Lethal Weapon

Hey, Do You Remember...?

Christopher Schrader

Tv & Film, Comedy

4.8 • 676 Ratings

🗓️ 1 December 2017

⏱️ 98 minutes

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Summary

The more jovial tone of the sequels makes it easy to forget just how dark the original Lethal Weapon is. Even though he was later replaced by another writer, Shane Black's bleak sensibilities and pitch-black sense of humor remain firmly entrenched in this script. Throw in Richard Donner's crafty direction and you've got yourself a hell of a film.

This is one of those franchises where our memories wound up being an amalgamation of a lot of great scenes or moments, so it was interesting to go back to where it all started and realize just how unique this one was.

Topics include: a lot of confusion over which film in the series certain scenes were from, the differences between this and Black's original script, bathtub birthday parties, why Riggs could never be this compelling ever again, the most aggressive neighborhood clean-up project, additional scenes from the director's cut, the glaring problem with the final brawl, and much much more!

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0:00.0	Hey, do you remember lethal weapon?
0:06.6	Hello and welcome. Hey, do you welcome to Hey Do You Remember, a show where we reminisce about a movie or TV series we grew up with, then take off the rose tinted glasses to see how it holds up.
0:31.9	I'm Chris.
0:32.5	And I'm Carlos.
0:33.6	And since Christmas is approaching and the holidays are all about getting together with family,
0:38.0	we invited our extended podcasting family to join us for this episode.
0:42.3	So Kristen's back.
0:43.8	Hi.
0:44.3	And she brought her Sunnydale Stacks co-host, Mike, as well.
0:47.3	Hey, uh.
0:48.1	That's not true.
0:48.6	Mike got here just fine on his own.
0:50.8	I was like, I was going to say her son.
0:52.6	What?
0:53.1	Did you not know?
0:54.0	And he's fully grown.
0:55.1	Yep.
0:56.3	Kind of a weird Benjamin Button situation.
0:58.9	The holiday bombshell.
1:01.5	But we're happy to have you both here.
1:03.2	And I realize this is actually very fitting because the last time we had this lineup was for the Gremlin's episode, which was the alternative Christmas movie that year.
1:11.7	So just like real family get-togethers, it's a little bit like, holy shit, it's been that long.
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