Lethal Weapon (and other bad movies I used to like)

[roo_ster]

I saw the original LW the other day and was amazed at how poorly it has aged.

There is Mel, doing his "shoot a smiley face on the target" trick.  Thing was, his eyes were firmly SHUT for every trigger pull.

Then the numerous "Expendable Bad Guys" with full auto weapons and their tactic of standing in the middle of the road, firing from the hip with full auto.  And can't hit anything while the protagonists hit everything they aim at, with the sole exception of fleeing helos at 500m with a Beretta 92FS 9mm.  The only BG that can hit anything is the Gary Busey character who can hit a man at a few hundred yards from a helo.

And, of course, the bad guys are all Viet Nam sooper-troopers gone bad.

I fear to go back and watch the othe raction movies form the 1980s I thought were pretty good.  I suspect the, too, are just crap like LW.

[cassandra and sara's daddy]

if you wanna set a new bad benchmark find "7 the hard way"  or "brotherhood of death"
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[RocketMan]

Agreed.  It really is a stupid movie when you think about it.  Even for a "turn off your brain" type action flick.

[roo_ster]

I won't even go into the silly plot, especially the last fight scene between Mel & Busey. 

[K Frame]

Predator was on last night.

Do yourself a favor.

Don't watch it.

[Declaration Day]

Predator was on last night.

Do yourself a favor.

Don't watch it.

I hadn't seen Predator in a long time, so I remembered it as a good sci-fi / action movie.  Then one day, in the not-so-distant past, it was on TV, and I could barely stand to watch ten minutes of it.  Did you notice the completely ineffective face paint on the soldiers?

How about old Arnie here.  Obviously the point was to show off his physique, but come on!    I've never been in the military, and I know that proper woodland camo requires flesh tones to be completely obscured:



Those may seem like relatively minor F-ups, but they ruin a movie for me.  Even in the most outlandish sci-fi, there are some things that should be believable.

[seeker_two]

I re-watched "The Delta Force" on TV the other day....at one time, it was my favorite movie.....then, at one time, I was twelve years old..... 

[Silver Bullet]

I liked the first Lethal Weapon.  There was a fine edge to it, because you couldn't be sure if Mel Gibson's character was going to do himself in.  The following LW movies were just buddy movies, they didn't have that edge whatsoever.

Now I can't stand to watch any of them because of Danny Glover's anti-gun positions.

[Manedwolf]

Don't forget that the Dems used those movies as "evidence" regarding "cop killer" bullets, after they fired teflon-coated black talons through a bulldozer's blade. 

[MechAg94]

Don't forget the scene where the guy shot a bullet through a barrel and then through the young kid cop.  Barrels are such great backstops aren't they?

[seeker_two]

I re-watched "The Delta Force" on TV the other day....at one time, it was my favorite movie.....then, at one time, I was twelve years old..... 

Saw "American Ninja" on VS. yesterday.....made "The Delta Force" look like an Oscar winner....boy, my tastes have changed.....