole new audience. A 5th one to wrap it all up will be well welcomed by me.
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or better yet STOP REHASHING.
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Aug. 7, 2008, 12:04 p.m. CST
FUCK THIS. Another PG-13 Lethal Weapon? Uhhhh...noooo...
by DANNYGLOVERS_DICKBLOOD
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Unless someone kills Russo, and Riggs slips back into his depression, it's not worth doing. <br><br> And for the love of god, NO CHRIS ROCK.
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What the hell is this about?: <pre>"Protected: BUELLER? 4:42 pm August 6th, 2008 This post is password protected. To view it please enter your password below: Password: Comments: Enter your password to view comments"</pre> Could it be a Ferris Bueller remake? I fucking hope not. Can somebody find out?
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sure hope not. i mean, sean connery wouldnt come out of retirement for indiana jones (which was, in sindsight, a great decision)
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I love all four movies, and I see no reason why this couldn't be as hilarious if everyone comes back for one last hurrah.
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Since Riggs became a father, expect a wise cracking late teens son, or a late teens daughter for a potential hostage situation. And expect a heavy handed eco-friendly message from Donner(isn't he pushing 80?). And Joe Pesci saying "The fuckin this, the fuckin that", or for the PG13 version "The friggin this, the friggin that."
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Fuck combining scripts. Joel Silver needs to fuck off and die in a horrible car accident on PCH. Shane Black needs to fucking write, direct, and have full control of this shit. Make it funny as shit, hard R, have Mr. Glover slobbering and spitting all over himself, half Gibson chained up and beaten. Tell Chris Rock to fuck off. Have Nick Nolte as the villain, a crazy ex con bent on revenge for Riggs locking him up years ago who kidnaps Rene Russo (because I want her onscreen for like 30 seconds) and threatens to cut her fucking head off. Make it tough, bad ass fucking vengeful 80s cop shit. Have a shit load of Joe Pesci who is now a fucking arms dealer that provides the boys with grenades and hand canons and shit. Have Huey Lewis do the score and a shit load of cock, strippers, and titty. This needs rain, neon lights, and Dick Donner needs to stay the fuck away you overrated slob. You didn't direct Goonies, and you fucked up your own franchise with Lethal 4.
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I read it was called 'The Kiss After Lightning" and Sam Jackson was supposed to come back to help Sam/Charlie's daughter? I was expecting some development but nothing happened since announced. And no Shane Black involvement :(
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...should I hit "enter"?...should I hit "enter" and post this shit?...probably not.
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Aug. 7, 2008, 12:14 p.m. CST
Just call it LETHAL WEAPON & THE KINGDOM OF THE CRYSTAL SKULL
by SpyGuy
Because that's how disappointing it will be.
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I gave up on this one at the end of "2" when Gibson took like 10 bullets in the torso. Will "Froggy" cameo?
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I was so fucking excited I said a shitload of COCK, instead of COKE. Hahaha.....quite a difference.
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He went down the LE path with Rambo and Rocky. Took popular characters, put them in increasingy cartoonish situations, and lost the audience. But for the last two films, Rocky Balboa and Rambo, he took the characters back to their roots. Rocky especially hit a home run by stripping away most of the crap and focusing on the lead. I've said for years that I'd watch Riggs and Murtaugh on a fishing trip. They're fun characters to spend time with and have great chemistry. I don't need action that attempts to mimic the latest trends, or new, hip sidekicks taking away screentime from the guys we came to see.
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Though half of you hate her, I still like what Jeanine Garoffolo said in her stand-up, (paraphrased of course) "Any movie with the phrase 'I'm too old for this shit' is pretty much guaranteed to suck to some extent".<p>The first was ok, the second was the best...the third unwatchable and the fourth stupid good fun...a 5th is entirely unnecessary but I'm sure we would all love a Miller-styled new Mad Max movie so balls to Riggs and up with Max fer chrisechex!!!
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I just hope they don't kill off either Riggs or Murtaugh, the whole dying just a day away from retirement thing is a bit naff these days. And it would be nice if Riggs was a leathal weapon again like he used to be. I didn't really like him being old and decrepit in LW4.
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and subsequent nuking?
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Everything except the cock, of course. I would also like to add that the film include Lucas' daughter as the villian's hit-man. Joe Pesci returns to his Wiseguy roots and takes her out with a bat to the head. Miles away, George's goytered neck explodes and eels pop out like in the Temple of Doom. The end.
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After Indy 4 and talk of Indy 5, and Rambo and Rocky and even John OAP McClane, is it any wonder these guys want to get 1 more drop out of 20 year old franchise?
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If he's writing this then it should decent. Lethal 4 blew to be sure. But the characters are still great. All they need is a good script. I think Donner is probably not right for this unfortunately. His last few films just haven't been good enough. I would rather see someone like Verhoeven, The Hughes Brothers or Shane Black himself direct this.
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and have actors from the Film Actors Guild provide the voices.
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Yeah, heaven forbid we come to a movie rumor site to read movie rumors. Thank God we have that very same site to make us feel like assholes for reading their articles.
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coming soon
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The 4 fingered bandit will make an appearance somehow... Him and Mel can have a drinking/driving contest. It'll be kind of sweet, but with shitloads of cock.
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...think about it...an even older, even grumpier wild eyed Vietnam vet. I bet he could chew glass if he needed to. I don't want him for President, but he'd have my vote for this...
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because LW3&4 had none. <p> Shane Black replacing Donner would be a good idea, albeit I still have to dust off my 16 blocks DVD and watch it to judge if he's lost it completely or still have some "stuff in the basement", to quote Robert Balboa.
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No really... 1 was great, second ok that chick had a GREAT rack which always equal bonus points!! 3 Had a couple of elements but tried to much to be funny. But other then that, this really needs to die and be left alone.
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How old will his character be in this one? Mel was supposed to be a Nam vet in the first one--that would make him in his 60's in this movie and Glover was like 15 years older than him. Lethal Rollers more like it. Enough already....
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Riggs is crazy.
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I can honestly say cause I was in 8th grade when Lethal Weapon I came out in 1987, I'M too old for this shit!
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Wrote this with no supervision, he obviously has a passion for the material and feels his treatment and/ or script is great no?
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I dont want to see this. If they are going make this movie, then they should not ask back Chris Rock. IF he becomes Invovled. I am not seeing it.
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Get Mel drunk and toss him the car keys with a loaded gun and set his GPS to lead him into a largely Jewish area. Now that could be entertainment and I'm pretty sure he might be crazy again. :)
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Three words Aint Gonna happen.
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WE WANT MAX! WE WANT MAX! WE WANT MAX! WE WANT MAX! WE WANT MAX! WE WANT MAX! WE WANT MAX! WE WANT MAX! WE WANT MAX! WE WANT MAX! WE WANT MAX! WE WANT MAX! WE WANT MAX! WE WANT MAX! WE WANT MAX! WE WANT MAX! WE WANT MAX! WE WANT MAX! WE WANT MAX! WE WANT MAX! WE WANT MAX! WE WANT MAX! WE WANT MAX! WE WANT MAX! WE WANT MAX! WE WANT MAX!..........................................................................................................................................
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Are there still people willing to put money in the pocket of racist America-hating Danny Glover? I thought his career was deader than Sean 'I love Saddam Hussein' Penn.
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Aug. 7, 2008, 12:43 p.m. CST
This must be the work of the Jews..............................
by crackerfarmboy
Mel Gibson was right!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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tank mel up full of sauce before the press conference and stand back.
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Rumor has it that raging anti-semite,neo-nazi christian hatemonger Mel "Goebbels" Gibson has hired the reanimated corpse of Leni Riefenstahl to film this latest installment of a franchise best left long dead.
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I smell a new catchphrase. Or is it just the Shitload of Cock?
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...an elitist, pretentious, african diplomat with immunity and a false sense of entitlement...oh, and he could be a crack kingpin...and his wife could hate America and she could get into a fight with Rene Russo. And then Mad Max just kills them all.
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since when?
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Aug. 7, 2008, 12:49 p.m. CST
Old Rocky, Old McClane, Old Rambo, Old Indy, now...
by hollywoodsummers
we're getting Old Foley, and then this... Hollywood is just getting OLD! How about starting a few new franchises... oh, well I guess is 15 years we'll get Old Pineapple Express... CAN'T WAIT!!
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It's true I saw it!
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that i refused to see LW4. I still think that the original was one of the best action movies of all time - I remember seeing it in the theater but it seems that most people first saw it on video. This could work if it is kept to the two main characters. The problem with LW and other movie series is that characters keep getting added until the focus is no longer on the main characters. Did we really need Joe Pesci in all of these movies? If this is an R-rated action film and not a dopey PG-13 comedy, I'm there.
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his biggest blunder was meeting Castro. what a dumb thing to do.
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This rumor has to go!!
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if it were up to me id have them both be retired. Murtaugh or Riggs entire family are killed and then with nothing to lose we get the edginess added terrorists like the last one.
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Dannyglovers Dickblood direct. Whynot? The name says it all.
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^edginess back instead of the fucking cosby show with added terrorists like the last one
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that had that young whippersnapper Jet Li go all kung fu on everyones ass? Thats a fellow to keep yer eye on.
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code words for a full load of crap in their adult diapers. They should have Harrison and his earing(very attractive on a 60 year old) make an appearance. He could play the cab driver in NY who speeds right by Danny Glover to pick up a real skinny blond with a sucked-in face. Then Lucas' daughter should show up & beat the living piss out of all of them, so that Shia Lepuss could start getting the herioc roles he has earned.
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and I gotta say, I think a 5th one could work if Shane Black writes it and takes it the Rambo route. Hell, even get Stallone to be the villain. It'd be much more believable to have someone around Riggs and Murtough's age as the villain than someone who's much younger.
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Ooga booga!
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I'd see a Shane Black LW sequel over Joel Silver's kiddie dreck (Fred Claus and Speed Racer). He should chain Shane Black down and have him write R-rated scripts 24/7. Also now that he's got Guy Ritchie back to his roots (hopefully) with Rocknrolla, can Joel Silver please get the Wachowski's to return to R-rated sci-fi/action. After the goofy Speed Racer it's time for the Waschowskis to go back to basics.
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I'd almost rather see a Bay-ified remake than a sequel to this garbage.
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Jesus, fire up the Geritol
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AICN talkback joke, from now on, every movie can benefit from TONS OF COCK
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Cha ching! Cha ching ching!
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SHIT LOAD OF COCK as it were
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If they only dusted the mothballs of the DIE HARD franchise to go PG-13, why wouldn't they do the same thing here? It'll be essentially the same demo, no younger kids today are familiar with LW. It'll be the same exact process all over again.
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Will the chick who played Glover's hot daughter be back? She must not be jailbait anymore.
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I thought AICN was done with the bullshit rumors - so says Moriarty's new non-column "buzzkill" So, like Moriarty says, until it is officially announced by a studio and begins filming and we've seen a trailer, it's a bullshit rumor and is not to be repeated. Do you understand?
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when stallone, arnold, mel, willis and even van damme all die or are too old to throw haymakers/grenades/quips/pistol whips and round house kicks? These old guys are back bringing the thunder because there are no new action heroes, wtf?
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Aug. 7, 2008, 1:11 p.m. CST
Kill off Murtaugh early and replace with Joe Hallenbeck
by Stuntcock Mike
Lethal Boy Scout
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no need to rename the porno version.
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Aug. 7, 2008, 1:12 p.m. CST
Will Riggs do something craaazy in it? He's a loose cannon, tha
by Dingleberry Jones
Let me guess, the bad guys are a cartel of evil drug smugglers, all Jewish, of course.
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Gibson was a puss. Russo was wallpaper. Glover was over-the-top. Rock was pointless. Pesci was tired. Li was out of place. The whole point of the franchise is Martin Riggs- the Lethal Weapon. That's the formula. I am all for character growth, but when you destroy the bad-ass title character, the movie is pointless.
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They should just film that.
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Well, no one told you to kill the Son of God, morons.
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Uncomfirmed rumors are a NO-No on thei movie rumor site, remember?!?
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The original is great, as it is pretty gritty with touches of humor cause Glover/Gibson had great chemistry. LW2 was a pretty good sequel, as Pesci kept the movies from being too serious. LW3 started to get campy, and Glover/Gibson started to be clowns instead of cops, as the series should have ended there. LW4 was bad, as I remember hating the first time I saw it, and Chris Rock was totally out of place in that movie. LW5 will be another Indy IV, NOT NEEDED, the series already jumped the shark!
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MEL MEL MEL MEL MEL !!!!!!
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The Revenge of The Jews vs Terminator vs. Mel Gibson
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for the first time. i skipped over the theatrical release entirely and went Unrated. I thought the last act was up to par with the rest of the series but it really was noticeably tamer, even by my standards- which are pretty low. I don't usually care either way. But round about minute 70 when he puts that guy in a chair and pushes him over the stairs, and then pretends to shoot him over the radio- that was some bad assery right there.
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Gibson'll revisit this series, but won't do Mad Max 4? Goddammit...
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this news was a week ago fuck this shit
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Let's get OJ back!
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Aramaic....that made me fall out of my fucking chair laughing dude..
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Introducing Miley Cyrus as the sidekick.
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will probably be the Jews. And No one things you are funny Brasky.
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Aug. 7, 2008, 1:48 p.m. CST
Has everyone forgotten the main reason why this won't happen?
by togmeister
Which is that Silver and Donner had a massive bust-up and no longer speak. And no way Gibson does a Lethal movie for anyone except Donner.
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Simply because every time I see McCain I think of the bad guy from LW2 for some reason. The only reason LW5 should be made is to finish off the characters for good. LW4 ended with the happy ending bull shit Glover and Gibson should go down fighting at the end of 5 otherwise it's a waste of time.
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I meant it too. Makes you pay more attention when peeps are talking in a dead language.
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enough said
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Serious. The guy is a little koo koo but Apocalypto and Braveheart were incredible action movies. Who doesn't want to see that applied to the Lethal Weapon series? Let Mel direct this bitch.
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What Women Want 2!
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IM TOO OLD FOR THIS SHIT so how are they gonna chuck themselves around again and make it look Liveley!?
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...in which Mel walks around hearing ridiculous Jewish stereotypes thinking things like "Oy vey, I need to get some money so I can buy some more goyim babies to eat."
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torture scene with Gary Busey spouting his patented acronym nonsense.<p>FEAR - False Evidence Appearing Real - It's the darkroom where Satan develops his negatives. FAILING - Finding Another Important Lesson, Inviting Needed Growth SOBER - Son Of a B**ch, Everything's Real!!! ROMANCE - Relying On Magnificent And Necessary Compatible Energy
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I concur with most of the stuff said by everyone above. Great series, but 4 shows signs of sputtering (yawn) and they'd need a compelling story that motivates the characters in a way that brings them back to when we first met them in 87. In fact, someone call Gary Busey. HOw friggin awesome would that be to see JOSHUA again?
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aka THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST part 2
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Thanks go to DANNYGLOVERS_DICKBLOOD!
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Well then, this movie simply must happen.
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Aug. 7, 2008, 2:33 p.m. CST
stop the disgusting racism on these boards...its disgusting
by fassbinder79
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I would be totally fucking stoked for another Lethal Weapon movie and take no shame in admitting the fact that I love all of them.
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and Mel Gibson tells them to fuck off. Not Danny Glover though, because he has no career or money so he could do with this movie. I'd rather see Mel Gibson direct another movie, and also he's starring in a new movie with Robert DeNiro (hopefully the good Robert DeNiro, not the shitty recent one).
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Go spit!
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As much as I enjoyed 1-4, they LITERALLY closed the book at the end of 4. Just leave it alone.
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...for allowing me to continue to inspire generations of children!!
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dang...our talking pig head didn't make the second wave! the films all look badass...where's the story?
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Let me guess, Riggs attacks a bunch of cops who he believes to be working for the great Jewish conspiracy that controls Hollywood. They fight back and when all looks lost, Riggs defeats them by strapping them down and making them watch The Passion of the Christ 100 times in a row while he does an awful 3-Stooges impression. I can't wait!
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Aug. 7, 2008, 2:46 p.m. CST
THIS TALKBACK SINKS INTO LUNACY WHILE THE RELIGIOUS ONE
by BringingSexyBack
remains civil. Go figure.
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"In the fabulous new feature, "Leathal Weapon V: Shitloads of Cock", starring Mel "Sugartits" Gibson and Danny "Big Traitor, No Cab" Glover, Richard Donner wakes up and realizes he hasn't made a decent movie since the first "Leathal Weapon". He then gets really drunk, and hires Lucas' daughter (whom he's seen now that his digital cable company carries the MMA channel) to beat the living piss out of Richard Lester & those Hungarian assholes that ruined the Superman franchise."
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Add Harrison Ford and you call it Indiana Jones and the Lethal Weapon. This shit writes itself!
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Thank you!
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...has a sense of humor...get over it you PC fags...
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Yeah sure-- 16 Blocks, Assassins, Conspiracy Theory, and TImeline are just riveting films. And don't try to pretend that because of the goofiness of my name, I am some brain-dead baboon incapable of intelligent debate. Fuck Richard Donner and fuck you. Two films he is most remembered for should not be credited to him. Yes...Spielberg directed 80% of Goonies, and you could hand a Parrot Shane Black's Lethal Weapon script and he would come back with a bad ass film. Yes, the script is that good. Donner proves how capable he is with the franchise in the hands of a much lesser screenwriter with part 4. A good director can make a bad script work, he is not that director. And before you blow your load and pounce on me waving Superman in my face-- shut the fuck up. First half = Good. Last half = he fucking blows it. <p> Now fuck off and deep-throat barbed wire you filthy filthy whore.
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Ban him please
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Aug. 7, 2008, 3:07 p.m. CST
Banzai Rootskibango -- oh fuck off and die of cancer
by DANNYGLOVERS_DICKBLOOD
Using the word NIGGER is real fucking funny huh? Yeah...great sense of humor. I'm laughing my fucking ass off.
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...if you've got Black's original draft of LW2, please share with the world. Or at least give us a spoiler review. Something. Been trying to track that puppy down for years. As for the prospect of LW5, ordinarily I wouldn't be excited but if Black is back that changes the equation. If Donner is through with Joel Silver, give Black a shot at the director's chair. KISS KISS BANG BANG was one of the best films of 2005 and everyone I've ever recommended it to has loved it.
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With a great Carter Burwell score.
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I don't hate it. I just think people are delusional when they credit Donner as being some master of cinema.
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It's a fucking disaster area
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PG13 for this movie would be a fucking joke, but would allow the studio to release the SUPER, COLOSSAL, NEVER BEFORE SEEN IN THEATERS, SEVEN DISC, UNRATED DIRECTORS CUT VERSION WITH 2 1/2 MINUTES OF UNRELEASED ACTION. Available soon on Blu-ray and DVD.
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I'm not sure this is it but I'd pay $12 to watch Mel read a soup can. How long has in been since he was the lead in anything? "Signs" maybe? Jeebus that was 6 years ago!
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Would love to see them together again. 3 was eh, 4 was pretty bad. I say make another one, I'll probably check it out.
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It's PCism
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Joel Silver needs a hit after Speed Racer!!! Mel needs to avoid this like the plague. He needs to keep doing good work like Passion, Apocalypto, and his new acting project "Edge of Darkness" sounds really good.
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Is an okay director. He's completely without a signature, a defining quality to his work, but when he's at his best he can get the job done (even if the job lacks any traces of an auteur). As for another Lethal Weapon, I'd much rather see another Mad Max. Come on, Mel! Bring back Mad Max! P.S. Mel's a damn good director, he needs to get on the ball and direct more, too.
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I'd love to see this, especially if it's a Mel Gibson / Shane Black / Joel Silver nostalgia fest. Maybe they could show those Die Hard fellows how the fack this shit should be done. LW5 could be the first decent re-imagining of a franchise since... a very long time ago. Get those main players in line and go for it! But tell Rock to go fuck himself and either give Pesci something to do (liked him as an arms dealer! that could work... barely) or fuck him off too. And off Russo - not that I disliked her character, but she had nothing to do in LW4 and she'd give Gibbo's Riggs the perfect reason to go nutso and do the Riggs we know and fear from LW1. And at the end of the movie, he takes his kid and walks off into retirement and a metaphorical sunset.<P> Aw, come on. This COULD be great, y'know. At least Shia ain't in it (yet) and it CAN'T POSSIBLY end up as bad as INDY IV: KINGDOM OF THE CRYSTAL SKULLFUCKERY. Keep Lucas away from it and it'll be sweet, you'll see.
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I mean come on... if we're up to #5, we're pretty much in schlock horror and schlock comedy territory, am I right?
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Fucking make this NOW! We need Shane Black, Tony Scott, Willis, Wayans, and badass all-grown-up Danielle Harris playing a stripper who hates her father - who is again estranged from his wife. MAKE THIS MOVIE!
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DOOM is getting too old for this shit!
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Hey give the guy a break, Donner's directed some Gilligan's Island's that are classic.
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Is it needed? No. Would I go see it? Yes. Riggs and Murtagh are great characters and play so well off of each other. LW4 was way better then I expected it to be. As far as the increasingly comic tone of the series, I have no problem with that. The first one was more serious because it was an introduction of the two characters, they didn't know each other and did not really want to work together, as they got to know each other and became friends, of course it's gonna lighten up. All 4 movies still had good action and good bad guys. LW4 wasn't needed, but it was unexpectedly good, so I will welcome a 5th installment.
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You didn't enjoy CONSPIRACY THEORY and TIMELINE? TIMELINE was something I totally wasn't up for seeing, then saw quite recently on TV - and holy shit, I REALLY enjoyed it! Yes, I do enjoy my so-shit-it's-good movies every now and again, but I did actually like that movie! And CONSPIRACY THEORY was great - Patrick Stewart as a full-on Josef Mengele badass villain, Mel subverting his entire image and film oevre up to that point by effectively playing the victim / damsel-in-distress, being saved by Julia Roberts, and all the popular conspiracy wacko theories being woven in and given props in the script. That movie is one of my ultimate guilty pleasures, it really is, and Mel's performance in it is a revelation. He was really fucking god in it.<P> Back to back CONSPIRACY THEORY with PAYBACK, then round off the night with the first LETHAL WEAPON... that's a great Gibbo night in, right there.<P> Oh, and DGDB? Fuck that haters. There's a lot of racist dumbfucking trolls on this thread... don't dignify them with a response. Do not feed the trolls, fucksticks that they are.
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Hey that was some pretty good stuff. Let's spam this bitch.
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Seriously. All the other sequels sucked immensely.
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Now THAT I would see
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LETHAL WEAPON 2 is a superior film.
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b/c mel got racial and wrecked his box office clout. so we get his emergency green light sequel movie. <p> meh. no thanks. i pass on this movie.
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...is a nigger. Go pick some cotton dude.
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What exactly does this piece of shit have to do to get banned? I'm tired of these sick fucking trolls on here. Ban 'em and ban 'em again when they pop with a new lameass name, and let's talk about movies here, not give in to this racist fucking bullshit. And whoever said it was and funny and we're all just PC, fuck you too asshole. Go somewhere where that's considered funny if you don't like it here. Whether it's sick violent fantasies about women, threats, hatred towards Blacks, Jews, Gays, or anybody, there needs to be a fucking zero tolerance policy. I've never been for censorship, but these talkbacks are becoming a fucking sewer.
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needs to be done unequestionably plz.
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Mori can't be monitoring every talkback every minute of the day ...
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it was called The Hunted and starred Tommy Lee Jones and Benecio del Toro. It concerned a black ops officer who couldnt switch off and just killed everything in his path. A thinking mans Rambo. The Lethal Weapon of the eighties cant be replicatee anymore. closest hollyweird got to it was the Bourne movies. Beyond that meh.
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...the AICN talkback encourages the same sense of censorship that so many other on here complain about? It's called free speech motherfuckers...ever hear of it?
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LOVE all the lethal weapon movies. Every single one of them. 4 Is imho the best yet. Closely followed by 1, 2 and then 3. If it'll be half as good as the second one I'll be more then satisfied. I just want to see GIBSON do action films again and to have him reteam with GLOVER in his best franchise and WITH Shane Black at the script ... Fuck this is going to be great.
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Aug. 7, 2008, 3:38 p.m. CST
doctorfreudstein is right, Palimpsest has to be a-sharin'
by SpencerTrilby
cause that script we're a-needin'
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Sure, just tell us what your ethnic and familial background is and we'll see how much free speech you can take.
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Please, go exercise your "speech" literally, in a crowd. I mean, I'm sure you drop the N-bomb in public, right? Or is it just behing tyhe anonymity of a code name on the internet?? Thought so
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I'd like to see Mad Max 4: Fury Road filmed...with a hard R rating.
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fictional movies from 30 Rock like "Black Cop/White Cop" and Who Dat Ninja".
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Really, do we need this, have we learned nothing from Indy 4. Bend over a prepare to be crystal skull fucked.
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What the fuck are you? Pure White? German Aryan? Please grace us with your racial perfection, you fucking douchebag. Or is your ethnicity just IDIOT? On both sides of your family I imagine.
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Seems like having more than 1 or 2 sequels is a fairly recent development in film, I can't think of any prior to the 80's.
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Censorship of senseless, racist name calling is another. Fuckwad.
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lol noob
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...hispanic. Cuban to be more specific. Thing is...I'm not offended in the least by anything that anybody could say about me. I make fun of dirty fuckin spics myself. I don't leave anybody out. I just think that people get offended so easily...and it's obvious from this talkback. It's so stupid to get offended at shit like that. Everyone on here is having a titty attack because of a word. It's crazy and hilarious at the same time...so easily provoked.
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see you in Banned Jackass Hell. hope your daddy doesn't beat you too hard when he finds out what a little jerk you have been on the TBs. Or does he even know you you sad little troll shit?
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I wish people would get over it... but they won't, so what's the point? It just boggs down the conversation.
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Cause the only thing worse than a rebellion... is a ZOMBIE rebellion! Dun duu dun!
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"It's just been revoked!"<P>**BRING FORTH THE BAN HAMMER**<br>We've got some trolls that need smiting.
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..and I think he makes some fun films. But some people try to say he's some genius with an amazing eye or some shit. No-- he is an okay action director. Honestly Radio Flyer is probably his finest achievement.
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are real fucking funny. We're not in the realm of PC, its just fucking hate.
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1 is a classic. 2 is okay. 3 was good. 4 blew. Hopefully 5 will rock
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...You're right about how "it boggs down the conversation" so on that note, I will try to cut it out.
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A great Donner flick, the re-make sucked balls though.
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was Dick Donner's finest achievement, by far.
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to be named after a reindeer. This much I'm certain of.
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Aug. 7, 2008, 4:01 p.m. CST
as the least PC person on the planet....I say fuck Slave jokes..
by DANNYGLOVERS_DICKBLOOD
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It was hilarious
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That was good shit. Bill Murray in the prime of his comedic ass-holishness.
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Is I think who you mean.
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Was his "white-singing" guy in the otherwise terrible Amazon Women On The Moon. Comic perfection.
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Though I enjoy Greig as well. Peer Gynt especially.
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On a more relevant note, I wouldn't mind a LW5. LW4 was pretty sad at times, but nowhere near as awful as LW3 which was the absolute nadir of the series.
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Don "No Soul" Simmons! Fucking classic!
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The Antichrist or the Last Producer Defending Genre Films
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The whole censorship and PC bullshit. So, WE'RE overreacting by asking for someone to be banned when they come on here and say these fucking execrable things? We're supposed to ignore them and pretend the "niggerkikefag" brigade are just the wacky uncle at Thanksgiving dinner? Fuck that shit. I come here to talk movie geek, not deal with this crap. I'm Italian, by the way. You know, born into the Mafia and all that. So it's not about me being one of the "injured parties", it's just about me being in disbelief that people think it's funny to say this kind of shit in 2008?? I say these fucking babies. Life is too fucking short, sorry.
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Is that asking to much?
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"I say BAN these fucking babies"
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I think you may have just given someone the idea for a new username...
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I think Mel needs to take a page out of Bruno's book and go bald for the next installment. Its more fitting with his beliefs. Also, I would like to take my newborn niece to this, so if you could make it rated G, I would appreciate it.
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...who routinely uses words like "nigger", "spic", "kike" and other similar epithets and defends them as "just being words" who ISN'T a racist. Most trolls here on AICN wouldn't even stoop to those levels.
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I wouldn't be surprised. Sorry.
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I think he'd be a good villian and him and Silver are pretty tight, Cradle 2 the Grave, y'all.
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Shit I can't remember... I remember he got taken out on the second floor of a strip club or something with machine guns..
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because LW 4 left you wanting more.
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I didn't know the name of the character! And glad to know I'm not the only one who appreciated that bit. (Grier is hella' talented and should always be working) Now I'm off to Youtube to see if they have a clip!
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Is the one with Seagal, also Anthony Anderson and Tom Arnold are in it. They have a hilarious bit over the end credits talking about "no-dick porn" that is absolutely hilarious. I don't care what anyone says Tom Arnold is a funny motherfucker.
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In 4 made it worth watching, well, at least that last fight against Riggs and Murtaugh. I will say that South African woman in LW 2 was amazing, she got me through many an lonely Jr. High evening.
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...considering how vapid and dumbed-down it was.
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Hope it happens, with Donner directing of course. I am the BIGGEST Lethal Weapon fan. I was this close to making my user name for this site "Brown Roast-Like Substance".
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I LOVED Lethal Weapon 1 & 2. Three didn't do it for me. I didn't believe that the bad guy was that bad. The Riggs I knew in 1 and 2 could easily take him down. Lethal Weapon 4 was okay...a mild bit better than 3. Shane Black has been gun shy and holding back for years. I'd like to see Lethal Weapon be an all out war and a return of the bad-ass bastard we know Riggs to be from Lethal Weapon 1 and 2. Let's go deep into dark territory...like Dark Knight dark. Last time I saw Danny Glover...he was really looking old. Like, losing muscle mass and everything. I'm in.
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Maybe they'll remember to bring a plot along this time.
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made for one of the better buddy-cop franchises, although, at this point, I'd probably consider another Lethal Weapon movie to be worth, at most, a wait-three-years-for-it-to-be-on-TV viewing.
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JEWS! JEWS JEWS JEWS JEWS JEWS!!! JEWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWSSSSS!!!! JEWS!!! (and also Cape Verdeans!)
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So his character is like 72 now? I mean, I'll be first in line if it happens, but I gotta say this is probably a pipe dream. <br><br> And 4 is great. Especially the 6th or 7th time you watch it and you can finally understand what the hell it's about.
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And the immortal Sergei Blitzen?
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"I have 3 beautiful kids and I love em, they're yours!"<br><br> Until Armageddon, this was the saddest Oscar moment in action movie history.
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How could I forget that quote - my brother and I have been using it at least once a month for the last, what, 15 years ... for unlimited purposes. <p> Diplomatic Immunity!
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Should play Commissioner Gordon in the Dark Knight Returns. Kimbo Slice as the mutant leader. Dakota Fanning as Robin.
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Maybe this will finally be explained in the 5th one.
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pc facist world. One of the fans of Dads Army is Fast Show and Cold feet actor John thompson and he said that Dads Army would not be made today, simply because writers are so afraid of offending somebody. Looking back there is a large swathe of classic comedies such as fawlty Towers which would not even get on air today.
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Must admit he pulled that look off pretty damned well.
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is actually writing the script and not just getting a "Based on the characters of..." credit. He should just direct. LW4 was pretty lame compared to the others. Just no new actors "inheriting" the series please? Old people are still people...and in some cases are better actors and are capable of better chemistry. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang sequel after this.
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Get Stallone to direct this gorefest.
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Lethal Weapon = Bad. Mad Max = Good
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But this one looks appetizing!
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Aug. 7, 2008, 5:42 p.m. CST
24, Die Hard, Lethal Weapon and Beverly Hills Cop Mashup
by Alice Cooper Stalker
Let's get Murtaugh, Riggs, Bauer, Foley and McClain together for a beer and see where it goes from there!
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I know it makes even more sense for Danny Glover to be "too old for this shit," but I'm already too old for anything past LETHAL WEAPON 2.
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Like Rambo 2, except with Riggs, Murtaugh and Chris Rock.
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hang on ! Bring it on, I love these movies.
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Screw all of you haters! America is supposed to be so great and free, and yet as soon as somebody calls our leaders out for something, all of a sudden that person is a traitor or a Communist? Come on, the country is strong enough to withstand a little criticism. True patriots expect the best of the country, and they should be vocal in their disappointment when the country falls short. Go, Danny!
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This one has Short Round!!!
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Aug. 7, 2008, 5:54 p.m. CST
SCREWBINI - DANNY GLOVER IS RIGHT TO CALL OUT THE ANTICHRIST
by BringingSexyBack
George Bush. Satanists rule this country and Fox News watchers are more than happy to support them.
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I forgot.
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Believe in the name. He'll give LW's sendoff the weight and care it deserves. He'll fix everything he rightly didn't like about 3 and 4 (everything). He'll kill Riggs. He'll kick your asses inside-out. Black's involvement is probably the sole catalyst for this movie going into production, just as it can't possibly happen without him. Black at least gives LW5 a fighting chance of being awesome.
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What happened to Sam?
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NO!!
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Okay?
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Wouldn't you like to see Riggs as a cyborg? I would.
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agree it needs to go back to its roots like rocky did. enough of the comedic elements. I have faith in shane black. im less enthused about it. but make a good movie and i'll watch it.
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epic win.
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NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
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Yeah<p> My mind's such a sweet thing<p> I wanna do everything<p> What a beautiful feeling<p> Gibson and Glover<p> Over and over<p>.<p>Gibson and Glover<p>Over and over<p>Gibson and Glover<p>Over and over<p>(guitar solo...)
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Yeah, that sounds like a recipe for success.
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With apologies to Spud McSpud.
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I love these characters and I love those films (even the flawed fourth installment). I'm gonna go watch the original just as soon as I'm done watching the Jets preseason and dreaming of seeing Favre in action for the J-E-T-S jets jets jets! Oh what a glorious 24hrs it has been.
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Holy shit.
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Sick bastard.
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make irreparable damage (unlike Indy 4...even though they were both franchises that ended in ill-conceived weddings). I say get to work on the 5th, try and set the franchise right, and make the 4th one a mere blip on an otherwise pretty good quality graph. (I actually think LW2 is one of those sequels that is better than the original. It never gets mentioned on those lists of second parts better than the first. Am I the only one who thinks that? And, yeah, the 3rd one was weaker, but it still felt like Lethal Weapon to me, it bookended the then-trilogy well and had some good action beats. The 4th was scuppered by a rushed script and production. Remember this was the film that had - or perhaps still has - the quickest turnaround from principle photography to release.)
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although Murtaugh's oldest daughter was quite a hottie and hooking up with Chris Rock's ‘Butters' only lessened her hotness.
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The 2nd one was better than the first and it's always overlooked
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is the best superhero movie of all time, unlike that putrid fucking holocaustish-stain of a movie they call the 'dark knight', everyone who worked on taht movie and all their relations need to be brutally liquidated, i propose interrogation under torture ("what the FUCK were you thinking?!?") and then shooting them in the back of the head befor ethe mass ditches!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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After seeing Black's KKBB I believe the man can do no wrong. And after the awesome treatments Rambo, Rocky and others have gotten this shit might very well work.
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I dont know if you're being serious Prosser about your Opinion on TDK but let me ask you, Who do you think and Honestly answer this who Do you think would make the Best Director for a Batman Movie and What Direction do think the movie should have taken? And Do really think Making the Earth Spin Backwards to reverse time in a superhero movie can still be qualified as the best superhero movie?
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is it just me or has danny glover developed a fucking terrible lisp.every movie ive seen him in over last few years,he cant speak properly anymore.and how the fuck r we supposed to take him seriously in a movie with those bright white holly wood false teeth
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Shane Black has written some damn good movies, Long Kiss Good Night, Monster Squad, (Last Action Hero, I think. Don't hold it against him. God will.) And Kiss, Kiss, Bang, Bang was great and showed me that he's an apt director. Try to direct this one, Mr. Black. Even if its PG-13, if Shane's writin' I'm watchin'. Wait. I made that same mistake with Die Hard. But He shot through HIMSELF to get the bad guy. That was fuckin' boss. We're not too old for this shit!
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only saw 3 because they blew up that building in orlando that i got to see from an adjacent building.
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If love all these movies and as cheesy and repetitive as 4 was, I will welcome 5 with open arms because I love the characters. Now, IF Shane Black is involved, ALL the F'in BETTER!!!! Now, let's get the flock out of here, cuz I'm gonna burn it down!
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Everyone said, "why do a Lethal Weapon 4" and then it was pretty damned good. It introduced the mainstream US audience to Jet Li. Pesci was annoying almost the whole film, and yet had a great redeeming moment at the end. The film kept true to the series without just basically replaying the same material. The Lethal Weapon movies are all fun popcorn flicks. If you're telling me the quality will be as good as 4, and maybe as good as the first two, then I'm down for another.
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I could enjoy it as a standalone action comedy, it was well-made and entertaining in a dumb way, but as a Lethal Weapon film it was terrible. No mullet? Babies? Laughing gas? Adorable little chinese kids? The fucking imbeciles who thought it would be a good idea to morph a hard-boiled action thriller into Friends really screwed up. LW3 wasn't much better. The post-LW2 gauntlet was picked up by The Last Boy Scout with nut-crushing brilliance. If nothing ever comes of LW5, at least we'll always Joe Hallenbeck and Jimmy Dix telling each other to shut the fuck up.
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And it sucked accordingly.
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Aug. 7, 2008, 10:05 p.m. CST
They're better off re-inventing LW with 2 new younger leads
by Wayne6000
An LW5 could actually work as a new re-invigorated action franchise, but they're really much better off re-inventing it with two younger (and of course much cheaper) male leads, a younger director and of course a hard R rated film. Just the combined salaries of Mel and Danny to do it, would probably be in the 30 – 45 mill range. Mel isn't far off from being a billionaire from his Icon films company and The Passion of the Christ film's profits, so doesn't need to really take film acting work anymore.
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like the movie that was made without the stupid opening and joe pesci wasnt on the boat tin the beginning and it ended with a tv show where riggs was a monkey and his new partner was a slick black dude cause rianne married a producer instead of the chris rock character, it was still about chineese immagrants but way better than the changed version we saw in theatres, i hope some of the stuff from tha will be taken as the 2 other scripts mentioned
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But it's no Lethal 2. I love Lethal 2.
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maybe im a lethal weapon nerd but i was dissapointed that he cut his hair in part 4, but now i see that it fits and i'll tell you why, riggs may have clipped his balls a little in the fact that his character is now with girlfriend and not suicidal anymore which i wish he would have stayed, but if you remember the first lethal weapon when murtaugh turned 50 he cut his beard to look and feel younger, i guess you could say that riggs cutting his hair mirrors that. makes me feel better, though i really think the first 2 are the best and since i am a lw nerd i edited out the crap from part 3 and made a fan edit epecially the beginning where mel fucks up with the bomb and other stupid shit that i didn't like.
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Lethal Weapon 3 wasn't PG-13; it was a solid, R-rated action movie. I thought as a run-of-the-mill, R-rated action movie it was pretty decent. But as a "Lethal Weapon" movie, to me, it fell a little too short and the humor was too sitcomish for my tastes. The first two movies were the best. They were basically action dramas with a little bit of humor here and there.... Anyhow, I think with Shane Black writing, and Richard Donner at the helm, "Lethal Weapon 5" could be a great movie.
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my 2nd favorite christmas movie
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He's the main reason that 2, 3 and 4 sucked! I mean really sucked.
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a hip hustling informer
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Seeing that LW 4 started the trend of bringing back real action movies. I mean LW 4/DH 4.0/Rambo/Rocky Balboa/and to a lesser extent Nuke the Fridge have all been better then 90% of all action movies being released these days anyway. Its too bad Arnold Schwarzenegger isn't alive to participate in this comeback renaissance.
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I love the arguments about political correctness/racial sensitivity in talkback about a movie series whose last entry's big running joke was the way an Asian character said "flied lice". <P> Lethal Weapon, probably like Die Hard, is just too tied to the 80s to work in the 2000s. I don't know if it was the cold war political climate or what, but stupid action movies with badass heroes just worked better then. <P> And if they made a Lethal Weapon 5 now, you just know it would have three or four heavily CGIed sequences where cars flipped through the air or helicopters crashed into buses or whatever, and they would be "exciting" I guess, but totally sterile and boring compared to the smaller action sequences in 80s movies that were all done with models or miniatures or stuntmen. Maybe that's what made the eighties movies better. Think about Die Hard 4: there were cars flipping around and everything, but was any of that a thousandth as intense or memorable as Bruce Willis pulling glass out of his foot?
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Loaded Weapon? Thats one of the best spoof movies ever, Samuel Jackson before he was known as Samuel Jackson (but after Raw). <P> "What are you doing here?" <P> "I thought this was the sequel?"
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On SNL many, many years ago when he said, "You think I look good now, wait until you see me in LW6!"
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Die Hard 1 came out in 88, 90, 95, 07 with the last one making the most money. How again is Die Hard "tied" to the 80's?
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and john mcclanes cameo was great
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Aug. 7, 2008, 10:57 p.m. CST
O! NO THIS IS 814 PACIFIC COAST HIGHWAY! 1014 IS TWO BLOCKS OVER
by Series7
Loaded Weapon was funny as shit. I love how the chief of police has a giant photo of dough nuts on his wall.
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You may believe a Lethal Weapon 5 is overkill (the same has been said about Indy J, Rambo, Rocky, etc.) yet, how many of you went to see the umpteenth sequel to Dr. No? I agree that this could be a decent flick with a crazed Gibson, Shane Black, dead Russo, no Pesci, etc. I still love the fuck out of the first LW.
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It could be about two elderly retired police officers who need to solve their last "case", so they find their medicine so they can get it up. Rene Russo stars as Nurse Ratchet with a special guest appearance with Joe Pesci as Manny the Pimp who is both a loveable and a gruff bastard.
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Mel's performance in that first LW is one of my all-time favorites (for an "action" movie or otherwise). The director's cut actually is better with that awesome scene of Gibson walking into the line of fire in a schoolyard and icing some bastard from 70 yards away with his Baretta. Plus the infamous scene of Mel putting the gun in his mouth--pretty serious stuff for a buddy action pic and he knocks it out of the park with a sad and great performance.
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the first for a knowingly dumb and fun movies. one more couldn't hurt...could it?
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Written by Shane fucking Black!!!<p>YES!!! YESSSS!!!! YEEEEEESSSSS!!!!!!
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He actually served a purpose in that film and they all played well off each other. It was fun to watch Gibson and Glover push him around in the third and fourth one, but his character was completely unnecessary in those movies. <p>And LETHAL WEAPON 2 is the best of the series. Hands down. Though I just rewatched LETHAL WEAPON for about the millionth time and I'll be goddamned if that thing isn't a masterpiece.
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I agree that the third is the worst. It was just so uninteresting. I liked the exchanges between Riggs and Murtaugh but it really is bland as hell. And I thought Rene Russo was one of the weakest parts of the film. Her character is just shitty. <p>I also hate Jan De Bont's cinematography. Fucking lens flares all over the place and everything looks too bright. Really ugly. <p>LETHAL WEAPON 4 has a lot of problems, but it's enjoyable as hell (sappy ending and Chris Rock aside) and it's pretty amazing how well it turned out considering the time constraints they were under.
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...with a hooker, wacked on drugs throwing herself off a building and the main character almost shooting his head off in the first ten minutes. It ended with the main characters and a variety of other "stars" all at a hospital where several new babies have been born. Enough said.
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So, if you haven't seen me on these boards in a while, that's why. And its also why I didn't spam this bitch yesterday.
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If Gibson wants to revisit a role, Mad Max should be it. It would make for a more realistic ride off into the sunset.
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Do not confuse 'freedom of speech' with 'freedom to talk like an ignorant cunt'<p>On topic, audiences are getting too old for this shit.
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and yet he still persists? <P>WHY?
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Get rid of Pesci..get rid of Chris Rock. They don't have to be killed off...just keep them out of the story. I think Pesci served a purpose, but it doesn't work anymore. Go for more action and less humor this time around.
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...everything past the first one sucked ass. Danny Glover is a terrible actor.<p> But Shane Black is the shit, I'll give him the benefit of the doubt any day, any hour.
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Congrats man, that's great news.
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What can I say, I'm not a Hong Kong movie guy. And even though he toned down his shit considerably, even then I knew it was fucking retarded that Riggs and Murtaugh lasted more than 5 seconds against him. <p>LW4 also forgot what Riggs was all about. They forgot that he was a karate master, they have him a laser sight for his gun (he's supposed to be one of the 10 best shots in the world), the bad guys put his pregnant wife in the hospital and then taunted him about it. He should have snapped that guy's neck right in the middle of the ER and gone after everyone else. And Murtaugh was comic relief. So if they forgot what the characters are about then leave it alone.</p>
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Trust me. I'm the plant. The treatment is dynamite. Shane Black is king. Shane Black is king. I only said it once.
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I have no problem witht them doing this, but if Shane Black is coming back to actually write the whole thing then he'd better live up to his reputation and make something completely insane, but not like when he writes existential action movies like The Last Action Hero or something, I just want this to be straight-up crazy action movie with huge stunts and mayhem and destruction.
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be divorced from Rene, and not give a fuck about much anymore. He's more compelling that way. As for Rene, she should come to my house.
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That really is a new low. Even for you.
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Arjen Rudd says you're wrong.
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Actually you have a point. Black is a very moralistic guy (and William Goldman did the same thing) in that he doesn't make his bad guys likeable by giving them quippy oneliners. One gets the impression that, were he not a sadistic douchebag, Hans Gruber would be a cool guy to have at parties. You couldn't say that about Pieter Vorstedt or Milo.
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Is shining and golden.
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The soud avricanas in Lethal 2 were some of the most menacing villains ever. "you give a whole new meaning to the word dropcloth MR R", "i was just checking to see if i was standing on plastic" etc within shouting distance of a quip i think its fair to say. If Black is working on 5, then i'm up for more. 3+4 were shite and ruined his characters, if 5 can pull it back, so much the better.
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Gary Busey just shit on your head.
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I think there's more of Jeffrey Boam in the final LW2 than there is of Black, but the South Africans were awesome as all hell, yes. Possibly my all-time favourite movie villains.
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While very funny, it probably happens more times than not.
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Thanks for the clarification. LMAO..
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My god why did they bring his bullshit fantasy performance martial arts crap into this series? The fight at the end of the first film was GREAT. No dodging bullets, taking pipes through the chest, or any of that fucking lame ass shit. Just two guys fighting until they were fucking exhausted and nearly done. Li completely ruined any potential part 4 had. I have no hopes for part 5...
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Aug. 8, 2008, 11:18 a.m. CST
My name is not important but you may call me 'Mr. Joshua'!
by darthvedder81
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C'mon now. Who here wouldn't have taken some of that money in LW2 and followed Riggs' advice--use it for the kids' tuition or something? Murtaugh, ever the noble, says "It's blood money." After Riggs says, "So do something good with it," Murtaugh appears to think it over, clutching a wad of bills. But that's when the bad guys on the Alba Varten open fire. I might have stuffed a couple rolls of bills in my pocket. Shit--those bad dudes KILLED all their cop friends and blew up half of Murtaugh's house (the toilet bomb)
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You know that's what Michael Bay thought when that female cop blew up on the diving board in LW2
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is soo good that i start to roll my eyes around and slack jawed in nausea when bruce willis is onscreen because of how much of ao shithead he looks in comparison. John McClane should have been played by Steven Seagal and then that movie would be infinitely better.
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I'd be more excited for Kiss Kiss Kiss Bang Bang Bang.
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would automatically make this movie watchable...except for the fact that he kind of fell off of a skyscraper. Also no Mel no fucking movie bitches. Fuck Murtaugh.
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I'll see it automatically. Kiss, Kiss, Bang, Bang is so, so underrated.
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... has the same problem as most franchises. The serious nature of the original gets lost in the humor of the sequels. Lethal Weapon was terrific. The rest are easily forgotten. Can they go "back to the roots" of a story that is old enough for Riggs' kids to be in college?
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the villain in Kiss Kiss Bang Bang but I still love the hell out of the movie.
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LAST BOY SCOUT 2 ELECTRIC BOOGALOO - with remixes by Huey Lewis! "Friday night's a great night to boogaloo..."<P> ANYTHING by Shane Black would be awesome at this point. I even enjoyed THE LONG KISS GOODNIGHT: I think Geena Davis was miscast (imagine a Charlize Theron or an Angelina Jolie type in that role!) but the movie was solid and the dialogue, as ever, was awesome. Shane Black can do no wrong with the Spud.
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star wars type movie, that would be awesome. and had some good pints about why the prequels werent to good. he also once said if the bad guys have a girl kidnapped it wouldnt be realistic unless they rape her, something like that. the guy's a genius.
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nuff said
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I've always been under the impression that Murtaugh DID take the money. As you said he seemed to be thinking about it just before the baddies locked them in. What would I do in that situation? Stuff the money in my pocket. Probably as a reflex. Get home after Riggs has gone to the hospital, put my hand in my pocket and-- oh shit. Look around. Fuck, who's it gonna hurt? <p>And that's how Sgt. Murtaugh put his kids through college. The end. <p>He also kept the krugerrand that one of the cops gave to Riggs. He put it in his desk. I bet he forgot it was in there.
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at least that's straightened out...
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