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Do I need, what do I need for wiki wise?
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I don't know because we're not right in the movie.
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We're just, you know, going over hopes and dreams.
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All the things we love in. Need and all the things that we
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hate about it. Things that really stick out
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after 5 weeks. I only remember brandishing the
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pistol for jaywalkers. Forcing a woman on a date with
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you to your stuff by the ocean entirely.
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Secluded. It's brutal because there are so
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many great things about this, but the really poorly aged stuff
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really sticks in you like a splinter.
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It's just like it's all you think about.
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Yeah, I was going for worst and best.
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I think best, like sentimental wise, he finds what's your face,
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Lorna? Lorna, I think I was going to
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say Lorna, but I was like, that's like SNL guy.
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I think that is kind of the core of his, like he finds someone
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that is interesting and matches him and works.
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So like the conflict of the last movie, sure it's there, but hey,
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he's already found somebody. Like she's OK.
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If they're not getting married for 2026, I'm pretty sure they'd
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be fine not being married. Wouldn't even come up as a plot
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point. Hello and welcome to Potato Chip
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Pictures, the Movie franchise review podcast.
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And my name is B Sammy Davis. Hello again, I'm Justin.
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And today, today it is the wrap up of the four movie franchise
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from 1987 to 1998, Lethal Weapon.
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I mean, really the only two names that at least on the
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production side that you can tie to the entire franchise are
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Richard Donner and Joel Silver. And then of course, you've got
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the actors who are there from pretty much the beginning.
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But we do get new ones added to every one of them.
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But Justin, tell me the totals in terms of budgets and returns?
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Oh, we'd said that every single episode.
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Why do our listeners need to remember it?
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No, I am. Sure they have not been taking
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notes. They they never take notes.
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I've been testing them and none of them have taken notes.
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Over half of the budget of these movies came from the 4th 1 which
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was only six years after the third one.
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Like the other ones are close together, but it does feel like
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AI don't know they spent so much and that one didn't really net
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him all of it. But overall almost a billion
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dollars 955,000,000 came back out of 230 million spent.
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I don't know. We should have.
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We should compare across all of the series at some point and say
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this one cost the least and got the most, and that's a
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capitalism win, I guess. I don't know.
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That would be a an interesting thing and maybe one day I will
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put together one more metric to look at that.
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But I'm going to talk about the tower.
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That's that's what I call that particular tab.
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So just to kind of reiterate, Justin's rating for all four
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movies, this is the average of all of your ratings.
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It ended up being a 5.75. Mine across all four movies was
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half a point higher. I was at a 6.25.
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I was curious, I went through, we go back and forth.
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There are some that I like more than you there.
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There are two of them, and I don't remember the exact 2, but
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oh, I think it was Conan and Austin Powers where we ended
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with the exact same franchise average.
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But yeah, then there's some that you like more than me.
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And so I'm sitting here like, so far there's nothing that we
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could point to to be like, clearly Sammy is the friendly
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one to these franchises, or Justin tends to like them more.
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But in this case, by half a point.
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I liked it more than you. But because it's only half a
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point, that put the show average at a six out of 10.
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And in our tower of franchises, that puts Lethal Weapon in
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second place right behind. Well, not right behind, but
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behind A Quiet Place. It's a wild.
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I feel like it's, you know, smaller sample size with a big
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heaping of nostalgia. I do think I like these movies
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more before I modestly critically looked at them.
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Oh yeah, If we had reviewed these, well, let's be frank, 20
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years ago, I think Lethal Weapon would be solidly at the top of
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the tower. It's age.
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It's age that killed this franchise.
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Yeah. And then, you know, third place
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is now Chucky, which is kind of shocking that a, well, I guess a
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quiet, well, a quiet place is a thriller franchise.
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It's shocking that a horror franchise is in the top three,
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you know? I just don't love Austin Powers.
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Like I feel like there was bits here and there, but man, I think
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if you live and watch them and had the entire, I don't know,
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grade level you're in watching it too, I can understand like
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that's. Yeah, today I still think the
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second movie is the best in the Austin Powers franchise by a
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large margin. I think the second movie really
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is a quality piece of art that holds up at this point, whereas
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the 1st and the 3rd, I don't like them.
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I just don't like them anymore. They're just not funny.
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But those ones are above Conan and Underworld because Conan.
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I mean, let's be honest, it wasn't that good.
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Like it. It had moments that were fun,
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but overall they're not very good movies.
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And in Underworld, oh man, did Underworld make me angry.
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I, I, we'll see what sort of lore we come up against in other
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movies like Toy Story. Like, yeah, I do think in Lethal
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Weapon, the little details I'm trying to think, oh, like the
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housing projects at Murtaugh's house always kind of work as a
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he's got a house and he's got a family and always updating
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something, I guess. I do like that.
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I do like that for every single movie except maybe the 4th,
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there was always a project happening.
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They were always working on something in the house.
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Although in the third one, I don't think they actually had a
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project. I think they were trying to sell
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it. So the project there was getting
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rid of the house. You know.
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But then the 4th 1, it just gets destroyed.
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This this thing that we've been working on for a whole
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franchise. From the ground up.
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Yeah, it's it's a very clever touch.
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There are such brilliant small pieces in this franchise that
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really do make the world feel alive and feel like something
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that you know, that is the real world.
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I know it's based on LA, but in my head, the way I look at
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fictional movies is that this is an alternate dimension and we're
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just stepping into that movie world.
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This is the first time where I'm going to be like, I don't know,
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man, Lethal Weapon was our world and it was lived in like our
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world. Yeah, I think it's the first
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movie really had nice kind of LA population feel where there's
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just so many cars and there's stuff happening on the radio
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that make Riggs and Murtaugh aren't heading to, they're
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heading to something else. Because I don't know how many
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million people live there, but there was still plenty back
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then. Yeah, I just realized there's
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probably someone out there who's like, how am I supposed to put
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together this tower when you just, like, throw things out
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there? And I also never even mentioned
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Double O 7, the current ranking rankings.
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And I will probably put this in the show notes, not the notes,
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but the, the description for the episode right now at #1 It's a
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Quiet place #2 Lethal weapon #3 Chucky #4IS Double O 7 #5 Austin
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Powers number six, Conan #7 Underworld.
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So that that for you who don't doesn't want to read the
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description, that's where we stand with franchises at this
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point. So yeah, let's let's get into
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the nitty gritty of Lethal Weapon.
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And I've got, I've got to bring it up immediately.
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The thing that I always remembered over the past 20
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something years, since the last time I watched it, was that
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Riggs is crazy. He's really only crazy for one
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movie. Then he calms down.
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He finds a family. Yeah, he's totally better after
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that. And frankly, by the end of the
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first movie he's like, Nope, was never suicidal anyway.
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Do you know my secret? I'm always mad.
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Yeah, oh man, one day, one day we'll have to probably undertake
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that beast. One year, maybe once a month, we
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do that. Yeah.
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I was going to say like I think that one is so massive that we
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would have to split it up by phases, otherwise we would be
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doing like 2 years of. That project, yeah, well, where
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do we start? I feel like we kind of have
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jumped in to the tower. I don't know if we move on to
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wrapping up all of this. We gave number.
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Details with wrapping up all of this.
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We've done that well, not like the whole episode, but I'm fine
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with diving into the the nitty gritty, the pattern that I think
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we fell into what like we weren't as good about talking
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about this movie or in any of these movies in a linear
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fashion. We kind of zeroed in on
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characters and just kind of talked about them and their
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impact. And I kind of want to do that
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again for the wrap up. We've briefly talked about Riggs
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and how not crazy he was. So if there's anything else that
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stands out to you about Riggs, you mentioned his arc and how it
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really kind of felt complete to you by the third movie.
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I I don't think it felt complete until the froggy speech, which
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still chokes me up. It still gets me, man.
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Like oh and I'm going to mention it again but to me I feel like
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his story really does travel and develop all the way to the 4th
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movie. Like I I feel like I need the
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4th movie to finish Riggs character.
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I'll say technically you're right, because the second movie
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kind of shoehorns in, actually, like Spectre.
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It was me all along. We meant to kill you, but we
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killed your wife, so that's another reason to hate us.
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So with the exception of that red herring being like, he
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already lost his wife, we don't really need to know why she's
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just dead. But I guess they tried to tie it
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into him feeling super bad about it.
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But I, I guess kind of it ties in.
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But I don't think it needed to be quite so nefarious and
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directly attached to the second group of people.
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Yeah, that I think that's one of the weakest parts of that
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particular movie, which I still liked a lot.
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That was my second favorite of the four movies.
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But that, that's the part that kind of sticks out as the big
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stinker from the movie when they're just like, and this
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whole time I was joke, Joe, chill.
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It makes me think of the 1989 Batman where we find out Joker
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was the one who killed your parents.
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And yeah. Trailer.
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I didn't know that. I know, crazy, but it it's one
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of those things where it just kind of felt like it was a bit
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unnecessary. We don't.
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We don't need to have the villains tied together to
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everything. It could still be something, but
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yeah, the villains didn't really need that extra step up of
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evilness. That's really what it was.
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Was like if if us being Nazis wasn't enough, we also killed
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your wife. Yep, I can vaguely recall your
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complaint about the refrigerated woman, but I know that kind of
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brought down your score. It's part of his arc, so it's
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kind of like OK. But I think yes, overall, start
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to finish, he finds someone to love again.
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And you know what? This series is mostly interested
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in familial love and making a family.
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And it's like, OK, you got, you have the entire arc and we get
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to the end of a comedy and someone gets married.
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It's a different type of redemption story.
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A lot of a lot of movies will try to have their redemption
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arc. I think about, well, Iron Man,
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that's one of my of all the MCU movies, that's one of my
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favorite redemption arcs because you've got the party Playboy,
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Tony Stark. He gets a taste of reality and
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he has to spend the rest of the movie essentially making amends
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with a lot of action and a lot of cool stuff.
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But he doesn't want to be an arms dealer anymore.
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He wants to be someone who stops all wars.
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And in this one it's a different type of redemption because
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Riggs. He's barely responsible for his
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wife being killed. Like the fact that he's a cop is
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the reason she got murdered, but he's a good guy.
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He's not doing evil things until the 3rd movie when he's
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threatening to kill a jaywalker. Yeah.
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But you know, his redemption arc doesn't necessarily mean that he
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did something wrong. It's more that he can't get over
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his wife being dead. So that whole family that, that
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discovery that you can move on. It's a different type of
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redemption, but it's so satisfying to me.
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But yeah, sorry, I I, I brought up the waving of the gun and
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that was. Yeah, it's it.
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I think the basic excuse is that if we try to portray humans in a
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film, you're going to end up with humans that are racist at
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times and and otherwise. So it feels like overall, yes,
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we get a a movie of someone that can change from threatening
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jaywalkers to keeping mum about immigrants that have been sold
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into slavery hanging out at the guy's house.
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I'm grateful at the end of the movie that the chief was like,
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here, let me wrap it up with the bow.
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INS decided to give him asylum. And it's like, oh, how gracious
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of INS we don't. Really need it, But at the same
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time, here's your happy ending. You're like, yeah.
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So there's there's just so much that is not great in several
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places, but yes. That's part of the charm is that
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he's he is human. You mentioned it and I agree
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with it. He's unlike so many of our other
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characters who attempt to be human in these franchises.
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A lot of them fall on their face.
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I think about our number one franchise, A Quiet Place and
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that first movie where the dad, I just can't get over the fact
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that he is all about traditional gender roles and his more than
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capable daughter cannot go with him.
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Like it's got to be the boy who wants to stay at home.
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Not allowed. Yeah, like that's one of his
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human failings. But I it didn't vibe with me,
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whereas this one, it, it really did impact me to the detriment
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of the score. But at the same time, it's
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partially realistic. I can't imagine a cop just
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waving his gun around. It fits 1985 to 1995 that is.
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Boy, that doesn't. I feel like it was committed to
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film because it was just easy enough to say, yeah, that's
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we're going to make this show. And when cops do this to
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jaywalkers, it's funny, haha. If if a cop went rogue, he would
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still have the law on his side. It's like I feel like no.
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Not anymore. It's like, I'd appreciate not to
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have the law back up vigilantism.
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Like I thought we were on the same side about Batman.
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Like, you know? Yeah, yeah, for real.
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But and then one last. This isn't really about Riggs.
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This is more about Mel Gibson because you know, I was talking
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to a Co worker about this franchise and he was like,
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that's that's the one with Mel Gibson, right?
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Like that guy went crazy. And I realize I don't like I
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remember when he had his fall from grace.
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There's a reason why we don't see a lot of Mel Gibson anymore,
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not just because he's older, but he had a pretty public falling
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out. I think.
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I think he had some pretty big racism.
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But if I. Recall vaguely, yeah, I think
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something like that. Yeah, 'cause it was Hasselhoff
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who who got drunk and ate the hamburger off the ground, but it
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was around the same time that Gibson also got drunk and
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started throwing out a bunch of slurs.
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But regardless, at the time he was a perfect casting.
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And today, I mean, there's I just don't care about celebrity
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culture enough for it to really taint my view.
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I there are this is going to sound terrible.
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I don't remember the guy's name, but he lost his job as the
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president in some Netflix show because of rape allegations.
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I can't remember that. Idea.
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There's there's someone who's screaming into their their
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headphones like it was this guy. I can still like, I don't want
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to support the guy. I don't want to say he's a good
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actor, But at the same time, I still like usual suspects.
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I still like 7 like those are still good movies.
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And I don't want to punish everybody else who worked on it
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because 1 actor was horrible. Yeah, and I mean, that's kind
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of, I think I used to watch Maverick with Mel Gibson in it.
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Oh, like at some point in my life, because it's kind of chill
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and kind of fun and it's it's a comedy because I feel like he
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does that vague kind of humorous.
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Mm hmm. Character he.
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Is good at comedy despite everything.
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Yeah. And I, one of my favorite movies
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of all time. I have not repurchased it
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because every time I buy it, I find someone who has not watched
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it and I give them my copy. But Braveheart, that's one of
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those movies where I've purchased it five times in my
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life because I, I genuinely love that movie.
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And when someone's like, oh, I've never seen Braveheart, I'm
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like, well, have my copy, I'll just go buy another I.
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Think I've watched parts of it. I don't think I've sat through
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the entire thing. Oh man, he made me cry in that
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one. I I cry a lot in movies.
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This this shouldn't come as a surprise to you, but to our
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audience, maybe it will. But yeah, Mel Gibson made me cry
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in Braveheart. Before we get to the other
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person who made me cry, let's shift gears and talk about our
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other lead. Let's talk about Murtagh the the
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old man. I do think we spent 3 movies
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with Riggs kind of getting the most attention for his arc.
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And so Murtagh, he kind of just like his family, his daughter's
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doing commercials. He gets made fun of that work.
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He gets assigned to the partner that's loose cannon.
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He I feel like the 4th movie gives him secrets and it gives
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him, oh, what was my other thought.
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He does get to think about retiring in the third one, but
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that was kind of our least favorite.
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Third one, to its credit, is the one where he has to come to
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terms with killing a kid. So we get to see Murtagh at his
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lowest point in the third movie. Right, the 4th movie he he saves
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the people in the boat, sends to his house and it's totally
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illegal and it's like, what a win.
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I I like this guy. He's he sees something happening
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and in spite of upholding the law as a cop, he brings them
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home and it's like, ah, OK, he's got to win.
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This is Murtaugh at his high point, I think.
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Oh yeah, I got to be honest, the older I get, the more relatable
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I find Murtaugh in the fact that I see him as this immensely
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interesting character who is humble in the way that he lets
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other people shine around him. Like he lets his kids shine, he
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lets rigs shine, he lets even butters by the 4th movie have
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his moment in the sun. Like he doesn't try to get the
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spotlight because he doesn't need it anymore.
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And I imagine if we were to see a young man, Murtaugh, he would
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probably be the athletic and the Super, the Superman who's going
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to be an awesome cop at all times.
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But at this stage in his life, he's a father, he's a career
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cop, he's a detective. He's he's really just kind of
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there doing his thing and doing it well.
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And he doesn't need attention for it.
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And yet I still find him so fascinating and so interesting.
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I mentioned it. I think in the last movie, he
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just rolls with the punches. If something happens, he's like,
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all right, this is the new reality, let's come to terms
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with it. And I love that about him.
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Yeah, I can see that. I think he my favorite moment
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would probably be the the protective father behaviour once
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he finds out that, oh, his daughter's actually married to
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this guy. Like, OK, we'll go take care of
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him, make sure he's alive after really not wanting anything to
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do with him for the whole movie. There's pitfalls to that whole
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arc, but I think the the family means a lot to Murtaugh.
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And I think once he decides that, yeah, family is what you
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are, then like it's all inclusive.
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You you get to come to dinner, you get to get involved in the
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police detective work. His version of family is like a
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bear hug. Like even if you don't want to
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be in the family, once he has decided you're in the family,
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that's it for you. You're now in the family.
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Feel like the end of the first movie.
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I I'd be interested to know how close they were to saying we're
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going to have a second one because it it felt like a good
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interaction, like the whole was he or was he not actually?
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Or was that the end of the first one that he's rigs is like
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actually, I wasn't crazy or. Yeah, that's the first one.
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Aside from that, come in and have dinner.
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It's like, yeah, like it's a family moment and all of the
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macho actions are just a a cover for actually caring about the
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people that are in your family, which kind of is, I would say
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kind of that's a justification in the 80s, nineties for
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treating Leo as you treat him like, yes, people are family.
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Yes, that's abuse. 90s. Yeah, I can see that existing in
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lots of places. We don't love the abuse anymore,
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but just treat people nicely. That would be great.
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I got to agree with you, but I've it's it's so wild because
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at the same time, I still feel the love like maybe except for
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Leo, he might, they might cross a line with Leo.
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But otherwise I think Murtagh genuinely cares about people.
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And then the last thing that just popped into my head is how
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good humored he is. Like they're pranking Murtaugh
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all the time. Like at least in the 3rd and 4th
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movie. But yeah also the second movie.
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He keeps getting pranked and made the butt of jokes
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throughout the franchise and it would be easy for him to be
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bitter and upset about it. But after he's done yelling at
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everyone, he usually looks at the prank and laughs too because
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he's like OK that was actually pretty good and I love how good
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humored he is. Yeah, it's, he seems like a good
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guy, and I think he got saddled with a partner that sure needed
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him. I don't love that, you know,
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making the the star student have to work with the kid that needs
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to get their homework done can work, but man, is it like, oh,
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what did I I didn't sign up for this.
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Exactly what he says, basically. So really like my if there's a
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complaint to be made, it would be that there's not a whole lot
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of Arc to describe Murtagh like he is the wizened.
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Even older. Yeah, he just gets older, that's
30:04
it. But otherwise he's still the the
30:07
great person from start to finish.
30:10
And his lowest point is when he kills a kid and he's still, it's
30:15
his lowest point because he feels guilt about like I, I
30:20
just, I love him as a character. And I don't even want to say
30:24
it's a complaint that he doesn't really have any growth or change
30:27
because he's like a perfect character.
30:29
He's so great. Gets to exist and he's OK with
30:35
that? Yeah, I like him.
30:39
I don't think there's anything problematic that I can recall
30:44
with him. I do.
30:46
I'm sure that he at point, at some points says says stuff that
30:50
I would cringe. Yeah, he, he, he, he has some of
30:54
the racism in there. He's he's not immune to it, but
30:58
he also has so many great lines. Like, it's hard to point to a
31:04
lot of moments where I'm like, Murtagh, why'd you do that?
31:07
Because he really is kind of the rock of this whole franchise
31:12
where he just not the actor, the rock, but he's the metaphorical
31:17
solid and sturdy character that you can rely on.
31:21
I'd be interested but to. Root you.
31:23
He thinks of the franchise currently.
31:27
Yeah, I have not looked up any of them.
31:31
And then just because they're a minor character, but they are
31:34
tied to them. Shout out to the fact that it
31:37
was the same actors who played Murtaz's family for this whole
31:41
thing. When you told me that I love
31:42
seeing. Those kids grow up nice.
31:45
That is pretty cool, yeah. Like that I think makes it feel
31:48
complete, like it's a universe. And I don't think the younger
31:53
kids, I don't think they did a lot of acting.
31:55
I think the youngest daughter, I think like Lethal Weapon was
32:00
pretty much it for her. I don't know if she's got a lot
32:03
of other stuff I don't. I couldn't even find her picture
32:06
when I was Googling. Maybe the other kids have some
32:11
other roles, but good on them for pulling a Harry Potter and
32:16
committing to coming back every single time.
32:20
Like I hope they OK spoilers for the end of the episode.
32:25
There have been talks about a Lethal Weapon 5 and I hope that
32:30
those kids come back again. They're, you know, older than
32:33
me, but I still want them like. I think it would be we, I mean,
32:38
we haven't finished with the characters, but talking about
32:41
the what if we continued it thing that we kind of do in wrap
32:46
UPS. If there's a 5, I don't know
32:50
that you keep them running into action, but I don't know what
32:56
you do with them otherwise. I mean a cameo would be
33:01
sufficient. Like I'd be fine with them being
33:04
around a dinner table. Would Briggs make it to Chief?
33:09
Like, could he be the chief? Kind of.
33:12
That's an interesting one. Well, let's put a pin in it.
33:15
I don't. I don't want to get into that
33:17
because I want to talk about the third member of the family,
33:20
Lauren, which of course was Leo. Leo, you skipped the whole guy.
33:26
I knew it. Was everybody skips Leo then he
33:30
gets no respect around. Here, no friends.
33:34
He has one friend. He has no friends again.
33:38
Oh, poor Leo. I I loved him in two and I loved
33:44
him in four. The third one, he gets the
33:46
shaft. He's barely in it like, but Joe
33:51
Pesci, yes, I think knocked it out of the park.
33:54
I think this is one of his most iconic characters.
33:57
It's a shame that he was kind of, I'm like, why we're why were
34:02
we nominating him for this? Like between.
34:06
The Razzies, you mean? Yeah, like why, why did we
34:10
target this character when he did a good job at at the bit
34:18
that he was needed in? I don't know.
34:22
Because the Razzies like you stopped paying attention at the
34:26
cemetery and didn't. Didn't wash that by.
34:29
Didn't get, didn't get that froggy speech.
34:33
The froggy speech is good. I think it was.
34:38
It was nice to let Leo in on the strong men being vulnerable that
34:45
Riggs Murtaugh kind of got to do at places.
34:49
And so it's still like, that was kind of one of my complaints,
34:55
the fact that it's still portraying men as you absolutely
35:00
have all the feelings. You are not allowed to to exist
35:06
with them. So if you're going to talk, talk
35:10
by yourselves. If you're going to cry, do it
35:13
somewhere else. And so I'm glad that we see them
35:17
having the man. Is it still all caged up in the
35:20
90s man? Oh, yeah.
35:22
And you know, I'm going to, I'm going to make the argument that
35:26
back then, this is probably one of the most progressive views of
35:30
a man coming to terms with his emotions because all of these
35:34
movies are willing to show it, even if they're still like,
35:38
better cage it up, better bottle it all in.
35:42
But obviously time has progressed and I'm going to
35:46
point to the MCU where we've got big muscly men and they are
35:51
willing to cry. And that's something that we
35:54
would not get from the 90s. So obviously time has made us a
36:02
little bit wiser, a little bit better as a society.
36:06
But I, you know, we got to give this franchise the credit where
36:09
it's due. At that time, men were not
36:13
allowed to talk about emotions, period.
36:16
They weren't allowed to cry. Like I was a kid in the 90s, if
36:19
I started crying, everybody would say, oh, be a man.
36:22
Like that was just the toxic, normalized thing that we did the
36:27
children back then. So having a franchise where even
36:33
if they can't say it, the fact that they're, you know, sitting
36:37
on a toilet getting ready to try to escape a bomb, but they're
36:42
able to look. Yeah.
36:43
Like. But they do have that moment
36:45
where we as the audience, we know what they're saying.
36:47
And it is a touching moment. And.
36:51
And then, yeah, Leo made me cry. So like, he got me.
36:56
Leo says I love you the same way.
36:58
He didn't even say. I don't know if he says it or
37:00
not. Yeah, I, I think he says it by
37:04
the end, but I don't remember if he ever fully says like, beyond
37:09
like, ah, I love you guys. Like it might be a flippant
37:12
thing that he says. I don't know if he really says
37:14
it with his full chest. OK, I've got to ask you.
37:20
In fact, let me do it in the Leo voice.
37:21
OK, OK, OK. Did you rewatch the cemetery?
37:27
Did you rewatch the Froggy? Speech I did and I couldn't get
37:32
out of bed for days. I just it was so impactful.
37:37
It was better you are so it was better.
37:40
It was better watching it attentively and I think, I mean
37:47
that's what I was trying to communicate saying that he he
37:53
gets to be vulnerable and it's just super sad back story that
37:59
kind of explains. So pathetic.
38:02
Why he hangs on so hard to these guys that don't treat him well.
38:07
And I I do think he's introduced this like, you know, an
38:11
informant and he's done criminal activities, but we got to keep
38:17
him alive and out of danger. So I don't know if they see him
38:20
as less than in that in that regard when they first meet him.
38:24
But the 4th movie sharing that. And I think Riggs even says I
38:30
didn't know or something like that, something.
38:33
He says something like, oh, we treat you like crap.
38:37
Like he, he feels guilt. Yeah.
38:39
For the way they've been treating him and Leo's like, ah,
38:42
it's OK, you guys just rag me and I'm, I'm like, no, like they
38:46
are mean. So Riggs comes to terms with it
38:51
and he's like, I was a jerk. You know, he gets to be
38:54
vulnerable and it is when Riggs Murtaugh kind of breakdown on
38:59
the boat and drunk and cry and every all that stuff.
39:02
Like, it feels similar and it feels, what's the word, like
39:11
charitable of Leo to being like, hey, Leo already understands
39:18
pain and loneliness and like, grief.
39:24
And so he gets to share that with Riggs.
39:26
And I think it's a interesting bond, but it is a bond.
39:34
Yeah, kind of reminds me of when Riggs is talking about his dead
39:39
wife and then Murtagh just comes in and like.
39:43
Oh yeah. Just craps on the whole moment
39:45
unintentionally. Like Murtagh wasn't around for
39:49
the froggy speech. So like, he still doesn't know
39:52
that we're being nice to Leo now.
39:55
Well, Leo says we're family, so I mean, maybe he'll treat him
39:58
nice because of that. Happy endings all around.
40:02
It is. It's going to be good from here
40:04
on out. All right, well, we're on the
40:08
last two family members. Lorna, tell me what you think
40:12
about our unwed pregnant woman. I it's definitely an era type
40:19
thing that made it a conflict. You got to marry your man
40:24
because you're expecting. It's like well that makes sense
40:27
in the time period. I can completely under agree and
40:31
understand that. I think she also is committed
40:38
enough from what she says that she's OK either way.
40:44
They've done up his trailer on the beach.
40:47
Like honestly it looks like a nice place to live on the beach.
40:53
In the previous movies it's kind of was just a trailer on the
40:55
beach. It's become more with the
40:59
addition of a partner. So if that part made me love the
41:06
4th movie because they just talk and it's banter between
41:13
committed partners that they still have inner worlds that
41:19
aren't shared because kind of I think they make her seem like
41:23
she would love to get married but she kind of just doesn't.
41:28
It's like that inner. She's happy to have what she's
41:31
got. But it just is.
41:33
So it feels like a a snippet of the universe that we get to see
41:42
that's not guns and punches and fighting and it's sweet.
41:48
It it just makes it, yeah, feel like, of course she would be
41:52
chill with Riggs because he's chill with her.
41:55
And it's it's a life. So I really, of all the scenes
42:02
in all of the movies, I think I love that part the most.
42:05
I also think she was a wonderful addition to the family.
42:10
We only got her for two movies and we barely got her in the 4th
42:13
movie. But unlike Leo in his second
42:16
movie, she still made a pretty big impact in her less than
42:22
featured movie. Like she was still important to
42:25
the story, still had important scenes.
42:29
So yeah, double thumbs up to Lorna.
42:31
I agree she she's a really good addition to the family.
42:38
I don't know if I'd say the same about our 4th and final addition
42:42
to the family. If we don't want to jump too far
42:46
away from Lorna, she kind of is already who she is in the third
42:52
one. That's.
42:54
True, she is a developed. She has a good character.
42:57
Yeah, it's like she doesn't get too much more that isn't tied to
43:02
her partnership with Riggs and being pregnant.
43:06
So it is still a little, what do you call it, dependent on on
43:14
Riggs's arc and not quite. Is she still in Internal
43:20
Affairs? I feel like she's out of it.
43:22
Because they never mentioned. Yeah, so that's where I'm like,
43:25
there is a downside. We love her, but she does kind
43:29
of just come. We never talked about this, and
43:36
I feel a little guilty about it. She is in eternal internal
43:39
affairs. Eternal.
43:41
She's in internal affairs because she's the one who
43:45
mentions that Murtaugh is being investigated in the 4th movie
43:49
because he's got new suits. He's throwing all this money
43:52
around. And so she's the one who's like,
43:57
he might be on the take. He might be a crooked cop, but
44:01
it's barely talked about until the end of the movie.
44:04
Yeah. So for as much as I love that
44:06
she's there, I don't want to miss miss the opportunity to
44:12
call out the 90s movies where women don't have much to do
44:16
other than get married and be pregnant and it's like.
44:19
Yeah. In the third one she was awesome
44:23
and separate and herself chicken butt.
44:27
Yeah yeah. So I do think there is a step
44:29
backwards of like but I in the universe.
44:34
I will say that she she wants that like and that's great that
44:42
she wants to be with Riggs and they're pregnant and expecting.
44:46
It's like I'm just happy to kick.
44:48
Butt yeah, even pregnant. So good on her.
44:54
So. And then final family member is
44:59
Butters. Detective Butters shows up for
45:01
the 4th movie played by Chris Rock.
45:04
He is secretly married to Rayna. They are pregnant with their
45:11
first child. He's my thumbs down and it's
45:15
probably because we didn't get enough time with him to really
45:19
develop. He only has like 1 great scene
45:22
and that's with Leo. Otherwise I'm just like Nah.
45:27
I think the character will be played five different ways by 5
45:31
different comedians. Mm hmm.
45:34
And then I kind of wouldn't mind a different one taking a stab at
45:39
it and maybe different lines because it just felt like
45:44
dropping in whoever was funny in the 90s.
45:50
Who was who was hot at the time in 1998?
45:54
'Cause it's all right. His stuff isn't bad, but it
45:59
isn't. It doesn't.
46:01
It's not distinguished. It doesn't feel like he's the
46:04
only person who could do it. Whereas Leo and Lorna, no one
46:10
else could be those characters. Their actors are perfect,
46:13
perfect for those characters. Whereas Butters, I think you're
46:17
absolutely right. We could put any comedian from
46:20
the late 90s, they would deliver the lines differently and I
46:24
still wouldn't care. Like, yeah.
46:26
I just. He's he's the least of our
46:30
family like, and you know, it's not that Chris Rock did a bad
46:35
job, is it Chris Rock? Like am I getting him confused?
46:38
Pretty sure that's his name. Yes, it is Chris Rock.
46:41
I had to look at the movie behind me to make sure he's he's
46:48
fine. And as an actor, I enjoy him as
46:52
a stand up comedian, I enjoy him as Detective Butters.
46:56
I don't need them. I just.
46:59
Yeah. He just doesn't work.
47:01
Glad that Murtagh can bring him in like family, but yeah, it's
47:05
not fun. I think Butters is a liability.
47:12
You know, he just, I don't know that he has bad intentions or,
47:17
you know, bad motivations, but he just doesn't exist as as very
47:23
much like and he's supposed to be rather important.
47:31
That's probably what makes it hurt the most, is like every
47:36
movie, we've had a new member of the family and they mattered to
47:41
the movie, and then Butters shows up and he doesn't matter
47:46
to the movie, he matters to the movie.
47:49
He's just barely in it. He's supposed to be extremely
47:53
important, but who cares? Yeah, yeah, kind of.
48:00
Your son-in-law secretly, but we're going to make jokes about
48:06
how much he actually wants to get to know you, his motivations
48:10
for why he likes you. Don't love it?
48:14
Oh, so 90s, so 90s. Well, we've talked about the
48:19
whole family. So rather than going bit by bit,
48:24
I would like to know, do you have a favorite villain from
48:28
this franchise? 1st 10 is the general.
48:35
Man this feels like ages ago that I watched that one.
48:41
That's like an it was, it was like a month ago.
48:43
It was like. An entire like the 80s plot,
48:47
like General and his Samuel guy. I think it was Samuel, right?
48:56
I don't even remember his name and he was the final villain,
48:59
Mr. Mr. Something Mr. Samuel. I don't even remember the
49:03
actor's name, and I like the actor 'cause he's so good at
49:06
being crazy. Yeah, I've forgotten his name
49:10
too for how much he's shown in it.
49:15
I do think the final bad guy in the first movie, yeah, the
49:21
general is blah. He gets blown up, yeah, but.
49:24
But the henchman ends up being pretty memorable.
49:27
Man, I want to say it's Mr. Samuel, but I don't want to be
49:31
wrong. I just don't know.
49:32
If that sounds right, I'm just sitting here like Mr. Samuel.
49:37
It's something Joshua. Mr. Joshua, you?
49:43
There we go. And go find it.
49:46
Name is not memorable. Gary Busey is.
49:50
But and 3rd 1 is who's the bad guy?
49:56
And the third one, oh the construction dude, I've got a
50:01
construction company. What the heck is this guy?
50:06
I don't know your motivation. It seems dumb.
50:11
The 4th 1 is Jet Li. It's a it's pretty close tie for
50:14
Jet Li and and Joshua because. Joshua, that's quite
50:18
interesting. And you didn't even mention the
50:20
Nazis. Yeah.
50:23
From the second one. I mean, it might be because
50:27
there's the opposite end of the spectrum from Mighty Ducks for
50:30
that guy because like, he's the good guy in that and he's the
50:36
Nazi in this one. So yeah, Joshua gently, I think
50:45
probably Joshua as villain of villains in the franchise.
50:50
OK, see, and I was going to say my 1:00 and 2:00, the ones that
50:55
I'm arguing with myself over are the Nazi and Jetly, and my
51:01
number one is Jetly. And it's all because of right
51:06
before that final fight. He's got the angry powers.
51:09
You know, Riggs is like, how did he pull that gun apart in one
51:13
move? Like, let's go ask him.
51:15
I that sticks with me. I love it.
51:17
It's such a good intro to a fight.
51:20
And then, you know, he's Jet Li. He gets to kick butt.
51:23
He gets to be interesting and fun.
51:26
And I like him for the whole movie.
51:29
So he's my number one. I'm going to put him at top spot
51:32
for the villain got. You well that's all fair, I
51:36
think, because except for the construction guy, they all kind
51:41
of were unique and had things about them.
51:45
Construction guy, ex cop. I'm like, you just didn't make I
51:52
feel like since the plot itself was kind of a little bit lesser
51:58
than, the villain should have stood out more as being
52:01
interesting and he didn't so. Yeah, he definitely didn't add
52:05
to the movie. The best thing about the third
52:08
movie is Lorna. Otherwise, really, the movie is
52:12
not that good. Lorna stands out.
52:16
She's awesome. The rest of the movie doesn't
52:19
really come together as well as it probably did back in the 80s.
52:23
But all right, well, OK, future. There has been rumor, there has
52:31
been discussion. Specifically, as late as 2024,
52:38
Mel Gibson went to the Salt Lake City Fan X comic convention
52:44
where he said that not only would he like to come back in
52:49
Lethal Weapon 5, but he wants to direct it like he wants to, to
52:54
lead this thing. There are people who are still
52:58
doing it, but no one's given him approval.
53:01
He said that it's written, it's interesting, and then it's been
53:05
held up for one reason or another.
53:09
And this, this could just be him hyping up his own work, but
53:13
According to him, it's the best one of the whole series if we
53:17
ever get to see Lethal Weapon 5. So let's just imagine we get the
53:23
whole family to come back. What would you want from a
53:27
Lethal Weapon 5? I mean, you would probably enjoy
53:32
it because apparently he directed Braveheart.
53:36
I didn't know that. Yeah, and he did one hell of a
53:39
job with it. What would I want for each of
53:44
them? I think I the continuity of the
53:50
entire family I think would need to be a piece because, yeah, if
53:55
we're doing cops, they need to be younger.
53:59
I I assume. I'm trying to think of what
54:01
would be an interesting screenplay for how old is he
54:08
now? Like older than the cop his
54:11
chief was when he was in the first movie.
54:14
So I think he could be in it. I don't think it would work in
54:21
like that. Whatever that new Maverick movie
54:23
is in terms of Tom Cruise is still there as a pilot.
54:27
Like, well, I don't know that I'd see Mel Gibson as chief of
54:32
police, but I could see him doing detective work in a
54:40
wizened old type of way. Murtaugh family and honestly if
54:48
his wife's book stuff is doing so well.
54:51
Retired finally and. Like, he's 79 years old now.
54:57
He's got to be retired. And then Riggs is 70.
55:01
So retired may be a safe house because all of his kids are
55:08
living nearby like that sort of feel.
55:13
And then Riggs would have a kid that I don't know.
55:17
What would you want that kid to do?
55:20
I think you could still have a detective story because I think
55:23
those are fun movie plots. Something that's happened,
55:27
someone needs to figure it out. We we can know the villain
55:30
before they do and paths collide.
55:34
So it's like that's still a good setup.
55:39
I don't know that it has to be directly on the police force,
55:43
but it could exist in a universe where they've moved out of LA.
55:50
It wouldn't quite go the way of like Hot Fuzz, where this tiny
55:54
town is actually full of crime, but it could be something maybe
56:02
with a couple pieces of action, but mostly still family, family
56:10
stuff being important. So maybe they're they're also
56:14
saving immigrants like Murtaugh was.
56:19
Maybe there's something better for Lethal Weapon to to shine as
56:24
a. Identity crisis.
56:26
Identity theft. We need modern movies.
56:29
Need modern crimes? Maybe I.
56:34
Yeah, it was just me being silly.
56:36
I got to be honest with you, what they would do is they would
56:41
put Riggs and Murtagh back in the starring roles and those two
56:46
as old men would solve the crime and save the day, just like,
56:53
just like they did in the 90s. But that's not the movie I want.
56:58
I want their children taking over.
57:02
I want it to be a movie about Riggs and Murtagh's sons and
57:11
there is a huge age gap between them, but I want them to be
57:14
detectives, you know? So like I can't remember what
57:19
babies they have at the end of the fourth is 0.
57:23
Yeah, it would be a grandchild for Murtagh, but, you know, his
57:27
son is admittedly, like, 20 years older than Rig's son, But,
57:34
you know, that would still be acceptable for, like, a wizened
57:40
detective and then a newcomer, especially if they're people who
57:45
have known each other pretty much all of their lives.
57:51
And so I would rather Mel Gibson and Danny Glover just be cameos.
57:56
Like, I don't want them to be the stars of Lethal Weapon Five.
58:00
I want to pass the torch. I feel like having the kids do
58:04
it though just leans toward that naked Gun reboot and I never.
58:11
Watched him, I never saw it. I never saw it.
58:13
He's. Like all of the police force is,
58:18
if I remember the like clips or trailers, all of the current
58:24
police forces, like children of the previous police force.
58:30
OK, so I I essentially am going to turn Lethal Weapon 5 into a
58:35
parody of itself. It could work but I I just
58:39
checked it because I I think that's what happened for I
58:44
should watch that series. I mean, we could put that on the
58:48
list, maybe even this year and see if we can get to it.
58:52
But yeah, I, I don't know what else I would want from it.
58:56
I'm, I'll be honest, I this is one of those situations where I
59:01
kind of think the franchise should stay in the past.
59:04
Yeah, that would probably be fine.
59:07
Yeah, like this. This might be one that I am fine
59:10
putting to bed and saying we don't need to return to it, but
59:16
the franchise itself did return to it back in, let's see, 2016
59:24
and running through 2019 for three seasons.
59:29
There was a Lethal Weapon TV series that I have never
59:32
watched. I wonder if it's streaming
59:37
anywhere. It was made by Fox and so in my
59:39
head it should be on on either Disney or Hulu but I've never
59:44
seen it. And I don't know if I mentioned
59:46
this with Chucky, but a movie transitioning to TV is not
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always a bad thing. Because my evidence would be 12
59:57
Monkeys. I like that movie.
1:00:00
It's a really artsy, kind of hard to follow time travel
1:00:05
movie. But the 12 Monkeys TV series is
1:00:12
incredible. It is so much better than the
1:00:16
movie that is it is inspired by. And so I do wonder.
1:00:22
For three seasons, was Lethal Weapon the TV series as good or
1:00:29
better than the movies? It got three seasons.
1:00:34
Like maybe it was good. Possibly could be something I
1:00:40
hadn't ever heard good or negative from it really.
1:00:44
Yeah, I'm trying to see. I mean, it looks like it got a
1:00:48
lot of middling reviews from critics.
1:00:51
The second and third seasons got higher review scores, whereas
1:00:56
the first season was kind of dead in the middle, 5 out of 10
1:01:00
for most people. But then second and third season
1:01:03
got sevens and eights. So maybe it's one of those
1:01:07
things where it grows on you. It might be worth watching if I
1:01:12
have it on a streaming service that I have available to me.
1:01:17
But in terms of this, this particular franchise, I had not
1:01:20
watched it. I knew it existed.
1:01:23
I just completely ignored it and let it happen because I, I'm not
1:01:28
a big Damon Wayans fan. I like when I saw him as one of
1:01:35
the leads, I was like, now, now I don't want to watch that.
1:01:40
But that's being unfair to him. Like he is a solid actor, you
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know, maybe. But yeah, maybe I'll watch it.
1:01:54
I, I think you're right with your, it doesn't need to come
1:02:00
back. Yes, there was a continuation
1:02:03
and maybe that convinced them, you know, maybe we should do #5
1:02:06
it's like, well, it ended happy. I think it ended nicely.
1:02:12
I don't bring him back to suffer.
1:02:15
Yeah. Did you ever see major pain?
1:02:21
Yes. OK, that's Damon Wayans.
1:02:24
Like that's, that's my top of the mountain for Damon Wayans.
1:02:30
Oh, I love that movie. I it's a dumb movie.
1:02:33
It didn't age that well but I I still like it.
1:02:40
Yeah, yeah, I vaguely remember pieces of it, but I can
1:02:47
understand that turning you off of anything else that he does.
1:02:52
Yeah, so maybe apparently it's available on Amazon Prime.
1:02:56
So maybe I'll I'll give Lethal Weapon a shot one of these days
1:03:00
because again, 12 Monkeys was far superior as ATV show as
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opposed to it's already really good movie.
1:03:10
So I got to give Lethal Weapon and Chucky a shot.
1:03:15
Speaking of Chucky, there's going to be a new Chucky movie.
1:03:18
We're going to be pulled back in probably faster than 007 pulls
1:03:24
us back in. We're going to have to watch a
1:03:27
Chucky movie. All right, I don't know we would
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do a wrap up. No, we would.
1:03:33
We would just probably discuss how it affected the tower, but I
1:03:38
don't think we would do a full wrap up just because of one
1:03:41
movie. Check through all these things
1:03:45
again. What was our favorite villain?
1:03:46
Yeah, well, sometimes I have stuff playing in my head, like
1:03:55
what about this? But after saying it should be
1:03:59
put to bed and should be done, and saying that you know, I
1:04:05
enjoyed the family feel and did not enjoy the remnants of the
1:04:12
90s, I don't have much else to say.
1:04:17
I'm with you. I kind of feel like this is,
1:04:21
yeah, so many of the other ones, I'm always like, man, what could
1:04:25
we do? What stories could be told in
1:04:28
this universe? I don't really feel that way
1:04:31
with Lethal Weapon. I feel like it, it came, it did
1:04:34
what it did, it had an impact. I don't need any more, you know.
1:04:40
James Bond got married and nothing happened at the end.
1:04:43
It's all good. She's alive.
1:04:45
She's a snapping. That's where it ended.
1:04:48
And his marriage. All right, well, I guess I will
1:04:55
reveal what our next franchise is so that if you, dear
1:05:00
listener, want to join us next week for the first movie in it
1:05:05
we are doing 2014's The Lego Movie.
1:05:11
Something fun. Exactly.
1:05:13
We're going to full comedy. We're not going to an action
1:05:18
comedy franchise that starts with a suicide tale.
1:05:22
Yeah. I'm excited for this one.
1:05:26
This is also going to stretch the limits of what we define as
1:05:30
a franchise, specifically because of the Lego Ninjago
1:05:35
movie. We're counting it.
1:05:38
It is part of the franchise, but it's technically a spinoff
1:05:44
because I don't know if any of the characters are connected to
1:05:48
either The Lego Movie or The Lego Batman Movie.
1:05:52
Like The Lego Batman Movie has the same Batman from The Lego
1:05:55
Movie. Lego Ninjago Movie is kind of
1:05:58
its own thing, but it's still the same production company.
1:06:05
It's still The Lego Ninjago Movie.
1:06:08
That is the title of it. All of these movies that put
1:06:11
them in the franchise have the words The Lego and Movie in them
1:06:17
somewhere. I think that's a fairway to
1:06:21
collect a franchise. Like if they made the Lego Harry
1:06:27
Potter movie, it would be a Lego franchise.
1:06:30
Exactly, you would throw it in the same thing.
1:06:33
Where is that Pharrell mock? Not even mockumentary the
1:06:38
Pharrell movie where it's his life story but done with.
1:06:41
I want to see it. I do too.
1:06:43
It looks interesting, but it's just not part of the franchise,
1:06:47
so we're not including that. We have to draw a line
1:06:49
somewhere, so next week join us for The Lego Movie.
1:06:57
Go ahead and take us out of here for the last time with Lethal
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Weapon. Dear Justin.
1:07:04
Last time I just don't have a good handle still on saying
1:07:10
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1:07:15
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1:07:20
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1:07:40
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1:07:44
we're like, that sounds like a good one.
1:07:46
It's. Just got to be a franchise.
1:07:48
That's the only rule. If there's any really big thing
1:07:52
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1:07:55
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1:08:06
Our Gmail account is potato chip pictures pod@gmail.com.
1:08:11
Nailed it. I can't find my actual scripts
1:08:16
on. I mean, you've hit every
1:08:18
important point the the social media exists.
1:08:22
I just don't, you know, post anything.
1:08:27
Share spread the word generally agreeable in our our takes, I
1:08:34
think. And if we're wrong, we'd love to
1:08:37
hear it because that's more more people interacting.
1:08:43
But thank you. And I think we we should do the
1:08:45
final wrap up together. So.
1:08:47
OK, well, yeah, I'm good with it. 2.
1:08:53
Are we doing it? Are we doing it on three or are
1:08:55
we doing after? I'm the older one, I'm always
1:09:00
going to do it after. Are we doing it on three or
1:09:02
after? We always go on three. 12.
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I'm too old for this shit. Goodbye.