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An Old-Aged Classic | Lethal Weapon 4 · Potato Chip Pictures - A Podcast

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  I think critics are wrong about this movie.
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  I don't even know what the critics said, so of course.
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  I mean, most of them say it's a middling movie.
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  Like you get a lot of five out of 10s.
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  The third one was worse than this one.
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  Yeah, and yet, just glancing at some of the contemporary
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  reviews, the reviews from the time they're like this didn't
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  live up to the expectations set by Lethal Weapon 3, because at
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  the time, people loved Lethal Weapon 3, and I think history
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  has made it a bad movie. Yep, I would agree.
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  Where is this one? I don't know.
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  I think a lot of it still holds up.
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  And when we get to the end, there was there was 1 moment
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  that really got me. And so I'm I just, I'm trying to
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  put myself in the headspace of someone in the late 90s where
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  they loved Lethal Weapon 3. And then finally here comes the
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  4th movie. And maybe it didn't live up to
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  expectations, but I don't know. I'm I'm OK with it.
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  Yeah, I think that's trying to be in the 90s, man.
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  No, this is 2026. I think the happy endings made
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  it a good comedy Buddy Cup show. The the exploration of some of
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  their relationships I think was a bit stronger.
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  I do think the son-in-law was a bit.
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  I was like, oh, let's cast Chris Rock so we can give some of his
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  routine. Like I'm sure there's other
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  movies that have done that maybe to better effect, but I just
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  don't. You didn't jive anymore the 90s
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  maybe it would have seemed really funny.
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  Like compared to rush hour or rush hour 2 then it's in line
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  but. So you brought it up, and I'm
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  glad you did because I thought it while I was watching the
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  movie Rush Hour is Chris Tucker. I, in my head thought it was
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  Chris Rock. No, it's this guy.
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  Yeah, Chris Rock is Lethal Weapon Four and Chris Tucker did
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  Rush Hour. But it's been so long since I
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  had watched either of them that in my head I was just like, oh,
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  same guy. It's got to be the same guy.
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  Not the same guy. Disrappable the other is very
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  nice and for the element. But you know, just from a
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  personal level, I have enjoyed Chris Rock's stand up specials
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  and I don't think I've, I don't know if Chris Tucker has any
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  stand up specials. I don't think I've watched them
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  if he has. Whereas I've definitely listened
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  to Chris Rock in the 90s. Hello and welcome to Potato Chip
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  Pictures, the movie franchise review Podcast.
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  My name is B Sammy Davis. Hello again, I'm Justin.
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  And today we are looking at the 4th and potentially final
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  forever Lethal Weapon 4. Here it is, Justin, tell me
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  about this fork Will fork Will. Fork will I mean shit Lethal
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  Weapon 41998 Richard Donner wraps up his franchise.
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  I I know that it kind of swapped screenwriters and story writer
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  story by but he directed all of them.
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  I think there's a bit of an evolution through all of it, but
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  I I enjoyed the way this one looks and feels more than a
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  third one. There's a little more of the
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  busyness of the city, but screenwriter Channing Gibson no
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  relation or relation. I don't know to whom.
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  Mel Gibson. Oh, I'm sitting here like you're
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  not related by first names because I was thinking Channing
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  Tatum. No, wow, look it up.
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  I have no idea. I don't know if Mel's family
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  like I know him first name basis, you know, story by
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  Jonathan Lempkin, Alfred Goe or guff.
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  Depends on how people spit. Miles Miller, but still.
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  Richard Donner. Joel Silver for producer.
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  So none of those names really mean much other than Richard
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  Donner that we know. Joel Silver has produced all of
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  it. Pretty sure Joel Silver's on
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  something else. Joel Silver has been there from
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  the beginning. So that's the other name that
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  we've had since the start. They 5 Tripled 5 Oopled the
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  budget. To. $150 million.
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  That and let them almost double that amount.
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  They're 285.4 in terms of return for six years and so much more
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  money. I think.
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  I do think critics sometimes take into account the return and
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  the fervor and hype because I feel like that's why Lethal
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  Weapon Three got a great score. You know, it worked in that time
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  period. This one just wasn't.
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  Maybe there was overabundance of buddy cop movies, but for budget
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  wise it didn't do as well. I don't think that's going to
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  affect my rating because they charmed me early on.
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  Yes. So I I feel like right from the
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  jump, this movie captured a lot of the charm that I had been
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  missing from many of the, well, from the last one.
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  Yeah, Like the three was the only one that really kind of was
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  a falling off point for me, whereas this one having a
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  literal cartoon villain. Because like, I kept thinking as
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  all these Batman movies were coming out, I was like, it's so
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  weird that we haven't had Firefly return because I'm so
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  certain that I have seen that mad pyromaniac on film before.
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  No, I just saw a dude with a flamethrower on Lethal Weapon
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  Four and just kind of thought that was Firefly from DC Comics.
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  It's definitely an odd character like I I think it's it works in
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  their favour in the odd situation that these guys for
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  the past however many years have been getting themselves into
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  trying to think of. Third one started with the bomb
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  and the cat, which was a second one.
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  What was? The second one it was the police
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  chase like with the Germans and the station wagon.
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  It was the brand new. Getaway in a helicopter.
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  Oh yeah, yeah. This one felt like the right
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  type of silly. It felt like endearing that he
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  does trick him. I feel like the the relationship
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  setups of these dudes is poking fun at each other.
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  And this time it works. They do kind of the same sort of
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  abuse towards Leo, but they also include him in an important
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  picture. And it's like, yeah, let's wrap
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  up with these dudes being fine and maybe, maybe they kiss your
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  married daughters on the lips. That's a little bit far for me,
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  but. I, I've said this before, but I
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  grew up in a house, a household where my dad would kiss women on
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  the lips. Like that's just how he said
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  hello to women. And I have never felt
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  comfortable with that. I never felt comfortable with it
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  when I was a kid watching it happen.
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  I've never felt comfortable watching other people doing it,
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  no matter how much they are close to each other.
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  I think it was one of the Timothy Dalton James Bond movies
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  where he kissed a woman on the lips.
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  And I was like, that's that is not your wife.
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  That is notice that is definitely someone else's wife
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  because we just had a marriage like you were you were smooching
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  on the wrong woman. And so, yeah, I did not feel
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  comfortable when we get out of all of the intro stuff and and
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  have Riggs introduced to Rianne and giving her a big old smooch
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  on the lips. I'm like what?
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  It's I think it may be relic that dies in the past.
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  I'm on. Yeah, I'm.
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  I am good with that dying that I I am sorry to any of my lady
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  friends, but unless we are romantically involved, you're
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  you're the most you're getting out of me is a hug like I'm I'd
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  rather do a fist bump like that's just my way.
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  In terms of hijinks, I think it's mostly doable ones passable
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  like the firefighter, Firefly, whatever explosions in the rain
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  in his underwear. It's like OK, this all jibes
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  with what I understand Lethal Weapon being about so.
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  And I'm going to say this is probably my favorite opening of
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  all four movies. I think it'd be fair, yeah. 1st
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  movie we had the jumper, which you know, set the mood, set the
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  tone, but it really is kind of a, a unique artifact of that
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  particular movie. And then we've already talked
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  about the second and 3rd movies and the third movie wanted to be
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  this big and over the top, but it didn't, it didn't really work
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  for me. Whereas this one, everything
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  feels like it works because they're talking to each other.
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  We discover the pregnancy subplot that's going to be going
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  for this whole movie because our two lead characters think
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  they're going to die in the very beginning of the movie.
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  He's. Bulletproof the bad guy and he's
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  got fire. So like that's it's close.
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  Just got to wait for the bomb squad I guess, you know?
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  Yeah, well, that's the thing that I think sets it apart so
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  much is like with the bomb squad in particular, and I mentioned
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  this last week, they knew that a capable bomb squad exists in the
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  LAPD, and yet they decide to be the ones to go to fuse the bomb.
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  This one. Yeah, this one, it is a bad dude
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  with a weapon that is right down their alley.
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  They don't have to wait for anyone.
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  They they are the top dudes for this job.
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  So now I am on board with it. I'm like, yeah, we've got the
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  two best people. We've got the one with
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  experience who's going to be silly and he's going to strip
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  down to his underwear. And then we got the crack shot.
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  Who is going to hit the one in a million shot on this tiny little
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  part of his back that's going to save the day?
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  We're going to get the giant explosion that we got from the
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  bomb scare without the bomb scare.
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  Like I I think everything about this opening works for me.
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  So I'm going to say 10 out of 10 opening best in the franchise.
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  I would agree pretty good. I think it's of having watched
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  them. It's the one that I could
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  remember before re watching. But yeah, I think it sets the
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  tone that matches at least the foundation of lethal weapons up
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  until here. Yeah.
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  And then, as you already alluded to, we get Leo very early in the
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  movie, and he's had another career change and frankly, a
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  better career change. Like so far, everything's coming
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  together in a way that makes sense to me, where I'm like,
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  yeah, that works. Yep.
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  It's private investigation. I think is works better for,
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  we'll say it is his role of finding information that would
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  take too long to put the main characters on a side quest like,
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  oh, we actually got to go find where this is.
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  Like, no, actually, Leo's been on that this whole time.
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  He's like, you know, I'm fine with that for Leo, he's a
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  private investigator. He might be bad at some pieces
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  of that job, but. But he gets better throughout
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  the movie, so he is improving. But on top of that, it makes
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  sense to me because Lethal Weapon two, he was such a huge
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  fan of Riggs and Murtaugh that it would make sense for him to
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  want to be a cop. And if he could not be a cop
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  because of his sordid past, then a private investigator makes
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  sense for who Leo would it would be like that would be the job he
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  would go to. So lethal weapon three further
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  falls in my mind because it's like why is he being a real
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  estate investor? Why is he being a a broker that
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  sucks like. Yeah, I think.
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  Well, so Leo shows up when they're on the boat, right?
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  Yeah. And they're they're celebrating
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  because now we know that Murtagh's going to be a grandpa
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  because Rhianne is pregnant, presumably outside of marriage.
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  We know that Lorna is pregnant with Riggs baby.
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  So Riggs is going to be a dad. And Leo is just there.
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  He's like, he loves these guys. He's there.
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  And even though they're ragging on him, he's still there and
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  he's caught a shark like he, he's a dude that's that's
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  supposed to be here. He's.
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  Family and I think it it it works to introduce the next bust
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  that's going to fall into their laps I think it's yeah it's kind
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  of the calling card of I don't know plots like it has to happen
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  unexpectedly like when it's like Princess bride when it's
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  basically actually he's on a quest already because he got
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  captured by pirates it's like well so OK he's he's meant to be
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  chasing these people down so this is the main character is
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  making this plot happen these guys kind of just get dropped
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  into hijinks and they. Do.
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  But they're always ready to rumble.
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  They are always ready for action.
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  So the very rusted looking boat kind of crashes into him a
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  little bit. They have to board it because
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  they heard gunshots. The gunshots are actually the
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  execution of refugee or slave. I can't quite tell what would
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  be. They are slaves.
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  They are slaves on the presumption that they will be
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  refugees. But this is a scam and this is
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  their final realization that they have been scammed.
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  When a random person gets executed just to prove the point
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  that no one cares about them. And had Riggs and Murtagh not
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  been there, that would have been the end of the story and they
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  would have been sold off to be slaves.
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  And that's just the way it would have been.
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  But our heroes are catching sharks right now.
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  They are there to save the day, but also they get beat up.
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  I think it's a nice little point to later on.
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  Riggs will recall that. Man, I didn't.
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  I wasn't going to be able to overcome the obstacles and and
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  win the fight on the ship, so he.
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  Is getting older and he's noticing it throughout this
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  entire movie and I love that. So gun fights, explosions, boat
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  sinking, and some of the bad guys get away, but the entire
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  ship is filled with slaves that INS turns away.
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  Most of them. I was.
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  It felt like that was AI Don't know.
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  I feel like, yes, we're supposed to feel sorry that they're
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  calling them illegals. And INS is saying, you know,
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  some of them will be asylum seekers.
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  And it's like, OK, they're in a bad spot.
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  So yeah. Yeah, and I do like I do like, I
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  forget the name of the family. Is it the hongs?
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  Yes No, Hong is the the patriarch of the family.
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  I don't know if we ever get the the family.
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  Maybe it is the? Hongs.
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  Yeah. They're talking to Uncle Benny
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  and they say where are the Hongs?
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  And it's like, yeah. OK, so that that is the family
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  name. They decide to hide out on an
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  escape boat and Murtaugh decides to, you know, be a good person
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  and smuggle them into the country.
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  I was. Proud of him, and I think that
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  cascaded into Lorna and Riggs's charming conversation.
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  And this held up my my rating because they first, Murtaugh is
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  doing something that he can, doing what he can, and it is
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  illegal. Sure.
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  Yep, he is breaking the law. Guess.
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  What? People need help, so and.
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  Riggs and or Riggs and Lorna are I love how quickly they just
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  roll with it, where they they walk in on it and they're like,
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  OK, now I've seen it and I'm good with this.
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  Before them seeing it, the what I was mostly referencing was
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  their banter at the expanded trailer on the beach and I oh.
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  Yeah. They were getting charmed by
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  their their ease and also the tension of so like Merton Riggs
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  are like, oh, you aren't getting married.
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  So 1990s you aren't getting married and you're having a kid.
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  But what are you going to do about that problem?
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  Yeah, OK. But I think it added a nice
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  tension. And then it that relationship
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  grew into more than the third movie.
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  And I felt like I enjoyed it for that.
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  Like it felt real nice. Well, let's let's talk about
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  that particular conflict and how it has aged, because I was aware
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  that even in the late 90s, pregnancy outside of marriage
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  usually resulted in people getting married quickly.
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  And that happened for most of my early adulthood too.
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  If a friend knocked up his girlfriend that chances are I
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  was going to get a wedding invitation within the next few
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  weeks. Like they were going to get
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  married fast in order to cover up the fact that she's pregnant
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  outside of marriage. But now, you know, we live in
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  2026. No one cares.
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  No one. Well, some people care, but at
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  least I don't care. Like if if our mutual friend
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  that we talked to on Discord, if he came in and was like, I
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  knocked up this lady, but I hate her, but I really want to be a
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  dad. I'm not going to be here.
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  Like, you got to get married. That's terrible.
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  No, like it doesn't matter. I don't care.
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  And so in my head, I never cared about the fact that they were
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  about to have a child out of wedlock.
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  What I thought was more interesting was the question of
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  love. Like, and this is a question
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  that's going to get answered at the end of the movie.
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  But Riggs is really uncomfortable with moving on
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  from his dead wife. We're in the fourth movie.
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  He may have like he's got relationships, but he can't
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  cross this line. Like this is his line.
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  I think it's very fair to have that much guilt over her dying.
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  He does say that he's mostly reluctant because his first wife
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  died because he was a cop. And it's like understandable
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  with the reveal of the second movie, I think it it meshes with
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  what we know. And I think that also makes it
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  seem like his story with Trish was was more significant and
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  meant a lot. So I think it's a nice tension,
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  it's a nice conflict, and it makes me happy.
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  Not necessarily they're getting married, but I was.
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  Going to say spoiler alert they are going to get married by the
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  end of this movie but you know. It's more of a resolution of the
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  dead wife. Exactly, It is not that that the
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  kid isn't going to be born out of wedlock that like who cares
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  about that conflict? The the thing we care about is
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  that Riggs is ready to marry again and the person he's
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  marrying is a fantastic person. Early on I was like, man, every
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  time they introduce a new character to the family, they do
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  them dirty the next movie. But I pretty quickly, even
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  though Lorna is not a huge part of this movie, she still gets
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  action. She still gets some good
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  character moments. She's not a a big part of the
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  movie, but she's still impactful in the movie so I feel like they
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  did her better than they did Leo in the last movie.
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  Yeah, yes, I think she's a good addition.
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  And then compliments having been added to the whole.
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  Plus she still gets to do some Kung Fu, so good on her.
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  She's she's going to get her moments.
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  We did skip over the introduction of our new member
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  of the family, and that is Detective Lee Butters, played by
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  Chris Rock. We we met him on the beach, but
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  we got to talk about him because he's he like early on.
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  I'm sitting here thinking, great, we've got Chris Rock.
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  I really don't care. And then they reveal, they
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  reveal that he's very important to the story.
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  Yeah, I don't know what the script called for, but it is a
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  lot of this comedian we've cast is here to tell jokes as his
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  character. And I think yes, 10 percent, 90%
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  he contributes as a cop in this movie. 90% jokes.
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  Yep. Or observations like Seinfeld or
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  something. I.
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  Think he's got 1 great scene, like 3 good scenes and then the
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  rest I could have done without. Like yes I don't feel like he's
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  the best addition to this movie. I think his great scene is when
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  he and Leo start complaining about all the ways that the the
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  guys are going to get you, how the cell phone companies will
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  get you, how the the printers and the fax will get you.
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  Like, I don't even remember everything that that's getting
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  them, but they just go back and forth for a while and until
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  finally Chris Rock is like, why am I talking to this guy?
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  And I was like, because you guys are the same person.
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  Both love to talk. Yeah.
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  Yeah. I think maybe I'm being not
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  generous enough because 10 percent, 90%, yeah.
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  I think you're being maybe a. Little more just.
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  Generous enough, because the big thumbs down is the confusion of
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  why Butters wants to cozy up to Murtagh and Murtagh decides he
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  must be gay and that it's not it.
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  It didn't age well and it wasn't even funny then.
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  Like it just felt like you you could have done something with
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  this to make it work. Yeah.
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  And I yeah, I just don't like that part of his character or
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  that part of his story. It is definitely time period
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  piece of oh, it'd be funny if we made him think that he's
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  actually attracted to him because that is not masculine at
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  all. And this is even though we're
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  introducing, you know, the love side of of a buddy cop movie.
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  The two main characters can love each other, but they're not
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  going to get married. Wouldn't it be funny if the
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  son-in-law is actually mate? Seem like he's in love with the
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  actual father-in-law, yeah. I and on top of that, I also
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  never got that vibe. That's the other reason it
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  didn't work for me as I was like, if you're going to play
• 29:08
  that joke, at least do it in a way where the audience might
• 29:13
  say, Oh, yes, I can see the confusion.
• 29:16
  But we're told right away that Rhianne and Butters got hitched,
• 29:24
  that they got married without anyone knowing.
• 29:29
  And. And so the tension is really
• 29:32
  just how long is it going to take for Murtagh to find out?
• 29:37
  OK, I don't want to jump ahead to when he finds out because I
• 29:41
  don't like that, but I don't want to skip too much.
• 29:45
  We can jump ahead if you want to.
• 29:47
  I'm trying to think of what else is there because they find out
• 29:53
  that the slaves are being sold. Murtaugh's helped a family,
• 29:58
  which I think if you like, try and solve the mystery at the
• 30:04
  theatre while you're watching something.
• 30:06
  If you're that's your type of thing, awesome.
• 30:08
  If you're like me and you just kind of sit there and watch you,
• 30:11
  maybe you don't really realize that the family that Murtagh
• 30:14
  saved is actually an important family to the plot.
• 30:19
  Big. Deal.
• 30:20
  I was like, oh, I mean, it's just these guys.
• 30:23
  I maybe they dropped their family name when Benny is
• 30:27
  talking to the triad but I don't remember.
• 30:31
  I just remember being surprised, like, Oh well, OK, so this is
• 30:35
  all connected. Once again, the plot has found
• 30:39
  its way to the sergeants slash captains slash sergeants.
• 30:45
  Oh yeah, I completely forgot that they got promoted for no
• 30:49
  reason. For what is it You rise to the
• 30:54
  level of your incompetency? It's, I mean, this is LA like
• 30:59
  everybody fails up. We can't.
• 31:03
  We can't insure you guys, so we need to get you off the street.
• 31:06
  But you're actually gonna. Yeah.
• 31:08
  Then they're gonna stay on the street for the rest of the
• 31:10
  movie. So I, I don't know if there's
• 31:13
  much more to add because the plot is like them trying to find
• 31:18
  the family and Murtagh trying to I guess I'm trying to think of
• 31:25
  why did they start. I guess they talked to Benny
• 31:28
  because they're looking for the the people from the ship.
• 31:32
  Yeah, that were there. Because Uncle Benny is like the
• 31:37
  boss of Chinatown. So it's not that they're
• 31:40
  necessarily saying he, he did it.
• 31:44
  They, they say if it's happening, he would know.
• 31:48
  But then they come in pretty hot.
• 31:49
  They come in being like, you did it.
• 31:53
  Like that's not what you told me in the station.
• 31:56
  In the station. You just said he might know.
• 31:58
  Now we're in the restaurant and you're like, you are the one
• 32:01
  doing this. I'm.
• 32:05
  Trying to remember I made one note of a win for this movie.
• 32:09
  Is Joe Pesci getting to yell and scream?
• 32:12
  It's like right when they're going to talk to Benny, but I'm
• 32:15
  trying to remember what he was yelling about.
• 32:18
  Well, he starts tailing them and they're like, we've got a tail
• 32:22
  and he's. That's a plus in my column,
• 32:27
  yeah. Like this is when he's really
• 32:30
  bad at being a private investigator but he is new to
• 32:34
  it. He loves calling himself a Dick,
• 32:38
  which is the slang for API. I'm not just swearing for the
• 32:42
  sake of it, but it is a good joke when he's like, I'm a Dick
• 32:46
  and they're like, yeah, you are. I'm like, like, I liked it.
• 32:50
  I I thought it was good. Works enough.
• 32:53
  Yep. And then they get him arrested,
• 32:55
  which, you know, they're terrible friends.
• 32:58
  They are terrible friends, yeah. They so that's where it it kind
• 33:05
  of is the line of they're kind of Dicks to everybody.
• 33:10
  But when it they're being there at Benny's and breaking the
• 33:14
  glass, they're being a Dick to the criminal element.
• 33:18
  But when it's your friend, it's like, well, I mean, dial it back
• 33:21
  of yeah. Man, like you got to have some
• 33:24
  discretion and understand the difference between the good guys
• 33:27
  and the bad guys. Yeah, well, plot wise, they
• 33:33
  start chasing people, people die, they arrest the waiter from
• 33:38
  the restaurant, which I think was another nice small moment of
• 33:44
  comedy, which. I I started to think maybe the
• 33:49
  waiter was not involved when he helped push the dumpster while
• 33:55
  in handcuffs so he can only push with like his shoulder.
• 34:00
  But in my like, I thought, OK, well, if he's involved, he's
• 34:03
  going to take off while they're trying to move the dumpster.
• 34:06
  But no, he he gets involved and he's like, yeah, I'll help the.
• 34:10
  Bonus of it, the plus of it is the fact that they're like,
• 34:13
  what? Well, prove that you're a
• 34:15
  waiter. What are the specials?
• 34:16
  And he's like, oh, what day is it?
• 34:18
  And he starts rattling off and it's like, OK, obviously he's a
• 34:22
  waiter. Oh, man, And I, I did like that
• 34:28
  little misdirect. That was fun.
• 34:31
  I, I think my favorite part of that chase.
• 34:38
  Of course, the chase itself is very good, but the end of it
• 34:41
  when Riggs is once again coming face to face with his age
• 34:47
  because a trick that would have been easy Once Upon a time or
• 34:52
  just he's just hopping from roof to roof now.
• 34:56
  He can't make that distance and he slips and hangs from the
• 35:02
  rooftop. I there there's every time that
• 35:07
  Riggs has to confront his age is a thumbs up to me.
• 35:12
  That's a moment where I'm like, yeah, you like he even says
• 35:16
  like, I'm going to I'm going to will it to not happen.
• 35:19
  I'm going to I'm not going to let myself age.
• 35:21
  And it's like sorry bro like this.
• 35:24
  It's not how it goes for any of us.
• 35:26
  Name. Of the game here, man.
• 35:29
  Yeah. Yeah, so I don't know, I think
• 35:37
  the the plot from there is OK. Like they connect a little bit
• 35:43
  with the Hongs so that we feel bad when they get captured, but
• 35:47
  they put themself into danger. So houses get caught on fire and
• 35:54
  well. I don't know if I'd blame them
• 35:56
  for putting themselves in danger.
• 35:57
  There's an X Factor that we have not brought up once, and that of
• 36:01
  course, is Jet Li. Who?
• 36:04
  Is a mysterious figure in many of these scenes.
• 36:10
  He's there with Uncle Benny, he's the guy at the roof who
• 36:15
  kills the person Riggs was chasing, and then he tracks down
• 36:19
  Riggs and Murtaugh to their house and discover the Hongs and
• 36:25
  kidnap them and burn the house to the ground.
• 36:29
  He is a capable, mysterious and fascinating villain.
• 36:38
  Like I think Jet Li was fantastic casting for.
• 36:42
  This movie, yeah, I think. I don't remember how new he was
• 36:51
  to movies 'cause he seems like he's the same age as when he did
• 36:56
  his other solo movie with all of his clones or universe copies.
• 37:01
  Oh, the. One.
• 37:02
  I love the one. So I think it's around that I.
• 37:06
  Keep trying to get my kids to watch the one and they're like
• 37:09
  it looks too old and I'm like come.
• 37:11
  On it may it may be a little old, you know, but it's still.
• 37:15
  Fun. I think he works well.
• 37:19
  I think when they first meet, Riggs kind of tries to feel him
• 37:23
  out and say like, do you speak English?
• 37:25
  Like, which again is a not a great aging thing.
• 37:30
  It's like, well, they could, yes, they could not, but like,
• 37:36
  maybe ask them and not a condescending way.
• 37:41
  I'm glad you brought it up because the thing that's going
• 37:43
  to hurt my score the most is just how racist this movie is.
• 37:49
  Like to the Hongs, they are generally good, but every other
• 37:55
  Chinese person that they come in contact in this movie, they're
• 37:59
  going to say something about Chinese people.
• 38:02
  And I just, it tore me out of it every time.
• 38:08
  I was like, come on, can you people, can you people be cops
• 38:14
  without bringing up someone's race?
• 38:18
  You can be partners without bringing up each other's race.
• 38:21
  How? Why can't you do that with the
• 38:24
  general public? Because.
• 38:26
  It's the others, man. They got to be, yeah.
• 38:29
  Got to have somebody. Yeah.
• 38:33
  Yeah, I can see that. And then I got to give since we
• 38:37
  are essentially there, I got to give my thumbs down my big 0 out
• 38:42
  of 10 scene. Well, not 0 out of 10, I'll say
• 38:45
  a 2 out of 10 scene because I did chuckle a couple of times.
• 38:48
  The laughing gas scene when they break into Uncle Benny's dentist
• 38:55
  appoint appointment. I think the highlight of that
• 39:00
  scene is Leo making a scene and having an emergency dental
• 39:06
  operation that needs to be done now.
• 39:09
  And like Leo is, you can always count on him.
• 39:13
  He's he's good for this type of. Job misdirect.
• 39:18
  Yeah, yeah. But then we get into the room
• 39:21
  and Butters is just waving around the laughing gas that
• 39:25
  that they've put on like full blast, and now they're all
• 39:29
  getting gassed. Like, Oh my gosh, I.
• 39:34
  I would attribute it to movie magic because I don't know how
• 39:37
  effective it is once you try to fill a room, but you know, could
• 39:41
  be wrong. Yeah, I'd it was only OK because
• 39:46
  I don't. Know if they do laughing gas
• 39:48
  anymore in the dentist? I think maybe for kids,
• 39:53
  sometimes I think they've, I don't know actually if they'd
• 39:56
  still do. I think it only really serves
• 40:02
  for. The exposition that they need
• 40:07
  and the bringing up of the hidden marriage marriage and I I
• 40:18
  like better the time after the reveal than the time before the
• 40:24
  reveal. So necessary to get to a better
• 40:28
  portion of the movie where Butters is cared for by
• 40:33
  Murtaugh, even begrudgingly. Like I feel like see I.
• 40:38
  Don't even think it's begrudgingly.
• 40:40
  Oh my gosh, I I feel like once he's drugged into hearing the
• 40:45
  news he's he has no problem with it for the rest of the movie.
• 40:51
  Endearing, I think. Is it?
• 40:55
  I feel like it's a nice bit for Murtaugh to be caring of another
• 41:02
  person that's surprised into the family.
• 41:05
  Like Riggs. Yeah, happened in the first
• 41:09
  movie and it's like we're friends now and we end the movie
• 41:13
  and this one we're in the middle and like you got to keep your
• 41:19
  now son-in-law safe, so. He that is seems like a good.
• 41:24
  Person. That is a fair observation
• 41:28
  because, yeah, Murtaugh accepted Riggs almost immediately.
• 41:33
  It didn't take a lot of that first movie for Murtaugh to be
• 41:37
  like, we are partners and I'm going to watch out for you.
• 41:41
  So it would make sense that it it wouldn't take very much for
• 41:46
  him to hear, Hey, Butters and Rianne got married.
• 41:52
  This is your son-in-law. And he would be like, all right,
• 41:55
  that's the reality I live in. And here's my new son.
• 41:58
  I'm going to be a good father-in-law, you know, so I
• 42:03
  can I I, I'll go with you. He it is fitting with his
• 42:06
  character. He is the type of person who
• 42:09
  will roll with the punches and be like, all right, this is the
• 42:12
  situation now. Let's make the most of it.
• 42:15
  Yeah. So the Benny scene with the gas
• 42:19
  gets us there. OK, that's maybe we could pick a
• 42:23
  different way, but I think it gets us to a better spot.
• 42:27
  So progress. Yeah, my other big, well, I
• 42:33
  wouldn't say big thumbs down because it it affected me quite
• 42:37
  a bit. But we we finally get to learn
• 42:41
  what is the crime that is happening, like in all of these
• 42:45
  movies. At some point, they've told us
• 42:48
  what the crime is, why the cops are here.
• 42:52
  And this time it's forgery. And we finally get to where the
• 42:56
  forgery is happening. Gently presents to his forger
• 43:04
  Mr. Hong, And he's like, look, you're going to finish this job
• 43:08
  or I'm going to kill your family and he kills Hong right there
• 43:12
  and and it like my jaw dropped. I was like, you killed this guy
• 43:19
  like. You've been with him.
• 43:21
  For this whole movie, yeah. Yeah, that is some stakes.
• 43:28
  I think it works in that format. I did feel sorry for the family
• 43:35
  and I did feel real that this guy will kill people.
• 43:40
  So when they end up fighting him, that feels like, yeah, you
• 43:44
  could die and you accepted that you could die in this last
• 43:48
  fight. There could be more deaths in
• 43:51
  this movie and it frankly, it took me to Lethal Weapon 2 when
• 43:57
  they blew up the cops, including the dude from Breaking Bad,
• 44:01
  where in my head I was like, these are important characters.
• 44:05
  They're going to be around for the rest of the franchise and
• 44:07
  they're not. And similarly, now Hong is gone.
• 44:12
  Like, we've been getting close to him this whole movie.
• 44:15
  He's dead now. That's how that's how it is.
• 44:17
  That's how bullets work. He is not alive anymore.
• 44:22
  And yeah, that really hit. I was.
• 44:26
  I thought he was shot in the head.
• 44:27
  Oh, he was strangled and then had his neck broken.
• 44:30
  Tripped. And yeah, that's.
• 44:31
  Right. The brother gets shot.
• 44:36
  It's the brother who got the bullet, but Hong got a much more
• 44:40
  visceral and that that's why my jaw was on the floor because I
• 44:45
  was just like, what? Yeah, which I think stuff starts
• 44:52
  to shake out in a logical way, if maybe not logistically
• 44:57
  possible way because they they reveal the forgery and I guess
• 45:07
  I'm trying to think of what Oh, there's like a highway chase.
• 45:13
  Oh, after the burning down in the house there's a whole
• 45:16
  highway chase with the the trailer being dragged and oh.
• 45:21
  Yeah, that was fantastic. I forgot that was in this movie.
• 45:24
  That was so good. I was trying to.
• 45:26
  Be like, how do they end up getting to where they're going
• 45:29
  Oh yeah, they chase the people they don't get any information
• 45:33
  out of them but 'cause they. Kill everybody.
• 45:37
  Like they catch up somehow and then and then.
• 45:41
  Have a fight in a a mobile, a literal mobile home that is
• 45:46
  being transported and I I really like that highway sequence.
• 45:51
  I completely forgot about it. That was that was a fantastic
• 45:56
  action sequence I. Think the what would you call
• 46:02
  it? I think the stunt work is a
• 46:07
  little more visible in this one. I tend to enjoy calling out
• 46:11
  stunt work and I think the trailer is a good one.
• 46:14
  I think we see the Luxor pyramid in Las Vegas in the background
• 46:18
  and one of the shots, unless there's unless there's one of
• 46:21
  those in Los Angeles. Yeah, I don't know, but I mean.
• 46:25
  Obviously it wouldn't be the Luxor, but it could be.
• 46:28
  I mean, people are having a big glass pyramid.
• 46:31
  Yeah, yeah, I that's, I missed that completely.
• 46:36
  I the place where I would be interested in seeing behind the
• 46:41
  scenes would be the burning house while they're inside of
• 46:44
  it, because that looked really well set up in terms of them
• 46:51
  being in a burning house without the actors being in danger.
• 46:56
  I guess I would say because it it's on fire and they're
• 47:01
  crawling out and it looks like they're crawling through the
• 47:03
  fire. It looks really good.
• 47:06
  It does look really good. And I the only thing that I
• 47:10
  could think would be that it was in a studio set where
• 47:15
  essentially the house is rebuilt as a studio and it's a
• 47:19
  controlled fire where you can just put it out immediately and
• 47:23
  the only things burning are the things that that the scene wants
• 47:27
  burning for that moment. But I don't know, it's very
• 47:31
  possible that they had to do this quick and they had to do it
• 47:35
  right and they did like, I don't know, I've never seen a behind
• 47:40
  the scenes, but it looks dangerous if there's.
• 47:43
  Anyone to go back to? I encourage you to look at that
• 47:46
  one again, because that looked really of real trying.
• 47:54
  To think if there's any other big action sequences that I
• 47:57
  wanted to call out because, yeah, that highway chase, I
• 48:01
  forget how good it is. So the Chinese triad has this
• 48:08
  method of killing people where they stop at a train track.
• 48:14
  Oh yeah. And then push the car in and
• 48:17
  they try to do this to Riggs, Lorna and then Hong's son.
• 48:24
  And eventually rigs get smart enough to be like, well, instead
• 48:29
  of trying to go backwards, let's go forwards, try to get out of
• 48:33
  this. It works.
• 48:34
  Out. It works out great.
• 48:36
  The thing I don't like is that a second train appears, surprise,
• 48:43
  which I mean, that happens. They like when we were a million
• 48:47
  years ago when you and I were in, not together, but when we
• 48:52
  were in driver's Ed, I'm sure that you had a class on train
• 48:56
  safety and they were very insistent upon telling us don't
• 49:03
  go until the arms go up because if the arms are still down, that
• 49:08
  means another train is coming. And this movie had another train
• 49:15
  coming. It is possible.
• 49:20
  It, it is a realistic thing. It's just in my head I was like,
• 49:25
  oh, come on. No, I think the gunfight action
• 49:33
  scene is all right. I think it is.
• 49:36
  It's comedic that they expose the fact that the triad is going
• 49:40
  to give the general fake money and then generals just like, all
• 49:47
  right, well, let's start just going to.
• 49:51
  Just going to kill one of the forefathers.
• 49:54
  Forefathers are what we're calling, well, not us, but what
• 49:57
  the movie is calling the the four members of the triad who
• 50:01
  have we keep seeing them throughout the movie.
• 50:04
  They're being transported from China to LA.
• 50:09
  Yeah, they're they're a big deal if they can survive this movie.
• 50:15
  And uh oh, turns out they're not going to survive this movie.
• 50:19
  Unfortunately, but they are double crossing in general.
• 50:22
  So it's like, OK, the bad guys are being bad guys to each
• 50:27
  other, which is, you know, trusted did not dishonest man to
• 50:32
  always lie. So it's it's easy to know what's
• 50:36
  going to happen. It's a little bit of action
• 50:40
  serves for Butters to get shot. Some are tucked, Says they care.
• 50:46
  Like it's a little bit of funny, a little bit of action.
• 50:52
  I think the finale, finale a little bit.
• 50:54
  Of heart. Yes, the the finale finale is
• 50:57
  the the highlight of it because like, yes.
• 51:01
  I was about to say like gunfight, it's cool, it's fine.
• 51:05
  It's got thumbs up moments, it's got thumbs down moments.
• 51:09
  It's kills three people. It's it's fun to watch.
• 51:13
  But then we go under the warehouse and this movie takes a
• 51:19
  turn into great, like, oh, man, there's there's this moment
• 51:25
  where Jet Li's character is mourning the death of his
• 51:30
  brother. And Riggs and Murtagh are just
• 51:33
  talking about how old they are and how like, they they don't,
• 51:36
  they're not going to be able to have this fight.
• 51:38
  This dude is at the prime of his life.
• 51:42
  He's fast. He's able to do so much stuff.
• 51:45
  In fact, you remember that time when he grabbed my gun and just
• 51:49
  took it apart with one hand? I want to ask him about it and I
• 51:54
  guess we'll go ask him. It was so good.
• 52:00
  Oh my gosh, what an incredible way to get into this fight.
• 52:05
  I like I had, I'm getting chills thinking I got chills watching
• 52:09
  it and I got chills just repeating it, like just rigged
• 52:13
  saying I want to ask him about it.
• 52:15
  Like that's so good. I think the only other note
• 52:22
  before the fight fight is the fact that Oh no you've killed
• 52:26
  his brother. Guess what, he has super angry
• 52:29
  powers now too, like Riggs usually gets.
• 52:33
  Yeah, and Riggs is not super angry right now.
• 52:36
  Like the bad guy's the one with super angry powers.
• 52:41
  Made me chuckle. It's like, well, they're right.
• 52:44
  They could just die here and they've got so much to currently
• 52:48
  live for. It's heroic in a sense, but also
• 52:53
  stupid because you, you should die in this fight.
• 52:58
  It's not a fair fight, but you know, this is, this is.
• 53:03
  How we're going to take that where I thought they were going
• 53:05
  to die. And then so they eventually do
• 53:11
  win this fight, but it goes underwater and some concrete
• 53:18
  breaks off and pins rigs underwater and oh, man, like,
• 53:25
  I'm sure this is maybe they thought they were playing it for
• 53:28
  laughs. I don't know.
• 53:30
  But I was in my feelings where I was like, is Rakes going to die?
• 53:34
  Like, how is Murtaugh going to save him?
• 53:38
  Yeah, this could. This could be it.
• 53:43
  And yeah, I just a beautiful moment when Murtagh is just
• 53:50
  like, where are you? Where I got to find you?
• 53:53
  And then he's like, I, I feel you.
• 53:55
  Will it to me. I feel you.
• 53:56
  And he dives in the water and they they get free and they come
• 53:59
  up and Murtagh is like, I, I felt it.
• 54:02
  I knew you were calling to me. And I was just like, I'm over
• 54:05
  here just like, oh, that was wonderful.
• 54:07
  I'm so glad you guys are OK. Yeah, I may not have felt it as
• 54:15
  much, but I agree with the sentiment.
• 54:17
  Since I have watched this, I knew he was going to live.
• 54:22
  Yeah, like I in my head, I was like, I, I know I would have
• 54:26
  remembered if Riggs had died, but I get lost in these movies
• 54:30
  when I'm in the moment and I'm just like, what's going to
• 54:33
  happen? He could.
• 54:34
  He could die. Yeah, it's been like 20 years.
• 54:37
  I've forgotten a lot of stuff. Maybe he did die like, but the
• 54:43
  movie's not done yet like we have.
• 54:46
  We still have not gotten to my 10 out of 10.
• 54:51
  This is the best scene in this movie.
• 54:55
  This is the the best scene in the franchise coming up and it's
• 55:01
  like the very next scene. Like after the choked up after
• 55:06
  the fight and everything. Yeah, yeah, the graveyard.
• 55:10
  Oh yeah, it's pretty good. I think it's a a nice conclusion
• 55:17
  to the arc of the series of the franchise.
• 55:21
  I would say we have rigged in the beginning with just his dog
• 55:26
  and he wraps up his grief like accepts it.
• 55:32
  I would say not to enclose the grief, but to to keep his
• 55:40
  wedding ring and and move forward.
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  That's yes, I mean the. Graveyard scene.
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  He gets to finally put to words what he's been feeling this
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  whole time, like, where he's like, you know, I still miss
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  this woman. I want to move on.
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  But you know, he's speaking to the grave.
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  And that's already a touching moment.
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  But that's not what makes me want to cry.
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  Freaking Joe Pesci comes up as Leo gets and tells us a story
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  about a pet frog. And I cried.
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  I cried so hard. I didn't know Joe Pesci could
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  act. I didn't know that he could make
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  me cry. But Oh my gosh, it was
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  incredible. And so when I see that at one
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  point the Razzies had nominated Joe Pesci as worst supporting
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  actor for Lethal Weapon 4, I'm like, were you guys watching the
• 56:53
  same movie? Did you make it to the end?
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  Because he has one of the best monologues I've ever heard.
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  It is. Oh, it is beautiful.
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  Like look it up on YouTube. It is heart wrenching.
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  So good. Yeah.
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  I think it is. You're going to kill me.
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  You're going to, you are going to give me a coronary when you
• 57:19
  say yeah, it was all right. I think it what would be the
• 57:27
  word, it mixes well with the whole family and I don't know
• 57:34
  what else. Like family is the word they say
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  at their pictures and that's really all that it is about
• 57:41
  like, but. It's also about the growth.
• 57:44
  Yeah, his family was his dead wife, and now it is bigger in
• 57:51
  the same kind of way that Leo recognizes.
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  And right before Leo walks up, he's like, you got to give me a
• 57:58
  sign. Like speaking to his dead wife,
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  just being like, what do I do? And then oh, oh, the froggy
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  story. It's such a good and apartment
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  metaphor, like. And he ends it with like, I just
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  thought maybe you could hear it right now or maybe you needed to
• 58:19
  hear it. And like, yes, I needed to hear
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  it. Oh, it was beautiful.
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  It was beautiful and I'm all choked up in in the recording.
• 58:34
  I'm going to listen to this later and be like, damn it, I I
• 58:37
  was really choked up and and my ice cold Co host is over here.
• 58:44
  Like, yeah, it was OK. It was it.
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  Was reasonable, I think. Oh, you've got, you've got
• 58:53
  straight up nitroglycerin going through those veins, Yeah.
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  I think it is overall tough sell combined with everything that
• 59:10
  exists in the movie to then to then get to that point.
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  I see, I see that. What would I say?
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  I can see that you enjoyed it, the emotional level that the
• 59:24
  director wished you to, so yes. It hit where they wanted it to
• 59:29
  hit, and it hit good. Oh man, did it hit good.
• 59:34
  So, you know, I'm just going to throw this out to the audience.
• 59:38
  You watch this, send us an e-mail, potato
• 59:41
  chippicturespod@gmail.com. Did Joe Pesci make you cry like
• 59:46
  he did to me? Or was it just an OK story about
• 59:50
  a frog? I said my piece.
• 59:54
  You didn't need it. I I was just telling the
• 59:56
  audience they should e-mail, that's all.
• 59:59
  E-mail because Justin is wrong. I'll rewatch it because maybe I
• 1:00:04
  was just distracted because it at.
• 1:00:07
  Least just watch the graveyards. Yeah, like you don't have to
• 1:00:11
  rewatch the whole movie just from the the cemetery to the
• 1:00:16
  hospital. And, you know, then the hospital
• 1:00:20
  is back to being funny and silly and ha ha.
• 1:00:22
  And then they get the big final picture that takes us into
• 1:00:25
  credits. We get babies, we get babies.
• 1:00:29
  That's cool. People get.
• 1:00:30
  Married babies happen and. Yeah, we got a rabbi who's going
• 1:00:35
  to marry us. Like, yeah, it's all cool.
• 1:00:38
  I feel like sure, we kind of leave it open to like there's no
• 1:00:44
  retirement discussion. It's just true that we go
• 1:00:48
  forward and it's a new thing that's happening.
• 1:00:53
  I think that any sort of 5th movie talk is justified.
• 1:00:59
  You could do whatever you want because the babies and the
• 1:01:04
  marriage don't end anything. Like if anything it's like, OK,
• 1:01:09
  well we got new people. I bet the next movie would have
• 1:01:12
  more. More to be more stakes, as it
• 1:01:17
  were, because now there's babies involved.
• 1:01:19
  But in my eyes, I feel like this was a good franchise.
• 1:01:25
  Closer, yes, I think I don't so many of these movies, it felt
• 1:01:31
  like, yeah, you could keep going.
• 1:01:33
  But with this one in particular, and maybe it's because of the
• 1:01:38
  photo album credits, but I was like, we're done.
• 1:01:43
  We've we've hit a satisfying conclusion.
• 1:01:46
  I'm happy where we are. Yeah, I would agree.
• 1:01:52
  I think it it remains as a a conclusion that ends with a
• 1:02:00
  marriage and babies is like happily ever after.
• 1:02:03
  Like maybe you guys keep being sergeants because you got
• 1:02:09
  demoted back to it maybe the most.
• 1:02:13
  Pointless promotion, but that's OK.
• 1:02:15
  It doesn't matter. It's like a sitcom.
• 1:02:16
  We're back to where we started. I did.
• 1:02:18
  Enjoy the like, you know, doctor doctor type conversations and
• 1:02:23
  they become captains because that fits their character.
• 1:02:26
  They're two of Three Stooges. But yeah, I I feel like we're it
• 1:02:32
  is a nice franchise wrap. I feel like it's hopeful and
• 1:02:38
  could add something else. Like, maybe they're definitely
• 1:02:45
  not running around in their age now, but let's let's cameo them
• 1:02:52
  and put them somewhere. Yeah, indeed.
• 1:02:56
  All right, well, let's go ahead and get to the rating.
• 1:02:59
  We've been talking about this thing forever on this podcast.
• 1:03:04
  We do ratings, not grades. The primary difference is where
• 1:03:07
  you find the average in a grade, and average is 7 out of 10
• 1:03:11
  because you want people to feel good about the work they did.
• 1:03:14
  But the thing about that is a 7 out of 10 is not the middle.
• 1:03:18
  No, we do ratings because we say the middle of a one out of 10
• 1:03:23
  rating is a 5 out of 10. Doesn't mean the movie's bad.
• 1:03:27
  Doesn't mean it's good. It just means it's average.
• 1:03:30
  It's right there in the middle. There are average movies that
• 1:03:34
  are absolutely worth a watch. There are bad movies worth a
• 1:03:37
  watch. There are great movies that I
• 1:03:39
  will never watch again. But the point is when we give it
• 1:03:43
  a point out or a score out of 10, the middle is going to be a
• 1:03:46
  5. Anything above that says it's a
• 1:03:49
  really good movie. Anything below that says it's
• 1:03:51
  not a really good movie. But if your favorite movie ends
• 1:03:55
  up getting A5, we're not saying it's a bad movie.
• 1:03:58
  We're just saying it's average. So with that in mind, Justin,
• 1:04:03
  please tell us what would you get this movie on a rating of 1
• 1:04:07
  to 10? I was charmed by the Lorna Riggs
• 1:04:15
  relationship finally. The third one was OK with that,
• 1:04:18
  like it was a fun new romance. This one feels like feelings and
• 1:04:25
  stakes are involved so that was a good way to get me interested
• 1:04:29
  and invested. I think Leo comes a little bit
• 1:04:34
  of the way for being useful and not as abused anymore.
• 1:04:40
  Still yes fielding some abuse so that he can stay close to his
• 1:04:44
  friends, which really mean a lot to him.
• 1:04:48
  So downsides are not plentiful, but they're they're trying to
• 1:04:56
  think of what would be the most mostly with her current 2026
• 1:05:04
  climate. Those sorts of things have not
• 1:05:08
  aged well in this movie. INS is still denying people
• 1:05:14
  asylum and what must be the other thing.
• 1:05:25
  There are more positives than negatives.
• 1:05:28
  And I think there was some nostalgia going into it.
• 1:05:31
  I think it's it's as good as the first one.
• 1:05:40
  Like I enjoyed the first one even though it was a little bit.
• 1:05:44
  It is different than this one, but there are enough
• 1:05:51
  relationship points that outweigh the plot, which I feel
• 1:05:54
  like is the my main leverage of deciding whether I enjoy it or
• 1:05:59
  not. It's if I forget what the plot
• 1:06:02
  was, but I remember the people that were there and the moments
• 1:06:06
  between the people. I enjoyed your movie.
• 1:06:10
  So with that, I rate it the same as our first movie with A7.
• 1:06:15
  Oh excellent. That that is fair I think.
• 1:06:22
  And I wrote this in our chat. You probably didn't read it
• 1:06:25
  because I did put it in spoilers.
• 1:06:29
  They lost me with the racism that that is my hard line in the
• 1:06:33
  sand where I'm like, come on, like we're human beings here.
• 1:06:38
  So the anti Chinese sentiment from the LAPD, even with
• 1:06:45
  detective ING in the the force, like like I just can't abide by
• 1:06:53
  it. And it's so prominent throughout
• 1:06:56
  much of this movie, but there was there was just so much heart
• 1:07:04
  to it. And it had so much of the charm
• 1:07:08
  that I had fallen in love with in the second movie.
• 1:07:12
  And then, as I said, Joe Pesci made me cry.
• 1:07:16
  I didn't know he could do that. Like, that was incredible.
• 1:07:21
  And yeah, like, who gave him permission to make me cry?
• 1:07:26
  Yet he did. And that was a shocking
• 1:07:29
  experience to have. So for me, the the negatives are
• 1:07:35
  undeniable. I can't look past them, but but
• 1:07:38
  the positives are really there. And of course, it it sticks the
• 1:07:43
  landing like I'm I'm a sucker for a good ending.
• 1:07:47
  And this one has it. I'm at an 8 out of 10.
• 1:07:50
  That's that's where I'm at. This is my highest rated one
• 1:07:54
  now. Comparatively, I think that it
• 1:07:59
  reflects your enjoyment of Joe Pesci completely, yes.
• 1:08:04
  He's the one who brought this. Frankly, this was probably at A6
• 1:08:09
  or A7 until the speech about Froggy.
• 1:08:13
  And then I'm in tears and I'm like, all right, this movie got
• 1:08:17
  an 8. They know how to end it, know
• 1:08:20
  how to get it. Yeah, they were working for our
• 1:08:22
  ratings and they got. Exactly.
• 1:08:24
  They and they hit it right on the head.
• 1:08:26
  They knew exactly how to cater to me.
• 1:08:31
  So that gives us a show average of 7.5 out of 10.
• 1:08:36
  Nice and easy since we're only one point apart from each other.
• 1:08:39
  It's also the highest rated one that we have so far, with the
• 1:08:46
  first one being just a full point behind it.
• 1:08:50
  But that that is our second highest rated 1.
• 1:08:52
  So I I think it's very interesting that the two most
• 1:08:57
  unique movies are the ones that have the highest scores, at
• 1:09:04
  least in my eyes, Yeah. Yeah, I think the treatment of
• 1:09:10
  being a lawless cop in the second and third ones are kind
• 1:09:13
  of a lot of of negative. If you get really angry, you can
• 1:09:19
  be above the law. Yeah.
• 1:09:22
  Especially the third one, that one did not age well.
• 1:09:26
  But you know, we can talk about that as well as the rest of the
• 1:09:32
  franchise because this is a property that is a little bit
• 1:09:36
  bigger than foreign movies. We're just not going to watch
• 1:09:39
  the stuff that it's bigger than. Yeah.
• 1:09:44
  But you know, maybe well, we'll get into it next week when we do
• 1:09:48
  the wrap up. That's what we do around here.
• 1:09:51
  So why don't you take us out of here?
• 1:09:53
  Take us, take us away we'd. Like to thank you for joining us
• 1:09:57
  once again on our show listening to us really just chat about
• 1:10:04
  Lethal Weapon for the wrap up to a very buddy Cup 1990s, very
• 1:10:13
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• 1:10:20
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• 1:10:22
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• 1:10:24
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• 1:10:37
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• 1:10:42
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• 1:10:47
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• 1:10:50
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• 1:10:54
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• 1:10:57
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• 1:11:00
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• 1:11:05
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• 1:11:08
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• 1:11:16
  Thank you. But that wraps up our actual
• 1:11:21
  movie review, and we'll sign off because I think I, I think I,
• 1:11:29
  maybe I agree sometimes with their catch line.
• 1:11:34
  I definitely agree with it. Sometimes I don't feel that old,
• 1:11:40
  but oh every. Day.
• 1:11:43
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• 1:11:48
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