Rush Hour 1+2 vs. Lethal Weapon 1+2

[Rocket Man]

I like the Lethal Weapons but Rush Hour (especially Rush Hour 2) are on another level.

 

[Tetra-Grammaton-Cleric]

Both franchises are fun but Lethal Weapon 2 is one bleak and nasty movie. (Which I admittedly appreciate)

 

[Huey]

The fact that this even has to be a poll is embarrassing. The first two Lethal Weapon films are Shane Black, Richard Donner action movie classics while the Rush Hour films are typical throw away Brett Ratner garbage.

*looks at poll*

wtf Era

K, so TIL 47.5% of Era hasn't seen Lethal Weapon 1 and 2.

 

[Jesse_and_the_rippers]

Predator? 😀

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[L Thammy]

I'm glad I posted this thread, because otherwise I wouldn't know how many people are apparently baffled by the world they've somehow stumbled into.

 

[Jssom]

Here is a better question, Die Hard or Lethal weapon, Which is the better movie series?

 

[Falconbox]

It's just like, they had the whole jumper scene, but they never established anyone "seeing the whole thing", and then out of no where they're like "Oh yeah, this working girl Dixie saw it, let's go see what she has to say". And then they blow her up before we can even see her face

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Dixie was actually shown at the crime scene earlier in the movie, when Murtaugh first arrived. She is established at this point, verbatim, as a witness. "Had a jumper here last night, Dixie was walking by and saw the whole thing."

It's a short scene, but I think it plays into the fact that Murtaugh really doesn't think she's that important at the time and totally shrugs her off. Most movies now would focus on her way too much, to the point where you immediately think "oh yeah, she knows SOMETHING!"

Here's the scene:

https://streamable.com/q4lws

It's kind of the same thing with the driveby shotgunning -- it isn't that the event itself is impossibly unworkable, but not only is there no establishing scene of the bad guys following the duo, there's not even a scene of the cops beforehand saying "Hey, maybe we should go ask around with the working girls." I can't even remember the prior scene off of the top of my head, but I remember the feeling of it being totally incongruous with Riggs and Murtaugh casually walking around, being the victims of a driveby, and then delivering the body armor twist like it was all planned out.

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This was kind of established too, at least them being attacked is. The scene right before the driveby includes Busey and his boss saying they need to "turn up the heat" on the police, after they kill Michael Hunsaker and saw he was speaking with Riggs & Murtaugh.

https://streamable.com/nx53u

As far as questioning prostitutes, they needed to get a new lead after Dixie was murdered.

The driveby takes place only 2 scenes after she was murdered. It went:

1. Dixie murdered
2. Hunsaker interview/murder
3. Driveby. (And Riggs even asks the prostitute that he's looking for a guy who hung around with Dixie.)

And them wearing body armor makes sense, since they're police. And no need to have a pointless scene showing the bad guys following Riggs. These are good criminals, I'm sure they can tail someone who isn't trying to hide.

 

[random88]

Rush Hour is ok, but Lethal Weapon is a classic.

 

[Burt]

Dixie was actually shown at the crime scene earlier in the movie, when Murtaugh first arrived. She is established at this point, verbatim, as a witness. "Had a jumper here last night, Dixie was walking by and saw the whole thing."

It's a short scene, but I think it plays into the fact that Murtaugh really doesn't think she's that important at the time and totally shrugs her off. Most movies now would focus on her way too much, to the point where you immediately think "oh yeah, she knows SOMETHING!"

Here's the scene:

https://streamable.com/q4lws

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Hah wow, I didn't remember that at all until "All dressed up and no one the blow"

This was kind of established too, at least them being attacked is. The scene right before the driveby includes Busey and his boss saying they need to "turn up the heat" on the police, after they kill Michael Hunsaker and saw he was speaking with Riggs & Murtaugh.

https://streamable.com/nx53u

As far as questioning prostitutes, they needed to get a new lead after Dixie was murdered.

The driveby takes place only 2 scenes after she was murdered. It went:

1. Dixie murdered
2. Hunsaker interview/murder
3. Driveby. (And Riggs even asks the prostitute that he's looking for a guy who hung around with Dixie.)

And them wearing body armor makes sense, since they're police. And no need to have a pointless scene showing the bad guys following Riggs. These are good criminals, I'm sure they can tail someone who isn't trying to hide.

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Alright, you're right. I guess I wasn't paying as much attention to it as I thought I was last time I watched it.

 

[striderno9]

The Lethal Weapons are god damn classics, son.

 

[J_Viper]

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Gary is so fucking good in LW1

 

[Gen X]

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[Deleted member 1627]

The only thing crazier than the premise of the thread is the fact it's actually a close call. What is even going on???