Lethal Weapon 5
Dan_Procter
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There have been rumors for a while now about a possible 5th film. Various storyline range from the death of Murtaugh, to it being passed on to younger actors.
I kind of like the idea of the former, as in expendables 3, Mel Gibson can still fight lol.
With the 80's seemingly having a resurge at the mo, I think it's a great time to have one final film. Any thoughts to this?
I kind of like the idea of the former, as in expendables 3, Mel Gibson can still fight lol.
With the 80's seemingly having a resurge at the mo, I think it's a great time to have one final film. Any thoughts to this?
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I can just hear Murtaugh now. "I'm really too old for this shit..."
But then I also did quite like part four.
I've never been tempted to watch LW4. I didn't mind the addition of Joe Pesci to the second film, and Rene Russo to the third, but when I heard that they'd added Chris Rock and effectively sidelined Russo's character, I decided "ah'm oot".
I can't stand Chris Rock myself and they did go a bit OTT with the comedy but 4 is still a great action movie. One of the last great Hollywood action movies with actual violence and no CGI or shaky cam.
I'm in the minority who preferred 4 to 3 which was too tame for me complete with a bit too much of a preachy anti-gun message and the weakest villain in the franchise. But like you I don't think any of them are actually bad.
Do you have to get the region 1 DVD to get the US version of 4 because I have the
cut version and I've been trying to get it uncut for ages. Ironically, minus a few F words, they showed the uncut one on 5 star last night.
Same goes for Lethal Weapon 2. I have the version where you don't see Mel Gibson kill the two guys after he has found Patsy Kensit dead in the water. I would like to get that too.
The thing is it's pretty pointless looking on Amazon because even if you see a comment where someone is saying the movies are uncut, I still don't know what to get because they lump all the reviews of all the different versions together.
All 4 films in 1080p and fully uncut, including the aforementioned scene you referred to in LW2 and all the swearing and bloody violence. Bliss.
However Hollywood does need to think afresh rather than rely quite so much on playing it safe with franchises.
Creatively I yearn for Hollywood to be a little more daring.